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I would be happy if the dividends come close to what analysts are forecasting up to 2028.

https://themoneycog.com/articles/lloyds-dividend-forecast-heres-what-analysts-predict-for-2022-and-2023

Sky News Saturday 18 November 2023 15:37, UK

Telegraph court showdown to be adjourned after Barclays offer Lloyds £1.16bn.

The Barclay family is aiming to repay a long-standing debt to Lloyds Banking Group within a fortnight to regain control of The Daily Telegraph and Spectator, Sky News learns.

A court hearing to liquidate a Barclay family holding companies in order to smooth a sale of The Daily Telegraph is poised to be adjourned after a last-gasp offer to repay more than £1bn to Lloyds Banking Group.

Sky News understands that a hearing scheduled to take place in the British Virgin Islands on Monday is expected to be postponed while the bank considers the Barclays' latest effort to end the auction of the broadsheet newspapers.

An application to adjourn the hearing was submitted late on Friday.

Sources said this weekend that the Barclay family hoped to deliver a full repayment of its long-standing debt to Lloyds by the end of the month.

The adjourned court hearing would be expected to take place shortly after that date if the Barclays do not succeed in repaying the £1.16bn.

https://news.sky.com/story/telegraph-court-showdown-to-be-adjourned-after-barclays-offer-lloyds-1-16bn-13010846

Don't count your chickens before they hatch! 🐓🐓🤑🤑

This may help you Denby69.

If your company or organisation is liable for Corporation Tax and makes a loss from trading, the sale or disposal of a capital asset or on property income, then you may be able to claim relief from Corporation Tax.

You get tax relief by offsetting the loss against your other gains or profits of your business in the same accounting period. You can also choose to carry the loss back, or it will be carried forward to another accounting period.

If your company or organisation stops trading, you may be able to claim Terminal Loss Relief. This relief allows you to carry back any trading losses that occur in the final 12 months of a trade and set them off against profits made in any or all of the 3 years up to the period when you made the loss.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-terminal-capital-and-property-income-losses#

Wednesday 22 November will see Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announce the Autumn Statement. Though the nation’s tax burden is on track to reach a post-war high, Hunt has been firm in the face of pressure to cut taxes, warning last month that the move would be “virtually impossible”.

As a result, next week’s announcement is likely to contain policy tweaks, rather than substantial tax and spending plans. Here, Investors’ Chronicle explains the challenging public finance position and looks at what to expect.

https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/news/2023/11/14/autumn-statement-2023-everything-you-need-to-know/

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/the-triple-lock-how-will-state-pensions-be-uprated-in-future/

The State Pension with the triple lock should rise by 8.5% in April next year. This is calculated by the higher of wage growth between May and July (8.5%), CPI inflation figure for September (6.7%) or 2.5%. There is speculation that Hunt May manipulate the wage growth figures to take NHS Bonus's out of the calculation for wage growth which would give a lower figure of 7.8% instead, but that would surely be a vote loser if he chose to do that.

https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/news/2023/10/18/state-pension-set-for-bumper-above-inflation-increase/#

Brixton.....give spoons a miss and drink at home. You will get 674 x 440ml cans of Guinness every 4 weeks from Tesco with your state pension. 😎

"We need a common sense party...but fat chance. of breaking the Lab/union or the Tory/City Cliques"

Simples then........a Labour/Tory coalition! 🤣🤣🤣

Brixton.......I believe the loan to the Barclay Brothers was one of the dodgy loans inherited by Lloyds from the takeover of HBOS.

Jack Zucker should read Jeff Zucker in my last. And is it Zucker..............or Sucker! 🤣🤣

SUFC.....It's not a done deal. SKY News is just saying former CNN boss Jack Zucker is backing Barclays £1B + bid to regain control of the Telegraph.

Where did you get that from SUFC?

Gazzleberry...."I come down on the side that there is something that we call God."

So why doe's God allow all of his creations through the history of mankind to go around the world butchering each other in his name?

"Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool" - Mark Twain

“I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” —Oscar Wilde

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Natwest and Barclays both galloping away into the sunset.......and no sight of Lloyds in the frontrunners! 😞

No s hit Sherlock! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

No doubt the shenanigans at Capitol Hill over the next 3 days will have a short term influence in the markets in the run up to the deadline for signing off the US Budget for the next year by Friday.

"though" should be through.