Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[corpbull] 08/2/2021 06:02

Anybody care to make an offer? Going for £1?He He! Nacron will be crawling and begging!

[minerve 2] 07/2/2021 23:35

Oh dear, AZN vaccine not so good against SA variant.

Watch ya gonna do now chimpies?

LOL

[diku] 07/2/2021 22:21

A bit like the brokers and their price targets...




millwallfan7 Feb '21 - 18:47 - 15348 of 15351
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I think the MF consists of a range of commentators so you need to check if it was the same name. They are often in conflict with each other and from what I can gather none of them have much respect across the industry.

[ball deap] 07/2/2021 22:18

Froth rally imminent, freshly made and full of bubbles for LONG traders.

[jkitwm] 07/2/2021 20:49

Let em kill each other

[xxxxxy] 07/2/2021 20:19

 RevWazoo? Trotter27:Florida basically never locked down and their death rate per capita is lower than many of the big states that did draconian lockdowns.Good point, especially comparing Florida with Southern California; similar climate, neither as densely packed together as New York. Disney World in Florida has been open since the Spring with zero cases traced there either workers of visitors. California's DisneyLand is still closed.Which brings a main point: it was one thing flying blind in March but we seem to have learned almost nothing since. Then they feared 5% would die, 8 million Americans if half caught it. We should know better now but act like we know nothing more than then. Which venues are now proven to spread much more than others? Reporting of symptomatic cases diagnosed without tests? How much do masks work in either direction? Why have we learned nothing from Taiwan? Lockdowns were declared unconstitutional there after one for SARS-1 a few years ago so maybe forehead temperature readings really do help. Where are the fact-finding missions to various countries investigating best practices?Which comes to next main point: letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Sure, body temperature readings aren't perfect, the asymptomatic might be contagious too but likely much less so than someone running a fever. Good enough to help a lot without being perfect.Why do we compare excess deaths this year to an average of the last 5? The worst in the last 5, 10 and 30 years (per capita) makes more sense for comparison as this is a bad year not an average(d) one, just how bad compared to other bad years?We should all know these things by now but getting politically and ideologically committed to lockdowns has prevented the powers that be from even looking at most of this. It reminds me of WWI/Vietnam War and the tendency to continue a bad course of action lest changing it reveal the mistakes of it. "If we leave Vietnam now the what was the point?"Well, exactly. It was a mistake so change course. It might have had some justification at the beginning (if that salves someone's pride) but as things didn't play out as predicted, time for a rethink. But no rethinks allowed today, no learning from experience or others and certainly no honest if contentious debate.

[xxxxxy] 07/2/2021 20:12

If lockdowns work, you'd expect to see an inverse correlation between the severity of the NPIs a country puts in place and the number of COVID deaths per capita, but you don't. On the contrary, deaths per million were actually lower in those US states that didn't shut down than in those that did-at least in the first seven-and-a-half months of last year. Trying to explain away these inconvenient facts by factoring in any number of variables-average age, hours of sunlight, population density-doesn't seem to help. There's no signal in that noise.Incidentally, Snowdon's claim that the first British lockdown reduced COVID infections is easy to debunk. You just look at when deaths peaked in England and Wales-April 8th-go back three weeks, which is the estimated time from infection to death among the roughly one in 400 infected people who succumb to the disease, and you get to March 19th, indicating infections peaked five days before the lockdown was imposed. Even Chris Whitty, England's Chief Medical Officer, acknowledged that the reproduction rate was falling before the first hammer came down.... htTps://quillette.com/2021/02/05/the-case-against-lockdown-a-reply-to-christopher-snowdon/

[xxxxxy] 07/2/2021 19:51

Suella Braverman: Boris Johnson will not let the EU 'push us around' over Northern IrelandThe Attorney General has backed the Prime Minister to get changes to the deal, which means the UK-EU border is in the Irish SeaByChristopher Hope, IN LONDON and Nick Allen, IN WASHINGTON6 February 2021 • 9:00pm?Boris Johnson is not going to let the European Union "push us around" and is right to threaten to override parts of the Brexit deal, the Government's chief law officer has said.Suella Braverman, the Attorney General, backed the Prime Minister to get changes to the deal, which means the UK-EU border is in the Irish Sea, which will be good for Northern Ireland and Great Britain.Speaking to the Telegraph on Sunday, Mrs Braverman said: "Boris stood up to the EU last year and we got a good deal. I am really confident we are not going to let the EU push Northern Ireland around."We will do whatever it takes to ensure that we get a good settlement for Northern Ireland, and a good settlement for the Union."... Daily Telegraph

[jl5006] 07/2/2021 19:35

Everything stan?
But his comments are about audit regulation - - the endless wish to control by this Gov
-U of course - and everyone else - and be allowed to pry into Private Coys - the risk only for those invested - so called Tory Gov.
A Govt for business - words but not actions.
Politics in the pits.
Demise - if you cant manage a cats cradle BJ ur life in politics will but be brief.

[millwallfan] 07/2/2021 18:49

Just over one year ago we we in high 60’s so once all the dust settles surely lloy will return to at least book value = 50p plus

[millwallfan] 07/2/2021 18:47

I think the MF consists of a range of commentators so you need to check if it was the same name. They are often in conflict with each other and from what I can gather none of them have much respect across the industry.

[stansmith3] 07/2/2021 17:24

liam h got everything wrong during the last recessionwhy would anyone listen to him now?

[minerve 2] 07/2/2021 15:25

I watched a movie last night in which England became a world super power again based on its export of pork pies: fictional of course. ;)

[stonedyou] 07/2/2021 15:03

Brexit offers trade opportunities in far flung countries.

The CEO of food producer Cranswick was against Brexit, but can now see the opportunities for trade with far flung countries.


Adam Couch said thorough planning ensured the Hull-based firm was well prepared.

"In terms of paperwork, we would be in favour of remaining in the EU," said Mr Couch.


"That said, we will adapt. I'm broadly positive about Brexit now and I was a Remainer."

Cranswick worked closely with suppliers and customers to manage supply chain risks and it is minimising Brexit costs and supply chain disruption.

"We convened a Brexit steering committee after the referendum," said Mr Couch.

"It's only in the last six months that we built up a real understanding of what was required to mitigate a lot of the stumbling blocks.

"Paperwork was the main issue and still is. It's typically five extra documents that we have to complete."

[stonedyou] 07/2/2021 14:58

Andrew Neil slams 'woke warriors' who are trying to cancel new GB News television channel before it starts after they launched sabotage campaign calling for boycott of its advertisers


Andrew Neil has hit back after a sabotage campaign against GB News channel

Activists are threatening to cancel phone contracts if firms pay for advertising

They are using hashtag 'Don'tBackGBNews' to attack the soon-to-launch channel

Critics claim it will 'be like Fox News', but experts believe it will be 'right-leaning.

Andrew Neil has today slammed 'woke warriors' for trying to cancel his new GB News station before it even starts.

The former BBC presenter laid into activists after they launched a sabotage campaign against his soon-to-be-launched TV channel.

Twitter activists are urging firms not to advertise with the new station under the hashtag 'Don'tBackGBNews', because they fear the channel will be 'like America's Fox News' - a comparison bosses have rejected.


And those backing the campaign, including equality campaigner Femi Oluwole, have threatened to cancel their phone contracts if companies such as EE and Vodafone pay for advertising spaces on the channel.

But Mr Neil, who is the chairman of GB News, has today hit out at those behind the campaign.

His comments come as he today described news debate in Britain as 'increasingly woke and out of touch with the majority of its people' in an interview with the Sunday Express.

In a tweet he said: 'The woke warriors trying to stir up an advertising boycott of GB News, a channel that hasn't even started broadcasting, are hilarious.

[gaffer73] 07/2/2021 14:39

Last article about Lloyd's the fool was buying, can't remember him doing another saying he was selling. 'Here's why I'm not buying Lloyd's, I'm buying something else' Good one. idiot.

[jl5006] 07/2/2021 14:32

With the voices of Sage whispering into their ears, Boris Johnson and his advisers become more risk averse by the day, which is ironic given their earlier careless approach.
The Government is planning to publish a carefully calibrated road map for lifting the restrictions later this month (Feb 22), having so far studiously refused to spell out the criteria that will be applied. That plan is being instructed by detailed modelling from the Cabinet Office and the Treasury of what each of the restrictions does for infection rates. Which for instance does most to spread the disease? Schools, university halls, gyms, non-essential retail, household gatherings, restaurants, entertainment venues, and so on?


Restrictions will be removed accordingly, starting with the least effective in preventing infections relative to economic impact and concluding with the most. Sadly, theatres, music venues, and mass gatherings will probably be the last of them.
In a pointer to what further support packages might be announced in the Budget next month, the Treasury recently published data showing no correlation of any significance between last summer’s “eat out to help out” scheme and the rate of new infections. In some areas – Wales, Yorkshire and Humber – there was actually a negative correlation, contrary to claims that the scheme seeded the second wave. We might therefore expect something similar going into the spring, so as to encourage households to start spending freely again.
I suppose we have to reluctantly agree that all this makes at least a degree of sense. The last thing the Government wants is to repeat the mistakes of last summer and early autumn, when the lockdown was eased only to incubate a second wave. Johnson needs to be 100pc confident that this time around the opening up is sustainable.
Inability to spend through the pandemic has led to a startling increase in the savings rate, with UK households having deposited £125bn more by the end of November than would normally be expected. Unfortunately, this will not have been spread equally among households, most of which will have little or no savings windfall to spend as restrictions are lifted. But even if as little as just 5pc of it is regurgitated, the Bank of England judges, then it will put a further rocket under the recovery. My guess is that it will be much more. As I say, it is perhaps the prospect of interest rate rises, not negative rates, that we’ll soon be worrying about most

[jl5006] 07/2/2021 14:31

And Jeremy Warner adds his ongoing praise for the buffoon - Tele again

[jl5006] 07/2/2021 14:24

Max
ID cards
windfall tax on supermarkets bcos they stayed open
A Tory Gov?
What next - Gov intrusion into private companies

[ammu12] 07/2/2021 13:55

Metro Bank completes sale of GBP3bn residential mortgage portfolio to NatWest Group plc ("NatWest")Further to Metro Bank's announcement on 18 December 2020 regarding the sale of a portfolio of owner occupied residential mortgages (the "Portfolio") to NatWest, Metro Bank confirms that the sale completed on 2 February 2021 as expected.The Portfolio had a gross book value of GBP3,044m resulting in a total cash consideration of GBP3,127 million.