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Gray, was a smart move by Iran to go for a multiphase agreement. He has his off ramp now. Expect much huffing and puffing from Trump, an agreement, then US declares victory and walks away. I keep telling you, Iran has the auSA in a vice like grip!

Folks, lloyds to rocket to 120p when the agreement has been achieved!

Break open the champagne!

Gray, important barometers here are the stock market and oil. The stock markets are holding up well, but it is oil being up that is precipitating an extended problem for the global economy. We will have to differ here on who is ahead, just let's wait and watch and see who blinks first!

Appears obvious the Americans are not going for the military option, or it would have happened already.

As stated last week we are in a checkmate situation, with Iran holding a vice like grip on the Americans, who can't go backwards, forwards and no off ramp in sight.

I expect lloyds to continue to hover around 100p!

Quite often sheep mentality applies and where one lone wolf attack has now been widely reported, this could turn into a movement and we end up with lots of copycat attacks on Trump.

I think it has to be a very nervous time for investors and the whole house of cards could come tumbling down at any moment!

"Major high street lenders including Nationwide, Lloyds, HSBC and NatWest will be obliged to comply with new de-banking regulations from 28 April, affording customers greater protection when their accounts are closed."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2198572/major-rule-change-nationwide-lloyds/amp

I'll pull some strings in the party tonight to see if we can torpedo the visit!

Charles now has an excuse to cancel the Royal visit to the USA and he should now do so!

It appears panic ensued to get Trump and his sidekick to safety.

Personally speaking, I know what my desired outcome would have been!

Markets would have rocketed, with lloyds 120p+

It's the utter hypocrisy of these right wing nutters! Concern over the plight of the Iranian people suddenly cooked up by them from nowhere to justify an illegal war, but no concern about what is happening in Gaza!

On to other matters, it will be interesting to see what the narkets do tomorrow. I am getting concerned that we are in a stalemate and market confidence is simply going to ebb away over the coming weeks and lloyds will end up in the 80s, or worse!

Well troublesome, there were some right wing nutters on here like 88 all keen to get involved in the war and to send our troops to their death to an illegal war, on this forum.

Morning Asperger, really I'm just thinking of the national interest here.

Thinking of the common good and the working man, we should cancel them both to conserve fuel stocks and reschedule then to a later date when fuel is less affordable and those who have use their own transport don't pay the penalty premium prices at the pumps in order to vote.

It makes perfect sense to me!

Is what we should all now be dong now. Thanks to the folly of the orange buffoon, top officials in our government are holding twice weekly meeting drawing up contingency plans.

This is not what we should need to consider on a Sunday morning, but this is where we're at, as the whole supply chain ecosystem is a finely tuned precision machine that is now misfiring badly, with the prospect of getting worse.

Beans, toilet roll, freeze chicken and pork, batteries, fill Jerry cans with fuel etc!

I was thinking perhaps we should call off the May elections also!

It appears lads.

Perhaps the yanks copped on there is oil around there.

Time to bring back Thacher from the afterlife!

And recently weekends have had very troubling developments, so let's hope this is a quiet one!

Gray, you quoted the Iranian army and the IRGC clashes, so the onus is on you to substantiate the story with references.

"Lloyds Expands AI Push As Shares Trade Below Analyst Value Estimate"

"Lloyds Banking Group is piloting an AI investment tool for customers, the first such trial by a UK lender."

Folks if you're already retired, you're less likely to notice, but AI is expanding massively across the world we live in. I've come across it multiple times this week speaking to different organisations and it's going to radically change the way they do things. You won't see it happening, only the consequences of its use. It will cause job losses, increased efficiency and profits, but its real strength is its massive data processing ability, intelligent analysis and predictive abilities! There is a new technology revolution taking place before our eyes folks!

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/lloyds-expands-ai-push-shares-030747791.html

OK, Gray this is the problem with the bits you've quoting, it's US spin. I can't find any reference to the Iranian army and the IRGC clashes, can you provide some? So Trump come also and starts an illegal war, causes the Straits of Hormuz to be blocked by Iran and then blockades a blockade. A really smart guy...!

Each side is testing the pain threshold of the other party and by the way when they took out the older leaders , younger more radical leaders took their place.

The USA can neither bomb nor invade a country the size of Europe with a population of 90 million people and a 7000 year history of survival as a nation into submission and that is the real point here.

Trump seeks ‘everlasting’ Iran deal. But, it is also being reported that Trump is simply using the so called 'ceasefire' to further build up US forces in the region. What is clear is the USA miscalculated yet again, when they expected Iran to capitulate and join a new set of talks, for which the US delegates were ready to board flight and Iran snubbed the US efforts to new talks. The real issue is the difference between what the two sides regard as a fair settlement and the two sides remains miles apart! We are in a checkmate situation, with the blockade that Iran has imposed on the Straits of Hormuz! This is an economic stranglehold on the global economy and the USA is being blamed for starting the war. The USA has backed itself into a corner and its only solution is escalation, which is not a solution.

Bottom line is that the USA has no way out!

Expected lloyds and the markets to behave like a wounded animal: deeply scarred, mortality wounded and living from moment to moment trying to survive this whole calamitous episode!