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US Banks on a roll just now.
BOA up +3.96%
GS up +2.57%
JPM up +3.39%
MS up +1.12%
WFC up +3.84%
C up +4.43%
Lets hope UK Banks should have similar reaction to rate rise. Mind you, if BOE only raise 0.25% instead of 0.5%, who knows?!

After 46 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares to date..................................................1,599,202,047
Total Cost to date... ................................................ £739,611,799.01
Average price paid to date.......................................46.249p
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed........36.98%

Bubble, yep 7pm tonight FED decision, 12:00pm noon tomorrow BOE MPC decision. Hopefully give the SP a nudge in the right direction!

FED will release their monetary policy decision at 2pm ET (7pm BST).

Plato,
Interesting perspective you have there. So you are not condoning Putin for murdering thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children?

Plato,
"I actually think the war in Ukraine may have been Europe invading Ukraine to threaten Moscow with missiles and that the Russian military superiority is actually being supplied from China and the USA who will be splitting the 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day that used to flow through Ukraine to Europe and especially Germany."
You feeling OK today?

Hi Plato
"The ECB could have almost started WWIII because they are run by cretins"
So how would you describe Putin?

KYIV/BRUSSELS, May 4 (Reuters) - The EU proposed its toughest sanctions yet against Russia on Wednesday, including a phased oil embargo, as Ukraine came under further heavy Russian bombardment and nervously monitored large-scale army drills in neighbouring Belarus, a close Moscow ally.

Piling pressure on Russia's already battered $1.8 trillion economy, the European Commission proposed phasing out supplies of Russian crude oil within six months and refined products by the end of 2022. The price of Brent crude jumped 3% to more than $108 a barrel after the news.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-set-unveil-sanctions-russian-oil-fighting-rages-ukraine-2022-05-04/?briefing

You should go to this Lloyds forum for totally Lloyds related debate

https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/london/lloyds-banking-LLOY/share-chat

What was in the green box? A three pack of Senior Citizens Incontinence Pants?

Any more clues?

HSBC Holdings PLC (LSE:HSBA) shares were among the top risers in London on Tuesday after its largest shareholder called for the global lender to be broken up.

Chinese insurance giant Ping An, which owns an 8.23% stake, has suggested to the FTSE 100 bank that it examine potential means of boosting returns and its valuation, including a demerger of its business in Asia.

Ping An made its suggestion on Friday, according to a Reuters report, and on Saturday publicly said it supports all reform proposals that could help with HSBC's long-term value growth.

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/981134/hsbc-jumps-on-break-up-proposals-from-largest-shareholder-981134.html

Johannes "Brixton" Kepler............"Sunlight is invisible unless it's reflected, take a look at the moon at night."

After 45 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares to date..................................................1,578,322,479
Total Cost to date... ................................................ £730,013,461.60
Average price paid to date.......................................46.252p
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed........36.5%

Reminds me of someone else who lost a bet a while ago and the stake was to eat the grass of Hyde Park! lol

A1
Think you gave it the kiss of death lol. The predictable good start +1.4% and then steady fall back, currently down -0.39%.

Boris Johnson 'plans to give millions the right to buy their homes in Margaret Thatcher style-scheme to help ''generation rent'' get a foot on the housing ladder'.

Millions of tenants could get the right to buy the homes they rent from housing associations to help young people get on the housing ladder, it emerged last night.

Boris Johnson told officials in the last fortnight to develop the proposals to help 'generation rent'.

The plan is intended to give the 2.5million households in England who rent properties from associations the chance to purchase them at a discounted price.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10773705/Boris-Johnson-plans-revive-Right-Buy-scheme-help-young-people-housing-ladder.html

Interesting quote from the article on This is Money:
"Top economists have warned the UK could tip into recession as interest rates are poised to rise again this week." and "Economists said the Bank of England has been too slow to lift rates, allowing inflation to run rampant at 7 per cent – more than triple the target set by the Government."
Were these the same economists who were saying in 2020 and 2021 that interest rates should not be raised to control inflation for fear of stalling the recovery from COVID crisis!

67Sam
"I agree it's f'ing annoying when someone else is right all the time, but that is life."
Who are you agreeing with? I certainly never made any comment to that effect.

After 44 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares to date..................................................1,544,178,738
Total Cost to date... ................................................ £714,280,025.75
Average price paid to date.......................................46.256p
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed........35.71%