Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[cobourg1] 17/3/2020 14:24

Jeremy Warner writing in The Telegraph says that this time round the banks shouldn't be a problem, but other companies will require the massive bailouts that the banks got last time. He also said that the banks should be made the conduit for the money that's being pumped into the economy.

[gotnorolex] 17/3/2020 14:20

Euro 2020 postponed for a year by Uefa because of coronavirus crisis



Holed up and nothing to watch!

[patientcapital] 17/3/2020 14:17

Saville? Where's that?

[ladeside] 17/3/2020 14:03

"From what I can gather in any given year in the UK upto 11% of the population contract flu (6m ish) resulting in on average 17,000 deaths. I just don't get it, UK deaths are now upto 55 & cases of C19 are still in 3 figures? In any given year if we monitor flu like we are with C19 it would probably exactly the same if not worse. I'm starting to think this could be disaster movie where government & the WHO have cast themselves in the lead roles. Am I missing something? 55 deaths is fk all"


I'm thinking that you're still not getting this, are you ?

It's only just beginning here, it's highly contagious and will multiply by the day indefinitely as it spreads, over and above this we are no longer actively testing for it.

Yes, the majority who catch it are unlikely to die, however the current projections by the experts in this field (not only here but worldwide) believe that there could be at least 250,000 directly related deaths but this could easily rise to 500,000 +

So, No, it's NOT "just the flu"......

[gotnorolex] 17/3/2020 13:56

What happened to Barnier's proposals?
Gone with Covid, everyone!

[gwatson56] 17/3/2020 13:50

hmmmm.... John Caudwell on Sky makes a very sensible point that the UK Banks should be the conduit of the government rescue funds to UK businesses in scope..to be announced later today.... Sensible... will it happen, we will have to wait. Just parked a little more into LLOY... Keep healthy all.

[gbh2] 17/3/2020 13:49

It'll be much lower after they pay it, my guess is we're waiting for the chancellor to come up with his Billion/Trillion Pound Emergency Plan!

[bargainbob] 17/3/2020 13:33

Asking for a friend is Brexit cancelled to 2021 along with the Euro's ?

[gotnorolex] 17/3/2020 13:26

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[maxk] 17/3/2020 13:21

Brexit must free us from Brussels and the Green Blob


TIM WORSTALL
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE ADAM SMITH INSTITUTE
Follow 17 MARCH 2020 • 11:58AM




Ursula von der Leyen alongside Greta Thunberg in Brussels CREDIT: ANADOLU



To diverge, or not to diverge? That, in the ongoing UK-EU trade negotiations, is one of the biggest questions. Environmental rules & regulations are a core element of this question: the EU Commission appears to believe there is only one genuine path to environmental protection: a top-down, state-directed approach that restricts energy industries and picks winners everywhere else.


Free-market principles tell us this is nonsense – and it is to be hoped that the UK negotiators understand this. Divergence on environmental rules is important not because the UK suddenly desires a return to dark, satanic mills, but because when environmental protection is conducted in the EU’s favoured centralised manner, it tends to fail. EU regulations on biomass gave us Drax burning American wood chips from forests, worse than using coal in the first place. Ethanol additions gave us global food riots plus increased emissions. Germany's planned system of Energiewende has cost a trillion euros and increased coal consumption at the same time. The entirely unplanned and wholly market-based fracking in the US has reduced emissions there. It's not bureaucracy from ivory towers that works....




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[mikemichael2] 17/3/2020 13:16

Bit quiet in tenerifeee.

[m_n_tomlinson] 17/3/2020 13:14

BBC News blames the Laura Ashley administration on Coronavirus.

BBC News fake news as always.

[minerve 2] 17/3/2020 13:12

Well if the Chinese don't want it to be called the "Chinese Virus" they need to start getting their filthy little house in order don't they!

No excuses!

[bobdiamond1] 17/3/2020 13:11

Great British retailer Laura Ashley just called in administators.

[maxk] 17/3/2020 13:10

Is Sunny going to give us all some free munny?

[gotnorolex] 17/3/2020 13:04

Breaking news.....Watch out for a mini budget later today!

[poikka] 17/3/2020 13:01

Alps - "Stop playing the ostrich Poika - the economic impacts are very serious."

Why do you make comments that have zero relevance to my post? It was quite clear to anyone with even mediocre clarity of thought, that I was referring to your long-standing bias against our government.

[pal44] 17/3/2020 12:59

xxxxy for once you are right add sadly these people generally would have other mega under laying issues too and along comes Cov-19 but thats stats for you ..

[minerve 2] 17/3/2020 12:54

mm2

Yes, we don't know what the circulating asymptomatic % is. It could be massive which to some extent would be v.good news.

[xxxxxy] 17/3/2020 12:52

And BREXIT has to be an independent and sovereign Brexit.No Deal

[alphorn] 17/3/2020 12:51

"I've had it"

Please add 'already'.