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Slight error in my last post, it should read "on the back of new UK COVID cases down 40%".

If the market does not have a substantial rise this week on the back of UK COVID cases down 40% then the market is bent!

The UK government is telling councils to display EU flags across towns and cities in England as a condition for receiving high street Covid recovery cash.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-flag-covid-recovery-cash-councils-b1889502.html

As long as you are invested in any company paying dividend before the ex dividend date you qualify for the dividend, even if it is only the day before the ex dividend date. If you invest on the ex dividend date you do not qualify for the dividend.
Depends on what company you invest in how often dividends are paid. Some only once a year, most twice a year and a few 4 times a year (quarterly).
If you were to invest in Lloyds on Monday you would qualify for the next dividend. They publish their haly year report on Thursday next week which will give details of half year dividend, if any, and ex dividend date for that dividend.

CrestEx
Have a look here
https://www.dividendmax.com/dividends/declared

Looks like DC has it again

Disinform
You can buy Lloyds on the NYSE quoted in US Dollars, what you were looking at was the pre market price (future) in USD prior to Wall Street opening today.

Falky
Did you mean to say love to see horsey crossing 46p, but I settled at 45.75p?

Hopefully the SP holds on to todays gains and maybe more this afternoon, without being dragged back down by the Friday afternoon "city wide boys" sell off. With further gains expected next week maybe city traders reluctant to sell off this afternoon.

All European Indices staying well up this afternoon so appears they all approve the ECB decision to leave interest rate unchanged.

That's what drinking to much Tesco Value Lager does to you :-)

It really is a joke watching FTSE and Lloyds this afternoon going up and down like a yoyo mirroring the DOWS movements since Wall Street opened!

Thanks Stagecoach

Clumsy fingers, never finished my last.
Am I correct in thinking ONLY Institutional Investors will be offered these shares when the Government sell them?

I was under the impression that every time the Government sells stakes in Natwest (RBS) it only sells to the Institutions, retail investors do not get the chance to buy? Am I

All the other banks currently up but Natwest down 1.5%; guess the market not thinking much of the news of Government to sell 15% stake this year?

Interesting news this morning that the Government will sell 15% of its stake in Natwest Group over the next 12 months.

Think everyone keeping their heads low hoping no more market wobblers counting the trading days down to 29th for news on dividends. Realistically I think we will probably only get information on interim dividend at half year update and we will be kept guessing again until final results are known before we get any further information on dividend payments going forward, and any surplus cash returns to share holders via special dividends and or buybacks.

It's not all about a sprint today, horsey needs to have the stamina for the marathon ahead!

All eyes will be on Barclays who will be the first UK Bank to announce their half year results at 07:00 AM on Wednesday 28th July, so this could set the tone for the other banks who follow, Lloyds on Thursday, Natwest on Friday and HSBC the following Monday 2nd August (Interim).