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Since they are borrowing about £40b a year, raising a couple of billion means they "only" have to borrow £38b in cash terms.

Our country is still screwed until we can stop borrowing more and more money imho. how you persuade the electorate that the government needs to continue to be weaned off credit is most problematic.

Government need the £20b from RBS to buy this;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44372011

HMRC chief Jon Thompson has defended his £20bn estimate of the cost to businesses of the post-Brexit customs system favoured by leading Brexiteers.

He told MPs that a technology-based system - dubbed the "max fac" solution - would cost businesses a similar amount to leaving the EU with no deal.

Morning!

Trump-Kim summit set for Singapore's Sentosa Island - White House

Morning all

surely the dow is going to take a run at 25000?

Lets see what 3:30 brings.

USD Crude Oil Inventories 2.1M -2.0M -3.6M

There or there abouts now.

A conclusive move through would be helpful

Dow up about 180 since our close and ftse being called up by IG by 15.

Might be worth a punt although I can't be bothered to work out if IG has already gone XD after our close and what the oil and cable impact is.

Good morning!

Morning all

Morning!

DOW on sale @25,239, FTSE @7,767.

I wish I'd taken the FTSE short!!

What Brexit? Investors warm to UK stocks as M&A surges

I wish I'd closed my LLOY CFD long when FTSE was at 7767!

All very strange. Selling off LLOY but significant buying on RBS. Like they are switching from one to another?

Unfortunately I hold quite a lot of LLOY whereas I only have RBS on a recent S/B.

I'm pretty disappointed in both LLOY and RBS share prices.

I really never thought I'd see LLOY down here again. It was 62.x yesterday or the day before and given the support from the dividend yield and share buyback I was really surprised.

I can't be bothered to look at the chart as it will pain me but we were up at 80 a couple of years ago and since then the bank has made good progress.

More surprisingly when it did hit 62.x I didn't buy any more as I went for MARS instead which is giving me 7.8% dividend and I think more upside on a two year time horizon. which is probably all you need to know about UK shares. Everything is undervalued.

I am now back to 99.5% fully invested and have no more cash until I get some more dividends. There's nothing I want to sell either.

Lots of stuff still looks crazy cheap to me but it ain't just LLOY and RBS. i've been thinking that for the last 2 years though.

Morning all