John Hjorth

Thank you, @bizaro86, That's a very good question. I'm unable to reply on a qualified level, as to why I can't buy the Canadian BMO ticker at my investment bank, and I don't know why. I will follow up on it, and get back to you, here, in this topic. BMO should have been in the basket, for sure. I may add that later, when I've found a solution as to why I by now can't buy the Canadian ticker. Thank you for being sharp here!

A bit more Novo Nordisk A/S, NOVO B.CPH [underexposure in my own accounts, compared to the gang as a whole], - - - o 0 o - - - Futhermore, started a basket of Canadian banks today : RY.TO - Royal Bank of Canada, TD.TO - Toronto Dominion Bank, BNS.TO - Bank of Nova Scotia, CM.TO - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, & NA.TO - National Bank of Canada. Not trakers, more, but starters positions, Basically constructed with component weight according to market cap by now. Eager to get to know them better over time, hopefully for the long term to hold! But also with the intent to stay flexible, and ready to abort, any time, if I end up not to like the odor in the bakery later! Not, the 'usual 'Stingy John' bids', but had to get out of the starting block, after glaring at them, for years!

Great start on my tuesday! It so stupid, that just to think about it also makes it hilarious!

Perhaps especially for @Mephistopheles here : Reuters - Business [March 3rd 2026] : Saudi Arabia tries to divert oil to Red Sea amid Iran war, faces reluctant shippers Summary : Aramco instructs some buyers to load at Red Sea port of Yanbu to avoid Hormuz Tanker rates at Yanbu more than double, some shippers prefer to avoid Middle East East-West pipeline capacity limited, potential target for attacks, analysts say Global oil prices rise amid attacks by and on Iran UAE also has means of bypassing Hormuz

HaHa! , Awesome hint, SD [ @SharperDingaan ] , thank you!

What a lack of hospitality, simply rude! And cheapskaty!

@LC, Missed you. The answers are : No, No, No, No, No, No & No. [ ].

Thank you, Eric [ @cwericb ], I had actually forgotten all about that.

Thanks, @73 Reds, That's actually a good question! I'm not sure it's a 'yes' by now. But things have changed drastically since POTUS' failed 'annexation' intermezzo. A lot of money has politically been alllocated to the Danish defence budget for 'artic defence'. Immediate relocation of four F-35 to Søndre Stømfjord [Kangerlussuaq Airport] permanently, from Karup, Jutland, the Danish homeplace for F-35's. USA already has 4 F-35s stationed at Thule Air Base [Pituffik Star Base], and they have been there long before POTUS started this 'Greenland thingy', to project the radar station BMEWS. As likely one of the most important initiatives. I'm of the the personal opinion, that if the Western World get a problem with China over this path, it will trigger USA [Alaska] and Canada first, because of sailing routes in the North-West passage. [covered in depth by @Spekulatius and I earlier here in this topic]. I don't personally believe by Russia is a real threat, by now it's already busy breaking its own economic spine on trying to take Ukraine. I found this using Google AI to elaborate- it's to me pretty good, and it's also clear we don't stand alone with this issue any longer : - - - o 0 o - - - I hope this helps, @73 Reds.

Orla Joelsen, today : 75 years of close cooperation coming to end, becoming not so close, because of the behavior of the 47th President of the United States of America. It's not only sad, it's a disaster. And now when he realize that he can't any longher control what he has started, calling for help, not getting it his way, he starts yelling and threatening again. And then we here on CofB&F have the 'pleasure' of being namecalled 'fools', or even better 'f*ck'em', among other things. Please give me a break. - - - o 0 o - - - Btw. Orla is running in Greenland for a seat in the Danish parliament in the Danish parlamential election here in Denmark 24th March [in 8 days] as one of four North Atlantic mandates, two from Greenland, two from Faroe Islands. I hope he succeed in this endeavour of his. I like him, but have no Greenlandic vote.

Yes, @73 Reds, in Talebs terminology the outcome space is wide.

LOLz! - Extremely colorful!

The Print [March 10th 2026] : 'More Fun To Sink Ships Than Capture': U.S Prez Donald Trump Recalls, Laughter Follows | Iran War 81 87 Iranian Marines bodies recovered from the Sea after the sinking by torpedo from US submarine of Iranian frigate Iris Dena. Likely mostly young Iranian men. Add 45 ships more, many likely smaller. And POTUS having fun with it. Christ, it's disgusting. Ugh! Shame on him. Furthermore it sounds like lots of participants in the room have great fun out of it, too. All full-blown disgusting a**holes. It's nauseating.

Yes, it's a defensive musketeer oath, not an agressive one.

NATO going down the drain in its recent form and shape over the next about three years, like predicted by @Spekulatius. Like loyalty is something you can demand. Loyalty is earned over time within it's concept of mutuality, by giving it, unconditionally, without even asking for it! POTUS don't and won't understand such stuff, never will.

POTUS is gradually getting entangled in his own spiderweb of doings and ripple effects thereoff. Exactly as Charlie [ @dealraker ] long here on CofB&F has predicted.

@ourkid8, I'm glad you took it that way, the seriousness and graveness of what's going on about what we are discussing is really not to joke about. I think I stepped over a red line here.

@ourkid8, Visually, this is a totally no-go, simply put, it looks terrible, suspicious :

I'll second that, wholeheartedly! I'll never forget when the heat building up around Greenland for POTUS, great European countries stepping in, rooting for Denmark [good legwork by my PM Mette Frederiksen, not giving in, one whit], POTUS directly lying in public for the mics to news media about 'ongoing discussions about a solution' with Denmark [nothing, absolutely nothing like that going on!], while what he wanted, he already had access to! - Next thing he just stops talking about it, moving on to the next wild thing! - No victory on that! -Absolutely unbelieveable to me personally, that somebody would engage in defending such behavior, even calling it 'genious'! -So much for that!

Mike [ @cubsfan ], Now that would be protection money, woulden't it? - I already have suggested @Spekulatius to set up a SPAC called SPECTRE for extorsion and such, my immediate thought by that was perhaps we all could start together by pikcing up one or a few Southern American narco cartels free of stashed away cash on the cheap by now - entrepreneurship, you know. Furthermore, I'm highly suspicious about your price. You can't even get a decent dose of good sterioids to keep up your awesome shape in the gym for that amount of money!

Unfortunately I can't find find source for this now. What I found on Mark Carneys linkedIn feed, which I think was about that particular metting is this : If this correct, Mr. Carney is just awesome.

France first to say 'No, thank you.' : The Mirror [March 14th 2025] : Desperate Trump begs for Iran war help but France refuses amid 'scaremongering' - - - o 0 o - - - This turd is yours, POTUS, because you made it!

I recently read about a White House meeting between POTUS and Mark Carney, Carney almost summoned by POTUS, meeting extremely short, POTUS pushing a paper over to Carney : 'Please sign this.' Carney reading it, pushing it back over the table, accompanied by a 'No.', Carney getting up from the chair, on his way out, POTUS starts yelling, Carney politetely adressing the office clerk 'Please show me the way out of here.', ignoring POTUS' behavior. -Over and out! - - - o 0 o - - - American exceptionalism.

HaHa! - More asset swaps please!

Mike [ @cubsfan ], You said it. There we have it. Old, fixated, frozen, for long locked in, hatred and hard feelings and urge for vengeance. Clouding every mind subject to it with black clouds and negative feeling and wawes. It's plain stupid, think of it like thinking i.e. @Marco Van Basten, @Spekulatius, @Hamburg Investor, @Xerxes, @ourkid8 and @Loss Horizon being mean morons because of their geografic and national backgrounds and origins.