Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[chavitravi2] 15/3/2020 15:31

My view is "you have to get it to beat it" experts say if you are reasonable well it will be little more that a cold if you get it, and if you do you are unlikely to get it again. Cant help but feel this is over cooked by the media and some countries like Spain locking down for 15 days are just going to keep seeing it again and again crippling their economies and prolonging the virus with people coming in that are weeks behind with it, such as us re infecting again. I think we are right letting it take its gradual course.

[hernando2] 15/3/2020 15:11

Why are countries in the EU closing borders to each other? Thought all living in the EU were citizens of Europe and Nationalism was not allowed?

[minerve 2] 15/3/2020 15:00

During a conference, Prof Pardis Sabeti, an expert in infectious disease, estimated that South Korea was testing "700 times more people per capita than the US".


So much for the good old USA.

It is a circus full of freaks, animals, clowns and trapeze artists.

[minerve 2] 15/3/2020 14:48

Interesting to hear detailed experience of Italian icu doctors. No deaths at all in the group aged 26 or less, some get sick, but no deaths.

[mikemichael2] 15/3/2020 14:47

Branson won't give a stuff, he's well sorted. The staff,suppliers and share holders that will suffer while he sits back on his Island, or one of his many pads around the world.

[wendsworth] 15/3/2020 14:45

EssentialInvestor : Noted. Doubtless the hedgies and computerised trading platforms will be ahead of the game ....hence my final comment. Just have a feeling that we might see a levelling out this week . There are some excellent buys in the offing and 'they' will be well aware of it! Some cash generating utilities for example ? However I'm still a trifle wary of the banking sector which I think will be slower in it's share price recovery .

[wendsworth] 15/3/2020 14:36

Minerva : Absolutely agree with your comments ref Virgin. Branson has leeched off the public purse for donkeys years. The UK Government should follow his , and others , example and wait for Virgin to go under then pick up the assets for a song to form the basis of a national airline perhaps incorporating BA?

[essentialinvestor] 15/3/2020 14:28

For some better news, the South Korea numbers look much better,
although just to caution the initial surge may have been largely caused by
that religious sect ? -in any case something hopeful.

Hubai provenance has peaked, the rest of mainland China stats look lower than you
might expect?, but still even if not accurate, hopefully there is a positive trend there.

[wendsworth] 15/3/2020 14:09

As 'the source' China is very much ahead of the game . Return to work is accelerating with virtually all its regions lowering it's emergency response levels . Singapore , South Korea and other Asian countries have COVID 19 under control. Could be that the Chinese and Trump are 'working together' !!????? Vast sums to be made out of this ...in every sense.

As to Monday or this week's market forecasts...GOOD LUCK WITH THAT !!!!!!!

[essentialinvestor] 15/3/2020 14:05

Reported cases death rate and actual death rate may be markedly different.
Reported cases are disproportionately weighted to the more serious or those who develop complications. Hopefully the actual death rate is nearer 1% or under.

[minerve 2] 15/3/2020 14:05

Virgin should be allowed to go under.

Branson has taken his private profits and now he wants to socialise his losses.

Forget it Branson. You should deal with this on your own!

[crossing_the_rubicon] 15/3/2020 14:02

Interestingly, the dominant Syrian identity of the migrants has been widely questioned given video from the clashes often shows asylum-seekers speaking all kinds of regional languages from Pashtun to Urdu to Farsi, and not Syrian Arabic (Levantine dialect).

"Anyone surprised?"

[crossing_the_rubicon] 15/3/2020 14:02

CM44:)

You prepper you!

Ex boy scout I take it.

Old habits die hard.

[utrickytrees] 15/3/2020 13:58

Wont be long before the Paddys come to us cap in hand for another loan. EU run out of funds.

[asdb9] 15/3/2020 13:57

CFR of common flu 0.2CFR of Covid19 3.0

[careful] 15/3/2020 13:50

280,000 deaths would be an unprecedented disaster.
Don't know how you get your number.

We know the deaths, and number of those tested positive with symptoms.
but we do not know the numbers untested or those that have been cured without treatment.

[ignoble] 15/3/2020 13:28

Well said Maxidi...
Couldn't agree more...

[asdb9] 15/3/2020 13:25

CFR of Covid19 is at least 10x greater so 280,000. And you dont see ehat all the fuss is about