Hbos Share Discussion Threads

[chesty1] 15/12/2008 11:52

Little shake & then back up we go....Great moves today.

[careful] 15/12/2008 11:44

rkj HMG will get all they want..as per RBS.
Predicted takeup by current shareholders very small.
the market will keep the price down until it is over.
how do they do that.?

[rkjones] 15/12/2008 11:39

I received my offer letter today which looks ludicrous. Surely if you want or can afford to double your holding in HBOS you should buy today. Unless price increases dramatically over the next few days , there will be no takers and HMG will be the major shareholder.

[fludde] 15/12/2008 11:24

At this rate the offer of shares at 113.6p looks good.... LOL!

[rgolding1978] 15/12/2008 11:20

Is everyone slightly happier today with the rise?

[rkjones] 15/12/2008 10:52

Unless there is a really positive RNS, traders will limit the potential rise in anyone day. If you are in a trading mode and the share rises , say 10% you cash in, you have probably not got the capital to finance your initial buy and will just take the days gain.

Thats the principal and risk of day trading!

[rgolding1978] 15/12/2008 10:42

How much can a share price like HBOS rise in one day. This is great, especially after the f&^k I made on Friday.

[chesty1] 15/12/2008 10:40

lah blah blah & up we go...good strength today & plenty more to come...easy money.

[ssvsjs2] 15/12/2008 09:56

there's nothing signed till the 9th of jan, apart from a re-vote whats to stop lloyds from renegotiating from the new statement,they did it last time on 1.3 billion,now its another 5 billion

[dexdringle] 15/12/2008 09:23

The reason HBoS announced the write offs just before the vote must've been to sway any floating voters towards a "yes". Otherwise why do it ?

Plus, Lloyds will want all the bad news out asap, and may even overstate the negativity, so that it looks like a blinding deal when the dust settles and there's no more bad news. What Lloy doesn't want is to be writing off huge amounts 12 / 24 months hence to make it look like a bad deal.

HBoS already has £20bn+ of write offs built into the price (ignoring ongoing pre write off profits) as Lloy are buying the business for £4bn whereas it has net assets of approaching £30bn.

It's an almighty mess none the less. The new Lloyds Banking Group needs to de-leverage and batton down the hatches regardless of what HMG says / wants.....

[rgolding1978] 15/12/2008 09:19

Should be a quick recovery, I thought fridays drop was we un called for.

[chesty1] 15/12/2008 09:15

FTSE faling a bit & we move up...looking very solid.

Sellers friday buying back in....ride it baby.

[flashpants] 15/12/2008 08:54

should see 90p again once the dust has settled...

[chesty1] 15/12/2008 08:43

I reckon we could be in for a good week here....

long from 70p game on.

[rgolding1978] 15/12/2008 08:41

No one is selling this stock this morning, could finish in the late 70's, early 80's.

[rkjones] 15/12/2008 08:15

In my view these latest writedowns are a clearout prior to formation of the new company. Anything remotely tainted will have been written down as the new directors will not wish to take responsibility for the failings of the old company. Indeed, they will want to appear the men behind the recovery. The reality of bank writedowns is that not all will go bad and a proportion will be written back into future profits.

With influential figures in the City forecasting a bull run in the financial sector coming maybe as early as the first 3 months of 2009. I feel confident that anyone in HBOS under a £1 should see profits within the next 6 months.

[mellious22] 15/12/2008 07:51

Porridge3, give up!! The falling house prices to come are known and maybe even overfactored into the price, and even the £400 million potential isn't that large in proportion but the recapitalisation of the Irish Banks is the main worry!!

[porridge3] 15/12/2008 07:32

Ok, more downside to come in my opinion- based on what?

House prices continuing to fall and expected to fall another 10% tomorrow + the Madoff story, RBS reports that they were exposed to 400 million.

I expect the banking sector to get hit today

[double entry] 14/12/2008 22:52

LADESIDE - 14 Dec'08 - 15:25 - 24162 of 24169

as an HBOS employee I can tell you that the majority of hard working staff in my business centre .......


you dont have the slightest idea what Hard Work is, sunshine

[porridge3] 14/12/2008 21:57

any hbos share you have will be conveted to lloy when the merger goes through

[scoble2] 14/12/2008 21:49

If I buy more HBOS shares did I qualifuy for the Lloyds shares.?

[bally101] 14/12/2008 20:39

Presumably if these increasing losses have been ongoing for the last 3 months, surely Lloyds TSB people have been fully aware of this and all over the books of HBOS ? Should be set for a good run now IMHO.

[lord gallivant] 14/12/2008 20:32

No pulling out