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Gengulphus wrote:As far as I can tell, forecasts (and forecast dividends) have completely vanished from the DigitalLook site this morning - they were there in the small hours, and don't seem to be there for any company now... :-(

Gengulphus

kiloran wrote:

Gengulphus wrote:As far as I can tell, forecasts (and forecast dividends) have completely vanished from the DigitalLook site this morning - they were there in the small hours, and don't seem to be there for any company now... :-(

Gengulphus

Looks OK to me....http://www.digitallook.com/equity/AstraZeneca

and also for other companies I checked.

--kiloran

Breelander wrote:In my HYPTUSS...
Some missing: CLLN DLAR SBRY RIO GSK AV SSE IMI RSA PSN BA BLND BT-A
Some OK: BARC TSCO RB ECM DGE ULVR UU AMFW HFD LLOY MKS CNA VOD PSON and (surprisingly) RDSB works again.

Gengulphus wrote:... nearly half the companies you sampled working, it's not good...

Gengulphus wrote:

Breelander wrote:In my HYPTUSS...
Some missing: CLLN DLAR SBRY RIO GSK AV SSE IMI RSA PSN BA BLND BT-A
Some OK: BARC TSCO RB ECM DGE ULVR UU AMFW HFD LLOY MKS CNA VOD PSON and (surprisingly) RDSB works again.

Yes, it looks as though I was very unlucky in the companies I tried, which for instance included GlaxoSmithKline and all failed - and kiloran was very lucky in the companies he tried, including AstraZeneca. Thanks for managing to be neither! ;-)

So it's not as bad as I thought, but nearly half the companies you sampled working, it's not good...

Gengulphus

kiloran wrote:I just looked at the forecasts for the FTSE100: http://www.digitallook.com/index/FTSE_100/forecast . About 11 of the companies currently show n/a in the forecast div/yield columns. Those that show n/a on this page also show n/a on the individual company page.
--kiloran

kiloran wrote: ..the only FTSE100 company still showing n/a is Carnival

Breelander wrote:My HYPTUSS now gets the yields for all my shares that previously were n/a.

AJC5001 wrote:

Breelander wrote:My HYPTUSS now gets the yields for all my shares that previously were n/a.

My HYPTUSS now also gets a forecast yield for RDSB, which has been absent for weeks.

Adrian

I believe I read some posts a while back about something similar happening to Morningstar, and at least a casual look around the Morningstar site doesn't reveal any forecasts that I can see...

MDW1954 wrote:

I believe I read some posts a while back about something similar happening to Morningstar....

Gengulphus,
Morningstar does provide dividend forecast data...

Morningstar (in an email reply) wrote: Due to the MAR regulation Morningstar have been explicitly identified by the regulator as a data vendor that is distributing data that could be construed as advice driven information. Because of this association Morningstar has had to amend its data to comply to the regulators requirements. One of the key components to this regulation is around the display and distribution of broker forecasts.

As per the new regulation individual forecasts are construed as advice and hence we had to remove this data from 1st of July 2016 onwards.

They do now (and did before) but in July they stopped publishing forecasts when the Market Abuse Regulations (MAR) came into force, saying...

Morningstar (in an email reply) wrote:
Due to the MAR regulation Morningstar have been explicitly identified by the regulator as a data vendor that is distributing data that could be construed as advice driven information. Because of this association Morningstar has had to amend its data to comply to the regulators requirements. One of the key components to this regulation is around the display and distribution of broker forecasts.

As per the new regulation individual forecasts are construed as advice and hence we had to remove this data from 1st of July 2016 onwards.

http://boards.fool.co.uk/broker-forecasts-13415824.aspx

MDW1954 wrote: So they have changed their mind? Do we know why? How odd.

In that case, write to the FCA and complain.
I did!
They said:
The Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) came into effect on 3 July 2016 it's aim is to increase market integrity and investor protection, enhancing the attractiveness of securities markets for capital raising. I wouldn't be able to comment on whether Morningstar's consensus reports fall foul of the MAR regulations.