I thought trading halts were for an hour. this one only 20 mins?

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LOL - NY Times: How to prepare to live in the Stone Age, the end of the world.

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USA to ramp up testing for coronavirus this week. Quest Diagnostics, a major lab chain, will begin tests tomorrow. The actual testing will surely spike the reporting of real numbers of those infected, and where the disease has spread and probably ...

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NY back from lunch. Sell it all!

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Kudlow floats idea of tax breaks to cruise lines, travel companies, airlines. Because who doesn't want to jump on a cruise right now if only it were offered at a discount? Facepalm [oops, I didn't wash my hands first]

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Is Rick Santelli still on the air at CNBC?

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An animal health company?

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It has mutated, and there are two strains. url

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The 6 Los Angeles cases: 1 has been hospitalized. 5 others are home quarantined. 3 of the cases were a family that had traveled to Italy (in infected zones). 1 case was a guy who meets and is exposed to travelers due to his job.

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Spanish Flu mortality rate was estimated to be between 2 - 3%. So we're at the top of THAT scale, of a pandemic which killed 60 million.

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Pretty sure some of the coming options are calling reporting stock market numbers "fake news."

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Potential for another .25 cut at regular March and April meetings. Possible negative rate territory. Fixed income/seniors will be buying a lot of cat food.

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Powell: rate cuts can't fix supply chains." Nope. Those are pretty much stuffed for a long time. Then wtf was the cut for? consumer confidence is plummeting.

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Port of Los Angeles is projecting a 25% drop in container volumes this month, as the economic impact of the coronavirus spreads across shipping operations and foreign supply chain. Imagine if 1 in 4 goods imported from Asia suddenly stopped coming. ...

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That was a wild press conference. Trump looked like he was under sedation, hadn't slept for 5 days and been shot in the face by Dick Cheney. He was rightly called out for calling this crisis, just last night, a hoax, when it plainly isn't. I'm sure ...

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France cancels half-marathon and events with more than 5,000 people. But French Ligue 1 football matches will go on although the players will not shake hands in line with the latest health advice. So there's that. Monday will be interesting.

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After pullback on interest rate cut chatter, guessing stocks will be sold into the close. Trump administration has barred Anthony Fauci, one of the nation's leading experts on infectious disease (who's served 5 presidents) from appearing on weekend ...

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Have a summer trip booked to Paris/Benelux. Have to accept fact that this trip is pretty much stuffed. Used airline miles that will expire in August. Perhaps, I can re-book trip and head for Antarctica?

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Cashed out some S&P shorts and will hold, hopefully build, additional short position most of year. Still near 18 times forward earnings (peak was 20). Rest of the year just looks properly stuffed with the confidence-man in chief unable to instill ...

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For those looking to god, "god's man" (for Catholics) has been taken ill after comforting and touching, the masses, in Rome during public mass.

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