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Charles432

I agree with your sentiment, but the problem is it is in the hands of the SC who are currently adjourned to consider what their judgement is, and the Government will have no input on that. The SC denied the request of Rachel Reeves to be one of the parties to give an input into the hearing that was held in April. Once the SC have made their judgement, it will be the FCA which will decide on any redress scheme it will impose on the dealers/brokers/lenders, and the FCA is an independent body from the UK Government (allegedly).

Seems the magnitude of this is being greatly exaggerated. It is being reported that what will be announced is a framework around which negotiations can start.

“This announcement is likely just an agreement to start the negotiations, identifying a framework of issues to be discussed in the coming months,” said international trade attorney Tim Brightbill. “We suspect that tariff rates, non-tariff barriers, and digital trade are all on the list—and there are difficult issues to address on all of these.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-to-announce-trade-agreement-with-britain/ar-AA1EmRh3?ocid=nl_article_link

STP......my comment was in response to a comment 67S made, and was directed at 67S. It had nowt to do with what you or bloomer was saying. But you know that anyway you dumb feck.

And as I have told you previously, stop plagiarising you trolling feckwit.

Another pointless trolling exercise from STP.

STP

"Hardup, check back through the posts and that might enlighten you."

Stop wasting my time, answer the question.

STP.....please enlighten me, how have you educated me?

I've just noticed there was also a broker cut its target price for Lloyds today.......d'oh

Kepler Cheuvreux cuts Lloyds price target to 74 (75) pence - 'hold'

FWIW.............Jefferies raises Lloyds price target to 92 (90) pence - 'buy'

Artgerwin

As Mark Twain said....."religion was invented when the first conman met the first fool" 😇

Good to see Jerome Powell did not cave in to pressure from Trump and stuck to his guns.

"We are comfortable with our policy stance," Powell said at a May 7 press conference. "We think right now the appropriate thing to do is to wait and see how things evolve. There's so much uncertainty."

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/07/federal-reserve-meeting-rate-cuts-live-updates/83473623007/

Lets see what Bailey and co come up with today.

"We're going to have a very, very big announcement to make, like as big as it gets," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, where he is meeting with Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney. "And I won't tell you on what … and it's very positive."

"It is really, really positive. And that announcement will be made either Thursday or Friday or Monday before we leave," Trump added. "But it'll be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject, very important subject. So you'll all be here."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-teases-very-very-big-announcement-ahead-middle-east-trip-carney-says-hes-on-edge-my-seat

No doubt his bent inner circle of corrupt billionaires already know what this announcement is and have placed large trades on the markets ready to make themselves even more billions after the announcement is made!

67S

"i hope you have as serious answer and you aren't just being a smart ****,"

Come on, STP is not a smart ****! He is a dumb feck! 😇

After 51 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date................................................738,095,784

Aggregate cost to date..........................................£505,483,570.58

Average price paid to date......................................68.4848p

Percentage of £1.7 billion buyback completed......29.73%

Gate,

"Absence of green lines for a few days. Has DCB’s side kick been removed from Lloyds BB ?"

Loki has not posted on this board since 2nd May. He is still actively posting on other boards though. Coincidence that Hardbolt and Seth have not posted since Loki's last post? Of course not, Loki aka Hardbolt aka Seth! 🤣 🤣In fact, all of Hardbolt and Seth's posts have vanished altogether, no trace of them whatsoever.......I wonder why! 🤣🤣🤣

"My donation = about £90 ish "

Your donation was 0....zero......feck all

"Food Bank donations still need spam !"

Diabetes UK still needs your £30 donation that you pledged to make when you entered the 2024 Mr Meercats competition!

Steinbecking,

"Proactive is in the same league as Motley Fool. They just go for bold headlines with little substance."

Your analogy is not valid. Motley Fool articles are all the opinions from their own in house collection of alleged "investment guru's". The article by Proactive was highlighting the views of analysts at Deutsche Bank.

And I hope my end of year guess of 62p is well underestimated as well 🤠

Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LSE:LLOY) is not making headlines, but that might be its greatest strength in 2025.

In a research note on Tuesday, Deutsche Bank reiterated its bullish view on the group, maintaining a 'buy' rating and 88p price target.

Analyst Robert Noble expects the UK lender to deliver consistent improvements across key financial metrics this year, with momentum building into 2026 and 2027.

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1070738/is-lloyds-banking-group-flying-below-the-radar-this-research-house-thinks-so-1070738.html

Labour capitulated last week.