Anyone seen any bankers jumping out of windows yet....???

[Tony*T3]

RBS 50% down, Lloyds in freefall, even HSBC....

Anyone jumped from the top of Canary warf yet....?


Some of the 'usual suspects' from the city seem absent on PH today....

[TankRizzo]

Soovy's probably out buying crates of tinned fruit and a shotgun...

[loafer123]

I think it's the shareholders who would be jumping...

[G'kar]

Tony*T3 said:

RBS 50% down, Lloyds in freefall, even HSBC....

Anyone jumped from the top of Canary warf yet....?


Some of the 'usual suspects' from the city seem absent on PH today....

I'd hazard a guess they are shorting themselves to a decent Porsche

[madala]

...I would love to see some of the "top brass" doing the honourable thing...

[rude-boy]

I've just got back from a mass purchase of veg. seeds None of this tinned stuff for me.

[Somewhatfoolish]

This is an urban myth. In the great wall street crash of 1929 there were only 3 confirmed suicides of bankers

[sprinter885]

Tony*T3 said:

Anyone jumped from the top of Canary warf yet....?

Don't worry-they'll get caught by Gordon's "Safety net" !

[Landlord]

madala said:

...I would love to see some of the "top brass" doing the honourable thing...

Well, y'see. Notionally - Sir Fred Goodwin has already done the "decent" thing. Stepping down and not exercising his million-pound payout option.

However, I read somewhere that he'd already amassed an £8m pension and someother huge sum of shares (in the millions). So, it's like it'll be painful for him.

[Super Bad]

sprinter885 said:

Tony*T3 said:

Anyone jumped from the top of Canary warf yet....?

Don't worry-they'll get caught by Gordon's "Safety net" !

[grumbledoak]

I cannot see the City boys losing that much today. With Clown and Badger permanently on TV telling everyone what their intentions and budget are. Kinda funny to watch, in a car-crash sort of way.

[madala]

Landlord said:

madala said:

...I would love to see some of the "top brass" doing the honourable thing...

Well, y'see. Notionally - Sir Fred Goodwin has already done the "decent" thing. Stepping down and not exercising his million-pound payout option.

However, I read somewhere that he'd already amassed an £8m pension and someother huge sum of shares (in the millions). So, it's like it'll be painful for him.

.....all depends where he has got it "stashed".....hopefully it will be extremely painful for him.....

[tinman0]

Somewhatfoolish said:

This is an urban myth. In the great wall street crash of 1929 there were only 3 confirmed suicides of bankers

We're not doing bad with this one though.

I think there was a jumper in Wall Street at the end of 2008.
There was another guy who shot himself at home in the US
I'm sure there was a British banker recently who achieved a 100% rating in moving on
There is a German investor who lost $400m who used a train earlier this month to opt out

All we need now is the boss of RBS to do the honourable thing and take a pay cut by leaping from his office. Actually, it would be nice if quite a few of the bankers on the boards of these companies took a small pay cut.

[Size Nine Elm]

Landlord said:

madala said:

...I would love to see some of the "top brass" doing the honourable thing...

Well, y'see. Notionally - Sir Fred Goodwin has already done the "decent" thing. Stepping down and not exercising his million-pound payout option.

However, I read somewhere that he'd already amassed an £8m pension and someother huge sum of shares (in the millions). So, it's like it'll be painful for him.

... but his pension was invested in RBS shares...

[s3fella]

Many in banking knew that RBS jumping in for ABN Amro ahead of Barclays was a stupid offer and would be one they very much regretted one day.....came a bit sooner than expected, maybe, but I have little sympathy as it was a totally stupid move.

But where are the people that made these decisions, why is it that they are not accountable for their illformed judgements?

Hate to say it, but it needs one of these banks to "go". I think then the pressure would maybe reduce on the rest, unless they are all intertwined with each other.

[Fittster]

s3fella said:

Hate to say it, but it needs one of these banks to "go".

They don't seem to go, just get nationalized.

[Austin.J]

"lloyds banking group" share price this morning when i started work was just under 102p

19/01/09 14:41 66.5 -31.9p thats the current price.

someones getting fired.

[Tony*T3]

Banks actually failing would bring te government down though wouldnt it? So they wont let it happen....

[Scuffers]

s3fella said:

Many in banking knew that RBS jumping in for ABN Amro ahead of Barclays was a stupid offer and would be one they very much regretted one day.....came a bit sooner than expected, maybe, but I have little sympathy as it was a totally stupid move.

But where are the people that made these decisions, why is it that they are not accountable for their illformed judgements?

Hate to say it, but it needs one of these banks to "go". I think then the pressure would maybe reduce on the rest, unless they are all intertwined with each other.

Exactly

would have been little different is Barclays had 'won' Amro...

makes you wonder if theses clowns know what due diligence actually means?

What I can't quite get my head round is that Amro lent this guy £2.5B un-secured? if the guy is a billinare, how come they have not gone after him for the money?

[rude-boy]

Fittster said:

s3fella said:

Hate to say it, but it needs one of these banks to "go".

They don't seem to go, just get nationalized.

And that is why we are getting fooked to my non expert eye.

If the Government had let one fall then there would be none of this going on today. The 'players' all know that the Government will step in and ensure that the survival of the banks so until they are nationalised they are fair game