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Downward share price pressure and uncertainty will remain for some considrable time yet, comfortable trading this share in the 30P - 34p trading range.

More huge high profile job losses announced again today, this time at builders Travis Perkins and vehicle manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover.

Devastating effect on savers and more importantly pension annuites which have now fallen 35% in value since 2009.

( Fear and Greed ) Patience ! must always be the rule of the day no matter which market investors want.

( Lloyds mortgage book ) tentative signs buyers are returning to the housing market in certain parts of the country, against a back -drop of a new intensive mortgage price war amongst lenders. Nationwide Building Society are now offering new mortgages starting at a unbelievable low rate of 0.74%.

Suff, I would imagine most financial assets are worth less in real terms than 21 years ago, It would make little or no economic sense, or create value for shareholders breaking Lloyds Banking Group into seperate businesses. The only winners would be specialist Investment Banks hired to break-up, and float off the 4 group businesses.

Asperger, Most SMEs do not experience any difficulty in raising capital. In today's new financial world there are plenty of other alternatives on offer for raising or borrowing capital other than high street banks. For sometime now SMEs have been reluctant to borrow from high street banks because of their cavalier and often draconian attitude lending requirements imposed on them by the banks.

Rosewell . Agree Lloyds have yet to feel the full financial impact of the Covid -19 crisis and the new (0.01% ) low level interest rate. Woeful Q2 reporting, possibly stretching well into 2021, uncertain times lie ahead for UK banking sector profitability and share price levels.

livestock, Lloyds will eventually recover from the Covid -19 crisis and the severe downtown in the UK economy, albeit at huge financial cost to the bank balance sheet and dividends. What is not clear to investors is the knock -on effect of unprecedented ultra low interest rate level of ( 0.01% ) will have on Lloyds already decaying net interest operating margins ( NIMs) throwing into to doubt future concise profit estimates and earnings forecasts.

Who's delaying purchasing a new vehicle in anticipation of the new Government scrappage - scheme to be announced in the next few weeks worth up to £6000 for a brand new electric vehicle ?

Stuart, ( these are going to fly ) What are you expecting to see from Lloyds Q2 earnings update ?

SpreadTrader , your comment " the new norm " Therien lies the problem, what will the future new normal look like post Covid -19 for Businesses and Investors ?

A lot of investors are going to end up with badly burnt hands again trading this share. Once again, there is no reason or rush for investors to pile their cash back into this stock at present, wait till a clearer picture and positive future direction the UK economy emerges before investing big time in banking stocks again.

A pessimist is a person who considers the glass half full, an optimist considers the glass half empty.
A realist drinks the water !

Calling Asperger ( Houston) we may have a problem !

Agree Wids, Lloyds share price began to go pear - shaped the very day chancellor George Osbourne announced plans to commence the sell - off the Governments stake in RBS at a loss in June 2015, Share prices in both banks never recovered their previous highs thearafter.

Investors should not expect to see a 2009 - 2015 repeat re-run of the share price performance, UK banking landscape has changed considerably since then, profitability levels and fundamentals are now completely different. cleary demonstrated in the steady decline in the share price since 2015.

SeismicCity, To " Infinity and Beyond " is a phrase commonly used in the financial terms to describe current Central Bank QE policy. Quite different from the mathematical geometrical term you was probably thinking about.

Like you say not worth arguing over.

SeismicCity, Central Banks have already surpassed the point of QE Infinity.

Off Subject.
I'm outraged, what right have protestor's and anarchists in Bristol, to tear down the statue of Edward Colston and throw it into the river. My message to them is , you cannot change or re-write history, but you can certainly learn from it.

Asperger add to the " coming week and months list "
Central Banks to run out of ammunition !