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Market Close week of 012921
Stocks fell sharply Friday as the speculative frenzy around GameStop Corp. GME, +69.16%, up 68%, continued, raising concerns about financial stability and offering another potential sign of market froth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.03% dropped around 622 points, or 2%, to end near 29,981, according to preliminary figures, while the S&P 500 SPX, -1.93% declined around 73 points, or 1.9%, to finish near 3,714-S&P 500 posts worst week since October. The Dow and S&P 500 each lost 3.3% for the week. Friday's losses also put both gauges in the red for January, with the Dow off 2% and the S&P 500 losing 1.1%. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -2.00% dropped around 266 points Friday, or 2%, to close near 13,071. The tech-heavy index saw a 3.5% weekly fall, leaving it up 1.4% for the month. This week's weakness sent The Dow back below its 50DMA.
The S&P 500 found support at its 50DMA. And as shorts suffered, hedgies were forced to liquidate many of their most liquid longs. And the S&P 500 is just 3.5% from all-time record high prices (and valuations).
U.S. Treasury yields extended gains on Friday after data showed inflation perked up last month, while employment costs rose suggesting the world's largest economy is on the mend from the devastating effects of the pandemic. Next week's U.S. non-farm payrolls report should provide more evidence about where the economy and interest rates are headed. The U.S. yield curve steepened as long yields rose following the inflation number, with the spread between 2-year and 10-year notes hitting 98.30 basis points, the widest in about a week.
U.S. oil futures settled lower on Friday, weighed down by ongoing concerns over energy demand, but prices ended the month with a more than 7% gain, with Saudi Arabia set to implement a unilateral production cut of 1 million barrels a day starting in February. March West Texas Intermediate crude CLH21, -0.42% fell 14 cents, or 0.3%, to settle at $52.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Based on the front-month contract close on Dec. 31, prices posted a climb of about 7.6% for the month of January, FactSet data show.
And that was all over the place see cap 3
Metals got bid and were habbing a good time until that always prevalent hidden-hand of COMEX selling arrives-especially on gold-see Cap 4,5
Silver on the COMEX gonna be a tough nut to crack.
Contract pricing is quite moar expensive than buying ETF's or eben Phyzzz-COMEX current open interest inside Cap #5
And well below the highs of Feb last year-red line so that hasn't even gotten started yet
In order to really have an effect on this they will need to attack the heart of the problem-COMEX paper trades.
They can drive it up using the ETF's but not as much-If you want to use the momentum to attack this you'll need some damn big guns-they are not going to give this one up easily at all.
Over 200 years of manipulation on this one and way worse than Gold ever was or is.
Robinhood is still severely limiting trading, customers can only buy one share of GameStop
Restrictions on Robinhood traders are still tight and getting tighter throughout the day on Friday, now only allowing GameStop holders to buy a single share. The stock trading app has also expanded its list of restricted stocks from 13 earlier in the day to 50. With less than a half-hour left of trading the list grew from 23 companies to 50.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/29/robinhood-is-still-severely-limiting-trading-gamestop-holders-can-only-buy-one-additional-share.html
Reddit squeeze in Asia: GameStop inspires Malaysians to buy Top Glove
The GameStop trading bonanza in the U.S. has inspired some Malaysian retail investors to orchestrate their own collective bet on Top Glove, giving the widely-shorted rubber product manufacturer an instant boost.The Reddit group Bursabets, named after Malaysia's stock exchange, emerged on Thursday and has since attracted over 8,000 members. Top Glove, which is also traded in the U.S. in the form of American Depositary Shares, is up 9% in Friday trading in New York.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-bonds/treasuries-u-s-yields-rise-after-inflation-data-focus-on-jobs-next-week-idUSL1N2K42JE
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI
https://www.macrotrends.net/2566/crude-oil-prices-today-live-chart
https://ycharts.com/indicators/comex_silver_futures_open_interest
MCFAMC USAF C-17 Globemaster nw from Diego Garcia after an overnight inbound from a ground stop at Salem Air Base Kuwait City and origin of Ramstein
BLKWF12 USAF E-11 BACN from Al Dhafra Abu Dhabi
Not the same one that arrived Weds night conus time
AMC Entertainment Holdings options exercised and sold by Silver Lake partners: $84.63m-Jan 27
Option exercise of 33,317,145 shares at $13.51/sh for $450.11m
Sold into a huge volume surge….Go figure that at $16.05/sh for $534.75m
Underwear gnomes get $84.63m
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https://www.silverlake.com/?v=2
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1418226&tc=7
Kenneth Hao Chairman and Managing Partner joined Silver Lake in 2000 and is Chairman and a Managing Partner.
Ken Hao joined Silver Lake in 2000 and is Chairman and a Managing Partner. Mr. Hao currently serves as a director on the boards of portfolio companies NortonLifeLock, ServiceMax, SMART Global Holdings andSolarWinds. From 2008-2011, he led the establishment of the firm's offices in China and Japan and led Silver Lake's investments in Alibaba Group. Previously, he served as a director of Broadcom (formerly Avago), Smart Storage Systems (acquired by SanDisk Corporation), NetScout Systems (Nasdaq: NTCT), UGS Corp. (acquired by Siemens AG), Network General Corporation (acquired by NetScout), and Certance Holdings (a division of Seagate acquired by Quantum). Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Hao was with Hambrecht & Quist (now part of JP Morgan) from 1990-1999, where he served as a Managing Director. Outside of Silver Lake, Mr. Hao also serves on the Executive Council for UCSF Health. Mr. Hao graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Economics.
https://www.silverlake.com/team-bio/kenneth-hao
stole dat
evening frbs
SAM651 USAF C-32A on descent for JBA from Luke AFB Phoenix
TORCH 07 74 JBA 85 from Bragg Illinois ANG C-130 Hercs back to Peoria
BAJA70 E-6B Mercury out of Travis off coast-been here for a bit.
Another E-6 IRON31 on final approach at Tinker OKC after being out in the Gulf 'o Mex earlier
SAM644 USAF G5 en from Maui Kahului Airport
Departed JBA on 0127 with a ground stop at Long Beach Int'l prior to arrival Maui
Moar aerial hatin' on Poppy Bush
ANTI41 USAF Jayhawk Beechjet se from Topeka, KS
PAT flights earlier stopped here from Ft. Knox on way to Denver
>>50380 pb
SAM646 USAF G5 se from Malmstrom AFB Great Falls after an overnight back to JBA
COBRA5:5 USAF RC-135S Cobra Ball sw over Bering Sea from Eielson AFB Fairbanks
This one makes the trip to Japan occasionally
The RC-135S Cobra Ball is a rapidly deployable aircraft, which flies Joint Chiefs of Staff-directed missions of national priority to collect optical and electronic data on ballistic targets. This data is critical to arms treaty compliance verification, and development of U.S. strategic defense and theater missile defense concepts. The RC-135S, equipped with a sophisticated array of optical and electronic sensors, recording media, and communications equipment, is a national asset uniquely suited to provide America's leaders and defense community with vital information that cannot be obtained by any other source. Crew composition includes a minimum of two pilots, one navigator, three electronic warfare officers, two airborne systems engineers, and two or more airborne mission specialists.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104498/rc-135s-cobra-ball/
Silver Lake cashes out on AMC for $713 million after Reddit-fueled rally
Buyout firm Silver Lake disclosed on Friday that it sold its stake in AMC Entertainment Holdings for $713 million this week, capitalizing on a 10-fold rise in the price of the shares as traders organizing on social media platforms such as Reddit snapped them up.
The trade puts Silver Lake and its co-investors in the black following a $600 million convertible bond investment that the private equity firm made in AMC in 2018. Such an outcome looked unlikely when AMC, the world’s largest movie theater chain, was battling to stave off bankruptcy last summer, a move it avoided thanks to a debt restructuring deal with Silver Lake and its creditors.
Silver Lake was able to convert the bonds into shares thanks to the rally pushing AMC’s stock above the bonds’ conversion price this week.
the sales above are them selling these shares
AMC shares had dropped 70% in 2020 to close the year at $2.12, as many of the company’s movie theaters closed or operated with reduced capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the shares ended trading at $19.90 on Wednesday, as traders targeted heavily shorted stocks such as AMC and GameStop Corp. Silver Lake sold its stake over several open-market transactions that day, according to regulatory filings.
The sale makes Silver Lake the latest investment firm to cash in on this week’s unprecedented rally in shorted stocks. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan sold $497.4 million worth of stock it owned in U.S. shopping mall owner Macerich Co this week, regulatory filings showed.
AMC itself also capitalized on the rally. It raised $304.8 million by selling shares this week. It is considering new moves to raise capital through stock sales, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/amc-ent-holdg-silver-lake/silver-lake-cashes-out-on-amc-for-713-mln-after-reddit-fueled-rally-idUSL8N2K47SH
Moar to the transactions
and the Ontario Pension one here with Macerich but they missed the other with Azek
>>50259 lb
SAM460 USAF C-40B from Shannon ground stop origin of Kuwait City
RCH600 USAF C-5 Galaxy on descent for Dover-mebby JBA from the long haul-Hickam AFB Oahu
SAM644 USAF Haulin' butt and still at 580 kts-getting help for sure
Been many USMC and Navy Brass flights to/from Hawaii
SAM the other day
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