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IDoji, refreshing to hear your perspective, which reflects the reality of the situation, as opposed to the nonsense from others on here suggesting that the US is in control and Iran is on the back foot!

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"What Lloyds Banking Group stock’s recent move means for investors?"

"The most followed narrative currently values Lloyds at about £1.13 per share, a touch above the last close around £1.05, which frames the recent rally in context."

"Operational leverage from cost discipline, ongoing investment in AI and data analytics, and successful execution of cross-division growth initiatives, particularly in bancassurance, insurance, and fee-generating capital-lite businesses, are expected to support strong capital generation, improved net margins, and resilient ROE as Lloyds transitions more of its earnings base away from low-growth, commoditized lending activities."

'88' is a white supremacist numerical code for "Heil Hitler." H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so 88 = HH = Heil Hitler.

Gray, good evening, I focus on what impacts lloyds Share price most, so I ignore the right wing spin about our PM.

Howver, "looking a victory for Trump ATM.. Iran now beginning to realise they have run out options have will have to capitulate on all fronts.....", is simply creating a manufactured narrative and that is the issue!

Unfortunately, 88 is clueless about the reality in the middle east! Anyone who bases investment decisions based on what he says is very likely to lose a lot of money!

What deluded fool started this thread, with this title? It goes to show how gullible some people are!

Basil1990, yes that is the markets making a risk based judgement and that is what sets the share price. Lloyds rise into the weekend bodes well! Let's hope the human suffering comes to an end, across the middle east, irrespective of political outlook.

Abot some people posting their opinions on here about 'ongoing events' and using that as a basis for their investment decisions!

Sectorbreakdown, you utterly misunderstand the choreography. I sincerely hope you don't make any investment decisions based on your misreading of the situation!

ATB

Gary, that would be a big corner! 90 million people and a country the size of Europe!

Folks!

We are on a roll here!

Unusually, loyds up on Friday afternoon!

The weakest link is what is happening in south Lebanon.

We must watch this situation very closely, as it will be very challenging to sustain a peace there.

There have already have been a number of couple of incidents in this region.

Again, we have a pause in the markets and Lloyds over the weekend.

Lloyds is marginally down today and I expect no big shift this afternoon, so Lloyds continue to be held captive to events beyond its control.

I recommend topping up of jerry cans with fuel, tins of beans, candles, tinned foods, batteries, spare medication etc., when the going is good as very soon we may be in a fuel and food shortage situation with the supermarket shelves cleared and widespread shortages.

"will be given access in the next week to a powerful AI tool that was deemed too dangerous to be released to the public, as a series of senior finance figures warned over its impact.

Anthropic, which has so far limited the release of the new model to a small clutch of primarily US businesses, including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, said it would expand that to UK financial institutions."

AI is going to have a big impact on UK banking!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/finance-leaders-warn-over-claude-mythos-as-uk-banks-prepare-to-use-powerful-anthropic-ai-tool

Very muted response from the markets.......

Folks, for the moment we have an end to the human suffering and loss of life, which everyone must agree is a good thing!

Question is now is how the markets will react???

I expect Lloyds to take off and the markets to rebound!

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/17/iran-war-live-ceasefire-starts-in-lebanon-as-trump-says-tehran-deal-close

Phrases like that do make me nervous, when it comes from the likes of Pete Hegseth.

But then taking another view, it all just huffing and puffing!

The way I see it they want out ASAP and then markets will settle themselves and we'll have Lloyds breaching its previous recent high of 114p.

That'll be the end of this forum!

Any new forum where those interested in discussing this stock can go?

Folks!

Excellent Gary!