Brexit scaremongering puts off O2 floatation

[viridis]

https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-fears-force-o2-to-postpone-10bn-flotation-11532431

Cowards.

[gmarkj]

Phew. Normally is though.

[viridis]

Yeah, I'm a bit confused by that, but Boris bottled it after getting shafted by his sidekick, practically gifting the pm job to May.
It was a funny year tbh.

[Anonymous]

I’m sick of the country being held to random, Let’s just leave without a deal.. and wing it..

I’m sure once we’re back on our feet, other countries will do the same & the EU will be no more!

[TallTrees]

No one knew and no one cared ~ I believe it was a power game ~ as my old granny would say

it'll all end in tears 

[jonsie]

Well  reports suggest it's a 95% done deal. Waiting at the departure gate.....

[TallTrees]

Hi @jonsie

departure gate sounds very dignified ~ I have a terrible feeling it's jumping off the cliff lemming style

[Anonymous]

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@viridis wrote:
I voted remain, after watching the EUs behaviour towards us after this vote, I wouldn't vote the same way now.

I feel voters were lied to, by both sides, and that the remainer scaremongering has now reached the levels of the Y2K bug.

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I voted Remain ... it was a no-brainer for me ... I didn't listen to / watch / read anything about it ... I went with my gut-feeling mainly based on economics ... I didn't forsee The Irish Border circumstances & I don't want a hard border there 

I'm sick of talk of Brexit

Sack all of the politicians in parliament, without any compensation ... & ... let's have a fresh start 

[jonsie]

A lot of sense there @AnonymousI too am sick of all the talk. Just do it and let it be! After all, we could always apply to join again in another few years 

[Anonymous]

I voted remain purely on the basis that a lot of businesses have trading relationships with other companies on the continent which are likely to be thrown into disarray by this.

The whole taking back control thing really isn't worth it if it leads to mass unemployment and us being completely reliant on trade with questionable reigmes.

It should have been about facts, not the popularity contest it turned into.

What will happen will happen now and we'll just have to deal with it

Getting back to the subject of the thread I had hoped Telefonica were going to float O2 a couple of years back as had a stocks and shares ISA then and would have probably bought some shares.

I've swapped it now for a shares and gilts one as managing your own share portfolio takes a lot of time and with how busy I am at work these days I just can't do it now.

I suspect Telefonica are concerned about whether they'll achieve the IPO valuation they want at the moment from both the exchange rate point of view but also the market appetite for IPOs (remember the last high profile one was Aston Martin Lagonda and that has been on a downward trend consistently at the time of writing from it's IPO)

[sheepdog]

Gone off "investing" with shares. All they are now is a means to raise money to pay off debt and incur more debt rather than invest in themselves. Thats usually hidden in the prospectus and you need to look at the written statements and judge if they match the figures. Which even with careful reading, there is info you are not privvy too. Personally I'm thinking, its bad timing for Aston Martin to float in my opinion, its a luxury car manufacturer that is about to discover the downturn in the global automotive market will affect them severely and I'd expect the share price to drop considerably.