Royal Bank Of Scotland Share Discussion Threads

[maxk] 17/3/2017 12:09

From the Windy comment section..


While he is doing all of these other jobs is he still allowed to claim expenses? Logically his Housing , food and Travel claims should be reduced as he is absent from his main job.

[leedskier] 17/3/2017 11:32

George Osborne named new London Evening Standard editor

[avatar333] 17/3/2017 09:08

Morning.

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[gcom2] 17/3/2017 08:50

got done for copywrite infringement more likely

[sux_2bu] 17/3/2017 08:18

Anyone know what happened to Ramco ?

Last seen posting.......Ramco - 21 Oct 2016 - 17:22:18

[leedskier] 17/3/2017 07:17

Bob Diamond buys Panmure Gordon Stockbrokers (or rather Middle East entities he is involved in has). The take-over will take it private.



That is now a done deal at 100p a share, see this morning's RNS.

[sux_2bu] 16/3/2017 13:22

Breaking News


Fat Salmond committed suicide by affixation of too many Tunnoch Teacakes after hearing No Indy ref 2, 3, 4 , 5 ,6, etc....

[dope007] 16/3/2017 13:11

Yup. We all make mistakes

[gcom2] 16/3/2017 13:05

is it this Bill Gross? :

Lessons from Bill Gross's "Mistake"

Last Updated Aug 30, 2011 9:08 PM EDT

Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund at Pimco, engaged in a bit of self-flagellation this week, acknowledging that his highly publicized bet against Treasury bonds early this year was, in hindsight, a "mistake."
When 10-year Treasurys were yielding 3.5 percent in January of this year, Gross said that they were "the most overvalued bond in the universe" as he made a well-publicized decision to bet against U.S. debt going forward. Since then, Treasury bonds have rallied, and their rising prices have pushed yields even lower -- falling briefly below 2 percent this month -- which has caused the year-to-date return of his Total Return Fund to rank near the bottom of its peers. Over the past three months, the fund has trailed its benchmark by nearly three percentage points.

[dope007] 16/3/2017 12:40

No he ran the worlds biggest bond fund, that's all

[gcom2] 16/3/2017 12:33

Never heard of Bill Gross- he was probably one of those saying that the Dow would fall to 10,000 if Trump won.

[avatar333] 16/3/2017 11:10

Morning.

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[leedskier] 16/3/2017 10:28

The FTSE350 miners are flying today.

[dope007] 16/3/2017 10:05

May as well add this one

Bill Gross’s thoughts (quoted widely this morning): “Our Highly Leveraged financial system is like a truckload of nitroglycerin on a bumpy road. Don’t be allured by the Trump mirage of 3-4% growth and the magical benefits of tax cuts and deregulation…. This is a year to hold onto your money, not to seek returns..”

[dope007] 16/3/2017 10:00

rising rates will see rising defaults in theory gcom2. however I don't describe the current path as really rising rates. More a case of blowing the bubble even larger. Goodness knows how large it will get. CAPE in the SP500 is around 30 now and that is based on non GAAP reporting and plenty of tax rate fudges

[maxk] 16/3/2017 09:13

Merkel's Migrant Deception


by Tyler Durden

Mar 15, 2017 12:47 PM

[gcom2] 16/3/2017 09:12

maybe see share price progess into H2 as we get near 2018 (dividends to begin apparently)

[cfc1] 16/3/2017 09:03

FTSE at an all time high and my dear old RBS shares still at multi multi year lows at 23.5p equ!!!!!!

[maxk] 16/3/2017 08:15

Huge sighs of relief at the Tower of Babble.

Forward to the past comrades.

[cfc1] 16/3/2017 08:02

Leeds.....yep..I was hoping Holland would follow our lead. But then with such diluted voting its hard to make anything out of what the Dutch do!!!

[leedskier] 16/3/2017 07:47

In some EU countries no single party ever has an absolute majority. The situation that normally exists in the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Poland and the USA, where it is either the right or left wing political party in power, leading to strong governance, simply never applies.

So in Holland the centre/right leader, Mark Rutte, who appears likely to continue as the Prime Minister, leads a party which may only have some 33 seats out of a Parliament of 150.

Quite why these 'weakly' governed countries do not reform their electoral process, remains to be seen. Perhaps they prefer governance by compromise. Whatever, it means that so far as Holland is concerned the EU project continues undiminished.