Ich hatte letzte Woche verschiedene Medienberichte zu Ashley gelesen. Erst heute wurde mir von einem Bekannten aus London mitgeteilt,

dass der Fall Mike Ashley für allerhand Aufregung auf der Insel gesorgt hat.

 

A City insider explained: "Mike should have got out a long time ago when the extent of mortgage debt in America was made clear last year.

 

"It has effected all the markets and HBOS is just one of them.

 

"When the stock was priced at £8.80, he gambled £300,000 a point for each penny rise or fall. If the price rose a penny he would get £300,000 but if it fell he would lose that amount."

 

Ashley gambled on IG Index, a spread betting firm in the financial sector. The firm do not buy or sell shares, just take bets on whether the market is going to go up or down. And in Ashley's case his wagers have been nothing short of catastrophic.

 

His win and loss accounts make nightmare reading. After the dramatic crash this week HBOS was at one point trading at £3.98 before making a recovery.

 

But the shares had still lost nearly 50 per cent of their value since Ashley started gambling on their value going up in October. Despite a couple of £10m-plus wins in November last year he ended with a net loss of over £10m after the first month's trading.

 

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Football tycoon Mike Ashley has lost £300million this week in a BET on crisis-hit bank HBOS.

 

The Newcastle United owner watched helplessly as HBOS shares plunged in value on Tuesday and Wednesday under sustained attack from speculators.

Ashley made his mammoth bet in March on HBOS’s share price when the price was just under £6.

He gambled that the shares would go up and put down £50million – a 10 per cent deposit of the total HALF A BILLION pounds he was gambling.

 

Newcastle boss Mike Ashley loses £300million in bet on HBOS