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Covid-19 and Share Prices

Posted on the 09 November 2020 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth

From The Daily Mail:
'Stay at home' stocks Zoom, Amazon and Netflix all plunge after Pfizer announces its COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective
* Zoom shares dropped by 15 percent in pre-market trading on Monday
* The video calling company saw a boost in March when millions of businesses switched to working-from-home
* Amazon and Netflix also saw jumps in their share prices at the start of the second quarter
* They also suffered on Monday while Pfizer's stock went up by 14.5 percent

Those bullet points sum up pretty much all you need to know. I assume that the share price of oil companies will also increase if the vaccine promises to be effective; petrol went down a couple of pence/litre after Lockdown 2.0 kicked in.

And, if you love a right-wing conspiracy theory, you can assume that Pfizer waited until it was fairly certain that Biden would win the election before they announced that their vaccine appears to work. If teh vaccine actually works and it all goes live next year, Biden will take all the credit (like Ken Livingstone introducing hire bikes in London shortly before the end of his second term as London Mayor, which his successor Borit Johnson promptly renamed 'Boris Bikes'). It would have really helped Trump if Pfizer had announced this a couple of weeks before the election.


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