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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Dow Jones index outdated and not fit for purpose, far better S&P 500 as a more representative of the US stockmarket and a strong indicator and bellwether of the American economy.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 !

Gunsup

Geopolitics are now the biggest market risk in 2024, things are turning ugly very fast for Ukraine, with a Russian victory now virtually assured and the UK being dragged slowly but surely into a protracted conflict in the Gulf and wider Middle East will certainly be weighing on investors minds.

Ongoing share buyback programme will provide welcome relief for the share price, the only " fly in the ointment " are those pesky block listed new employee share option schemes we will be visited with at some point in the new financial year.

Dividends and share buybacks moving in the right direction, earnings dragged down by Chinese property sector, expect more of the same from Standard Chartered Bank full year financial reporting results.

Investors need to stop fretting, FCA car finance probe fears are overblown, in a worse case scenario expect years of contested litigation and legal wrangling before the issue is finally resolved.

Solid set of results and largest profit reported by NatWest since 2007 albeit on the back of higher interest rate income, a tad disappointed with the miserly £300m share buyback announced, probably due to fear of market overhang of the shares once the Governments 38% stake in the bank is finally sold back to the market hopefully later this year.