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LLOY share price is being held down by:

1. Banks out of fashion on Wall Street
2. UK barreling into recession
3. Runaway inflation and interest rates making UK mortgages unaffordable
4. Cheap fintech and bottomless US banks taking business (e.g. Chase)
5. Lefty pressure groups using banks as a cash machine every year or two (e.g. Amigo)
6. Windfall tax threat from red Tories
7. Results Q1 were below-par

Keeping an eye on this one.

A placing for 1p would be great.

As predicted, Russia turning the screw on Finland. Russia is reported as saying it will cut electricity to Finland from this weekend. If the lights go out, the prof will need his torch to find those rainbow sparklers.

To be fair, the BoE just follows the Fed.

The UK economy is really now a secondary issue for the BoE.

UK voted -- democratically -- to leave the EU in 2016.

May tried to bully the UK (via backstop) back into the EU in 2017.

Boris stopped the backstop in 2019.

UK left the EU in 2021.

If you'd "invested" your £184m lotto win in LLOY in Jan 2022, you'd have lost nearly £50m in 5 months...

Latest computer simulations conclude 50-80% of the world's population would survive a full nuclear war and winter that exploded every missile worldwide in 1 month. MAD is thus a bit of a myth, and was really just an early propaganda tool to make everyone think twice in the Cold War. Russia will know this. Poo Tin has a safe space in Siberia. Hopefully, he does not like a gamble.

As predicted, Finland has applied to join NATO.
And Russia is responding with military threats and to "neutralize" matters.

Any Russian buildup near the KDR "mine" on the Finland-Russia border this summer is going to slam the share price.

The 2022 tech wreck is already as bad as 2020.

Nasdaq has now collapsed -30% in 6 months in 2022.

Nasdaq collapsed -30% in 1 month in 2020.

Looks like the UK is now already in recession.

The Wail is reporting tonight that the red Tories will wallop successful UK oil and gas companies with a massive windfall tax in the multibillions, possibly as soon as Q3 2022.

The UK state has developed a relentless thirst for tax and waste.

Taxes never stop going up.

It doesn't take a genius to work out... Once the oil-gas cash is in the door, the red Tories will go hunting to punish other capitalist exploiters of the West.

Like the banks...

Around 90-95% of UK mortgages are on a fixed rate.

PB do a lot of short-notice placings. Suspect it is to minimize protests from existing shareholders at firms who lose out. By the time most find out, it's too late, it's done.

Russia has only lost 1% of its 3m available troops. They still have plenty left for the western flank.

The Russians don't need to take the whole of Finland to send a message. Just grab a slice, like (say) North Karelia.

Russia has almost completely cut-off Ukraine from the Black Path and Black Sea, two of the world's most valuable trade lanes. Even a "failed" invasion has caused huge pain for Ukraine.

It's not hard to (sadly) see a repeat of Ukraine happening in Finland (or Sweden). Russia is a humiliated bear, and goodness knows what comes next.

Won't be much digging for rainbow diamonds if 500k Russians and 1000s of hypersonic missiles come piling across the Finnish border.

Could even mean the need for yet another placing, for KDR to pause "work" for weeks, months or years.

Finland looks set to join NATO by the end of May.

If Russia goes mad, it will pressure the KDR share price.

The prof won't be getting much sunbathing done in the Finnish forest this year ;-)

Dow futures were up +300 points, now down -100.

From getting the PB email to offer-closure gave about 20mins to decide on a yes or no.

It quickly became a no.

The share price has collapsed a staggering -97% from its peak. Momentum is poor.

A quick scan of RNSs shows a fondness for dilution. That never ends well.

A profitable business making a huge £20m placing looks excessive. A healthy firm making unhealthy dilution.

The stock has a wide spread and low liquidity.

One concludes the company is not shareholder-friendly.

Ahm oot.

This just popped up on the PB app.

Not sure why a profitable business needs to place £15m. Bit of a red flag.

The worst of UK and US core inflation looks to be over already.

Petrol is down 5-10% from the peak, for example.

No big players are manipulating the LLOY share price.

LLOY is just an aging bank brand in a shrinking finance sector on a dying stockmarket in a stagflating economy with oppressive bureaucracy sliding into a vortex of Greece-like decline.

Surprise growth is hard to find for LLOY, Whitehall wants to regulate it to death, while liquidity on the London stockmarket is drying up.

The trend is not your friend.