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After 108 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares to date.................................................3,291,373,172
Total Cost to date... ................................................ £1,467,965,945.92
Average price paid to date.......................................44.6p
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed.........73.4%

82 shares today.....lol.

"The linking factor is the assessment of risk."
The mind boggles!

Plato
Pleas enlighten me....in the same post how do you start of talking about how hydro-carbons are formed to ending the post talking about getting mugged in Tunisia?

SUFC
Don't think bonuses linked to EPS are a good idea. EPS will increase with the buyback, so they get their bonus, even if SP does not increase. IMO It would be better if bonuses were linked to SP performance instead.

SUFC
I thought the bonuses were linked to EPS?

Time to get into the cryogenic capsule for a nap!

And I think Lizz Trusses comment last night "Nicola Sturgeon is an attention seeker" was not wise. Don't underestimate the SNP's ability to make political gain in Scotland from ill thought of comments like this. A Boris style gaff!

Gazzleberry
"Incidentally, the etymology of Tory is derived from Scots and Irish Gaelic meaning thief, outlaw, plunderer."
This dates back to 1678.........what relevance does this have to todays political agenda?

Gazzleberry
Did you not read the first part of my post which referred to Mach saying "we don't vote Tory". If no one votes Tory in Scotland how are they the party with the 2nd largest count of MSP's at Holyrood?

Gazzleberry
Yes, fully aware of the difference between Scottish and UK voting system. Note I said UK as opposed to England, as it applies to all of the UK for Parliamentary elections to Westminster, not just England, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well.

Latest figures detail UK Government’s record funding of £41 billion a year for the Scottish Government.
Scottish Government receives £126 per person of Barnett-based funding for every £100 per person of equivalent UK Government spending in England and Wales.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/latest-figures-detail-uk-governments-record-funding-of-41-billion-a-year-for-the-scottish-government

If this is still not enough for the SNP, they have the powers enabled to Devolved Governments to raise extra money. The Scotland Act 2016 provides the Scottish Parliament with the power to set all Income Tax rates and bands (except the personal allowance, which remains reserved) for Scottish taxpayers' non-savings, non-dividend (NSND) income. They are also allowed to borrow money; Scottish Government ministers can borrow both to fund capital expenditure
and for a defined range of purposes not related to capital expenditure.

For those who think Lloyds should be broken up!

The boss of HSBC has warned that breaking up the bank would destroy value for investors as the lender set out its defence against a push by its largest shareholder to split the group in two.

Noel Quinn used the company’s half-year results yesterday to mount a rebuttal of a proposal from Ping An for the bank to spin off its Asian business into a separate company listed in Hong Kong. He said the FTSE 100 group had examined a number of options for the way it is structured but believed that “international connectivity is core to our entire value proposition”.

“It has been our judgment that alternative structural options will not deliver increased value for shareholders — rather, they would have a material negative impact on value,” Quinn said. “Our current strategy is the fastest and safest way to get to the higher returns and dividends that we all want to see.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hsbc-promises-higher-dividends-to-appease-hong-kong-shareholders-77g95srrb

"Scotland is a left leaning, liberal country. We couldn't be further away from the current nasty strain of far-right populism that is infecting English politics. We don't vote Tory"
Its not as if the Conservatives have no support in Scotland, they are the second largest party by number of MSP's in Holyrood.
SNP.......................................64 MSP's
Conservatives ......................31 MSP's
Scottish Labour ...................22 MSP's
Scottish Green Party...............7 MSP's
Scottish Liberal Democrats....4 MSP's
No Part Affiliation...................1 MSP

They've got more sheep than Scotland

From the RNS dated 25th February titled Share Buyback Programme Commences.
"Any purchases of ordinary shares by the Company in relation to this announcement will be made in accordance with certain pre-set parameters set out in the terms of the Broker's engagement"

"so if this is done by algorithm, is the algo anticipating a drop in share price in the next few days/weeks"
The algo is not anticipating anything. It is operating following pre set parameters that have been programmed into it which Lloyds specified before the buyback started.

After 107 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares to date.................................................3,291,373,090
Total Cost to date... ................................................ £1,467,965,908.62
Average price paid to date.......................................44.6p
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed.........73.4%

£11.32 spent buying todays 25 shares! lol

Falky
You still got your buying limit set for 39.5p..........do you call that positive?

"Wonder why ?"
The merest whiff of negativity stirs Falky to life! lol

Plato
"When I became a doctor"
You're full of sh - ite!