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[chavitravi2] 25/3/2020 16:07

Just urging peop,e to postpone moving. No mention of latter.

[alphorn] 25/3/2020 15:45

The housing market has been thrown into chaos amid the coronavirus outbreak with the government urging people not to move homes and banks stopping mortgage lending.

True or fake news from the DM?

[lefrene] 25/3/2020 15:44

xxxxxy, I'm of the view that this exercise is all about the crushing need for an economic re-set back to normal interest rates, and to act as a cover for yet another self inflicted market crash in the USA. I'm expecting the bill being passed today to be draconian in anticipation of social unrest as the sheeple realise that their homes are going to crash in value, and a whole lot of other stuff is going to be a whole lot more expensive.

[k38] 25/3/2020 15:16

A 21 years old woman died from the Coronavirus. No previous health problems.

[cm44] 25/3/2020 14:57

UK COVID-19 ALERT:

(No offence is intended. We stopped offending people with malice aforethought long ago, when the snowflakes took over!)

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to the recent virus threat and have therefore raised their threat level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.”; Soon, though, the level may be raised yet again to “IrritatedR21; or even “A Bit Cross.”

The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out.

The virus has been re-categorized from “Tiresome̶1; to “A Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.

The Scots have raised their threat level from “Cheesed Off” to “Let's Get the Beggar.” They don't have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its alert level from “Run” to “Hide.” The only two higher levels in France are “Collaborate” and “Surrender.221; The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country's military capability.

Italy has increased the alert level from “Shout loudly and excitedly” to “Elaborate Military Posturing.” Two more levels remain: “Ineffective Combat Operations” and “Change Sides.”

The Germans have increased their alert state from “Disdainful Arrogance” to “Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs.” They also have two higher levels: “Invade a Neighbour” and “Lose.”

Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.

The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.

Australia, meanwhile, has raised its alert level from “No worries” to “She'll be alright, Mate.” Two more escalation levels remain: “Crikey! I think we'll need to cancel the barbie this weekend!” and “The barbie is cancelled.” So far, no situation has ever warranted use of the final escalation level.

[ladeside] 25/3/2020 14:05

The Catalan president, Quim Torra, said on Wednesday that the exceptional measures to fight the coronavirus crisis might be in force until June if a total lockdown on Catalonia is not executed.

In a rare parliamentary meeting via video link, he said: "The worst estimations foresee the peak of the covid-19 crisis in late April, meaning we wouldn't have normality until maybe June."

Note the "LATE APRIL", for all those thinking that we have already seen the worst, not to mention we're a couple of weeks behind Spain at the moment.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 25/3/2020 13:52

Nope china most definitely are not fiddling the new cases number!!!!

Hospital refuses to admit #CCPVirus patient as they want to keep "zero new case" record. Upset family starts a fight with staff, on Mar. 23, Not sure which hospital.
Click here for more :

[k38] 25/3/2020 13:36

I think the chances of tha bricklayer Williams to become king by 2021 are good. Lol..

[crossing_the_rubicon] 25/3/2020 13:24

"xxxxxy25 Mar '20 - 11:36 - 297994 of 298018
Prince Charles.
If 670 die out of UK population of 67 million, the chance of dying from this virus is about 1 in 100000"

If 670 die in UK?

UK already at:
UK 8,227 +150 427 +5 <------------------------427 already.

We'll get there by early next week. And it's just getting started

[crossing_the_rubicon] 25/3/2020 13:22

"diku25 Mar '20 - 10:40 - 297983 of 298017
CtR...32 phases?...we are all doomed..."

Typo, sorry..

3 only !

[diku] 25/3/2020 13:08

Lack of toilet rolls on shelves is at critical levels...stop deliveries of non essential items like chocolates etc etc to stores and increase the capacity of more pallets of essential items like toilet rolls and daily food to stores...

[pierre oreilly] 25/3/2020 13:07

jacko0725 Mar '20 - 12:24 - 298007 of 298012
0 2 1
Don't end lockdown till figures show it is sensible.
..........................


Well that is self evident.

The question really is what figures doyou look at?

Do you just look at covid deaths, and minimise them AT ANY COST?


Or do you look at the costs of the measures to minimise covid deaths?

For example, the measures to limit covid deaths will increase suicides. It will increase deaths from stress, anxiety and a host of other factors currently not even being investigated.

The numbers to indicate lockdowns should be relaxed will be different if you look at numbers to minimise covid deaths, or the numbers which minimise deaths overall, taking account of the effects of the lockdowns.

They need multidisciplinary experts to advise on minimising deaths, not just virologists, who can only advise on how to minimise covid deaths, and have no idea at all of the knock on deaths draconian measures will ensure.

[ladeside] 25/3/2020 13:04

Cheers Minerve, we're "socially distancing" so fingers crossed !!

[diku] 25/3/2020 13:03

Trump is saying about ending restrictions by Easter just to give the markets a boost...mind games at play...he doesn't like Dow below 20k...

[xxxxxy] 25/3/2020 13:00

Numbing.Posted March 25, 2020 at 10:26 am | PermalinkOne needs death data of each month prior to the coronavirus outbreak going back two years.Have the present numbers of the last three months been an increase in overall deaths by other ailments in the same period in the last to years?Suppose the over all number of deaths are less in the present three months. Shoild we hail the coronovirus as our Saviour disguised?

[y1phr1] 25/3/2020 12:53

I have pmo at 20p

[alphorn] 25/3/2020 12:48

Jacko - useful posts. Thx.

[ekuuleus] 25/3/2020 12:38

also sg50 - 5x silver long.

[ekuuleus] 25/3/2020 12:38

bought some sg42 in my sipp at 125.

pmo dropped a lot but lots of reasons. trading opportunity only. long term 10x or bust.

eddie stobart limited. definitely an investing basket case but people don't understand why so anyoth great trading opportunity.

wetherspoons. no business rates and 80$ subsidised pay. already dropped a lot.

[mr.elbee] 25/3/2020 12:33

just watch the reaction against the lockdowns

end of Trump end of the Boris

the socialist's doctor's plan ALL ALONG. wake up babies!

[stonedyou] 25/3/2020 12:32

Cuba Uses 'Wonder Drug' to Fight Coronavirus Around World Despite U.S. Sanctions


Cuba has mobilized its medical corps around the world to distribute a new "wonder drug" that officials there say is capable of treating the new coronavirus despite the United States' strict sanctions that continue to pressure the communist-run island.

The drug, called Interferon Alpha-2B Recombinant (IFNrec), is jointly developed by scientists from Cuba and China, where the coronavirus COVID-19 disease outbreak first emerged late last year. Already active in China since January, the Cuban Medical Brigades began deploying to dozens of nations, providing personnel and products such as its new anti-viral drug to battle the disease that has exceeded 400,000 confirmed cases across the globe. As of Tuesday, over 100,000 people have recovered from the infection and more than 18,000 have died.

Cuba first used advanced interferon techniques to treat dengue fever in the 1980s and later found success in using it to combat HIV, human papillomavirus, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and other diseases. The use of Interferon Alpha-2B Recombinant "prevents aggravation and complications in patients reaching that stage that ultimately can result in death," Cuban biotech expert Luis Herrera Martinez said, according to a recent Yale University Press Blog feature written by the University of Glasgow's Helen Yaffe. She called the treatment a potential "wonder drug" against the new coronavirus.

Yaffe, who recently authored a book on Cuba's post-Soviet economic experience entitled We Are Cuba!, told Newsweek that she knew of at least 15 countries that have contacted Cuba to request the drug, along with "local mayors and hospital directors who are anxious to get hold of the Cuban anti-viral to meet the crisis." Interferon Alpha-2B Recombinant has not been approved to treat COVID-19, but has been proven effective against viruses similar to it.

It has been selected along with 30 other drugs to treat COVID-19 by China's National Health Commission. The World Health Organization will be studying interferon-beta, along with three other drugs, to determine their effectiveness against the new coronavirus.

Cuba's ambitious anti-pandemic efforts are hindered, however, by decades-long U.S. sanctions that one Cuban official described to Newsweek as "the main obstacle not only to respond to major health crises like COVID-19, but the main obstacle to the country's development at any area."

"The lifting of the blockade against Cuba would have an extraordinarily positive impact on Cuba and mostly in the health sector, which has been one of the most damaged areas since the establishment of the blockade almost 60 years ago with more than 3 billion in economic losses," the official added.

[jacko07] 25/3/2020 12:29

19/03/2020
National express - monitoring their declared dividend
Playtech cut their declared dividend
Portmeiron no final dividend to conserve cash
NewRiver reit Q4 dividend cut
Crest Nicholson cut their declared dividend
Next plc deferred final dividend
Elementis Cut their declared dividend

20/03/2020
Travis Perkins cancelled their already declared dividend
Intercontinental Hotels Group cancelled their declared dividend
Marks and Spencer will not pay a final dividend this year
JD Wetherspoon will not pay an interim dividend

SCS declared an unchanged dividend of 5.5p

23/03/2020
Stagecoach no final dividend
Go ahead cancels declared dividend
Aggreko cancels declared dividend
Card Factory no final dividend
ITV cancels declared dividend
IWG cancels declared dividend
N Brown Group suspends dividends for the foreseeable future.

24/03/2020
Santander has cancelled its 2020 interim (paid in November 2020) choosing instead to make a single payment in May 2021. Declared dividends unaffected.
Mortgage Advice Bureau was going to declare 12.8p, but instead has declared 6.4p now with 6.4p delayed.
Dunelm has cancelled their declared dividend
Redrow has cancelled their declared dividend
Gateley has cancelled their declared dividend
RPS has cancelled their declared dividend

Today's declarations 26/03/2020
Cairn homes cancels declared dividend
DFS cancels declared dividend
Vitec cancels declared dividend
Persimmon cancels declared dividends
Volution Group cancels declared dividend
Rentokil cancels declared dividend and suspends dividend payments
Unite cancels declared dividend and suspends dividend payments
McCarthy & Stone cancels declared dividend
Morgan Sindall cancels declared dividend
Wilmington cancels declared dividend
Mears will not pay a final dividend
Halfords suspends dividends indefinitely
St Modwen Properties adjourns AGM therefore delaying the dividend until a new AGM approves the dividend.
Keller, similarly to NEXT plc, has put the declared dividend under review
Animalcare defers the payment of its final dividend
Bellway will not pay an interim dividend
Walker Greenbank will not pay a final dividend
SSP defers final dividend payment from 27/3 to 4/6 and will ask shareholders to waive their entitlement. Will not pay an interim for H1 2020.