LONDON (Reuters) - Invista Real Estate (INRE.L), a property fund manager majority controlled by Lloyds Banking Group, said on Monday it is in talks with a third party which may lead to a takeover offer, sending its shares sharply higher.

At 1:42 p.m., shares of Invista were up 43 percent to 72 pence each, giving the company a market capitalisation of about 191 million pounds.

"These discussions are at a highly preliminary stage and there can be no certainty that any offer will be made," said Invista, which is 55 percent-owned by Lloyds' (LLOY.L) HBOS Plc.

The potential takeover of Invista, whose next biggest shareholder is the Wellcome Trust with 24 percent, follows the RBS's (RBS.L) sale of its non-core asset management businesses to Aberdeen (ADN.L), as part of its overhaul following the government rescue.

Maybe the drop today was due to this reporting ..........

LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Britain's largest banks should be
broken up to ensure that the riskier activities are separated
from the more conventional retail operations, Liberal Democrat
leader Nick Clegg said on Monday.

C Carson,

You seem confused as usual. Perhaps, you shouldn't write after your bedtime.

No it was down due to the size of my sell on Friday.











8-)

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strange change of energy here.anyone else notice it? maybe it is just me, i find it very strange., maybe its just me.
regards
jkd

JKD.

Suggest dark room and lie down for 10mins.

Then strong coffee and hope!

JKD Is strange more conducive to a convivial atmosphere than on this thread than the aggression (passive or overt) listed previously? plus ca change!

PS ignore first 'than'.

Just as a matter of interest has anybody got anything constructive to say about Lloyds bank? Any opinion re buy or sell for instance would be a good starting point! Anybody????

CC Spoilsport!

Maybe, but enough is enough eh! I just want to make some dosh, taking the p..sss is all very well but doesn't pay much :-)

;-)

Chris Carson

There is B#stards all over this thread, and it seems you have managed to spot them, mind you they do not like it .

The obvious is Money Am is USELESS also on spoting them, they are only good trowing money down the TOILET, can you imaging how much money they loose on the WEB and then on the parent company - Share Magazine ( another rubish thing )

I said some time back than even "Share crazy" was better than here, now realized is at least 10 times better.

Kids playing with "Money AM"

This month could be a very exciting pre-curser to UK banks posting their results in February.

According to a recent article on Bloomberg.com there may be another 15% upside to banking stocks and most analysts expect the US banks to post results that beat estimates in the next 2 weeks

Ok RSI thanks for the heads up (early start on the falling down water apparent here :-). ) Any thoughts on Lloyds ..... just as a matter of interest?

Master RSI; Thank you very much for this latest outburst in post 1732, think you are pressing the self destruct button, so we will oblige.

Bye bye

Broker note from Unicredit today:
Lloyds Banking Group
"Credit markets are important benchmarks for banks. They appear less comfortable with Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) than most European peers, as shown by credit spreads and a recent expensive tier 1 issue at 12%. This is not good for a bank with GBP 165bn of government funding to push to the private sector and may explain LBGs continued Credit Guarantee Scheme usage. In 4Q09 it issued GBP 11bn of guaranteed debt, versus Barclays zero and RBS GBP 5bn
■ We resume coverage of Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) with a Sell recommendation and 12M target price of GBp 50 (previously 55p).
We believe that its 1.1x 2010E adjusted P/tB multiple is not warranted given the challenges ahead."

Bullsharedoes that mean you have deleted the Master for good?my Palestinian friend is a little paranoid but he is a character this bb needsthe Master went over the top with Fredwho I do likebut Fred is more than capable of riding above the abusethe Master does not totally understand British humourJKD is in my opinion one of the biggest wind up merchants on amIn a polite sort of way...what comes first incitement or riot?I would not want JKD bannedI like the bantermind youI feel sorry for his poor wifechill out everyone.

HARRYCAT - Much Obliged!