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Yup. I would think 0.25% for us and 0.5% rise for the Fed. It's going to be a balancing act rising rates without going too far and starting recessions.

Whybother, why bother with Lloyds if you think they'll never get to 60p ? Why don't you sell up and invest elsewhere in something that doesn't make you angry and frustrated ?

Markets and shares often don't follow logic. Let MS hoover up if there's real selling going on. As long as we don't tip into recession, my own opinion is Lloyds are undervalued. If you're not wishing to sell at the moment, let Morgan Stanley snap up the cheap stock and let Lloyds removes shares from the register.......

Another 0.25% base rate rise will further help after the next MPC meeting.

£1.2bn
statutory profit after tax

£4.1bn
net income

£2.1bn
operating costs

£177m
net impairment charge

14.2%
CET1 ratio

£451.8bn
loans and advances to customers

Not sure what expectations were but seem reasonable figures to me.

Everything started falling in the afternoon as the US markets went south. No great mystery.

Your answer of course mick would have been to give Jeremy Corbyn the keys to number 10. By now, he would probably have signed a pact with Russia.

Yes Le Pen's popularity started to wane when Macron pointed out her links to Russia in their studio face off. I can't stand Macron. He's arrogant, behaved terribly over the vaccines/AZ and he hates the Brits but is probably a safer choice than Le Pen.

WW,

Are you a Lloyds shareholder ? Just curious because there seems to be a fair few posters on here who are not and it makes me question their motives for posting on a Lloyds Bulletin Board. Not having a pop, just being inquisitive......

Get that MS buyback hoover revved up. It's Friday and it does indeed look like it had the day off yesterday.

Is Chips a Lloyds bull WW ? Not familiar with his posts but his name rings a bell......

Whybother,

I think what LTI is telling you is that while the buyback is going on, he has no plans to sell his shares and therefore it suits him that the SP remains lower so more shares are removed from the register than at a higher SP.

You've nailed it in one tophat. Nothing like riding both horses in a 2 horse race. For that reason, I tend to disregard their articles.

Always amuses me Motley Fool articles. This one says Lloyds share price might double in the next 12 months and no doubt another article from them next week will be forecasting armageddon for Lloyds.

Indeed 45p will look expensive Suff if there is a recession with impairments, bad debts and house repossessions. Here's hoping that doesn't happen and Lloyds shares benefit as a result......

WW, the Government are trying to sort out the immigration problem are they not ? The boats coming across the channel are mainly full of young males, economic migrants in the main being manipulated by evil traffickers. Being outside the EU now allows us to deal with the problem our own way. It may not have passed you by that plenty of Labour voters voted for Brexit too, it's not some thing unique to the Tories.

Socialists always amuse me TFE. They feel they should have the entitlement to spend the pound in your pocket. As Margaret Thatcher once famously said "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

Then there are the champagne socialist hypocrites like Tony Blair who has whilst amassed a large fortune whilst espousing his socialist values. Funny how he hasn't shared his wealth with others. Derek Hatton the Trotskyist of Liverpool City Council fame became a capitalist property developer in Cyprus, yet backed Jeremy Corbyn's election campaign in 2015. The list of confused individuals goes on bless them.........

Patxd,

Lloyds dividend yield at the current price is 4 1/2%. What would you consider a decent return ?

You wouldn't catch me doing something like that .....lol

Yes, market closed. Sleep off that hangover bud.

What makes you ask TFE ? Seems to be ok here......