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Would you change your lifestyle or investment strategy if there was a 1-2 % chance it could go wrong, bearing in mind this percentage is based on having an elderly population.
If we had the same demographic as in the 1918 Spanish flu the risks would be far lower.

I think we can all agree the Dow was well over valued so with this big sell off perhaps US investors who will now have piles of cash to invest may look at alternative under valued UK stocks, the money has to go somewhere?

It's not only a virus and climate change but also a decade of lies that have come back to haunt you and a government who's only policy is bluster.
GLA

Unlikely.
My thoughts are the virus is already well embedded in the general population and many fit people are probably mixing up the symptoms with a heavy cold.Until the authorities get over this delay stage and report the full facts then share prices will be under continued pressure.

So UK going to come up with its own set of standards.Are you lot a bunch of North Koreans!

We would be £22bn better off if we all stayed at home.
Why do Brits travel abroad, is it because this country will rip you off on holiday treats?

Wids,with all this travelling are you the super spreader or is it Boomer?
In the best possible taste of course.

You knew that was a lie Boomer, "Canada run a trade surplus with the USA."
"U.S. goods and services trade with Canada totalled an estimated $718.5 billion in 2018. Exports were $363.8 billion; imports were $354.7 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade surplus with Canada was $9.1 billion in 2018."
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/canada

Having read a few posts here it's difficult to figure out who the losers are now!
As for Canada they agreed to American terms to get a FTA should we do the same with our largest trading partner?

TheFarEnd,
UK government dreams the figures up, do you have a better reason?
"The increase in the employment rate for women in recent years is partly a result of changes to the State Pension age for women, resulting in fewer women retiring between the ages of 60 and 65 years"
"Between 2011 and 2016, the UK experienced one of the largest slowdowns in improvements in life expectancy at birth and at age 65 years for both males and females out of the countries analysed.
The slowdown in improvements in mortality was observed most widely across the countries analysed for 65-to-79-year-olds, while females have been more affected overall by the slowdown than males."

I think you could be right Pat.
Boris rushed Brexit,if only we had stayed in the CU we wouldn't have needed trade talks.

With the current risks the market wants 7% yield out of Lloyds.

Hate to destroy myths but my mother-in-law told me during the Coventry blitz they had to prevent looters stealing from their bombed out property.
There has always been bad people in all societies.

That's what it has all come down to "We just need other EU lands to hate what the EU has become as much as us British" and if they don't, our relationship with them will be like Canada/U.S.
We will kid ourselves we are not aligning, but we will.

Something not quite right with the statistics if the average wage based on the top 9,000 employers covering 10.8m workers is £512 a week, the economy should be storming along as no one saves these days.

Expectations were raised too high for the dividend payment so i'm thinking the SP will recover with the nearly 4% yield before the 26th of March.
I'm sure our biggest shareholder would want to see a higher price.

Oxo, sounds like me.
Was I using Sainsburys custard filled doughnuts for fishing bait otherwise it could just be another Spartacus look alike.
Must head out now "cabin fever" setting in,need sugar for my coffee.

The great thing about web cams they don't lie.
Oxo,
i'm currently in Gateshead - Metrocentre / Hollinside Road / Red Car Park Flyover any chance you and Biscuit could walk into view.

What idiot wrote this,
"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
The electorate might fall for the rhetoric but the markets don't.

Oil is here to stay but if Goldman sachs can't dispose of Centrica's Spirit Energy for $2bn when it has 600m barrels of reserves and 50m annual production then the industry is facing a grim future.