morning all
99-6143 USAFSOC C-32B departed Eglin AFB and on descent for NAS Oceana
82-8000 USAF 747 out from JBA and on a second go around at JBA on a cert flight
According to the scheule Pedotus left New Castle Cty Airport and has returned to JBA about an hour and 15 minutes ago.
Tesla announces $1.5 bln bitcoin bet, makes payments pledge
Tesla Inc said on Monday it had invested around $1.5 billion in bitcoin and expected to begin accepting payment for its cars and other products with it in the near future, prompting a more than 10% jump in the electronic currency.
Analysts said the move by one of the world’s best-known companies was liable to prove a game changer for bitcoin. The worlds largest crypto currency was up 12% in morning trade, setting a new record high above $44,000. The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust was up 13%, its highest since mid January.
https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currency-tesla/quotes-2-tesla-announces-1-5-bln-bitcoin-bet-makes-payments-pledge-idUSL1N2KE1GX
SAM596 USAF G5 ws from Peterson AFB overnight-inbound from JBA
RCH582 USAFSOC C-32B wn from Eglin AFB
Apollo Global Mgmt sold by co-founder: $36.61m-Feb3,4,5
Apollo Global Management, Inc. (Apollo), formerly Apollo Global Management, LLC, is an alternative investment manager in private equity, credit and real estate. The Company raises, invests and manages funds on behalf of pension, endowment and sovereign wealth funds, as well as other institutional and individual investors. The Company's segments include private equity, credit and real estate. The private equity segment invests in control equity and related debt instruments, convertible securities and distressed debt investments. The credit segment invests in non-control corporate and structured debt instruments, including performing, stressed and distressed investments across the capital structure. The real estate segment invests in real estate equity for the acquisition and recapitalization of real estate assets, portfolios, platforms and operating companies, and real estate debt, including first mortgage and mezzanine loans, preferred equity and commercial mortgage backed securities. Number of employees : 1 421 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/APOLLO-GLOBAL-MANAGEMENT-65218753/company/
Josh Harris cofounded alternative investment firm Apollo Global Management in 1990 with fellow billionaires Leon Black and Marc Rowan. The trio met at investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert, and struck out on their own after the troubled firm filed for bankruptcy. Harris is still involved in overseeing the day to day business at Apollo, which manages more than $400 billion in assets. He owns a stake in NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, which has more than quintupled in value since he bought it with a consortium for $290 million in 2011. The UPenn alum also has stakes in NHL's New Jersey Devils, NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers, and the English Premier League's Crystal Palace Football Club. Harris derives the bulk of his fortune from his roughly 20% stake in Apollo.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/joshua-harris/?sh=1e3f6c7f666c
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1106636&tc=7
Read Trump’s Impeachment Defense Memo
In a 78-page brief submitted to the Senate, former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers put forward their first sustained legal defense since Mr. Trump was impeached by the House for the second time.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/08/us/trump-defense-impeachment-trial.html
TERRA99 USAFSOC C-32B departed JBA east after a ground stop-inbound from McGuire AFB, NJ
EJU5Y28 USAFSOC C-32B departing NAS Oceana after a ground stop-inbound from Eglin
Heading west at present
SAM596 USAF G5 on final approach at Los Angeles Int'l from Peterson AFB depart
RCH582 USAFSOC C-32B on final approach for Majors Airport (L-3) Greenville, TX from Eglin AFB
Stocks extend record highs, oil rises to highest in more than a year
A gauge of global stock markets set another record high on Monday and oil prices rose to their highest in just over a year as investor optimism grew that U.S. lawmakers will soon pass a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 aid package. Investors were keeping an eye on bitcoin as it rose again, with Elon Musk promising Tesla Inc would soon take payment for its electric vehicles in the currency and revealing it had already bought $1.5 billion worth of it.
Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields surged to 11-month highs as the U.S. fiscal stimulus was seen boosting economic growth and raising inflation more quickly than expected, and before the Treasury Department sells new longer-dated debt.
Major U.S. stock indexes hit record highs in early New York trading, extending a recent streak of gains.
Comments on Sunday by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who said that if Congress approves the $1.9 trillion plan, the country would get back to full employment next year, added to the optimism.
Congress on Friday approved a budget plan that would allow a coronavirus relief bill to muscle through in the coming weeks without Republican support.
“We now have a situation where the Democrats do not need Republican approval in order to move ahead with the full $1.9 trillion stimulus package,” said Thomas Hayes, managing member at Great Hill Capital LLC in New York.
Stocks gained even after news that South Africa had halted the rollout of AstraZeneca’s vaccine after a study showed it gave only limited protection against the country’s more contagious variant of the coronavirus. The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.42% and MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.47%. The MSCI index hit its ninth record high of 2021 overnight.
Brent oil surpassed $60 a barrel. Brent was up 68 cents, or 1.2%, at $60.02, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate rose 68 cents, or 1.2%, to $57.53. The dollar was flat to slightly lower in choppy trading, holding its ground against a basket of major currencies as investors continued to price in a faster U.S. recovery than in most countries. The dollar index rose 0.057%, with the euro down 0.03% to $1.2038.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes last rose 5/32 in price to yield 1.155%, from 1.17% late on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-extend-record-highs-oil-rises-to-highest-in-more-than-a-yr-idUSL1N2KE1JS
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI
https://www.macrotrends.net/2566/crude-oil-prices-today-live-chart
Banxico Plans to Finance Banks That Can’t Dispose of Dollars
Mexico’s central bank is set to announce Monday that it will lend money to local banks that can’t find U.S. financial institutions to take their stashes of bulk cash in dollars, according to a draft of a statement seen by Bloomberg News.
The pledge to help Mexican banks is part of a raft of new measures to be announced by finance officials to help migrants access banking services and get better exchange rates for dollars they bring home. “Banco de Mexico will provide facilities to credit institutions that have difficulty repatriating dollars in cash, through guaranteed contingent financing, under the terms and conditions determined by the central bank,” according to the draft statement, which did not provide further details. The central bank declined to comment on the new measures. As the statement is still in draft form, final details could change. Finance officials are set to present the plan as an alternate solution to a bill passed by Mexico’s Senate that would force the central bank to purchase dollars from local lenders who cant find correspondent banks in the U.S. that want to work with them. The central bank argued the measure could force it to take dollars of dubious origin and open it up to money laundering sanctions from U.S. authorities.
Billionaire Ricardo Salinas, the owner of Banco Azteca, was the only top banker to publicly back the bill by arguing that Mexican banks had some of the strictest controls in the world. Global lenders operating in Mexico have opposed the bill, which hasn’t been approved by the lower house. Central Bank Governor Alejandro Diaz de Leon, Finance Minister Arturo Herrera and Luis Nino, head of the Mexican banking association and the chairman of the board of Banco Azteca are set to announce the new measures later on Monday. The plan also includes using President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Banco de Bienestar, or Wellbeing Bank, to help migrants open Mexico accounts from the U.S., as well as other measures so they can change dollars at a better rate.
The Banco de Bienestar declined a request for comment.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-08/banxico-plans-to-finance-banks-that-can-t-dispose-of-dollars
Foreign minister to put off U.S. visit in February due to virus
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi plans to put off a visit to the United States in February after Washington showed hesitance about the idea due to the coronavirus pandemic, sources close to bilateral ties said Monday.
Motegi proposed to visit the United States starting Feb. 11 for the first in-person meeting with his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken but Washington was cautious about receiving foreign visitors in light of its priority on containing the virus, the sources said. Talking by phone hours after Blinken won Senate confirmation as the U.S. secretary of state on Jan. 26, they agreed to prepare for a face-to-face meeting in the United States at an early date for more thorough discussions. Likewise, arrangements for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s trip to the United States for a meeting with President Joe Biden are proving to be challenging, according to the sources. Suga had repeatedly shown enthusiasm to travel to the United States for talks with Biden at an early date.
“If the infection situation in the United States changes, face-to-face meetings will be possible,” a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/08/national/politics-diplomacy/foreign-minister-visit-february/
WTF does Joe do again??
well ya did not miss much.
newsfaggot starts up on the mnr crap and it goes from there.
always the same play over and over again.
Fuggen saviour progam
SAM595 USAF G5 east from Peterson AFB overnight-departed NAS Jax last night
EJU5Y28 USAFSOC C-32B on ground at Houston, TX Ellington Airport
AE6848 US Navy P-8 Poseiden off SoCAl from NAS Whidbey Island
Gold rises more than 1% (silver up 2.66%) on expectations of large U.S. stimulus package
Gold jumped more than 1% on Monday as expectations of a large U.S. economic stimulus package bolstered bullion’s appeal as an inflation hedge. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday the country would get back to full employment next year if Congress approves the stimulus package.
of course!!! Full employment next year!!!!! Always next year with the FEDS…they don't eben know wut that means
Gold also seemed to take some cues from another jump in Bitcoin, after Tesla Inc said it had invested around $1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency.
In its 2020 annual report, Tesla also said it may invest in “certain alternative reserve assets including digital assets, gold bullion, gold exchange-traded funds and other assets as specified in the future.” An interest in asset classes that are a store of value such as gold and silver, after Tesla’s Bitcoin purchase, is helping prices, said David Meger, director of metals trading at High Ridge Futures.
https://www.reuters.com/article/global-precious/precious-gold-rises-more-than-1-on-expectations-of-large-u-s-stimulus-package-idUSL4N2KE3SD
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
EJU5Y28 USAFSOC C-32B east from quick ground stop at Houston-Ellington Airport
Heading back to Eglin (red dot)
00000000 USAF B-52 Stratofortress from Barksdale just north
been awfully quiet upstairs for the last 24-36 hours after being pretty active towards end of work week.
Musk-fueled bitcoin surge triggers cryptocurrency exchange glitches
Major cryptocurrency exchanges experienced technical issues on Monday as trading volumes soared after billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc revealed it had purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would soon accept it as a form of payment.
The electric-vehicle company’s move marked the latest step toward mainstream acceptance of bitcoin, sending it 10% higher on expectations that other companies will soon join asset manager BlackRock Inc and payments companies Square and PayPal in backing the cryptocurrency.
San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken said it had re-enabled sign-ups after temporarily disabling them earlier in the day because of heavy traffic leading to connectivity issues with its website, while peers Gemini and Binance said their systems were experiencing difficulties. “The recent run-up far exceeded anticipated increases in demand, up over five-fold from previous all-time highs,” a Kraken spokesperson said in an email. The spokesperson added that $56 billion of digital assets were traded on Kraken in January this year, more than what was traded throughout all of 2019. Kraken said it was working to increase capacity to handle higher demand in the future.
Coinbase, founded in 2012 and among the most well-known cryptocurrency platforms globally, said on its website that no issues had been reported on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currency-tesla-exchanges/update-1-musk-fuelled-bitcoin-surge-triggers-cryptocurrency-exchange-glitches-idUSL4N2KE47O
RCH582 USAFSOC C-32B departed Majors Airport es after ground stop
EJU5Y28 USAFSOC C-32B that departed Houston is not hanging around at over 580kts/ground speed
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