Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[excell1] 04/8/2019 20:04

Thanks Shy Tott for your post Friday.Seems like a very sensible approach with just a tad of excitement depending on the percentage that you place in equities.Like your thoughts and now aligned with mine.

[bargainbob] 04/8/2019 19:50

The contractor will need to resolve the issue . As NHS Lothian will not except handover off hospital, the contractor saying it was handed over . They will find as I suspect with what happened on the Aberdeen bypass , the contractors will be held to their obligations . The old rolling snag list and over budget government projects are finished . The contractors are finding out short cuts are no longer acceptable .

"The health secretary said NHS Lothian told her it would not take ownership of the building until it was "absolutely assured" those steps had been taken.
Contractor Multiplex previously said its work was signed off as complete by an independent certifier on 22 February, when it handed over the building to NHS Lothian."

[maxk] 04/8/2019 19:50

Brexit Lord Gnome .. dont forget.

[xxxxxy] 04/8/2019 19:45

But we are leaving.LEAVE and WTO

[xxxxxy] 04/8/2019 19:44

Jack LeaverPosted August 4, 2019 at 11:42 am |PermalinkThe Remaniacs want a federal Europe and see the UK as an integral part which is needed to fund the project and bail out the Euro when it hits the buffers. They are determined to sacrifice UK sovereignty and economic independence to achieve this goal and they will do all they can to prevent the UK from leaving the EU.

[lord gnome] 04/8/2019 19:28

Corbyn and his sidekick?

[lord gnome] 04/8/2019 19:24

No doubt they'll blame the English. It wouldn't have happened if they had another referendum on independence. ?

[maxk] 04/8/2019 19:20

We'll have to wait for bob to give us the lowdown on this!




SNP Health Minister under pressure over claims Scotland's new £150 million children's hospital may never open






Simon Johnson, scottish political editor
4 AUGUST 2019 • 3:25PM
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The SNP's Health Minister is under pressure to order an inquiry into a growing safety scandal at Scotland's delayed new children's hospital amid claims it may have to be ripped down.

Opposition parties said Jeane Freeman must agree an investigation into new allegations there are major problems with the Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Children and Young People's drainage, in addition to ventilation issues that have delayed its opening.

Tam Waterson, a senior union official representing Edinburgh NHS staff, claimed the £150 million hospital may even have to be torn down and Ms Freeman was the worst Health Minister he has dealt with.

He described Ms Freeman as being "cold" and having "no empathy",...




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[poikka] 04/8/2019 17:33

Doesn't sound like the end of the World for the UK to me.

[xxxxxy] 04/8/2019 17:15

It's coming. WTO.LEAVE and WTO

[xxxxxy] 04/8/2019 17:14

Trading under WTO rulesBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: JANUARY 10, 2019There is a lot of confusion and deliberate misinformation about trading under the WTO. Here are some facts that might help.1. All our current trade is under the WTO, as the EU is a member. The UK will become a full member with vote and voice as soon as we leave the EU, as we never surrendered our membership when we joined the EU.2. There is no WTO schedule of tariffs that automatically comes in. Each member of the WTO files its own tariff schedule and trades with anyone under that who wish to trade. The WTO requires a member to trade with any other member on the same terms, unless there is an approved Free Trade Agreement that exempts the countries from the common tariff of the Schedules. A country is always free unilaterally to cut or remove tariffs.3. If a country's trading terms are disputed by another member there is a dispute resolution procedure. A dispute does not stop trading under the published terms whilst the dispute is being resolved.4. The EU does not have Free Trade Agreements with the USA, China, Brazil etc so we trade successfully with them at the moment under WTO rules and under the tariff schedule set by the EU. Once out we can sign Free Trade deals with these countries removing these tariffs, or could cut some of the tariffs unilaterally any time we wanted to make imports cheaper.5. The so called side deals the EU has with these countries are mainly unimportant or unrelated to trade. Some are multilateral agreements that the UK has signed anyway.6.The one agreement we currently have through the EU that may be important, the General Procurement Agreement, gives us access to public procurement opportunities in signatory states, and gives them the same access to the UK. The WTO has now agreed the UK will be a member of that Agreement in our own right on departure from the EU.7. The EU has free trade agreements with a number of mainly smaller countries. The top five, Switzerland, Canada, Korea, Norway and Turkey account for three quarters of the exports involved. Switzerland, for example, has agreed to continue all current preferences with the UK as well as with the rest of the EU on our exit. No country with an FTA with the EU has indicated any wish to terminate the agreement with the UK once we leave. Transferring the current deal to both the remaining EU and to the UK is a relatively straightforward process.8. The WTO does not require us to impose new checks at borders or delay imports into the UK. They recommend risk based checks. As the risks of EU product will not go up the day we leave the EU there is no requirement to impose new difficult checks.9. If the UK and the EU agree to negotiate a free trade agreement once the UK has left the EU on March 29 this year, we could agree to impose no tariffs on each other and would get WTO consent to not impose them pending the negotiation of a full free trade agreement.Peter Lilley has published a good pamphlet with Global Britain and Labour Leave setting out more detail called "30 Truths about leaving on WTO terms"

[diku] 04/8/2019 17:14

It always rains up there...



"Nicola sturgeon says the Scottish economy will struggle without freedom of movement."

[minerve 2] 04/8/2019 17:12

Good to see Trump stirring hate in the US. Hence the killings.

Almost as good as Farage stirring hate in this country.

We only need to hang two people and the world would be a much safer place.

[careful] 04/8/2019 16:56

Everything depends upon the uk economy.
If it crashes, partly because of Brexit, we shall see how cheerful Brexiteers are.

Brexiteers have thrown the dice and taken a big gamble, a leap into the unknown.
Remainers did not want to gamble on radical change.
Radical change rarely works out, unintended consequences.

As an investor I wonder if I will regret not dumping all of my shares.
Are we in for a crash as odey has gambled.

(I know Odey's record is useless, he recently managed to half his investors wealth)
The one obvious feature of old Etonians is that they lack judgement.

[poikka] 04/8/2019 16:53

Careful - "Nicola sturgeon says the Scottish economy will struggle without freedom of movement."

Bet they will, they won't be able to export their unemployed South of the border anymore.

[diku] 04/8/2019 16:49

Apart from the luxurious salary with all the benefits included how does one person at the top accumulate sooooooooooooooooo many shares?...system gone loopy...




The boss of banking giant Lloyds has cashed out £3.5 million worth of shares, just days after the bank posted sliding half-year profits as its bill for the payment protection insurance scandal soared past £20 billion.

Antonio Horta-Osorio, chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, sold 6.7 million shares in the company at 52p each, according to filings on the London Stock Exchange on Friday.

Despite the significant share sale, he still holds the required holdings in the company, with his stake reducing to 21.2 million shares, currently worth around £11.2 million.

It is understood that cash from the share sale will be used by the banking chief to purchase a new home.

[careful] 04/8/2019 16:48

One of the things about the EU. that even remainers hate, is the thought of a Federal Europe.
There have always been dreamers who wanted this, but it never came close.

If anything the EU. is more a set of individual sovereign states than ever.

There are a number of things about the EU. that remainers dislike.

Freedom of movement could be a problem for some of us, but many of our leaders, Blair, Brown, Major signed up to it because it was considered a big plus.
Nicola sturgeon says the Scottish economy will struggle without freedom of movement.
And big business love it.

So it was forced upon us by our own elected leaders.

Brown did a good job in keeping us out of the euro, but maybe in time he could be proven wrong.

[careful] 04/8/2019 16:36

I am shocked at your revelations about Minerve.
...just when you think you know someone.

[poikka] 04/8/2019 16:28

Careful - "Someone posted a picture of Dominic Cummings.

At a glance we would all agree he does not look the sort that you wold buy a used car from."

Appearances can be deceptive, careful, for all we know, a certain Remoaner politician gets shagged by a rent boy twice a week while wearing his wife's crutchless knickers, and posts anonymously on ADVFN under the moniker Minerve.

I have absolutely no evidence that that's the case, but you get my drift - maybe..

[bargainbob] 04/8/2019 14:50

The snowball effect one of my favourite books Minerve.

[minerve 2] 04/8/2019 14:19

Odey has made some big mistakes. Not a guru like Buffett.

[xxxxxy] 04/8/2019 14:12

Let'sGet out of the EUSSRGive Democracy and Freedom a chance.LEAVE and WTO