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Seany

Sainsbury's one of many challenger banks to fall victim of intense mortgage competition and squeezed margins within the UK banking sector.

Keep to what you no best................. Selling Food !

Thames Water and its debt liabilities will eventually be handed back to the UK taxpayer on a silver platter, privatising the nations supply was never going work.

Plenty on pensioners up here in Cumbria asset rich, but cash poor and " dare i say it " living on pension credit payments.

UK public finances are in an unholy mess, somebody is going to have to foot the bill for 14 years of Tory mismanagement of the economy.

Labour will force banks to help homeowners struggling with unaffordable mortgage payments and arrears.

On a brighter note, London has regained its crown as Europe's largest stock market by market cap just two years after losing it to Paris.

The NHS will not be fixed over night or possibly for many years to come, until such time the private health sector in partnership with the NHS will play a key role in helping to deliver the nations healthcare services.

Starmer will make full use of the private health sector to tackle the massive NHS backlog and bring waiting list numbers down ........ a definite vote winner for Labour !

Tories are staring into the abyss, will Nigel Farage and Reform offer them a last minute deal and an election pact to avoid a total wipeout at the polls ?

StickyToffeePudd

Irrespective of whoever take the realms of power on July 5th, there will be no magic money tree this time round, voters must now face up to the reality of the UKs precarious public finances.

Labour have promised to equalise the tax treatment on dividend income AND capital gains to bring it in line with normal taxable income.

Shares possibly now in pull - back mode after recent gains, maybe a wise decision to take profits in this pre - election period of heightened sensitivity and uncertainty for financial markets and traders.

All eyes firmly fixed on ( 5th July ) election result followed by Lloyds half year reporting ( 25th July ), investors will be hoping to avoid a repeat of Lloyds Q1 2024 results where pre - tax profits fell 28% on margin squeeze resulting from intense mortgage and savings competition and should give a clear indication to the future direction of the share price.

Pre - election equity rally.

Investors need to stay extremely cautious at current share price levels, markets may still have a nasty surprise in store ?

Last minute emergence of the Labour left could prove to be the achilles heel for Starmer, this General Election is by no means a " done deal " for Labour Party yet !

Equity share dilution resulting from the 2008 financial crash has not been addressed sufficiently yet.

Free float number of existing shares trading on the open market is still far to high increasing the risk of market volatility for the stock and at times makes uncomfortable reading for a lot of investors and pension fund managers.

Trying to hard to predict the unpredictable, can seriously damage your wealth.

Expect they will be many twist and turns for the share price that will come investors way before and after the General Election result reaches it's final conclusion.

Nagging fears persisting over rising Treasury yields and timing of FED interest rate cuts are probably the main reasons for the fall, more economic data out friday to how the US economy and inflation is currently performing.

STP

I think you will find Global bond markets will strongly disagree with you.

One of the hallmarks of a thriving economy is a strong and stable currency especially in times of economic uncertainty, geopolitical unrest and conflict, also reduces the inflationary pressure on imported goods into the UK.

Fell for the sixth consecutive trading session, it's worse loosing streak since august 2023, on a brighter note sterling hit it's highest point against euro since august 2022.

Almost FTSE100 reshuffle time again............ who's in and who's out ?

Supermarket dominance of the forecourts, business rates, energy costs, minimum wage and theft have all contributed to the high cost of diesel in the UK.

Labour likely to adopt a carrot and stick approach in the form of increased lending to UK business and households at the expense of reduced bankers bonuses and dividend restraint if the banking sector are to avoid any new draconian taxes levied against them on future profits.