Rout in Stock Futures Trigger Trading Curbs… 10-year Treasury below 0.5%… Anxiety grips companies across world… ‘We’re past the point of containment’

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UST 10YR .476%! Tomorrow could be unprecedented without a Fed rescue. Even then, the markets may just shake it off and/or consider it a panic signal. — John Tuld (@BradHuston) March 9, 2020 NEW: CNN says it will now refer to coronavirus as a pandemic: "[It] clearly meets the definition, so CNN will start using … Read more

FITTON: BIG Victory: Court rules Hillary Clinton Must Testify on Emails and Benghazi Attack Docs within 75 Days. The Testimony Must Happen by May 16.

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by TFittonJW Reason to smile: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-victory-federal-court-orders-deposition-of-hillary-clinton-on-emails-and-benghazi-attack-records/ The testimony must happen by May 16. The courts opinion is worth reading: https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/JW-v-State-Hillary-Deposition-Order-01242.pdf

Airlines, Hotels, Entertainment are F*cked

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by robdels I’ve been travelling for the past few weeks and I’ve come to the conclusion that these are all f*cked. Flights that usually sell out are empty. Either myself or my close colleagues have personally seen the following flights with ~50% capacity in the past week: NYC to LHR NYC to MSP NYC to DTW … Read more

Black Monday? Dow Futures Down One Thousand Points! The World Seems To Be Unraveling Before Our Eyes.

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https://twitter.com/QTRResearch/status/1236775216786878464 Trapped.$CAD just broke down from a massive bearish pennant. Now add: – A housing bubble with record indebted Canadians– Oil collapsing– BoC panicking– Global economy faltering Next domino to fall?Levered Canadian banks. It already started. pic.twitter.com/nCGLUu16dc — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) March 8, 2020 S&P 600 futures open down 100-plus points or 3.5% Oil … Read more

Last Friday’s #crude oil drop was the biggest in 5 years. Tonight’s drop will make Friday’s drop look like peanuts.

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Last Friday's #crude oil drop was the biggest in 5 years. Tonight's drop will make Friday's drop look like peanuts. #OOTT #WTI $USO pic.twitter.com/u7RowqNjMa — IV (@iv_technicals) March 8, 2020 Oil now a ‘bigger problem for markets than the coronavirus,’ analyst says Oil prices plunged on Friday as OPEC and its allies failed to reach … Read more

Responding To Epidemics Requires Flexibility. Regulation Takes Away Flexibility.

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A Self-Inflicted Crisis: Overregulation has played a dangerous role in America’s coronavirus outbreak. It’s troubling that community spread in Washington State and other parts of the U.S.—possibly affecting hundreds to thousands of individuals—wasn’t detected sooner. Overregulation of diagnostic testing has played a major role in this delay. For weeks, the CDC operated the nation’s sole … Read more

EPA Releases List of Best Disinfectants to Use Against Coronavirus

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There may be additional disinfectants that meet the criteria for use against SARS-CoV-2. EPA will update this list with additional products as needed,” the agency stated. Some of the product brands on the EPA’s list include: Clorox Healthcare Bleach Germicidal Cleaner Spray Clorox Disinfecting Wipes Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist Professional Lysol Disinfectant Spray Purell … Read more

There is a reason for canceling public gatherings. In a pandemic, don’t be Philadelphia (held a parade in 1918 when cases started to come up…)

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There is a reason for canceling public gatherings. In a pandemic, don't be Philadelphia (held a parade in 1918 when cases started to come up, downplayed cases), be St. Louis (canceled gatherings). More here: https://t.co/KE7RYbxDGM @mlipsitch pic.twitter.com/wyrHx0nOLA — Florian Krammer (@florian_krammer) March 6, 2020 There is a reason for canceling public gatherings. In a pandemic, … Read more

U.S. Surgeon General: “…you’re going to see more deaths. But that doesn’t mean that we should panic.”

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Ana Cabrera @AnaCabrera · 49m #coronavirus: The U.S. Surgeon General says the U.S. is moving from a containment phase to a “mitigation phase, which means… you’re going to see more cases. Unfortunately, you’re going to see more deaths. But that doesn’t mean that we should panic. #coronavirus: The U.S. Surgeon General says the U.S. is … Read more

ITALY EMERGENCY MEASURES. Hospitals may soon soon put an age limit to enter ICU “to save scarse resources for who has the largest chances of survival”

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Sh*t hitting the fan. ITALY EMERGENCY MEASURES 16 days after the beginning of the outbreak, the Italian government took decree today to take exceptional measures to contain about 16 million Italians living in 14 provinces in the north of the country, as well as restrictive measures covering the whole country. [source] Northern Italy under lockdown … Read more

OIL CRASH OF 2020 – DD

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by SEEANDDONTSQUEAL The following news released since Fridays OPEC failed meeting: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/opec-meeting-coronavirus-weighs-on-oil-demand-as-oil-prices-fall.html ​ Some key points from the article are as follows: – OPEC and non-OPEC allies failed on Friday to agree on how much oil production to cut amid the coronavirus outbreak – Russia reportedly refusing to give the green light to the deepest … Read more

My predictions over the next 24 months.

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My predictions over the next 24 months.1.Europe to implode and default on debt3. Housing to drop by 60% 4. Global depression5. 60% of companies will need bailout 6. 80% of banks to be nationalized.7. Junk bonds to implode8. Markets to drop by 60%9. Toilet paper mania. — The Great Martis (@great_martis) March 7, 2020 S&P500: … Read more

American Hospital Association “Best Guess Epidemiology” for #codiv19 over next 2 months:

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Source on American Hospital Association numbers:https://t.co/fApRlWrjSh Source on flu stats:https://t.co/Rlmm3ZzhDn — Seth Bannon (@sethbannon) March 7, 2020 If pandemic becomes critical the # of hospital beds will matter:US 2.8 per capChina 4.3Germany 8S Korea 12.3 H/t @Schuldensuehnerhttps://t.co/fWf17JBM7S pic.twitter.com/gvATl0YJ2D — Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) March 8, 2020