Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[k38] 07/4/2020 12:35

Well... I was making sure Bob's correct. Lol.

[aljm] 07/4/2020 12:29

ALL morning ??? lol

[k38] 07/4/2020 12:25

bob good call ... I was buying all morning. lol...

[xxxxxy] 07/4/2020 12:24

The nation holds its breath as the Prime Minister continues to be looked after in intensive care. Meanwhile lockdown measures put further pressure on at-risk business sectors whilst British and American companies team up to work on vaccine.Boris in intensive care after condition worsens: Britain waits to hear news on the Prime Minister's condition after he was taken into intensive care last night. Boris Johnson is being cared for in St Thomas' Hospital and after his condition deteriorated he was moved to ICU at 7pm on Monday. Michael Gove has been doing the media rounds this morning to give updates on the Prime Minister and has confirmed that he is not currently on a ventilator but is receiving oxygen support.Gove will now self isolate after a member of his family has started displaying symptoms. As the country hopes for positive news, First Secretary of State Dominic Raab will chair the government's COVID-19 committee meeting this morning and will be officially deputising for Boris Johnson in his absence with a number of Cabinet ministers helping to share the extra responsibility. An update on the Prime Minister's condition could come around 1pm.Trump spearheads worldwide support: Politicians from across the spectrum and around the world have been wishing Boris a speedy recovery. US President, Donald Trump said "I also want to send best wishes to a very good friend of mine, and a friend to our nation, prime minister Boris Johnson," revealing he had asked some American companies to offer their expertise to London immediately. Amongst others wishing the PM a speedy recovery were Emmanuel Macron, Pedro Sanchez, Giuseppe Conte, David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn and Michel Barnier. Stricter lockdown not the answer: Government advisers have warned ministers that putting in place more stringent measures could lead to a second outbreak of the coronavirus later in the year. Following some suggestions that a stricter lockdown may be put in place if people are not complying with the restrictions, the new report by The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), suggest that a tighter lockdown would just delay the peak of the virus and prolong the length of time normal life is put on pause. Clarks makes preparations for permanent store closures: Footwear retailer Clarks has made plans for the permanent closure of some of its stores after financial difficulties have been exacerbated by the coronavirus. Reports suggest that Clarks have appointed investment bank Rothschild to give advice on different financing options moving forward. The company has already furloughed thousands of staff under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. A spokeswoman for the business said "we have decided not to renew the leases on a small number of stores and as such, these will cease to trade and will not reopen following the coronavirus closures."Slump in demand puts P&O Ferries at risk: P&O Ferries is also under threat as it struggles to cope with the plummeting passenger numbers amid Europe-wide lockdowns. The 180-year old firm and its Dubai owner is looking to agree a rescue deal worth £250 million alongside a Government bailout. Given the reluctance of the Government to bailout the airlines, this may be unlikely. Cost-cutting measures such as wage reductions and the cancellations of payments into the company's retirement fund will be implemented but boss Janette Bell stressed that the company was on the brink of collapse and her "concern is that help cannot be delivered in time. Every time we sail, we're losing money." She did say she thought the Government were listening but was sceptical as to whether this would translate into action.GSK teams up with US biotech company to work on vaccine: Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, has taken a £202.7 million stake in an American biotech company, Vir Biotechnology in an effort to pool resources and quickly develop a vaccine for Covid-19. The American company specialises in treating severe infectious diseases and has developed an approach that involves giving infected patients the blood component that carries antibodies. The combination of the two firms' expertise is encouraging and will accelerate the efforts to build a reliable and effective vaccine. EasyJet's biggest investor threatens to sue bosses: Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, EasyJet's founder and biggest investor, has threatened to sue the airline's bosses after the company secured a £600 million emergency loan from the Treasury's coronavirus scheme and borrowed a further £400 million from creditors. The airline has spent £300 million in just three weeks and £170 million of that was to fund a dividend. Sir Stelios has said he will call for the removal of directors until a shareholder vote on the removal of Andreas Bierwirth and Andrew Findlay is held over their failure to terminate a £4.5 billion order from Airbus during the pandemic.Airlines still continue to lobby the Government for support, arguing if this does not come, healthy  businesses will go into bankruptcy. ABTA chief executive Mark Tanzer said "It's in nobody's interests for normally healthy, viable businesses to be pushed into bankruptcy. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk and the UK taxpayer will have to foot the bill for customer refunds if there is an industry-wide collapse of travel businesses." On our site today: Today's first article comes from Joshua Mackenzie-Lawrie, a Senior Research Executive at cross-party, eurosceptic campaign, Get Britain Out. His article commends the government position of leaving the European Aviation Standards Authority and stresses the UK's current authority is already world leading in its regulation of the industry. You can read the full article here.Our second article is written by Gerard Lyons and Paul Ormerod. Dr Gerard Lyons is Chief Economic Strategist at Netwealth. He is also on the Board of Bank of China (UK) and a Senior Fellow at the Policy Exchange think tank. Professor Paul Ormerod is a Director of Algorithmic Economics Ltd, a visiting professor in the Dept of Computer Science at University College, London and a partner at Volterra Partners. Their new paper discusses a potential route to ending the current economic lockdown. You can read the full article here.For the latest news and developments throughout the day, please do follow @GlobalVision_UK on Twitter.Thanks for reading, and enjoy the rest of your day.

[mr.elbee] 07/4/2020 12:20

Pierre would that be the same vaccine as for flu?

tamiflu? or the one they havent invented for the common cold? or BSE?..or Sars?


This is ALL political..socialist doctors playing totally unnecessary games with people's lives in the name of science!

Hydroxychloroquine now licensed on restricted prescription in India and the US

IT WILL NEVER COME HERE.

[pierre oreilly] 07/4/2020 12:06

Mx, yeah i agree, but i bet he's still drinking copious amounts of hand sanitiser to cleanse his absent brain.

[maxk] 07/4/2020 11:59

Well, you're safe...no brain to wash.

[stonedyou] 07/4/2020 11:58

Coronavirus: As China reports first day without deaths, fears grow in Hong Kong



This is the first time since January when the authorities began reporting deaths. Quarantine remains in some Wuhan residential compounds. Hong Kong extends airport closure to foreign travellers indefinitely.


Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) – China reported no coronavirus deaths yesterday. This is the first time since January when the National Health Commission began reporting deaths.

There were however 32 new cases, all people arriving from abroad, bringing the total to almost 82,000, including 1,033 asymptomatic patients. More than 3,331 people have died.

[minerve 2] 07/4/2020 11:56

Yawn.

Brain washing certainly works.

[maxidi] 07/4/2020 11:55

Action.... quite right. Back Britain. Shove China out the door, they are becoming far too powerful and the more we buy from them the more powerful they become. Same with the EU. but of course they'll be bust soon anyway!!

[kenbachelor] 07/4/2020 11:52

Minerve - You're probably old enough to remember that it was Gordon Brown that abolished 'boom and bust' and then left the Conservative party to sort out the biggest bust in history.

[pierre oreilly] 07/4/2020 11:48

We are currently walking like sheep voluntarily into no man's land, with no way out, and almost everyone's approval. Very odd really. Still some civil riots in the weeks ahead will give a step change in thinking if nothing else happens. I wonder how much longer confidence in the stock market will last, if no one is producing anything.

We need a stated exit strategy from all this, but afaics, we are 100% reliant on a vaccine, which may or maynot come anytime soon. Very risky imv.

[action] 07/4/2020 11:42

If we do not open our eye now we will be sleep walking to another type of slavery. Like zombies country in future.

[action] 07/4/2020 11:41

To become great country we must buy made in UK.Recent crisis has shown that people are innovative in this country. Only thing they need is little protection from overseas dumping.

[minerve 2] 07/4/2020 11:34

ACTION

"have to self reliant in their basic needs ie food medicine steel medical supplies."

Wrong government in place for that I'm afraid. They have shown no concern for the extinction of industries we depend on and have sat and done nothing and watched these industries die, get decimated by PE or sold off to foreign wealth funds etc..

[action] 07/4/2020 11:23

All countries have to self reliant in their basic needs ie food medicine steel medical supplies. DO NOT RELY ON CHEAP IMPORT.

[action] 07/4/2020 11:20

The whole world economy GDP Is going to be down by 20 to 30 percent. China economy is growing faster than ever. Much stronger after this virus breakdown.

[minerve 2] 07/4/2020 11:08

You have to laugh at the hypocrisy of the gammons. They are getting all upset and emotional over my apparent "wishing ill" on Boris when they actively make voting decisions that do people and families serious harm. LOL

In addition, I haven't actually wished Boris any harm, all I have said is I just don't care, and I don't, sorry. I also believe that the world would be a better place without Eton, of course there always will be exceptions, but generally Eton is bad for the average person's fortunes in the UK.

I'm entitled to my opinion, and some of you are just going to have to mature a little more and accept it. I am not alone in my view. Some are far worse. This thread attracts predominantly narrow-minded and ignorant Lloyds investors, so I will find myself in the minority here. No problem for me, I thrive off it. ;)

The issues the hospitals are having now can be firmly placed at the foot of the Tories and all these lack of funds have been exacerbated by NHS elites having too much of their snouts in the trough for decades. Another cohort of self-interested, self-serving Tory voters.

[pooroldboy55] 07/4/2020 10:53

Why don't you just filter the idiot if no one reads him/her let them talk to themselves all your doing by replying is putting coal on the fire
JUST FILTER

I do wonder why ADVFN don't do something

[mbmiah] 07/4/2020 10:53

Anybody explain this cash tender offer RNS

[pierre oreilly] 07/4/2020 10:46

If you wish ill on your fellow human beings minny, you are a very dangerous character. I don't wish you ill, even though i detest you. I wish you well and hope you realise you are ill (that's a big first essential step) and seek some help.

[pierre oreilly] 07/4/2020 10:44

No wonder they did away with polytechnics. Potentially, they were a good idea, but poorly implemented. they strayed away from what they were supposed to be.