>>51321, >>51341 pb
Honduran AF FAH001 Embraer Legacy 600 west from Columbus, GA after an arrival on 0506 from Tegucigalpa Int'l with a ground stop at Miami Int'l prior to Columbus, GA arrival
WISER21 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departing Robins AFB, GA ne
Cyberattack Shuts Down Massive East Coast Gasoline Pipeline
The Colonial Pipeline, which carries almost half of the East Coast’s gasoline supply, shuttered its entire network overnight due to a cyberattack, the company said in a statement — the latest cyberattack to disrupt a U.S. company’s operations.
The cyberattack impacted Colonial Pipeline’s IT systems late Friday, and the company says it tried to minimize the damage by proactively shutting down its over 5,000 miles of pipelines, which carry gasoline, jet fuel and kerosene from Texas to the New York area. The company has called law enforcement, and it hired a private cybersecurity company to conduct its own investigation into the attack, it said.
Colonial Pipeline is still working to restore service (the Georgia-based company did not immediately respond when asked when it plans to resume operations).
100 million gallons. That’s how much refined fuel Colonial Pipeline says it moves per day, accounting for about 45% of fuel all used on the East Coast. A private company, Colonial Pipeline’s largest owner (at 28.1% as of last year) is Koch Capital Investments, which is controlled by the powerful Koch family.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/05/08/cyberattack-shuts-down-massive-east-coast-gasoline-pipeline/
They never heard of headphones...same issue here before.
Fuggen deaf and gettin moar deaf from that.
have fun
62-3534 USAF KC-135 tanker done over Not AF1 Joe at Camp David
No updated schedule released and still displays Friday
https://factba.se/biden/calendar
WISER21 USAF E-4B Nightwatch continues ne from Robins AFB, GA depart
>>47697 pb Federal Reserve Bank of New York Reverse Repo(s) April 8-23: $625.35B
>>49822 pb FRBNY Reverse Repo Operations April 26-30: $766.523B
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Reverse Repo operations week of May 2nd, 2021-$757.09b
Adding this amount ($757.09b) to the previous ones get us a total of: $2.148 trillion worth of t notes pushed back onto the market by the FRBNY since April 8th.
Please see the original link (47697) for background on how this process werks (and won't soon) the counterparties will eventually lose this battle as they need to participate in this or lose status as a FRBNY counterparty or primary dealer. The FRBNY knows this so they will keep piling this shit on until the counterparties 'run out of cash' and then have to start dumping assets into the market at any price to keep this going.
Links on who is who are in the pb first link.
Deets on Reverse Repo for the last week
May 3-$129.72b with 26 counterparties
May 4-$147.80b with 30 counterparties
May 5-$162.80b with 29 counterparties
May 6-$154.92b with 20 counterparties
May 7-$161.85b with 28 counterparties
https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/tomo-results-display?SHOWMORE=TRUE&startDate=01/01/2000&enddate=01/01/2000
Japan asking all prefectures to set up mass vaccination centers
The health ministry has asked all prefectures to actively consider setting up mass inoculation centers using U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 shot as the government looks to quickly ramp up the vaccine rollout amid signs of an explosive rise in new variant cases.
With the approval of a second and a third vaccine for emergency use expected in less than two weeks, the government is aiming to minimize the impact to municipal governments' existing vaccine networks. These networks have been using U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc.’s vaccines, but the new vaccines made by Moderna and British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC would need to be handled and stored differently. The government is planning to allocate Moderna’s vaccines to planned state-run mass inoculation centers at government sites in Tokyo and Osaka on May 24. The mass vaccination sites nationwide would also use Moderna’s vaccines.
Taro Kono, the minister in charge of the rollout, said Friday that Gunma and Aichi prefectures would set up their own mass inoculation centers, adding that some other prefectural governors have also expressed interest in doing the same.
Japan has faced criticism over its rollout — the slowest among the developed countries — but Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is hoping to rectify the situation. Suga said Friday that the government was aiming to finish giving a second round of shots to 36 million people age 65 and over by the end of July after ramping up the jabs to 1 million a day.
The key to that scenario will be the authorization of vaccines made by Moderna and British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC for emergency use. The health ministry is set to deliberate on the matter on May 20, according to domestic media reports.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/05/08/national/japan-all-prefectures-mass-vaccinations/
Below departed Porto, Portugal after attending Eu meeting.
EU leaders attend summit in person for 1st time this year
https://www.stltoday.com/news/world/eu-leaders-attend-summit-in-person-for-1st-time-this-year/article_32d87187-bd04-5cce-acaa-09a485321c84.html
Danish AF Challenger 604
Polish AF PLF102 Boeing 737NG 800
Belgian AF BAF76 Dassault Falcon 7X
Croatian AF 9ACRO Challenger 604
Czech AF CEF02 Airbus A319
Greek AF HAF352B Embraer
Honduran AF FAH001 Embraer 600 on ground at Davis-Monthan AFB (Boneyard) from Columbus, GA depart earlier today
This is Honduras' Air Force One
from March 31 2021
Honduras drugs: President's brother gets life in prison
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56589088
#164
notablezzzz, not endorsements
>>51719, >>51720, >>51722 Gen. McInerney Twat "Speculation On the Maricopa Audit"
>>51726, >>51730, >>51734, >>51735 pf report(s)
>>51727 Cyberattack Shuts Down Massive East Coast Gasoline Pipeline-forbes
>>51731 Federal Reserve Bank of New York Reverse Repo operations week of May 2nd, 2021-$757.09b-total of $2.148T since April 8
>>51732, >>51590 pb Joe comms Biden Twat decode
>>51733 Japan asking all prefectures to set up mass vaccination centers-japantimes
>>51741 GOP Conference Vote To Get Rid of Liz Cheney Scheduled for Next Wednesday, 9am-theconservativetreehouse May 7
earlies
yep
only started tryin yesterday and not enough time to do it properly.
>life smoothin out again
It's gettin' dere
kek
Hedge Funds Are The 'Most Short' Junk Debt Since Lehman
A month ago we warned that The Fed's incessant intervention had put distressed investors out of business as the remarkable rally in even the lowest quality junk debt ('CCC or triple hooks') had created party time for zombie companies everywhere as "high yield" is now officially "low yield."
And, while the party can and will go on as long as there are greater fools, one look at the fundamentals...... confirms that the party will only last as long as central banks keep injecting hundreds of billions into the market each and every month.
"People aren’t investing, they’re just chasing."
That is the ominous, ponzi-like warning from Adam Cohen, Caspian Capital’s managing partner as the distressed debt investor has chosen to return some money to investors because the rewards don't justify the high risks anymore.
He's right. Despite soaring debt levels and forward economic uncertainty, US HY debt risk spreads are 100bps tighter than pre-COVID levels...And all that has sparked a resurgence in hedge funds betting against this farce continuing.
In fact, as Bloomberg reports, global high-yield bonds worth as much as $55 billion are on loan to traders seeking to profit if prices drop, according to data from IHS Markit.
That is the largest balance since the fall of 2008, and compares with about $35 billion at the start of the year. “I would expect that to get bigger as spreads tighten and/or people get worried about rates rising,” said Tim Winstone, a portfolio manager at Janus Henderson, which oversees 294 billion pounds ($409 billion). “At these levels of valuations, I’m not surprised more people, such as hedge funds, are setting shorts.”
And we are starting to see the impact of this drop in bullish/momo-chasing malarkey in the performance of deals in the secondary market. Almost one out of four high-yield bonds sold this year is indicated below the price it was issued at, based on data compiled by Bloomberg.
With The ECB already hinting at scaling back its asset-purchases, and BoE having already done so, The Fed continues to ignore talk of its own tapering, but between HY shorts, and deleveraging, investors are starting to signal the build-up of defenses against a potential scaling back of central-bank support.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hedge-funds-are-most-short-junk-debt-lehman