ANYONE KNOW WHY THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND IS SHOWING A SHARE PRICE AROUND THE 6.59 MARK WHEN IT WAS 18.00 OR SO THE OTHER WEEK OR AM I GOING STRANGE?????????????

Government to announce co controlling interest tomorrow before market open.

So here is your chance to buy in bulk!

government will be taking over power companies and other industries in time to come.........this is political change about to happen un-seen for decades.
private companies in years to come will be state owned.

they should nationalise oil and gas companies too

LOL

Let nationalise brussels sprouts.

I have always suspected them of try to undermine my neutrality.

they should nationalise bp, shell etc

whats the implication of the new govt deal to buy part of RBS as far as share price goes ? monday open, and trading would we see RBS head higher from 79 or they doomed cos they getting nationalisd ?

CNBC reporting govt stake will be 50 % of RBS and 70% of HBOS

goodwin gone.

Yes!!

First of many fatcats I hope

50p what a crap share no wonder Fred was told to clear his desk what a looser he was.

don't understand why HBOS and RBS have collapsed the last 20 mins. I would have thought they have been guaranteed their future. Is this market manipulation trying to smash the deal or forced selling?

because of huge share dilution

Not sure about that although I've noticed that in just about every fund raising so far, the sp initially drops well below the set price. HHR went down to low 80's before recovering to 140p (fundraising was at 110p)

Surely if the Gov is buying in at 65p then the mkt price initially should be a % between Friday's close and the fundraising depending on how much is being raised at the lower price.

FTSE down from earlier high dont read too much into it.FTSE was up at 276 now 185 I see big jump when Septics open at 14.30

whats interesting is only RBS has any volume at all. Even HBOS's volumes are awful

what i read was govt putting 20 billion @ 65p and will own 50% of RBS

65p is too high they need a 25p placing to get it away what were they thinking announcing a 65p price when the sp was 71p.. its crazy.

existing shareholders can come in at 65p as well.

dealer dear, why shd any one buy rbs for anything other than short term trade when share price will not be supported by divi and the bank is busy trying to sell any of its subsidiaries it can, no income for the bank from there ,and greatly reduced domestic profits with a slump at home resulting in heavier than usual bad debt losses.long term slow recovery for sure. Still look on the bright side, they wont have to pay bonus and salary for the Shredded One)!!

One answer. Greed! When the banks have stabilised and assuming this package is still on then if you can buy in at 65p and in a years time they are 1.20p then wouldn't you buy?

Sod the divi! I say that as an existing holder who gets a large sum each year thr' the divi so I'm not happy in that sense but I have to say I feared full nationalisation so for that I at least have a sort of smile on my face!