Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[gaffer73] 05/6/2020 10:25

General market movement chav.

[chavitravi2] 05/6/2020 10:22

Back to Lloyds, it's doing well this morning again. Anyone know why other than it was over sold?

[bbalanjones] 05/6/2020 10:10

Down the rabbit hole, listening to dozens of wellness podcasts and YouTube broadcasts, the same themes keep arising: fear as a means of social control, fear as a hormone response that weakens the immune system, how social distancing and intensified hygiene practices ruin the body’s natural immune response, the unhealthy body (the body with pre-existing conditions) being a body that is more reliant on and easily controlled by the state and Big Pharma.

Deeply embedded and perhaps central in the connection between the wellness industry and conspiracy is the notion of sovereignty over our bodies. For believers, the sovereign body is the body in a “pure” state, not reliant on chemicals to heal, and trusted to fire up its own immune response when confronted with a virus – even a novel one like Covid-19. Believers aren’t dissuaded by the facts: all the pure bodies that died because there wasn’t a smallpox or polio or chickenpox vaccine.

For many in the wellness industry, a pure body is their life’s work. Don’t underestimate their fight.

[maxidi] 05/6/2020 10:10

LLOY looking reasonable this morning. I also have a HSBC account and I am thinking of swapping to a fully owned Brit bank.

[maxidi] 05/6/2020 10:07

GeckotheGlorious.

I was a bit mixed up between the per capita figure and per million. Now it all makes sense. ISH!
Certainly a lot higher than the other Scandinavians.

[bbalanjones] 05/6/2020 09:55

Evil forces': how Covid-19 paranoia united the wellness industry and rightwing conspiracy theorists
Brigid Delaney



Like many conspiracies – or even religions – the beliefs are part of a closed system that is engineered to provide answers to our most maddening mysteries but also designed to allow no room for questioning and dissent.

The Murdoch media’s China coronavirus conspiracy has one aim: get Trump re-elected
Kevin Rudd

And there are a lot of maddening mysteries about the coronavirus. The gaps in our knowledge about the virus, combined with the speed and urgency of new social control measures that started seemingly overnight in March (essentially global home detention), panic buying and intense levels of collective fear in the community, have meant that previously fringe theories have found a broad, sticky surface.

A poll has found one in five young Australians believe that Bill Gates played a role in the creation and spread of Covid-19, and the same proportion think 5G technology is being used to spread the virus.

[geckotheglorious] 05/6/2020 09:46

Post 306446.
"Oh we dont make stuff anymore"

That'd be a lie.

We make plenty of stuff.

[geckotheglorious] 05/6/2020 09:45

Maxidi,

Looks like you were correct (to some extent) when you claimed Sweden had the highest Covid-19 deaths per capita...

:)

"Figures show Sweden's per capita death rate being the highest worldwide in the seven days to June 02"

[bbalanjones] 05/6/2020 09:41

As many as 152 businesses have been approved to access the emergency funding, which could expand to nearly £68bn if necessary. The scheme works by Threadneedle Street buying up the bonds of companies with newly created public money, then lending the funds to the firms at interest rates understood to be around 0.5% and possibly less in some cases.

Against a backdrop of mounting pressure on ministers to attach more conditions to the use of public money and state guarantees, the Bank and the Treasury last month blocked firms from paying out large bonuses to executives and dividends to investors until they have repaid their loan

[pal44] 05/6/2020 09:39

solution is to buy UK goods oh we dont make stuff anymore ..

[minerve 2] 05/6/2020 09:38

The government want to be the only zoo in town.

[maxidi] 05/6/2020 09:36

They have to pay these loans back though don't they?

[bbalanjones] 05/6/2020 09:10

Nice to see we are being super fair to our late Europartners:

Chemicals firm BASF biggest beneficiary of UK coronavirus loan scheme
German company among large firms using government-backed funding to help weather fallout of pandemic.

The German chemicals company BASF has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of the Bank of England’s emergency coronavirus loan scheme, borrowing £1bn in cheap government-backed funding.

Threadneedle Street revealed for the first time the names of 53 big companies that have borrowed £16.2bn between them, amid rising pressure on the government to place tougher conditions on firms that receive state-backed support.

Is this joined up Government?

Alongside BASF the list of major overseas companies receiving support backed by the British state also included the German pharmaceuticals company Bayer, the French luxury brand Chanel and the Japanese carmakers Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi.

Nah! It must be Project Fear!

[geckotheglorious] 05/6/2020 09:00

You aren't giving any wisdom though Balldeap so there is no point listening to you.

Absolutely correct Fovargue.

[bbalanjones] 05/6/2020 08:59

PIs disguised as Animal Rights activists have lost the plot. Just look around!

[mikemichael2] 05/6/2020 08:57

Bonkers, why can't zoo's open?? I see they are open in Europe, with no problem, i'm loosing confidence every day with our Government, i did vot Tory and for brexit.

[fovargue] 05/6/2020 08:57

Calling it a hoax is daft. What we're going through, and we'ren ot through it yet, seems prety damn real enough to me.

You can argue that the fear has been overdone and certain stocks were oversold and are due a bounceback. Lloyds, I'd like to hope, is on that list.

It's a shame that divi wasn't converted into shares at the dip of the trough.

[bbalanjones] 05/6/2020 08:56

There was a cry of "Bias" heard in the Chamber!

[patientcapital] 05/6/2020 08:54

Prefer beef myself.

[bbalanjones] 05/6/2020 08:52

BBQs all round. Then again - we could have a protest march.

[ball deap] 05/6/2020 08:50

It's up to you if you listen to my wisdom Geko, it's for your benefit.

[diku] 05/6/2020 08:49

What will the chimps do?...

[bbalanjones] 05/6/2020 08:45

Lloyds thread to be closed????


UK's most popular zoo could close for good.

The zoo's elephant keeper, James Edwards, (aka J. Redwood) says they're faced with the huge costs of running a large zoo - animals that are expensive to care for - while not being able to welcome any visitors.

[alphorn] 05/6/2020 08:35

#419 = capitulation.

Pleased to see so many ticks.