Hello Share People: I won the lottery at the weekend – well £50, anyway. Is this a good omen for the old shares this week? I don't actually think we need a good omen – the Footsie should do rather nicely without that kind of help.
Hello Share People, The most interesting shares in my bag at the mo are probably Lloyds Group (LLOY). They are rising quite nicely. And it wasn't too long ago that they were worth half as much as they are today.
Any buying interest I have had in banks has been limited to HSBC (HSBA) and Standard and Chartered (STAN) whose origins and traditions permitted to pass through the great early twenty first century banking crisis without the ignominy and pain of being bailed out by society at large. Once bitten twice shy, has been my watchword on Lloyds (LLOY) and RBS (RBS).
There are two things in life we do not say enough: the first is of course how much we love each other, and the second what a bad idea bailing out the banks was in 2007 – 9.
