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After 44 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date................................................662,413,432

Aggregate cost to date..........................................£451,502,302.46

Average price paid to date......................................68.1602p

Percentage of £1.7 billion buyback completed......26.56%

"(Reuters) -BlackRock has been acquiring billions of pounds of UK assets it considers "undervalued," The Times newspaper reported on Thursday, quoting the U.S. asset manager's CEO Larry Fink.

He noted that many UK stocks, particularly in the banking sector, were undervalued due to excessive discounts. "We added to our positions across the board with the idea that we believe the market was discounting too much negativity," Fink told The Times.

"And we believe the negativity was probably not warranted."

Full article can be read at link below.....

https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/US-BLACKROCK-BRITAIN-FINK-293c718b-b0a5-463b-b724-0afca009c19e

Most popular banks based on number of people switching including Nationwide, Lloyds and NatWest.

The banks with the most people switching to them at the end of last year have been revealed. Nationwide had the highest net gains with 51,254 switches, followed by Lloyds Bank (50,061), NatWest (7,279) and the Co-operative Bank (3,812).

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/most-popular-banks-based-people-35108315

After 43 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date.................................................662,070,432

Aggregate cost to date...........................................£451,252,039.37

Average price paid to date.......................................68.1577p

Percentage of £1.7 billion buyback completed......26.54%

"I think the artic ice sheet was supposed to disappear by 2030."

That is not what they have said. What they are saying is it is possible for the arctic be ice free in summer by 2030.

The White House with Trumps administration can only be described as a nest of vipers.

Gate 👍

Gate

"Just bought some Berkshire Hathaway Ant. Very difficult reading the US market at present. I’ll let Warren Buffett decide when he’s going back in and with what stocks 😂"

What class of Berkshire Hathaway shares did you buy, A or B?

After 42 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date.................................................661,725,747

Aggregate cost to date...........................................£451,001,501.29

Average price paid to date.......................................68.1554p

Percentage of £1.7 billion buyback completed......26.53%

Gap up this morning A1?

"Trump has been shown to be extremely weak against Russia - what warped mind thinks that the invading force of a dictator into a sovereign country should be allowed a land grab to keep forever more."

Yet a few days ago Trump said at a press call........"My whole life has been one big negotiation and I know when people are playing us and when they're not" 🤣🤣🤣

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After 41 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................661,382,005

Aggregate cost to date..............................................£450,750,848.06

Average price paid to date..........................................68.1529p

Percentage of £1.7 billion buyback completed.........26.51%

"I think trump will explode if US rates are not lowered 7th may........will be a very interesting 2 days regards the central banks"

When Trump first started ranting after US markets tanked on tariff news, he said "Powell should stop playing politics and lower rates at once". It is Trump that is playing the politics game in trying to intimidate Powell to do as Trump wants. Powell is doing his job and basing decisions on interest rates on financial data including current inflation rate and trend to decide when best to lower interest rates, not what politicians want to suit their short term agenda. I hope he has the guts to carry on and not cave in to Trump.

LYG doing better, currently down -0.93%.

UK-focused banking stock has escaped the worst of the tariff selloff.

In this uncertain period, Lloyds has an advantage in having no US exposure. It’s a pure UK banking play, with 95% of its assets based domestically.

Full article can be read at following link..........

https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/263605/stock-of-the-week-lloyds-banking-group-.aspx

Loki

"(feel free to 'like' my post as i need vindication) (oh... 😢)"

I think most on this board argue that you need euthanisation. 👍

Loki

"When have i posted 610+ post of 'pure garbage'?"

Apologies, my mistake......it's 613+ posts of pure garbage.

Now feck off you trolling feckwit!

Loki, try again when I have posted 610+ posts of pure garbage in 30 days.

Gate, regarding Trump I found this post on another forum which I have copied below...…👍🤣

"First came the wall that was never completed. Next, Mexico didn't pay for it. Covid didn't disappear when the summer came. No-one was interested in his bleach cure when it hung around. He DID lose to Biden when he said he didn't. His attack on the Capitol failed miserably. His cure for the economy is failing disastrously. The faith and belief in America has all but vanished and his general behaviour is dependent on which side of his lonely bed he emerges. He cheats at golf and lies incessantly. He changes his mind at the drop of a funny hat. Canada is still Canada. Greenland is still Greenland. Putin has got him on a string. So what makes it likely he will now stop a war that he promised to do on Day One?"