I hope Antonio will wait for a better exchange rate to repatriate the 4 billion or use it in Europe to fund Lloyd's ventures there without wasting £'s at he current exchange rates.
I agree that house price are way over valued & may be due a fall.
The major saving grace this time for Lloyd's is the property shortage.
When interest rates rise & repressions rise I believe that instead of auctions & fire sales being the first option, Lloyd's will become a social landlord maybe though it fund management arm.
This will bring in an income retaining families in there homes maybe with the opportunity to repurchase the property in the future.
This could also be done on a shared ownership basis to allow the mortgagee more flexibility I am not sure we will see a wholesale return to the early 90's scenario but with so much value in property at such low interest rates a major re rate higher could indeed cause havoc. In the short term it could become a buyers market as the market usually over reacts so cash will be king.
There are many different options becoming available with mortgages in later life & lifetime mortgages.
So I believe the is still a lot of growth in these market if this is played correctly by the UK's largest mortgage lender.
I am sure that there was a comment that if there was time in the flow tests they may test KL 1 & 2 as to if this comment referred to the these flow tests or the ones planned for after drilling HH2 & the sidetrack I am not entirely sure.
What seems unusual is the continued use of the pump which flowed better without it (901 not 700 BOPD) in the previous tests.
My other thought was if KL 3 & 4 are linked & the flow rates are considetred commercial will they conduct them as 2 tests or 1 providing time?
What are your thoughts as to why they were still using the pump on what is described as KL 4 tests?
Hopefully this will clarify my point better without using numbers.
As an example with 20 sells totalling 2 million shares my understanding is it is the market makers job to allocate these 2 million shares to how ever many buyers is needed to place the shares as the orders come in & they can vary the share price or he margins to help the transactions flow balancing there books & making there margins.
I don't think because someone wants to sell 1,000,000 shares you have to have a 1,000,000 share buyer this is why the trades look so disjointed but at some point the market makers have to balance the books.