SAM780 USAF C-40B departed JBA sw
State Dept AC
02-5001 USAFSOC C-32B on descent for Bragg form Eglin AFB
DRAGN17 US Army Beechcraft SuperKing on ground at Hagerstown Airport, MD
morning all
Texas wholesale electric prices spike more than 10,000% amid outages
The spot price of wholesale electricity on the Texas power grid spiked more than 10,000% on Monday amid a deep freeze across the state and rolling outages among power producers, according to data on the grid operator’s website.
Real-time wholesale market prices on the power grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) have climbed as high as $11,000 per megawatt, according to ERCOT. A typical price on the grid, which supplies most of the electricity for Texas, is less than $100 per megawatt. The surge reflects the real-time price of electricity and the cost of congestion and losses at different points across the grid. Early on Monday, ERCOT said extreme weather conditions forced many power generating units off the grid, upending the supply of electricity.
ERCOT did not respond to an email message about the spike in wholesale electricity prices.
https://www.reuters.com/article/electricity-texas-prices/update-1-texas-wholesale-electric-prices-spike-more-than-10000-amid-outages-idUSL1N2KL0XG
FX Rigging May Have Spread to 200 Chat Rooms, Lawyer Says
Traders may have used as many as 200 online chat rooms to rig foreign exchange rates, far more than previously thought, a lawyer for investors told a London court Monday.
Marie Demetriou, a lawyer for investment funds suing seven banks, said that some of the newly discovered chat rooms were instant message groups that lasted just a few hours while others were “permanent” fixtures established over months. The chat rooms, as well as emails, telephone calls and WhatsApp messages will play a central role in a suit brought by investment funds. They’re suing banks including Barclays Plc, Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co over allegations they lost money as a result of illegal manipulation of the FX market. As a result of the disclosures, the investors are now in the process of re-pleading their case, Demetriou said. They expect that when the remainder of disclosure is given, “further chat rooms and unlawful anticompetitive communications will be identified,” she said.
Citi, JPMorgan and Barclays were among five banks that agreed in 2019 to pay European Union fines totaling 1.07 billion euros ($1.3 billion) as part of a settlement with the antitrust regulator. Those probes focused on two cartels that traders ran on chat rooms called “Essex Express n’ the Jimmy” and “Three Way Banana Split,” swapping sensitive information and trading plans that allowed them to make informed decisions to buy or sell currencies. Officials at the banks couldn’t be immediately reached to comment.
The banks face lawsuits in the U.S. and U.K. over traders’ manipulation of benchmark foreign-exchange rates a decade ago. More than a dozen financial institutions have paid about $11.8 billion in fines and penalties globally in regulatory probes, with another $2.3 billion spent to compensate customers and investors. The investment funds include Allianz, PIMCO, Brevan Howard and BlueCrest, and some of the world’s largest pension funds, including the four state pension funds of the Kingdom of Sweden and a Danish pension fund. A representative for the claimants declined to comment.
The funds engaged in very substantial volumes of FX trading between 2003 and 2013 the period covered by the lawsuit with more than 2.5 million trades identified to date, Demetriou said.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/fx-rigging-may-have-spread-to-200-chat-rooms-lawyer-says-1.1563836
morning!
RCH714T USAF C-17 Globemaster departed JBA wn after a ground stop and short trip over from Dover AFB
BANKR51 USAF DC-10 extender sw from Bangor and will take up position over MD, NJ, PA as the mobile filling station
Schedule says Pedotus leaves Hagerstown at 2:15pm EST and goes to JBA
https://factba.se/biden/calendar
SAM780 USAF C-40B froze on descent se of Cape Coral FL
RCH749 USAFSOC C-32B ne after a ground stop at Bragg-heading to Rota NB Spain most likely
VENUS92 USAF C-32A ne from JBA-looks like another cert flight for the AC used as secondary AF2 and by the State Dept.
RCH714T USAF C-17 Globemaster on final approach at Milwaukee, WI Mitchell Int'l
Second Globey with "T" designation in here since yesterday anoon.
Moving something to Milwaukee
RCH721T USAF C-17 Globemaster departing MCB-Quantico after a ground stop-inbound from Charleston Int'l
This one heading to Milwaukee as well?
Let you know.
09-0016 USAF C-32A departs JBA to Hagerstown, MD Regional Airport to pick up Fauxtus
The Tulsa massacre is always reported as "white mob"…the Army was ordered to do it.
on ground at Hagerstown Regional Airport MD
Chance #4 to answer the question of AF1.
AF1 is a lot shorter input than 09-0016.
Schedule says a 2:15pm EST depart back to JBA
RCH721T USAF C-17 Globemaster on ground at Kalamazoo, MI Battle Creek Int'l Airport from MCB Quantico ground stop