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Yeah, ham. Still worried. I usually have every race backed at this stage. I still have no bet on in the Ballymore, Mares Hurdle, Foxhunters, Gold Cup or the Marsh at this stage.
I’ve nothing in the handicaps yet either but I’m going to back all 10 handicaps in running this year; that’s a new tactic that has nothing to do with the Virus.
You will still be refunded should the worst happen, best just to carry on as normal, even though it risen by 50% approx today its still unlikely that 3 more days would be significant enough to stop it, no football matches cancelled or behind closed doors through the weekend, doesnt really seem to even be on the radar yet,
Why the different tactics? Poor record previously with antepost in the handicaps?
I am more worried about this government’s potential actions than the virus itself. I expect a crackdown on random events & activities which present no more threat (and often far less) than others which will continue as usual. Utterly clueless so far.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall for this one
Not tried it ham but it would certainly be effective at keeping diseased people away
The pessimists have a point here. It’s likely to be their last shot at Cheltenham given that by this time next year they will be brown bread
Yeah tonge thats it, the virus generally speaking isnt drastic, just how severe a government acts, the italian government shocked me taking it to that level, i thought ours were touch and go at overreacting but damn that was heavy handed from them
Holefully that meeting is just about more facilities rather than behind closed doors, boris and co seem keen to prevent economic turmoil and im sure they will be careful when it comes to sporting events also
It would clive it would, i may try it at cheltenham on tuesday!
I am not too worried about the virus, but to be safe I think I will self-isolate for 4 days. Tuesday seems like a good day to start.
Chestnut I’ve decided on 5 …no point risking Saturday as well ….I’ve put the out of office on so no one has to worry ..I’ll catch up on some reading …i believe there’s some kind of post that’s a informative read !!
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Still find it peculiar how it was 25/1 to not go ahead, and then gets backed into 9/1, surely just green books rather than people actually thinking its still going to be off
280 cases in the UK now. FTSE 100 down 3.62% today. S&P opened down 12% and markets were suspended; it’s eased somewhat to down 5%. France (CAC) and Germany (DAX) are down 7%. This thing is starting to mess with money now which means it’s time for governments to act. I think we’re going to get away with it but only just. Still nervous that it will be shut down at any moment.
Vatour, the financial market sell off has nothing to do with the virus. It is to do with the price of oil and has been for a week or so.
It has everything to do with the virus. Why do you think oil has dropped? Lack of demand. Why is there a lack of demand? Because there’s a lack of production and why is that? Because of the virus..
You couldn’t be further from the truth Vautour.
I work in oil so keep a large eye on it and the problem is OVER-production. OPEC wanted to reduce production levels and Russia are declining it, which is causing the oil price to crash.
The price war between Russia & Saudi Arabia is indeed partially why there has been a general downward trend but it’s a two sided issue; over supply due to the price war and lack of demand due to the virus..
https://qz.com/1814957/how-the-crash-in-oil-prices-is-playing-out-around-the-world/
But it’s nothing to do with lack of production as you said – if production was lacking the price wouldn’t be dropping at the same rate and Saudi wouldn’t be trying to reduce production levels as they’d naturally be doing so.
I don’t mean production of oil; I mean production in the global economy. Product as in the P in GDP. China basically closed down all their factories for 2 weeks. Less global production means less demand for oil.
Less demand for Oil is the reason there is an issue now with Saudi & Russia. they wanted to reduce the supply to stabilize the price but one side is not playing ball meaning their will be higher supply and lower demand.
The point I was making is if there was no virus; this wouldn’t be happening. Therefor the markets falling today is because of the virus.
The markets will bounce back , the virus should run its course in a month or so , I invest in the markets monthly and I’m looking at it as a good opportunity to buy good shares cheap
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