Share price18 Jun 2020 20:15
I am wondering what happened to Legal and General? Quality papers saying the insurance industry has taken a cv19 hit of about £16 billion. Hence the unseemly rush to sell from 30p onwards- having secured 100% return by then already. I noticed that Link sold out of Avacta a little while ago and a TR1 went in for 14%. They are required to inform the market for every 1% they sell until they are under 3%. So, well dodgy. I wonder if we are getting a bit of that. The last TR1 we had from L&G was showing them down to 6.8%. Some huge sells and huge buys going on right now. Market makers might be talking to each other about this. They don't want a big sell to benefit from an uplifted sp do they?
And I think the market needs to get it's head around the government's tracking app fiasco. Nothing to do with the RTC. Won't affect the value of the app we have which is an instant reporting facility. Will be excellent as a tool for us to understand how the disease has spread, whilst offering reassurance to employees and employers enabling a safe return to work. Our app was never about tracing automatically in the surveillance realm. The functionality of those apps haven't been great anywhere. Article in the Guardian, will share from my pc later. The bluetooth reliance sucks the juice from your battery like crazy. Worse it confuses distance of your contacts depending on whether your phone is in a bag/pocket (exaggerated distance) or in the open (underestimates distance). So more people can end up in quarantine than should or conversely, you miss people who are exposed. In the rush to criticise the government- well, they have been incompetent- the appraisal thus far is missing the fact that the concept of 'track and trace ' using the app specifically, is still a work in progress and far from perfect anywhere. But the app is not the essential element. The test is. The ability to share results with confidence and to feed those results into anonymous monitoring alongside a reporting system based on trust and voluntary disclosure will be a huge step forward.