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After 79 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,682,126,629

Aggregate cost to date... ............................................ £869,476,439.83

Average price paid to date..........................................51.6891p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed............43.47%

After 79 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,681,671,629

Aggregate cost to date... ............................................ £869,225,353.08

Average price paid to date..........................................51.6882p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed............43.46%

Says who.......Diane Abbott? 🤣

After 78 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,679,406,474

Aggregate cost to date... ............................................ £867,982,091.05

Average price paid to date..........................................51.6839p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed............43.4%

Any mention of interest the BoE pays to Banks for holding their deposits? Farage thinks the BoE should not pay any interest to the Banks for holding their money.

Falky

"Cos I am consistent all the time....Cheers"

Yes, I would agree with that.....consistently wrong all the time.,..Cheers

Falky

"IMHO, The worst is yet to come."

You said the same when the share price was 41p.

Labour are keeping their cards close to their chest. They have said what they will not do, re no increase in income tax, National Insurance or VAT. And they have said they will impose a windfall tax on the energy companies. I guess we will have to wait for the Autumn Budget and see if Rachel Reeves has a Pandoras box full of surprises. Possible taxation of share buybacks? They do this in the US at a rate of 1%. Biden had made some noise last year about increasing that to 4% but there was a lot of opposition to that so it is still currently 1%. I think higher rate tax relief on pension contributions will be scrapped and a flat rate of tax relief on pension contributions for all introduced, maybe set at a higher level than the current basic 20% level?

After 77 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,666,390,599

Aggregate cost to date... ............................................ £860,911,034.73

Average price paid to date..........................................51.6632p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed............43.05%

STP

"Did I miss anything?"

Yes....a brain.

Falky

"The worst is yet to come.....Imho"

I seem to recall you saying the same when the SP was 41p.

STP

"But you brexiteers celebrated leaving everything in euroland. You wanted to cut all ties! Why are parts of the UK partaking in the EUROS?"

Football, rugby, athletics, and sport in general has nothing to do with EU membership and never has. And "Parts of the UK", as you so eloquently put it, were competing in European International competitions long before the UK joined the EEC, which was a trading block which morphed into the Political Union of the EU. Sport has nothing to do with politics.

"Why are parts of the UK, at the EUROS?"

You stupid boy.

After 76 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,628,493,955

Aggregate cost to date... ............................................ £840,473,829.38

Average price paid to date..........................................51.6105p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed............42.02%

Strike123

Correct, the dividend is only paid on the 1000 shares held before ex-divi date. The next dividend declaration date will be 25th July where the interim dividend amount will be declared. The ex-divi date for this will be sometime in August, and the dividend payment date will be sometime in September. So if you hold the 2000 shares until next ex-divi date in August then you will be paid dividend for 2000 shares in September.

"Will BoE MPC fall in line with US and hold today, or cut?"

Neither! No meeting today, it's next week 20th June! Not fully woke up yet! 😁

Will BoE MPC fall in line with US and hold today, or cut?

As expected the US FED kept rates on hold. Jerome Powell said they now forecast only 1 interest rate cut this year. They had previously forecast 3 cuts this year.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/fed-expected-hold-rates-steady-project-fewer-cuts-2024-2024-06-12/

After 75 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,621,623,924

Aggregate cost to date... ............................................ £836,763,950.81

Average price paid to date..........................................51.6004p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed............41.84%

After 74 trading days, buyback complete to date:

Total shares to date....................................................1,597,191,728

Aggregate cost to date... ............................................ £823,445,496.56

Average price paid to date..........................................51.5558p

Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed............41.17%