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Media speculation or a data leak to the market, if the Proactiveinvestors release of this information and specific numbers quoted turns out to be correct, serious questions may need to be asked by shareholders and answered by Lloyds into how they obtained the financial data and fresh PPI provisions figures days ahead of the official release date.

Despite having a relatively high adjusted return on tangible equity and strong underlying capital generation, long- standing negative views held by investors on Lloyds and other UK focused banks remains unchanged.

Trump tax cuts and the unprecedented boom in the American shale oil and gas industry will have contributed significantly to the latest GDP figures.

A mandatory single basic savings rate paying a fair rate of interest for all longstanding customers could also be beneficial for the banks in terms of customer retention levels and account switching, saving the banks costly administration charges.

THEHURRICANE Lloyds and UBS between them have made a complete Dog's Dinner of the current share buy programme. UBS for their aggressive daily willy - nilly buy back approach to the purchase of the shares irrespective of volume and price, and Lloyds for their ill-timed issuance of 415 million extra shares for the Lloyds bonus and incentive plan.

LastCall I am not a fan of short-selling stock. The real risk is your loss is potentially limitless. The real winners of short-selling are the brokers who take your fee and Hedge Fund managers who dont pay for their mistake with their own money.

Lloyds have set a ethnic diversity target of 8% for senior management postions done by people from an ethnic minority background by 2020.

1st August Half Year Results
9th August Ex -Dividend Date
28th September Payment Date
25th October Q3 Interim Management Statement.

Berenburg Bank are a privately owned bank who primarily operate in niche banking operations and are now skewed towards investment banking and capital market transactions, and are still very much on a steep learning curve when it comes to valuation and analysing UK retail banking business models.

Young inexperienced sell - side analysts let of the leash .

Wids Corporate insider abuse and practice a real grey area, hard to prove what is legal and what is illegal, it will always remain part and parcel of the stockmarket

LastCall Trump tax cuts have led to a spate of company share buy backs and have now created a corporate climate in America for wealth extraction (Shareholders) at the expense of wealth creation for the American taxpayer.

livestock We will see how cheap the shares are when the Brexit process reaches its final conclusion.

Asperger Looks like UBS read my post this morning.

longtimeinvestor The share buy back programme at current buyback rates is now due for completion sometime in August, roughly six months ahead of schedule. I personally believe UBS have been to aggressive in its accelerated daily share repurchase programme, irrespective to both price and quantity of shares repurchased. Investors may soon want to question the merits of the strategic share buy back plan laid out by Lloyds and UBS.

I personally believe UBS have been to aggressive

Positive start to early trading for UK banks. UBS no share buybacks required today thank you.

Karv1 Unsecured short-term debt instuments issued by the bank in the form of preference shares and capital notes. Continuing and discontinued operations are segments and liabilities on a income statement that are attributable and reportable to the bank balance sheet.

Mortgage profit margins and a high quality loan book, not market share what really counts.

Expected interest rate rise for August now very doubtful.

Graeme Evans another freelance media journalist and share blogger who is probably only trying to ramp up the price of his own shareholding in the bank.

Mick, Perceived Brexit fears and the uncertainty around it are the reasons why Brexit continues to weigh heavily on UK listed bank stocks rather than the actual final Brexit deal itself.

Snige Your comment " the last thing Lloyds BOD would want is the SP rising to fast " I would think the BODs immediate concern and priority is to stop the SP from falling back into Berenberg territory.

Agree, Financial growth prospects for the European Banking Sector varie's markedly, capital levels and bank profitability continues to build for some, but for others especially in Spain and Italy are still in dire need of a balance sheet clean up.