Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[jacko07] 01/12/2019 17:38

Yes Minnie I have a couple of Morris 1000 travellers, a 1961 & a 1963, they stand in my 6,000 sq ft climate controlled garage alongside half a dozen V8's including a 65 Mustang, 3 x Ferrari's, 2 E Types, 2 x Mk 2 Jaguars a Mk V1 Jaguar, well let us just say a valuable collection of classic cars well above your station.

By the way, your Woodford losses would probably have bought you a couple of E Types, Maisto of course!!

Now go away and have a little drive in your rented little Merc.

ROFLMAO

[bbalanjones] 01/12/2019 17:37

Poikka1 Dec '19 - 16:32 - 284597 of 284603
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"Wife bought some Thorntons chocs today - made in Poland, and I thought it was a British company. The wonder of the EU project."

No no No!! That is the FACT of unregulated capitalism. Manufactured goods will always gravitate to the lowest cost-base available. Be it Engineering to India and the Far East from the 60's onwards; Software Development to India, Call Centres to anywhere cheap that has English (or a close approximation) etc etc. America's current Massive Drug prices and shortages are not only driven by a rip-off Insurance driven Health system - so many of its Drugs are "MADE IN CHINA". Still sold and labeled by Big Pharma but their drug Manufacturing base is mainly overseas and in price domination these days.
The only element Trump has got half right is to start to return these once homegrown assets back into American control. Engage brain before gob please.

[sentimentrules] 01/12/2019 17:09

I suspect he stole them.

[minerve 2] 01/12/2019 16:51

"that you run two Morris Travellers"

I would suspect he actually lives in them.

LOL

[minerve 2] 01/12/2019 16:50

The auto industry, particularly in Germany, is damaged by the on-going spat between the US and China - and the economic slowdown in China. Tariff introductions have 'forced' manufacturers to build more in the US and China limiting EU exports. The same issue is going to occur between the EU and the UK and considering we are RHD then I would expect increased prices and reduced choices going forward. Our country is one of the worst for pushing the green agenda without thought on infrastructure and human cost. To criticise the EU is simply laughable when we have just had the likes of Bristol city council blanket banning commuters of diesel into the city centre when most of public transport there is probably run on the same liquid!

Thorntons was founded in Sheffield.

Cadburys was bought by a US company and mostly manufactures in Poland.

[alphorn] 01/12/2019 16:40

Jacko - you make me smile. You start a V8 discussion and then admit that you run two Morris Travellers!
Teasing, they are quite classic - but not much in the noise stakes! Lol

[alphorn] 01/12/2019 16:38

Poika - Thorntons, like many UK companies was sold off some years ago; it is owned by Italian company Ferrero.

But don't worry, blame the EU for everything. Not long before many posters will run dry in the blame game.

[poikka] 01/12/2019 16:32

Wife bought some Thorntons chocs today - made in Poland, and I thought it was a British company. The wonder of the EU project.

Never mind, I don't give the Euro much longer in this world: car manufacturers cutting back jobs so that they can pump out more electric cars at lower prices, which are probably still too high for most, and no point in buying 2nd-hand EVs, all so that Brussels can achieve their emissions reduction target by 2021.

European job losses on top of a global slowdown and a ECB running out of options...well, work it out. The last option is fiscal measures, and how many EU countries can afford to do that - ok, Germany, but you know what Germans are like when it comes to spending.

Meanwhile, Germany's politics are getting a tad muddled, and Paddy's going much the same way, and Italy and Spain and Poland, and don't mention Malta - who?

Whadya reckon? Two years tops? Still hanging onto my Pesetas, lol.

[sentimentrules] 01/12/2019 14:26

Human extinction wouldn't rid this board of gerbils

[xxxxxy] 01/12/2019 13:32

Let us hope we are soon out of that FOUL EUSSR.LEAVE and WTO

[xxxxxy] 01/12/2019 13:31

agricolaPosted December 1, 2019 at 6:19 am | PermalinkI saw austerity as a necessity though with hindsight it could have been handled better. If you are going to carry the crew with you it is important to explain what you are doing and why, then to update them with progress. The word gave the opposition something to hang their political whinging on.Brexit will free us of the socialist EU constaints, and if you get it right by leaving cleanly and then back it with the right tax policy I will feel more positive than I have for o very long time.

[sentimentrules] 01/12/2019 13:11

Mm2

Minerve is kind when you rile him. Only calls you chimps. .

Wait until I have a whisky later. ..il be back

[minerve 2] 01/12/2019 12:46

In its continuing string of settlements and scandals, Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $2.09 billion for actions that allegedly contributed to the 2008 Financial Crisis, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.

That new penalty comes on top of a $1.2 billion fine Wells Fargo agreed to pay in April 2016 in relation to the Financial Crisis. The Department of Justice alleged at the time that Wells had deceived the Federal Housing Administration into insuring risky mortgages that were ineligible for federal support between the years of 2001 and 2008.

Wells Fargo has paid several fines upward of a billion in the past two years, with the succession of scandals starting in 2016, when regulators said the bank had opened millions of fake accounts—resulting in millions of unwarranted fees levied on consumers.



Prudence, Grahamite?

[sentimentrules] 01/12/2019 12:30

Some is trading. Others to hold. Usual

[sentimentrules] 01/12/2019 12:30

Massive money

I've put two months into some deep research for 2020 to 2030 period in this area

[bbalanjones] 01/12/2019 12:24

Is the WWF a 'not for profit?' Could be some money to be made somehow.

[grahamite2] 01/12/2019 12:23

Was, Alphorn, was. Don't you have tenses in German?

Before the HBOS takeover Lloyds was indeed a very prudently managed bank. Likewise Wells Fargo was prudently managed in the US. They were forced to cover the mistakes of the wide boys, forced by their governments. Senior management at Lloyds put a brave face on it but I share the widely-held view that the HBOS takeover was not voluntary.