The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and around the world
For anyone wondering why I didn't contribute more to the weekend thread, power was cut off for 24 hours from Saturday night!
Re: Monday 27th January 2025
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 4:41 pm
by Frog222
AnatolyKasparov wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:53 pmFor anyone wondering why I didn't contribute more to the weekend thread, power was cut off for 24 hours from Saturday night!
Glad to hear it was nothing worse AK .
Re: Monday 27th January 2025
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 6:54 pm
by Frog222
STARMER SNUBS RED WALL SHOCK ! ( )
BTW who is celebrating, and where ?
Re: Monday 27th January 2025
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 6:59 pm
by Frog222
Re: Monday 27th January 2025
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:22 pm
by refitman
Nvidia's lost $500bn from it's market cap, with the release of this Chinese AI. I do hope that Labour are paying the slightest bit of attention to what's going on and are revising their plans to give them all our data.
refitman wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:22 pmNvidia's lost $500bn from it's market cap, with the release of this Chinese AI. I do hope that Labour are paying the slightest bit of attention to what's going on and are revising their plans to give them all our data.
The spectacle of so many politicians bandwagon-jumping to push up the price of snake-oil has been most gratifying ! Not to mention those 'wise' investors RR is so eager to entice to the UK
AI chipmaker Nvidia had plunged 16% midway through trading on Monday while rival Broadcom had slumped 17.8%.
Other tech firms also sank, with Microsoft down 3.7% and Google's owner Alphabet down over 3%.
In Europe, Dutch chip equipment maker ASML saw its share price tumble by more than 7% while shares in Siemens Energy, which makes hardware related to AI, plunged by a fifth.
"This idea of a low-cost Chinese version hasn't necessarily been forefront, so it's taken the market a little bit by surprise," said Fiona Cincotta, senior market analyst at City Index.
To put it very mildly !
Re: Monday 27th January 2025
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:50 pm
by refitman
Nvidia's -18% now
Re: Monday 27th January 2025
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:36 pm
by Frog222
refitman wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:50 pm
Nvidia's -18% now
Bit more about that, and Tesla versus the world , sales looking very sick indeed .... a good overview on a channel I hadn't watched before --
AI at a twentieth the price, and cars at less than half, interesting buys when the world's consumers are feeling the pinch .
Meanwhile in UK, Company investing £80mn in a special new paintshop for customised jobs on the cars of the super-rich ...