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the day AFTER Bezos steps down....
dis wut aI see so you better
AF2 USAF and SAM2A USAF C-40B's departed Los Angeles Int'l ne-They arrived on Friday and then went to Las Vegas and back to LAX on Saturday
SAM782 USAF G5 also departed Los Angeles Int'l a leetle bit behind-this AC arrived on 0702 from JBA and it took off from the northern runway while AF2 and SAM2A on the southern one.
Who is on SAM782? dis AC ATC did not have them on the same apron for taxi or take-off....Nancy Pancy perhabs???
Or someone high up the political food chain as the staggered take-off and different runways suggest this AC needed to be separate from AF2 and SAM2A
SAM770 USAF C-32A continues sw from it's JBA depart-looks like an arrival for San Diego area at present....;)
AF2 USAF and SAM2A USAF C-40B's departed Los Angeles Int'l ne-They arrived on Friday and then went to Las Vegas and back to LAX on Saturday
SAM782 USAF G5 also departed Los Angeles Int'l a leetle bit behind-this AC arrived on 0702 from JBA and it took off from the northern runway while AF2 and SAM2A on the southern one.
Who is on SAM782? dis AC ATC did not have them on the same apron for taxi or take-off....Nancy Pancy perhabs???
Or someone high up the political food chain as the staggered take-off and different runways suggest this AC needed to be separate from AF2 and SAM2A
SAM770 USAF C-32A continues sw from it's JBA depart-looks like an arrival for San Diego area at present....;)
Costco to end special hours for shoppers ages 60 and up at the end of the month
Costco Wholesale Corp. COST, 0.07% has announced the end its senior operating hours on July 26, 2021. As a precaution during the COVID-19 pandemic, Costco set aside an hour, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday at many locations, during which shoppers ages 60 and over, as well as those who are disabled or immunocompromised, could shop its warehouses. That program will come to an end and all warehouses will resume their normal hours. Costco shares are up 5.8% for the year to date while the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.40% has gained 15.3% for the period.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/costco-to-end-special-hours-for-shoppers-ages-60-and-up-at-the-end-of-the-month-2021-07-06
With 34 Pending Filings, China Sends A Message: No More US IPOs
In the aftermath of the Didi IPO fiasco, the window for Chinese companies hoping to list in the US is shut, perhaps for good.
And that's a problem, because according to Bloomberg, there are as many as 34 pending filings for US listings by firms based in China or Hong Kong announced this year. The IPO euphoria has been running at a record pace this year, with more than $15 billion priced in New York IPOs so far this year, although much of this has been on the back of the SPAC bubble which burst in the first quarter and has yet to recover.
“The Didi situation reinforces the fact that China is annoyed by the flood of U.S. IPOs by Chinese tech companies, and is attempting to slow the reception of these IPOs in the West,” said Hans Albrecht, portfolio manager at Horizons ETFs Management Canada Inc. “While Chinese names look like better value, they will suffer from this overhang for some time.”
In addition to the crackdown on Didi, whose app was pulled from mainland store sending its shares crashing on Tuesday, China is also probing Kanzhun Ltd., the owner of an online recruitment platform, and Full Truck Alliance Co., an Uber-like trucking startup. Both companies listed in the U.S. recently. Their shares also dropped in U.S. premarket trading Tuesday. “The Chinese government could have stopped the IPOs from happening, like how they did with Ant,” said Sharif Farha, a Dubai-based portfolio manager at Safehouse Global Consumer Fund. “Instead, they allowed global investors to take pain, and consequently have broken trust with a lot of foreign investors. While we did not participate in any of these listings, we would imagine that several funds would consider exiting.” One company poised to test sentiment soon is Hong Kong’s on-demand logistics and delivery firm Lalamove. It filed confidentially for a U.S. initial public offering last month, according to people with knowledge of the matter, and is seeking to raise at least $1 billion. The latest crackdown is “very bad news for these Chinese companies’ image abroad,” said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, a senior analyst at Swissquote Group Holdings SA. “It’s a terrible hit to foreign investor appetite.”
Which, incidentally, may be just what Beijing wants: as Bloomberg Ye Xie writes, by punishing Didi Global just days after its mega listing, Beijing is sending an unequivocal message to leading Chinese tech companies: Seeking initial public offerings in the U.S. is not something to be encouraged. The ride-hailing firm lost about $19 billion in market value after regulators barred new users from Didi’s app, citing security risks. The shares sank below the IPO price, three days after the company debuted as the largest Chinese listing in U.S. history after Alibaba’s IPO in 2014.
According to Xie, Beijing's aggressive intervention shows Beijing is increasingly worried about two things.
-First, private tech companies’ sprawling data collection is a threat to national security.
-Secondly, by listing in the U.S., these companies subject themselves to America’s regulatory requirements, leaving their huge trove of national and personal data reachable to foreign hands.
The crackdown happens at a time when the U.S.-China relationship has deteriorated to the worst in decades. The U.S. has increased scrutiny over listed Chinese companies, delisted companies including China Telecom and China Mobile, and put a number of firms on its blacklist. It also occurred as China is working hard to develop its home-grown technology and build Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong as its answer to Nasdaq. Dozens of U.S.-listed companies, from Alibaba, JD.com to Baidu, have turned to Hong Kong for secondary listings. As Xie adds, Didi’s IPO looks particularly ill-timed. Bloomberg reported that Chinese regulators asked Didi as early as three months ago to delay its U.S. IPO because of national security concerns involving its collection of data. Didi defied the warning and raised $4.4 billion in the U.S. listing on June 30, one day before the Communist Party’s 100th birthday. In a way, Didi’s decision to rush the IPO is similar to the tactics adopted by Ant Finance. The Alibaba fintech affiliate was fast-tracking its overseas listing in November, just as the authorities were tightening regulations on the industry. The difference is that Beijing called off Ant’s IPO at the last minute, helping potential investors avoid losses. Didi’s investors aren’t so lucky.
Beijing chose to crack down on Didi after Chinese firms raised $7.9 billion in U.S. IPOs in June, the most since Alibaba’s debut 2014. It is now telling China Inc. to forget about New York for a listing. Think about Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong instead.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/34-pending-filings-china-sends-message-no-more-us-ipos
65302 USAF WC-130j Hercules Hurricane Hunter heading back to Biloxi/Gulfport after some measurements inside Elsa
Navy Brass in at Miami Int'l
VV700 US Navy G5 on descent for Miami Int'l from JBa depart
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Paul Pelosi bets up to $6M on Big Tech before powerful House committee passes sweeping antitrust measures
The transactions were disclosed in a filing released on Friday, July 2.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband placed a bet of up to $6 million on Apple, Amazon and Google-parent company Alphabet ahead of a powerful House committee moving forward with bills aimed at reining in the powers of Big Tech.
Paul Pelosi on May 21 spent up to $250,000 on 50 Apple calls that have a strike price of $100 and that expire on June 17, 2022. He also bought 20 Amazon calls, costing up to $1 million, that have a strike price of $3,000 and that also expire on June 17, 2022. On June 18, Paul Pelosi, exercised his Alphabet call options giving him the right to buy 4,000 shares at a price of $1,200 apiece, or $4.8 million. The Alphabet call options were originally purchased on Feb. 27, 2020. Paul Pelosi did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
"The speaker has no involvement or prior knowledge of these transactions," a spokesperson for Pelosi’s office told FOX Business. "The speaker does not own any stock." Paul Pelosi, who runs a real estate and venture capital investment and consulting firm, did not violate the STOCK Act unless he acted on nonpublic information, which seems unlikely, according to former Rep. Jill Long Thompson, D-Ind. Even though Paul Pelosi is married to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., it is unlikely that he would "have any information that someone else wouldn't," she said. "Members of Congress make it clear what their positions are on these issues and the fact that they're working on a piece of legislation that would be public information."
The House Judiciary Committee on June 11 advanced a series of bills with bipartisan support that would limit the powers of tech giants, including Apple, Amazon, Google and others.
The bills, which passed through the committee by slim margins, have not yet been voted on by the entire House of Representatives. Speaker Pelosi has expressed support for the legislation. "There has been concern on both sides of the aisle about the consolidation of power of the tech companies," Pelosi said at a press conference on June 24. "This legislation is an attempt to address that in the interest of fairness, in the interest of competition, in interest of meeting the needs of people who are – whose privacy, whose data and all the rest is at the mercy of these tech companies." This is not the first time that investments made by Paul Pelosi have been made in close proximity to happenings in Congress. Paul Pelosi in March exercised $1.95 million worth of Microsoft call options less than two weeks before the tech stalwart secured a $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with augmented reality headsets.
In January, he purchased up to $1 million of Tesla calls before the Biden administration delivered its plans to provide incentives to promote the shift away from traditional automobiles and toward electric vehicles.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/paul-pelosi-big-tech-stocks-antitrust-bills-house-judiciary
>>69730 pb More Credit Suisse Senior Bankers Depart in Wake of Archegos Loss
Nothing to see here from a Federal Reserve Primary Dealer.....
Nomura Nukes Most Of Its Hedge Fund Business After Archegos Blowup
Like its European rival Credit Suisse, Japanese financial giant Nomura and its management were badly shaken by the fallout from the Archegos trading blowup. Nomura lost billions of dollars on the deal, and was second perhaps only to Credit Suisse.
In the aftermath of the blowup, Nomura hinted that it would soon enact sweeping cuts at the prime brokerage division responsible for the losses. And on Tuesday afternoon in the US Bloomberg reported that the bank would follow Credit Suisse by slashing most of its US and European-focused prime brokerage business, leaving its slice of the potentially lucrative (but sometimes disastrously loss-making) business up for grabs. The cuts will focus on the bank's US and European business, according to Bloomberg. In the wake of the Archegos blowup (after it was revealed that Credit Suisse made only $17MM in fees from its business relationship with Archegos, critics have been warning that prime brokerage is a risky business, and that only the top-performing players can operate profitably (notice: Goldman reportedly only negligible losses from the ordeal after being first out the door).
Nomura Holdings Inc. is pulling the plug on a large chunk of its hedge fund business as the deep losses the lender sustained through the collapse of Archegos ...The Japanese bank has decided to stop offering cash prime-brokerage services in the U.S. and Europe-bbg pic.twitter.com/bz0gfvXUCR— SpotGamma (@spotgamma) July 6, 2021
Credit Suisse has moved to cut back on other business ventures perceived to be too risky, and it remains to be seen whether this is the end of this wave of cuts, or just the beginning. Perhaps foreshadowing the cuts, Bloomberg reported yesterday that a handful of equity analysts were jumping ship, thwarting what Bloomberg described as the bank's efforts to hire and retain them. Thanks to their departure, Nomura has been forced to halt coverage of dozens of firms, hurting the bank's chances of winning lucrative banking business (which, remember, is the reason banks employ analysts in the first place).
Here's a breakdown of who left (text courtesy of Bloomberg):
*Junko Yamamura and Yoshitaka Nagao, who covered the leisure and amusement sector, and broadcasting and advertising industry, respectively, are no longer with the company, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified as the detail is private. Both were ranked in the top two for their industries in an annual survey of institutional investors conducted earlier this year by Nikkei Veritas. A Nomura spokesman declined to comment.
*Yamamura plans to join Citigroup Inc. in Japan, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Nagao will join Bank of America Corp.’s Asia-Pacific research team in Tokyo.
*The brokerage suspended its coverage of 29 companies, including Nintendo Co. and Rakuten.
*It also halted coverage of a number of real estate investment trusts covered by Tomohiro Araki, a REIT analyst.
Notably, Nomura was the first Japanese investment bank to establish a research department (it dates back to 1906), and the withdrawal from the US and European prime brokerage business is in keeping with the bank's theme of focusing its efforts inwards and cutting risky business lines abroad. The bank covers more than 1,000 companies around the world, and is also home to macro and derivatives strategists like Charlie McElligott. Meanwhile, we can't help but wonder whether this means McElligott may soon need to find another home for his forecasts about the next gamma squeeze.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nomura-follows-credit-suisse-slashing-hedge-fund-business-after-archegos-blowup
AF2 USAF C-40B followed by SAM2A C-40B and SAM782 G5 (the one that took off on a different runway than these two) being lead out by two French Airbus A400M's (CTM2103 and CTM2105) that departed Nellis AFB and SPAR10 USAF C-40C that is up front out of Scott AFB, IL
Sailing is always better with friends! 🇪🇬 ⚓ 🇺🇸
@TheCVN69 conducts a PASSEX with the Egyptian navy frigate ENS Taba (FFG 916) while deployed to the @US5thFleet AOR in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security. #NavyPartnerships
https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1412502894520250374
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Crypto exchange Binance temporarily suspends payments from EU's Sepa network
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will temporarily suspend euro bank deposits from one of Europe’s key payments networks, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing an email sent to users by the exchange.
It said that from 8 a.m. universal coordinated time on Wednesday, customers would no longer be able to deposit funds through the Single Euro Payments Area, or Sepa, schemes, according to the newspaper. The move was due to "events beyond our control", the exchange said in the email cited by the FT
The network, which is a European Union project that aims to harmonise euro payments across the region, allows consumers to send euros across three dozen countries, the report said. Binance typically accesses Sepa through payment intermediaries. Binance did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. The company has recently faced a string of crackdowns on the platform by regulators globally. Thailand’s financial watchdog filed a criminal complaint against the cryptocurrency exchange on Friday for operating a digital asset business without a licence, and Britain’s financial watchdog recently barred the company from carrying out regulated activities in the country.
Japan’s regulator said last month that Binance was operating in the country illegally. Germany’s watchdog said in April it risked being fined for offering tokens connected to stocks.
https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currency-binance/update-1-crypto-exchange-binance-temporarily-suspends-payments-from-eus-sepa-network-ft-idUSL2N2OI2J3
SPAR10 USAF C-40C on final approach turn for JBA with AF2 and SAM2A USAF C-40B's still heading for JBA
Muh guess is that SAM782 USAF G5 will have a brief hold so that the flight deck can be cleared of AF2 and SAM2A occupants after arriving-this the reason for the opposite side take offs at LAX earlier......someone on SAM782 that is for sure....
Mebby do some turns on the track just above Mt. Weather as the same thing habbened with SAM739 USAF C-40B on it's return to JBA with AF2 from LAX-cap #2 on 0628
#384
>>69790, >>69804, >>69819, >>69828, >>69830, >>69836 Tongue Out Tuesday GOLD planefaggin
>>69833 Crypto exchange Binance temporarily suspends payments from EU's Sepa network-reuters
>>69829 US Navy Twat: "Sailing is always better with friends! âš“ ...."
>>69827 continued dig from #382 micro and nano mechanical systems/Graphene kirigami
>>69826 Nomura Nukes Most Of Its Hedge Fund Business After Archegos Blowup-zh
>>69824 Paul Pelosi bets up to $6M on Big Tech before powerful House committee passes sweeping antitrust measures-foxbiz
>>69814 With 34 Pending Filings, China Sends A Message: No More US IPOs
>>69808 Judicial Watch Sues FBI for Records on Alleged Transfer of Bank Financial Data of Every Person in Washington, DC Area around January 6
>>69801 Costco to end special hours for shoppers ages 60 and up at the end of the month
>>69793, >>69795, >>69800, >>69809 Identity of Ashli Babbitt Killer Confirmed
>>69792, >>69799 23 High-Ranking Officials in Biden Administration All Came from the Same Shadowy Firm
>>69757 liability protection
>>69756, >>69758, >>69764 Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over
kek!
AF2 USAF C-40B on final approach turn at JBA with SAM2A behind
SAM782 USAF G5 doing 'zactly dat (stalling for security reasons) and dropped some altitude and vectored further south to arrive later with a clear deck.
>Muh guess is that SAM782 USAF G5 will have a brief hold so that the flight deck can be cleared of AF2 and SAM2A occupants after arriving-this the reason for the opposite side take offs at LAX earlier......someone on SAM782 that is for sure....
Those French AF Airbus A400M's from Nellis AFB, LV went to Clowntown, VA (Langley AFB)-prolly refuel and leave later for across the pond.
SAM782 USAF G5 in before SAM2A C-40B at JBA
wut ya mean?
well ya prolly but they need to listen to the ones who do it and mebby they don't do dat enuf.
money drying up
same shit newsome does with the fires here.