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Markets Are Sinking (Ebola Fears)
BI ^ | 10-24-2014 | Mike Bird

Posted on 10/24/2014 4:55:38 AM PDT by blam

Mike Bird
October 24, 2014

European markets are down early Friday, following a drop in US stock futures after an Ebola scare.

Here's the scorecard, so far:

France's CAC 40 is down 0.55%

Spain's IBEX is down 0.01%

Italy's FTSE MIB is up 0.26% after opening down

Britain's FTSE 100 is down 0.35%

Germany's DAX is down 0.37%

Asian markets closed mixed. The Nikkei closed up 1.01%. The Hang Seng closed down 0.13%.

US futures are down, with S&P futures down 6 points and Dow futures down 33 points.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolaba; investing; markets; stocks
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1 posted on 10/24/2014 4:55:38 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Just stop these idiot medical personnel from coming back to the US from Ebola countries!


2 posted on 10/24/2014 4:57:31 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: blam
New York Throws 3 People Into Quarantine After Ebola Patient Travels All Over The City
3 posted on 10/24/2014 4:58:04 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Dallas59
Just stop these idiot medical personnel from coming back to the US from Ebola countries!

This almost feels like "playing the hand" to get profit-driven pharmaceutical companies to get involved, with the help of governments.

JMHO (and crazy conspiracy theory)

4 posted on 10/24/2014 5:03:08 AM PDT by grania
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To: blam

Yes, you hop right on that enclosed aircraft passing through LGA, JFK or DFW... Never mind that odd fellow bleeding from his eyes, the democrats said everything is fine...

Do you feel less INFECTED than you did 6 years ago?


5 posted on 10/24/2014 5:04:43 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: blam

Well Ebola might just do, what the markets didn’t yet.

Overcome manipulation.

Our markets are completely propped up at the moment.

America badly, needs to bring jobs home. Republicans get with it, and support American jobs.


6 posted on 10/24/2014 5:06:15 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (ehre v/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: blam
Some additional Ebola updates for this morning:


7 posted on 10/24/2014 5:08:31 AM PDT by wtd
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To: blam

3 seems pretty small, IMHO, they should grill the guy for every place he went and scrub it down.


8 posted on 10/24/2014 5:09:59 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: blam

Manipulation. They’ll go back up.


9 posted on 10/24/2014 5:18:56 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: grania

Yes, I believe you’re correct. Align with Obama on obamacare and he will create market demand for your product. What better than a plague and a government injection of a billion dollars or so?!?

Now we see the true obamacare bottom line.


10 posted on 10/24/2014 5:21:47 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: blam

Dow futures down 33?

OMG! It’s 1929 all over again!


11 posted on 10/24/2014 5:23:21 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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May I make an Ebola supposition? I doubt it’ll be seen by many.

I’m starting to believe that not only is it capable of disintegrating the integrity of all blood vessels and connective tissues, it may have an impairment effect on the brain.

This is not the first disease to demonstrate such a thing. Toxoplasmosis has been shown to cause depressive and suicidal thoughts. Rabies causes hydrophobia (Fear of water)

Does ebola cause loss of critical thinking and judgement? (May I crack a joke - turn them in to democrats?)


12 posted on 10/24/2014 5:26:18 AM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

13 posted on 10/24/2014 5:26:51 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Crazieman
"...it may have an impairment effect on the brain."

There is one:

Prion Disease

14 posted on 10/24/2014 5:38:20 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Crazieman

Haha. Kind of like this classic Bob Hope video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k

Zombies = Democrats


15 posted on 10/24/2014 5:51:35 AM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: Dallas59

Seriously. You would think at the very least a nurse and an MD would know enough to isolate themselves.


16 posted on 10/24/2014 6:04:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


17 posted on 10/24/2014 6:56:57 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: blam

Last I looked, the DOW and S&P have been going through the roof this week.


18 posted on 10/24/2014 7:12:39 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: blam

But we can’t restrict travel, it will negatively impact struggling economies! It’s OK though to impact first world economies with Obola, it’s only fair.


19 posted on 10/24/2014 7:29:53 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: blam; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Just wait until a mall or two or two thousand are shutdown due to Ebola contamination!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

20 posted on 10/24/2014 7:38:20 AM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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