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Gray, sure Cyprus has a nice climate, but its horrendously more expensive than Spain. Also longer flight time from UK. At least they drive on the correct side of the road there!

Troublesome, he foolishly squandered his money on a timeshare there and now he's roped into it for life!

Gray, when do you plan to move to Spain?

Absolutely agree troublesome, lloyds recognise the ethnic, cultural and religious character of British society today. We have evolved as a nation into something very diverse that should be celebrated!

Asperger, looks like TFE has it, but well done yourself on coming second.

A absolutely amazing year for bank shares was 2025!

I had it recently with 3i, where they were hovering around 4400 and then overnight it dropped to 3200, but unfortunately they didn't recover.

But I've only 1/10 in 3i compared to what I have in the banks and I still well ahead on 3i (and the banks!).

On lloyds again, we are currently still hovering just below the magic £1.00 mark, so a last minute Santa rally would be just the ticket to end 2025!

Apologies gray, hope I didn't rise your blood pressure too much!

Lloyds just hit 77.40p but political trolls like gateboy don't care, as they don't have any shares and are here to simply disrupt the forum with right wing politics!

Folks!

"Banking stocks are on a roll but will the re-rating continue in 2026? A City firm has backed UK lenders to shine, with one name in particular set to thrive."

"UK banks have been backed to outperform European peers after a City firm named Barclays, as one of its top picks and forecast further upside for Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group.

Our mate Rachel is making this all possible and creating the environment for the banks to thrive!

https://www.ii.co.uk/analysis-commentary/will-banks-continue-their-strong-run-2026-ii537613

Not done the sums, Mr Math on the aftermath of the demerger, but around covid time I spalshed out on a range of shares and a few of them have gone up by orders of magnitude, but ULVR has just plodded on at about the same share price.

Not overly impressed with ULVR!

Yes Winstanley, the woman was a complete basket case!

And she still thinks she is being unfairly held to account for her actions and saying she did the right thing...

UK and EU rate decisons imminent...

I think it is giving me indigestion!

Will lloyds and the banks fly or will they tank?

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ftse-100-live-stocks-bank-of-england-european-central-bank-interest-rate-decisions-091948068.html

And what is worse is ifont see anything that is going to change that in 2026!

I expect it will hit 17.00 in a late Santa surge!

Folks we have a mean end of year share price prediction of 470.7892p

WINNERS*

- Mortgage holders

- Pensioners

- Gold investors

LOSERS

- Savers

- Landlords

- HENRYs

- People with high property wealth

* For some reason they have left out equity investors...

https://www.fidelity.co.uk/markets-insights/personal-finance/personal-finance/the-winners-and-losers-of-2025-in-charts/

I am most disappointed!

"The FTSE 100 (^FTSE) jumped and European stocks mostly made gains on Wednesday as UK inflation slowed more than expected last month amid easing food prices. It marked the third month that inflation has fallen."

Now we just need an interest rate cut and it bosh, FTSE blasts through 10,000 and lloyds goes through £1.

Lads, Rachel is weaving magic with the state finances!

Yes, 10k seems imminent!