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Fair comment, intense mortgage competition and spreads are putting the squeeze on UK bank operating margins coupled with increased wholesale funding costs for banks, like you say "Property 1" interesting times ahead for the sector.

Eightyeight

American and European military aid, " Too Little, Too Late "

The Russian war machine is rapidly gathering pace, Zelensky must now negotiate a peaceful settlement and conceed the disputed Russian speaking territories of Ukraine to Russia, or risk loosing the entire country to Putin.

Sean

Makes good sense for Nat - West shareholders to participate in the Goverment share sale and compliment their existing share holdings at a discounted rate in the bank, for prospective shareholders maybe not so good, they will need to read the small print of the new share allotment issue, in most cases they will be only be allocated a fraction of shares they originally intended to purchase in the scheme and will not be worth the cost or hassle of holding or selling the shares at a future date.

Mick

Maybe a solution for the future, until then new mass -produced military drone technology and warfare will continue to level the military conflict playing field against overwhelming odds and military superiority for countries like Iran and Ukraine.

The West need to tread carefully, the times are a - changing !

We have entered a new era of David and Goliath warfare clearly demonstrated by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

A single $2million dollar sophisticated American/Western missile against a cheap easily mass -produced $2000 dollar Iranian military drone, a real costly economic conundrum for the Pentagon and the West to consider for the future shape of conventional warfare to come.

JP. Morgan share price currently down over 5% on renewed inflationary pressure and Middle East tensions despite Q1 EPS coming in at $4.44 and beating concensus estimates of $4.17 per share, nevertheless the shares are still up over 45% over the last 12 months.

Measured scale out of trading positions now necessary.

The shares are currently having a good run, makes sense to lock in some profits and reduce the risk of market exposure while leaving some in the pot for further potential trading profits.

LTI

FTSE100 10% + rise......... abysmal performance when compared with its international peers over the corresponding time period.

Skier

Without doubt, poor investor sentiment since the Brexit Referendum and the general UK macro backdrop over the past few years have plunged UK based equities into record discount territory compared to alternative Global stocks.

CaptainS

Barclays share price appears cheap and undervalued and out of favour for far to long now, probably due to the fact its risk - weighted capital intensive investment banking arm has proved to be a real " pandora's box " for the bank over recent years and never fails to disappoint investors time and time again.

Maybe, however business confidence continues to fall across the South West, Midlands and vast swathes of Northern England.

Putin, Starmer and a newly elected Trump, more like an " elephant in the room " for Lloyds shareholders and the Stockmarket , the World is now a very dangerous and uncertain place to live in.

Chatroom

The stockmarket can be an unpredictable beast at the best of times compounded further by the fast approaching end of tax year. Traders will be using a whole array of technical analysis tools and charts trying to determine future entry and exit points for the shares, for myself as always, gut feeling and common sense is the key to trading success.

Chatroom

Share price appears to be taking a breather while traders try to identify new support and resistance levels for the shares.

Hopefully better than expected UK CPI inflation figures released tomorrow Wed 20th March may briefly re - energise the share price march towards the psychological 50p resistance level.

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 !