Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[bargainbob] 16/4/2020 08:39

Mild mannered Ladeside

[ladeside] 16/4/2020 08:16

Hong Kong flue ?

Was he not the number one super guy??

[mikemichael2] 16/4/2020 08:09

'Nearly 10,000 Brits apply for picking jobs
There has been a fantastic initial response to calls for UK residents to rescue this year’s harvest'

Some are stepping up, will they last?

[xxxxxy] 16/4/2020 07:19

Believe Hong Kong flue killed a million. Did not wreck economies.

[xxxxxy] 16/4/2020 07:18

583.Indeed. Is the death rate statistic any different to normal compared to last 5 years.Time to.Save the Economy

[xxxxxy] 16/4/2020 07:15

Changing patterns of lifeBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: APRIL 16, 2020As we all adapt to life at home, so the way we do things changes. Many more people buy items on line and grow use to not visiting shops other than the main  supermarkets for food. Many conduct business meetings on line through web based meetings. People turn to on line services. Families learn to talk to each other through video links.It is boom time for  services like Zoom, Webex and the download  home entertainment providers. Suppliers of laptops and smart phones I am told have plenty of demand as families extend their range of equipment to conduct life digitally, and as firms provide employees with the kit to work from home.  Our domestic broadband capacity is being tested with much more use.So today I am asking you to write in and tell me how you have changed your lives to live with the stay at home guidance. Which new services or activities have you found most helpful? Have you acquired any new hardware to help? What things are you now doing on line which you used to do by going out to a gym or sporting event or meeting or party?I would also be interested in how you think people will react when we do start to see the relaxation of the lock down. Will many of you stay with more on line shopping and digital entertainment, or will you be back to shops and the events as soon as they re-open? Will your attitude to public transport be different all the time the virus lurks without  cure or vaccine?How much damage to personal incomes has this all done so far, and what impact will that have on people's capacity to spend again when there are more businesses able to sell us goods and services?

[pvb] 16/4/2020 00:26

careful 14 Apr '20 - 22:58 - 300473 of 300582

Problem is that under normal circumstances 11000 to 14000 people die per week.
That is 600,000 p.a. year in year out

Are people dying because of corona virus or for other reasons?

Err... Both?

I mean, I'm not an expert, but...

[gaffer73] 16/4/2020 00:05

The game has changed since the buybacks were initiated. What did the PPI payments achieve? Nothing, everyone has spent them, the money has gone.

[diku] 15/4/2020 23:30

What did the share buy backs do to the share price?...

[jl5006] 15/4/2020 22:38

Ladeside
Your opinion
my opinion why would I want a Steptoe & Son liability.
BBVA is in dire as is Santander
No good news

[1carus] 15/4/2020 22:18

Alp... probably 200k+ down mate if I consider pensions. You could be negative about that. .but it is a fortunate position to be in. Never really came out of the markets through any of the crashes, All of the gains come back in surgess. Prob still averaged 7% pa since before 2000 including the 3 to 4 big hits we have taken. Tend to always have cash about to lower my averages at these times.

[diku] 15/4/2020 21:32

Money money money...its a rich mans law...





Amazon (AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has increased his fortune by $24bn (£19bn) during the coronavirus pandemic.


With demand for online shopping skyrocketing due to lockdowns around the world, Amazon’s share price rose by 5.3% to reach a record high on Tuesday.

[poikka] 15/4/2020 21:25

jl5006, fyi.

Agricultural workers are flown in to Germany and other countries, not just the UK.

"Totaljobs said it had seen 50,000 searches for farming jobs in one week alone. It added that searches for terms such as "fruit picker" or "farm worker" had surged by 338% and 107% respectively.

Indeed.co.uk said that there had been a huge spike in interest for fruit picker jobs in particular. Between 18 March and 1 April, there was an increase of more than 6,000% in searches for these roles on its website.

Meanwhile, Monster said the number of UK users searching for "farm" or "farm worker" jobs had nearly tripled."

[stonedyou] 15/4/2020 21:20

Study: Remdesivir Effectively Stops Replication of the Coronavirus That Causes COVID-19



The antiviral drug remdesivir has been shown by researchers to effectively stop

the replication mechanism of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

(SARS-CoV-2) that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a study

published on April 13 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.1


The researchers at the University of Alberta who published this study also

published the results of an analysis in February that demonstrated how the same

drug worked against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, a

coronavirus related to COVID-19.1


“We were optimistic that we would see the same results against the SARS-CoV-2

virus,” said Matthias Götte, MSc, PhD, chair of medical microbiology and

immunology at the University of Alberta, in a press release. “We obtained almost

identical results as we reported previously with MERS, so we see that remdesivir

is a very potent inhibitor for coronavirus polymerases.”2


The results of the study showed that the polymerase is the engine of the virus and

is responsible for synthesizing the virus’ genome. Remdesivir works by targeting

the polymerase, which stops the virus from spreading. The drug is able to do this

by tricking the virus and mimicking its building blocks.1


“These coronavirus polymerases are sloppy, and they get fooled, so the inhibitor

gets incorporated many times and the virus can no longer replicate,” Götte said in

a press release.2

[ladeside] 15/4/2020 20:51

Why are you attempting to rewrite history ?

Daniels and Blank wanted HBOS badly and Brown wanted to keep one of the nations largest Banking institutions within UK ownership, mainly due to A&L and Abbey recently being taken out by the Spanish.

It was a marriage of convenience due to the competition laws being waived to allow the takeover and at the same time stop the Chinese (Bank of China) and the Spanish (BBVA) from getting their hands on HBOS.

No doubt the Lloyds shareholders were stitched up, however the blame lies much closer to home I'm afraid........

[jl5006] 15/4/2020 20:29

9170
Forget the share price potential -
Every money grabber is after the cash.
When there is no money will the wasters grab the opportunity to pick the fruit harvest?

[essentialinvestor] 15/4/2020 20:19

And they may well be stuffed again on these 20% liability loans?.

How big is that government lending scheme going to grow?.

I think it's meaningless to say this looks interesting at 30, 25, 20 pence etc in this context.

[essentialinvestor] 15/4/2020 20:11

Arguably too much uncertainty on unquantifiable liability for those 20% of loans, some of which
may rapidly turn bad IMV. Plus impairments to come on their standard loan book over the next couple of years.

Is Lloyds investable atm?.

Looks next to impossible to value.


HMG got the full amount back, with £900 million on top. Something the media don't usually say.

[jl5006] 15/4/2020 20:05

With the risk of having to do something - our scavenger sloaths decline to undertake manual work.
Bringing in EU ppl to harvest - pathetic.
It will not be long before the idlers scream about jobs taken.
Not hard times ahead - no phones ahead- Snowflakes