It’s a shame that so many good posters echo the current ‘it’s nothing at all, just a flu’, chicom propaganda. I’ve wondered out loud what percent of the EIB network is owned by chicoms or people with a lot of investments there.
Now that Italy, the UK and Spain have chicom ‘consultants’, look for those numbers to be dramatically revised down. Nothing to see here. Move along. Those people were going to die anyways. They just happened to all die in March.
I think some of the “just the flu” Freepers were “risk on” in the stock market and other financial instruments.
Those folks have lost their shirt at this point, particularly if they traded on margin.
Check out this financial story:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cftc-quietly-bails-out-capital-one
One oil futures trade—a billion (yes, with a b) dollar loss that would have destroyed a huge financial player if .gov didn’t bail them out last week.
The average “investor” does not have .gov to watch _their_ back when they make stupid gambles...