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Lloyds is taking the proverbial // HAS wasting cash on buybacks...LTHs put up with 0 dividend during pandemic ...it is not too much to expect more than cheering up marketmakers and brokers with share buybacks...as far as I can see the only beneficiaries.
If BOD want shareholder loyalty and support, should the big bad wolves aka activist investors come knocking, BOD should do more than share buybacks.

buy-backs are to avoid paying increased dividends...which company may not be able to maintain and thus avoiding bad publicity. Investing in shares to a company rather than loans is to profit from share price increase and/or share of profits....neither obvious here for a loooong time

RMG have to deal with the workshy and opportunists...50% of our letter postpeople(?) decided at start of pandemic that at they needed to self-shelter...bizarrely parcel staff were of stronger stuff and delivered throughout.
I don't need to speak to them, I can see who is working .

Absolutely smoke and mirrors about sanctions but :
a lot of Africa relies on wheat etc from Russia ....and also aid from USA
too scarred to access "sanctioned wheat etc"from Russia because USA may use this as a big stick when next deciding on aid programmes for Africa ...caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Only person in the UK who is singing the USA song is Bozo...while the rest of us put up with abominable fuel prices, thanks to sanctions.

thank-you noisyboy9

ROO's trading announcement last year was 8July and interim results 11 August....
does JPM have prior knowledge or just stuck their collective finger in the air?

Finallly, after all these weeks, had email from HL telling me my holdings are too risky....they spotted the JRS holding!

i foresee multiple claims from Lloyds from aggrieved tenants....which Lloyds will pay out as they appear to have done for every claimant for anything. If I were Lloyds and John Lewis, come to that, I would leave it to the professionals, like Grainger.

took a position...had a look at whowhatwear website and thought it was worth their investment.
Hope they got nice fixed rates for their borrowings.

jaffajimo:
hmmmm...thanks for reading the article, it was about London Underground/aka Tube drivers' salaries...just to elucidate.
It's clearly an issue when the RMT calls a strike when children are doing their exams....maybe that isn't an issue for you?
Unfortunately, the strike weapon has collapsed after the WFH transition during the COVID-19 pandemic, so the RMT is looking for fresh victims' lives to destroy. Sure stand up for you rights but not at everyone else's cost. How many people who use the London Underground are paid by the hour, not on happy annual salaries? Not an issue for the train staff and London Underground staff, and absolutely not a problem for Mick Lynch.
BTW, they have all been dug out of a big hole following the pandemic lockdowns...because the system needs customers, which they didn't have.. a little economics lesson for you

https://www.cityam.com/tube-driver-salaries-break-100000-barrier-despite-train/

and this is from December 2018

a big hand , NOT, to the train staff and London Tube staff...well done for striking during exam season; hope they feel some shame

France had no problem selling Mirage fighters to South Africa during apartheid... not sure where you are reading your history but sanctions did not destroy apartheid South Africa

So Boris, on his way to his NHS "sinus operation", popped into see Zelensky, instead of Red Wall Tory MPs...thinks he looks good standing next to Zelensky?
Macron, looking pretty bad in French opinion polls, goes to see Zelensky, because he thinks it literally makes him look like a big man.
Biden....??

FUTR have greatly increased borrowings in last year or so...any thoughts?

not sure whether the bigger war mongers are pandammonia and big-blue or Putin.
Roaring inflation and inevitable poverty worldwide thanks to sanctions aren't exactly welcome.

oil sanctions are causing chaos in the world ..economic hardship in Europe, Africa and Asia and our brave leader is sending more arms to Ukraine.
Was Bozo hoping for a positive take from his unscheduled visit to Ukraine?
Or is this posturing and picture opportunities for a profitable speech circuit in USA when Bozo finally leaves office?

I am going head in sand and not looking at anything until September///either way, this stupid war will have come to some sort of conclusion by then.
at least I am not in BITC

enough already...this is useless posting.
Ukraine is not without fault

CS puts an underperform on ABDN...pot calling the kettle black?
BOD had better be careful...at these prices, looking like a takeover target
Not sure I agree with Porsche re LGEN...nice dividend..boring share but LGEN getting a bit too political for my liking over ESG stuff.