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LON:LLOY
Lloyds Banking Group has many household names like Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows. Lloyds Banking Group is a leading UK based financial services group providing a wide range of banking and financial services, focused on personal and commercial customers. The Group’s main business activities are retail, commercial and corporate banking, general insurance, and life, pensions and investment provision. The Group operates the UK’s largest retail bank and has a large and diversified customer base.
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Jefferies has pushed its price target for Lloyds up by 4p a share to 86p on the back of the tweaks it has made to its numbers and remains a ‘buyer’ of the stock
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Lloyds, which is now less than 3% owned by the UK taxpayer, is one of the top five holdings in the fund, which is managed by Steve Clayton and Charlie Huggins
Lloyds is highly exposed to cyclical loans losses and risks of Brexit, according to Berenberg.
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Lloyds has appointed an independent reviewer for the HBOS fraud for which six people were jailed earlier this year
The analysts said: “Lloyds has paid a special dividend for two years and we expect this to continue, and to be a larger size. We expect a dividend yield of 8% for each of the next three years“
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Amid legacy issues and a major restructuring at RBS, the government has put its plans to sell a further stake in the bank on ice
UK Financial Investments, which manages the government's stakes in bailed-out lenders, has reduced its holding to 2.95% following further share sales.
FTSE 100 shares ended higher on Wednesday, thanks to buoyancy in the pharma and mining sectors while a US rate card was considered in the bag, priced and sold on the market
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FTSE 100 shares closed lower on Tuesday after investors turned edgy over Brexit plans which hit banking and retail shares as well as took sterling to an 8-week low against the US dollar
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John Allan, who became Tesco chairman in 2015, told the Retail Week Live conference last week that women and people from an ethnic background were in an "extremely propitious period" when it came to getting top jobs in business
Lloyds has put aside a further provision for PPI claims, which will be included in the bank's first quarter results
A 6-7% cash dividend yield is attractive for income investors
The FTSE 100 was down 32 points to 7,342 shortly after 3.15pm on Monday
“We expect improving confidence in margin and loan losses to see the share re-rate”
It's been a rollercoaster week of UK banking results with an underwhelming finale from RBS and Lloyds impressing with its highest profits in a decade
It was the ninth consecutive loss from RBS and worse than City scribes had expected
London’s FTSE 100 ended lower on Friday, dragged lower by heavyweight loser RBS after it reported a ninth straight year of losses
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Goldman Sachs bursts the Lloyds bubble, complaining that the mortgage book is not shrinking as quickly as predicted
The UK Treasury’s shareholding is now approximately 2.76bn shares, down from the 3.57bn shares it held when it last disposed of a tranche at the end of January.
With around half-an-hour of trading to go in London, the FTSE100 index was almost 20 points lower at 7,282, the day’s worst levels, well below an earlier peak of 7,310.
Lloyds chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio said the bank's future underlying performance is tied to UK economic growth amid Brexit uncertainty
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Statutory pre-tax profit was £4.2bn in the year to December 31, more than double the £1.6bn recorded a year earlier
Lloyds has raised its dividend 13% as strong capital generation offset the impact of its MBNA acquisition
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FTSE 100 shares ended higher on Wednesday, as Unilever talked up a review to show more shareholder value and Lloyds Banking posted its highest profit in a decade
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Lloyds is forecast to report a a jump in 2016 pretax profits to around £4.4bn, up from £1.6bn a year earlier when it was hit by a huge bill for PPI scandal provisions.
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Housebuilders and banks will take centre stage with a slew of London-listed corporate earnings to be published.
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A “triple whammy” of Brexit, inflation and possible rising alcohol duty is forecast to push up the prices of champagne and prosecco in the UK by £1 and 59p per bottle.
FTSE 100 shares closed higher on Wednesday, led by banking shares which teamed up with their Wall Street brethren to cheer on what may be a US rate hike as soon as March
The state-backed bank is appointing an independent consultancy to see if it has to pay compensation for offences committed before it bought out HBOS
The bank's analysts hiked their target price for the part-taxpayer owned lender to 75p from 60p, leading them to upgrade their rating to ‘buy’ from ‘hold’.
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The US broker has now set 82p (from 67p) as its fair value mark
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Two former HBOS bankers and four other people were yesterday found guilty of a major fraud which contributed to losses that led to the taxpayer-funded rescues of several UK banks.
Lloyds said the UK Treasury has reduced its shareholding to approximately 3.57bn shares down from the 4.24bn shares it held previously.
FTSE 100 shares ended lower on Monday, following falls in Asia and Europe after President Donald Trump's decision to impose a travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries
According to media reports, Britain's largest mortgage lender was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on January 11, which carried on for two days.
“As Britain prepares to invoke Article 50 to begin the process of negotiating its exit from the EU it seems right to assume that sentiment, and perhaps Sterling too, will be volatile,” he added.
DB says Lloyds shares are already close to fair value, even though the MBNA deal has boosted the bank.
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FTSE 100 index closed down 0.2% at 7,327 on Monday, as the 14-session record high winning streak crashed after shares in banks and oil companies slipped
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FTSE 100 stocks closed at a record high on Monday, extending from its feat last week, as it marked the eighth successive record peak, largely thanks to a weakening pound
FTSE 100 stocks closed the week robustly, reversing initial losses to chalk a fresh record high on Friday – its seventh consecutive day – as further sterling falls benefited blue-chip companies
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Analysts at the bank have hiked their stance for Lloyds to ‘overweight’ from ‘equal-weight' and raised their share price target to 75p from 55p.
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FTSE 100 and small-cap stocks ended at fresh record highs on Tuesday, the first session of 2017, after being buoyed by higher Wall Street on bullish US factory data, 18-month high oil prices and even bumper Chinese data
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The 'Santa rally' and a strong showing from miners meant the UK premier index closed up around 37 points
Lloyds anticipates it will be able to deliver £100mln in annual cost synergies from the integration within two years, around 30% of the total cost base for MBNA in 2015.
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FTSE 100 shares eked out light gains but mid-caps ended softer in a non-event session on Tuesday as markets began winding down for the holiday season
FTSE 100 stocks closed higher on Thursday, just shy of the 7000 mark, but the theme of the session was all about weaker sterling in the wake of the US interest rate hike overnight
In a statement today, Lloyds said the government has reduced its stake in the bank by about 1 percentage point to 6.93%, or to about 4.9 bln shares, down from 5.7 bln previously.
Goldman sees the next two quarterly updates as key catalysts for the shares
The London market slid despite shares in oil companies being boosted by a jump in oil prices
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FTSE 100 shares closed higher on Thursday, buoyed by news that the euro zone will curb its quantitative easing programme next April
FTSE 100 stocks marched higher on Wednesday with miners the top gainers
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FTSE 100 shares closed firm on Monday, having brushed off the turmoil in Italy following a “no” vote in the euro zone country’s referendum which led premier Matteo Renzo to tender his resignation, as oil prices continued to extend gains
RBS and Standard Chartered both feature on Goldman’s ‘buy’ list in the wake of the stress tests
FTSE 100 stocks fell on Monday, dragged down by bank worried about a vote in Italy and oil investors fretting over OPEC’s much-anticipated supply cut meeting this week
Aussie house Macquarie sees the deal boosting next year’s earnings per share (EPS) by around 5%.
The sale could revive disgruntlement over the decision not to offer the shares to private investors, as promised by the previous chancellor of the Exchequer
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RBS should be able to offset the bulk of margin pressure with strong loan growth.
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FTSE 100 stocks closed sharply lower on Friday – with losers topping 50% of the market for the first time this year - as US election jitters came to a head, non-farm payrolls Stateside did little to bolster global markets, and sterling rose
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Profits came in below expectations and the PPI provision was a nasty surprise, but healthy capital generation bodes well for the dividend
The PPI provision reduced reported profit before tax to £811mln
FTSE 100 stocks gave up the 7,000 level on Wednesday as mining stocks dragged the market lower
Investors will be looking for any comment on a potential 'hard' Brexit in the Lloyds statement
Britain's banks had enough on their plates already, but the Brexit vote made things more complicated still
Westminster is snubbing the public as it flogs the taxpayer’s stake in Lloyds behind closed doors – but, according to leading stockbroker TD Direct, private investors are natural long-terms holders for the banking shares.
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FTSE 100 shares came within a handful of points of marking a fresh record high close on Monday, but for all the gains of mining stocks the ticker just could not muster the umph to triumph
The new Chancellor has abandoned a plan by his predecessor George Osborne to sell the shares to the public at a 5% discount
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FTSE 100 shares dug themselves out of a hole to close just softer on Friday after banks recovered from heavy falls on speculative reports that troubled Deutsche Bank's US fine may be reduced
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The FTSE 100 index closed lower in a widespread sell-off while the pound flirted with its lowest level against the euro since the Brexit vote