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After 52 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,850,315,343

Aggregate cost to date... ........................................... £887,348,770.86

Average price paid to date.........................................47.957p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed...........44.37%

Mark99999

"We all know that most jocks are scum"

That is bulls hit! Most scots are decent folk. In my eyes the only people who are scum are them that say sink the boats!

I read it that the Market expects 1 more rate hike of 0.25%

Iggy

MPC saying that they are not expecting a recession will probably mean there will be. lol

Https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/monetary-policy-report/2023/may/monetary-policy-report-may-2023.pdf

MPC now say they do not expect there to be a recession this year.

Rates raised 0.25 bpts

I have just amended my package with BT and have received an amended contract. Never really scrutinised this before but interesting to note that annual price increases are annual rate of CPI published in January every year plus 3.9%.

In my last post 16:36 should read 16:33 and 17:36 should read 17:33

I see the time for my post is 16:36 when it should be 17:36. It was the same yesterday, which is 1 hour of difference. It seems to me that the LSE computer is displaying time as GMT, where we are now on BST (British Summer Time) which is 1 hour ahead of GMT.

After 51 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,790,226,871

Aggregate cost to date... ........................................... £859,834,259.53

Average price paid to date.........................................48.029p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed...........42.99%

" because of one d--k head Gordon brown intervention to step in and safe Halifax rather then the Goverment"

Gordon Brown's intention was so the government would not have to bail out HBOS. And we know that backfired as the government then subsequently had to bail out Lloyds.

US inflation figures today, UK interest rate decision tomorrow. Will no doubt both will be influential on Markets. GLA

"Trump found liable!"

Where did he find him?

Jgf

The RNS Transaction in own shares was posted at 17:22

Jgf

I guess the upgrade to the system LSE have made is experiencing plenty of gremlins. It was after 17:30 that I made that post.

After 50 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,753,861,554

Aggregate cost to date... ........................................... £843,018,936.95

Average price paid to date.........................................48.066p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed...........42.15%

Next crisis coming into sight on the horizon to bring havoc to the markets is the looming deadline for the US debt ceiling which expires 1st June.

Will the Mortgage providers not insist that the borrowers also take out a Mortgage Indemnity Insurance to cover the lender for any shortfall if borrowers go into arrears and are forced to sell at a loss? I had to do this in 1988 when I got a 100% mortgage from Bank of Scotland.

Well you wont feel out of place then carltit.