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>feelz good to habs access!
Virgin Galactic shares blast higher as space-themed ETF set for launch
Virgin Galactic Holdings shares surged Thursday following news a space-themed actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) will launch later this year.
Shares of the Mojave, Calif.-based space explorer gained as much as 22% to a high of $33.72 apiece and were flirting with their best close since February. The rally boosted Virgin’s market capitalization to as much as $7.9 billion, a more than tenfold increase from the $696.9 million when the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2017, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Virgin merged with a special-purpose acquisition company on Oct. 28, 2019 and finished with a $4.09 billion market cap that day. Other space-linked companies, including Maxar Technologies, also gained.
Space exploration companies and their suppliers have benefited over the past four years as the Trump administration focused on commercializing space and projects including a return to the moon and a mission to Mars.
The Ark Space Exploration ETF, which will trade under the ticker ARKX, will include companies “leading, enabling, or benefitting from technologically enabled products and/or services that occur beyond the surface of the Earth,” according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Ark Investment Management was the darling of the ETF-industry last year as money poured into its flagship $21.6 billion ARK Innovation ETF which boasts Tesla Inc. as its biggest holding. The company’s four other actively-managed ETFs track autonomous technology and robotics, robotics, genomics and the internet.
In total, Ark ETF products held $41.5 billion, up from $3.5 billion a year ago, according to Bloomberg. Ark is now one of the 10-largest ETF providers.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/virgin-galactic-stock-space-themed-etf-set-for-launch
'''Cathie Wood’s Ark Gives Richard Branson a $300 Million Boost
Richard Branson’s fortune is getting a boost from Cathie Wood’s plans to go into space.
Branson’s stake in Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. surged by about $300 million after Wood’s Ark Investment Management said it was starting a space-focused exchange-traded fund.
Shares in the space-travel company jumped as much as 18% in New York trading Thursday morning, valuing Branson’s holding at about $2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/cathie-wood-s-ark-gives-richard-branson-a-300-million-boost
seen't dat
82-8000 USAF 747 appears to be done over Atlantic City and back to JBA
SCORE92 US Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye with some work over Chesapeake Bay currently finishing a go around at Pax
00000000 USAF B-52 Stratofortress continues se from Minot AFB
SAM326 USAF C-32A departed Peterson AFB after an overnight and ne
Pretty heavily spoofed at present
AHEY66 US Navy E-6B Mercury out of Tinker
ICER42 USAF B-52 Stratofortress heading off-shore from NC and turning left to head up the NC coast at Cape Lookout
2 P-8's heading back to NAS Jax
82-8000 USAF 747 should make the final approach turn to JBA from Atlantic City cert flight.
Seeing Lots of Military Aircraft Over DC? It’s Probably NORAD.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command will conduct what it calls a “routine air defense exercise” over the Washington, DC, region Thursday and Friday as well as on January on January 25 and 26. The exercises will run from midnight to 5:30 AM each day.
It’s all part of an exercise dubbed “Falcon Virgo,” part of Operation Noble Eagle, which was designed to thwart future air attacks after September 11, 2001. Aircraft involved span many of the US armed forces and include F-16s, UC-35A, Navy King Air 300, a MH-65D Dolphin helicopter, and Cessna 182T.
NORAD’s timing may be suboptimal here, seeing as the entire region is on edge following a pro-Trump mob’s assault on the US Capitol last week and looking forward to Joe Biden’s inauguration, which has reportedly drawn threats. One the other hand, if you like watching aircraft, the combined Canada-USA air command says some flights will take place around 2,500 feet, so they should be visible under good conditions. Falcon Virgo will join what appear to be flights in support of security for Biden’s inauguration.
Fascinating air traffic over DC today as various surveillance aircraft and refueling flights support the security ops for the inauguration. pic.twitter.com/2NXqiaoDxx
— Andrew Freedman (@afreedma) January 13, 2021
https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/01/13/seeing-lots-of-military-aircraft-over-dc-its-probably-norad/
gotta take a break for a little
getting hair cut
ICER42 B-52 nao on the track over NC
SAM559 USF C-32A departed Austin Int'l Airport ne after an overnight-departed JBA earlier and a ground stop at Salina, KS prior to Austin arrival yesterday
This AC used as secondary AF2 and used by State Dept frequently
Large bitcoin payment made to far-right individuals before U.S. Capitol attack
Payments in bitcoin worth more than $500,000 were made to 22 different virtual wallets, most of them belonging to far-right activists and internet personalities, before the storming of the U.S. Capitol, cryptocurrency compliance startup Chainalysis said on Friday.
The payments, made by a French donor, of 28.15 bitcoins were made on Dec. 8, the New York-based startup, specializing in countering money laundering and fraud in the digital currency space, said in a blog post. Chainalysis said it now has evidence that many alt-right groups and personalities received large bitcoin donations as part of the single transaction.
“We have also gathered evidence that strongly suggests the donor was a now-deceased computer programmer based in France,” Chainalysis said in the report. Nick Fuentes, who was permanently suspended from YouTube last year for hate speech, received 13.5 bitcoins, worth about $250,000 at the time of the transfer, making him by far the biggest beneficiary of the donation, according to the blog post.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-cryptocurrency/large-bitcoin-payment-made-to-far-right-individuals-before-us-capitol-attack-report-idUSL4N2JP429
U.S. stock funds draw $2.2 billion in week -Lipper
U.S. equity funds saw inflows of $2.2 billion in the week ended Wednesday, a period when Wall Street indexes hit record highs on optimism that President-elect Joe Biden will be able to push more economic stimulus through a Congress controlled by Democrats.
U.S.-based taxable bond funds drew $9 billion, the fourth straight weekly inflow, while $5.9 billion flowed into money market funds, Lipper data showed on Thursday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-investments-mutualfunds/u-s-stock-funds-draw-2-2-billion-in-week-lipper-idUSL1N2JP2IQ
sucking moar retail to the trough
ICER42 USAF B-52 Stratofortress done over coastal NC and nw
SAM559 USAF C-32A with fly bys at Greensboro, NC Piedmont Int'l
A well used and familiar AC
That this is a SAM designation and not VENUS is berrrrrry interdasting
KOMODO04 USAF Joint STARS . trackin west of Little Rock, AR-cap #2
RUFF02 US NAvy E-6B Mercury nw now
BOXER44 USAF C-40C ne from Peterson after overnight and prior ground stop at Offutt to arrival
COBRA14 USAF Combat Sent back at Offutt
AHEY66 Mercury trace under BOXER and heading sw
RUFFO2 US Navy E-6B Mercury left a present over Roswell, NM earlier
On approach back to Tinker AFB now
WHO team in Wuhan to start probe after quarantine
Chinese health officials say a group of experts sent by the World Health Organization will start their coronavirus investigation after a 14-day quarantine period. Thirteen members of the international team arrived on Thursday in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province. The city was the outbreak's initial epicenter. The team plans to look into where the virus originated and how it was transmitted to humans. Chinese government experts initially said the virus came from bats. But they later said they could not rule out the possibility that the virus had come from abroad because it has been detected in imported food.
The WHO expert leading the team, Peter Ben Embarek, told NHK last month that it was logical to think the virus originated in China. He said the team wants to investigate the early cases in Wuhan and study samples thought to be stored by Chinese authorities. But it is unclear whether China will fully comply with the team's requests.
Last year, the WHO started asking China to allow a full on-site investigation in Wuhan. But such a probe has not taken place, raising question about whether Beijing will cooperate with such research.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210115_04/
A few early risers today in Japan/Okinawa
GHOST53 USMC G4 departed Okinawa KadenA AB east
NINJA31 US Army C-560 departed Atsugi AB
the only thing that concerns me about that is all the paperwork you know they have ready to try and reverse the last 4 years.
IT may have to habben taht way as already mentioned
MAGIC GHOST NINJAS now
>>42176 pb
SAM561 USAF G5 tail #18-1942 east from Peterson AFB ground stop back to JBA
>Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division
>had a plane circling over head not showing up on ads curious
Habbens a lot.
Most of wut I see is not on scope in deez parts.