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Looks like 167p was the tops for today. As it's just gone 3.00pm. Obviously some profit-taking..Well, I assume that's what has caused the point 20p retreat.
I feel like a traiter..lol. I decided to go for Lloyds and bought at 50.7p I'm all of 2p up right now..lol but half-year results to come on the 28th. With my £3000 I got 6000 Lloyds shares.RBS at 155p would have given me 1935. Rbs at 167p,that's 232p. Mmmm. I promised myself to trade these..I have a hefty medium term holding with Lloyds..as the 59p ones were bought in 2013, quickly followed by more at 61p it looks more like long term now...So..I'm hoping the HY results on the 28th will boost Lloyds, I'll sell,as they'll probably drift back and I will be keeping track on RBS but I have to admit that an RBS buy as of yesterday's low would have given me double profit. Having said that Lloyds were ,at their lowest yesterday at 47p. So like for like had I bought them then my profit would have been £300.
Good idea re. copying post then hit the post box. Well, I think they missed Ramsey and Ben Davies. That's having to do without an Arsenal and Spurs player.Nice to see Bale and Ronaldo at the end. We haven't seen the last of this Wales team,that's for sure.I don't know when the next international will be for them. Do you think you'll buy Lloyds or maybe go for a divi company like Vodafone ? Like food and the utilities people need phones. On Lloyds some are saying it will turn round soon but what will do that ? Not ™ becoming PM. I don't mean selecting her will be the problem,the problem is they have to initiate Article 50 and then it's two years they reckon,that's two years of companies not knowing what will happen The EU won't make it easy,they'll want to show the other 27 that it just ain't worth the candle. I really dislike Junker.He was an alcoholic too. He was gloating again saying Farage and Boris had jumped ship grinning whilst he said jot. Quite a few countries blame him for all this but really the blame also lies with our gvnt. by neglecting the midlands and the north.Pretty well all Devon & Cornwall voted to leave too. There's no opposition and won't be for a good while so the Cons need to change tack. May is well aware of the under- privileged and didn't go to Eton. Her husband did though..lol. They're everywhere..lol.
Looks like you may be right,WENTY. Lloyds at 48p now, It was 49p when I posted..I think. mailman..I'm a bit annoyed. I wrote a reply to you and when I clicked 'post' I got a message..'This service is not available' and I couldn't retrieve the post. Anyway, I had a laugh. I also get great bargains at Morrisons and Sainsbury buying 6 of something on offer. The last item was Surf washing machine liquid at £3 from the usual £5. I got 6 as that was all they had left..lol We got a great soup-maker from Morrisons with the £5 vouchers a few months ago and even that was on offer. It's great if you have the cash to do this. Doesn't seem fair does it. The planes are still around. I saw them. 10 minutes ago. A Hercules and two tornadoes..one either side. Of, course…it's the Air Tattoo-RAF Fairford Glos.8-10th. I photograph planes but it's expensive to go there and the traffic is horrendous and we've been twice and twice it's rained and rain is in the forecast again. Cars got stuck in the mud in 2014.You have to have a ticket,you can't just turn up so you have no idea what the weather will be like as the tickets go on sale months previously. I want to go here.. Mach Loop. Mach is the mach of the Mid-Wales village of Machinlleth. The planes come from RAF Lakenheath..out your way and fly a loop from North Wales to Mid-Wales…. Turn your volume up and enjoy Boys will be boys..lol They're banned during lambing season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7zHlOi4T4
mailman..Life used to be fairly predictable and secure but not nowadays. Everywhere you look there are conflicts, a culture of dishonesty and a beggar thy neighbour attitude. We're not even shocked anymore at the latest financial or otherwise scandal. We had the best years. Here's my two-pennyworth of thought for you. The small loss you took on those shares at 188p..I've kept that in mind since you bought them so it's good to see you've done the sensible thing and sold them. I really wouldn't be re-investing in thus bank..WENTY highlights the reasons. RBS looks fatally wounded to me even though some analysts say in the centre is a diamond. If you want to stay with a bank then it has to be Lloyds, at least it's paying divi,one has to hope it continues with one even in these times. I was going to buy more Lloyds at about 57p but didn't pull the trigger thinking we have a way down to go. I still think the sp will drop further.I have £3000 waiting to buy in ( I wanted to use them to short-term trade. I hold a decent amount anyway. Now I can get 6000 shares. A that 57p it was 5263 at 45p it would be 6666. One poster on Lloyds suggested it could go to low 40's..Kleenervanme,it was and he/she was derided by another poster but I liked his/her posts and thought,yes, I think you could be right. It's looking that way. Even when we get a new PM what will that do. ? We still won't know the 'new world' of Brexit. How long will we remain a member of the EU ? No wonder there's no investment going on. The only way forward in that dept. as far as I can see is for HMG to invest in infrastructure to create jobs . I was listening to a discussion on the radio or tv and I wish I could recall which companies it was but two large employers sacked their workforce..how I don't know..and then brought in Spanish and Portuguese workers at much lower wages. It's enough to make a chap become a Socialist. No wonder most of the business community and the wealthy in this country wanted us to remain in the EU. It's much less hassle than bringing in workers from outside the EU. It's a strange paradox that a political body like the EU,which is much more socialist-minded than the UK is, has a system of free movement of labour which allows that sort of thing. The answer is that the poorer member countries are given support to develop their country..not allow their citizens access to the richer countries willy-nilly. Surely they must have foreseen that ? I think we have a tornado or Eurofighter or the like flying around here. It's been here a while. Must see if I can locate it with my bins.
We've been out all day and I've popped on to see where the sp is.This is dreadful. Down another 9p. It's ok for Carney to say he's loosening the reins on banks' set aside capitalisation so they can lend but lenders need borrowers and companies just aren't investing because they don't know what's going on with Brexit. As of today-zilch. I think bank shares have further to fall,there doesn't seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel. I've been 'talking' to mailman re. buying this share since it was 205p but still have the cash which has been fortunate. It just feel like the right time to buy. If what Carney says hasn't supported any rise you have to ask yourself 'what will ?' Having said that, I suppose the markets are not so much focusing on his relaxation of increasing capitalisation but that he's about to lower interest rates which is no good for banks.'They' reckon .25% this month and another .25% in August taking us to zero. He doesn't think negative rates are good. riddock..your link doesn't work. What did it say ?
Mailman..Excellent programme on Ch 5 now..to 9.0pm Blair after no. 10..
I posted this on Lloyds late last night. It's really worth listening to and only 10 minutes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07hj8bv Not much happening today with sp.'s mailman..I caught my two locos..very impressive. Re. England..You have to hope that this time it really is a wake-up call. The FA need a good shake up,bring in new people. I see Greg Dyke has stepped down after 3 years as chairman http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36655802
Yes…Absolutely..Wales tonight and make sure you hear the anthem too..lol. Will get this tomorrow near Worcester. http://www.docbrown.info/docspics/ArchiveSteam/loco45699.htm This one Sunday but near Bristol.This is it near Hungerford where I've also been. It's lovely location http://www.royalscot.org.uk
mailman..I agree with your posts. Decided to watch the WW1 commemorations this morning and thought if the sp has gone up so be it..I just thought it more important to watch that. It was very impressive and my thoughts were..considering all previous world-wide conflicts and another World war to come what a catastrophe mankind was in the eons of evolution. More so enforced after watching a documentary a couple of evenings ago about women trophy- hunters. One women ,a Croatian who goes to the US for hunting,congratulated her 10 year old on shooting a back garden robin..on tv too. Grrr ! However, we are where we are. I've just tanked up the car to drive south of Bristol tomorrow to see the steam loco Royal Scott loco travelling south. Always an impressive sight..I had the radio on and the FTSE was up 70 points . Missed the boat again,I thought.the low has gone but no, RBS even lower and Lloyds barely moved from yesterday.. It's not a good time to put money in really because there's no support even at these levels,I can see them sliding further. We need to keep an eye on the French elections too. It looks like a return for Sarkozy (centre right) could be on the cards as Hollande is very unpopular. Infact,Merkel must think that a distinct possibility too as she invited him overt to Berlin. She was very annoyed that Hollande gave in to public pressure and reversed the moderate pension reforms put in place by Sarkozy. At least Sarkozy wants less control over member States of the EU but..of course-not agriculture as France does so well from EU subsidies. I wouldn't buy a second -hand car from him to go by looks..untrustworthy,a wheeler-dealer. Infact I wouldn't buy a new one as he'd find a way to rip me off...lol. He said that he wants to change the 'free movement' ..passport/free Schengen movement system to allow only Europeans free movement within EU countries An end to talk of Turkey joining. He doesn't want that. So watch out for April and May next year.They have a long process. Junker..Matteo Renzi..Italian PM in Italy -just,according to the vote last Sunday..and Hollande see our exit plans as an opportunity for further integration .It beggars belief. I think we need to be buying and selling,not a time for holding because if these three have their way,despite Merkel recognising the problems that caused the UK to want to leave the post Article 50 negotiations will be torrid and destabilising for markets. As you say,mailman..the markets are reacting to the next bit of news. Re. ISIS..Last line in your first post…the organisation is losing its foothold and hence dream of a caliphate. They will now concentrate on attacks in the countries causing this demise. The whole debacle is the result of the Iraq war..The Chilcot report is out on Wednesday next so that will knock the EU off the front pages for a day or two.I expect Blair will be on holiday at the other end of the globe. He needs to. Word is, it's very critical
Ugh..meant Poland..Head's gone.lol
Watching extra time Portugal v Croatia. I can see Croatia winning this. Very well organised. Half- time now Hope it doesn't go to penalties. Another problem with an iPad is it's too easy to catch something and away goes your post brver to be recovered .On top of that the predictive text. You can just see one ofthese IT anaraks freaming it up. It's nothing but trouble and it can't be turned off. I might google that, maybe it can be turned off. The other problem is trying to scroll,the whole darned screen moves and not the text. Also, yes, there's more lol. I just can't seem to stop pressing the u when I want the i. or more often hit o instead of i. So p, often .... I just got 'ifton' then instead of 'often'..lol.... I get. 'if' instead of, 'of' and and vice versa . Ugh... At least the banks are much better capitalised. I posted on Lloyds not long ago re. The EU-wide dissatisfaction with the EU. As Insaid though, if one if those countrues takes a vite and elects timleave it's big trouble because of the euro. The MPs would ignore thst vote,I think ss it's only advisory. Getting rid of Junker would help no end. It's gone to penalties That's quite a turnaround in the sp. 17p ?. Holy- Moley..lol they say this time isn't as bad as 2008 but it's very frustrating to see the FTSE at a higher level than pre - referendum. Anyway, it's the FTSE 250 index that concerns us and that hasn't done so well. fAtSE futures up 200 plus as it was yesterday didn't do our shares any good. It's like watching the bus you wanted to catch driving off into the sunset without you..lol
Apologies for messed up words..I'm on the iPad, it's not good for long posts,so fiddly. End of first paragraph should read...interest rates will drop ..bad news. I think you can figure out the others.
Pretty depressing reading in those two links (mailman). However, I just don't think the passport threat is a starter. In the article it stated that not only the UK would be affected butthevUS, Asi,Australia and further on in the article, also thevEU banks so, it isn't going to happen. Interetbrates will drop,bad news. Bob..I'm not sure about being in 'interesting times'..lol b****y depressing and dishearening more like..lol.but seriously,some on Lloyds have posted their losses, one down over £50,000 plus. Another well, so much I'd have to getba calculator to see how much as he gave the number of shsresvand the price of them, he said the only benefactor of his investments now will be his daughter and grandchild. Even in dire times such as these if you can buy in at the lows we have now, have the courage,as you say,mailman...'He who dares.' etc...there's money to be made but as with your 188p purchse, mailman you may have to wait a couple of weeks until some decent news but 188p was a decent punt.
Good Bobby Charlton joke. 'I've never seen turmoil like this in both Parties simultaneously. Now Angela Eagle isn't going up against Corbyn. The mind boggles. I'm supporting Wales too and have done from the strt. Even if England had got through they wouldn't have deserved it. Anyway, I love to hear the anthem..The Slovakian anthen is good too but I don't support them..lol
The 'What do you reckon' at the end of the first paragraph re. Singapore bank should have been at the end of the post Ie. What do you think about RBS versus Lloyds ?
'Morning mailman....I think you're right. I heard it mentioned on the breakfast radio..Five Live and thought it would probably be that but I'd posted by then. Do you think it's also affected Lloyds ? It's down .74p that's point 74 the lowest was 51p and it's 54p now. In the recent rally it went up to 57p. at which level it's hit the buffers. What do you reckon ? I'm struggling here. To buy RBS or Lloyds. I did a calculation and for the money..£3000 ..solely for very short term trading Lloyds came out with a better profit. Also, if I have to hold a while due to no ecen rise it might take me to ex duvindate. Also half year results to consider.
Any idea what's pulling the shares down ? I heard on the radio that Brexit could take 5 years,maybe it's that. It did seem the lows were behind us. If it dies revisit the low it gives an idea if where it will bounce to. Maybe it's the news that Southgate isn't interested in the England job..lol
See if this one works http://www.empireofthekop.com/2016/06/29/archive-roberto-carlos-quote-sums-up-roy-hodgsons-shocking-stupidity/ I think you bought in at 188p ? It should soon be back there.
That was an uplifting article. I just hope it wasn't put out to bolster confidence. The post by Markymark certainly does bring comfort. A loophole for the passport problem..banking passport that is. That's very important. mailman….I don't know what it is about the FA. They all to often go for the 'safe pair of hands' My wife asks me why we don't win or play better. Well, with Roy in charge it looks like the FA put grandad in charge. He has to be one of the most unsparing managers I've ever seen,well, him and Mclaren..I don't have football acumen but even I would have had Rashford on after half-time. I'd have had Vardy on earlier too. He left it too late to replace a non-firing Rooney. Even Kane was missing the goal. The whole team play like they were strangers to each other. The FA really need to think outside the box. I don't know who they would go for. Seems Southgate is doing a grand job with the under 21s and there's talk of Sam Allerdyce too. Where are the likes of Bill Shankley, Matt Busby, Alex Ferguson..I could even include Brian Clough but he was not an insider,way too outspoken. Some pundits talk about bringing back Glen Hoddle. Fancy bringing in a medium (Eileen Drury) to talk to a football squad and some want him back ???? Have a read of this re. Hodgson.http://www.empireofthekop.com/2016/06/29/archive-roberto-carlos-quote-sums-up-roy-hodgsons-shocking-stupidity/ and Gary Neville's take https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/aug/21/gary-neville-england-glenn-hoddle