Not sure if this thread will catch on, because no-one here seems to have much to say about individual british banks, but thought i would add this header to see if we could discuss dividend yields, exposure to sup-prime, good ones, bad ones, take-over targets, when the crisis will end? do you think they have learnt their lesson? I, for one, as a property developer have seen first hand how much stricter they have become with lending habits, struggling to get decent rates for re-mortgaging, basically they appear scared to lend to anyone.

Bradford and Bingley may go to sub 55p next week (see BB. thread)

do we have an epic for trading HBOS nil paid rights?

RBS sub 200p today maybe..?

stock market wont improve until banks have turned a corner....and country wont improve either as an economy

About time Fred went.

Just as I predicted, BB. is 50p today.

My prediction on the 17th March.

20p eventually.

Interesting news from Northern Rock today.
They are enhancing the commission fees payable to intermediaries for introducing loan / mortgage business to them.
This is odd as they have spent much time and money convincing existing clients that they would be better moving their mortgage elsewhere.
My feeling is that the recovery plan is either ahead of expectations and they are priming to re-enter the market properly, or it is way behind expectations and they need to generate application fees to meet their repayment promises.
I tend to the latter, but it is a very strange move in the current climate.

I think UK is already in recession now. FTSE in bear territory, so expect the banks to be mauled by the bears even further.

there aint much left to maul, hyleo......many banks are 2 to 3....rbs is only 182p and they r 5th biggest bank in world. if they go under, uk is finished

uk needs conservative gov immediately as economy is screwed totally.....it will take a decade for country to improve at least, maybe even a generation. i dont know anyone that doesnt complain about state of the country.

what bottom targets do u have for barc, hbos, rbs, lloy......as i'm looking to buy in.......maybe 6-12 months time

this will finish labour gov off too........just announced tonight in scotland that snp are now number 1 party in polls in scotland.....labour has lost 11% in poll and is 2nd....even conservatives here aint that far behind them which shows the discontent here. if labour have lost votes in scotland, then it wull be meltdown in england......i think lib dems might even get 2nd place ahead of labour in next uk election

DREAM ON BABY//

If you think it's bad here check out stateside
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/

america is about to be disposed as number 1 superpower by china....and $ will soon go down the pan......usa is corrupt....and remember how they treated our british bankers in chains etc when all the evidence and witnesses were in uk......its about time we broke our links with usa.....they tried to bankrupt uk anyway after ww11 with a financial dunkirk on loans

in short, they r bullying, corrupt thugs

Have you met the Chinese? Some of the cruellest people on earth both to animals and humans. God help us if they ever become No.1..

The USA, especially under Bush may not be perfect but it's the best we've got..

My insider at MAN tells me they are taking RBS down to 176p - sadly for me as I bought at 5, 2,80 and 2.34 :o(

brianboru, I'm not clear what you mean, are MAN taking RBS down actively, or talking them down as a opinion. I would hope it's the later.

Sovereign wealth funds were kind enough to bail out our banks and are now sitting on huge losses, unfortunately they probably won't want to catch another falling knife and bail them out some more. The Shanghai stock exchange has dropped 60% since October, they have 20% wage inflation, slowing demand from West, spent billions on Olympics have been devastated by flooding and earthquakes. The oil shock is devastating to China as it is built on cheap transport.Mercantilist policy of holding down yuan to boost exports has hit buffers. Expect pendulum to swing back from China to America according to Daily telegraph

Good post Falcothou, and haven't seen the telegraph article but will try and read it online. I have thought for some month's that China will keep growing at all costs upto the Olmpics, then after I would expect to see the bubble burst big time. America for all it's problems is still the main driving force of world economics, they have led us into recession and they will lead us out again. After all the USA and Europe account for a very large percentage of chinese exports, imports most be shrinking now, so China will feel the slowdown soon.

Also who is crueller the Chinese working in inhumane conditions for a pittance struggling to afford escalating food or those in the West who couldn't be bothered doing the dirty work themselves complaining the chickens have finally come home to roost, the slaves deserve a day in the sun