The week before I'd been talking to customers, advising them on transactions and even reassuring some customers that things might not be as bad as the media was reporting.
The harrowing, around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race is about halfway done and one boat celebrating a new lead over the fleet is getting somebad news: this mightbe your last race.
"Because the macroeconomic situation is still bad, we are expecting there mightbesome new policy coming out, " said Linus Yip, strategist at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong.
And it can certainly be argued that a more competitive system could weed out the bad docs we mightbe forced to see by some HMO program looking to save money.