Had ours many years (DC04 Green) and still sucks like a goodun'. Treat 'em right and they carry on for decades! (of course, newer versions might be less durable now they are mostly of chinese origin).

So my great pundits,"who is a viable alternative?? Browns cronies who put us in the deep deep merde?? or maybe we should invite one of our French friends across to help out?? A greek maybe?? A spaniard?? Portugese?? Nope, our only hope maybe a tough ruthless Aussie to whip us back in shape!! Hold on we have one on our doorstep running some little media enterprise!! Hail!! o great aussie whip out your digeredoo and beat some sense back into us poor whinging poms!! Strewth!!!

so the rogue trader was also a rogue in having no education .
these papers they hand out are worthless most immigrants buy them
this is fact fales names false passports false in ever way watch the uk border force

I have had a brand new VW ever year for 19 years this last one is my last one .
they have gone down in quality they are not the same if they are not made in germany . going to switch to nissan

bernie good day for shorts?

Don't wear them

why are yours burning?

No position today, golfing my son. Looks like you had one good day out of 285 lol.

long... may it continue!

lol

Markets Boosted As Banks Pledge Billions



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Sky News 2011, 22:07, Thursday 15 September 2011

Markets have been boosted as five of the world's central banks said they would pump billions of dollars into the European financial system.

The Bank of England, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan (NYSE: MCO - news) , US Federal Reserve
and Swiss National Bank said they will provide additional dollar liquidity in a move designed to alleviate fears about lenders' exposure to bad debts.

Shares in Britain's banks were boosted by the announcement, with Lloyds Banking Group (LSE: LLOY.L - news) ahead 7%, and Barclays (LSE: BARC.L - news) , Royal Bank of Scotland (LSE: RBS.L - news) and HSBC (LSE: HSBA.L - news) were all up 4%.

This helped push London's FTSE 100 Index 2% higher, or 110.5 points at 5337.5.

I'm watching Question Time. It's live.

One of the panellists is Nickola Horlick, the financial (fund) manager.

She will have seen the markets aparently stabilise today and yet she strongly feels that Greece has no alternative but to come out of the Euro.

What will the markets do when this happens and Greece has to overstamp their Euros with the word 'Drachma' and devalue its currency?

Or is this event priced in already?

The euro's future, and even existence, hangs in the balance as Greece, Spain, Italy and others look increasingly unlikely to be able to meet their debt payments. But whatever the outcome, the scars of this crisis will mar the currency for decades to come and that's if it survives.

16 Sep Lloyds Banking... LLOY Goldman Sachs Conviction Buy 36.93 60.00 60.00 Upgrades

don't we just love the smell of burning shorts!

What you never shorted a stock, even to protect your portfolio. Sounds like a short time investor, up two days and he is wetting his pants. Must have made another 10

bernie you are such a nice fellow we do not have a portfolio rather old fashioned only deal in CFD's.

Goldman Sachs note out today:
"We remain positive on the long-term prospects of Lloyds Banking Group, which we expect to generate high steady-state returns, supported by a dominant position in the UK retail banking market. Importantly, in our view, risks to the realization of an attractive steady-state have declined materially since we upgraded the stock to Buy on July 13, 2011. Notwithstanding this, the stock has declined in line with European peers over this period. Consequently, we consider the stocks risk/reward proposition as having improved and add Lloyds to the Conviction Buy List.

We see multiple catalysts for performance in Lloyds. Most fundamentally, we expect the stock to re-rate as reported returns (1H11 GS ROE: 5%) converge with core returns (1H11 core ROE: 16%) on the back of declining non-core assets (and related losses). In addition, we view consensus projections of Lloyds ROE recovery as overly pessimistic (GS EPS stands 3%-14% above Datastream consensus through 2013) and we expect EPS upgrades to support performance. Finally, we see multiple milestones (and thus potential catalysts) on the groups path to steady-state: 3Q11 results (8/11), the UK governments reaction to ICB reforms (which should provide certainty on the UK finish), clarity on the outcome of the Project Verde divestiture (by year-end) and the lifting of dividend restrictions (1Q12).

Our 12-month price target remains 60p (ROE/COE-based) and implies 79% potential upside. On our estimates, Lloyds Banking Group trades on 11.2x 2011 GS EPS, 5.9x 2012 GS EPS and 3.9x 2013 GS EPS as well as 0.5x 2011 P/B and 0.6x 2011 P/TB."

Bet we don't hear from you when is starts falling again halifax

has i have posted twice before 80p in 12months now 11 months