Today they have fallen 22% to a new low of 223p ..are they another Marconi..?



The chart looks like one long suicide note.

u r wrong tcd as mitzy wants the banks to go bust........not sure how he is going to collect his money in life mind u

i'd rather have a go at hornby.........he;s the guy thats making millions whilst lots of people r suffering in uk cos of him in all sorts of ways

hornby should be put in jail

Nord me a pessimist .. never...I have a good track record .

I had a 100 bagger with MMG and Asos and my latest 100 bagger to be is Rift oil wher I know one of the Directors..


Its called how to turn 1 into 1mill.

Also like HSP and Spice.

very briefly .... after last week's excitment (thank you Lord!), i still cannot see that financials are the right place to put new money .... in fact, there is probably a better argument for shorting the indices

That is the position of the Indicators at the moment

And here is the support and resistance aswell as the Bollinger Bands

LETS SEE IF THIER IS A LATE RALLY IN HBOS.

why should there be?
Wall Street weak and HBOS downgraded too

i thought hbos short term target was 292p.

where did you get that from?
it's now inextricably linked to LLOY price ..... at 275 LLOY, HBOS is ultimately worth 232

You might as well forget about HBOS and just buy LLOY !, (that's if you want to buy into a bank).

I am finished with banks for now. I think there will be more problems and downward movement. USA bailout is complicated and it would seem not thought out 100%

Where Brown is getting the money from to help our housing market is anybody's guess. Perhaps he could ask Tony for a loan he is millions in pocket since leaving office.

Will they follow Wall St and go down today or remain stable to further bank sell-offs.

i don't feel that UK and its banks are in such a parlous state as those in USA ..... certainly Dow looked as though it had substantially over-reacted on Friday, and I put money with mouth! .... in fact, since US close last night, I have gone modestly long Dow, for again I think the sell-off was badly overdone.

Though the new legislation and proposals in US will not provide instant cure, I would guess that they will be of considerable help, though there must be a cost to the US taxpayer somewhere down the line

Wouldn't mind a punt on BB. but cant get in to buy - half of what the rights issue was a few weeks ago - got to be a take-over target at this level, still a crazy marketplace, can see it going on for weeks this. Hope the yanks sort themselves out sooner rather than later.

It is a good job the short sellers are stopped on banks otherwise I think BB would be down to 10p. I would not touch this with a barge pole.

Yes it makes you think what would have happened today.

All banks bankrupt I would think.

BB is on a big slide down now 23.50 down 16.81% today

Could it be Lloyds will reconsider.

If I was Lloyds CEO I would be looking for a better deal, or big sweetners from HMG

If I was buying your house and I found out you were in real shit and the bailiffs were coming for you I think I could get a better deal than the agreed one with you.