CLUB22 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Robins AFB, GA nw to Lincoln Muni Airport
BOXER45 USAF C-40C west from JBA depart
TERRA97 USAFSOC C-32B sw from JBA after a ground stop-origin McGuire AFB NJ
09-0016 USAF C-32A over Delaware on a cert and/or maintenance flight
morning
on this end yes.
not gotten much of an update on pops (and not prying for one as she got enough to deal with..) but plans to return home here tomorrow at some point
CVC Capital tells Toshiba it is suspending acquisition plans
CVC Capital Partners is suspending its proposal to acquire Toshiba, the Japanese industrial group said on Tuesday.
CVC said in a letter to Toshiba that it was waiting to see if taking the Japanese company private was in line with Toshiba's management and board strategy. Toshiba said, however, it would not be able to evaluate CVC's initial proposal without further information. The fund made a preliminary proposal for a tender offer on April 6, with plans to present a formal, detailed proposal to Toshiba about 10 days later. However, Toshiba said no such plan was outlined in the letter it received on Monday. Toshiba disputes claims by CVC that its shareholder structure was hurting its corporate value. While Toshiba does not rule out the possibility of going private, it believes that taking advantage of the merits of being a publicly held company increases its corporate value, it said. CVC had proposed to Toshiba that the company buys back its shares at a premium to break ties with activist shareholders.
On April 14, after receiving the acquisition proposal from CVC, Nobuaki Kurumatani stepped down as Toshiba's president and CEO. Kurumatani, who had lost support from activist funds, was replaced by Chairman Satoshi Tsunakawa. "This letter contained no specific and detailed information," said Toshiba in a statement Tuesday. The letter only said that CVC would "step aside to await [Toshiba's] guidance" as to whether privatization would fit with the Japanese company's strategic objectives, according to the Toshiba statement. "The nature of our business would demand that any consideration of such a proposal must include a thorough review of the acquirer's capital structure and the specific management policies post-acquisition, as well as the assurance of compliance with national security laws, foreign investment regulations and competition laws," Toshiba said. "As this preliminary proposal lacks the required information, the board has concluded it is not possible to evaluate it."
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-deals/CVC-Capital-tells-Toshiba-it-is-suspending-acquisition-plans
Crypto inflows hit $4.9 billion as of mid-April -Coinshares data
Inflows into cryptocurrency funds and products hit $4.9 billion as of April 16, with the pace of increase slowing a bit in the first two weeks of the month after hitting record levels in the first quarter, data from digital currency manager Coinshares showed on Tuesday. Inflows in the first two weeks of April hit about $400 million to $4.9 billion, or about 9% higher than an all-time high of $4.5 billion in the first three months of the year.
The pace of inflows had already moderated in the first quarter, after a 240% surge in the fourth. That said, inflows in the second week of April totaled $233 million, the largest since early March, Coinshares said.
Bitcoin’s rise also slowed in the first two weeks of the month, growing just 5.7%, although it hit a record just under $65,000 during that period. After touching that all-time peak last week, bitcoin has plunged nearly 18% in six days. Bitcoin last traded up 0.8% at $56,161. Inflows last week were more spread out to include other digital assets outside of bitcoin and ethereum.
Bitcoin still saw the largest inflows of $108 million, with ethereum snagging $65 million. But investors poured money into other digital tokens, including bitcoin cash, Polkadot, Binance, and Tezos, Coinshares data showed.
Crypto assets under management (AUM) have also surged to a peak of $64.2 billion, the data showed. In the first quarter, the sector’s AUM was $59 billion. Last year, assets under management for the sector hit $37.6 billion.
Grayscale is still the largest digital currency manager, with $49.5 billion in assets as of the second week of April, while CoinShares, the second biggest and the largest European digital asset manager, oversees about $5.7 billion in assets.
XRP has been the most popular digital asset in recent weeks with weekly inflows of $33 million, nearly doubling its assets under management to $83 million.
https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currency-inflows/crypto-inflows-hit-4-9-billion-as-of-mid-april-coinshares-data-idUSL1N2MD18X
BOXR254 USAF C-40C departed JBA south
Best I can tell is that these BOXER and BOXR flights are either Dept. of Homeland Security or Dept. Of Health and Human Services for the last two weeks going around putting out "fires".
Can't confirm 100% but most likely
Morningstar presses court to dismiss SEC's mortgage ratings lawsuit
Ratings and research firm Morningstar Inc has asked a New York judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the top U.S. securities regulator over ratings of commercial mortgage-backed securities, according to a court document.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Morningstar’s former ratings business in February, saying the firm violated disclosure and internal controls requirements in 30 commercial mortgage-backed securities transactions from 2015 to 2016 when the agency allowed analysts to make undisclosed adjustments to key stresses in its modeling.
The SEC “does not like that (the firm’s) former methodology included these adjustments” but Morningstar’s analytical independence is protected by Congress, lawyers for the company said in the filing, which was filed on Monday. Morningstar said the regulator is overstepping its authority and the firm met all disclosure requirements. A spokeswoman for the company declined to comment beyond the filing. An SEC official also declined to comment.
Ratings agencies came under criticism after the last financial crisis as inflated ratings of mortgage-backed securities helped fuel a U.S. housing bubble. Congress later charged the SEC with overseeing the ratings agencies, but the agency struggled with the oversight due to insufficient resources and technology changes, Reuters has previously reported.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-sec-morningstar/morningstar-presses-court-to-dismiss-secs-mortgage-ratings-lawsuit-idUSL1N2MD1CL
meanwhile the Chairman of Morningstar Joseph Mansueto has been selling shares in Morningstar quite often
https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1324069.htm
U.S. files lawsuit against Danske Bank, attorney says
The United States of America and the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) have filed a lawsuit against Danske Bank and its former CEO in the Copenhagen city court, according to the attorney representing the parties.
Shares in Danske Bank fell around 8% after the news, which was first reported by the business daily Borsen. The suit is linked to Danske’s involvement in a major money laundering scandal, according to Borsen. It said the parties were initially claiming compensation of 10 million Danish crowns ($1.62 million), but that the number could rise to hundreds of millions. Between 2007 and 2015, 200 billion euros ($235 billion) in transactions were channelled through its small branch in Estonia, many of which the bank has said were suspicious.
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB), which manages almost $600 billion in federal retirement funds, lost money after buying shares in Danske Bank, according to Borsen. Thomas Donatzky, the lawyer representing the claimants, confirmed the lawsuit when contacted by Reuters, but declined to give further details. Spokespeople for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and FRTIB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Danske’s former CEO Thomas Borgen’s lawyer Peter Schradieck declined to comment. Borgen left Danske in 2018 in the wake of the money-laundering scandal. A spokesman for the Danish bank could not confirm or deny the report, but said: “We defend ourselves against any claims, and consider any development in cooperation with Danske Bank’s lawyers.”
Danske Bank is also being investigated by the DOJ over its role in the Estonia case.
https://www.reuters.com/article/danske-bank-lawsuit/update-1-u-s-files-lawsuit-against-danske-bank-attorney-says-idUSL1N2MD1FT
Biden: 'Evidence is overwhelming' in Chauvin trial
President Joe Biden on Tuesday addressed the murder case against former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, confirming that he called Floyd's family after the jury was sequestered. "I'm praying the verdict is the right verdict. The evidence is overwhelming in my view," Biden told reporters, adding that he "wouldn't say that unless the jury was sequestered." The president also said he can "only imagine the pressure and the anxiety" that Floyd's family is feeling. "They're a good family and they're calling for peace and tranquility no matter what the verdict is," Biden added.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-evidence-is-overwhelming-in-chauvin-trial-2021-04-20
fuck you again Joe
What's the beef?: Untouched burgers at Japan-US summit talks spark speculation online
Speculation is circulating on social media as to why Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden did not touch the burgers prepared for their lunch meeting during Suga's visit to the White House to hold his first in-person talks with his American counterpart. Was the reason because their discussion heated up as the prime minister described? Or was it because President Biden was careful about taking his masks off in the middle of a pandemic?
The burgers were served during a roughly 20-minute, one-on-one meeting accompanied only by their interpreters on April 16. In a photo released with President Biden's tweet, Suga and Biden are seen sitting at either end of a rectangular table, and in front of them sit burgers, coffees and other items. While there is a relatively long distance between the two, Biden is seen double-masking, while Suga wore an N95 mask provided by the U.S. government. Following the closed-door meeting with Biden, Prime Minister Suga told accompanying reporters, "We had burgers prepared, but it (our discussion) heated up so much that we ended up barely touching our food. I believe we were able to build a solid relationship based on mutual trust." He repeated himself, saying, "We were supposed to have a talk while we ate burgers, but we got carried away and didn't touch them. We didn't eat lunch."
In response to Prime Minister Suga's explanation, social media in Japan was flooded with comments such as, "You know Biden couldn't have eaten (the burger) out in public when he's calling for people not to dine with anyone but their family members," and, "You can tell clearly from (Biden's) double-masking that he wasn't even going to eat (the burger) in the first place." In fact, President Biden on Jan. 21 asked Americans to mask up for 100 days as a national strategy following his inauguration, and his administration is still under the mask-wearing campaign. In addition, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called on the public to refrain from dining with others except for family members. According to a source related to Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo asked Washington to host a dinner or lunch function to form a stronger relationship of trust between the two leaders, but the U.S. government apparently was reluctant. The burgers were seemingly served as a substitute for such an opportunity.
One social media user wrote, "I wonder if they would have eaten if it was pancakes," apparently referring to Suga's favorite food.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210420/p2a/00m/0na/013000c