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Softer US retail sales, big tech job cuts, skittish bank results, wobbly China and Ukraine escalation mean the Dow is struggling to sustain its Jan rally (for now). Next few weeks of US earnings results will determine H1 direction for the Dow.

Yes, UK rentals now are high risk, high cost, high bureaucracy, high tax, low reward.

With one sweep of a socialist pen, by Tories or Labour, the LLOY share price could easily crash overnight. For example, a windfall tax on rental fat cats fleecing the worker comrades.

Good to see Lloyds is picking all the glamorous parts of Britain for their new rentals.

Looks like a lot of auto-sells, stop-losses and algos at the 50p level. Might take a few attempts to bust thru the ceiling again.

UK is back to the 1970s. The red politics of envy.

Punish the workers. Reward the shirkers.

ISA tax benefits decimated to £100k today... £50k tomorrow... £0 the day after that. We are at the beginning of the end of the ISA.

Income tax raids are ongoing. Asset tax raids have just begun.

Communism is like that unstoppable robot in the Terminator movie. It will never give up. It will never stop spending other people's money.

Lloyds overpays dividends and underinvests in R&D. It's one reason why the shareprice has fallen almost every year and decade since the last century.

The UK trend is now crystal clear... You are no longer in full control of your own assets. The state is coming for your family holiday homes, your private investments, your family inheritance, your ISAs, your family savings, your private pension. The red vampire squid is quietly wrapping its blood funnels around your cash and sucking it out.

What's yours is theirs.

The cycle has only just begun.

Fun fact... JPMorgan has made cumulative profits of roughly $400b this century.

More than the entire annual GDP of Nigeria, Norway, or the Philippines.

The Brexit jobs machine rolls on.

Merkel was a longtime member of the communist party in East Germany under the USSR in the 20th century. Always surprised nobody had a closer look at her Russia-loving policies when she held top office during the 21st century. For example, gleefully sending trillions of Euros down a gas pipeline for the Russia war machine.

In hindsight, we know the NSA and GCHQ tried desperately to hack Merkel's personal smartphone in the 2000s and 2010s... You can see why.

Just had a quick look at II's app rating in an app store... It gets 1.9 stars out of 5.0... App ratings don't get much lower or worse than that.

Rightmove today says the New Year 2023 jump for UK house prices is the biggest January rise since the Covid pandemic. Jan 5th was its 3rd busiest day for valuation requests on record ever in the firm's history.

As predicted, the UK economy and housing market are right now in pretty good shape.

Rightmove today says the New Year 2023 jump for UK house prices is the biggest January rise since the Covid pandemic. Jan 5th was its 3rd busiest day for valuation requests on record ever in the firm's history.

II has been a bit rubbish (and expensive) for years.

Very (very) few sharedealing websites left in the UK anymore that are low-cost and user-friendly. Even the good ones, like T212, have dramatically worsened their user-experience in recent times. The whole industry feels like it has seen better days.

Augmentum's shareprice has plunged -40% and the CEO is obviously trying to talk up his own (fintech) book!

..."I am with Revolution"... Bolshevik or Maoist? ;-)

Revolut are rubbish. Awful app, too many surprise fees, and forex rates no better than other rivals (like Halifax Clarity).

Yup, Virgin Atlantic says its bookings are up +70% YoY in Jan 2023. Even the holiday sector is getting a Brexit boost.

The Royal Family bring in about $3b a year to the UK, and are asset-valued around $100b. They more than pay their way.

Harry's book today in 2023 is selling ~7 times faster worldwide than Michelle Obama's blockbuster book in 2018.

The Queen's laying to rest was the world's 2nd most-watched event worldwide in 2022 (after the 9-month Russia-Ukraine war).

It's fair to say the world likes the UK Royal Family...

The global market is going wild for FTSE Brexit stocks!

FTSE100 is up 1,000 points since just before Halloween.