Share Buy-Back delight - as the markets collapse today buying-back will be massive

Mark Watson-Mitchell - 09.03.2026

It is reasonable to expect brokers to be busy today helping to 'mop-up' the markets in the shares of companies currently undergoing 'share buyback schemes' - especially as London's equity market collapses in response to the machinations of the US former peacemaker now warmonger.

I was reading comments over the weekend about this furore and its effects - with one commentator stating that investors should be buying gold and definitely not buying 'defence stocks' - opinions with which I strongly disagree.

For investors with cash at hand then I would suggest selecting a portfolio of 'defence sector' companies' shares.

If nothing else, we must by now realise just how weak successive Governments have been in so badly funding our armed forces.

Ships and submarines in repair docks for years are useless in terms of UK defence, as is an air force with outdated stock and an army with pathetic lack of equipment.

So take a view, while prices fall, to buy up positions in the plethora of UK defence stocks - then just hold on to them awaiting the gradual Governmental realisation that the UK's defence is paramount.