From the four options I spoke of earlier in the week, I’ve gone all in with Lloyds (option 1) fully taking up my offered allotment of 1,037 shares at £0.37 a share. The rights issue gave me a reduction on current market value of about £0.16 per share or 30%, so I can’t really complain, despite doing my darnedest in my most recent post. Our total holding of Lloyds has now risen to 1,...

We’ve taken a little slice of the UK banking sector on-board with today’s purchase of 774 Lloyds Banking Group shares at £0.6719 for a total outlay of £520.05 plus dealing costs. On the back of a ton of re-structuring news of late, hopefully Lloyds can put a horror stretch behind it and make us a quid or two into the bargain. If it can – a little belatedly – follow in B...