The latest medical finding about covid-19 virus.

The human genome make-up has 3 receptors: ACE-2, DC-Sign and L-Sign.

The covid-19 virus will invade any of the 3 receptors to replicate itself in a human.

The latest medical finding shows that these 3 receptors are commonly found in the elderly (60 & above), Caucasians and smokers.

What's interesting about this is that DC-Sign and L-Sign receptors are more commonly found in Caucasians and not in Asians.

These newly found medical facts have explained the high infection rate and the high death toll among the elderly Caucasians.  Therefore, the US and Europe cases will surpass Asia in the due course.

We can see that the death toll in Italy has already surpassed China.

Bank of America has declared the US is in a recession!

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/bank-of-america-says-the-recession-is-already-here-jobs-will-be-lost-wealth-will-be-destroyed.html

Bank of America projects that the US economy will collapse in Q2, shrinking by 12%.

The US stock markets have not yet factored in a deep recession and also the high infection & death toll projections.

http://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2020/03/50m-americans-could-be-infected-by.html

The 2 achilles' heels of the US economy. - Part 2

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-unemployment/u-s-jobless-claims-jump-to-two-and-a-half-year-high-coronavirus-blamed-idUSKBN216241

The US jobless claims surged to 2 and 1/2 half year high without fully account for the covid-19 impact.  Therefore, the jobless claims will deteriorate further in the next report.

As the US jobless claims rise, the US mortgage debts will be greatly affected because many owners will give up their properties and the banks will be saddled with many repossessed and unsold houses.  Subsequently, this will affect the mortgage-backed securities.

http://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-2-achilles-heels-of-us-economy.html

The US corporate debts are getting affected by the covid-19 impacts now because S&P and Moody's have started to downgrade the credit ratings of big US firms.

ST Engineering - Stock calls

Date	Analyst	Company	Last	Target	Call	Valuation
01/02/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	3.51	3.97	Buy
01/23/19	CIMB	ST Engineering	3.66	3.94	Add
01/31/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	3.66	4.06	Buy
02/08/19	DBS Vickers	ST Engineering	3.75	4.15	Buy	Sum of parts
02/21/19	Lim & Tan	ST Engineering	3.77	0	Hold
02/22/19	OCBC	ST Engineering	3.71	4.01	Buy	FCFE
02/22/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	3.71	4.1	Buy
02/22/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	3.71	4.06	Buy
02/22/19	Kim Eng	ST Engineering	3.71	4.25	Buy	DCF
03/13/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	3.74	4.1	Buy
03/26/19	CIMB	ST Engineering	3.75	4.08	Add
03/28/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	3.75	4.06	Buy
03/28/19	Lim & Tan	ST Engineering	3.75	0	Hold
03/29/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	3.73	4.4	Buy	EV/Invested capital basis
03/29/19	OCBC	ST Engineering	3.73	4.07	Buy
03/29/19	DBS Vickers	ST Engineering	3.73	4.15	Buy
04/15/19	Kim Eng	ST Engineering	3.82	4.25	Buy
04/25/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	3.9	4.7	Buy	EV/Invested capital basis
04/25/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	3.9	4.1	Buy
04/25/19	Kim Eng	ST Engineering	3.9	4.3	Buy	DCF
04/26/19	DBS Vickers	ST Engineering	3.89	4.15	Buy
05/13/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	4.02	4.7	Buy
05/16/19	OCBC	ST Engineering	3.9	4.22	Buy
05/16/19	DBS Vickers	ST Engineering	3.9	4.5	Buy	Sum of parts
05/16/19	CIMB	ST Engineering	3.9	4.43	Add	PER22x FY20
05/22/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	3.96	4.45	Buy	DCF & PER20.5x FY20 & PB5.5x FY20 & EV/Ebitda11x FY20
06/06/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	4	4.45	Buy
06/06/19	DBS Vickers	ST Engineering	4	4.5	Buy
06/13/19	OCBC	ST Engineering	4.09	4.38	Buy
06/13/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	4.09	4.7	Buy
07/05/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	4.24	4.45	Buy	PER20.5x FY20 & PB5.5x FY20 & EV/Ebitda11x FY20 & DCF
07/15/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	4.29	4.7	Buy
08/15/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	4.22	4.36	Hold
08/15/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	4.22	4.7	Buy	Sum of parts
08/15/19	OCBC	ST Engineering	4.22	4.64	Buy	DCF
08/16/19	CIMB	ST Engineering	4.07	4.36	Add	Sum of parts
08/16/19	DBS Vickers	ST Engineering	4.07	4.64	Buy	Sum of parts
08/16/19	Lim & Tan	ST Engineering	4.07	0	Hold
09/11/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	3.9	4.7	Buy
09/18/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	3.9	4.34	Buy
09/20/19	Kim Eng	ST Engineering	3.92	4.3	Hold
10/01/19	DBS Vickers	ST Engineering	3.84	4.64	Buy
10/02/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	3.85	4.7	Buy	Sum of parts
10/08/19	Kim Eng	ST Engineering	3.91	4.5	Buy	DCF
10/09/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	3.92	4.34	Buy
10/14/19	CIMB	ST Engineering	4.02	4.36	Add
11/11/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	4.12	4.7	Buy	Sum of parts
11/12/19	DBS Vickers	ST Engineering	4	4.64	Buy
11/12/19	CIMB	ST Engineering	4	4.47	Add
11/12/19	Kim Eng	ST Engineering	4	4.5	Buy
11/12/19	OCBC	ST Engineering	4	4.64	Buy
11/12/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	4	4.55	Buy	Sum of parts
11/12/19	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	4	4.32	Buy
12/19/19	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	3.9	4.55	Buy
01/08/20	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	4.02	4.55	Buy	PER22x FY20 & PB5.8x & EV/Ebitda11x
02/19/20	Macquarie	ST Engineering	4.3	5	outperform
02/24/20	Lim & Tan	ST Engineering	4.24	0	Hold
02/25/20	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	4.2	4.9	Buy	Sum of parts
02/25/20	UOB Kay Hian	ST Engineering	4.2	4.46	Buy
02/25/20	DBS Vickers	ST Engineering	4.2	4.6	Buy
02/25/20	CIMB	ST Engineering	4.2	4.66	Add
03/05/20	Macquarie	ST Engineering	4.36	5	outperform
03/17/20	DMG & Partners	ST Engineering	3.36	4.9	Buy	Sum of parts