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Given market is up circa +50pts am surprised at this mornings fall in SP on open?

Chid
"Hardup
Whilst the savings of some 12.5m on Lloyds dividend payment may seems impressive, it is a trifling sum."
I put that information about dividend saved in my posts as another member of the board asked if I could include it. You should have a look at some posts I made on Saturday; at 13:34, 13:46 and 14:07 which triggered an avalanche of posts attacking me from one of the other members of the board. As this is showing you as a new poster to this board with only 1 post to date I am assuming you are in fact another frequent poster on this board using a new ID to post your message after seeing the barrage of abuse I received on Saturday.

After 22 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares............................................................948,671,053
Cost... .................................................................... £440,874,897.11
Stamp Duty @ 0.5%.............................................. £2,204,374.49
Total cost inclusive of stamp duty... .................... £443,079,271.59
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed.......22.15%

The cancelled shares to date will save £12,617,325.00 from the Final Dividend payment which goes ex-div on 6th April.

"Equity markets have rallied spectacularly from the health pandemic lows of March 2020, meaning 'value stocks' are in short supply. That said, the table below comprises of 10 popular FTSE-listed stocks which could be described as 'bargain
bluechips'. The stocks are trading well below pre-pandemic prices, and according to City analysts, have significant potential upside."

https://frederickandoliver.com/app/uploads/2022/03/2022BargainBluechips.pdf

is in full deramping "what a dire investment U.K. bank shares are, uninvestable capital destructive rubbish and rates are never going up much so they are doomed" mode again over on the Barclays board so expect he will be putting in an appearance here at some stage today with his/her usual rhetoric.

A1
Whatever makes you think NATWEST are in trouble and need rescuing? Todays news seems to suggest they are well on the road to being a sound bank again.

"NatWest Group plc (the "Company" or "NWG") has agreed with HM Treasury to make an off-market purchase (the "Off-Market Purchase") of 549,851,147 ordinary shares in the Company with a nominal value of £1 each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 220.5 pence per Ordinary Share, being the closing price of the Ordinary Shares on the London Stock Exchange on 25 March 2022. The total consideration for the Off-Market Purchase will be £1,212,421,779.

The purchased Ordinary Shares represent 4.91 per cent of the Company's issued share capital (excluding treasury shares). The Off-Market Purchase is expected to settle on 30 March 2022."

n a move set to address the issue of late payments within UK construction, the building and construction payment platform ProjectPay has joined forces with Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.
The partnership will support the objectives of the UK government’s construction sector deal and industry-specific consultations on retention payments.

Following the collapse of Carillion in 2018, the government created a series of new payment protections to help digitise payments in the construction sector.

ProjectPay and Lloyds Bank’s solution aims to eliminate missed or delayed payments and high rates of non-payment in construction supply chains, and to help mitigate the risk of misappropriation of funds or building project insolvency.

https://thefintechtimes.com/lloyds-latest-partnership-to-protect-uk-construction-payments/

After 21 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares............................................................910,962,038
Cost... .................................................................... £422,337,145.33
Stamp Duty @ 0.5%.............................................. £2,111,685.73
Total cost inclusive of stamp duty... .................... £424,448,831.06
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed.......21.22%

The cancelled shares to date will save £12,115,795.11 from the Final Dividend payment which goes ex-div on 6th April.

poolielad
Lloyds are buying the shares back from the broker assigned to manage the buyback programme for them, Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley buy them from the public on the open market on behalf of Lloyds. If you go to the link below, it details all of the individual trades that Morgan Stanley completed today to buy the shares on the open market, which they then sell on to Lloyds.

https://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/1377G_1-2022-3-25.pdf

Ordinary Shares

Date of purchases: 25 March 2022

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 71,370,855

Highest price paid per share (pence): 49.42

Lowest price paid per share (pence): 48.59

Volume weighted average price paid per share (pence): 48.98

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/1377G_1-2022-3-25.pdf

Theosus
Putin must be thinking by now he has fecked up big style. He's just digging himself deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit.

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - Russian precision-guided missiles are failing up to 60% of the time in Ukraine, three U.S. officials with knowledge of intelligence on the issue told Reuters, a possible explanation for the poor progress of Russia's invasion.

Since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia has failed to achieve basic objectives such as neutralizing Ukraine's air force despite a vastly larger armed forces.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive-us-assesses-up-60-failure-rate-some-russian-missiles-officials-say-2022-03-24/?

"This pile of steaming shxt will be back at .22p after the next imminent recession...........blah blah blah blah"
So you keep saying. Now feck off pr@tt!

Morning Falky
What t-shirt are you wearing today........bull or bear?

After 20 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares............................................................839,591,183
Cost... .................................................................... £387,379,700.55
Stamp Duty @ 0.5%.............................................. £1,936,898.50
Total cost inclusive of stamp duty... .................... £389,316,599.06
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed.......19.47%

The cancelled shares to date will save £11,166,562.73 from the Final Dividend payment which goes ex-div on 6th April.

March 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose following choppy trading abroad on Thursday, and oil prices pulled back, as investors watched Western leaders present a unified front against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Technology companies lifted U.S. stock indexes after a sharp fall in the previous session, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) up 269.24 points, or nearly 2%, to 14,191.84.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 349.44 points, or about 1%, to 34,707.94 and the S&P 500 (.SPX) gained 63.92 points, or 1.43%, to 4,520.16.

https://www.reuters.com/business/global-markets-wrapup-1-2022-03-24/?

This would be absolutely ridiculous if a war criminal is allowed to attend as a Head of State! If he is permitted to attend I hope the west have their best assassins on standby to terminate his mutha fecking @ss!

Vladimir Putin has reportedly expressed willingness to attend the G20 summit later this year in Indonesia as China said Russia was an “important member,” in a pushback to the potential pressure building up to expel Moscow from the Bali event for its war on Ukraine.

Russia’s ambassador to Indonesia Lyudmila Vorobieva said in a news conference that Mr Putin is willing to travel to Bali in November to attend the G20 summit. She said Russia should not be expelled over the Ukraine invasion as G20 is an economic forum.

"It will depend on many, many things, including the Covid situation, which is getting better. So far, his intention is... he wants to," she said.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/putin-still-wants-attend-g20-122820128.html

Ordinary Shares

Date of purchases: 24 March 2022

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 52,492,328

Highest price paid per share (pence): 49.94

Lowest price paid per share (pence): 49.40

Volume weighted average price paid per share (pence): 49.60

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/9751F_1-2022-3-24.pdf