Royal Bank Of Scotland Share Discussion Threads

[gcom2] 20/3/2020 08:45

At least it wont drop 20p on Divi day then!!!

[action] 20/3/2020 08:37

Boe asking?

[leedskier] 20/3/2020 07:31

Not only MKS




Billionaire retailers Sir Philip Green and Mike Ashley have asked landlords for rent cuts of up to 50% as they try to cut costs during the coronavirus outbreak.

Green’s Arcadia retail empire and Ashley’s Sports Direct chain have joined a wave of retailers including H&M, New Look and Debenhams in asking landlords for rent holidays or cuts ahead of the quarterly payment day next week.

Non-food retailers are attempting to slash costs as they face slumping sales and the prospect of store closures during at least a month of lockdown as the UK attempts to clamp down on the contagious virus.

[polar fox] 20/3/2020 07:18

Read the RNS from Marks. WOW. Probably many companies will follow suit....

[chinese investor] 20/3/2020 07:17

Manx Capital Partners has settled with one of the dozen institutional investors it is suing on behalf of thousands of Royal Bank of Scotland shareholders over who is liable for the legal and funding costs of bringing a class action accusing the lender of misleading investors in its 2008 rights issue.

Manx Capital reached an out-of-court settlement with Investec Asset Management Ltd. on March 13, according to a Tomlin order filed with the High Court in London on Monday.

Investec is one of 12 defendants which also include Scottish Widows Ltd. and HBOS Investment Fund Managers Ltd. accused in the lawsuit.....................

[leedskier] 20/3/2020 06:39

Quad witching ... a flash from the past.

Australian banks were positive o/n following the announcement of bond buying there.

The FTSE100 is called up too.

[ramco] 19/3/2020 21:46

Quad witching tomorrow....this for a certain older gentleman's memory blind side of this occurrence....;

[joe king1] 19/3/2020 20:39

Yes, you're getting fuk all.

[portside1] 19/3/2020 20:30

Is the div about to be cancelled ..?

[terry mardy] 19/3/2020 20:24

As in 2008. It takes time for the bad news to fully come out. were just at the start right now. Btw i was sharing my thoughts when asked.

[joe king1] 19/3/2020 20:16

Ya kunt mun, wow, did you think of that all by yourself? You should be the bank of engerlund Gov.

[terry mardy] 19/3/2020 20:12

The bad business news is people losing their jobs and companies closing. If a effective vaccine is not brought to market very soon. Business failures could ramp up snd cause a snowball effect that could destroy all asset prices. Hope and prey it does not come to this. sadly there is a possibility it will. Nobody knows thats why the markets are up and down. At this moment cash is as they say king. Cash value is going up daily as asset prices decline. I would not buy atm. Happy to see the share price shoot back up for everybodies sake. Bring back health and order to all. Very scary times.

[bookbroker] 19/3/2020 18:50

Mr Mardy, please could you elaborate, what you state applies to every company in business, post your thoughts, but be more specific on the news to emerge?

[terry mardy] 19/3/2020 18:33

Theres a long way to go. Alot of bad news and sadly business news to come out.
Crazy to buy atm. No one knows how low the price can go. Just when RBS thought the bad legacy news was behind them.

[stonedyou] 19/3/2020 16:42

Favipiravir works! Preliminary Clinical Studies Suggest Positive Effects on COVID-19 Patients


Since the outbreak of COVID-19, people around the globe have been eagerly awaiting

a real breakthrough on its treatment. Fortunately, a silver lining seems finally

to be showing up.

The virus clearance rate is a well-established golden standard assessing the

clinical effectiveness of an antiviral medication. Recently, preliminary results

of the “Clinical Study on Favipiravir’s Safety and Effectiveness to COVID-19

Patients” led by the Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen were released at a press

conference held by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the P.R.C. In this

study, it shows that Favipiravir alleviated the pneumonia symptom of COVID-19

patients with high tolerance and few adverse reactions, potentially through a

mechanism that can quickly eliminate the coronaviruses from their bodies.

Significant clinical differences have been observed between the 35-patient

experimental group treated with Favipiravir and the 45-patient control group

treated with Lopinavir / Ritonavir. The medians of the virus clearance time were 4

days (2.5 ~ 9 days) and 11 days (8 ~ 13 days), respectively (P < 0.001); the

posttreatment fever-allaying rates within 2 days were 72.41% versus 26.30%; while

the chest-imaging improvement rates were 91.43% versus 62.22%. Notably, the

adverse reaction rates of Favipiravir-treated patients were merely 11.43%,

comparing to a 55.56% in the control group.

Another clinical trial led by the Zhongnan Hospital (Wuhan, China), with 120 COVID-

19 patients recruited in both experimental group（favipiravir） and control group

（abidoleʌ89;, also showed that the effectiveness in experimental group was

significantly better than that in the control group, which was 71.43% and 55.86%,

respectively. The same significant advantage went to the average antipyretic and

cough remission time.

[cfc1] 19/3/2020 14:18

Leeds - nasty re Barnier - but quite right!!! Wait till Germany and France shoulder the bill from all the 20 eu countries that need bailing - again!!

[dope007] 19/3/2020 13:36

Why on Earth would you buy stocks with news like this just out? The first of many sadly

[smurfy2001] 19/3/2020 11:56

RBS ex-divi is 26 Mar 2020

[maxk] 19/3/2020 11:20

I suspect Michel Barnier hasnt got too much to worry about.

No doubt the €U apparachicks will have a Zil limmo at their beck and call should they need to get to a hospital.

I doubt there would be any shortages (medics, ventilators etc) either.