morning all
RCH732T USAF C-17 Globemaster departing JBA sw after a ground stop-began at McGuire AFB earlier
Likely heading to Houston
>>62791 pb
SAM7179 USAF C-17 Globemaster arrived at Houston, TX-Ellington Airport after departing from Travis AFB, CA last night
FLASH21 USAf E-4 B Nightwatch went back to Edwards and did a few fly bys on the runway prior to touching down.
The Nightwatch has had a few flights since being stationed at Edwards-think they are doing some of the needed upgrade work to it that was announced last year and it was not a coincidence that it arrived on scene over Travis AFB just as this SAM was took off
pathetic
SAM836 USAF C-40B departed south from JBA (State Dept AC)
09-0015 USAF C-32A out behind it
interdasting call sign
PENCE18 USAF DC-10 Extender off New Jersey from McGuire AFB
CLUB25 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Robins AFB sw and heading into Gulf 'o Mex
This AC used by the Sec. of Defense for the last several admins.
Swiss AF SUI555 (chek't) Pilatus PC-24 departed Serbia after a ground stop
3 F-16's south from Aviano AB, Italy
CLAW31 hidden under CLAW32 with BUZRD21 just making a right turn over San Marino
Most Major Retail Brokerages Suffer Outages As 'Meme Stock'-Mania Continues
Downdetector reports customers of E-Trade, TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, Robinhood, and Fidelity are experiencing outages and issues 30 minutes into the US cash session on Thursday. This comes as heavily-watched so-called 'meme stocks' are higher after yesterday's late-day gamma squeeze in GME (and AMC, among others).
E-Trade outages and issues were detected around the cash session start. TD Ameritrade users are reporting issues as well. The outage map shows TD Ameritrade disruptions are from coast to coast. Possible problems were spotted at Charles Schwab. Robinhood users are also reporting possible problems with the trading app. … and so is Fidelity. The resurgence in bullish sentiment towards WSB-Short-Squeeze favorites began Wednesday afternoon, with GameStop doubling in minutes.
In a virtual conference on Thursday, Morgan Stanley Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Pruzan said the number of trades customers are making daily on the self-directed online trading platform E*Trade is "off the charts."
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/etrade-and-td-ameritrade-suffer-outages-meme-stock-mania-continues
have already "accented" dat
>but he gets zapped for it
nothing new
they can't get any traction with the stories they create so they have to keep on stirring up shit to make themselves feel better and push a tired narrative
Won't stop either
SAM836 USAF C-40B on approach for Homestead ARB, Fl from JBA
Second SAM arriving here in 24 hours-SAM744 had a ground stop here yesterday prior to arrival at Seattle last night
PHENOM6 USAF E-8C Joint STARS off Space Coast with 3 P-8's 169330 169543 andAE6802
AE6802 heading back to Jax
GTMO845 US Navy Beech Huron nw appears over Bahamas heading nw and on it's way to NAS Jax
RCH732T USAF C-17 Globemaster on descent for Houston-Ellington Airport
Departed McGuire AFB and a ground stop at JBA
CLUB25 USAF E-4B Nightwatch trackin' off southern LA
60-0045 USAF B-52 Stratofortress getting' a tank of gas from WYLIE41 USAF KC-135 tanker over OK/AK border-it's under WYLIE41
00000000 USAF B-52 Stratofortress also out of Barksdale, LA
SEC Investigating….
SAM744 USAF C-32A departed Seattle, WA Boeing Field sw after an overnight
They've jacked up Treasury rates quite a bit
The Primary Dealers, who have to buy this shit in order to remain in the FRBNY's standing as one, are still stuck.
Always having to buy to keep the system primed.
They can't hack it in the low-interest rate environment so that is why they came up with the REPO transactions.
Doing that since 2002-if not earlier.
Offload that shit straight into the FRBNY.
JPMorgan pledges $350 million to minority owned businesses
JPMorgan Chase & Co pledged another $350 million on Thursday to help grow Black, Latinx and women-owned businesses, part of a broader effort at the bank to help close the U.S. racial wealth gap.
Part of the money, $42.5 million, will go to the Entrepreneurs of Color fund, which provides funds to community development financial institutions (CDFIs) for low-interest loans to underserved small businesses. The fund originally partnered with CDFIs in Washington, Detroit and three other cities, and it will use the new money to partner with CDFIs in more locations. JPMorgan grew its investment into these communities last year as big corporations were forced to respond to growing anger over systemic racism in the United States after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. In October, JPMorgan said it would give $30 billion over five years to address racial inequality in the United States. The $42.5 million commitment to the Entrepreneurs of Color fund is one of the largest contributions, and is more than the total amount of low-interest loans the fund has made in Detroit in the past 5 years. The full $350 million commitment will be distributed over 5 years in the form of low-interest loans, equity investments and philanthropic investments in diverse-led nonprofits in the United States and abroad.
https://www.reuters.com/article/jp-morgan-inequality/corrected-jpmorgan-pledges-350-million-to-minority-owned-businesses-idUSL1N2KU3IC
This amount is the equivalent of "lip service" to JP Morgan…..a day or two of manipulation for them.
Cleveland Cliffs Inc sold by Arcelor-Mittal: $644.80m-Feb 11
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc is a vertically integrated producer of iron ore and steel products. The Company has upstream and downstream operations. It supplies both customized iron ore pellets and steel solutions. Its segments include Steel and Manufacturing segment and Mining and Pelletizing segment. Its Steel and Manufacturing segment is a producer of flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steel products, primarily for the automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing, and distributors and converters markets. The Company's Steel and Manufacturing segment includes subsidiaries that provide customer solutions with carbon and stainless-steel tubing products, engineered solutions, tool design and build, hot- and cold-stamped steel components and complex assemblies. Its Mining and Pelletizing segment is a supplier of iron ore pellets to the North American steel industry from its mines and pellet plants located in Michigan and Minnesota. Number of employees : 2 372 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/CLEVELAND-CLIFFS-INC-37488524/company/
ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourgish multinational steel manufacturing corporation headquartered in Luxembourg City. It was formed in 2006 from the takeover and merger of Arcelor by Indian-owned Mittal Steel. ArcelorMittal is the world's largest steel producer, with an annual crude steel production of 92.5 million metric tonnes as of 2018. It is ranked 120th in the 2019 Fortune Global 500 ranking of the world's largest corporations.
The Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange (French; literally "United Steelworks of Burbach-Eich-Dudelange"), better known by its acronym ARBED, was a major Luxembourg-based steel and iron producing company. Created in 1911 after the merger of three steel producing companies, ARBED had a significant role in the economy of the Grand Duchy until it merged in 2002 with two other European steel companies to create Arcelor.
After ARBED emerged from World War I in a strong position, having bought some of the steel plants that Gelsenkirchener HĂĽtten A.G. was forced to sell due to the German defeat, it quickly decided to build a new, grand HQ for their central administration. Its staff picked a spot in the railway quarter, along the axis between the Adolphe Bridge and the railway station.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARBED_building
ARBED S.A.
ARBED S.A., based in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, heads an international group of 189 companies engaged in every aspect of iron and steel production from the mining process to the production of highly sophisticated finished goods. It can be seen as both product and agent of the economic revolution that over the last century has transformed Luxembourg from a small agricultural nation into a major industrial power with its activities centered on the great iron- and steel-producing complexes in the southwest of the country. The company is comprised of eight business sectors: flat products, wire drawing, long products, engineering, stainless steel, copper foil, sales and trading, and its Brazilian operations. Three-quarters of the group's turnover is accounted for by steel production and related activities. Though it has undergone extensive personnel reductions in the 1980s and 1990s, ARBED remains the Grand Duchy's largest industrial employer. It ranks among Europe's largest iron- and steel-producing groups, with an annual output of more than 11.75 million metric tons.
https://www.company-histories.com/ARBED-SA-Company-History.html
Lakshmi N Mittal-Executive chairman
Lakshmi N. Mittal became executive chairman of ArcelorMittal in February 2021. He was previously chief executive officer of ArcelorMittal. In 2004, Mittal Steel was founded following the merger of Ispat International and LNM Holdings, and the simultaneous acquisition of International Steel Group, becoming came the world’s leading steel producer. Shortly after, in 2006, Mittal Steel launched an ambitious bid to merge with Arcelor, creating ArcelorMittal. In 2017 the Mittal family made a significant gift to Harvard University, where Mr. Mittal is a member of the Global Advisory Council, to support the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University. The Mittal family has also made important gifts to the Great Ormond Street Hospital, supporting the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre which formally opened in January 2018, and UNICEF, specifically on the topic of child malnutrition in India.
https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/about-us/leadership/board-of-directors/lakshmi-n-mittal
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1243429&tc=7&b=2
https://luxembourg.arcelormittal.com/
10-year Treasury yield surges above 1.50% after 'awful' 7-yr debt auction
The benchmark Treasury note jumped above 1.50% on Thursday afternoon after investors showed tepid demand for $62 billion of 7-year notes. The 10-year note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, 1.505% climbed 15 basis points to 1.54%. Bond prices move in the opposite direction of yields. Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at the Bleakley Advisory Group, described the 7-year note auction results as "awful," after it tailed by 4.2 basis points, the most in the auction's history. The tail is the gap between the highest yield the Treasury sold in the auction and the yield before the auction began. Analysts have cited the 1.50% level as a key threshold for the bond market that could portend trouble for U.S. equities.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-year-treasury-yield-surges-above-150-after-awful-debt-auction-2021-02-25
Treasury Yields Explode After Catastrophic, Tailing 7Y Auction
This is as close to a failed auction as we have ever come…
Ahead of today's closely watched 7Y treasury auction, where the bulk of the recent Treasury rout has been concentrated as traders hammered the belly of the curve, we said that "If the 7Y tails a lot, watch out below" as that would only add insult to today's furious selloff injury. Well, that's precisely what happened, because with the 7Y pricing at 1.195%, this was a whopping 4.1bps tail to the 1.151% When Issued. But if that was ugly, the internals were even worse, with the Indirects plunging from 64.10% to just 38.06%, the lowest since 2014, as no foreigner suddenly wants to even smell US debt!
And with the collapse in Indirects, and Directs taking down 22.13%, the highest since Jun - perhaps simply because there was no Indirect demand at all - Dealers we left with a whopping 39.81%, the highest since 2014 as nobody else wants the paper.
In short- this was an absolutely catastrophic 7Y auction, the ugliest in years, and it came at the worst possible time - just as the curve was selling off on inflation fears.
The result has been an instant spike in 10Y yields, which blew out more than 10bps, surging as high as 1.60% before reversing some losses.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/treasury-yields-soar-after-catastrophic-tailing-7y-auction
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y
RCH730T USAF C-17 Globemaster departing New Castle Cty Airport (fauxtus "home" airport) after a ground stop.
Departed Memphis Int'l earlier and had an additional ground stop at MCB Quantico prior to arrival at New Castle Cty
PENCE18 USAF DC-10 extender over McGuire AFB, NJ from earlier off-shore work
SAM836 USAF C-40B departed Homestead ARB nw after a ground stop
(State Dept AC)
So is this going to Seattle like SAM744 yesterday……
And we had the FRB "issues" yesterday
Starting on February 23, 2021, the H.6 statistical release is now published at a monthly frequency and contains only monthly average data needed to construct the monetary aggregates.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
Photo Emerges Of Shadowy Intelligence Gathering "Ghost Plane" In Somalia
or years, there has been very limited information available publicly about U.S. counter-terrorism operations in Somalia and the forces, based there and in neighboring countries, carrying them out. The repositioning of the bulk of American military forces out of this East African nation between December 2020 and January 2021, dubbed Operation Octave Quartz, highlighted those activities in a way that had not been previously seen. This has included the release of a significant number of what would have been previously been very rare pictures and video clips of U.S. personnel operating in and around the country. One picture that was recently released, seen at the top of this story, prominently shows what can be considered a "ghost aircraft."
The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air turboprop aircraft with the U.S. civil registration number N27557 was photographed at Baledogle Military Airfield, which is situated some 55 miles northwest of the capital Mogadishu. It was included in a group of images related to the deployment of elements of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to the base, sometime between the last week of December 2020 and the first week of January 2021, to provide security and other support as American troops pulled out. The Pentagon announced on Jan. 17, 2021, that the repositioning of the majority of U.S. forces out of Somalia was complete. Baledogle, originally built by the Soviets during the Cold War, has been expanded and transformed over the past decade or so into a major hub for the U.S. military, as well as other foreign actors, such as the United Nations, and elements of Somalia's own armed forces. It was notably the target of a complex attack by terrorists belonging to Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda's franchise in the country, between Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 2019. Since the mid-2000s, Al Shabaab has the primary focus of U.S. operations in Somalia, though the country now also has a nascent ISIS-aligned group.
A story from Foreign Policy in 2015 described the facility as a launch point for American unmanned aircraft and training site for Somali special operation forces. However, as is clear from the picture of N27557, as well as satellite imagery, manned fixed-wing aircraft, as well as helicopters, have also long operated from Baledogle. rom what is generally known, fixed-wing aircraft flying from Baledogle have primarily been configured for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, supplementing unmanned aircraft in this role. While we don't know N27557's exact configuration, it has many features that are commonly seen on King Airs equipped for ISR operations. One of the most immediately visible features is the large dome on top of the central fuselage, which is typically associated with high-bandwidth satellite communications and data-sharing systems. There are also three platter-type antennas – one in front and one behind the dome, as well one on top of the aircraft's t-tail – which are also generally connected to ultra-high-frequency satellite communications equipment. There are additional angled blade antennas that typically are linked to ultra or very-high-frequency radios on top of and below the fuselage.
As for visible sensors, the aircraft's configuration is much more spartan. Compared to other ISR-configured King Airs, N27557 lacks an underbelly equipment gondola and does not have a sensor turret carrying various kinds of full-motion video cameras under the rear fuselage. It's hard to tell for sure, but there does not appear to be anything of major significance mounted externally under the forward fuselage, either, judging the by shadow.
The aircraft does have a number of straight blade antennas underneath the fuselage of a type sometimes associated with systems to intercept enemy communications chatter, including from cell phones, or other kinds of signals intelligence. More interestingly, it has an odd, angled system underneath the rear fuselage where a sensor turret would commonly be found. While we don't know for sure what this is, one possibility is that conceals some kind of camera system. ISR-configured aircraft often have cameras installed behind sliding doors that are designed to interfere with the airflow around the aircraft as little as possible when they are opened. There are two visible segments on the "face" of the system underneath N27557, which could be a sliding door arrangement of some kind.
moar
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39400/photo-emerges-of-shadowy-intelligence-gathering-ghost-plane-in-somalia
Well ya know that the Patriot Act has a provision for the Treasury to seize your account and replace it (cash too) with Debt bombs.
RCH730T USAF C-17 Globemaster on approach for Memphis Int'l from New Castle Cty Airport
Prior stop at Quantico MCB
Completing a round trip