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The practice used to be illegal. With distrust of business running high, last January the government commissioned research to assess how many companies buy back their own shares and why they do it. The conspiracy theory is that buybacks are custom-designed to inflate senior executive pay. Could financial engineering be their real purpose?

https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/comment/2019/01/10/corporate-cannibalism/

Lloyds' investors have seen the bank return to profit but the share price is still in the doldrums.

When Antonio Horta Osorio took over in 2011, Lloyds made a loss of around £260million, but it has swung into a profit of around £4billion.

So why are the shares still languishing? And is it worth small shareholders hanging on?

Lloyds’s stock is being flattened by a large Brexit-shaped elephant sitting on top of the share price.

But it has rebuilt its balance sheet, and PPI claims are also dwindling. Large amounts of cash are heading in the direction of shareholders through buybacks and dividends.

Lloyds is expected to pay investors a dividend yield of 6.5 per cent, far more than you could get in one of the bank’s current accounts, making it pretty attractive for income-seekers.

The bank’s in good shape and it acts as some diversification in a portfolio against more global companies in the FTSE 100.

LAITH KHALAF senior analyst Hargreaves Lansdown

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/article-6582967/amp/How-profit-activists-Pick-shares-companies-ripe-shake-up.html

Stock markets in Europe and the US slipped Friday after several days of gains as investors took a breather in the absence of fresh news on trade talks between Beijing and Washington. investors have been riding a wave of optimism on signs that China and the United States could eventually reach a trade deal — but there has been no concrete news yet, although both sides indicated that talks had been productive.

Ftse100 Falls as Stocks Trade Lower Following Five-Day Rally

The new pump fitted last month just hope they got the right couplings this time and the direction of the pump is right

UK banks 'robust' enough to cope with no-deal Brexit,

In November all of the UK’s major banks passed a beefed up stress test as the Bank of England praised the resilience of the UK financial system.

The seven banks - Nationwide, Santander UK, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Lloyds, Barclays and RBS - had three and a half times the capital ratio than before the global financial crisis

http://www.cityam.com/271437/uk-banks-robust-enough-cope-no-deal-brexit-sp-global-says

I've just bought back in happy days to come.

This time next year we'll be millionaires

U/S and China trade negotiations are going well should see another rise tomorrow. Don't think the 5% rise in share price is down to lloyds results next month

dividend up 7% I can't wait

Lloyds Banking Group – Buy, price target 80p

"We expect another set of uneventful numbers with the bank under good control, managing volumes against price in lending, tough conditions in Other Operating Income and solid credit quality," reckons Napier.

The full-year dividend is seen at 3.3p, up 7% year-on-year, plus a £1.5 billion share buyback, which gives a total capital return of 9% of market cap.

https://www.ii.co.uk/analysis-commentary/uk-banks-buy-2019-ii507490

55p closing price Friday

FTSE 100 closes 45 points up
Optimism over Trump-China trade boosts sentiment
Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all higher
FTSE 100 closed higher Wednesday as US shares gained ground on optimism about China/US trade talks.

The UK blue-chip benchmark added around 45 points at 6,906, while FTSE 250 surged even higher - up nearly 238 points.

David Madden, analyst at CMC Markets UK, said: "Equity markets have rallied on the back of the conclusion of US-China trade talks.

"We were told the negotiations ended on good terms, but we will have to wait a few days before additional announcements are made.

"It was confirmed that China intends to buy more US products, and that has added to the bullish sentiment."

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 130 points at the time of writing, while the S&P 500 is up around 14 points. The tech heavy Nasdaq added around 64 at 6,961.

Can Lloyds share price overcome Brexit fears in 2019?

UBS has picked Lloyds as one of its preferred global banking stocks for 2019, setting a target of 80p a share

https://www.cmcmarkets.com/en-gb/opto/can-lloyds-share-price-overcome-brexit-fears-in-2019

Since the Brexit vote, elitist Remainers have tried to dismiss the demand from 17.4million Brits to leave the EU as a product of lies and irrationality. Gullible voters are said to have swallowed pro-Brexit propaganda from BoJo’s bus and Russian bots. It was ‘fake news’ wot won it, Remainers claim.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/01/08/remoaners-will-fall-for-anything/

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FTSE 100 on a high as US stocks race ahead
14:38 08 Jan 2019
Trade talks between China and the US are said to be going very well, which has lit a fire under US equities

FTSE 100 index up 76 points
US indices rise by more than 1%
Unilever hit by a broker downgrade
2.35pm: US indices open more than 1% higher
According to a tweet from president Trump, trade talks with China are “going very well”.

Investors do not always put a lot of stock in what politicians say but markets seem to be willing to take him at his word, with the result the Footsie, after a subdued start, is now sitting on a 76 point gain at 6,887.

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Brexit isn’t our biggest financial problem — it’s the downturn in China

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/brexit-isn-t-our-biggest-financial-problem-it-s-the-downturn-in-china-a4030646.html

Zoros

1 He is NOT responsible for where the SP
2 It cost him his health
3 he refused his first annual bonus as a consequence.

The boss of Lloyds Bank has sparked fury after he pocketed an eye-watering £2.3m share bonus.

Antonio Horta-Osorio, 49, was handed the sum because he kept the bank’s share price over 73.6p for 30 days - an award that was his own idea.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/money/city-news/lloyds-bank-boss-antonio-horta-osorio-2815447.amp

Lloyds boss, 52, has his pay slashed by £3million after an extra-marital affair with a top academic who bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife (but don't worry - he'll still get £5.5m)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4096236/amp/Lloyds-boss-52-pay-slashed-3million-extra-marital-affair-academic-looks-like-wife-don-t-worry-ll-5-5m.html

Lloyds is cheep as chips at the present share price. Antonio stopped paying a special dividend payment last year and gave the share holders a 7% rise on final divi payment. This year will be the same no special, 7% on divi payment 2bn buyback witch the long time share holder gains from. Another 10, 20, years we all be dead

"""Do you have a female relatives lti? A mother daughter niece cousin, wife sister ?"""

A lot of girls and women like working in the sex industry or selling a service is all part of what makes the world go round