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Stakis, allowing that as recent as March this year the sp was 270 there is plenty of upside IMO.
The problem for me is that a hung parliament looks more and more likely, which will disturb the markets.
For my RBS investment a Boris majority offers the best prospect for a share rise, whereas a hung parliament means I get another chance to vote "to stay". Good Luck from a confused investor.
Good point Dinoken.
I have always been of the opinion that a Conservative majority would be good for the SP at least in the short term (positive spike) but on the flip side with such a GE result, the £ would strengthen which is normally bad for this and other FTSE100 companies so maybe the spike might not be that big with the market having already priced this in. Taking that a step further maybe there is more downside that upside in the short term?
I know trying to second guess SP movements is fraught with difficulty but would welcome others thoughts.
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JABH - agree with you entirely. If polls are correct, Friday 13th might see a huge RBS sp spike or does anyone think that Conservative majority in parliament is already priced in ?
What this company needs is for institutional investors to invest in small businesses rather than funding large/boring businesses to just maintain the status quo/stability - which is terrible for consumer choice and is quite depressing for the majority of citizens.
Since Central Banks decided to support existing businesses getting larger - instead of financially supporting more competition within the economy - then choice has decreased, prices have risen, and there are fewer products on the market that I find interesting/useful.
Who's to say Labour would not end up bennefitting RBS - free broadband might encourage RBS to transfer investment away from larger businesses towards new competitors/startups. This should be within the consumer goods markets (as I don't need more online crap such as gambling companies which destroy citizen's lives. In fact even watching too much TV/internet is an incredibly unhealthy lifestyle and one which humans were not designed for by evolution).
So Labour could end up spurring RBS to do what it doesn't seem to want to do - to invest in small UK independent producers of consumer goods and startup UK food producers). This may benefit them and their share price over the medium-long term.
Personally I'm not convinced the Conservatives have done anything other than cause chaos over the past nine years with no net gains in productivity of citizen well-being.
We quite desperately need a Conservative majority I would say. Anything else puts this stock at risk. On the plus side, that does seem to be what the polls are pointing to.
Word 'certainty' is not in stock market's vocabulary. But I predict, with confident that all the UK bank's shares will rise if the conservative wins the next general election.