barclays will ge coming out with trading update on 07.05.2009 It is expected to report profits higher than market expectations.

A good Buy Medium to Long term

diamond has only got 6 months left to return good value to holders is words not mine
that was is speech at agm .

bob diamond will be the new WALTER MITTY if he does not get holders returns up

To be able to buy BARC sub 260p has got to be worth it??? DOW may make that possible today, imo.

bob diamond said banks have to pay the top bankers top money to keep and get the
best people . well bob you must be liar because you have been paying these muppets
for years so why are the banks in the shit . barclays will not reply to E MAILS
about the poor performance of there bank .they ignore holders
they are only interested in there own pockets .


if these people running barcs are the best then god help the banks

Conclusion from latest Evo note:
"Although we see no downside risk after the recent correction (our TP is 322p), we reiterate our Sell on Barclays. The upside is limited, and substantially less than the upside of every other UK bank (LLOY TP 107p, RBS TP 61p, STAN TP 2295p, HSBC TP 837p). Regulation remains a major threat. We strongly believe that BARC will miss its 15% RotE target. And we would prefer to stay on the sidelines until the rights issue is out of the way."

diamond must go

Based on....? I suspect because you have been buying at a higher price than currently available. Your (notional) losses now looking large based on your earlier posts.

harry based on tsince he took over the SP keeps falling .
that says the man is a loser .
it also begs the question if they are paying there top bankers top
dollar then we are being told LIES .
top people .
and the sp tells investors that they are not that good .
you can see why pension funds are crap
these so called fund managers never say anything
glad i did not put my cash in there hands

any one putting money in to a pension are fools
they will get no return the only one who will benefit is the useless fund managers

I now have had a reply from barc and will have a answer by friday .

reply from investors relations at barc .
it has good has said private investors do not matter that is how i read it .
the pay and bonuses of the board are paramount .
investors do not matter

a child of two could of given a better reply .
the company is starting to stink

the ivestors relations seminar yesterday was just a jolly for the board .

CNBC pundit says UK banks have the largest exposure to a default by Greece, do we believe it?

Which ones? I doubt LLOY. Probably BARC. I thought RBS only had EIRE exposure and not other sub AAA European countries.

Also France and Switzerland

our uk banks have lending exposure of 14,060 million

our government debt to Greece 3,408 million

I bet the individual banks will not publish debt exposure to Greece . I bet thats deep in the bank safes, out of view.

It appears UK banks have huge Greece exposure in CDS's (credit default swaps).

Found some figures,as at 24th May 2011

Uk bank exposure to Greece as at 24th May 2011


HSBC 800 million euro


Barclay's 388 million euro

RBS 1088 million euro

All with 1% exposure and 0% of assets

dream on that understates the problem by a mile.