Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[patientcapital] 28/3/2020 18:54

The pictures accompanying that article in The Times (online) were predominantly of middle aged and younger people displaying disobedience of a gross nature.The Government needs to be far less tolerant of those who think it is all some sort of a laughing matter. A brief glance at the happenings in Iran, China until recently, Italy, Spain, New York City & State and the preparations being made in the UK ought to give the lie to that notion.Markets recently will seem to have been very stable when what is yet to come has transpired. Mark my words.

[diku] 28/3/2020 18:45

My local supermarket...a very long snake like formation queue outside...40mins before you get in the store...could have been bad timing but that is a reality now...

[diku] 28/3/2020 18:38

They might cough, sneeze or do other thingys on the food...very risky...

[wendsworth] 28/3/2020 16:13

mitchy : Hope you took advantage of this week's bounce. Took positions in Lloy and CNA on Tuesday ..Out of both on Wednesday . Didn't get the highs but am 1005 cash and can sleep soundly irrespective of the machinations of world markets overnight . Swings of 12% or so make me nervous !

careful : Absolutely agree with the tenor of your posts 8208 and 8214. By the time this is over there will barely be a business in Britain unaffected. The moves towards a suspension of the housing market will inevitably lead to a revaluation of the property market. Even if one tries to sell one's home there should be no visitors so ...no surveyors, valuations and viewings ! This must feed through to the financial system and banks in particular. Prior to COVID19 the Italian banks were in serious difficulty ...what position must they be in now ? ...and the European banking system as a whole ? Like it or not UK will not be immune . As for the US ....Trump's cure by next Tuesday through 'some lovely people'! A New Yorker is now apparently die-ing every 17 mins from the virus . AS for the DOW next week ???????? !!!!!!!!!!!

[asa8] 28/3/2020 15:45

Get all the illegals to pick the food there’s plenty of them

[scruff1] 28/3/2020 15:24

There may not be much benefit in having cash savings

[thekida] 28/3/2020 15:03

hxxps://www.pulse.ng/news/metro/man-infects-his-cat-with-coronavirus/xdff98x

So coronavirus can be passed onto animals, point i`m making is could this then be given to birds who pass it on to cattle/sheep etc etc and it enters the human food chain.

TK

[mr.elbee] 28/3/2020 14:55

cant deal with criminals so pick on the elderly

Such big brave policemen

[patientcapital] 28/3/2020 14:54

Ridiculous. Offenders who are receiving government largesse should be stripped of it."Police are powerless to stop people leaving home repeatedly every day, or driving to nature spots to exercise, chief officers admitted as forces began issuing coronavirus lockdown fines.The public need to be aware that "this is a national emergency, not a national holiday", the head of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) warned as forces braced themselves for people taking advantage of a sunny weekend." - The Times

[mr.elbee] 28/3/2020 14:46

and how pray does social distancing increase immunity?

[minerve 2] 28/3/2020 14:34

Workers came from further afield too. The city came to have one of the largest Chaldean Catholic communities outside Iraq, with the first members arriving in the 1920s.

[minerve 2] 28/3/2020 14:33

“The reason the Ford Model-T was black,” says Babson, “was because it was the only paint that would dry fast enough to keep pace with the production process.”

Mass production needed workers, and lots of them. They came from all over the globe.

Many of them arrived from Britain, via Canada. But as early as 1907 the Detroit Board of Commerce asked the immigrant reception centre at Ellis Island in New York harbour to direct skilled workers to the city - immigrants from Italy, Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

[alphorn] 28/3/2020 14:32

Poika - good link. Thx.

[utrickytrees] 28/3/2020 14:26

hxxps://www.hsj.co.uk/news/coronavirus-deaths-mapped-13-trusts-see-50-per-cent-of-fatalities/7027177.article

Be interesting to see updated figures by trust.

[minerve 2] 28/3/2020 14:17

A paragraph from the BBC article about Detroit’s railway station.

“ Michigan Central was once one of the grandest railway stations in the United States - the gateway to a fabulously wealthy city, dominated by the auto industry.

Thousands of workers passed through the building in search of new lives - immigrants from Europe and the Middle East along with black workers, part of the “great migration” northwards, from the prejudice and poverty of the agricultural South.”

I wonder what dent on Motor City would have occurred had Brexiters been running the show there?

[poikka] 28/3/2020 12:25

max, and anyone else who can be bothered to spare LESS THAN 1 MINUTE to understand the massive difference that social distancing can make in the fight against the virus, this explains it very clearly:

[alphorn] 28/3/2020 11:39

#358. What a mixed up post comparing the dividend flows from a self employed individual's company to Lloyds.

[minerve 2] 28/3/2020 11:38

"There are self-employed people who run their own small companies and paid themselves in dividends. Where they do not have other material accessible assets and are clearly living on the income from their self employment, they too should be able to claim assistance."

Maybe they should have saved for a rainy day instead of have a plethora of holidays, new cars, kitchens, wardrobes, phones etc.. etc..

Most charge enough and the planes are full of them going to the US during summers. They are no better then Branson - most of them anyway - in my opinion.

Should have saved for a rainy day or not spent beyond their means.

[stonedyou] 28/3/2020 11:37

Funeral directors stockpiling coffins




Coffin manufacturers may "have a very quiet summer" after meeting demand at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, a trade leader has said.

Alun Tucker, the chief executive of the Funeral Furniture Makers Association (FFMA) which represents the majority of coffin manufacturers, said the industry was currently meeting higher demand from funeral directors.

He told the PA news agency: "They all have good supplies of stocks and with staff working extra hours and overtime, we're confident that we will meet the requirements as time goes by.

"There is a delay while they increase manufacturing but coffin manufacturers are meeting the requirements at the present time. No one's panicking at the moment."

However, Mr Tucker stressed that while coffin orders had gone up and some stockpiling had been seen, it is not known if the increase in coffins will be matched by the number of deaths.

[stonedyou] 28/3/2020 11:27

Britain may see just 5,700 deaths from coronavirus - far fewer than originally predicted - new modelling from Imperial College scientists shows.

Experts advising the Government said its social distancing strategy looks to be working, steering the country away from the 250,000 death toll once predicted by earlier modelling.

Earlier this month, Mr Johnson and his coronavirus response team was presented with research that suggested a death toll of 20,000 would indicate the success of their strategy.

Now, it is thought the daily toll of deaths may not exceed 250, keeping the total below 6,000.

"Our work shows that social distancing is working against Covid-19 as an effective parachute across multiple countries," Prof Tom Pike of Imperial College London told The Times.

"That's no reason for us to cut away our parachutes when we're still way above the ground."

[careful] 28/3/2020 11:24

if people start to appreciate the benefit of having cash savings and lose appetite for debt and spending there will be a huge collapse in demand.