Spreadsheet Ranger

Lekker AXL finally a little green

I hope the resolution is good enough

I tweeted Keith McLachlan to ask about that PE ratio for you @Groovy but unfortunately he like that klark guy doesn't do the reply thing. So lets hope @SimonPB scrolls through this thread I am sure he will be able to assist.

@Spreadsheet Ranger, thank you I've been offline and missed on this info. I've read it now and I'm not sure if I'm wrong or right, at R4.50 that's a PE of 24? I will have to check for you in saw on twitter I think it was or is now closer to 16 Let me double check.

Well the lady just said in the past 20 years the ANC had connected more homes with electricity than the colonial settlers did......? So I guess electricity has been around for ages?

I am getting killed today. DBxWD - free-falling DBxJP - Free fall StxIND - Free fall

Debate on the State of the Nation Address and Reply by President Jacob Zuma The National Assembly (NA) and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) will host a Joint Sitting to debate President Jacob Zuma’s 2017 State of the Nation Address on Tuesday, 14 February and Wednesday, 15 February 2017 at 14h00 on both days. The two-day debate, to be held in the National Assembly Chamber, will be followed by President Jacob Zuma’s Reply on Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 14h00.

CAPE TOWN - Political parties are debating President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) in Parliament. Zuma's address last week was again marred by chaos, violence and insults. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have indicated they will not attend the debate. WATCH: MPs debate 2017 Sona Day 2 [video=youtube] [video=youtube]

Well @Hamster someone has listened to your prayers

@Purply are you not holding some gold stocks?

dbxJP will take a hammering now it seems; Shares fall 8% as Toshiba delays earnings release Japanese group investigating whistleblower claims a US nuclear deal was mishandled

Kumba: A longer term view. https://twitter.com/Richards_Karin/status/831425344854958080

@Purply I was thinking because of the costs involved since I will literally be a novice noob I was thinking of starting with GT247 because of the low fees although the platform itself is quite lacking in places. So the idea is use GT247 to get the feel and then move in towards something proper like IG markets, I have used them before and I do recall without a shadow of a doubt that they where one of if not the best platforms around. That and everyone I follow on twitter uses them too.

I like it! Forex is definitely something I'd like to get involved in since I get the idea this is something I can do outside of work hours?

Now if TAS would just do something today so I call sell some and jump on PPC.

@Groovy have a look here: http://aeei.co.za/premier-food-fishing-listing/ Premier Food & Fishing pre-listing statement just been published there.

I see ‏@SimonPB (Simon Brown) tweeted "PPC and AfriSam trying for a merger again .. Probably a good idea" Edit: Here is the sens - http://66.8.16.130/SENS_20170213_S381352.pdf

PPC: R7.00 remains a crucial level. The above was taken from twitter

Belangrike aankondigings vir die week wat voorlê

The best stats you've ever seen [video=youtube] You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."

Mmmmm I will have to investigate for you guys and report back. I'll spend some time tomorrow on the app and online. Wait perhaps I should check this Monday when the markets are open in regards to the alarms because I recall mine went off intra day as the price moved. @greglsh I'll download the app and have a look, fractional shares should be added to investing.com of the other app does it, their support is very helpful and always ask for suggestions which is quite cool. Not used to that level of service here in South Africa, seems pretty normal overseas given Morningstar.com also helps out and ask for suggestions and gives feedback about this forum.

I do not think there is a app that does fractional shares unfortunately. As for currency, not sure? Mine is in zar by default, I have a SA account on investing.com not sure if that makes a difference?

Plus one for investing.com @Bundu

STATISTICS has not, traditionally, been an exciting word. Its most common prefix is the word “dry”. Ask people what they think of statistics, or try to use some in an argument, and you will often get the quote attributed to Benjamin Disraeli that lists them alongside lies and damned lies. That is a shame: tables of figures may look dull, but they are a better guide to what is happening in the world than anything on television or in the press. Hans Rosling had no time for the idea that statistics were boring. Armed with everything from a few Lego bricks and a pocketful of draughts pieces to snazzy, specially made computer graphics, he had a talent for using numbers to tell exciting stories. Not just exciting, but optimistic, too, for the tales those numbers told were of a world which, despite the headlines, was rapidly becoming a better place. He knew what he was talking about. Besides being a statistician, he was also a doctor with experience in some of the world’s poorest corners. He did his PhD in Africa, studying a disease called konzo that strikes people whose diets include a lot of semi-processed cassava, which contains high levels of cyanide. But it was his flair for the dramatic that allowed him to share that expertise with other people. It was a job that needed doing. By the 1990s he was teaching global health at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm. He found that his students—the cream of Sweden’s academic crop—had little idea about the world. When he gave them five pairs of countries and asked which of each pair had the higher rate of child mortality, the average number of correct answers was just 1.8. “Swedish students, in other words,” he said, “know…less about the world than a chimpanzee.” (The chimp, by choosing randomly, would score 2.5 out of five.) The same applied to his academic colleagues—who, as he pointed out with a twinkle in his eye, were responsible for handing out the Nobel prize for medicine. He was a natural showman. In 2007 he finished a talk on global development with a demonstration of sword-swallowing, ingesting a Swedish-army bayonet live on stage. As his fame grew, he became a regular at gatherings of the great and the good, presenting talks at TED (a series of conferences supposed to give novel ideas an airing; his were much better than most) and attending Davos, an annual gathering of the masters of the universe in Switzerland. His stock-in-trade was debunking gloomy stereotypes about poor countries and economic development. There were five surprising facts, for instance, that he loved to hammer home: population growth is slowing rapidly; the divide between the global rich and poor is blurring; humans are living much longer than 50 years ago; many more girls are getting an education; and the number of people in extreme poverty fell by a billion between 1980 and 2013. Dr Rosling’s talent was to make those facts sing—to remind his audience that these dry-sounding numbers are, in fact, the sum total of billions of real lives that are better than they would have been half a century ago. His elevation annoyed some critics. Paul Ehrlich, a biologist who had, in the 1970s, predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve by the end of that decade, accused him of being a Pollyanna. But it was hard to argue with his facts. Most simply celebrated him as a communicator of some happy truths. Dr Rosling himself was sceptical about how much impact he had really made. People seemed to cling to their gloomy, wrong assumptions about the world. In 2013, in an interview with the Guardian, he reflected: “When we asked the Swedish population how many children are born per woman in Bangladesh, they still think it’s four to five.” In reality, the numbers have not been that high for 20 years. The current rate is 2.3—less than South Africa, and only slightly higher than New Zealand Source: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21716600-joy-stats-swedish-accent-hans-rosling-statistician-and

Well on the plus side we went pass the 6700 barrier now lets hope it will continue.