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Dollar erases early weakness as upbeat risk sentiment fades; yuan shines
The U.S. dollar recovered after falling to its lowest level since April 2018 on Monday, as surging coronavirus cases undermined bullish sentiment had that kicked off the new year across global markets and pushed investors into riskier currencies, such as the Chinese yuan and the euro. With U.S. interest rates pinned at record lows, massive U.S. deficits and a belief that rebounding world trade will drive non-dollar currencies higher, the dollar weakened on the first day of trading in 2021 after falling nearly 7% in 2020.
The Chinese currency was the biggest beneficiary of the weak dollar trade as the yuan rocketed to a two-and-a-half-year high-that will need to be addressed soon.
The dollar index rose 0.013%, after touching a low of 89.415, a level last seen on April 17, 2018. The greenback turned slightly higher after U.S. stocks turned lower after opening at record levels but the longer-term outlook remains weak. Bitcoin tumbled, falling as low as $27,734 at one point, after gains over the new year’s break that saw the world’s most popular cryptocurrency rise to a record $34,800. It was last down 3.78% at $31,848.09.
U.S. construction spending increased by 0.9% in November over October, the Commerce Department said Monday, following an upwardly revised rise of 1.6% in October. This came in slightly below consensus economists’ estimates for a 1.0% increase, according to Bloomberg data. Still, construction spending was up 3.8% over the same month in 2019. A month-over-month decline in non-residential private construction weighed on overall construction spending. Residential private construction, however, led the upside, increasing by 2.7% month-over-month and 16.1% year-over-year amid strong housing market activity. The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded at the fastest rate in six years in December, according to IHS Markit, in the latest sign of the recovery in goods-producing industries.
IHS Markit’s final manufacturing sector purchasing managers’ index rose to 57.1 in December following an earlier print of 56.5 for the month. Readings above the neutral level of 50.0 indicate expansion of a sector.
https://www.reuters.com/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-erases-early-weakness-as-upbeat-risk-sentiment-fades-yuan-shines-idUSL1N2JF18W
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-live-updates-january-4-2021-122306259.html
Barclays says bank stock rally can continue as it ups Goldman and Morgan Stanley
Analysts at Barclays said a recent bank stock rally BKX, -1.35% could have legs, driven both by a rebound in EPS and continued tangible book value growth, as well as multiple expansion. Lower loan loss provisions should be the bigger driver in earnings, even as uncertainties over rising COVID-19 cases and heightened restrictions present risks. It upgraded Goldman Sachs GS, -0.54%, Morgan Stanley MS, -0.02% and Ally Financial ALLY, -0.22% to overweight from equal-weight, while lowering Citi C, -2.21%, Zions Bancorp ZION, -2.39% and SVB Financial SIVB, -0.94% to equal weight from overweight.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/barclays-says-bank-stock-rally-can-continue-as-it-ups-goldman-and-morgan-stanley-2021-01-04
This is the game they have played for a very long time-set "aside" an amount for loan loss provisions and when that does not "hit" the total amount just use the difference in both figures and apply it to your balance sheet as earned income-done it for many years this way.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
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btw ty for adding the stuff on AF2 to counter the doofus factor with that one.
The one today says "Pence has resurfaced today"
Did they not see the swearing in yesterday?
guess not
I don't know when he returned to DC but he did leave on 1223 for sure and went to Grand Junction.
All that stuff with the SAM391 vs AF2 was prolly Scavino on that flight-Pence could have been on it but it was never ever classified as AF2 as I have it out as SAM391 from the start of it being visible
>La Garde isn't the man for the job
kek
ESF stuff there
all those "Special Drawing Rights" and all that.
They can just buy and sell them through the "member" countries of the IMF.
Try and wash it through the system based on volume-I probably would too if I wuz them.
Not too many choices when you deal in trillions.
>>34488 pb Carl Icahn Sells More Than Half of His Herbalife Stake
Here is the SEC filing for it nao
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=921669&tc=7&b=2
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/921669/000156761921000002/xslF345X03/doc1.xml
same
understand 'dat
Muh spouse was like that early on..after a bit they realized I knew wut I was doing.
The rest of the fam not so much
Got the in-laws out just prior to '08 but it would have been a bigger "savings" if they listened 3 months prior.
Never eben got a thank you too.
SAM487 USAF G5 nw from Ramstein AFB after an overnight-inbound from JBA yesterday
you did the right thing with that for sure
got out in Aug 07 but shorted the shit outta all of it starting in late '06-was painful for a bit but I never threw in the towel from additions to that position.
The luck part of it was the FRBNY doing reverse repoo's to force the banks to sell assets-that I did not count on but they did it.
knew plenty of peeps that did that.
$50K pickup trucks and the like
don't know it all either and sometimes I forget stuff I "knew".
That was the dark period that I dragged muhself out of (spouse helped much but it had to be done by me as no other person(s) could do it).
The catalyst for that was LV but had been following along on half since early 2016.
Was still going to the library up until 2018 to access this and the Battle of the Bewbs put that to bed quick.
Made the decision to come in here and post based on a veteran saying they were to old to fight so I decided I could and did
Never made a post until May of 2018-but involved since the early days as a lurker
Gold futures up 2.7% for biggest daily percentage rise since April
Gold futures rallied on Monday, settling up by 2.7% to mark the largest daily increase since April. "In the short term, expect gold prices to rise because of the economic consequences of the recent aggressive rise of COVID infections, hospitalizations, and deaths as well as the new and apparently highly contagious strain of COVID," said Ed Moy, former director of the U.S. Mint and chief strategist at gold seller Valaurum. "This will likely result in significantly increased economic stimulus in the United States, both monetary and fiscal, which in turn will put downward pressure on the [U.S. dollar] and push gold prices higher." February gold GCG21, 2.63% rose $51.50, or 2.72%, to settle at $1,946.60 an ounce.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-futures-up-27-for-biggest-daily-percentage-rise-since-april-2021-01-04
$2080 to the upside is the recent high from August 6th
cannot recall where mine went either
NIGHT76 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed MacDill AFB nw and back to Offutt AFB
Been here since 0101
This tail # 75-0125 is used by the Sec. of Defense
SNOW14 US Navy E-6B mercury from Travis AFB heading out into Gulf of Mexico
This is one I "lost"/dropped yesterday
SAM486 USAF G5 departed Redmond Muni Airport, OR after an overnight
This AC departed Gunnison Co. after a ground stop-inbound from JBA depart early yesterday.
>>12313560
credit to anon in gen
Gina Haspel went to Military School at Lakenheath
July 20, 2019
The Girl Who Became Spymaster
When Gina Haspel, director of the CIA, gave her first public speech last fall at the University of Louisville, she mentioned in passing that she had gone to boarding school in England.
Where? I wondered.
The formative years of spies can illuminate the trajectory of their otherwise shadowy careers.
James Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, attended Malvern College, an exclusive secondary school in England as young man. He absorbed the class prejudices of the English upper class which blinded him to the fact that his great good friend in British intelligence, Kim Philby, was a Soviet spy.
William Colby, CIA director from 1973 to 1975, was Angleton’s nemesis. He grew up as an itinerant Army brat who attended public high school in Vermont. He became one of the agency’s most democratic (small “d”) directors. Colby dragged the agency, kicking and screaming, into the modern era in which it had to submit to congressional oversight.
Gina Haspel’s education, it seems, had both exclusive and democratic elements.
A friendly source informs me that Haspel attended Lakenheath American High School, located on a U.S. air base northeast of London. Then calling herself Gina Walker, she graduated in 1974.
A co-educational school with 430 students today, Lakenheath American is one of 164 accredited institutions run by the Pentagon’s public school system, known as Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).
All of the students at Lakenheath are children of U.S. officers, enlisted personnel or support staff. The school is not open to British students.
https://www.deepstateblog.org/2019/07/20/the-girl-who-became-spymaster/
ty to all who are putting in soc media
I appreciate it
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Seeing that over the last week or so.
Most of time I stay pretty quiet but take it all in
ty again
>>34756 pb
SAM456 USAF C-40N ne from Shannon, Ireland ground stop
State Dept AC