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What is the evidence for that?

Inflationary pressure is bound to happen from all the rises to Union income, national insurance increases to employers, increases in CGT to companies etc. Suspect the Bank of England may drop a tad but in effect hold rates high for longer affecting the markets significantly.

Hold your hat for the budget, the effect on shares is likely to be significant. Doubling CGT and dividend tax is going to be a major disincentive to all. Companies may have to think again about how they raise capital.

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Is this drop to do with budget fears and the spectre of higher, not lower interest rates due to inflating prices?

Is this drop to do with budget fears and the spectre of higher, not lower interest rates due to inflating prices?

Sorry my text went haywire. The gist was the CMA and Motley Fool article, not the issue of my wife being bitten by a tick! which somehow got pasted in.

Motley Fool were talking about a problem with competition and markets authority (Do you offer a blood test for Lyme disease and how much is that please? Also, what benefits are there of membership(CMA). What's that about, rubbish I hope but they described it as a risky share!

Don't overlook the Motor Finance issue due to be reviewed in May25. This could be £40Bn headwind for the market and Lloyds is the most exposed of lenders. A Moneyweek article indicated, claims are likely to be upheld.

65p may look like Everest?

Any large dividend payers will have their company heads above the parapet as targets for milking. Tax them hard to redistribute to underpaid Rail/Union/Doctors. I believe dividend tax will likely be more than doubled to match income tax rates, probably coupled with a restriction on how much ISA contributions you can make.

Perhaps they may reflect on what this would do to share investment and therefore growth but my view is it's just too low hanging fruit for the socialist Utopia fund.

Will the dividend be safe after the budget is my question? Gov will see 9% divvy and think a nice fat tax could be applied to insurers who can cover by reducing shareholder pay outs. Increases tax take for funding underpaid Rail Workers and Doctors who vote Labour in return!

Insurers likely to get hit with more taxes in the sector would be my bet? On look at the dividend rates and the chancellor will decide AV can afford it and reduce payout to shareholders - job Done for her?

Bets on this happening with Banks/Insurers? Got to be a slam dunk cert hasn't it?

Few look at the board because the take out is a done deal, unless the ML loss has a bearing? I hope the poor bloke is found soon.

There is also the opportunity loss to consider. You could be getting 5% on the money, buying other shares with a high dividend and fallen price etc. Plus, it's looking like US interest rates will fall meaning a lesser price after conversion. Additionally you have the risk of a deal fall through (unlikely) plus your broker may charge a fee for fx?

It's probably going to be a very long road to recovery, the brand has lost it's shine and that, outside of takeover, is going to be extremely hard to restore. Bailed with a big haircut, worse the stock was in SIPP so can't even offset tax.

Consider yourself in the naughty corner but I don't think any of us like him in charge of energy. The track record is lamentable, appears to do everything badly. Very damaging for UK plc in my opinion.

Balance the gain by selling other loss making equities if you have them. Crystallises the loss but, often you can re-enter after 31 days, sometimes finding a new low. Dealing costs to consider however.

Could be either? My bet is it will pass thru.

If only everyone had your work ethic this country would be in a much better state. Your right about money being the least of your concerns with such a nasty disease. It does assist you to build lasting memories with family, holidays, parties, trips etc and any money you pass down to kids or grandkids might help them get on the housing ladder or start a new career or whatever, for which they should be very grateful.

I think we may have strayed from the original point relating to the effect of extra taxes on Lgen share price? It's been flat or downward for so long. I'm hoping some stability and interest cuts will help but pretty sure extra tax which is inevitable will not. My view is, we will stay on this glide path downwards for sometime yet?

Wealth also depends on where you live, how old you are, what job you did, how long you did it for, whether you saved or blew it and several other factors. The range and amount of taxes levied on all of us who work are astounding, just think about it! When you have already paid tax on most pennies earned, why shouldn't you pass that onto your kids? If you were sensible, invested and saved, to be dictated to at 40% is an insult and complete disincentive.

Then there is the waste of how it is spent, we have all seen the massive increase in benefit culture and worklessness with absolute entitlement. If they fix this culture plus our services etc then maybe things might be different.