smack a like on it I'll share the link to uh Lina and Hans Oh thank you Oh it's me I'm a viewer Right now just share it to the story The link entry Aussie feck Aussie feck's already entered I think I think there's a few more Our friend from Texas has been on yet No Two Right Chat ranger hi Hi Pat You can come in Yeah He's home So strange that one second John Boos Hi folks, hi John Hello John Hi Sarah That's on the story There's something on Hodgson's Instagram Can you put the I've just missed it Yeah, excuse me I'm going to get my iPad So we can look at the comments I need your phone to look at any late entries I'm going to go back Where is it? I've got to get my iPad, it's going to fall Alright, let's see I'm going to go into these What is it? I'm best looking for He's going to leave me You just handle everybody This is me by the way Hello Leaving me Sacrifice for the stream We're rounding out the winner's current game What I am He's going to disappear when I'm dropping you in it Here he is They're coming back Phone girly She's catching up I understand that It's over there It's going to be so funny Excuse me Can we just Right Let's catch up Let's see where we are Michael love it, good evening Thanks to the Brick Tongues Welcome Dixie, Mr Normas Gareth, Christine, come on You might as well give her a wave John Andrews What's that saying, Christine? Christine, come on, we can hear you Steve and Alex They've been watching a while now Great work, thank you very much Pat Jim Hi folks, how are things? Good, thank you Jim Link, don't forget to hit the like button Very much so, thank you Pat Steve says you're so cute Thank you very much Glen evening all Ozzie's in Hello, ladies And so I said Brickie, good evening Lads and lassies Good evening So we've got 42 in at the moment Lovely, that's not bad I assume we started like 4 minutes ago Yeah Sunday evening all Great to see you again You are looking well, enjoy the weekend We will, thank you very much Welcome to Birmingham So we've got a few people in at the moment Michael, hello Do you watch Charlie Cohnson? What do you think, says Jack? Well, I don't really watch love Gold is YouTube just because I'm busy on Skype with hair all the time But Dad enjoys watching, don't you? What, Charlie? Yeah, yeah Have you ever met him? Yeah, so if you stay in touch with our Instagram you'll know that Dad is out of shot as it has met Charlie I can't see my phone Absolutely I haven't read it Let's see, Gareth and Lee, hello Doing well for yourself there Alex Absolutely, I have A score if you ask me Can't wait for my free stuff Says Gareth Well, you never know, you could be the winner Dixie There you go, best winter working weather I've done in 25 years I've also got Rob's song as well That's my claim to fame Ozzy, your girlfriend's next addition to the channel thought I was your dad in a wig at first I would do look quite a bit That is a really nice comment with a terrible insult You look like a fine Swedish girl, Dad Thank you Mark Hepp is in, hello Mark Hi Mark, we're at Charlie for you, isn't it? So, we're just... 3,000 views Still number one So, we're still getting a bit sorted out at the moment We had to rush Just now finished the table, thanks to Mum With the other comment support and Robert Robert Pemberton, evening lads and ladies, come a long way from the videos where you didn't show yourselves It was Ted's idea to actually get ourselves in I wouldn't do it but obviously we're about to adapt and overcome and all Robert's just booked for Alton Towers You've just come back from Alton Towers Yeah, we picked a good day to go which day quiet Darren Wheeler, hi guys nice to see you staying safe and well Thank you very much, good to see you too Darren So yeah, so we're just getting ready now getting everything sorted because as you know it's the 20k giveaway today We are... the way... the way we're going to do it is a bit different to last time because if you remember last time I did it the hard way We've written everybody's name down on a post-it note Wait, I did some You did write anything on all of my desk? Yeah, but I wrote some My desk was covered in about 60 postcards So we've not done it that way this time What we've done now is I'll give you a quick showcase with the awful quality that it is We've got everyone's names written down on my notes with a number next to them So we've just written them all down and given a number and dad on the Mac is going to do a number draw, a number randomizer Where's David? I've just got this one for the comments I can read them So we'll draw a random number on the randomizer and then whoever's lucky name will be on that number will be our winner And now once we've done all that we'll go into more details of the giveaway and such Right, can you just catch up with these comments? I'm catching up, yep bricklayered worldwide, have I won yet? Evening Andy, not just yet Did you put S&A 20K, I can't remember, has he put it on? I think he has You don't need any trails or any tools there, Andy Dick Snow is asking if we're still making brick tongs Absolutely not, made a massive loss on them for a wasted time they were But yeah, it took a lot of time and it just wasn't worth it in the end was it? We'll be up soon We're on Robert's just said hi to Mark, we're on Gareth Hope I live only a few miles away from here and they still don't have Rob's number Aussie Alex, how did you meet your girlfriend and is she going to be working with you and your dad on future products? Oh, products? Thank you I've got a long glass of milk So we met a long time ago Me and Nia, 2016 2016 on Instagram through our cosplays that's why I look very bloody by the way I've not been fighting today we did a cosplay shoot before in the garden so don't worry, I'm not forcing anyone So we met through our interesting cosplay and such and it just kind of grew from there It took a lot of convincing but I managed to get here Oh really? I managed to talk you around eventually but this is the second time here and then hopefully in summer I'll be going back He's starting to feel awkward now You talk about when you meet Mum with your cars Matty's with Cardos I thought Taylor Swift died of her brunette Mum's has no brick tongs ruined her patio doors The patio doors are fixed Ozzy in great job we're reaching 20k, thank you very much Ozzy Thank you We're actually on 21 and a half now it's been a mile now Christine was that off the sparks on the grinder Oh yes, that grinder says Mum brick clears worldwide The tongs are brilliant, get Rhino's bills onto it, that's what you're considering isn't it He's going to try and get a design ready for him He's burnt the doors This is a Dixie Ozzy meant to say project about mistake So I was right Ben, is that my bird Yes, this is my girlfriend Nia Bird That's cute It's a British slang term for girlfriend Oh that's cute, I like it It's a derogatory term for a girlfriend Oh So Nia's the one who's actually designed these t-shirts Let me turn around This is going to be fun They're with me, everybody So this is our 20k shirt We'll have one of these in each of the prizes One for the Instagram one for the YouTube and obviously we're all wearing them to promote them Yeah and they're signing too She's very adamant that we signed these shirts The doors are increasing I fix them She's going to be working with us until April now isn't she So she's going to help us with more designing and stuff Right now she's working on thumbnails We're going to get more uniform thumbnails and everything We're going to get some more workwear designed, maybe merch maybe we'll see and just other like signing up our channel basically giving us a bit of help Dominic Hebworth Blake's mainly but we'll use the box sections as a deadline now and again because we've got all the clumps for the box section but mainly Blake's Jacko Where's my girlfriend from? I'm from Sweden We're actually live from Sweden tonight Yeah definitely Is Christine being a keyboard warrior Yes She's going to get abandoned in a minute Oh she's always one of them I don't know I think she needs a drug if she's in It must be a drug if she's in I need to see if I need to have a word or somebody Tricol Syrup No I can't I'm not cockney Ah that's cute Thank you You're okay yeah I'll take that He means who's the lady Jacko has a lot of cosplays I think Minnie's girlfriend Oh hold on She's the mother of mum Any interesting projects coming up Not really is there I should say that, we've got a YouTube channel Everything's interesting There's no big collaboration There's definitely things coming up but we can't talk about them yet from the week Isn't it tomorrow on a 28th 3 days Stay tuned for that That's going to be big And what are cosplays You basically dress up as video game characters movie characters It's fancy dress but a lot more expensive and intricate because obviously you can dress up as a kid's star fade or you could spend a lot of money and actually have the full outfit A lot of craftsmanship as well The cosplay shoots me and Nia we're doing today We're from Call of Duty Zombies Two characters from that franchise I know obviously you've seen my Michael Myers outfit That's a Michael Myers cosplay They're a And when you cosplay you're very much trying to make yourself into the character as well sometimes You at least Definitely Michael Myers He wouldn't speak to me when he was in that cosplay It's so scary Let's see It's either 8mm or 10mm 8mm It's got to go in the joint If you've got a 10mm anything less than 10mm is useless Daniel Moore Tranquil is another word for die Thank you Daniel I just had to make sure it was a good slang word Ben she likes Alex Nice one for their play How did you meet the young lady Through our interesting cosplay on Instagram Obviously we started escaping from there It was like every now and then now it's every day Can't get rid of me You read Congrats on your 20k I still enjoy your work Roll on 30k Thank you very much It's part of your cosplay outfit Oh yeah so when we're in Lemit and I was going to do a Michael Myers thing but it never came around So I did it there Dominic Site work or domestic Site work is feeling like ground whole day at the minute We've jacked in site work and we've not worked back since Domestic and private work is definitely our way to go Site work is just poison Especially the site we were on We've talked about plenty of times Not a fan Your dad could dress up as R2D He's little You've got the dome for it too Just slap on some stickers How old are you Alex How old am I That's a Swedish slang term for a baby apparently I'm 22 Reds Steve from those Uncle Fester I can see that Yeah that's a good idea Bit of a got make-up under the eyes Mum's laughing John Message has been retracted Brackers 59 you look good Oh that's my dad Make the near wave to her dad and mum Hi Yes You're not in shot time I can't shoot like that for an hour There you go Hi Steve the girlfriend How did you do that I ask myself that every day Like as you can tell the contrast I must be a good cosplayer Dominic is still learning good money on domestic It just feels like easy money on site I'd rather earn less money to be honest Site work is very taxing on you buddy well being Yeah A lot of days depend on the mood to fight this travelling Yeah and if the contract manager decides to kick you all off Yeah Build manager Oh build manager John Andrews You shouldn't we do J projects If you could elaborate on that please How old is your girlfriend are you I'm 23 She just closes her age Half the girl older sadly Just happens Dang it more I didn't like last halloween film Felt more like a trailer one before It was really good I know what you mean yeah the air This plot for halloween kills was kind of Up in the air It was a bit more about just watching Michael Kill I think They didn't really think of that script I was too scared to watch I was watching them like this Got nervous Very bloody Oh yeah Adrian a bit late Hello Adrian Ben how old are you Yep she's 23 Fire Blaster Mum saying hi to Hans and Lena You read New edition puts a Sparkling your eye Alex Definitely Pat Cooldingly Missing that word How did you find working with your daddy Used to concrete yards and gardens With my dad and hating working with him It's um You are a shark Just get up and sing you know I just moved over slightly I enjoy working with him He's good to work with Working with my dad he understands How I am and what I'm like Because I know I'm a handful And there are many different aspects He understands my quirks and Handful traits Obviously One of us is having a bad day We can always help each other out Give each other the I'm going to bat two weeks because he's not for two weeks I'm going to bat the father son home You're in Orton Towers you were fine Yeah Ben you must have something Alex Ain't gonna say Hey keep it family friendly Tom Buckle nice work over price work Yes Absolutely It's like opposite to Our site's Morals They preferred everything up And have a wall 70 my last one Which is like serious wall unfortunately Hi guys hope you Are you on your channel I hope you all had a good week Hello Steve thank you very much Ben Halloween kills awesome There's a beast I'm actually Working on getting a Halloween Killed Michael cosplay Ready I've got his cover all Like the old burnt ones up I've got a the halogen Property as from the fire House scene where he messes up the Firefighters and I've got the Mask sent off to get ready to Get re-hauled so it's in the It's in the queue Goodbye Jacko did he Dominic Steve did you have any tips for Preventing the aches and pains My back is in bits and I'm 28 What am I like You're a well I'm struggling I'm 22 and I'm struggling with my knees I should be retired but I can't She's hot stuff That she is Ben fair play mate Adrian did you know You've nearly hit 5 million views Oh really I've got the Everything's been liked YouTube actually Contacted us 2 days ago so we hit 5 million That's great As soon as we get the TubeBuddy Trophy I'll put that up there Right She looks good in the top She really suits the essay Cute I love the orange Like I said she designed this And she What have you done so far Just this so far Just this so far Shall we do something with DJ projects We'd love to do something with DJ projects actually That'd be great that Because we went down to see them as well Very good day with them I was invited to that one Yeah so we spent So while we were down at Lamington We were with A&E obviously Dad spent a Half a day with Not Stu Glover With Charlie Robinson And D&J and Rob Saga Well done with 5 million then you Sarah That's the end of the day Stevie had to run off and leave us We had to go and help Taff I think Just before that shot So We've got 84 people here And the comments have caught up nearly Oh tall carpenter's in Evening guys wanting to do a future Garage video wearing a Steve and Alex t-shirt So where do I get one Now we've got two We're going to get you to work So We're working on Merch We're going to get Workwear designed and then we're going to get Merch Design That's what our director's for She's got the eye for it So Shall we start with this Rappel Right, I'll get your foot right We need a drum roll We need to set it up first 83 and yep So we're going to start the giveaway So let me just show you so it's fair Add tab We'll start the cable we're based in Lancashire New Wigan Hi Gary Hi Gary So here we go We've got the random number generator up I'm going to do the Instagram one first Hi Tom I saw that post today I was at work I've got my own work t-shirt I'm not going to put that on shit shit Friday Right, so Instagram we have 16 People entered And I've got 16 jotted in now Right We need a drum roll both of these No we don't want to stuff them in Manchester Right Drum roll generator random number Hi Lawrence Number 12 Peter Care Number 12 And number 12 was Peter Care 84 So congratulations Peter I'm just going to jot that down somewhere Peter Care was our winner So congratulations Peter You've got We're going to put all these up on our Instagram And YouTube community as well We'll know who's where Lawrence Russell Hope you're well, thank you Lawrence Hello and welcome back I haven't forgotten about the strong boys Pat Link And Gary Ross, hi Pat So Should we wait for dad for the YouTube one? Yeah we'll wait for dad for the YouTube one The YouTube one we've got 75 people It took a long time It took a long time last night for me To jot all these names down Do we know what these are? Instagram Is Let me get it up Instagram Instagram is the fit brick and the rhino Clubs And I think we're breaking down Peter Care So those two prizes are going to be sent Direct by Richard Fitzgerald and Ryan So what you'll do is We'll reach out for you Peter New messages, your details And your share ties And then we'll take care of the rest Yep Are you ready for the YouTube one? Yes Do you want to get a catch on the comments first? Yeah What's that? Welcome back I haven't forgotten about the strong boys Congrats to my big brickies Cheers to girlfriend Today's walk back to 999 Hi guys, Eric seems to like video Hope you've had a good week Yes, thanks Phillip We'll just read lemons first Third member of the crew seems to be a lot more Photogenic than the first two She probably can actually She's Swedish so she's got that Fielding in her knees Built in We've got 75 viewers Entries for the YouTube giveaway Drum roll everybody Drum roll John Buist Congratulations John Buist You have won The prize is won now You've won the brickies buddy in the M store PPA And obviously another share as well So again There's a few miscellaneous bits And miscellaneous bits that we'll get thrown in So the winners will tag on our Instagram And we'll mention on the YouTube community We'll either reach out to you if we can Or if not you reach out to Dad On email or Instagram DMs Emails in the description of every video But if you've got Instagram just hit us up in the DMs With your address And your shirt size And then we'll get it sorted And you've got Did we say a week? You've got a week to do this Or we'll have to redo the raffle Here you go Well done everyone Congratulations Gareth's disappointed Sorry Gareth Maybe we'll get it 50,000 Gary Ross is Hermes Steve had to We had posts up to Obviously Closed today but the post was Again what near designed The posts were the rules And you just had to enter on the Instagram or community Sorry John Boost is in Oh congratulations So contact Dad By email or Instagram Whichever is easier for you Make sure your address and your shirt size And get one of these orders for you So congratulations John Oh Ian I said you could have some New strong boys but I haven't used But I haven't used them in your last live chat I'll tell you what they are Send me an email In the emails in the description Of every video again And then we'll get in touch And we'll sort that out I'll buy those off you definitely When in the market for some strong boys And although I do like questions I still need to get some of our own I'll say great gesture with the giveaways Keep up the great content It was nice meeting Linnea She seems like a lovely lady Thank you very much I'll say And Steve Unfortunately the raffles closed now Steve Better late than I was I'll leave the names on Just in case that Peter Doesn't get in touch I think John's going to be on it You better check it out tonight Yeah Dominic you need to speak to Richard or Charlie about that I think they're just Approach attached at the moment Yeah Gary congratulations everybody Yeah congratulations Second that You got a really landed community John Where's your email So it won't be in this one Any of our previous videos They'll be on there The only ones they're not on is This live and the Announcement that me and you made yesterday Is it in the description isn't it Mainstream videos E-mails there I think Dad's going to write it down for you You can't answer anymore Steve Unfortunately they give It ended today Hopefully Maybe if we get to 50,000 Big giveaway Gary's been here for a while And I'll be I'll be here till after 100k Right John Who's the other one Peter If you're in Peter I'm not sure you are John I don't think that's coming out backwards or not Nope there it is That's good Best thing is I'll be here with a V 130 at gmail.com And you're struggling just Really watch the video and pause it I'll be late to enter Sorry Steve If we get another one in the future We'll be sure to Spread the word get people to subscribe We'll be here till 50,000 We'll do another one It's great to see down to earth people like yourself Thank you Ian What do we do now We've got a fake confession It's a legion of people It's fake It was fun to watch Thank you Hans I was like I reckon it has Bracka Senses game tag isn't it Right As far as some questions then Brick Lane related Or cosplay related You've already seen me What's up about that Stop talking about cosplay You've been warned Sorry Steve Hi Alfie Oh yes please Thank you Welcome folks to the channel Thank you Steve Sorry Sean I've got the wrong glasses on Marine building roofing Thanks very much Cheers guys Absolutely the lightest of all great to be part of the channels community Cheers John Welcome thanks for entering Thanks for being part of the community How old are you using the game Sad girl I'm going to use if you are doing the game 36 36 This is my 7th year Wow Near a few months Phillip Jeffries this is an easy one What's your favourite job over the last 6 months And why Well I think it's easy to say the A&E job The big The big big extension Which Which took us 3 months Now there's a wall as well though Yeah but the wall Wall wasn't as fun as the extension But the extension was nice And obviously that was fun because it was a big project New New things that we had to do And obviously working with the A&E lads Nice treat And picture of it There's a picture of the front of the extension Brick link There's a poking the bear English Bond That's just the front And those door openings are 10 feet high So it's bigger than you think So you were on that picture then There's a poking the bear She said brick lane question why don't we build a mongrel porch Oh hard hitting question There's a picture of the ceiling That's a lantern in the middle And there's actually two lanterns going in it Then why don't you like sight work That's how high the ceilings are Did you enjoy that job which is sort of true Yeah, thank you Do me too Why don't you like sight work Is it because it's so slap dash brushing all the time That's partly to do with it Yeah but it's not is it You can't rush because you've got no gear You've got no bricks You've got to wait for this Time's broke down the machine's got a puncture And the one that we were in particular The workers were very toxic to you They'd be next to your face And stab you in the back And we were bottom of the food chain We were there for a year And we did one house Two half houses One house from the ground up Which is on this estate And then two half houses We only did one full We kept giving all the shit And then when we were promised stuff We got stolen So We're our embosses now Which we're with people Who are nicer to us People who make us bruise Yeah I would like to say we've just done that Three and a half homes for Tony And he led to that which is like a breath of fresh air Don't let that ask Have we tried the superior levels No They're like handmade I see Why did she use bricklaying as a trade Steve There you go that's your fun question My chat's not working He didn't she's bricklaying No I chose engineering Left school Let's go to Preston college To do BTEC in engineering Or go to the YTS down the road And get paid 28 pound a week So I went for money And to be a joiner When I got there He said there's no joining places left So you have to go over there and be a bricklayer So that's how it happened That's how the legacy started No fancy long family history bricklayers Steve you're a grafter You will never retire That's John John always loved your videos guys Down to earth grafters And a great standard of work That's what we aim to do Just show Build it like it's for you now I build it like it's my own Sarah I wish you had built my house Play what it did It'd be a lot better I'll tell you that much I've been given the opportunity to have a go show That I'm going to show it Sergius has loved the bloopers You know just throw them And that's not my editing Throw them You're just some good ones Siteworks is full of housebashes And arseholes Not being on many sites thankfully But every time I've been There's no one I mean I mean no one really gives a flying nef About what they're doing Exactly One of the many ground worker firms On this site One of the boss of them Was just drinking a box of cans In the middle of the day So that shows the That shows the Work ethic The question was answered I haven't been able to mention the site name yet mum Anyone else got some questions for us I'm going to point to John the moment So hello obviously Do you have anything Do you actually want me to give you a little T-shirt As well as a little tiny T-shirt T-shirt There's a little lady just like that What's next big project Extension Yeah we've got a few extensions coming out The biggest extension We've got a few extensions coming up actually We've done a lot of lintels lately We've got a few more coming up The price defense job Stuff really We've got a lot of lintels done We've got four different houses Didn't we on the truck Yeah I feel like I'm dusted off Yeah there's plenty of videos in the camera For me to get them actually edited We've still got so many new videos left all Yeah So we've got plenty in the backups Keep up the videos Thank you very much What factor wish you were on my side of the pond Lots of projects here We will be sharing about you for a few weeks Some will be working Sam O'Connor says hi chaps Sam Marin building and roofing Would you consider working in Sonny Sheffield We've got a pair of semis that we are Putting a lot of conversions from From hip to gable on both Yeah we would be going over there But Mark kept us over that way So we've seen Mark kept us still in the chat Hans wants a hug I'll give you a Hans style hug Oh god Yeah Sorry mum Daniel Do you think that the Welsh Common Country should be renamed Now that it's moved to Telford That's a vote so I don't know where Telford is Me neither If it's changed location it probably makes sense To change the name Gareth The fixed pic clamps The only down thing about them Which is nothing Is sometimes the spring falls off You just put the spring back on Because the spring isn't attached It's just hooked over But that's about it Sometimes you catch Jeff Gardner You get sore thumbnails But they're fantastic There's nothing you can fault about They're so versatile There's so many different things you can use them for You've got the clamps And you can also put them on horizontal We've used them on a fence job Stuck on top of the fence post Because it's a drum meal post They're brilliant, absolutely brilliant Well worth the investment So there we are, Gareth has just read Stuart finished their bottle At the moment falling asleep Not falling asleep however Sam Steve, how did you get into the game And Alex, do you have any bricklaying qualifications Or are you self taught I was in college And I got my MVQ I did all the health and safety tests And everything I got the ICB It was one of those too Because I did the tests and I've got the card I still got To this day I've never got a card Even though I took the test No, that's a CSCS, that's nothing to do with qualifications That's just that stupid card What are you making regular? I did a CSCS test Which is under the apprenticeship thing Yeah, it's a proper apprenticeship Yeah, so I'm properly qualified I've got the certificate up there somewhere Clicking does somewhere So how did you get into the game By accident By accident, yeah Because we're a joiner on the youth training scheme Telford isn't here in Wolverhampton so it's not in Wales Well that's definitely not a Welsh combat on there Definitely changed it then John, I love the length of the job Do you ever think you've finally seen All problems with lentils and trays Must be getting near but Every time we do once It's just Flabbergasted Sometimes there's no lintel, sometimes it's just Just a cavity tray Dixie, absolutely Couldn't agree with you more mate That's exactly what it is I did that test Never got my card, never been asked for it It's like a card to say that you're qualified To work on site Cush 20, 30, a group of the test And you have to pay for the card To see the test that's proved That I was qualified but it lay So I had to pay for a A search So I paid for the search Then they found out that I was qualified So I had to pay for a certificate Which I'd already, obviously I'd never had Since 1988 So it cost me £800 And then got asked for the card once Really good thing was it was a golden card Now I'm going to be asked for it again No, that's true Like I would Ben, have you seen the new trial magnets That Childy's put as well Is that like the small one The tiny thing that goes in your belt That's cool Ian, do you have any holidays planned? Absolutely, go on We've done a couple of nights at Alton Towers And then it's the big F Someone died there this week In Florida? 14 year old kid that lost bit and died You convinced me to go on I think I'll be going on that Absolutely not And obviously I've got plans to go To Sweden in the summer So we'll either be going to Or Or just going to Listerberg The Swedish I'm interested in going there eventually Definitely going to Listerberg And then definitely going to New York And actually hopefully There's plans in the brewing If you could create your own theme park As we've put Ralph At any cost, what would it be based on And what would you call it That's not a crap question That's quite cool actually, Ralph I'll just think about that one I'll take the best roller coaster out of each park And clone it Theme park with Stephen Alex Remember Nemesis right in the middle It was a centerpiece I'd have a horror themed amusement park Like Nemesis Like some of the rides like monsters and such Halloween park All in your own Definitely Plenty of screaming All of this is brilliant Oh no, Dixie said They wonder why we can't get young lads on the site Exactly Well hopefully Maybe sometime this year in the summer There might be something that could help with that Yes Stay tuned Oliver Franklin Love you guys really watching you Thank you all for that Ash, my volume is on max but you're still quiet Is anyone experiencing the same Guy says no We have this a few times Some people message you and it might just be Like your connection or something at all I think we've got everything Yeah, Dixie Exactly the same as me mate Let's go back to archives Going qualifications in the gold card Ridiculous Daniel, do you have any stonework Try stonework Do you do any No That's not really pretty That's proper Try stonework into the skill itself Oh look at this, Sean Did my manual handling in Safe Pass in Ireland yesterday 250 Bloody hell That's in a different currency 250 euros William, Alex, do you injure Being a Britco with your dad And does your Britlain business Is it a father and son It doesn't say father Oh, that too I feel the good press to me Does your Britlain business Is it a father and son Yeah, it just does With an intern With an intern But I don't enjoy working for him yet Because I wanted to be I wanted to work with him for ages But at first he didn't want me to work for him He kind of pushed me away Now I want to be an electrician or a plumber So he's not going by the weather A job where I can kill somebody Or myself Thoughts on the benefit mix was the diesel It was clean Yeah, looked after They tend to be belled with What's the It'll come back to me No, sorry Mark, you didn't win anything You've got enough tools anyway You've been spending likely Someone wants to know What conveys in Sheffield you've been interested What's that say Mr... I always sit very well I think just Where are we at Where do you see yourselves in five years time It's pretty much where we are now, isn't it Yeah, hopefully A few more subscribers Don't count on it Don't say that Don't say hi to Mark Don't say hi to mum Garrus de passion Mark has moved you next time Yeah Mark It's going to be 50k next time Because it does take a lot to Organise these giveaways And when you cast a porch when you buy These t-shirts as well I'm paying for them too Absolutely able, do I give up my T-Job of five years and become a brookie I get so bored spinning in my chair or going to the office Be prepared to not earn very much money While you get trained up If that's the only thing You've got to be You can't just jump in On to a bit less wages You've got to basically be offensive wages You've got to work your way up In terms of whether you'll enjoy it or not If you get Oh my god I can't talk If you find the right kind of work to do With the right kind of people You'll find it's very enjoyable In some jobs It can be a bit of a nightmare as all of them can But some jobs can be very therapeutic I find Because even Rob said that He said if you could He'd tell his doctor If you've got anyone with any stress Send him to work with me Because once he picks that job All his troubles just disappear When you're brookling a nice straight forward wall Or something you can just switch your mind off And just lose yourself In the air In the work which is always quite nice You can be looking for a hold carry For a while press the nore Always get lads with no css Or don't drive Don't understand why young lads don't drive Have their own money, he's brilliant at the moment Yeah And lads that don't drive I'm working on it Have you ever had a massive argument At working four rounds over it No, our arguments we fizzle out Because it's a very open journey I don't know if we don't fizzle it out Especially if you're at Paulton or something An average driver With that attention Obviously we bicker every now and then As all families do But we always sort each other out Do we ever have an argument? Like electrical pack testing Yeah, that's normal Like start without doing plastering And work work and end up doing commentary You just never know what's Viewing till you try it and mind you The old coming handy Just love doing extensions and renovation Yeah, yeah And that's another thing That links into the announcement That's coming up soon as well So just keep your eyes posted Keep your eyes peeled for that one What's the best bricklaying job you've done so far? I think in terms of showing what we can do I think being an e-job Yeah, I've been doing bricklaying for 36 years And I've never enjoyed working Because it wasn't just the job, it was the people The people actually made it What a bunch of lads they were They were just so great to work with Everyone and And obviously in terms of the brickwork We've got to do massive scale English bond With white cement White cement, lime water That looked really nice And that's all thanks to Tony Given as the opportunity And that's all through YouTube We've never imagined it was a through YouTube Just go to the bottom We're interrupting Liam's gaming time Talk of the devil, that's one of the boys It's Friday, Liam All the raids and all that are over aren't they On a destiny I think Tuesday Is the reset day for a raid It's their trials today I think isn't it, Liam Does your dad pay you top dollar? No, not yet Once he starts earning top dollar he can pay top dollar Hey, I earn top dollar Liam, alright lads I think there's going to be a big argument now actually You've jinxed this problem Hi Liam, we've just been talking about you a lot Can you say hi to Izzy? Oh hi Izzy Up off the brickie Hey you guys He's a pro pocket slum Liam, yes, it's sweaty But well, I remember Liam, these two picked the Tonight for the livestream Nothing to do with me right And Liam, how is it going at the At the job We're waiting for someone to send us some picture That's true, yeah I see the lads have started a new job My opinion, housebuilders now treat lads Like we wish but expect them to bend over back I'll tell you what, Izzy You've been working with us That's exactly how we feel about it Exactly Liam's our bricklaying pallet He was our labourer Slash bricklayer in training Yeah, and he's in the head if he needed lifting If he needed heavy lifting Oh yeah It's going to be awesome, nice one Liam Good weather as well that helps Ian, do you normally work weekends Or try to keep it five days What's that? Oh, yeah, just under I used to work weekends all the time But to be honest, since we started YouTube It's took the pressure off And I actually enjoy a lot more time off than I used to I'm working tomorrow I'm off Sunday I've got a road trip to Birmingham on Sunday Things we can't mention because normal tell us off Brick jackets is in And Moonman guitar Hi Moonman guitar Hi Brick jackets, glad you could join us It's all the carpet How do you pronounce this lovey? Helsing boy That voice In the early 90s, wonderful people the Swedish They're basically the same as Northerners Tell me say all the nicest things you know They're a bit friendlier than Northerners When I was at the security Coming home from Sweden I had a security member Apologised to me because she spoke in Swedish What? Izzy I couldn't believe that today I left the chat Social club chat And Izzy sent me a message saying Everything okay, just left the chat I thought I could just slip away Not noticed, there's somebody's adding me back into it It pops up when someone lays the chat I'm sorry I left the chat but Obviously I'm backing it again I'm trying to get up I saw a message from a social club after you asked if you were alright too Yeah, I didn't see that one Oh my god I need to Stop the distractions Same, I'm only getting notified All the time Absolutely Able I'm currently renovating my house I'm trying as much DIY as I can I wonder if I can learn more and do Trade full-time Gotta hit IT but at least it's warm and dry You've definitely got that for you I suppose working IT you've got a job for life But doing it with A trade you've got a job for life as well You've got two strings to your bow then Yeah You can always Go and do something else over the winter You could Market himself great as a bricklayer if he's an IT guy If he's an IT guy as well He could market himself brilliant as a bricklayer Yeah Being house-bashing for 20 years Getting bored of all one side That's huge From what I've heard of other lads It's just going down the pan Definitely The rich never used to be brilliant But I used to get extra so you get paid for lentils Cavity trays Stuff like that Everything's in the price How was I going to tell you Steve you're not a grandad, are you? Yeah, Liam, she's nine months old I think he means your physicality Me and Chris hobbled around He's halfway there, Liam We didn't do much healing because it's dead quite I think we've got about 14 rides in Got loads of stuff done, a really good day A bit chilly but it was good It was the day after opening weekend So it was absolutely dead I thought that video was in yesterday Tipped you over the edge, so is he? Well As Doug said a few times He gets very distracted by his social media research So is he? Yes, Brickie's Buddy Mr. Jeff Fitz Oh yeah, Brickie's Buddy Where is it? I think it's over there Hello guys, hope you're all Just won your Brickie's Buddy So we'll be in touch with this address To send that out to you Thanks for being part of it Thanks for gifting us the Brickie's Buddy To give away, much appreciated Don't go on to put your braces up yet Ask still Yes, actually we have Ben says give her a room Mum says she didn't hobble around No you didn't, I did Every two hours it was either I would pro for not paracetamol Just to keep getting me round the place Because it's this trek and a half round We did 8.4 miles Love it Can't wait to go back Going to what Mum said So is put now you were dragged Brick takes his evenings busy I didn't see what Liam's for Lovely plenty of rides then Buddy says we'll And Liam says get Alex on the VR again He was really good daily Really enjoyed it And then we stayed at the hotel's hotel that night And then we just spent the day chilling Around the hotel and went for a bit of a walk And then came back about tea time Just followed along Bob and Brickie what did I win Sorry Bob Mike Really enjoyed watching you guys at work You are nice and tidy And we're tired now but Like keeping a hand in It's always nice to do a bit now and again Seeing your wife Does she tend to stay away She's upstairs now She prefers to be a keyboard warrior You'll see her in the chat As in the purple scene But you won't see her on the videos She'd rather stay on the videos Brickie's both seen even into Izzy We're at past 8 o'clock So we've seen about half 8 Wrapping up Just over an hour Well done winners and welcome to me I appreciate your design Thank you Sarah, see you later Good luck with Daisy Have you worked for Redbro? No We drive past them in Berkshire don't we There you are So Christine Ben's asking to come and say hello I'd love to get you Can we share Ben Nice speaking with you both Good to speak to you again Liam It's nice to see you again Hope you enjoyed Friday All right mate I can't make heads and tails without you If you're on Instagram You can direct messages and tools You can email them You can email them Yeah, just so happens There's our email address It doesn't look so bad to be around It all looks all right Kennedy.Steven138dmail.com It's an app not a C What's the worst house build As you've worked for Our last company I want to say the name The mum won't kill me I'm going to say it Oh she's mum's text Uh oh We're in danger If we get near to Mum's foot no If we get near to say it won't tell her Put it this way We live in one And the hallway Is about Seven foot long From door to opening And it's 70mm So I think it's about 35mm, 40mm Going like that It shite The Just about board line The margin is about 5mm 15 is the biggest That's the biggest tolerance And 70 Zero is the tolerance Zero is the tolerance He goes to Christie's say hello Looking forward to the next job There's actually There's two The big square brown brick extension I've still got to do a video of that I'm going to go see the customer and film it Finished And we did a little good job on that as well Got two here as well How many do you use for water? Five One and one, isn't it? Five, one and one We use Amy We use the other sand With lime And white cement Just fantastic stuff Because we use We use bagged sand at home It's Four bags to one cement We don't use lime down here Up here And then there's another one as well Boxing you don't hear a hoover That's right, it's what you do upstairs Looking forward to the next job I love watching your videos and when you work With time, watch my mrs That's like all good fast work Guessing you're a fan of the blue man group Says 12 Times of Shilman We even went to Burnley team didn't we? Yeah we did 2018 Tall carbon to new houses that just smashed up And got us to work nowadays You've missed a couple out Would you ever build your own house? Absolutely Were you tried to get into this one? Yeah, we tried to get into this company to build our own We didn't quite get it What's the story of the price working in the UK? Apparently the price is the best they've ever been But it's just It's just the organisation And it's like The hoover is done New houses just smashed up and it's got us working Definitely Yeah We were working We picked this work because it was I think two miles to drive to And a mile and a half to drive home That's the only thing that kept us there Was how close it was But it was Going to work Paul says 4 to 1 Yeah 4 to 1, standard Probably for his good wife Dixie knows the cement is cream Compared to that silo Silo stuff You get on the dry face work And it comes like stood up And then you get on some wet block work And it comes like soup When me and dad do a mix we mix them by hand But on sites they come in big silo Mix in the mixer What do you call it? Cement leather That's a new name So we do it in that But on site they come in big ready made silo And it gets like a big ice cream machine Basically And obviously it could be like not how you want it See you Ben I'll get us to come and say hello next time See you Ben Silo swap with wet bricks Definitely not Which was a lot of the case when we were last We were last site That was the best option The trail belt I don't even mean the actual two belts With the trail holder But it's the brickies buddy That's what we use It's just a cheap Plano Belt It slides onto any belt Stanley pouches Stanley pouches Is it a Plano brick hammer Yeah it's one of those I've seen about that Hammer holster Ben, have a good night to the likes Thank you very much I'd like to build my own house Yeah A brick house with a log cabin Not a log cabin It's a beeviled dead old over again With the pencil Silo's looking like bricks We did a foundation with silo water Jesus it was awful We have quality houses But supply shank materials And slow service Exactly We've been in the video to site fashion Yeah It's just a thankless job But it's one of them as well At the same time needs to be done doesn't it It does That's probably why they know they can get away with it so much Yeah Because it needs to be done Thank you buddy cheers guys You're welcome Sam That's our replacements When you talk about yourselves Sam's a lovely girl obviously With the dead Alex Plus that Ian Playing videos that you guys got edited up and ready to go I might have usually posted the same day a week I filmed them Guess it's good to have a few in stock Well though I got up to seven I'm down to zero I've got two I'm totally waiting for him to okay it So we'll have two rainy videos And I'm in the middle of editing one now We'll be way behind As you can say I think it's September the last video I think the closest thing to being dead out to an argument was in a Leamington About the upload schedule Yeah When I was losing the plot There was a misunderstanding basically because Dad said He filmed a lot and he was going to have to like Cut some of it short But the way he worded it was like I'm acting everything you filmed up until this point So I went livid with him thinking You're going to act everything I've done I kind of lost the plot with him And then Obviously Once we calm down And we realise what we're on about We sorted that out Right here's a picture of This is the gang that replaced us On the other side It's blown in insulation So obviously that's supposed to be jointed At least flushed up There's a clamp at the wall That's the fast you see Alex House with the dynamics What's an annex? Like an extension Oh there's a buddy sleeping tablet Too busy at the end of all That's a massive project How long do you think you're going to be at that house? You just keep making it bigger He's adding bits on He's done an oak carport He's done a summer house at the back And now he's doing a two and a half storey extension Is that the one you show me? With the 20 cube raft Unbelievable And it's just the two of them One of him and Tim And he had to battle through with a noisy heater And even the digger It struggles that much Yeah, poor Mark Tim's still outside He's freezing Freezing these conkers I've worked for the same house But over 20 years used to get looked after But we got treated like a shite So just shit I've worked for a conservatory firm For 40 years And I left there and never got a thank you Or a good look For 40 years? I said 40 I was going to say I've only been working 36 And then I've worked for a They never even came to say I was going to stay Never got a text message to say thank you Nothing, good look, nothing So it means nothing, I don't know how How do you work for somebody? You get a watch for the conservatory I've got a 10 year watch here I think we got it out of the grab machines It's got a look in the grab machine If we were to build our dream house Which location would you choose? Wellington Spa A long way from any neighbours Out in the open Well not too much So Christian will be scared So I'd say Like how you have yours Like a 10 minute walk To the neighbours I'd be occasional loose Stop in the garden Dixie The bricklayers just treated With contempt One of the lads complained about The chain is the scaffold So if you don't like it You can have it somewhere else That's the attitude This guy was a bricklayer as well He's a builder's manager You should know first hand They're in building and we've seen Some shocking stuff When you take pride in your work Definitely I think one soul Crush in time The cobble Oh yeah I still haven't done cobbles Dad handled the cobbles One of the cobbles we just finished One of the joiners came up To start looking at the roof The foreman joiner He stood on the cobble and knocked the whole thing down He climbed up it Just as I finished it And you don't get paid to rebuild it It's like just get it built So that's another two hours at your time We both just died inside when that happened Like you say thankless and unforgiving And we did one with A Like a pearling Steel on it Dorma roof So we had to put the steel in Warplanes at low level then warplanes on the steel And the joiner came up to me And he said that is the first house I've ever done Where I could cut all the spars And the off it's on the same That's the first one ever I thought well if That's shocking I might just get a steel in parallel If that's not good Greetings from Nebraska USA Love your great work Thanks for tuning in Quite early for them then Not really 20 past 3 Even 5 hours behind Could be 6 in Nebraska Still got 70 on it You've got nothing better to do What was the news We have some new equipment We've been spending We've been spending Been using our Using the YouTube money for some luxuries Worked on Times 10 Price job insights 3 Seal award sites for the same House billers they aren't bothered about our pride and skill Dixie Do you know what They never are Foundations we had a lot of comments off Building inspectors the NHBC saying how good Our foundations were And then there'd be a visit coming Of one of these friggin award things And the The agent came up to us and said Just make sure you're bang on For this one, just do that extra bit So Like why What we do is good As it is So why don't we go with that extra mile For them to get a pay rise Because they get the bonus The actual tradespeople who have won That award get absolutely nothing Nothing, you're lucky to get a breakfast out of this Yeah Lauren says welcome to this video Is that me Welcome to the system this video Got pulled on a tie We're being 3mm out Do you know what Saying that my dose has out been 40mm out of plume and 70mm out of square We had the NHBC What used inspection while we were working Walked in front of us, picked me level up And put it on the wall in front of me Thought you cheeky get Thought you take that level to my doses out And put it in a hole that you've passed off For a CML And they never inspected the skin work They just focus on the internal work The part which never gets seen Which never gets bothered with That's the part they were bothered about Josh says just bash him up Yeah that's the blanch, bash him up Deals off, I'm off now guys Great job on the live videos and hope we catch up soon To talk about the YouTube and that awesome Tony and his team now Have a great weekend, cheers See you soonish Thanks for coming in Private customers appreciate decent job That's it The client to the ANE Charles The client He's seen how much he appreciated I've never read like that before I've never had someone shake me hand and say I'll trade you this brickwork for the rest of my life It's like give me a lump in me throat What wasn't expected now And as we were leaving he said he was So thankful for his stain on and such Properly appreciated it Hey it's Will Hey How's it going, alright Will How long have we been on 78 minutes An hour and a bit You're always welcome It's not bloody It's not real blood by the way Will It's fake Will is another ANE lad Top geezer He's the one Alex was doing shots with on the On the night out That's Will Will's the one who greeted you on the phone Oh I like him Everyone liked Will Oh yeah He'll have to do a proper one soon Will You get good hugs You get good hugs at ANE Oh yeah Good breakfast Yeah See ladies and gentlemen thanks for stopping in There he is Anyone who watches ANE will know Will He's a super duper woofer Alex is bloody Did you enjoy that bit of woofering you did With ANE on that flat roof That's Mark It was fun Playing with the right company was fun Having a bit of a bogey on the roof I was trying to find that video actually Shane where's Alex's girlfriend's Accent from On Excuse you Oh no It's a Swedish accent There you go there's Alex on the roof With Will and Brian Another string to his bow a bit of roofing There you go Doing the old registrict on the roof As you can see the roof is massive That was our last day wasn't it One of them yeah Last few days we were on the roof Yeah because the brickwork kind of Stalled because we were at the end of it It was waiting for the roof We couldn't finish the brickwork so the roof was done So we came onto the roof She aren't glad you didn't say russian She'd have a hard time getting back home If that was the case Kirby to Kirby Where are you? Can't wait to see you Hopefully soon Which we'll be able to talk about soon Hey Will We're in Birmingham tomorrow So Come onto the NEC We'll meet at the NEC No sorry Sunday Sunday we're up at the NEC Taking these two to the Megacom So we'll be down your end Are you counting the time down? I've got my daughter next to me She's laughing at her daughter Do you have a password? Do you have a face ID? I don't know Do you don't like yourself in? I'm just going to stretch I'll say hello to your daughter Will Of course Will is the Of course Will is the That's what all your roof is like You went through it Have you logged in? No, I don't have any passwords I'll keep you suspense I'm so surprised You don't know your passwords Thank you very much Oh yeah, night lovely pictures Will In Jepsen Gardens is it That's where me and Alex went that last weekend Beautiful place that Really nice Any update on how Rowling's doing? Not good at the moment She's had to go back To have more chemo I think I'm not sure which one it is But things are a bit rough at the moment But if you follow Holly on Instagram She keeps everyone updated Yeah, Rowling's busy Looking after Holly basically So you don't see much here Rowling at the moment But he's there See you on the next one Any roofing? Cheers Yeah, people are wrapping up for us We'll I'll be working with Azix tomorrow Have a great day and I'll be keeping a look At the photos of you on Instagram They'll be there We'll have some up tonight Probably actually Just throw some of the ones we took today Talking of Azix Will Me and this one July That was a big thing Prodigy What, it's in Azix? Prodigy from Prodigy tickets Will We're going to see them at Liverpool University I think so, yeah In July, so I'm looking forward to that I'll do an Instagram live for you so you can watch I think On Mother's Day I've taken Mother's Day out for a late dinner I can't quite go to Azix No You've been taking my mother for lunch in Birmingham Yeah I'll be treating her Don't Mother's Day on Sunday here Oh really? This Sunday? It's been hijacked by mega-con If anyone's got any last-minute questions Throw them in Last question before we wrap up We're going to start wrapping up and then Get the details up on our Instagram and YouTube For the winners I'll see if John's message you already Yeah, because at least with the other one Peter, we can tag him on Instagram Get rid of that then Someone wants $5 off me for what? 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Good morning. Welcome to CMC Markets on Friday the 20th of October and this quick look at the week ahead with me, Michael Houston. It's been a negative week for equity markets, not altogether surprising, but unlike last week when we saw gains in the US, we've also seen losses for US markets while European markets have continued to come under pressure over the course of the past few days. Basically carrying on a series of weekly declines that's been going on for quite some time. So essentially the big question is where do we go from here? Well, ultimately what the charts are telling me, it's not a particularly positive picture. Sentiment continues to remain fragile and while the geopolitical noise from the Middle East wasn't as apparent in yesterday's trading, it's still very much there. There still remains a clear and present danger for nervous investors as concerns continue to increase over third party involvement. And I think that is the biggest concern going forward, that the conflict in the Middle East widens once and if a US, not US, an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza gets underway. Some of the events of this week we've seen headlines coming out, the fog of war, misattribution of strikes on targets in Gaza, obviously fermenting very anti-Israeli sentiment pretty much across the Arab world and certainly in parts of Europe and the US as well. So it's a very febrile environment for investors and then on the flip side of that, away from the geopolitical concerns, we've also got the continuation of rising interest rates. Here's the US 10-year yield within touching distance of 5%, retreating a little bit over the course of the last 12 hours, but we heard from Fed Chair Jay Powell yesterday where he outlined the fact that at the moment financial conditions probably aren't as tight as perhaps the Federal Reserve would like. We've seen economic data out of the US this week, which continues to paint a very mixed picture of the US economy. Weekly jobless claims dropped 198,000 lowest figures since January, while at the same time existing home sales dropped to the lowest level since 2010 at 13 yellow. So that I suppose is not altogether surprising when you've got US mortgage rates at 8%. Yes, that's right, you heard me correctly. 8% US mortgage rates, certainly well above the levels that they are here in the UK, but I have to add an important caveat to that statement in that the US generally don't have the same type of mortgage market that we do. There's much less prevalence for fixed rate short-term mortgages in the US. They're very much a case of 25-30 year terms. The US consumer doesn't have the flexibility that we have here in the UK for two or five year fixed rates, which obviously are much lower, but having said that, because of that you are very much more exposed to the risk of short-term interest rate fluctuations and all of those two and five year fixed rates that were taken out two or five years ago and now starting to come up for renegotiation and consequently you're seeing that effect. Consumer sentiment here in the UK earlier this morning, GFK consumer confidence for October fell from minus 21 to minus 30, the biggest deterioration that we've seen since the COVID pandemic and it's not really hard to see why consumer confidence deteriorated in the first few weeks of this month. As I say, you've got the lagging effect of higher mortgage rates, you've got rising petrol prices at the pump and obviously you've got the events that took place on the 7th of October in Israel and I think all of that has prompted a significant deterioration in consumer confidence and UK retail sales also were poor in September sliding by minus 0.9%. So it's not a particularly good picture. The inversion in the US yield curve is continuing to unwind. That largely is a result of the big rise that we're seeing in long-term yields relative to short-term yields. So obviously that is a concern because that is essentially pricing in higher rates for longer. It is tightening financial conditions and while we're not likely to see the third raise rates on November the 1st as we head into the blackout period we've had a whole host of Fed speakers this week talking about the prospect of higher for longer and obviously that's placing significant upward pressure on US rates and consequently it's also exerting downward pressure on stock markets. Let's have a quick look at what we've got on the technical analysis front when it comes to these markets. The FTSE 100 still very much range trading, still well above the lows that we saw in March, July and August but it has fallen very sharply over the course of the past couple of days. It has a habit of doing that. It did this back here in July, it did it back here in August as long as we're able to hold above the initial 7375 support from these lows here but also these lows here then I would expect the FTSE 100 to continue to chop. FTSE 250 here is lowest levels in over a year. Obviously concerns about the UK economy are weighing much more on the 250 benchmark than they are on the 100. If we look at the DAX very much continuing to drift lower we've broken below the October lows over the course of the past 24 hours and that's bringing us back potentially to this 14,700 area. As I've stated in previous instances of these videos we are still very much in a downtrend when it comes, short-term downtrend when it comes to what European markets are currently doing. We're getting lower highs, we're getting lower lows and we look to be heading back towards the March lows when it comes to the DAX. Yes we are higher than we were this time last year but the direction of travel does appear to be fairly clear. Any rebounds are likely to find some form of resistance at the trend line resistance there. US markets obviously has been a much more negative tone this week. Earning season is very much underway. It's been a bit of a mixed bag. We saw some blowout numbers from Netflix earlier this week. Fairly decent numbers, big significant subscriber growth, beat expectations, 8.8 million new subscribers. But what was particularly notable about that was that while we've seen subscriber growth continue to go from strength to strength, revenue per stream or per user was slightly lower. But a large part of the reason for that was because of a sharp decline in revenue per user in Asia which saw a decline of 9% in Latin America. It was up 3%. In EMEA it was modestly higher as well around about 1% and it was flat in the US. Netflix still very much number one. I think the big test will be later in earning season is whether or not we see the same level of subscriber growth from the likes of Disney, Paramount and Amazon Prime. One other thing in Netflix's favor is Netflix generally tends to come bundled in Sky and Virgin Media subscriptions the others don't. It has slightly more stickability when it comes to cancellations. It's certainly not first on the list. So as far as the S&P is concerned we're coming back to test this 200-day moving average. Also pay attention to the October lows. It is holding up very well but the last two days have seen some very significant declines away from the 50-day moving average and obviously this downtrend line here. And a large part of the reason for that is obviously concerns about a slowdown in the US economy but also higher yields there as well. Similar sort of story on the NASDAQ again similar sort of story when it comes to the key support areas. Keep an eye on those October lows. We get a retest of them. That will be a key component as to whether or not the weakness that we've seen or are starting to see bleed into the market as we approach earning season continues. Tesla saw a big decline yesterday of around about 10 percent. So there are concerns that certain areas of the market which have driven an awful lot of the rebound higher in the NASDAQ and the S&P could be vulnerable to an outsized correction which brings me neatly on to what we're going to be looking forward to this week. It's a big week for the euro. We've got the ECB rate decision on Thursday and we've got flash PMIs for October for France, Germany, UK and the US. The US is likely to continue to remain resilient. We're going to be paying particular attention to France and Germany because we've seen significant weaknesses in services PMIs for the services sector for October rather. So France slipped to 43.9 from 46th in September despite hosting the Rugby World Cup. You would have thought that hosting the Rugby World Cup was a significant pickup in services. That hasn't been the case. Germany did see a modest pickup from 47.3 to 49.8. So it will be interesting to see whether or not that sustained in October and UK also slowed in September as well. So it'll be interesting to see whether or not that is sustained. It slowed to 47.2 from 49.5. Manufacturing still remains very much in the doldrums. Germany is still sub 40. So that gives you an indication of how weak the German manufacturing sector is and I'm not expecting to see a significant improvement there given what's happening with respect to energy prices. So let's have a quick look at energy prices particularly crude oil and well I mean that says it all really. We're still not back at the levels that we saw in September but we are not that far away from them as I speak and certainly you know additional flare-ups in the Middle East and we could well see a retest of those highs in fairly short order. One of the really standout moves over the course of the past week or so has been gold. I mean look at this we've broken the downtrend line we're above the 200-day moving average and it looks quite likely we're going to retest the $2,000 an ounce level and potentially retest the highs that we saw back in May of around about 2040. We could see a little bit of resistance around $2,000 an ounce but the speed of this breakout suggests to me that people are rushing to havens when it comes to current events and it's a similar sort of story if you look at the Swiss franc this week. It's gone pretty much remarkably unnoticed the Swiss franc but if we look at Euro-Swiss in particular we can see that it's heading back towards the levels that we saw back in September Euro-Swiss but also could well be heading back towards the levels that we saw back in 2015 when we hit record lows for Euro-Swiss when the SNB relaxed the peg. So the Swiss franc is slowly coming up on the rails as a little bit of a haven play when it comes to recent events. It's certainly the best performing currency this week overtaking the US dollar so certainly worth keeping an eye on the advance there but bringing me back to the ECB. Is the European Central Bank done hiking rates? I think that's the key question. I think you're going to hear an awful lot of conflicting narrative from I would suggest the more northern policymakers of Germany, Austria and even the Netherlands. The decision to hike rates back in September to record high of four and a half percent was a little bit of a surprise to me. I was of the opinion that the ECB was probably done. I was mistaken. It happens very occasionally. It happens to the best of us. It happens to the worst of us but the Euro hasn't really reacted to that and I think the reason the Euro hasn't really reacted to the fact that they hiked rates was simply because the market think that it was a mistake and I certainly think it was a mistake. I certainly think they are done. If you look at the data, the last thing that the ECB needs to be doing is hiking rates because the hike in the rise in energy prices is tightening the economy for them. In comments made a week after the decision to raise rates in September, Bank of Latvia Governor Martin's Kazakhs argued that the September increase was appropriate and that future increases couldn't be ruled out given the upside risk posed by higher energy costs and real income growth. Give me a break. Basically, why would you hike rates in the face of rising energy prices? You're basically compounding the problem. It really doesn't make sense to me. Nonetheless, I think the tone of the September press conference was one of possible way to see approach and given the downgrade to growth forecasts which saw 2023 moved down to 0.7 from 0.9 and in 2024 from 1.5 to 1% given that outlook and given the fact that they could also face a downgrade in the coming weeks and months, I really don't see how the ECB can do anything else other than pause. So that's the ECB. It would be interesting to gauge the tone of Christine Lagarde because she sort of indicated a number of previous meetings that the ECB has done and then of course they hiked in September. So that was a little bit of a surprise but to be quite honest, I'll be very surprised if they go much higher. What we've also got this coming week is US third quarter GDP and these numbers and the core PCE numbers are likely to be points to a very resilient US economy. In the first quarter of this year, the US economy grew by 2.2%. It's followed by 2.1% in Q2 and the final revision in Q2 saw personal consumption revised substantially lower to 0.8 from 1.7%. Q3 personal consumption is likely to be magnitudes of scale better than it was in Q2. Some of the growth estimates I've seen for Q3 GDP for the US of 4.5%, that's double, over double what it was in Q2. So you get a really strong GDP number that is going to potentially exert further upward pressure on the long end in terms of yields. US 30 year yields are already back at levels that they were a pre-financial crisis. So strong numbers in this coming week are likely to be a tailwind for yields going forward. So those numbers are due out on the 26th same day as the ECB press conference. So the dollar is likely to remain well supported on a data side of things as well as obviously the haven side of things if things continue to escalate. Now Eurodollar, we're finding a little bit of a top in and around these series of peaks through here, 106.20, 106.40, here are the hereabouts. If we do get a break higher then we could see an overspilt of 107.40 but I still can't bring myself to say that Eurodollar is going higher. Yes, we have broken above or tried to break above this trend line here so I'm not overly convinced of how strong this line is going to be but we do appear to be compressing prices. So we've got these lows here which are likely to act as resistance through here from those peaks there. We are starting to see a little bit of a potential short-term base forming but an explosive breakout higher, it doesn't look like it to me. The pound looks even worse when it comes to potential move to the upside. We've got the previous lows back down here at around about 120.30 but the direction of travel here looks for potentially a move below 120 towards this area of support from March here. So you're certainly talking around about 118.35 and those series of lows through here at the start of the year, around January, February and March. So that I think is the key risk going forward for cable. We need to break out this downward cycle and this resistance level around about 123 which is currently capping the upside. What we've also seen is a break higher in euro sterling which is particularly unwelcome and which would appear to suggest that we could be heading back to 87.90 on euro sterling having broken back above the 200-day moving average but also these peaks through here. So momentum is starting to turn positive on euro sterling and the outlook for the pound is starting to look increasingly negative which I suppose does have an upside in the context of the fact that it could be supportive of the FTSE 100 but I'm clutching it straws a little bit there. As far as the UK economy is concerned it's a big week for UK banks. We've got numbers out from Barclays, Lloyds and Nat West and here we've seen significant underperformance in fact banking has really struggled since the banking crisis back in March. If we look at Lloyds share price it's finding support in and around 141p, a little bit of a spike lower there in early September. We've managed to rebound off that but the direction of travel here does appear to suggest that we could see a continuation. I will be surprised to see it drop much below 40p. That has proved to be a base. The bank is doing reasonably well. I mean in H1 first half of this year profits were up to £3.87 billion on revenues of £9.5 billion. So on the underlying business though customer deposits were lower they fell by £5.5 billion. Over the quarter which is an improvement on the £8 billion fall in Q1 but certainly I think there is evidence that consumers are spending their savings to stay afloat and obviously that will I think be a key concern when it comes to net interest, income net interest margin. In a sign that loan demand is also slowing customers lending to customers fell by £1.6 billion in Q2 which was down by £4.2 billion a year ago. So this will be another key area given recent weakness in mortgage approvals so lending is likely to remain weak. I think the key thing for me for Lloyds and Nat West particularly will be how much more they set aside in terms of impairments. Yeah certainly loan impairments. Barclays slightly different obviously they also have a obviously big UK bank but they do have an investment banking arm and a lot of the investment banking numbers out of the US. We have actually seen some pockets of weakness but generally equities trading has been strong as has fixed income so perhaps Barclays could find a little bit of a silver lining from its fixed income numbers even as its domestic banking division remains weak but again here you know we've got fairly key support in and around 141.40 it's ranging and I would expect that to continue so keep an eye out for the provisions for non-performing loans. Nat West first quarter without Alison Rose as CEO but again it's a similar sort of story. Fairly decent areas to support but look at what's happening with the highs. The highs are getting lower so there's certainly scope for further weakness for Nat West but just be cognizant of the fact that we are above the lows of October last year and that is likely to be a key support but it certainly does appear to be turning into turbulent times for the UK economy going forward not surprising when you consider the geopolitical backdrop but also the fact that inflation still remains very very high. Relative it's slowing but food price inflation is still in double digits and wage growth is starting to overtake CPI but that's that that particular deficit is going to take some time to unwind. Big week also for US tech meta platforms one of the best performers in the US market this year seen some significant gains there and actually has been one of the few US companies that I was actually able to take out its July lows it's an awful lot higher and when we look at the move that we've seen from November a year ago the share price has more than doubled. The big question is whether that move higher is justified personally I don't think it is but having said that US stocks this year have been defying gravity for quite some time now and it'll be interesting to see whether or not that continues to be the case. I'll be particularly interested in Amazon's numbers more from the consumer side of things I think than anything else simply on the basis of the fact that when they reported in Q2 profit is comfortably being expectations revenues came in at 134.38 billion dollars an increase of 11% and the outperformance there came from the online store side of the business but what we also saw Amazon web services did very well in the second quarter 12% increase in sales 22.14 billion dollars and it also saw decent gains in its online subscription services rising to 9.89 billion dollars from 8.7 billion dollars with shows like Citadel and the film Air helping to boost traction in this particular area of the business Amazon has been adding content at a rate of knots sporting events what have you so they may see they may see a tailwind from that given the fact that obviously it's bundled in the prime video is bundled in with all of its other services now it's Q3 guidance for sales I think it's going to be important anywhere between 138 billion dollars and 143 billion dollars investors will be looking for revenue growth in both online stores as well as Amazon web services Amazon web services expect to see revenues increase to 23.2 billion dollars so seen a big bounce back from Amazon from the losses of 2022 looking ahead to Q4 Amazon is likely to face challenges from a consumer slowdown has been cut in costs which is good but I think it'll be interesting to see what Amazon has to say about guidance the Q4 looking ahead given the fact that as we head into Thanksgiving and Christmas that generally tends to be one of its better periods keep an eye on these lows here could this be in some form of double top formation starting to form we certainly got or a very irregular head and shoulders you've got a left shoulder here a double head and a right shoulder here be interested to see how this particular pattern starts to play out decent support 122 they're all they're about we've also got numbers from Microsoft quickly have a look at the Microsoft chart that's not particularly exciting but that does appear to be some area of support in and around these September and August lows but we've also got a little bit we've got a series of peaks all the way through here so not expecting anything particularly interesting from Microsoft but it'll be interesting to see whether or not we are able to break out of those ranges and we've got alphabet as well Google so again interesting we've got four of the magnificent seven so how the markets react to those particular numbers could have a great bearing on where the S&P and the NASDAQ go over the course of the next week or so so let's say that's pretty much it for this week a lot to get through obviously geopolitical concerns aside it's going to be another big week for equity markets hope you all have a great weekend thank you very much for listening so Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets


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