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site took me a while to work out but means over 500 views today. Click on the following link to their site and you will see some bikes have ALREADY hit this amount of views (I post at 8:53 in the morning). I can tell you these levels of interest were being hit IN THE AFTERNOON before the lock down.
https://www.halfords.com/bikes/mens-bikes/
I submit that their sales on new bikes are ROCKETING.
What competition do they have? Plus other things like car batteries and re-chargers. How many cars are idle at the moment? How many will go to start their cars and find the battery flat? They have a near monopoly on a load of their stuff at the moment. A "SCREAMING BUY" imho.
All IMHO.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/opec-u-s-shale-producers-open-talks-amid-oil-rout-11584719936

https://thearabweekly.com/after-oil-price-crash-russia-looks-opec-deal

USA is the Worlds biggest, strongest economy by a huge amount.
See :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
As you can see the USA is massively bigger than both Russia (11th) and Saudi (18th).
I would say Russia has the weakest hand between USA, Russia and Saud as far as oil goes.
Russia may have a load of oil but getting it out of the ground is more expensive than Saudi oil.
Saudi has massive oil reserves some of which are state secrets (one would assume enourmous underground seas of oil).
Saudi is ruled by a king and the people don't cause much trouble as far as I can tell.
On the other hand Putin runs Russia but these days he has to be careful so massive cuts in their budget could cause political problems and even trouble on the streets. Russia needs Brent @ $40........... it's at $25 now and that is a massive difference.
Both Russia and Saudi are heading for big problems with the oil price @ $25 that is for sure.
The USA is not happy either, but it is in no where near as much trouble as the other two.
Also the USA no doubt knows this as they are very far from daft.
So joint financial suicide seems to be where Saudi and Russia are at the moment.
All rather silly.
All IMHO

usually kiss each other on the cheeks like many in Central Europe do may save thousands of lives. We don't hug each other as much either. Let's hope the number of cases does not rocket in the next few weeks.
I went to a large Tescos earlier. You had to queue up outside keeping a couple of metres fron those in front and behind. They let about 15 trolleys in at a time (some were familys with trolley, some people on their own with trolley). Whilst waiting in the queue a memeber of staff came along and offered a squirt of sanitiser on your hands. Then once inside they cleaned the trolley push bar. I think the system is very good.
My impression was that everyone is now keeping a metre plus away from anyone else. People are now frightened as they should be. Now the PM has it and of all people the Secretary of state for health and social care, Matt Han**** (you could not make it up, could you!) people are taking this very, very, very seriously.
To think. They have capacity for 4,000 beds at the exhibition centre alone!
It's going to get very, very nasty.

sit down and cut the oil supply by several million barrels a day all 3 will pay a massive cost.
I now think Russia is in fact in the weakest position, although they will never admit it.
Then Saudi, then last of all the USA. I have no doubt oil production in the USA is a major part of their economy, but I fancy it is no where near Russias or Saudi's.
WTI is struggling to stay above $20 a barrel. If they do nothing it seems obvious it will fall to $15 and then even down to $10 a barrel.
The accountants in the Kremlin must be extremely worried.
But will Saudi sit down to do a deal. I fancy they will wait a few more weeks.
All IMHO.
Al IMHO.

Regarding Trump Easter is just over 2 weeks away. I was thinking it was further away and maybe, just maybe he knew results of a vaccine test might be coming out then. Unless he is an idiot I can omly presume there is some sort of news he is expecting at Easter. At the momey I don't think he's an idiot. I may change that in just over 2 weeks from now. LOL!

This SUMO Co said that yesterday morning in the RNS.
It's firking obvious they will do better FFS!

All INHO.

And we are not talking a few hundred thousand at how here are we.
We have 65m people give or take.
So even if we assume only half have stayed in that is 32.5 million people anf ro the next x months.........................
Call me MAD but it seens to me Companies like SUM are going to benefit rather a lot.#
All IMHO.

It's amazing how some Countries end up with complete idiots in charge.

I bet he sells them on the internet.

What sort of beans?

3 week stop/stay in then all would be equal??

they stated people staying at home should BENEFIT them as they get royalties from some of the released video games. Also their staff can obvioulsy work from home as they use COMPUTERS to do their work of course!!! LOL!!! FTSE down 5.8%, SUMO up 1%.

millions of people staying at home and gettin BORED. On line gaming is great fun.

and if they do presumably PMO shares will rise by the 17%. may find out next week!

sitting on the loo.

I think they need to do a massive cut as the lesser of two financial disasters. A massive cut would support Companies in their own Countries and so secure millions of jobs. If not Brent is going to go under $20............ $15? Total disaster. Cut would need to be 6m barrels a day I think minimum. Lesser of 2 evils IMHO.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-oil-opec/calls-mount-for-new-opec-deal-as-oil-prices-and-demand-slide-idUKKBN21E1YR?il=0

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