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Donald Trump certainly is in a dream world!

And the EU announced a reciprocal tariff of 25% on the US today so they will not benefit, they will have to pay the full 20% tariff that was initially imposed on them.

"A 90 day pause for tariffs for non retaliatory countries."

The news has said it is not a total pause. There will still be a 10% tariff on all, those who had higher tariffs imposed will have the tariff lowered to 10% for 90 days.

Agree Gate. Trump was gunning for China so why drag the rest of the world into it. Highly irresponsible action by the leader of the US. And listening to the news, it appears it is not a complete pause in tariffs. There will still be a blanket tariff of 10% on all, just that the countries with higher tariffs have had them reduced to 10% for 90 days.

Spike up in US Markets, S&P up 6%, US has just announced a 90 day pause on tariffs for countries that have not introduced reciprocal tariffs. FTSE should fly tomorrow!

"Sounds like the next Bond film...3 blokes trying to take over the world1"

And which one will be the last man standing.

After 34 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date................................................504,100,844

Aggregate cost to date..........................................£345,008,648.04

Average price paid to date......................................68.4404p

Percentage of £1.7 billion buyback completed......20.29%

HumpyDumpy

" It’s anti a multiple bankrupt, lying narcissist - who’s currently using the world economy as his own personal yo yo"

You missed out convicted felon from your summary.

"Trump is doing with China what we should have done years ago, instead of begging them to invest/buy our manufacturing and utility companies and holding us to ransom."

His beef is with China so he should not indiscriminately target every country with tariffs. He is acting like a gangster.

"Importing millions of pounds worth of cheap crap."

If peeps thought it was cheap crap no one would buy it.

"Trump will never back down! Its not in his nature and has zero reason to! "

He did in 2019.

Why do I think that our new member since today Chegg is already regular poster on this board! 🤣

Even Musk has realises what Trump is doing with Tariffs is wrong and has tried to get him to reverse the tariffs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/07/musk-trump-tariffs/

Skier

"And, don't forget, the UK is in the exact same mess -- only worse. Too much debt, too much tax, too big a trade gap. The US has the *courage* to tackle their big problems. We don't."

So should we do the same......hit every other nation on earth with minimum 10% escalating to 100% tariffs to pay off our debt?

New member today....hmmmmm

And he is telling the EU there will be no deal on tariffs unless they agree to buy $340B of energy from the US!

At least 2018/2019 It was Trump v China. In 2025 it's Trump v the whole world. The guy is fecking crazy! Absolutely reckless and no need for what he is doing.

After 33 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date..................................................474,686,333

Aggregate cost to date............................................£325,996,667.10

Average price paid to date.......................................68.6762p

Percentage of £1.7 billion buyback completed......19.18%

Big jump in volume last few days, good if it continues. Looking ahead the SC estimate sometime in July they will make a judgement on Car Finance. FCA have said they will then give their decision within 6 weeks of the SC Judgement of any redress scheme that they will/may impose. More importantly, Lloyds half years results are due to be released on 24th July, so this will likely be after the SC have announced their judgement? If judgement is not in favour of the dealers/lenders, this could possibly influence the amount of Interim Dividend being declared at half year results and/or completion of this years buyback?

Falky

Yes you have made a decent profit in RKH and Bor if you have sold, well done on that.

I have never commented on your Aviva or M&S purchases.

The dividend looks good with M&G which I had considered but the thing that puts me off is the dividend cover. Their earnings are not covering the dividend. The dividend cover for 2024 was -0.75. Is that not a concern for you? I believe also that M&G have suffered from large scale withdrawals of investor money from their active managed funds. Active fund management appears to be declining rapidly now in favour of passive index tracking ETF's.