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snige
''This time big business is pushing prices beyond the official inflation rate''
''A bag of sharp sand up 25% in two steps since Dec at Wickes for example.''

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the inflation rate is the inflation rate , derived from a basket of things.
Each individual product or service has it's own pricing level.
Inflation figures are not base on thee cost of a bag of sharp sand from Wickes alone.

Energy costs will eventually work out of the inflation figures.
Trying to dampen demand/wage increases (not above inflation) is the key in the near term.

888
it would be risky if the BOE didn't act further

HU
seems like you are having problems with figures again today - no help from me again as it is not appreciated .

ls
''particularly with a view to forming a decision on whether interest rates should go up at its next policy committee meeting on 4 May, and by how much''

I would have thought that they are 100% going up., and quite likely by 0.5%

We have seen a good recovery from the recent lows

Oak
'' The security on the Chase account worries me a bit .''

Well that is two new current accounts for Chase.
Maybe risking a third of the money on a 5% yielding stock and keeping the rest where it was if you felt it more secure, may have been the better option.

average share price now 20.82p

order in at 46.95

888
''how are they going to address this or bury their heads in the sand.....probably a silly question''

Lloyds don't need all of the depositors money - more a matter of Chase desperately chasing the opening of current accounts.
Until there is more widespread increases in savings rates from established players, Lloyds pushing up savings rates towards what mortgage rates are would be foolish - it would be the tail wagging the dog, or in this case the horse.

NC
Same old story - some new readers

that was opened at 46.947
now closed at 48.007

The reality is that most want the share price to go up sharply and the sooner the better.
I am more relaxed, as I should be with my low average price.

DC1
they are putting 'on a brave face' / defence mechanism.

dc1
you have mentioned 3 people - only they can verify that that want to see a large depreciation in their investment - await their answer in response to you.

your data from this board is what you say are using to back up your claim that

'''half the so called investors in Lloyd's shares want the value of their investments to go down so they can top up''

A bit foolish most would think to extrapolate from a maximum 3 people on here out of many posters that half out of hundreds of thousands of investors in Lloyds want to see a share price crash.

dividends for the last financial year plus the return currently in progress will equate to about a 10% return to shareholders at the current share price

dc1
''half the so called investors in Lloyd's shares want the value of their investments to go down so they can top up''

Where have you got your data from to suggest that hundreds of thousands of investors in Lloyds want their capital value to depreciate?

I suspect it is pure fantasy.
Why do you and people like you resort to fantasy remarks?

for re balancing and re evaluation of portfolios over for institutions.

for re balancing and re evaluation of portfolios over for institutions.

It would be excellent for the lloyds investment plan, but the anxiety levels of a lot of posters on here would go through the roof again with the normal resultant posts.
It is a market , so a number of possible price levels is possible in the near term and the longer term.
I have already made a purchase very recently at about that level, so would have to go further down than that for my interest in another share purchase bundle, but I would most likely trade with more SB's on further falls from here.