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Broker ratings are bullish...market isn't..what are we waiting for?

or is it time to cut and run?

Don't forget how much fun they and their brokers have had doing share buy-backs ...instead of paying dividends.

Could be worse : have you watched ABRDN's CEO in full flow?

Don't think Stroll's will allow this to go bankrupt while baby stroll is driving F1

Property insurance premiums also rocketting...not just DLG and not just cars.

Haven't checked what the pet insurance is going to look like yet but suspect it will be even worse.

Ladies football may not be as marvellous as the men's football...but it is watched and the WFH brigade apart, most watch all kinds of telly on record so you would hardly have to drag yourself out of MaccieDs to watch lunchtime TV

Conduit Re out today...not surprising...excellent figures, hope it has a contagion effect on Lancashire Re

I know other UK account holders ,both business and personal, from years ago up to now, where if your funding or money was coming from overseas, your bank account was closed. I suspect Mr Farage might have had money coming in from overseas sources which probably triggered this whole s***show.

It's not all just pizzas...NHS uses delivery companies to send prescriptions. If it is anything like the rest of the NHS bureaucracy's use of tax payers' money, this will be a big profit maker for the delivery companies.

BALDEAGLE: any clues on the durability / life cycle of all these EVs.

Sorry, I cannot see why these EVs are such a big deal..

and , no ,I am not confused about what ' green' means..I was using it as a portamanteau word for the whole recycling , decarbonisation, etc schtick.

While China and India continue on their merry way paying lip service to environmental concerns, I am not sure how swapping a 6 year old diesel for an EV is going to help ; and how environmentally damaging is war? Awful lot of ordnance exploding and jet fuel pollution going on at the moment ...stop the war.

ABDN has written to all their regular savers saying that they are closing this type of account Dec 23. and they can be transferred to ii, or a platform of your choice.

As a depressed LTH of ABDN and finally averaging in has worked...I note broker ratings are pretty miserable...does anyone have a more optimistic thought? I am expecting the acquisition of ii to be good for ABDN's numbers.

I wouldn't say EVs are a fad but they are not the silver bullet we are being led by the nose on...batteries are not green technology, we are just transferring the pollutant burden to elsewhere in the world; EV batteries are certainly not green; EVs as a result of the batteries are way heavier than conventional vehicles as a result their tyres are used up far faster; their cost per mile for power is parallel diesel and petrol, if you charge at home, but if you use the street/service station charging posts can be as much as double the cost....and most are not towable and require diesel-powered loaders to remove them from the roads. An EV is ok for short journeys in town. Until train fares become affordable for a family of four, petrol/diesel cars are the only option for any journey of more than 200miles.

I may be being incompetent, but the NAV is massive cf. the share price...surely a disconnect somewhere.

Last time I bought a bank on a generous discount to NAV, it was TSB and they were swiftly hoovered up, alas, and below NAV.

when does Liontrust start to get indigestion?...they have been scoffing quite a lot recently.

Am beginning to suspect le-barone is a rejected lover....did BMS run the slide-rule over his business and find it lacking?

Barc have tried enforcing long-distance/remote banking in my neck of the woods...closed 3 branches , left one high street branch, restricted hours for tellers...net result enormous queues, day in day out. Obviously, you only go to the branch to see the tellers now if you have some issue which the hole-in-the-wall machine , internet banking can't do or get no satisfaction from 'phoning ...so there will be long queues. Going to the bank now reminds me of the long queues to get money out your savings accounts in the late 1970s/early 1980s...take something to read.

The unions can do one. I have been dealing with 4 out of the 5 big banks for almost 6 months...trying to get info for probate after death of 1 parent....1.universally hold message is " we are experiencing a higher volume of calls" what? for 5 months??, 2. when you do get answered, you are dealing with people working from home who are inadequately trained for the job, cannot get hold of anyone superior and are bloody-minded and 3. going to the branches physically is a trial in patience and keeping your temper. Maybe the unions would like to reflect on the experience of the users (definitely not treated as customers) of the banks rather than their over-indulged members. The only bright spot is that the lamented parent did not bank with Barclays..where I do.

LTI: I was foolhardy enough to pick up lloy share in 2020 so my cost price and yield based on that are fine, thank-you; however, it has been more than a little frustrating to watch this share perform like a dog...I was hoping for better by now.
On the share buy-backs, fortunately, I use a platform which facilitates voting on holdings, so I have voted against them at every opportunity with all my holdings; I also vote against all auditors as a matter of principle and directors' remuneration.

That still doesn't excuse the rubbish dividend. If dividend is low , the market will adjust the SP to reflect what the yield ought to be..apparently, 4.5%ish. So the management can buy as many shares as they like via share buy-back schemes (as we have watched over this last year and still more to come, God save us!), the share price is not going to improve until the dividend is raised. Instead of which the buy-backs have been an expensive exercise at buying at what now looks like the upper range of the SP. Shame no-one on management team reads this board.