vasu menon, executive director of investment strategy, oversea chinese banking corp.ction from what scott morrison has been saying. will the measures the enough to cushion the drop in the economy? australia, just like other companies -- other countries have done the same to come up with fiscal measures. this, there iss a lot of uncertainty, a bit of a blackhole. how long will this last? the global financial crisis, we had trouble with banks. bank, in thisal it is somewhat of guerrilla warfare. you do not know how long the enemy will be around. how long this crisis will be is important. out,is prolongs and drags it will test the finances of governments, it will test central banks which are running out of options, and that is quite worrying. yvonne: what do you do in this environment? it does not seem like you are sticking your neck out on any conviction calls, but where do you go and how do you hedge? who: there are investors see value starting to emerge. three equities, almost standard deviations below the mean. it could overshoot on the downside because of sentiment.

what could possibly be the menon and the reason was were telling their wives how to vote. i will tell you will secret. my husband and i also vote the same way in presidential elections and i will let you come to your own assumptions about the direction of influence their. -- there. [laughter] this assumption has consequences. george gallup and others become the first folks doing sophisticated polling in the united states where they are randomly selecting people, using good methods and finally have this opportunity in a systematic better understand the attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors of people in lots of ways, what kind of cereal they buy -- but also what kind of candidates they support. the first data we have, george understand.sely they thought that women would do what their husbands told them the night before. they really have to focus on men in see their thought process their understanding. the data is not great. if you want to understand anything about women during this period. role inut to violate a put a lot of words on a powerpoint slide. you don't have to read t

anand menon is a professor of european politics and foreign affairs at king's college london.vernment and there is a balancing act because you want to show you are prepared and on the other hand you do not wa nt and on the other hand you do not want to start panic so the government needs to deal with this. perhaps rethink some aspects of its media tactics. in a crisis like this, you need to communicate. we talk to the world health 0rganization talk to the world health organization in the last half and they were saying many countries including britain taking all the right steps behind the scenes. absolutely but part of it is about reassurance. the prime minister is not going to avoid any expert advice but it is a question of betraying an image of being calm and in control and that this story feeds into that. we have created the infrastructure and notes about getting the message out. so much of it is relying on people listening, taking the advice, recognising the symptoms, self isolating and that can feel risky. not panicking unduly, self isolating. because they could have econo