Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[cobourg1] 19/6/2020 15:24

I'm so bored with this thread I'm thinking of unfiltering Smartypants to at least have something to read.

Perhaps not on second thoughts. I'm not that desperate yet.

[bbalanjones] 19/6/2020 15:21

Poor misguided Trump loyalist gathering in Tulsa . . . " I'm not afraid of this virus, it won't get me . . . " Oklahoma infection rate doubled yesterday.

[bbalanjones] 19/6/2020 15:14

Activity during lockdown : - Bought £4k more LBG ; £2k Weir and £2k of old favourite GKN - now Melrose. All tucked into stocks & Shares ISA.

[bbalanjones] 19/6/2020 15:10

M2 - Overflow . . . surmise you are not on a Water Meter. You would surely have noticed then. I had a water bill increase 400% in similar circumstances - only noticed as I was on a Meter.

[smartypants] 19/6/2020 14:47

oh no...
sp fell when Yanks opened shop..
just like it has done every day
if only you had known it was going to happen!!!!!!!
(the same as every other day)

[alphorn] 19/6/2020 14:44

1carus - very bold 2 last sentences.

[minerve 2] 19/6/2020 14:30

mm2, Utricky, diku

Thanks guys. Much appreciated. I'll buy the arm like you advise mm2. :)

It is a lever arm toilet. It looks like it has never had the nut on it since fitting. It could have been leaking through the central syphon for decades and until now continued un-noticed. I guess had it had a separate overflow like the old toilets a slightly open valve would have been noticed straight away.

[1carus] 19/6/2020 13:50

Well looks like covid is coming to an end here in the UK. Another month of political over reaction, but then back to normal. Schools just need to reopen in September as normal, In terms of a second spike I think it is unlikely as track and trace activities will keep it localised. People will also carry over some social distancing measures and maybe keep a hold of better hygiene routines. The whole system is now geared to handle an outbreak way better than before. With that in mind, financially we should be close to the bottom as the future looks improved. Might be the last week or so to buy back in to the markets.

[icejelly] 19/6/2020 13:37

Has Min got a screw loose?

[diku] 19/6/2020 13:26

Min...show us the picture and guide you accordingly...is it a close couple push button cistern or lever arm on the side...



Serious question because I am a chimp when it comes to plumbing.

[mikemichael2] 19/6/2020 13:20

Min, if its plastic just get one of these, then you have some extra spare bits as well.

[careful] 19/6/2020 12:52

I am definitely not anti American.
I enjoyed working with them for years.

My late Dad took part in the Normandy landings and was serving under Eisenhower at SHAEF.(supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force.)

But I am not anti German, anti Russian anti Chinese either.

[alphorn] 19/6/2020 12:51

Already very different from last week:

Michael Gove told the Northern Ireland Select Committee "We don't have a date per se, pencilled in, but it is the case that if we haven't secured significant progress by October, then it will be difficult."

[aljm] 19/6/2020 12:47

short term yes, i agree.

[utrickytrees] 19/6/2020 12:46

Bog standard 10mm.

[alphorn] 19/6/2020 12:46

You normally need volatility to make any return.

[alphorn] 19/6/2020 12:45

#872. Old (2016) data for Russia - Despite a lacklustre economic growth rate, Russia has set a new worldwide record for growth in the number of dollar millionaires.

[aljm] 19/6/2020 12:44

volatility is very different to manipulation,

[minerve 2] 19/6/2020 12:39

Around one in six mortgages are currently being deferred as part of the support package put in place by the Government during the pandemic.

1.9 million mortgage payment deferrals have been offered across the course of three months to those struggling with their income.

Of these, some 1.2 million deferrals were approved, with an average £755 per month of suspended payments, new data from UK Finance shows.

- Telegraph


Average of £755 per month?

That seems high to me. People borrowing way too much money.

[alphorn] 19/6/2020 12:39

Options expiry today so may cause some volatility.

[careful] 19/6/2020 12:38

It is an odd hybrid, a market economy that produces billionaires and yet claims to be communist.
Hardly communist as defined by Marx and Engels as we understand it.

We in the west, UK and America are drifting towards a surveillance society and central bank baling out of the free market economy is socialising losses whilst still allowing profits to be private.

Odd times, interesting to see how things develope.

A sort of democracy in Russia, but avoided in Saudi Arabia, we would not want to risk it there, they would get the wrong answer.