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In any case I think you made a good move. If I had some spare cash I'd pick up some more. As it stands I'd have to sell something else to pick up some more and I'm having trouble deciding whether or not to sell anything in my portfolio now.

As you know I'm an optimistic person and I believe things will be improving over the next few months. So its a matter of relative return rather than absolute return for me. No sense in picking up a 15-20% return with risk for a less risky 10-15% (my guess for the overall market on teh next 3-4 months). Weighing it against cash though, it would be a good option though.

I think I will wait a bit more to see how things pan out this morning but it seems right now that 1)people have yet to realise they are paying the dividend or 2) they still see it as too risky to take a punt.