pezz, today's report:
hong kong share mkt down 3% at mid-day
hong kong is struck down by bad, and as yet unknown disease, with flu-like symptoms
three kids died ;0/
bird flu? sars? something worse that can do more than asset damage?
do not know.
the authorities announced emergency school closure last night at 10:30pm.
schools closed for 2 weeks, to be followed by 14 additional days of regularly scheduled easter break
a whole month without school
coconut likes school, and now cannot go
must play at beach instead
the adults discussing whether we will be ... get this ...
have a financial collapse so that stocks and real estate can be picked up dirt cheap
watch and brief
imagine that, global financial crisis, coupled with regional economic desperation, co-happening with local contagion of the virus sort
sure glad i do not have debt <ng>
we have made emergency plans to de-camp hong kong, should push come to shove
Japan mkt also down 3% mid-day, for reasons not clear (supposedly because of oil price defying gravity) ... perhaps preceding a 3% drubbing in usa tonight, so as to revitalize my trade in the ultra shorts
as i have oil and gas and coal and uranium, i tend not to fuss over energy prices not obeying the laws of gravity
2008 has been heck of a year so far, and we are ONLY in March
chugs, tj |
