Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[mitchy] 22/3/2020 09:12

I'm hoping the scientists discover a viable treatment for covid 19 within the next seven days. Then an approved vaccine within a month. China have all but succeeded in halting its spread so there is hope there that we can do the same.Civil unrest is an unknown. Will we see an epidemic of suicides? Will crime increase ? With even gold being sold where is the flight to quality...Netflix ?Crazy times that may see run away inflation in a reccession due to all the government's new paper !? We always end up paying for it one way or anotherGood Luck...or should I say Good Health.

[poikka] 22/3/2020 08:55

Stoned, you must have been well and truly stoned yesterday with your new cases.

[mikemichael2] 22/3/2020 08:44

Looks like the Government are going to take a big stake in the Airlines, bit like when they bailed out Lloyds and RBS, don't think that will do their share price any good,

[mr.elbee] 22/3/2020 08:33

There's NO WAY the banks will not be paying dividends when the government wants more spending..What on earth do you think the PPI nonsense was about?

It was a free fraudulent divi for bank customers to keep the economy afloat.

This is the same.

Unless the lunatics really are in charge of the asylum!

[gaffer73] 22/3/2020 06:28

Why? It's not the bank's fault there's a pandemic and they paid a divi during the ppi fiasco.

[sr2day] 22/3/2020 05:11

not long to wait.no point speculating.goes ex div 16/4/20.at it stands it will be paid until we hear to the contrary.in the meantime i expect the share price to rise gradually to 40p.

[maxk] 22/3/2020 00:36

A LETTER FROM F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, QUARANTINED IN 1920 IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE DURING THE SPANISH INFLUENZA OUTBREAK.

Dearest Rosemary,

It was a limpid dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. I thank you for your letter.

Outside, I perceive what may be a collection of fallen leaves tussling against a trash can. It rings like jazz to my ears. The streets are that empty.

It seems as though the bulk of the city has retreated to their quarters, rightfully so. At this time, it seems very poignant to avoid all public spaces. Even the bars, as I told Hemingway, but to that, he punched me in the stomach, to which I asked if he had washed his hands. He hadn’t. He is much the denier, that one.

Why, he considers the virus to be just influenza. I’m curious of his sources.


The officials have alerted us to ensure we have a month’s worth of necessities. Zelda and I have stocked up on red wine, whiskey, rum, vermouth, absinthe, white wine, sherry, gin, and lord, if we need it, brandy. Please pray for us.

You should see the square, oh, it is terrible. I weep for the damned eventualities this future brings. The long afternoons rolling forward slowly on the ever-slick bottomless highball.

Z. says it’s no excuse to drink, but I just can’t seem to steady my hand. In the distance, from my brooding perch, the shoreline is cloaked in a dull haze where I can discern an unremitting penance that has been heading this way for a long, long while. And yet, amongst the cracked cloudline of an evening’s cast, I focus on a single strain of light, calling me forth to believe in a better morrow.

[sentimentrules] 21/3/2020 23:32

Ecinomically driven genocide

[sentimentrules] 21/3/2020 23:23

That would also sort food rationing

Pay drivers to sleep in trucks for a month.

Food distribution centres, staff stay for a month.. etc

Either that or kill half a million people who built the country

[sentimentrules] 21/3/2020 23:22

Personally I think everything should shut down. And the army, police and fire brigades deliver foods to homes for a month. Everyone housebound . Streets totally clear.

Looking around the globe , seems to be the only way. Staggering they will let an older generation suffer to save an extra years hardship on economy

Don't think these are the decisions that people fought for in the world wars or any war after

[john09] 21/3/2020 23:08

There’s NO WAY banks will be paying dividends they will be under huge pressure not to given the circumstances

[diku] 21/3/2020 22:38

Reading Sir John Redwood's article think some fear what if the Supermarket staff become ill...do they reduce opening hours or complete shut down...some bank branches and clothing retailers have already started to shut down...

[gaffer73] 21/3/2020 22:29

Yes quarterly starting in June. Absolutely no reason to cut the divi, government support is massive at 330b. Banks will have very little liability imo. No warning or even mention of coronavirus effecting the business yet.

[k38] 21/3/2020 22:28

It is true and we all can see BBC is there to spread fears in both Brexit and now Coronavirus.
On top of that they spend minimum money in all round good news and just repeating 2 to 3 min of headlines or copying other channels like sky.


Very unprofessional people with fat salaries.
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Al Jazeera, RT are the best news channels so far for your information about Coronavirus and more.

[xxxxxy] 21/3/2020 22:15

stevePosted March 21, 2020 at 6:01 pm | PermalinkJR"The government and supermarkets need to agree a tougher approach to limiting purchases,"Couldn't agree more Mr Redwood. Most decent minded people would have no objection to this, but what we don't want is to go to the supermarket with intention of buying only what we need at the time, and finding the shelves are empty because the manager has stashed what's left in the back store – ready to put it out overnight for the next day's greed buyers."The media fanned hoarding by highlighting empty shelves "Yes they did, and it was a hugely irresponsible thing to do. It begs the questions; do those in the media have any idea of distress they've caused ? Do they have any conscience about how they must have caused tension in families, thereby affecting the kids ? And what of that poor care worker lady at her wits end ?All caused by irresponsible media.Time to make an example, start with the BBC – make them air a big grovelling apology, then take the licence fee away – because I for one object to paying an organisation to scaremonger and terrify people like the care worker we all saw.If I'd have seen a bloke in the street terrifying a woman like that I'd lay him out, so what right does the media have to terrify people ?Given what the media have caused on a national scale and at a time of national crisis, I think some form of terrorism related prosecutions should take place. e.g the purpose of terrorism is to cause mass panic, which is exactly what they have done. If they did this during wartime they would have been incarcerated for sure.