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Originally Posted by jambutty

Another note to shareholders – when you bought shares in a company you became part owner of that company. As part owner you are entitled to a share in the profits but the other side of the coin is that you are also responsible for any losses that you should make good.

That's a very interesting point.

As for being dischuffed that there aren't going to be any dividends - how naive can they be? If the banks they had invested in had gone bust there wouldn't have been any shares at all never mind dividends!