Noticed this article on BBC News this morning:

Lloyds bank shares slide further

Lloyds Banking Group shares have fallen 7% in morning trading as the bank continues to reel from Friday’s announcement of massive losses at HBOS.

On checking the current share price of Lloyds Banking Group shares at noon I discovered it was UP 2.77%

Within an hour of posting the above article, it’s headline was out of date rendering a large portion of the story obsolete.

Herein lies the problem of using shareprices to bolster a story. As we are repeatedly told “The price of shares can go down as well as up”.