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UK Supermarkets are locked in a " race to the bottom " on price competition and quality, poor customer service and unhelpful staff if you can actually find anyone, increasing selfish and appalling customer behaviour at checkouts and car parks, exhausting and stressful experience at times.
Suff
Renewed sentiment and fundamentals based on perceived low market sector valuation levels and strong earnings appear to be pointing in the right direction at last for UK banks, chunky daily share buyback volumes will certainly go a long way to underpinning Lloyds share price over the coming months at the very least.
60p will be a very tall order indeed !
Cautious optimism surrounding the current share price level, 50p looks achievable before the inevitable market pull -back in the share price.
Skier
Nevertheless, stiff competition for Lloyds in the mortgage, deposit and credit card business banking sectors.
Bold move by a supposedly mutual building society !
Who will decide which UK listed companies will qualify for the new British ISA status ?
Reducing tax rates on Stamp Duty and Dividends would have been a far better alternative solution for attracting new investors to the London Market.
Cautious optimism surrounding the current share price level, markets will certainly be looking for a tonic from tomorrow's much anticipated spring budget.
US stockmarket up a fifth since october mainly driven by technology stocks, Nasdaq has now gone more than 300 days without a major pullback.
Surely a market correction is coming, the question is when ?
Seany
Royal London Pensions & Investments are currently in advanced talks to buy Scottish Widows £6Bn bulk annuities portfolio, £6Bn is the value of the fund not the actual cash proceeds from the sale, which in any case will probably be retained into SW future business and investment plans.
Investors should take note, dividend yield is important when determining an initial first time investment into a particular stock, however there is a huge difference between a real terms cash dividend and a mathematical formula used to calculate a highy fluctuating daily dividend yield.
Also worth noting, a high increasing dividend yield can also indicate a company may be in financial distress.
LTI
A combination of disposals and cut to the dividend will both be needed to restore investor confidence and address its imposing debt position if the share price is to reach 100p + again in the future.
LTI
Vodafone....... more like a dividend cut to be directed towards reducing debt levels rather than buybacks.
Month -end institutional profit taking !
Livestock
It appears UK investors are also ploughing cash into cryptocurrency at an unprecedented rate as an alternative to the equity market.
Share price holding up remarkably well considering the current motor finance controversy surrounding the bank at present, buybacks in theory should help to underpin the shares over the coming months.
Brixton
50p a bridge to far for the share price to reach, despite a decent set of full year results, momentum build and confidence in the banking sector is still sadly lacking.
Livestock
Lloyds fixed and variable remuneration rates for traders are a lot less by a considerable wide margin compared to traders at other major UK banks.
Dow Jones index outdated and not fit for purpose, far better S&P 500 as a more representative of the US stockmarket and a strong indicator and bellwether of the American economy.
Will this be the day Warren Buffets " Berkshire Hathaway " conglomerate finally joins America's $1 trillion club of market cap companies ?
MPO818
Agree history repeats itself, it was Lloyds who first set the precedent and opened up the floodgates to the PPI mis - selling scandel compensation payments.
Foobar20
Another classic example of willful ignorance by the new breed of compensation seeking UK consumers !