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Withholding tax on dividends balances the tax rate out. They dont like individuals holding shares in ireland, or the netherlands for that matter.

Are you living in the past?

AI will protect the economy. Skipton building society is managed by barclays who run all the back office and product offerings. Skipton is nothing more than a contractor.

Healthy dose of pessimism chid. Can you explain why santander has shot up despite spanish government taking a tax charge on banks?

Sorry mach, i forgot it takes you hundreds of posts to make a point (less).

Mach. Did prebrexit environment save twitter from being taken over earlier and has post brexit regulation saved uk twitter staff?

History shows conglomerates rarely price the full value of their combined parts fairly in the share price. Lloyds Banking Group should sell halifax.

Socialists who can't get over god being an accountant. Bulgarians running the imf meddling in uk politics. What acronyme can we devise for leaving the imf. (Ps lloyds is great).

Rishi sunak would love us to get more dividends. More tax receipts. I dont mind paying more tax, im already poor.

Despite interest rates here in uk going up by more than 100%, the profit is not going to rocket as a result. My increase per month is less than .40p. I guess the utilities and NI will gobble up any spare cash i might have.

Interest rate cut in china ... perhaps. Sneezes from both sides of the world leave middle earth with a runny nose. Dyor.

1 step forward, followed by 2 steps back. Any one know what the real p/e ratio is. Google 73.88, hl 7.98, stock exchange 91.34 and this site 8.37.

"until the end of 2020 we will undertake no quarterly or interim dividend payments, accrual of dividends, or share
buybacks on ordinary shares in order to improve further our capacity to serve the needs of businesses and households"

Bumper div next? Maybe not but look forward to a consolidation announcement.

Airbus is already an example. You have to "opt in" if you want divs. Many countries have withholding taxes on divs making it uneconomical to hold them for just for divs. That is what I mean by country specific.

The future of dividend policy will be country specific. Dont expect profits from brazil to be paid to uk shareholders and visaversa. If you want to hold santander shares in another country expect a tax or regulatory paperwork hurdles. Prefer the tax option personally.

It seems theres alot of excitement on this board of recent. I speculate a consolidation is on the way. 100:1?

A1. I like your comparisons in the fantasy portfolio. Regrettably it proves that keeping cash and not investing at all is just as profitable, even more so now dividends are off the table. If the housing market tanks (not going to happen imo) and people decide shares are the best place for capital growth, then maybe the stock market will grow in real terms. In the meantime stay lucky.

My crystal ball says "lloyds cancels dividend to fund purchase of deutsche bank". It also told me to buy carillion and thomas cook.

Or short a share? Though BA. does pay a dividend that isnt pid taxed.

This is not a surgery. Its a low liquidity property company. Like the ones woodford invested in. Low debt admittedly.