Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[bargainbob] 20/1/2020 19:48

Get cheshire out for a night too.

[diku] 20/1/2020 19:00

bob...that is the plan...Queen Victoria pub...

[alphorn] 20/1/2020 18:57

There were small downgrades across the globe with the biggest downgrade for India.

[bargainbob] 20/1/2020 18:56

Diku , i think you and Minerve should go out for a pint . Your virtually neighbours .

[alphorn] 20/1/2020 18:54

PC - why didn't you add IYO?

The IMF left its forecast for UK economic growth this year and next unchanged, but warned that the outlook depended on Britain avoiding a no-deal exit from the EU.
They said the UK economy would grow by 1.4 per cent this year and 1.5 per cent in 2021 after anaemic growth of 1.3 per cent last year. The figures are unchanged from its October forecasts.

“The growth forecast assumes an orderly exit from the European Union at the end of January followed by a gradual transition to a new economic relationship,” its World Economic Outlook said, adding that its forecasts depended on the UK and EU “averting” a no-deal exit.


Where did your decline to 1% next year come from. A link please.


edit: here is the full report if somebody has insomnia:

[diku] 20/1/2020 18:42

Talking of Carbon...Min what is your carbon foot print apart from polluting on ADVFN all day every day...

[maxk] 20/1/2020 18:19

Or, Blighty can stay tethered to the €U Titanic and follow Germany and La Belle France down the plughole.


Diverge sounds like a likely option. The only one in fact.

[patientcapital] 20/1/2020 17:44

The IMF's assessment of the UK prospects over next two year is relatively upbeat.It predicts that growth will "stabilise" at 1.4% in 2020 and 1% in 2021, weak by UK historical standards but growth none-the-less and stronger growth than the IMF is predicting for Germany, France and Japan.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 20/1/2020 17:37

"Read the Express headlines if you want Pending Disaster in every other paragraph!"

Project Remoan dont you mean..

They've been peddling disaster daily since June 2016.
Express, not so much.

In fact I'd expect the BBC or Guardian have pushed far more disasters over the last 3.5 years than Express by a country mile!

[minerve 2] 20/1/2020 16:40

Sajid: It's every country's right to diverge if it wants to.

Phil: But you can't diverge or you'll blow up the economy.

Sajid: Don't you oppress me.

Phil: I'm not oppressing you, Saj -- you haven't got an economy that can survive divergence. Where's the money going to come from? You going to just keep printing it?

Dom: Here! I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually diverge, not having an economy that can survive divergence, which is nobody's fault, not even the EU's, but that he can have the right to diverge.

Bozo: Good idea, Dom. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to diverge, brother. Sister, sorry.

Phil: What's the point?

Bozo: What?

Phil: What's the point of fighting for his right to diverge, when we can't diverge?

Dom: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.

Phil: It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.





ROFLMAO!

[minerve 2] 20/1/2020 16:36

FT, I do think your journalists need to press the government to give specifics and examples of where and how they plan to diverge, and what benefits that may bring.
We are three and a half years on from the referendum, and eleven days from leaving the EU, and it is not acceptable for divergence to still be a vague, undeveloped notion. The government should by now have advanced plans on divergence, and if they do not that is big news that the public deserve to hear. - Comment on FT

[minerve 2] 20/1/2020 16:32

@Alphorn.

I'll take a look at an alternative feed I have. Thanks. :)

[minerve 2] 20/1/2020 16:31

Do Brexiteers think? Discuss.

[alphorn] 20/1/2020 16:07

M2 - seems sufficient liquidity.

[pal44] 20/1/2020 15:39

Malaysia is returning 42 shipping containers of illegally imported plastic waste to the UK, its environment minister has announced.I suppose somebody pocketed the bonus of shipping it out in the first place ..

[minerve 2] 20/1/2020 15:06

At the heart of the dispute is a change in how much liability the government expected a winning bidder to take on in terms of exposure to the £28bn defined benefit Railway Pensions Scheme (RPS) that serves 340,000 retired and active railway staff. ➡️ The scheme is running a deficit of £7.5bn, according to the Pension Regulator.⬅️


"£7.5Bn" Ouch!

Train operators already struggling even with the liability still sat with the tax payer. Not really successful private enterprise is it?

[mr.elbee] 20/1/2020 15:05

Orban ,the Czechs the Italians and the Spanish and Poles will tell Ursula and the other ECB tart to well f''' off.

The EU is now a busted flush and everyone knows it.

[gbh2] 20/1/2020 14:47

Read the Express headlines if you want Pending Disaster in every other paragraph!

[mitchy] 20/1/2020 14:45

I've even heard talk that the E.U are going Ban members from borrowing money from U.K banks after Brexit. It's true it's true It's True.

[bbalanjones] 20/1/2020 14:36

m5: at a projected 6.2% return for 2020 they are already into value territory.

[minerve 2] 20/1/2020 14:35

"Our hunch is that carbon economy stocks have been discounted indiscriminately and renewables marked up exuberantly. Within those opposing universes, there will be lots of opportunities for stock picking." - Jonathan Guthrie FT

How very true. ;)

[mitchy] 20/1/2020 14:29

Houses prices up but banks down on talk of a no deal Brexit. Fine by me .... more cheapo shares.
Let's not forget the war in Iran and the killer virus from China.
Oh, almost forgot , flood warnings in Dorset . It's true...!

I'm thinking 50p.

[m5] 20/1/2020 14:19

Are we going to see 50p here again? I will be in again if we do.

[k38] 20/1/2020 14:05

Giving 'peanuts' to charities excuse themselves to pocket billions every year. I believe it's time for Boris government to privatise BBC and review the lottery licence as well. Who's pocketing the big prices ..(over 100 to 180 millions ?) Whoever controls the software!