Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[aljm] 31/3/2020 11:31

CtR, that is one thing we cannot know, the availability, and like you rightly said, the Fkwits that need it will get it, us lower levels will only get the dregs..

[alphorn] 31/3/2020 11:26

There is a lot of noise from several companies about treatments/vaccines for the virus. The big Pharmas are almost silent but are working on it (Roche's, Novartis' etc). The J&J announcement yesterday, after the US funding, about hoping for something by early next year is probably right, unfortunately, in setting expectations.

[pierre oreilly] 31/3/2020 11:23

Why don't we use all these youtube covid cures?

Well, we had thalidomide fifty years ago, and since then we are very careful not to have anything like it again.

I expect if you looked around enough, you could probably find hundreds if not thousands of covid cures around, most of which could potentially be very dangerous.

The gov are accelerating testing of covid possibilities, pretty unprecedented, shortening the usual 3 years into 4 or 5 months, which is probably at the limit of the risk they want to take, probably correctly imv.

As to a vaccine, we'll see how dangerous covid really is in a year or so, by seeing who gets a free covid jab. I bet it'll be only over 65s and the vulnerable - the healthy young not being at any real risk and not worth spending 75p inoculating them - somewhat at odds with the measures we are taking today.

[maxk] 31/3/2020 11:21

Bank investors ready to accept dividend delay as decision looms


Katherine Griffiths, Ben Martin, Patrick Hosking
Tuesday March 31 2020, 1



Institutional investors in banks have said that they are prepared to accept dividend payments being halted because of the uncertainty facing the sector.

Britain’s biggest banks are due to pay billions of pounds to shareholders in the coming weeks, with Barclays scheduled to pay £1.03 billion on Friday. However, banks are under growing pressure to reconsider dividend payouts, with many big businesses in other sectors already cancelling then.

Last night it was reported that the Prudential Regulation Authority could step in to stop dividend payments worth up to £7.5 billion, possibly as early as today.

The view of investors is likely to play a role as banks mull whether to axe their planned payouts.

[aljm] 31/3/2020 11:11

yup, i remember the BCG jab at school, (showing me age)

[alphorn] 31/3/2020 11:10

Several very old medicines are being reviewed for effectiveness against the new virus.
A six month trial with some 4,000 health workers in hospitals across Australia will be administered the BCG vaccine. An anti-tuberculous vaccine that was given to thousands of British schoolchildren in the past. (The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) jab was developed a century ago to increase immunity to TB — a bacterial lung infection).

I am sure many here remember it.

I wonder how long the original vaccination is effective?

[smartie6] 31/3/2020 10:56

I own you though. Here little gerbil.

[gaffer73] 31/3/2020 10:55

You own nothing, maybe 2 pounds in your piggy bank.

[smartie6] 31/3/2020 10:54

Anyone want to buy a gerbil with a little tail?

[aljm] 31/3/2020 10:54

Chloroquine is a really old drug, every country has it apart from the UK ? really ???

Chloroquine, or hydroxychloroquine, has been used to treat malaria since 1944. It can be given before exposure to malaria to prevent infection, and it can also be given as treatment afterward.

[smartie6] 31/3/2020 10:53

I own you now little boy. Lol.

[bbalanjones] 31/3/2020 10:53

freddie01

"jl5006 many people believe that the Chinese may have a lot to answer for this virus with their disgusting wet markets where they kill and eat all wild animals"

We must applaud our own domestic Virologists from the past . . . We survived the Jellied Eel Virus . . . The Black Pudding Virus , , , The Cumberland Sausage Virus . . . . not forgetting the Welsh Lava Bread Virus.

Coming soon the Fish, Chips and Mushy Pea Virus and the dreaded Yorkshire Pudding Virus....Can we survive these?

[smartie6] 31/3/2020 10:52

You’ll be jumping a lot earlier than that if they announce a dividend cancellation. Lol.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 31/3/2020 10:52

@Ajim
"WHY are we in the UK not using it ?"

Shortage of the key ingredients???

HydroxyChloroquine

Zinc Sulphate

Z-Pak(Azithromycin)

How many do we have in stock? And where do we get resupply from?

China?

India?(Who gets most of its API's from, you guessed it, China)

[crossing_the_rubicon] 31/3/2020 10:50

Fighting The Coronavirus: Good Learnings From Germany



p.s Mr.Elbee.

It is indisputably worse than the flu.

CFR
Flu - 0.1%
NCov- 0.4% - 3%

R0
Flu - 1.28
nCov - 2.5-3.5

Serious complication rate
Flu <1%
nCov = 15-20%

How is it not worse than the flu?

[smartie6] 31/3/2020 10:48

Gaffer’s thinking how can I respond to that. This Smartie is a king amongst men. Whilst I, Gaffer, am just a gerbil.

SPARTANs kill the gerbil filth.

[aljm] 31/3/2020 10:47

a Dr has been using that combo in the US for a week or two now, 100% success, 4 patients sent to hospital, all home recoveries, WHY are we in the UK not using it ?



OR maybe there is another reason they want us at home safe, are the dark times upon us ?

[crossing_the_rubicon] 31/3/2020 10:45

Seems a concoction of drugs costing c$25 is the way to go...

Treatment -

HydroxyChloroquine + Zinc Sulphate + Z-Pak(Azithromycin - antibiotic for secondary infection)

We live in hope. Could be all over by crimbo!!!!

But I expect wave 2 the a la spanish flu.

[philanderer] 31/3/2020 10:45

UK's biggest banks face pressure to axe dividends to ensure they can help struggling businesses weather the coronavirus crisis


Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and Standard Chartered are due to pay out £15.3bn

[crossing_the_rubicon] 31/3/2020 10:41

"mikemichael231 Mar '20 - 08:37 - 298541 of 298555
I can vouch for that, Chinese eating is a disgusting sight for the eyes, they shove anything and everything in their gob, with the bits they don't want spat out onto the table. They are completely oblivious to anyone around them, and treat staff like slaves, waving and pointing their instructions"

Spot on Mike.

Wonder when they'll get working on those 6 billion locusts???

Might have to beat the army of ducks to them,but I suspect they'll give the former a run for their money!

[ignoble] 31/3/2020 10:41

Well written, Sir