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[loganair] 31/10/2020 13:45

Yesterday IAG, which also owns Ireland's Aer Lingus and Spain's Iberia, admitted the Covid crisis could be even worse than its grimmest forecasts.

If that was the case, the company would 'likely need to secure additional funding', it said.

The airlines group has already secured £2.5billion funding from shareholders.

[montyhedge] 31/10/2020 11:33

Lol hope you still have your Shell from 2350p.

[porsche1945] 30/10/2020 22:23

Omg that cretin Monty is on here, he’s special needs, has been busy losing all his piggy bank on gsk. If he’s slagging IAG, buy it, will go through the roof.

[mo2550] 30/10/2020 18:07

& across the pond https://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/united-airlines-to-launch-covid-19-testing-trial/

[philmac56] 30/10/2020 17:31

Long fail to grown from next month.

[philmac56] 30/10/2020 14:14

Slow steady rise today, long may it continue

[taurusthebear] 30/10/2020 10:59

m1k3y1 - nor does anyone else. If we followed the two ronnies of doom, we'd be in endless lockdowns. As for Boris, he's just an inept ditherer.

[jubberjim] 30/10/2020 09:57

For dad please read DAX bloody tablet

[toon1966] 30/10/2020 09:09

Good post Simba. Saying that it is highly unlikely you will get sensible responses from the likes of Spacedust and Montyhedge as their thought processes operate at the same level as that of an amoeba...

[simba_] 30/10/2020 08:31

How did you arrive at your 60p figure?. It's no good to just throw a number out there then try to claim special insight when its reached..Tell me your process if you want the recognition that you feel you deserve. I'm genuinely interested how you reached that valuation.

[montyhedge] 30/10/2020 08:11

I can see below 88p, figures has expected, awful.

[m1k3y1] 29/10/2020 20:48

Taurus....they knew but BoJo didn't take any notice of what they told him.

[taurusthebear] 29/10/2020 20:09

Scientists should be taken with a big pinch of salt, since it became apparent that they really don't know how mask-wearing affects viral transmission.

[siddiqur] 29/10/2020 18:17

Any one see the 2 35million trades

[spacedust] 29/10/2020 14:06

Ive sais IAG 60p when the share price was over 200p and i was laughed at. But some lsitened to my opinion.

Also if they start fearing a message from a poster on advfn then they are not great at this game.

The 60p galore is my xmas wish list

[siddiqur1] 29/10/2020 13:59

Same message every day .. u do know people hold so why put fear in their hearts .. just go away u sad individual

[spacedust] 29/10/2020 13:33

Question is which one so you choose as dont have funds to go for all of them. Dare i add BP to this list

[spacedust] 29/10/2020 13:32

More realistic day by day week by week. At some point this winyer season almost all of these will have hit 60p

spacedust - 30 Sep 2020 - 12:40:16 -

This winter

Iag 60p
Vod 60p
Bt 60p
Barc 60p
Tw 60p
Rbs 60p
RR. 60p
Lloy 19p

[spob] 29/10/2020 12:14

Scientists warn of new coronavirus variant spreading across Europe


Genetic mutation that originated in Spain transmitted by returning holidaymakers, researchers find


Financial Times

29 October 2020


Clive Cookson in London




A coronavirus variant that originated in Spanish farm workers has spread rapidly through much of Europe since the summer, and now accounts for the majority of new Covid-19 cases in several countries — and more than 80 per cent in the UK.

An international team of scientists that has been tracking the virus through its genetic mutations has described the extraordinary spread of the variant, called 20A.EU1, in a research paper to be published on Thursday.

Their work suggests that people returning from holiday in Spain played a key role in transmitting the virus across Europe, raising questions about whether the second wave that is sweeping the continent could have been reduced by improved screening at airports and other transport hubs.

Because each variant has its own genetic signature, it can be traced back to the place it originated.

“From the spread of 20A.EU1, it seems clear that the [virus prevention] measures in place were often not sufficient to stop onward transmission of introduced variants this summer,” said Emma Hodcroft, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Basel and lead author of the study which is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

The scientific teams in Switzerland and Spain are now rushing to examine the behaviour of the variant to establish whether it may be more deadly or more infectious than other strains.

Dr Hodcroft stressed that there was “no evidence that the variant’s [rapid] spread is due to a mutation that increases transmission or impacts clinical outcome”.

But she emphasised that 20A.EU1 was unlike any version of Sars-Cov-2 — the virus that causes Covid-19 — she had previously come across. “I’ve not seen any variant with this sort of dynamic for as long as I’ve been looking at genomic sequences of coronavirus in Europe,” she said.

In particular, the teams are working with virology laboratories to establish whether 20A.EU1 carries a particular mutation, in the “spike protein” that the virus uses to enter human cells, that might alter its behaviour.

All viruses develop mutations — changes in the individual letters of their genetic code — which can group together into new variants and strains. Another mutation in Sars-Cov-2, called D614G, has been identified which is believed to make the virus more infectious.

Joseph Fauver, a genetic epidemiologist at Yale University who was not involved in the research published on Thursday, said: “We need more studies like this to find mutations that have risen to high frequency in the population, and then reverse-engineer them to see whether they make the virus more transmissible.”

The new variant, which has six distinctive genetic mutations, emerged among agricultural workers in north-east Spain in June and moved quickly through the local population, according to the study.

Tanja Stadler, professor of computational evolution at ETH Zurich who is part of the project, said that analysis of virus samples taken from across Europe in recent weeks showed they were derived from this same variant.

“We can see the virus has been introduced multiple times in several countries and many of these introductions have gone on to spread through the population,” Prof Stadler said.

Iñaki Comas, head of the SeqCovid-Spain consortium that is studying the virus and a co-author of the study, added: “One variant, aided by an initial super-spreading event, can quickly become prevalent.”

The researchers concluded that the “risky behaviour” of holidaymakers in Spain — such as ignoring social distancing guidelines — who “continue to engage in such behaviour at home” helped the spread of the new variant.

The research showed that the new variant accounted for more than eight out of 10 cases in the UK, 80 per cent of cases in Spain, 60 per cent in Ireland and up to 40 per cent in Switzerland and France.

Stringent lockdowns in the early part of the year helped bring the initial Covid-19 surge under control, with new cases substantially reduced over the summer.

But the virus has spread rapidly back through Europe in recent weeks in a resurgence that has forced national leaders to introduce painful new restrictions on social activities.

[jubberjim] 29/10/2020 08:54

I hear no malice to any investors who hold long positions in iag
I have a small position myself but I would be willing to take the hit as it would give me enormous gratification to see the share down a little bit more in order for MW to get a taste of their own medicine
I detest shorters they do more damage then good in the process bringing decent companies to their knees
I am sure quite a few will disagree but Marshall Wace disclosure as to long position is the only thing holding this up near term
Good luck to L T investors in the future

[buywell3] 29/10/2020 01:37

RSI now looking overbought thinks buywell

Possible reversal back to 10 ?

As general market malaise sets in till USA election gets sorted

[diku] 28/10/2020 16:17

60p galore?...lloy the weakest link...