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Lloyds could rally higher this week if the Bank of England signals it is ready to start reducing its bond buying programme at its monetary policy announcement tomorrow plus good economical data out UK services PMI

Lloyds 50p end of May

Banks the first to suffer and the first to recover

RBC RAISES LLOYDS BANKING PRICE TARGET TO 51 (42) PENCE - 'OUTPERFORM'

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Lloyds is up 89% in 9 months from a low of 23.98 to 45.52 the share price is hardly struggling

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""Nothing has been learnt from 08""

For the banks this pandemic has no in common with the 08 financial crisis

analysts suggesting the UK is heading for its strongest year of economic growth since the Second World War, Rishi Sunak pointed out there is £100billion in UK businesses’ bank accounts waiting to be invested.

It came as Bank of England figures showed households saved another £16.2billion in March, taking the total squirrelled away during the pandemic to £203billion. The Bank also said mortgage lending hit a record high of £11.8billion in March.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-9543329/amp/Wave-cash-rich-firms-turbocharge-recovery-says-Chancellor-Rishi-Sunak.html

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""unforseen adverse market conditions effecting both the UK economy and Lloyds""

What would this be

The Office for National Statistics reported that number of businesses added to the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IBDR) the UK was 14% higher than a year earlier and is highest first-quarter figure since the start of the series in 2017

Net mortgage borrowing clocked in at £11.8bn in March, the highest level since records began in 1993 and while saving levels remained high debt repayments started to tail off as we dusted off our credit cards ready for a summer of spending.

You can feel the optimism bubbling over in the new saving and borrowing figures, as the vaccine rollout continued apace and the country prepared to reopen for business

The UK and US governments were under mounting pressure last night to agree to a transatlantic “travel corridor” to allow quarantine-free flights between the two countries.

Airlines and airports wrote to Boris Johnson and Joe Biden yesterday warning them that a failure to drop restrictions would result in billions of pounds being wiped off the economy.

Lloyds will rally as the economy enters the next phase of its recovery as nearly all closed businesses will be able to open their doors. Analysts have widely credited the UK's rapid vaccination rollout and now the UK remains on course to be among the first major countries to reach herd immunity.

Lloyds 80p in 2021

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Lufthansa stock's soar after announcing summer holiday offers

Britain transport Secretary is putting aviation right at the hart of the government's mission to create global Britain.
Prior to covid the aviation sector was contributing 22billion to the economy each year

https://www.google.com/amp/s/247newsaroundtheworld.com/business-business/shapps-predicts-britain-will-be-largest-economy-in-europe/%3famp

Buybacks are good when stock can be bought below a business's value it is probably the best use of cash I expect the new CEO to use shareholders money this way and at todays price 45p a good idea

Handbag maker Mulberry surprised the City by announcing it will turn a small profit for the year ended March 28.

It has been boosted by strong sales in Asia, which is a key market for luxury goods and where economies such as China’s are rebounding from the pandemic.

Online sales also held up in the second half despite lockdowns in many Western countries. Shares in the AIM-listed retailer, which had told investors it would post a loss, rose 13.4 per cent, or 34p, to 288p.

Like-for-like sales grew 12 per cent in the six months to April 24, despite the third lockdown, with online sales more than doubling to £4.5billion for the full year.

House prices increased by 2.1% in April compared to March, the largest monthly increase since February 2004.

The previous Nationwide report showed a 0.3% month-on-month dip in March.

The year-on-year gain in house prices rebounded to a four-month high of 7.1% after slowing to 5.7% in March from a peak of 7.3% in December, the highest since November 2014.

Business confidence hits two-and-a half-year high

Overall business confidence increased by 14 percentage points to 29%, above the long-term average (28%) for the first time since September 2018 and at a two-and-a-half year high.

Confidence increased across 11 of the UK’s 12 regions and nations and remained steady in Wales; sentiment is the highest in the East Midlands and northern English regions.

Confidence increased across all sectors, and is the highest in manufacturing (40%) and retail (39%), followed by construction (28%) and services (25%).

https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/media/press-releases/2021/lloyds-bank/business-confidence-hits-two-and-a-half-year-high.html

London Stock Exchange Group: Berenberg reiterates buy with a target price of 10,000.0p.

London Stock Exchange group and it reckons it will be able to make £350million in savings by the end of this year following the takeover of data group Refinitiv.

Its shares closed 1 per cent higher, up 76p, to 7554p, but it suffered a bloody nose at its annual meeting.

It will consult investors on chief executive pay after 23 per cent of votes were cast against a motion to raise boss David Schwimmer’s pay by 25 per cent, to £1million.

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