Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[smartypants] 03/2/2020 10:50

chavitravi2
I thought you had left the EU not the planet?
Which one are you on??

[k38] 03/2/2020 10:48

M5They hope they may have a vaccine within weeks but will take 6 months to reach the market. (News)

[stewarthagerty] 03/2/2020 10:48

Can anyone tell me when they will be reporting any form of results, is anyone aware of a calendar of announcements for this year.

[m5] 03/2/2020 10:43

k38, one is too many but I think its being overdone. Low mortality rate and usually those people are the ones with existing conditions. They seem to be well on with sorting a vaccine and one guy in Thailand who was in a very bad way was sorted with drugs.

[k38] 03/2/2020 10:22

Over 361 people have now died from Coronavirus in China with 17,200 cases
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China's Shanghai composite index plunges 8.7% as markets reopen.


Will Coronavirus effect UK market?
I think so.

[gotnorolex] 03/2/2020 10:21

Did they dress up spaghetti plants to look like olive trees for satellite monitoring to claim subsidies!

"The EU spends 2.25 billion euros a year subsidizing olives"

[chavitravi2] 03/2/2020 10:21

Mitchy, Tusk knows they have to do a good deal or EU collapse's. Report is clear it matters not much if we do a deal or go WTO, which has always been the way to go.
Many countries are already having the pips squeezed out of them and if they have to make up the ransom money we wont be paying that will be the straw that breaks the camels back. There will be no point in them remaining in EU or euro if it makes trading more difficult for them, especially the Med Countries. They are not going to sit on their hand and see their GDP go further down and unemployment go up. They will be out and Germany picks up all the bill.

[wendsworth] 03/2/2020 10:10

scruff and gbh2 : Following 'the same old pattern'being walked down before Finals ...to make a killing..Any old excuse will do! Buying back in when the share price has been in the 50s combined with patience has rarely let down investors in this stock down.

mitchy : Sensible policy ...in view of your current holdings at higher SPs.

[k38] 03/2/2020 10:07

Mafia in Italy defrauded EU of 10mn euros last year through agriculture tactics. .100s of immigrants arrive in Italian port of Pozzalo.

[pierre oreilly] 03/2/2020 09:46

BB, we're reluctant to let scotshire go because we love a whinge and hearing others whinge. It's why we voted out of the EU, boy what a whingefest!. We like eating your dfmbs and haggis then saying how awful they are. We like skiing there and losing fingers to frostbite. We love Oban at the height of summer, cold and wet, with neaps to look forward to for dinner. What would we do without the hours and hours of fun watching Scotchmen trying to throw a telegraph pole? Such a great spectator sport. Nah, it's worth us giving every Scot 2 grand and free this and that, we'd be whingeless without scotshire.

[gbh2] 03/2/2020 09:18

Someone is still shorting this dog, we need some major changes at the top because the current Board is coining it in whilst doing nothing!

[maxk] 03/2/2020 09:09

Thats the wrong kind of news 5x!

[smartypants] 03/2/2020 09:02

Great (proud, free) Britain ready to (not) make a deal with the EU

AND…

Here is your man for the job, the Proud British man Rishi Sunak

United Kingdom Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak told Sky News on Monday that the British government has the "intention to sign a free trade deal" but insisted it will not be willing to accept all the bloc's rules to get the agreement.

Sunak also claimed that Britain doesn't "need" a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU since there are "lots of different ways countries trade with each other."
Asked about the threat of a no-deal scenario, he insisted that it is now "off the table" since the UK already formally left the EU with a withdrawal agreement.

However, worries of Britain crashing out of the bloc without a trade deal at the end of the year persist as EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned that it will take more than 10 months to reach a deal and London insisted it will not accept any extension of the transition period beyond December 2020.
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He clearly has a grasp on the situation and is fully informed.
"Britain doesn't need a post-Brexit trade deal"
"no-deal scenario is now off the table" since the UK already formally left the EU with a withdrawal agreement.
Well thats all looks clear now then.

[xxxxxy] 03/2/2020 08:46

Japanese car manufacturer Nissan could invest further into Britain in the event of a hard Brexit as part of a bold plan to win market share from its rivals.The company has drawn up plans to pull out of mainland Europe should a deal between the UK and EU lead to tariffs on car exports. Nissan believes it can account for a fifth of the entire car market in the UK.Daily Telegraph

[scruff1] 03/2/2020 08:38

And it's another of those days mitch. Set off with a whoosh and then come rushing back down. Terrorism must be our problem today !

[gotnorolex] 03/2/2020 08:28

Dynamic, efficient or abundant in financial assets is not Scotland!

[scruff1] 03/2/2020 08:04

Amazing how that barmstick in London seems to have ended the Corona plague. Not seen a word in the papers today

[bargainbob] 03/2/2020 07:59

Utrickytrees thats Westminister cooking the books . Scottish goverment run a balanced budget.
Oil is sent out with no location , off book.
Whisky exports listed at port of exit .
Infrastructure projects in England , Scotland gets billed 10 per cent.
Civil servants paid from Scotland but located in England .

[jordaggy] 03/2/2020 06:58

According to the FT, China's plunge protection team had very little impact in attempting to shore up their top index, with 9% being knocked off stock... I expect a big down day for the ftse and financials. You may well get your 55p today and lower in coming weeks.

[bargainbob] 03/2/2020 06:21

EVERY country in the former British Empire has demanded Britain resume full political control now it has proven it is great again.

Australia, India, Canada, Egypt and South Africa, among a host of others, have all dissolved their governments in a show of awestruck admiration for the British lion’s newfound mighty roar.


Kenya’s president Uluru Kenyatta said: “We never wanted Britain to stop ruling us in the first place – why ever would we? – but you just needed to grab hold of your mojo again.

“Don’t worry about giving us voting rights or any of that nonsense. Now you are once again a proud, resurgent nation unafraid of political correctness, we have absolute trust you will act in our best interest. And the world’s.


“I step down tomorrow. Oh man, I hope we get Michael Gove as governor. That guy is the best.”

The UK now commands a fifth of the world’s population and one-quarter of its total habitable land, which is as it should be.

[stonedyou] 03/2/2020 00:32

Britain will not accept EU rules to get a trade deal, says Boris Johnson

Prime Minister will insist that Britain gets a trade deal like Canada's but the EU wants closer regulatory alignment with the UK


Boris Johnson is set for a showdown with Michel Barnier who wants the UK to share full regulatory alignment with the EU


Britain will not accept EU rules as the price of a trade deal, Boris Johnson will say today.

The Prime Minister will say the choice is "emphatically not a “deal or no-deal’" but whether the UK's relationship with the EU is more like Canada’s or Australia’s.

His speech in London will set up a clash with Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, who will today set out the EU's negotiation red lines including the UK’s full regulatory alignment with the EU.

“We have made our choice: we want a free trade agreement, similar to Canada’s but in the very unlikely event that we do not succeed, then our trade will have to be based on our existing Withdrawal Agreement with the EU,” Mr Johnson will tell an audience of ambassadors and business leaders....