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Boris put people's lives before profits and Government expenditure, end the lockdown only when safe to do so ! .

livestock, " Virgin Money Buyout " I would think the Competition and Mergers Commision may have different ideas about that particular acquisition bid by Lloyds, if it ever materialised at a future date.

Plenty of value and recovery stocks out there for investors to consider, unfortunately at present Lloyds is not one of them. Anyone who bought into Rolls Royce and easy- Jet on my recommendation as a recovery stock play on the 16th May would be sat on share price gains of 28% and 38% at the close of trading today.

Traditional high street retail banks may be safer today, but a lot less profitable. The days of high interest cash generating profits for these banks are gone and are never coming back. Customers in their droves are transitioning away from traditional high street banking sector to the new fintech sector who do things much more effectively and are not weighed down by regulation and costly operating legacy issues.

Dividends will resume at some point in 2021, at a lower rebased level to previous year payouts.

" choice words " share price reacting accordingly !

UK banks moving into uncharted waters, serious implications for both shareholders and savers. In theory customers could incur a fee for holding a savings account at the bank.

Theosus, The UK economy must take a long hard look at itself. The Government will have to take swift decisive action on fiscal monetary policy and national debt reduction post coronavirus. There is no alternative, tough decisions will have to be made which is likely to involve painful austerity measures and and tax rises. The country simply can not continue printing money and racking up the national debt.

There is nothing for " Free " in this world, UK taxpayers should expect to be presented with " the mother of all budgets " from the chancellor when the coronavirus crisis finally subsides.

The never ending story of epic equity dilution for Lloyds shareholders continues unabated and without question.

Very little profit in it for Lloyds if any, lots of SMEs will simply take advantage of the free interest 12 month loans to a avoid paying full commercial rates of interest on loans they may need at a future date.

With Bank and Building Society savings rates at virtually zero, and many Company dividend payments cancelled, and now the added threat by the Government to scrap the State Pension Triple Lock Guarantee and Concessionary bus passes, we could now see many millions more pensioners suddenly be plunged into the poverty trap, resulting in a marked curtailment of any future consumer lead spending recovery for the UK economy.

Unloved status likley to remain for many months if not years. The full economic impact and effects to the UK economy and lloyds of coronavirus crisis as hardly scratched the surface yet. With seven out of ten businesses and eight million workers currently on Government support, it is estimated 1.5 million workers will have no job to go back to when Government support is finally withdrawn along with many hundreds if not thousands of businesses who will simply go to the wall due to the fact there is no longer any demand for their products or services and social distancing will mean their business models are no longer economically viable to operate.

Pippa , Quite likely the opposite may happen for vast swathes of the population, it may mean a return back to a basics lifestyle with traditional family values and environmental awareness high on the agenda for the many.

Aviation sector may be a good medium recovery play. May be worth taking a peek at Rolls Royce or Easyjet these two companies may well take off and offer up substantial gains to their share prices in the not to distant future. Maybe also worth taking a look BT with the dividend issue now settled, their shares may still have considerable upside to come even have after Friday's 5.43% share price increase .

Rosewall , Agree, Go with the flow, and try and keep one step ahead of the institutional tactics and thinking.

Classic example Friday's 13.28% swing in the share price of ( NEX ) National Express from the previous day's trading. Managed to make a quick 7.75% profit out of the day's 13.28% increase in the share price.

Market manipulation tactics are used increasingly by the large Institutions although they are illegal. but hard to prove. Unfortunately "part and parcel " into today's market computer driven algorithmic trading systems.

happydayz , Wise decision if you are concerned about the mounting debt impairments stacking up at the bank. I am sitting on the sidelines myself and currently holding no UK Banking stocks ,there is no rush or reason to jump back into the banking sector at present , market sentiment towards the sector is going to very unpredictable, over the coming weeks and months ahead.

Markets now beginning to price in an eventual withdrawal of Government support for the transport sector. It will be a long time after the coronavirus crisis as passed the general public will begin to regain confidence to travel on public transport again.

Exciting times indeed ! New markets and opportunities will always arise in times of market turmoil and declining asset prices for speculators and canny investors.

happydayz , Correct if you are referring to Royal Bank of Scotland current value 10P old money, but a world away from the financial position they found themselves in during the 2008 financial crisis.