Barclays Share Discussion Threads

[manics] 01/4/2021 07:09

Looking for 4.09p today. A big ask.Lets hope our Easter bunny, AKA: JPM Guy, tries to cram three sessions into one today ahead of the break.

[johnwise] 01/4/2021 07:08

Visit at your peril

BBC's long-serving China correspondent flees Beijing 'in a hurry' with his family after facing 'threats, obstruction and intimidation by authorities'


Police have the power to detain or prevent you from leaving China if you’re involved in or connected to a business and/or civil dispute.

[prbshares] 01/4/2021 07:01

Morning all

Wasn't quite the end I hoped for yesterday but after such a climb the day before it didn't come as a major surprise.

With only 1 day left in this financial year will be interesting to see how today goes.

Come on barc... profits are good, economy opening up, Vaccine flying, plenty of funding stashed away..... time to position yourself back in the £2 bracket !

aimo

gla

[johnwise] 01/4/2021 06:55

Mortgage timebomb :

Goldman Sachs to sell Irish non-performing loans attached to 1,000 properties

The portfolio, known as Project Toucan, amounts to 1,800 loans in total, they said, meaning many properties carry more than one mortgage. It is believed that the loans relate to both buy-to-let and owner occupier properties and stem from various portfolio purchases that the US investment bank was involved in over the past decade.

[johnwise] 31/3/2021 22:11

Bet365 boss Denise Coates gets 45% pay rise to earn £469million in a year - the UK's biggest EVER salary

[stonedyou] 31/3/2021 21:45

Facts Matter (March 29): Heavily Armed Antifa Rioters Stormed Oregon Capitol.


At the southern border, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) attempted to take a video of the migrant detention facility, but he was blocked by a Biden staffer who told him to respect the rules.

Meanwhile, city officials in Baltimore have announced that they are permanently no longer going to prosecute “low-level” crimes like prostitution and drug possession.

In Oregon, over 100 Antifa members, who were heavily armed with guns, bats, and shields, clashed with pro-Trump supporters over the weekend.

[johnwise] 31/3/2021 20:58

Deliveroo customers who bought shares in the app face losses of up to £300 each as £2.3billion is wiped off firm's value within hours of its stock market debut

[bigman786] 31/3/2021 20:38

John .. whatever you're posting, you're so negative. Cheer up please sir.

[johnwise] 31/3/2021 19:42

Goldman Sachs to Offer Bitcoin Investments to Wealthy Clients



'Bitcoin is the greatest SCAM in history': Founding PayPal CEO Bill Harris claims the cryptocurrency is a colossal pump-and-dump scheme that steals money from ill-informed buyers

[manics] 31/3/2021 18:49

Market top:

[maxidi] 31/3/2021 18:49

WE 've been spoiled I must admit..... Still in profit anyway!

Sat in the garden this afy with nice drink and good company, what a nice change.

[portside1] 31/3/2021 17:35

The selling today was for tax reasons end of tax year they will be putting the money back in on the 6th

[manics] 31/3/2021 16:57

Yes but we've been spoilt imo. Nothing wrong with a little intra-puke on the journey.

[maxidi] 31/3/2021 16:54

What a let down at the last minute, same as LLOY. Jiggery pokery!!!

[manics] 31/3/2021 16:13

bernie37:if you are calling 66k DOW in 2030 then I shall answer FTSE 7150.

[jordaggy] 31/3/2021 15:06

What a great human.

[johnwise] 31/3/2021 14:37

Get ready for an evictions ‘avalanche’ after May 31st, warns expert

Paul Shamplina of Landlord Action says courts will struggle to clear backlog of 20,000 old cases and new ones when ban ends.



VIDEO: Lou Macari creates glamping style pods for Stoke's homeless

[diku] 31/3/2021 13:56

2 hours of price squeeze below the flatline...is buy backs taking up the slack?...

[johnwise] 31/3/2021 13:52

Donald Trump launches his own website

[manics] 31/3/2021 12:52

Putting in the good fight for blue.

[bernie37] 31/3/2021 10:10

The stock market could double by 2030 because COVID has ‘utterly changed’ the policy environment: analyst
What’s a stock-market prognosticator to do when the S&P 500 index hits his 10-year target — but does so with 8 1/2 years still on the clock?
That was the conundrum faced by Inigo Fraser-Jenkins, co-head of the portfolio strategy team at Bernstein Research, as the S&P 500 (^GSPC) advanced on the 4,000 level — the target he had put in place in 2019 for the S&P 500 to hit by the end of the current decade.
Making the dilemma more interesting, Bernstein’s Alla Harmsworth, also co-head of the portfolio strategy team, in 2019 had called for the large-cap benchmark to end the decade at 8,000.
“Of course, having got to 4,000 doesn’t necessarily mean that I have lost the argument. But the idea that the nominal level of the S&P will be the same eight-and-a-half years hence seems too horrible an outcome to countenance,” Fraser-Jenkins wrote.

The more important point, he said, is that it’s likely “too horrible for politicians and other policy makers to countenance, at least if they want to persist in the notion that individuals need to carry the risk of saving for their retirement,” he wrote. “Thus, given those alternatives I find it easier to accept that I was wrong, so I am belatedly changing my view to agree with that of my colleague and taking 8,000 as our S&P target for the end of the 2020s.”
The S&P 500 hasn’t cleared 4,000 just yet, but it’s come close, finishing at a record 3,974.54 on Friday. On Tuesday, the index was down 0.4% for the day near 3,953. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) shed around 113 points, or 0.3%, a day after eking out a record close of its own, while the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) gave up 0.3%.
Fraser-Jenkins argued that the policy environment has “utterly changed” as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not all of those changes will be positive for equities, “but the most important point is that for the first time in at least a decade there is a plausible case for inflation,” he wrote.


While “unanchored221; inflation would be a threat to the outlook, a moderate level of inflation would be positive, he said. Moreover, there’s also a good change that interest rates will rise more slowly in response to inflation, he said, while the acceptance of “semi-permanent higher debt” and massive direct government aid, such as fiscal stimulus checks, work-furlough programs or infrastructure investment, are things that would have been much less likely had there been no pandemic.

In the same note, the analysts observed that while stock valuations would appear to be an impediment to returns — the Shiller price-to-earnings ratio at 36 times earnings is at the top end of its 120-year range — valuation has failed to be a guide for equity returns for more than a decade, a point Harmsworth had argued in 2019.
“Policy has trumped valuation,” they said. “Moreover, the lack of other appealing assets that offer positive real returns means flows into equity are likely to continue, ‘TINA’ is not enough to make a fundamental justification for returns, but it can beget significant flow,” they wrote, referring to the acronym for “there is no alternative,” or the argument that yield-seeking investors have little choice but to plow money into equities due to low bond yields.
At the same time, the analysts warned that a bullish stock-market target doesn’t obviate the need for investors to break away from the traditional 60%/40% split between stocks and bonds, reiterating their call for a portfolio model that would tend to have higher allocations to real assets and non-fiat currencies such as gold and potentially crypto assets.

[johnwise] 31/3/2021 09:06

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