Category Archives: Daily Digest

• Singapore Plans Biggest Budget Gap in More Than Two Decades
• Coronavirus: Thieves steal 6,000 surgical masks in Japan amid shortage
• New French health minister: ‘credible risk’ of coronavirus pandemic
• Singapore builders seek force majeure advice as coronavirus causes labor crunch
• Wuhan hospital director dies from coronavirus, Moody’s lowers China forecast
• Chinese doctors using plasma therapy on coronavirus, WHO says ‘very valid’ approach
• Argentina Pockets $35 Billion Windfall After Accounting Change
• As ‘do-or-die’ IMF talks draw to a close, Argentina faces prospect of another default
• China Stock Recovery Nearing $1 Trillion Is Drawing Skeptics

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• Blain’s Morning Porridge – 13th Feb 2020: Virus vs Markets
• Coronavirus expert says he knows when the virus ‘will burn itself out,’ according to leaked analysis
• Live updates: Coronavirus cases surge again in China; more than 1,700 medical workers infected
• Administration to Divert Billions From Pentagon to Fund Border Wall
• Exclusive: Chinese doctors say Wuhan coronavirus reinfection even deadlier
• Alibaba CEO warns coronavirus is a ‘black swan’
• The Lessons We Have Learned From The Coronavirus So Far…
• Big Oil Warned Trump That China Trade Deal Wouldn’t Work
• Doug Casey: We Will Never Run Out of Oil
• The Coronavirus May Mark The End Of Russia-OPEC Cooperation

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• Coronavirus stretches limits of strained public health systems in Asia and beyond
• Some coronavirus patients in Japan in serious condition: sources
• Panic buying, mistrust and economic woes as Japan reels from coronavirus outbreak
• Nissan to shut Japan factory due to shortage of Chinese parts
• Coronavirus: China’s firms face grim reality as help from Beijing could take too long to trickle down
• Coronavirus: Santa Clara County to declare local health emergency, resident under quarantine shares support
• TREASURIES-Yield curve inverts on coronavirus-linked demand

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• Coronavirus, the potential for a vaccine, and the cytokine storm!
• Asia’s Stocks Trade Mixed, Treasuries Hold Losses: Markets Wrap
• A ‘highly pathogenic strain’ of H5N1 bird flu has been reported in China’s Hunan province
• 195 Americans Released From Coronavirus Quarantine At Southern California Air Base
• New Coronavirus Disease Officially Named COVID-19 By The World Health Organization
• WSJ Publishes “Highly Classified” Evidence Proving Huawei Spies For Beijing (jasonw)
• A Store, a Chalet, an Unsealed Pipe: Coronavirus Hot Spots Flare Far From Wuhan
• ‘Like Europe in Medieval Times’: Virus Slows China’s Economy
• Oil Traders Could Lose Big On Coronavirus Panic
• Oil Sinks To Prices Not Seen Since 2018

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• In Hong Kong, toilet paper is in short supply. Trust in the government is even more scarce.
• 2020 Is Going To Get Much Crazier. Prioritize Your Mental Health.
• Red Flags Emerge in U.S. Stocks With Insiders Rushing to Sell
• Trump to Trish Regan: China has coronavirus under control
• Preparing For The End Of The World, On A Budget
• Fiat warns coronavirus could force closure of European plant
• Mask-clad Xi Jinping emerges from conspicuous absence to visit coronavirus ‘front line’
• Russia’s strangest reality show: Siberian quarantine videos shared on Instagram
• Senator Jim Molan grilled over climate change, bushfire response on Q+A with Hamish Macdonald

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• Nearly 14,000 want Alhambra schools to cancel class until coronavirus outbreak ends
• As Out-Of-Pocket Health Costs Rise, Insured Adults Are Seeking Less Primary Care
• College tuition is rising; wages aren’t keeping up
• Coronavirus will ‘shake markets out of their buy-the-dip’ mentality, says El-Erian
• Poland pulls emerging markets into sub-zero sovereign club
• Negative Real Yields Show Bond Traders’ Growth Worries Deepening
• Coronavirus Could Cause China’s Oil Demand To Plunge By 20%
• Russia’s Oil Production Hits Highest In Five Months

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• Globalization – A sneaky overview (Afridev)
• Coronavirus Pummels Wuhan, a City Short of Supplies and Overwhelmed (Sparky1)
• Zerohedge Suspended On Twitter (Thomas R.)
• Symptoms of coronavirus: what to look for, who to contact if you get sick and how to treat it (Thomas R)
• China’s virus response has been ‘breathtaking’ (Afridev)
• 02/02/2020 is World Palindrome Day; last one was 909 years ago (Thomas R.)
• China Arrested Doctors Who Warned About Coronavirus Outbreak. Now Death Toll’s Rising, Stocks Are Plunging. (Thomas R.)
• Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent Darpa Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak (Afridev)
• Mayo Clinic doctor: Coronavirus is ‘basically at a pandemic now’ and should be treated as such (redinr08)
• Stock market news live: Markets rebound as coronavirus rocks China; Google jumps on Q4 earnings beat (Thomas R.)
• Here’s how a top hedge fund manager says investors should prepare for ‘soberingly low’ returns (Thomas R.)

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• ‘Unprecedented’ New Photos of the Sun’s Surface Are Being Hailed as Landmark Achievement for Science
• Woman Is Reunited With Her Lost Dog After Seeing Her On A Beer Can
• Minnesota Will Pay Homeowners To Replace Lawns With Bee-Friendly Wildflowers And Clover
• British Carbon Tax Leads to Whopping 93% Drop in Coal-Fired Electricity
• Watch the Thundering Return of Bighorn Sheep to Nevada Land They Haven’t Roamed for 100 Years
• Bumblebee Vomit: Scientists Are No Longer Ignoring It
• A Prairie Flower That Flourishes With Fire

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• San Francisco official in charge of cleaning up city’s filthy streets arrested
• Health Experts: Human-to-human spread of new virus worrying
• How Viral Pandemic Benefits The Globalist Agenda
• Tesla’s Stock Price Soars After Crushing Expectations
• Coronavirus outbreak: What to do if you think you’ve contracted the novel virus
• As Coronavirus Explodes in China, Countries Struggle to Control Its Spread
  
• US Oil Exports Could Explode After Once In A Lifetime Power Shift In China
• Is This The End Of Canada’s Oil Sands?
• Temperatures at a Florida-Size Glacier in Antarctica Alarm Scientists
  

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Economy Despite insurance gains, more people in the U.S. can’t afford doctors Over the past two decades, the proportion of adults without insurance dropped to 14.8% from 16.9%, the study found. But during this same period, the proportion of adults unable to afford doctor visits climbed from 11.4% to 15.7%. In study of nation’s 75…

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