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The investor seminar (announced yesterday) will be held in London. Ken James will be hosting it and I thought he was based in Guildford.

So an all expense paid trip from Guildford to London shouldn't be that expensive. What is the cost of a 1st class rail ticket from Guildford into Waterloo....£50 maybe!! I'm sure Futura can afford that. Maybe he will travel by helicopter....a bit excessive but perhaps he wants to arrive in style.

LTU, "Expense paid trip from USA"...what do you mean?

Parmx, that spread you were quoted looks wrong. If you buy or sell at those figures then you're throwing away money....sounds like you need to look at getting another broker.

I was quoted 12.15 sell (Halifax) and I presume buy is circa 12.5

Can you catch CoronaVirus if someone looks at you in a funny way?

I wash my hands!!

ERV, I think I have worked out what you are trying to say. The weighting of the dividends may be shifting in the new quarterly payment system.

If June = Sept = Dec = 0.67p;
then final payment in May 2021 = 1.54p (approximately).

So indeed in the next 12 months we will get dividends of approx 4.26p but thereafter the yearly dividends will return to a lower figure (circa 3.5p or thereabouts).

As I say I wasn't aware of the new quarterly payment system nor how they are weighted.

ERV, calendar year or finacial year, what's the big difference. In any 12 month period the dividend is roughly the same (for LLOY at least).

Mr Soft was also talking about the next 10 months paying out circa 4.26p.

I didn't know about the payments in June, September and December of about 0.67p each. It would indicate that they have replaced the single interim payment of circa 1.12p with 3 quarterly payments of totaling 2.01p. That would be equivalent to a 79% increase in the interim payment...wonderful.

Is it actually true?

ERV1, I am not misinterpreting anything....I did not know that LLOY plan to introduce quarterly payments of 0.674p.

If that is correct then the total dividend will indeed rise to circa 4.26p per year. And MrSoft would be entirely correct.

It would be a 26% increase in the dividend...which is good.

Still no RNS about TPR....so it looks like the assumption that the end of February was a cliff edge decision point may be less likely. Presumably we just have to await the decision of the regulator now.

Perhaps there will be some new information in the final results....due soon?!

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The forecast numbers are usually either plain wrong or totally unreliable....so take it with a pinch of salt.
However a dividend increase from 3.37p to 3.51p seems more realistic than a bigger jump to 4.26p. ALthough there could always be a special dividend I suppose.

I have seen a forecast of 3.51p total dividend for next year. The source isn't reliable however.

MrSoft, not heard of 3 interim paytments. I thought there was 2.25p in May and a September (interim) payment of circa 1.12p. More would be nice.

3.37p total dividend is quite generous.

Perhaps Corbyn (Jezza) thought that voters were influenced by solar activity, and hence that he could to some extent predict how they would vote!

"Corbyn (brother) asserts that earthquakes can be triggered by solar activity, and hence that he can to some extent predict them" [Wiki]

On my screen I'm seeing LLOY trading at 50.5 +2.0 (+4.12%).....did the SP really end Friday at 48.5p?

Probably a glitch.

"Ignorance is strength"
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NewBoy, I disagree....ignorance is bliss. The equivalent of sticking ones head in a bucket of sand as a tsunami approaches. It makes the tsunami miraculously disappear.

I suspect we have all at some point chosen to ignore a problem in the 'hope' that it will go away....sometimes it's better to go into a situation knowing all of the facts & as many of the tiger traps as possible.

I've heard you can have an operation...almost painless.

US trade talks headed by Liz Truss (International trade secretary)...bring back Liam Fox, all is forgiven!

LTI, just for you..."''so effectively we still have UNRESTRICTED access to the EU market ''".

Depending on what sort of trade deal we get with the EU the access to our largest current market may face additional barriers (tariffs)....but we could always fall back on an 'Australian' deal...the Aussies have 'almost' unrestricted access to the EU market (& vice versa) after all!!

Also we will lose the access to the trade deals negotiated with the EU...something Liam Fox was seemlessley sorting out at one point (how is that going?).

But Brexit is about opportunities (or so I've been told). But investors need to be aware of potential problems in order to prepare for them & hopefully benefit from the situation.

LTI, we have formally exited the EU but we are currently in transition....so effectively we still have access to the EU market & all the other EU mechanisms. Only in January next year will we know what Brexit actually means...hence the trade negotiations with the EU are one of the risk factors facing financial stocks like LLOY.

We may not know the full ramifications of Brexit for some years after that, and I'm sure that some people are already preparing reasons for why things didn't quite turn out as expected (they would be stupid not to). Hopefully the world will want to trade with us as much as we want to trade with them (& on beneficial terms).