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Doing well today!

"The most followed narrative sees Lloyds Banking Group’s fair value at about £1.11 per share, compared with the last close of £0.9044, and ties that gap to specific earnings and cash flow assumptions"

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https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/assessing-lloyds-banking-group-lse-050410681.html

good news that ships bearing the ****stani flag will now be allowed to pass by iran.

Apperently, airlines cutting flights in middle east....

15% of global trade they can block!

114 dollars a barrel folks!

Houthis kicking off and expected to close the Bab el-Mendeb Strait, a key shipping channel linking the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea, which will block an additional 15% of global trade.

Great to have you back Asperger.

Big falls in markets next week owing to the ongoing escalating situation in the middle east.

Would either of those be a good way of describing government taxation, in all its various forms?

Further drop in lloyds!

Reports suggest that Japan is in talks to buy oil from Iran using Chinese yuan instead of the US dollar. This is a big shift because most global oil trade has always been done in dollars, known as the petrodollar system.

"France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 and 40 per cent of Gulf refining capacity has been damaged or destroyed by Iran's retaliatory strikes, leaving a shortage of 11 million barrels a day on global oil markets. Lescure warned it could take up to three years to restore damaged facilities, and several months to restart those that were urgently shut down."

This is becoming very serious folks! If job public had any idea how this is going to impact the cost of living, they would be out protesting in the street. Equity investors are generally better informed about what drives the global economy.

Very sobering times we live in....

https://f24.my/Bp9x

Up 5% folks and lloyds down.

Investors getting nervous going into the weekend...

I think and unfortunately we'll have more action this weekend, when the markets are closed.

Low 80's for lloyds next week, I suspect!

Divi-Collector, I put 88 on filter, as he doesn't answer question. He just shares his 'wisdom' with the world, so very much a monologue from him...

Lloyds continuing to drop!

Electric military vehicle full of lithium batteries will burn very well!

"UK banks should snap up their European rivals"

"Major UK banks should be ready to join in a round of consolidation in European banking. The British economy is stagnant, competition from challenger app-based banks is intense, and the government is determined to tax businesses out of existence. A major takeover of a European bank would put each of them on the global stage, and if they got it right, could power their profits for a decade or more."

"All the major British banks have been racking up huge profits. Lloyds made £6.7 billion last year, a 12% increase on a year earlier; Barclays made more than £9 billion, a 13% rise; while NatWest, now finally fully private again, made £7.7 billion, an increase of more than 24%."

The article is an interesting read folks.

https://moneyweek.com/investments/bank-stocks/uk-banks-should-buy-european-rivals

"Iraq declares force majeure on foreign-operated oilfields over Hormuz disruption, sources say"

Let's see where this land the oil price!

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iraq-declares-force-majeure-foreign-operated-oilfields-over-hormuz-disruption-2026-03-20/