Friday the 13th

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

China's GDP report registered a big miss.
North Korea fired off a rocket last night.
European markets are getting smashed.
Italian industrial production fell 0.7%.
UK PPI increased more than expected.
US futures are down,
Spanish CDS are at new highs.
The Spanish stock market is getting creamed.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/frigg...#ixzz1rvDqvzVL

be afraid be very afraid

[french frank]

Well, at least NK's rocket launch failed ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

exactly!

[french frank]

exactly!

Is that the good news or the bad news?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And the Titanic Anniversary Cruise is still OK

[french frank]

Pound has been rising against the euro and the yen.

Bad news is that that makes staycations less necessary/attractive.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

precisely

[Serial_Apologist]

Dragged out of bed this morn at eight am by the meter reader. Then they started machinery for a pedestrian crossing right outside. Sounded like some giant cosmic stapler and shook the building - I thought WW3 had begun!

[MrGongGong]

Happy Birthday Jimmy Destri

[french frank]

precisely

So people are superstitious? Aren't motorways safer than other roads? If so, avoiding travelling on M-ways and taking other (less familiar?) routes would account for a rise in accidents.


[This line of reasoning, of course, is invalid if M-ways are less safe than other routes which would have had the reverse effect had it not been Friday 13th ... ]

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

oh ff your indefatigable search for sense and sensibility is utterly admirable if somewhat quixotic ....

[french frank]

oh ff your indefatigable search for sense and sensibility is utterly admirable if somewhat quixotic ....

[Serial_Apologist]

Sun shone as I cycled down to Brixton, yet I got a soaking on the way home. And the only cashpoint on the route was closed.

Anyone would think it was Friday the 13th, till you told them different.

[3rd Viennese School]

Well, it's Friday the 13th and yet I'm going to the Sidcup Beer Festival tonight!

That's called a paradox.

3VS

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

there will be no beer in Sidcup 3VS ..... but a windmill is likely ....