Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[mikemichael2] 30/3/2020 13:34

That's what i like about you CTR, always cheery and looking on the bright side.

[mitchy] 30/3/2020 12:57

Markets holding up fairly well all things considered. Not the massacre I was expecting anyway.Waiting for the DOW.

[bargainbob] 30/3/2020 12:56

Should we put the new border North of Chester or as far as Derby Minerve .

[stonedyou] 30/3/2020 12:44

Coronavirus: ‘Early signs’ show spread of outbreak in UK could be slowing, says leading professor



Early signs show the spread of coronavirus could be slowing down in the UK, one of

the top scientists advising the government has said.

As Britons were warned that restrictions could stay in place for six months,

Professor Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, said he

believe the "epidemic is just about slowing in the UK right now" as a result of

lockdown measures.


It's not yet plateaued so still the numbers can be increasing each day but the

rate of that increase has slowed."

Prof Ferguson said the epidemic was spreading at different rates in different

parts of the country, with up to 5 per cent of the population in London likely to

have been infected.



Prof Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In the UK we can see some early

signs in slowing in some indicators, less so in deaths because deaths are lagged

by a long time from when measures come in force.



"But if we look at the numbers of new hospital admissions per day for instance, that does appear to be slowing down a little bit now.

[maxidi] 30/3/2020 12:12

Poikka… I got engaged just before my last run which was along one from middle east to Brazil and I packed in when I returned and got married, now 53 years and never had any regrets. Very happy with my life.

[stonedyou] 30/3/2020 12:05

UK coronavirus outbreak is slowing and antibody test could be ready in days, says top scientist


The coronavirus epidemic in the United Kingdom is showing signs of slowing and antibody tests for the disease could be ready in days, a top epidemiologist has said.


“We think the epidemic is just about slowing in the UK right now,” Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told the BBC today.


Ferguson said a third or even 40 per cent of people with Covid-19 do not get any symptoms, and that two to three per cent of the United Kingdom’s population may have been infected, but added that the data was not yet good enough to make extrapolations.


The scientist said that antibody tests, which would determine whether people had had coronavirus in the past rather than just if they were currently infected, were in the final stage of validation.


The tests could be ready to use “days rather than weeks”, Ferguson said.

[ianood] 30/3/2020 12:04

CTR - agreed total moron - abolished boom and bust, settling for bust only :)

[alphorn] 30/3/2020 11:52

Risk of dividend cancellation is real so selling off a few LLPE's today. Can always buy them back if the dividends are frozen. 25p for the Ords and perhaps 30% off the Prefs could be the result???

[crossing_the_rubicon] 30/3/2020 11:43

"wendsworth29 Mar '20 - 16:04 - 8262 of 8310
ianood : Absolutely concur regarding your views of Alistair Darling. He was strong , candid , canny , resolute and decisive .... in the mould of a 'dour' Scot. VERY MUCH AN UN-SUNG HERO WHO SOUGHT NEITHER FORTUNE OR FAME. We have a lot to thank him for"

Completely drowned out by that other uncanny dour resolute Scot that bankrupted the UK - Gordon Brown.

Only good thing he did was keep us out of the Euro.
The rest, a slow motion train wreck.

[xxxxxy] 30/3/2020 11:41

Closing bordersBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: MARCH 30, 2020During the crisis so far the EU has battled to keep its belief in open borders as law around the EU. The member states have taken a different attitude.The EU says "A crisis without borders cannot be resolved by putting  barriers between us". It has despite this allowed or encouraged tougher border controls around the EU as a whole whilst wanting to avoid all controls at borders between member states.Instead Germany has imposed border checks against Austria, France, Luxembourg and Denmark for the movement of people. France has imposed checks on Germany, Belgium and Spain.In the UK there have been criticisms that the government did not impose stricter controls on people entering through our airports and ports. I currently get complaints  that there are still lots of planes flying into Heathrow. I have to explain that some are planes bringing UK nationals home from holidays and stays abroad, and many are freight planes. Some are passenger planes that have been adapted to carry more freight. Passenger services have traditionally also carried some freight in holds as part of our complex supply system.The EU, realising that countries do wish to impose checks on people at their national borders, is now trying to protect the idea of a barrier free single market for goods.  They state "All internal borders should stay open for freight". Regardless of  this some member states are diverting export goods for home consumption and inserting their own rules. France and Germany for example are keeping various medical supplies for home use.This crisis is putting the world trading system under new pressures. In a world of lock down there is more attention to the local and national. Countries are seeking to increase their own productive potential in shortage areas like tests, protective clothing and other medical supplies.

[aljm] 30/3/2020 10:58

still thinking this might try sub 32p , will grab more if it does

[mitchy] 30/3/2020 10:56

Ftse 250 down 3% which is probably a more accurate picture than what the 100 is giving us.

[purplepanther] 30/3/2020 10:50

Feels like writing is on the wall now for Lloyds - no dividend, higher loan losses, higher corporate tax rates when we get to an end of this mess and the BoE left with no option but to build in one hundred year event pandemics into their risk models requiring higher capital ratios from all banks. Not a pretty picture but how much is already in the price ?

[mitchy] 30/3/2020 10:49

I've got another bullet now. Just a question of when to fire it. Wherever the share price goes from here I'll be waiting for some good news. New cases are now starting to slow but ,of course , death rates will continue to rise for a week or two. That's some good news butwe still need to hear of an effective treatment in the short term.

[ignoble] 30/3/2020 10:44

Wise words...