tyb
morning
Not AF1 Joe in 82-8000 departed JBA for Brussels with SAM267 (shown as MC267 and tail #09-0017) having departing prior by about 40 minutes
09-0016 USAF C-32A departed JBA as the escort
Still no 92-9000
No posted schedule since monday
https://factba.se/biden/calendar
GRIM99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed JBA ne and prolly going to RAF Mildenhall
Usual suspects over Yerp at present
Less tankers visible (the NCHOs-DC-10s that usually over Romania/Poland not in usual positions)
REDEYE6 USAF E-8C Joint STARS north/south trackin' eastern Poland
Dutch AF MMF20 MRTT a little nw of REDEYE6
JAKE11 USAD Rivet Joint back to RAF Mildenhall-it's traces are visible just north of MMF20 tanker
Polish AF PLF105 G4 heading to Rzesow and PLF130 737 heaprted heading west
Polish AF PLF252 C-130 east from Mildenhall
NATO01 E-3 TF Sentry AWACS over northern Romania
Italian AF1497 P-180 AVanti west from Constanta, Romania
High level Croatian AF 9ACRO CL-60 departing Zagreb
ok
Think i've gotten what I'm gonna get from this first one.
Feelz it coming back-kind of expected-felt great for about 24 hours.
Swiss AF SUI018 C-560 departed Rome after ground stop of a little less than 7 hours-prior stop of Lucerne of less than 10 minutes after departing Bern
Picked someone up and then to Rome
"neutral"
They hitting that one hard still
>more of a doozy
Yep-they almost did that one to start so they know it not good
a return to Epi Dr after start of month and then scheduled back at Neuro shortly after.
i can't just say the band-aid (which is all it is) din't work too quickly or the game not played correctly.
All about playing the insurance game of slow ya down and make you accept that shots are all you are going to do.-sowee these are band-aids and knew that from start but I habs to play nice and give it correct time.
I wish it was not that way cause I don't wanna be cut but after seeing the image that is wut gonna have to habben. Neuro knows it too.
If I was 20 years older totally different story.
yep I will
it's the waiting when ya know wut ultimately haz to habben-not a choice made lightly d'oh
Plenty of background info known but they haz to play dhere games ta slow you down
ty ALWAYS appreciate the lubs
calling epi on friday to move dhat up as enough time elapsed-fren had one not long ago and haz way less probs than I and same result-fine for 24-36 hours then back for another.
Paid cash for dis one as I'd still be waiting as the insurance with the standard "oh the system is still down" BS
Groan....
As said...game
both
Moar just trying to slow down-not unique so I get the process. It's a flurry of activity cause we are on top of it and much smarter about understanding what they are going to do and moar importantly NOT gonna do and when.
They don't like that cause most just place selves in hands of system and wait.
Not here
LME Nickel Trades Limit-Up As Bears Unwind In 'Disrupted Session'
After five straight limit-down daysto let the big bois out of hedges, following its reopening, LME Nickel futures are limit-up this morning, soaring 15% after catching down to SHFE's equivalent price.
Bloomberg reports that trading started slowly on Wednesday but gained pace as prices spiked toward the limit, with more than 2,600 contracts changing hands by 10:25 a.m. While Tsingshan has struck a deal with its banks (cough JP Morgan and big boi frens) to avoid further margin calls, there are still a large number of bearish bets in the market that need to be unwound - and at a time when fears over supply are growing. It is now down about 70% from the record high, but still up more than 30% from the start of the month. Notably, the chaos and rule-changes continue at the LME as it says that the second ring session (which traded limit-up) will be deemed "a disrupted session" and all agreed trades during this session will be null-and-void-all "agreed"-sure they did!-who is all? you have to ask yourself'''. Additionally, the most-active nickel futures contract traded on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose as much as 11% at the start of Wednesday’s night session after LME's limit-up bounce. Prices are now broadly in line with nickel contracts on the Shanghai Futures Exchange which suffered less of a technical squeeze than the higher open interest-burdened LME.
LME CEO Matthew Chamberlain says “the Shanghai price is a good guide” as he discusses a normalization of the nickel market. Notably, metals trading on LME and SHFE has become increasingly illiquid as investors look to liquidate positions following early March's unprecedented chaos-i.e. caught short in a paraboilc move.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/lme-nickel-trades-limit-bears-unwind-after-5-straight-limit-down-days
Hello position limits!??...No? just sayin'..kek
But price controls always work /s
They will continue to short it and continue to get "caught out"
Interdastingly enough the Markets (overall) are trying to reload the short positions it decimated over the last 10 days.
Not werking berry much on the NAS but the DOW and SP500 is luring them in.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Look for another smack-down on Ag (or two) prior to Q1 close as they had to increase the contracts traded yesterday after a trend lower since the big one on Feb 24.
They need it in the low $20 range to maximize the shorts they piled on in the rise since the "invasion".
Whether it gets there is a different story but increased "trading" here usually results in lower prices. Been proven time and again
pb
>>128098 Mkt Fag submits proof of rigging: $25.25B in Silver "traded" on the COMEX on February 24th
And the result was a bigger drop-red line in cap #2-yesterday March 22
https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/metals/precious/silver.volume.options.html#optionProductId=458
Lawmakers, Yellen mull freezing Russian gold reserves
A bipartisan group of senators is working with the Treasury Department to prevent Russia from liquidating its giant stash of gold, potentially blocking one of the Kremlin's last methods for circumventing punishing financial sanctions. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet this week with Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, John Cornyn, R-Texas, Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., to discuss the legislation that would target Russia's ability to sell gold reserves, a Treasury spokesperson told FOX Business. The news was first reported by Axios. "Secretary Yellen regularly meets with members of Congress to discuss legislation," the person said. "Additionally, Treasury staff frequently provide technical assistance on sanctions bills."
The legislation under consideration would impose secondary sanctions on any American entities knowingly buying or selling Russian gold. Russia’s gold stockpile was estimated to be worth $132.3 billion as of the end of January – the world's fifth-biggest stockpile.
If the U.S. moves to crack down on gold transactions, it could deter banks in places like China or India from buying or lending against Russia's reserves. The senators have suggested the bill could pass as soon as this week. Lawmakers originally wanted to include it as part of a must-pass omnibus spending bill. "By sanctioning these reserves, we can further isolate Russia from the world’s economy and increase the difficulty of Putin’s increasingly-costly military campaign," King said in a statement.
Russia began furiously stockpiling gold in 2014, when the U.S. sanctioned the Kremlin over its annexation of Crimea, more than doubling its holdings. Moscow stopped buying gold in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic pushed prices sky-high, but announced last month that it would resume buying from domestic producers.
There is concern that Russia could use its gold reserves to shore up the ruble and evade the global sanctions intended to penalize the Kremlin over its invasion of Ukraine nearly one month ago, the biggest attack on a European state in decades.
moar
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/lawmakers-yellen-mull-freezing-russian-gold-reserves
Good luck with that.....
The Japanese yen continues to fall after hitting 6-year low against U.S. dollar following hawkish Fed remarks
The Japanese yen is taking a hit from hawkish remarks by Federal Reserve policy makers this week, extending its weakness against the U.S. dollar for a fourth straight session.
Japan’s currency was trading at around 121 yen per dollar USDJPY, 0.19% as of Wednesday, a day after the Asian currency weakened to a six-year low against the greenback. Cap #2 captures this week’s selloff, and illustrates how much the yen has depreciated against the dollar in just the past three days. The yen has fallen versus the greenback by more than 5% this month.
And as pointed out last week movements that occur over a qtr or even an entire year are habbening at a faster pace so the FOREX market is just waiting for the BOJ to saok it up. It may werk for a bit but not over the long term.
Remarks by Loretta Mester, head of the Fed’s regional bank in Cleveland, have the potential to further extend the yen’s decline against the dollar, according to Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex. On Wednesday, Mester said she presumes that policy makers will need to do “some” 50 basis point rate increases this year. Her comments come just two days after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank could deliver rate increases of larger than 25 basis points each at future meetings.
“A consensus is being formed at the Fed for a 50 basis point rate hike in May, and the market continues to press for a pain threshold for the yen. Wherever it is, we haven’t gotten to it yet,” Chandler said via phone. “The yen is still taking it on the chin and bearing the brunt of Powell’s comments, which have lit the dollar.” The prospect of higher interest rates in the U.S. relative to the rest of the world tends to push the dollar and Treasury yields higher, particularly against a country like Japan where policy makers are keeping ultra-easy monetary policy in place. The Bank of Japan, unlike much of the rest of the world, is grappling with weak price pressures: It still sees inflation remaining short of its 2% target even though consumer expectations hit a record high this month. Last week, policy makers maintained their target for short-term interest rates at minus 0.1% and their target for the 10-year Japanese government-bond yield at around zero. The BOJ’s yield curve control “appears to be acting as a brake,” B. of A. rate strategists Tomonobu Yamashita and Shusuke Yamada wrote in a note on Wednesday. However, the risks for Japanese yields are “skewed to the upside” and the 10-year yield on the Japanese government bond could rise to 0.4% by year-end, from a current level around 0.2%, if Japan’s central bank adjusts its yield-curve control target and exits its negative interest rate policy, they said. On Wednesday, Treasury yields edged off their 2019 highs, with the 10-year yield TMUBMUSD10Y, 2.356% around 2.4%, while the U.S. Dollar Index DXY, 0.16% was up 0.2%.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-japanese-yen-continues-to-fall-after-hitting-6-year-low-against-u-s-dollar-following-hawkish-fed-remarks-11648051945
Nobody wants it.....for a multitude of reasons
Gonna have to start buying it en masse very soon to arrest this.
They are screwed demographic-wise, all Gov't debt been at negative yield for years, and haz to import almost everything they use. They din't take the "medicine*" when they had the chance instead kept the debt issuance going and then had to buy almost all of it when issued.
F-U-C-K-E-D.
*nor did anyone else however Japan's problems are exacerbated by the issues described above.
>>131313 <---- chek't
Hungarian AF HUAF182 A319 on descent for Brussels from Budapest depart earlier
>"Assembling the musicians"
continues
wasn't the same exact thing said during the myanmar escapade?
Noes that banks accounts were mentioned then
get where you coming from (it as well)
Awful lotsa misinformation around at present.
How many times he been "arrested" by nao?
over 10.
kek
He supposedly already ded anyway and it's a double.
Empirical evidence...until that I'll remain skeptical.
Nigerian AF 5NFGU Falcon 7x en from Paris-been at Paris since arrival from Frankfurt on 0317 and a shuttle back and forth from Paris on same day-heading back to Frankfurt nao
14-5805 and CONK21 USAF C-130J Super Herc nw from Marseille departure-looks like they came in from the "Cold Response" exercise earlier today and had about 2h45m on the ground at Marseille
trips confirm already done deal
they are so 'careful' wif this one is just priceless.
Not eben wasting any time on these.
GRIMM99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch on descent for RAF Mildenhall
>and prolly going to RAF Mildenhall
RCH4547 USAF C-17 Globemaster heading for Brussels Int'l from JBA depart earlier today
Equipment for Not AF1 Joe
Nigerian AF 5NFGU Falcon 7x decided to make a u-turn after already being on descent for Frankfurt -heading west nao
RCH4547 C-17 on final at Brussels
GRIMM99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch on final at Mildenhall
Canadian AF CFC3701 A-310 on ground at Stansted from Kuwait depart
Stellar 20Y Auction Prices At Record High Yield, Sees Record High Bid-To-Cover; Record High Direct, Record Low Dealer Award
Today's 20Y auction, technically a reopening of last month's TF5 cusip, was an auction where the word "record" was used all over the place.
Heading into what is expected to be an aggressive month-end rebalancing where funds will be forced to buy tens of billions in TSYs to meet their mandatory balance mandates, the auction printed at a high yield of 2.651%, the highest yield on record for the 20Y bond which as a reminder was launched in May 2020,and well above last month's 2.396%. It did, however, stop well through the When Issued of 2.665%, a 1.4bps stop through.
The bid to cover was 2.72, also a record high for the tenor, and sharply higher than both last month's 2.44 and the 6-auction average of 2.41.
The internals were also tremendous: with Indirects taking down 64.4% of the auction, not far from the all time high of 67.0% hit in July 2020, the Direct award was a record high 26.0%, which meant that Dealers were left with just 9.6%, a record low.
Overall, a superb, A+ auction for what has long been the highest point on the curve (as a reminder, the 20s30s is inverted)..and one which may indicate that the highs for TSYs are in until the coming rebalancing is complete.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stellar-20y-auction-prices-record-high-yield-sees-record-high-bid-cover-record-high-direct
RCH4547 C-17 hasn't touched down yet and got as low at 650 ft on approach at Brussels (red circle) and nao wandering around over Antwerp at about 3575 ft
nice not having to look at any of that in here since it's been shoved in all our faces at every op.
Foreigners banned from selling Russian stocks as market set for limited reopening
Russia plans to resume some stock trading on Thursday after a near month-long hiatus, with 33 rouble securities to be traded on the Moscow Exchange. Non-residents will have to wait, though - they will be barred from selling stocks and OFZ rouble bonds until April 1.
Trading in blue chips, including state lenders Sberbank (SBER.MM) and VTB (VTBR.MM), energy majors Rosneft (ROSN.MM) and Gazprom (GAZP.MM), will take place between 0650 and 1100 GMT, with short-selling banned, the central bank said on Wednesday. Russian stocks last traded on the Moscow Exchange on Feb. 25. The central bank then curbed trading as Western sanctions over events in Ukraine threw markets into turmoil.
Until April 1, foreign investors are allowed to conduct operations to lower their obligations including repo deals and deals with derivative instruments, but not to sell shares or OFZ rouble treasury bonds, the Moscow Exchange said. The central bank started to buy OFZ rouble treasury bonds to support the domestic debt market when it reopened on Monday, and the finance ministry said it plans to spend 1 trillion roubles to buy Russian companies' shares.
The limited re-opening by MOEX comes after the SPB Exchange (SPBE.MM), , Russia's second-largest bourse, partially restarted trade in foreign shares on Monday, allowing trading of the 15 most liquid stocks including Apple (AAPL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O), Boeing (BA.N) and Alphabet (GOOGL.O).
From midday on Wednesday, SPB Exchange allowed securities of another 1,639 foreign companies to be bought and sold by domestic market players, most of whom are Russian residents who use the platform to trade foreign stocks. Trading and settlement is conducted in U.S. dollars but the funds will remain on the brokerage accounts and cannot be cashed out amid Western sanctions on Russia and capital controls that Moscow has introduced in retaliation, the exchange said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/limited-russian-stock-market-trading-resume-march-24-central-bank-says-2022-03-23/
now look over here
Madeleine Albright, 1st female secretary of state, dead at 84
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/madeleine-albright-1st-female-secretary-state-dead-84/story?id=83627652
dunno
if you gonna put it in, put it ALL in like dis.
know who that was.
no dates and zero context
habbily provided
Attacked when originally written and then "muh find!"
kek
These 3 Charts Strongly Suggest the U.S. Stock Market Has an Invisible Hand Propping It Up
As someone who has watched trading screens for the past 36 years, it’s pretty easy to spot a fake market. As the charts below indicate, there is an invisible hand (or hands) pushing this stock market up when it should be plunging. The likely suspects are U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s Plunge Protection Team, known as the Exchange Stabilization Fund; foreign central banks that are aligned with the U.S. position on Ukraine and want to help stabilize financial markets in the West; hedge funds and Wall Street’s Dark Pools owned by megabanks that are net long the market; or a combination of all of the above.
One thing’s for sure, the stock market is not responding in a normal fashion to soaring inflation, a hawkish Fed, spiking interest rates, and military aggression by an out-of-control dictator with 6,000 nuclear warheads.
Consider the chart below: since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note has skyrocketed by 20 percent, currently reaching 2.38 percent. That was a correct and normal reaction since inflation is already soaring in the U.S. and the military aggression is going to disrupt oil and gas supplies from Russia via sanctions, thus likely pushing commodity prices even higher. In a normally functioning stock market, an increase in yield of that magnitude on the 10-year Treasury note would have caused the stock market to plunge. Instead, per the chart below, the S&P 500 stock index has actually risen 5 percent since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The stock market’s bizarre behavior is further evidenced by the chart below. It shows how the S&P 500 stock index has performed in relation to the S&P GSCI commodity index since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Notice particularly how the dramatic spike in commodity prices between February 24 and March 8 was not met with a dramatic plunge in stock prices during that same period. It should have been. Then there is the equally important fact of a big yawn from the stock market as a nuclear power invades a sovereign nation of 44 million people, bombs its cities and towns to rubble, and persists in making threats against the U.S. and allies that are supporting Ukraine.
And, finally, there is the disparate reaction of the stock market versus the correct share price reaction of the global banks that will be impacted by the Russian invasion. The chart below shows the radically different response from the stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 index, versus global banks since February 1, 2022. We selected the date of February 1 because that was the point at which Russia had amassed 100,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders, backed up with tanks and artillery. The global banks shown on the chart below are those with significant exposure to Russia. The worst performing of these, Austria’s Raiffeisenbank, has lost 50 percent of its value while the S&P 500 is down less than one percent from February 1 as of yesterday’s market close.
The stock market is supposed to be an efficient pricing mechanism. When it stops efficiently pricing risk, it loses the public’s confidence. Those invisible hands should think long and hard about that reality.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/03/these-3-charts-strongly-suggest-the-u-s-stock-market-has-an-invisible-hand-propping-it-up/
all pb
>>130121, >>130124, >>130164 Mkt Fag: Morning Market report-March 11th, 2022
>>130387 , Mkt Fag: Morning Market Report-No Janet yet and Gold Silver ratio trying to breakouit with the hit jobs that started last night
>>130532, >>130539 Mkt Fag: Morning Market Report
>>130580, >>130581, >>130592, >>130640 Mkt Fag: After the Bell Market Report
>>130681 Mkt Fag: After the bell Market report...all 'bout doze rates...doze rates
>>130735, >>130763 Mkt Fag: Morning Market Report-the morning after indecisiveness edition
>>130870, >>130876, >>130884 Mkt Fag: Morning after what was left of the short position delta destruction edition