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"Nonsense, LTH are all under water." The all knowing SNP freak Gazzleberry has spoken.

Can you not see how ridiculous that statement is? 🤣

Stay warm up there hardup! It's only a couple of years away.

"Humza Yousaf faces heat pump rebellion over ‘exorbitant’ bills

A cross-party group of MSPs are demanding Scottish ministers drop plans to make householders in rural areas to replace their fossil fuel run boilers with heat pumps from 2025.

Calls have been made to delay deadline dates for EPC targets and better funding support for rural property owners.

The threat to Scotland’s rural housing supply has been made worse by “totally unrealistic” energy targets set by the Scottish Government aided by the Greens, rural property experts have claimed."

"In the 1990s early 2000s Bank shares done very well under a Labour Government"

Remind us how they finished under a labour government Suf.

Given enough time they'll destroy all wealth creation.

"Banks in Britain may be free to award even bigger bonuses from January but new pay perks are unlikely to help the country's financial industry outshine its rivals because top bankers are wary of swapping handsome fixed salaries for uncertain rewards.

Scrapping the near decade-old cap on bonuses is a core plank of Britain's post-Brexit easing of rules the European Union adopted to stop excessive risk-taking after taxpayers had to bail out banks in the global financial crisis.

The outcome of a Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority consultation on the proposal to remove curbs on bonuses is due in coming weeks. It would apply to payouts earned over 2024, though bringing forward the start to cover bonuses for 2023 is an option.

Ministers and regulators hope this will attract more top-level bankers to Britain, and bolster London's appeal as an international capital hub as it competes with New York, Singapore, and EU financial centres such as Paris and Frankfurt."

Reuters.

That maybe the case now MPO818, but previously the shareholders had to endure a five year decline when Iain Conn was at the wheel, probably not all his fault but an absolute disaster.

Since he went, we've been on a roll. Happy days, but I expect I'll be out fully before Starmer gets the keys to no 10. CNA may even become GB energy, who knows? I wouldn't trust that lot, they're not two faced they're fifty faced.

"If I’d bought £10k of Lloyds shares in the stock market crash, I’d have this much now. (£10k to £19k).

Well, from a share price that dipped below 25p, I’d be sitting on a 71% gain. Oh, and dividends would have taken my profit up to 90%.

What we’re looking at here is a stock on a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of under six, less than half the FTSE 100 average. And it looks set to deliver a 6% dividend yield.

Oh, and Lloyds is buying back its own shares too, which shows confidence from the board."

Many here bought around 24p back then when the gap closed, how many still have them? I've still got mine.

Re: Red flag report..

Tongue in cheek emoji required there Gunsup. 😜

"The most miserable stock analysts in the world live in London." - "there is an overwhelmingly pessimistic mood of doom, gloom and misery"

There sure is s1, and a lot of them (non shareholders) post on the Lloyds BB. I wonder who they are? 🤔

Apologies if posted before.

'risks weakening Italy's banks'😂

"The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to send a letter to Italy raising objections about the government's windfall tax on banks' profits, the Corriere della Sera daily wrote on Friday.

The letter will criticise the fact Rome announced the tax last week without previously informing either the Bank of Italy or the ECB as it is supposed to do under EU rules, the newspaper wrote, without citing sources.

A spokesman for the ECB told Reuters on Friday its President Christine Lagarde has received an official request for consultation over the measure from Italy's economy minister Giancarlo Giorgetti and the ECB will publish its opinion "in due course."

According to the Corriere della Sera article, the ECB believes the tax risks weakening Italy's banks and its economy in general, concerns it will raise in the letter to be sent within "a couple of weeks" at the latest.

Recent opinions issued by the ECB regarding similar taxes on banks in Lithuania and Spain warned that they could erode lenders' resilience to economic shocks and reduce their ability to provide credit."

Reuters.

There's still plenty on the basic state pension £156 not the new one of £203, probably a bigger scandal. But whatever your circumstances you couldn't live on the basic pension that's why we have pension credits.

I read that the average pension savings is something in the region of £50 to £70k. If that's true there's going to be a lot of retiree's struggling later on.

This will make for a miserable life for many.

Still they can always spread the misery by posting on the Lloyds BB. 🤔 (you know who you are).

I'm beginning to think that DT is also Scottish just like his fellow countryman (one half of the chuckle berry duo) who somehow just can't bring himself to say anything positive.

The constant spreading of misery reflects on the character of the poster

Miserable gits comes to mind. You're promoting the label, others are just responding.

SNP leader Hamza Useless, on the Lionesses.

"This might be one of the quickest U-turns in modern political history. He goes from saying he’ll be “watching the game for sure” to “I’m not even sure if I’ll be able to watch the game” within the space of about ten seconds."

A decisive leader only idiots would vote for, what a prat.

https://youtu.be/s0-CdZj9Jd8

Here's something that has really happened DaftT not the continued copy and paste speculation that you keep posting.

Chinese real estate giant

Evergrande Group just filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection.

I see Gazzleberry is still pretending he can't remember names of people he's filtered. Usually he's moaning about some green lines or something.

"For first time since 2021, stoking concerns about economy."

You just gotta laugh at the doomsters here, trawling all day every day for the merest morsel of negative news articles. Especially with their tunnel vision, not reading the articles, only headline grabbing.

Here's the headline….

"Japan exports fall for first time since 2021"

Here's the reality….

Japanese exports fell 0.3% in July year-on-year. economists expected a drop of 0.8% so not so severe as expected.

And get this, the previous month saw a rise of 1.5%. So all in all a two month rise of 1.2%.

No one can foresee a sharp downturn, but if it were to happen it won't be because of the ongoing release of monthly/yearly figures.

If there were any real concerns about any economy and the actual figures released really reflected a serious downturn the news would already be out there.

If peeps are going to post about a forthcoming Armageddon, best get real because we will all know when it happens and by that time it will be too late.

Then you'll get the inevitable 'I told you.'

At the time of writing Lloyds SP is up by 0.8%, so it's positively booming. Get real!

I see Putin is panicking watching the ruble drop through the floor, that's probably something he can't control, no matter what rates they set.

Just watching those Matilda's waltz off into the distance. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽

Yeah, there's too many UK doubters, especially on the Lloyds BB.

I just wonder what their version of utopia will be...... probably doesn't exist.

First Germany, now the Netherlands. The Eurozone’s fifth largest economy unexpectedly fell into recession today, shrinking 0.3% on a quarterly basis in Q2. It follows a 0.4% contraction from January to March. Consumer spending fell 1.6%. Meanwhile the UK economy grew by 0.2%

"Tfe, hahaha, you’re having a joke aren’t you"

Not at all Ww, SP increased 40% in 5 months, and I was late to the upturn. I wouldn't call that a joke, would you?

Approximate same timeline for Lloyds, minus 20%.

As always, it's all about timing.

Lol 😂 indeed.

Ww, "market is really poor"

A negative day for the market, thank goodness for the bombed out, washed up, finished, retail sector…. MKS up over 8¼% today on a revised trading update and now awaiting a dividend announcement.

Downturn what downturn?

This subject keeps revolving around and around on this BB.

If the admin added a filter button to the subject matter as well as the poster I would be tempted to filter anything with buybacks in the title.

Just saying.

Monkeyj.

Not entirely, but I kinda agree with that.