I worked for RBS (not in a part of the business that caused the crash I hasten to add)....

Fred deserves to lose his knighthood for 2 reasons.

1) He became too egocentric and arrogant and surrounded himself with yes men who were terrified (I mean terrified) of him.

2) He wasn't properly qualified to do the job (as were pretty much none of the other senior executives in the UK banking sector).

But the regulation of the banking sector was a disgrace in how lax it was. The regulators themselves are just civil servants - the FSA doesn't pay the salaries to

just read that in the tele it was for you harry

just sold my last lot of lloys shares at time11.44 amount 67992 at 31.49p

Cheers T! Always good to hear your moderate stance on things! ;o)
Just for the record, I have worked for Aviva (ex Norwich Union) but I wouldn't even suggest that my time there had any bearing on their overall profitability, or not!!!

harry all i will say is good luck to you.

Ditto, T. We are different personalities, but with the same aim!

harry hope you are watching sky news

Just doesn't seem to want to go any higher!!!

Holy cr*p! Is that 33p I see???!!!

3 month high is 33.46 oerrr!

Now passed that, skinny!!! Just hope 33p holds so we can push to a new high.

34+

Awesome! Am selling at 36p, I hope!

35p just touched. Greedy to hope for 36p, or achievable?

Ask the Greeks! :-)

Yes, or maybe the Portuguese whose 10 yr bond rate is currently +15%. I wonder if stocks are getting a bit ahead of themselves now and march is going to see a correction, particularly with the banks (& euro exposure)?

Unfortunately many of us have short memories - another week or so like last week and it will all be forgotten - until......

I wonder if it might be best to get out ahead of the BARC results later in the week?

What part of the result can disappoint or beat?

Merrill Lynch are expecting poor BARC results. Have posted on the BARC thread.