tyb
>>51360 pb
not very but Sundays like that.
USAF Special Ops. went to San Juan from Costa Rica.
There are a few tankers and a Globey heading ws from Hawaii to Guam.
Take a look.
One of those early on there and not a regular destination for these big bois.
Can't recall seeing one there since late 2017 or early 2018.
Was still hanging on then trying to keep up with limited access.
>the ADS is getting easier to use
Use the features you like.
Hitting the B on your Keyboard when that open will toggle day/night
Open two tabs at a time (if bandwidth allows) track on one and go through the menus and buttons on the other.
Using the different maps available clutters up the screen so i don't use those
ty and appreciated
>planefaggin' school
Nahhh just trying to help be
others helped me early on so pay it forward.
do way moar of that then anything else now.
did not go there and used a twatter acct but no pf'ing on it.
Always had four wheels on ground
AC's hobby but family (older and gone) one pilot and in and around the commercial biz.
had a few different professional lives
I think many here have.
China's HNA Group reveals years of unusual cash movements
Companies under China's HNA Group have reported finding irregular outflows of billions of dollars in cash, an ominous development following moves by creditors to call for a bankruptcy restructuring of the formerly highflying conglomerate and its subsidiaries.
Within hours of HNA's revelation on Friday evening that creditors had filed a petition with the Hainan Province High People's Court to reorganize the group, several domestically listed subsidiaries alerted their shareholders to the discovery of the irregular outflows by a state-appointed working group. Hainan Airlines, HNA's flagship unit, said it expects to report a net loss of between 58 billion yuan ($9.02 billion) and 65 billion yuan for 2020, compared to a net profit of 543.18 million yuan a year earlier. Pandemic-related operating losses added up to about 16.5 billion yuan, the fourth-largest Chinese passenger carrier said, with the bulk of its red ink stemming from impairment losses mainly related to irregular financial dealings with HNA itself and other group companies. Hainan Air warned that it could be put on probation for potential delisting by the Shanghai Stock Exchange if its audited financials show an excess of liabilities over assets. The revelations "will make the (group's) restructuring process even more complex," said David Yu, a finance professor at New York University Shanghai who focuses on aviation. "As the corporate structure of HNA Group companies has always been very complex, with many related party transactions, guarantees and cross shareholdings, the disclosure of irregularities adds to the complexity and mystery of the group."
HNA Group was previously one of China's most acquisitive conglomerates, buying assets including the Radisson hotel chain, technology products distributor Ingram Micro, aviation services company Swissport Group and stakes in Deutsche Bank and airlines and airports in countries such as Brazil, Australia, Ghana, Turkey and South Africa. Beijing called a halt to the debt-fueled spree in 2017 to rein in financial risk. Amid continuing worries about HNA's stability, the previously privately run group last year came under the direct supervision of the Hainan government. "The asset sale program will have hit a snag as most of their assets are travel/transport-related which will have seen valuations hampered" amid the pandemic, said Michel Brekelmans, managing director of strategy consultancy SCP/Asia. "Hard to see how they can come out of this except through a bankruptcy and restructuring."
A directive from the State Council last October set off the accounting investigations by a working group including representatives of local state-owned enterprises, the state aviation regulator and state-backed China Development Bank, HNA's largest creditor.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/China-s-HNA-Group-reveals-years-of-unusual-cash-movements
QUIZ63 USAF E-8C Joint STARS south of Taiwan with PEARL49 tanker just ne of Spratly's
nuffin to see here
The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or Joint STARS, is an airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform. Its primary mission is to provide theater ground and air commanders with ground surveillance to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104507/e-8c-joint-stars/
Retail Traders Board Battle Bus in South Korea War on Short-Sellers
In the U.S., small investors have defied short-sellers by banding together online, renting billboards in Times Square and even flying banners from planes; in Korea, they are driving a bus. A group of influential Korean retail traders has declared “a war against short sellers,” under a campaign they are calling “K-streetbets,” mimicking the punters on Reddit’s now-famous WallStreetBets forum who coordinated a surge in video-game retailer GameStop Corp. to squeeze short-sellers. On Saturday, the Korea Stockholders Alliance launched a “bus campaign” to get its anti-short-selling message heard.
The bus is painted with cartoons of people holding up signs that say things such as “I hate short-selling”, “short-selling should be abolished” and a call to have stocks regulator Financial Services Commission, which is in charge of resuming short-selling, “disbanded”. It will start driving around the capital Seoul from today for an hour every day until sometime in March. On its route: the Blue House, the FSC building, and the National Assembly in the city’s financial district. The push is the latest by the almost 30,000-strong group of day traders to make permanent a ban on short-selling imposed by Korea early last year to tame its markets as the pandemic spread. Korea imposed a ban on short-selling in March last year, joining several countries like France and Italy in halting trades against borrowed stock to tame markets as the pandemic worsened. This month, Indonesia will drop its ban, leaving just Korea as a major market globally that doesn’t allow the trading strategy. Korea is planning to extend the ban beyond its March 15 expiry, as the retail investors who dominate the stock market increasingly lobby against shorts.
More than 200,000 individual traders in Korea signed an anonymous petition posted on Korea’s presidential website, a threshold that requires President Moon Jae-in to answer the petition. Short sellers are “Korea’s axis of evil,” Jung Eui-jung, chief executive of the alliance, told Bloomberg in an interview, saying that Korea’s short selling rules favor professionals and not small traders like their group. Before the ban on shorting was imposed, the retail investors who came to dominate investing in the country last year faced tighter restrictions on short-selling than professionals. They see the trading strategy as the playground of foreign hedge funds intent on hurting local champions. While stocks in short-sellers’ sights like money-losing Gamestop and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. have captured the mania of U.S. day traders, once heavily shorted biotech plays are Korea’s amateur investor darlings.
Jung’s group said on its website that it wants to “protect” Korean companies Celltrion Inc., a $45 billion maker of biosimilars, and HLB Inc., whose cancer drug pipeline led its stock to surge 770% in 2019.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/retail-traders-board-battle-bus-in-south-korea-war-on-short-sellers-1.1557011
Wall St set to bounce back as small-time traders pile into silver
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iShares Silver Trust ETF set for best day since 2008
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Tesla gains as Piper Sandler sets Street-high PT
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Wall Street’s fear gauge eases from 3-month high
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Futures up: Dow 0.72%, S&P 0.91%, Nasdaq 1.05% (Adds comment, details; updates prices)
Feb 1 (Reuters) - Wall Street’s main indexes were set for a higher open on Monday following a steep sell-off last week, as a shift in the retail trading frenzy to silver drove up mining stocks and investors awaited manufacturing data later in the day.
The iShares Silver Trust ETF jumped 9.6% in premarket trading as silver broke above $30 an ounce for the first time since 2013 with an army of retail traders storming into the metal after betting billions of dollars on stocks last week.
Silver miners Hecla Mining Co, Coeur Mining Inc and Wheaton Precious Metals Corp surged between 14% and 32%.
Wall Street’s main indexes last week logged their steepest weekly fall since October, as investors digested efficacy data from Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine trial results, while a slugfest between Wall Street hedge funds and retail investors added to volatility. The CBOE volatility index eased on Monday from three-month highs that were fueled by a surge in shares of GameStop Corp, AMC Entertainment Holdings and others that burnt hedge funds who had bet against the companies. GameStop was down about 1%, while AMC jumped another 25%.
The wild swings in the so-called “meme” stocks dominated news on Wall Street last week, even as Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and other corporate heavyweights reported quarterly results. Of the 184 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings, 84.2% have topped analyst expectations, well above the 75.5% beat rate for the past four quarters, according to Refinitiv data as of Friday.
Focus now turns towards quarterly earnings from Amazon Inc and Google-owner Alphabet Inc on Tuesday to wrap up results from the so-called FAANG group. Meanwhile, market participants also monitored stimulus talks. Ten moderate Republican U.S. senators urged President Joe Biden on Sunday to significantly downsize his sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package to win bipartisan support.
On the data front, ISM’s survey at 10 a.m. ET is expected to show factory activity ticked lower in January after approaching a near two-and-a-half year high in December. Electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc gained about 3% as Piper Sandler raised its price target to the highest among the brokerages covering the stock.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-wall-st-set-to-bounce-back-as-small-time-traders-pile-into-silver-idUSL4N2K73TX
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/futures
Notables, not endorsements
#238
>>51506 Patrick Byrne twat: "A quo warranto may be issued from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia....
>>51503 Wall St set to bounce back as small-time traders pile into silver
>>51501 Clinton Global Initiative - Myanmar Action Network
>>51402, >>51418, >>51448, >>51467, >>51471, >>51472, >>51475, >>51493, >>51502 PF updates
>>51495 Jen Psaki on Burma - The US opposes any attempts to change the outcome of recent Myanmar elections
>>51494, >>51496 HARLAN Z. HILL @Harlan - National Guard still arriving in DC. Why? (need eyes on DC anons!)
>>51486, >>51487, >>51488 Narrative Reframe Telegram - recommended reading - US economy discussion
>>51450 Saturday protest in Aarhus, Denmark against health restrictions #COVID19, Total MSM BLACKOUT #censorship
>>51444 Systemic Contingencies – The Need For Bill Barr’s Positioning Revealed, 2018
>>51433 Retail Traders Board Battle Bus in South Korea War on Short-Sellers
>>51412 Secretary of State Antony Blinken Orders LGBT<Flags, <Flown, at U.S. Embassies, -Will Name Special Envoy for<Gay <Rights
>>51411 According to this article, if JB doesn’t help Taiwan and get involved, it will be the end of the American alliance system in the pacific
>>51407 Iran MP Says Unfreezing $7 Billion May Help Release of South Korean Tanker
>>51406 80 million Americans "CALL TO" write President Donald J. Trump
>>51401 Flotus RT Potus: We will not only win but when we are done he whole world will know the WHOLE TRUTH!
>>51398 China's HNA Group reveals years of unusual cash movements/Billions!
>>51397, >>51409 Myanmar military seizes power in coup after arresting Suu Kyi
>>51390, >>51392, >>51393, >>51396 Watch: Cargo Ship Battered By Heavy Seas Snaps In Half
>>51379 Postal address ONLY for The office of Donald J Trump
>>51376, >>51382 LEAKED vid on FB from Project Veritas
>>51373 Both JR and PDJT yesterday twatterd Obamna w/ an "N".. FYI, the "N" in Darnkess..
#237
>>51146, >>51197 d'oh and bun
Notabroooos ,not endorsements
>>51267 Useful TELEGRAM links
>>51258 Newfoundland Tech Company To Be Acquired For $2.75-Billion- Verafin bought by NASDAQ Nov 19th 2020
>>51257 Australian Lawmakers ‘Will Not Be Intimidated’ – Reject Big Tech Pleas for Leniency
>>51249, >>51251 The Lincoln Project release a statement regards exposed child sex predator John Weaver
>>51239 OPEC+ Sees Almost Full Compliance With January Oil-Supply Cuts
>>51238 Melvin Capital ends month with over $8 billion in assets after investors added cash
>>51229 Veritas - Leaked Facebook Tapes LaunchingTomorrow
>>51220, >>51221, >>51222, >>51226 21 Men Accuse Lincoln Project Co-Founder of Online Harassment
>>51218, >>51223, >>51231, >>51234, >>51240, >>51244, >>51245, >>51246, >>51262 pf reports
>>51216 Malaysia: Investors Attempt to Drive Up Price of Glove-Maker Stocks, Inspired by GameStop
>>51215 @Rasmussen_Poll Note to Self-Appointed Elites:Almost half of ALL VOTERS are concerned about US election integrity:
>>51203, >>51204 Supplemental Digg Call-Printing Systems
>>51196 COVID hospitalizations continue to plunge, reach near-two-month low
>>51188 Globalist Macron embraces Great Reset at Davos
>>51187 The Circuit of Success interview with Former Delta Force Operator, Tom Satterly (vid)
>>51186 Psaki is a satirist's delight: For the keks from @reversemocking1
>>51185 @Niels_Holst - would be a shame if you shared this video of Biden calling troops 'stupid bastards'
>>51184 The woman who detonated a bomb in the Senate trying to kill Repubs in 1983 was pardoned by Clinton & is now a BLM leader
>>51181 MCBOS will not choose the election auditors - Arizona Senate will
>>51179 TechnoFog on Judge Boasberg's sentencing of Kevin Clinesmith
>>51177, >>51178 NarrativeReframes on narrative warfare (recommended by Lin W)
>>51176, >>51198 Continued digg on Jeffery Delongchamp and Election Source
>>51175 Sidney Powell: We have an important Case in Michigan begun by Matt Deperno
>>51171, >>51172, >>51173 What is Censorship? (and how to beat it)
>>51170 LW forward: NarrativeReframes re narrative warfare (v. positive on "Q psyOp")
#237
doing well
here the small additions-hasn't been very long
India to proceed soon with 'cash for clunkers' scheme to boost car sales
India will make public within 15 days details of a “cash for clunkers” scheme which would spur around 10 billion rupees ($1.4 billion) in new investment and create as many as 50,000 jobs, road transport minister Nitin Gadkari said on Monday. India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her budget speech earlier on Monday there would be a new voluntary scrappage policy based on a fitness test for private vehicles older than 20 years and commercial vehicles older than 15 years.
“This will help in encouraging fuel efficient, environment friendly vehicles, thereby reducing vehicular pollution and oil import bill,” Sitharaman said. Automakers in India have been pushing the government for years to provide incentives for car and truck owners to scrap old vehicles for new ones - a move they expect will help to boost sales that are at multi-year lows.
Around 10% of the 3.7 million trucks and 5% of the 5.2 million cars on Indian roads could be eligible for voluntary scrapping, the Federation of Automobile Dealers Association of India estimated, using 1990 as a base year. It said the fine print of the scheme would determine the final impact on sales. Industry executives and analysts said that while the voluntary nature of the scheme could limit its impact, the incentives offered by the government would be crucial in determining its success. The plan is expected to have more impact on trucks initially and then private cars.
Puneet Gupta, director at data analytics firm IHS Markit, said there could be an annual sales boost of 5% for cars over and above natural demand. “It will act as a catalyst and replacement demand will definitely increase in India,” he said, adding that carmakers including Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor and Tata Motors would be the biggest beneficiaries.
The Nifty Auto index rose as much as 4.6% led by an 11.4% jump in shares of Indian truck-maker Ashok Leyland
https://www.reuters.com/article/india-budget-autos/india-to-proceed-soon-with-cash-for-clunkers-scheme-to-boost-car-sales-idUSL4N2K73LV
Apple is planning to issue dollar-denominated bonds in six-tranche deal
Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.69% has filed a preliminary prospectus for a six-tranche bond deal, underwritten by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. The company did not specify deal size, but said it will offer dollar-denominated five-year, seven-year, 10-year, 20-year, 30-year and 40-year bonds. The iPhone maker has regularly tapped credit markets to finance its shareholder return program. Shares were up 1.5% and have gained 73% in the last 12 months, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.57% has gained 6%.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-is-planning-to-issue-dollar-denominated-bonds-in-six-tranche-deal-2021-02-01
http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/1aed7d61-ff9e-40c1-aee7-9019e91c8ede.pdf
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GORDO14 USAF E-4B Nightwatch ne from Barksdale AFB
Tail# 75-0125 is Sec of Defense AC
Robinhood CEO reveals the NSCC demanded $3BILLION security at 3am the morning before company stopped GameStop trades amid Reddit frenzy
The CEO of Robinhood has revealed that the clearing house that handles all stock trades, the NSCC, demanded a $3 billion security at 3am in the morning during dramatic negotiations before the company stopped GameStop trades.
Speaking during a virtual event hosted by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vladimir Tenev offered an explanation behind his company's decision to Thursday to restrict the purchase of GameStop shares and several other stocks.
The controversial move, that sparked widespread outrage, came after short selling hedge funds lost billions when Redditors organised on the WallStreetBets page banded together to drive up the price of the video game retailer's share price, resulting in hedge funds losing billions of dollars. At 3 a.m. on Thursday, Tenev said that Robinhood's operations team was sent a file by the clearinghouse that handles all stock trades - the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) - requesting a security deposit of $3 billion. 'We have to put up money to the NSCC based on some factors including things like the volatility of the trading activity into certain securities,' he explained during a Clubhouse virtual event on Sunday night.
'And this is the equities business so it’s based on stock trading and not options trading or anything else.'
'So, they give us a file with the deposit and the request was around $3 billion, which is, you know, about an order of magnitude more than what it typically is.' Musk continued to press Tenev for answers, asking 'Everyone wants to know did something shady go down here?', to which Robinhood's CEO denied, saying the NSCC was 'reasonable' despite the request.
'I wouldn’t impute shadiness to it or anything like that and actually you know the NSPCC was reasonable,' he said, before adding that the regulator worked with Robinhood to lower the amount.
Musk pressed again, asking 'is anyone holding your hostage right now?' probing Tenev on whether the NSCC was bullying the trading app. Tenev avoided the question, saying 'thanks for asking', before calling the experience 'nerve wracking' and saying he was asleep at the time of the request.
He went on to tell Musk that he and the company's Chief Operating Officer called the 'higher-ups' at the NSCC to 'figure out what's going on.'
The NSCC agreed to lower the deposit amount to $1.4 billion, with Tenev saying that that was 'still a high number' before the team proposed how to manage the risk throughout the day, 'marking these volatile stocks - that were driving the activity - [with] positioning closing only,' he said.
'So, at 5.30, or five in the morning, they [the NSCC] came back and they said okay, the deposit [should be] 700 million, which we then deposited and paid promptly. And then, everything was fine,' he said.
He went on to acknowledge that as a result, 'this was a bad outcome for our customers. Part of what’s been really difficult is Robinhood stands for democratizing access to stocks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9209347/Robinhood-CEO-reveals-NSCC-demanded-3BILLION-security-company-stopped-GameStop-trades.html
Muh guess is that this is just another round of selective enforcement.
These banks are all insolvent yet no issue with them right?
Robinhood Raises Another $2.4 Billion From Shareholders
Robinhood Markets Inc. raised another $2.4 billion from shareholders, according to people familiar with the matter, days after investors agreed to pump $1 billion into the online brokerage to help it ride out a trading frenzy in popular stocks including GameStop Inc.
The $3.4 billion raised since last Thursday is more than the company has raised in its entire prior existence.
Robinhood has been flooded with demand to trade a handful of popular stocks over the past week. Sharp swings in the value of those shares prompted the clearinghouse that processes and settles trades to ask for more cash to cover potential losses on the transactions. Robinhood restricted trading in GameStop and other hot stocks as a result.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/robinhood-raises-another-2-4-billion-from-shareholders-11612197680
think peeps are dreaming if they think that kinda spillover gonna leak into AG.
It will with the tail wagging the dog ala ETF's but
unless they buy contracts it's all manageable.
And it's totally managebale in that arena.
They'll hit it hard eventually and then peeps figure out playing with paper is a zero-sum game/fight on this end of it.
These Are The Shadowy New York Financial Institutions That Forced Robinhood To Restrict Trading In Certain Stocks
A lot of people are blaming Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and the heads of other major trading platforms for the stock trading restrictions that we witnessed last week, but it was actually the DTCC that suddenly jacked up deposit requirements ten-fold. Robinhood and other trading platforms were put in a vise-like grip, and they had no choice but to act. Someone needs to investigate how these decisions were made at the DTCC, and if laws were broken those that were responsible for the decisions need to go to prison. We are being told that retail traders needed to be brought under control “for their own good”, but it was the reckless short selling of the big hedge funds that actually set the stage of last week’s chaos.
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about restricting their exceedingly foolish trading strategies?
Of course the small fish are not supposed to beat up the big fish like that, and the billionaires at the big hedge funds undoubtedly reached out to their powerful friends for help.
There had been speculation that the big hedge funds leaned on Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and the heads of other large trading platforms directly, but the truth is more complicated. It turns out that the pressure on Robinhood and other major trading platforms came from the clearinghouse level. The following comes from a piece in USA Today that was authored by Vlad Tenev himself…
In a matter of days, our clearinghouse-mandated deposit requirements related to stocks increased ten-fold. These deposits are the collateral we post to ensure our access to clearinghouse services on behalf of our customers. They are what led us to put temporary buying restrictions in place on a small number of securities that the clearinghouses had raised their deposit requirements on. As we noted in a blog on Friday, it was not because we wanted to stop people from buying these or any stocks — we built Robinhood to provide access to investing for all. And it certainly wasn’t because we were trying to help hedge funds.
Tenev didn’t mention it by name, but the company that clears almost all of Robinhood’s trades is the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.
In 2011, DTCC settled the vast majority of securities transactions in the United States and close to $1.7 quadrillion in value worldwide, making it by far the highest financial value processor in the world. DTCC operates facilities in the New York metropolitan area, and at multiple locations in and outside the United States. Theoretically, the DTCC is supposed to be a neutral participant in the markets.
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left off of this is the action that the DTCC took in re-locating it's storage facilities to the 55 Water St. location in NY-they then shoved Super Storm Sandy up it's ass so that the vault flooded-wow let's move all out "important" docs to a below-the-water-table location-no problems could habben with that…
They opened it up to "dry it out" and then it caught fire-can't make this shit up eben if you tried
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The brilliance of this excuse is that it only proves the skeptics and conspiracy-theory believers right. DTCC is a for-profit monopoly that sits at the heart of America’s financial system. It is controlled by the biggest Wall Street institutions and responsible for all public equity settlement. A subsidiary of it literally owns every single share of publicly traded stock in America. Yes, you read that correctly. You don’t actually own your shares of Apple or Microsoft, they do. You are only allowed to enjoy the financial benefits of being an investor because your corporate overlords let you. Why? Because the government wants it that way (the fact that financial firms like DTCC always donate a lot of money to politicians has nothing to do with it.) Of course the DTCC is not actually the top of the pyramid.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the National Securities Clearing Corporation and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation are all managed “under the umbrella” of a shadowy entity known as Cede and Company…This small New York based financial institution has a dozen directors and no more than a half dozen employees but holds, according to some reports, some 34 trillion dollars in assets.
A complex system of interlocking bodies, such as The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the National Securities Clearing Corporation and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation oversee all stock trading in the US. They all come under the umbrella of Cede.
moar
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/these-are-shadowy-new-york-financial-institutions-forced-robinhood-restrict-trading-certain
The secret trillion-dollar company that owns America
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/secret-trillion-dollar-company-owns-20790205