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seems inflation is up a tad.

A "leak" of the inflation data? No interest rate hike needed? Sterling also slightly lower vs Dollar and Euro. Would not be the first time someone has inside info.

shareholders have been legged over too many times by the BOD

oh get a life! RBS is down because the statement mentions a slight drop in NIM's and restructuring cost incurred this year against a backdrop of economic uncertainty etc etc. They have a new boss so he was always going to be cautious. Instead of carping day in day out why don't you just short the hell out of Lloy and move on.

Angst over lower NIMs and restructuring costs likely impacting numbers this year. New broom as the top etc etc This will pass imo

probably knee jerk trading by algos picking through the statement, which picks out difficult trading environment and slight reduction in NIM. I suspect it will recover, well at least I hope so.

Must have been. I did laugh when he told me he was using a pair of tights for a filter. I can only imagine what a mechanic would have made of what he saw taking the engine apart. From memory I think the car was scrapped but be then it probably had already done 300000 miles. Its good to see that the usual suspects are still; reporting posts that stray near the topic of Lala Land. I guess this will be gone shortly as well. Fingers crossed for the numbers next week as I am a long way from my YE target atm

ha ! About five years ago one of our local minicab drivers decided to go that route. First he used to go Sainsbury's and bought up loads of the cheapest cooking oil. Then he started to go round to chippies and other takeaways and take away their used oil. filtering it through a pair of tights. The car was a high mileage Fiat Multipla. You could tell when he had gone past because you could smell the fish and chips. The car "died" about after about 12 months but to be fair wouldn't go much over 60mph. Once again the British shires are ahead of Vorsprung durch techniek.

"how dare you question Climate Crisis, the world is on fire!" Your comment will be removed shortly as will mine as was mine yesterday asI suggested the publicity hungry school kid from Sweden had time to go back to school and learn some real climate science.

We have left Singe keep up !

from experience they are all as bad as each other, sorry ! stopped using them years ago and no longer trade CFD's or spreadbet. Sick and tired of changing risk tolerance, financing cost and margin requirements and for execution.

There was never any need for a cut. our economic indicators are relatively comfortable and inflation not much of an issue at present. Given the uncertainties ahead it was the "prudent" policy to ratio some dry powder and not to travel down the same cut de sac as the ECB. This is good for Sterling and the banks

we have ten times the number of shares than persimmon so better liquidity, easier to trade on tight spreads in volume?

It will take some explaining with base rates at 0.75%. I am all for banks making a profit but 40% is unjustifiably high and little short of racketeering .

Probably because cases were 'nt spotted at the Chinese airports or those infected were inside the incubation period and not yet showing signs. Clearly number of cases will continue to rise but mortality rate still seem to be holding at 4 percent possibly suggesting that the immune compromised and or elderly are most at risk? The Chinese authorities are suggesting that it is not necessary to lay on evacuation for expats. If we don't want this virus over here then this is an entirely sensible suggestion imo. But no doubt our EU friends ie the French will no doubt panic and do exactly that, so happy days.

Finacial markets are "terrified". VIX is up 37% at the minute. Its truly pathetic but hey ho.

a bit of a flu outbreak

what another one? what is it this time? lol

these three are a bit like the Japanese soldiers who could not believe the war had ended.

so bitter, so twisted- move on