Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[xxxxxy] 15/1/2025 15:41

Bitcoin extended its rebound on Wednesday, hovering just below $100,000 after another encouraging inflation report fueled investors' risk appetite.The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by more than 2% at $99,034.55, bringing its 2-day gain to about 7%, according to Coin Metrics....cnbc

[scruff1] 15/1/2025 15:40

thats the first time I remember you reacting careful - whoooooo

[min ping] 15/1/2025 15:22

or just thick

[gotnorolex] 15/1/2025 15:17

"up with which I shall not put"
Says a self proclaimed scholar who doesn't know his prepositions from his conjunctions! or simply dyslexic?

[careful] 15/1/2025 15:00

Such terrible English.
Aggressive criticism is something up with which I shall not put.

[bargainbob] 15/1/2025 14:45

Of all the days to release this pre market . You could not make it up.

“ LLOY chart by TradingView
The daily chart shows that the LLOY share price has been in a tight range in the past few weeks. It has moved below the 50-day moving average. Most importantly, there are signs that the stock has formed a bearish flag chart pattern, a popular bearish sign in the market. This pattern is one of the riskiest signs in the market.
Lloyds has moved to the 38.2% Fibonacci Retracement level, while the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and the MACD indicators have pointed downwards. Therefore, the bearish flag pattern will point to more downside, with the next point to watch being the 50% retracement point at 50.4p.”

[careful] 15/1/2025 14:17

The gilt yield are falling here and in America today.
There is hope if inflation and interest rates are low.

Builders flying right now.

[gotnorolex] 15/1/2025 13:58

RIP Linda Nolan, you were the prettiest Coleen ever to tread the boards! Saw you close-up from the bucket seats in Vienna when you and your siblings backed old blue eyes on his come back tour of Europe! Tickets at the Albert Hall were sold out before they were printed (a deliberate error to fool careful) so travelled far! Sing with the Angles sweetheart!

[gotnorolex] 15/1/2025 13:30

careful, your dyscalculia leads to making decimal point errors. Get a grasp!

[careful] 15/1/2025 13:10

Corruption and dishonesty seem to be acceptable these days.
Look at Trump.They do not care less about a few fiddles and poor character.
We just want a capable bloke in charge.

We should assume that they are all corrupt and on someone's payroll.


If you were to have a risky heart operation a brilliant surgeon is what we would want.
We would not give a damn if he beat his wife or paid his bird on the side hush money.

As for Starmers lovely wife Victoria getting a free dress and some Taylor Swift tickets.
You should try to grow up and get some perspective, she is a delight in a drab World.

Adolf ordered that his closest rivals should be taken from their beds in the middle of the night and had them shot without trial.
..now you are talking Turkey, Taylor Swift tickets...really? pull yourselves together.

[lefrene] 15/1/2025 12:53

scruff1, I set up, and built a business from beginning of 96 to late 2001 (an employment agency) I provided an excellent service to the transport industry, not a single missed booking, not a single accident. In late 2000 following a difficulty with a large customer not paying me because THEY had lost documents (I did get paid late when I showed them where the documents were in their office)

After that I sat down and did a review. I discovered that circa 64% of my substantial turnover was TAX! and that's before anyone went out and spent their wages paying at the time 17.5% VAT. So if you like circa 80% of revenue got returned to the State in taxes. My competitors were simply rolling companies over at the VAT cash accounting threshold, and making millions by pocketing the tax after declaring the operating company bankrupt. Perhaps I should have done the same, no one seemed to care about it.

So I sold the business, 2 years later I discovered that the people who bought it, managed to destroy it in just 4 months!

Why is there no outcry about part time workers being robbed of half their income? Slapping NI on wages above £5k a year will see those currently on £9,100 cut back to £5k with shorter hours, plus their bus fare rising by 50% will take money straight out of the pockets of the working poor, and it's the poor through necessity who spend their income straight away. A very large sum has been taken away from the retail sector, tax income from VAT will drop, shops will close, councils will lose rates income. All stark staring obvious to anyone who can do simple sums, but apparently not to Rachael from bookkeeping!

There must be huge numbers of small business people now throwing in the towel, as it simply isn't worth the candle. I guess if you're a Marxist/Fascist, that's all part of your game plan?

[careful] 15/1/2025 12:52

Well spotted gotnoclue !
I always put a deliberate mistake in to encourage concentration.

[freddie01] 15/1/2025 12:25

Lloyds to close Liverpool office as part of growth plan


Closure affects about 500 staff at high-street bank with concerns over further job cuts

[gotnorolex] 15/1/2025 11:59

careful with your logarithms again, careful!
"Labour must have the simplest job in the World in our rich economy GDP $3.4bn.
Despite everything we are still a rich country."
We'd be as poor as the Chagos islanders at that rate. Hope you meant to write GDP $3.4trillion!
Wonder how much more UK debt Xi Jinping has promised to buy off Rachel (from service complaints)! The 600m has been presented as a cash boost to the economy.........NO! It's merely an investment in some motheaten product/trade that will yield no more than 10% profit for her to tax! She's spent it already on her entourage's fares and 7* accommodation to keep up appearances! Wonder who paid for her haute couture red dress (Cheongsam)? Did she keep her promise to drop stooging business like attire from Lord Ali, after becoming chancellor. Could've borrowed one from Victoria Starmer's 16,000 pound wardrobe!

[careful] 15/1/2025 11:22

Over 4 years to go.
Labour must have the simplest job in the World in our rich economy GDP $3.4Tr
Despite everything we are still a rich country.

HMG spend about £1200bn each year, about £1075bn raised in tax 125bn borrowed.
How difficult can it be to reduce wasteful spending by about £50bn (about 4%)?

It is early days, but they could get tough on waste and reduce spending to survive.
They are being slaughtered in the `Tory press but things could turn quickly.
There is so much waste to go at.

The bond markets would love it, down would come interest rates, and we would be off to the races.

Reeves and Starmer should hold their nerve, they are untouchable for another 4 years.
They will be hammered in the local election but who cares about that.

[skinny] 15/1/2025 11:19

FWIW :- Goldman Sachs raises Lloyds price target to 64 (63) pence - 'neutral'

[stonedyou] 15/1/2025 11:07

Starmer Throws Reeves’s Future into Doubt

by Will Jones

14 January 2025 1:00 PM

Rachel Reeves’s future as Chancellor has been thrown into doubt by Keir Starmer as he twice refused to confirm she would stay on and appointed a senior Treasury official as a top adviser amid the fallout from her Budget. The Telegraph has more.

Sir Keir Starmer twice refused to guarantee that Ms. Reeves would still be Chancellor at the next election during a press conference on Monday morning.

His spokesman was later forced to insist that the Chancellor would be kept in post, but the Prime Minister’s comments prompted one Labour MP to privately call for her to be sacked if the situation does not improve.

There is speculation that Ms. Reeves could be replaced by Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster who is often described as the de facto Deputy Prime Minister, or Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary.

It also emerged on Monday that Sir Keir had appointed Olaf Henricson-Bell, the former Treasury official, as his Director of Policy in what will be seen by some as a blow to the Chancellor’s authority.

It follows calls for Sir Keir to appoint someone with meaningful Treasury or economic experience to No 10.

The Conservatives accused Sir Keir of using the Chancellor as a “scapegoatR21; for the dire state of the economy, while Reform U.K. said she was merely implementing “his economic agenda”.

Lord Clarke, the former Tory Chancellor, said it would be a “disaster̶1; for the Prime Minister to sack Ms. Reeves, as she had taken “controversial steps” with his backing.

Ms. Reeves is under mounting pressure over the state of the economy and public finances as the Government faces surging borrowing costs.

The turmoil in Britain’s financial markets continued on Monday, with oil prices soaring to a six-month high – provoking fresh inflation fears.

The pound fell to a new 14-month low as Goldman Sachs forecast that sterling will fall to $1.20 against the dollar over the next year.

Olaf Henricson-Bell, Starmer’s new policy chief, was the most senior communications adviser to three successive Chancellors under the previous Tory Government.

[min ping] 15/1/2025 10:52

its all part of the fabian society's plans

[scruff1] 15/1/2025 10:12

Interesting comment from a lady just now. OK Kier Corbyn claiming in his world he is going to make the UK the world leader in AI but her husband works at the front of AI and they just cant attract any workers. They dont want to come to Britain - taxes are too high, school fees are too high and they arent attracted by state schools, crime is out of control and the cost of living is too high. The UKs decline into pariah status is clear to anyone with friends or relatives living abroad. The lad who was home from Oz for Christmas was shocked at how high the prices were - including rents. All surprisingly higher than in Oz where wages are higher. The Daughter in Dubai is thinking currently of Bulgaria due largely to the lower tax regime though they have looked elsewhere. One thing is clear to all but the nob heads attempting to ruin this country that the more you raise taxes the less attractive you are to people with a brain ie the wealth creators and the more scumbags and benefits trawlers you are left with. Socialism

[gotnorolex] 15/1/2025 09:44

Rate cut coming?

[diku] 15/1/2025 08:57

Last 3 months buy 53p sell 55p...pattern forming until some unknown news hits markets...