Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[careful] 11/11/2024 11:30

there are hundreds of crypto programmes each offering a limited supply.

Central bankers need to increase supply or reduce it to solve serious problems that occur.
In times of war for example debt is increased.

Crypto is worthless, it goes up on buying down on selling.
It is Tulipmania, supply and demand, nothing more.

Musk and Tump are now talking about taking control back from central bankers.

Trump in total power is scary.

All because Harris was his opposition. She was mixed race, a woman and kind to immigrants...how could she fail?

Useless Boris won because we could not vote for Corbyn, Trump won because the Democrats were a shambles.

As for the UK, we are in a mess.

[xxxxxy] 11/11/2024 11:18

:29AMNatWest buys back £1bn of Government's sharesThe Government's stake in NatWest has reduced to just over 11pc after the banking giant bought back £1bn worth of state-owned shares.NatWest said it bought 263m shares from the Government, at a price of 380.8p each....Daily Telegraph

[skinny] 11/11/2024 10:23

FWIW :- Deutsche Bank Research cuts Lloyds price target to 80 (83) pence - 'buy'

[min ping] 11/11/2024 10:12

Bitcoin is higher because no one trusts the value of fiat currency. Nothing to do with Trump - everything to do with money printing

[careful] 11/11/2024 10:08

scruff is fearful of the future, at last we agree on something.

Bitcoin at over $80000 because of the crypto president Trump.
I see many crypto financed politicians in the USA election were elected.
So the price of nothing is soaring.
This limited supply of nothing is on the rise.

I am with Buffett, Jamie Diamon and the late Charlie Munger, no good will come from this.

Trump will face reality soon enough, as will Starmer.
Tough times ahead.

[maxk] 11/11/2024 09:38

Good one scruff!

[scruff1] 11/11/2024 09:00

Everything I read points to a major disaster on the horizon and rapidly headed our way.

Starmer is in France plotting against the US and aligning with an EU in a state of economic decline, choked on red tape and wokery and an immigration situation thats out of control and pograms breaking out across the continent.

Farmers and major supermarkets predicting food prices rising by up to 20% due to the budget tax increases.

Million pound investments in agriculture and industry being pulled due to the budget.
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Virtually every business claiming they will be cutting jobs and reducing hours.

The reversal of trend in inflation and interest rates is almost assured

200+ of the largest hospitality businesses write to Reeves to point out to the thick cow that the triple whammy of reduction in rate relief, increase in minimum wage and increase in NIcs is going to lead to massive reductions in head counts, reduction in investment and closure of businesses. Tesco alone faces inceased costs of £1bn.

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury says ' suck it up you will be better off due to improvements in the NHS' ?????

Apparently for the last 3 weeks wind and solar have made less than 3% contribution to our energy needs (which must say something about the eventual cost of storage). Our mad energy minister at the same time commits to reduce the reliable contribution made by gas and flies off to Baku to promise further reductions in our national energy security to please his cult leaders. Some commentators are now saying that power cuts are almost certain. Lammy threatens to impose carbon taxes on imports from the US.

Pay rises in the public sector overtake those in the private sector. Rayner backs plans to let public sector workers to work 4 days for the same 5 days pay.


Cant wait for her next budget. But one things for sure the fall out from this one has hardly started and more worryingly neither has this government of incompetent fools playing student politics with whats left of the country's future

[xxxxxy] 11/11/2024 07:55

Live Bitcoin breaches $81,000 as Trump nears full control of Congress...Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 10/11/2024 18:39

I've donated...https://gofund.me/2f57e2da

[scruff1] 10/11/2024 18:39

She was just making comparisons with our Deputy PM who likes to call in for pie and chips and a few pints.

[xxxxxy] 10/11/2024 18:31

While Wall Street booms, London has gone limp.Over the last six months, the S&P 500 has shot up 14.80%. The FTSE 100 has fallen 4.28%....Harvey Jones...Daily Express

[gotnorolex] 10/11/2024 18:31

No! I thought it was part of the Dorchester collection but was wrong! It seems to be owned by a trust setup by the Levy Bros? Don't know who they are, it can't possibly make a profit because its grounds are massive, includes a golf course, fishing lake and enough ground to land and park Marine One, its decoy and a couple of nighthawks.
The Grove isn't very expensive, the eat all you can gormandize at one of its many on site restaurants for less than a hundred quid is an absolute bargain, but wind up doubling it on drinks and extras. The international buffet is truly scrumptious, the staff are polite and are children friendly! They'll take youngsters off you for a couple of hours, teach them to balance on Segway's and supervise a tour of the extensive grounds!

[utrickytrees] 10/11/2024 18:14

she would say that tho gnr, she's a waitress at the top of her game. Bit like asking the bin man charged with picking up Isacc Newton's left over apples his opinion on gravity.

[scruff1] 10/11/2024 16:48

Is the Grove a spoons?

[gotnorolex] 10/11/2024 16:28

scruff We choose The Grove" for most family celebrations and were told by our favourite waitress that Trump had "The dining manners of a pig!" He was there for a NATO summit!

[scruff1] 10/11/2024 15:43

I see Darren Jones (who was all of 23 when he entered politics to give the country the benefit of his worldly experience) says retailers should stop moaning as they will benefit from the NI increases getting the NHS back on its feet ??!! Eh?. Anybody suggest how that is? Its beyond me. Oh and hes another diplomatic forward looking member of our govt thats called the US President - repugnant. It must be his age

[maxk] 10/11/2024 15:39

2:48PM
‘Crimea is gone,’ says Trump adviser

Bryan Lanza, a Republican party strategist and senior adviser to Donald Trump, has suggested the Trump administration will focus on securing an end to the war, rather than trying to help Ukraine regain territory.

In an interview with the BBC, Mr Lanza said Zelensky would be asked to provide a “realistic vision for peace”.

“And if President Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he’s not serious,” he said. “Crimea is gone.”

Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula in 2014, and launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine eight years later. It now occupies territory in the country’s east.

Mr Lanza, a political adviser for the former president since 2016, did not mention areas of eastern Ukraine, but he said regaining Crimea from Russia was unrealistic and “not the goal of the United States”.

[careful] 10/11/2024 15:34

Not so long ago we were led to believe that Russian sanctions would bring its economy crashing down.
This has not happened.

Trump must not overplay his hand.
All that has happened is for Russia China India Iran Korea to form an alliance.
A powerful alliance militarily and with huge populations.

America are the most powerful super power economically but with an eye watering
$30 trillion of debt this strength it is built on sand.
They have juiced up the markets with debt, and are feeling rich again having forgotten the near collapse of 2008/9.

It is all so fragile, Trumps honeymoon period could end quickly.

[gotnorolex] 10/11/2024 15:18

Trump is ignominious, does not trade without using old Bagdad souk techniques, remember him threatening Denmark with trade sanctions if they didn't sell natural resource rich Greenland for $200 million, His opening gambit was 100% more than Harry Truman offered Denmark ($100m in 1946) Presumably he wanted it to build an ice rink, a tundra moss surfaced golf course and a 20 story igloo Trump hotel. His failed "art of the deal" started at $200 million plus an "or else" ultimatum to impoverish the very same nation that founded NY, the financial capital of the universe, whom he ratted on thrice sighting chapter 12 for mercy. Never paid tradesmen and architects for their hire claiming their quality of workmanship was below his expected standards, while marketing their handiwork as gold standard real-estate!
He as POTUS is supposed to divest his business interests while in office and concentrate on matters of state, but a Statesman he simply is not, so anything goes!

[maxk] 10/11/2024 14:32

Good read on the current stuff careful 😉