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02-5001 USAFSOC C-32B departed from nw of Tucson, AZ (not quite sure where it came out of either Pinal Airpark or Marana Regional Airport) ne
DUSTY99 USAF V-22B Osprey out of Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque
99-6143 USAFSOC C-32B departed Ft. Bragg, NC after a ground stop-prior gs at Norfolk Int'l, VA
VENUS44 USAF G5 that left Atlanta Int'l earlier had some fly-bys at Valdosta, GA-Regional Airport and ne
it doesn't necessarily mean he has zero shares.
What it means is he has zero shares registered for sale.
Without access to the internal docs or trading plan it's hard to know but in most cases they usually have some off to the side and then register them, via the SEC, for sale at a later date.
As Retirees Anguish Over a Sub One-Percent Treasury Note, U.S. Companies Are Suspending their Dividends at a Rate Not Seen Since the 2008 Crash
Thanks to the behemoth banks on Wall Street that engineered the largest Inside Job in the history of global banking and cratered the economy in 2008, retirees are now looking at a yield of 0.75 percent on a 10-year U.S. Treasury note. That paltry yield compares to the 4 percent or higher that retirees have been able to get throughout much of the last century on a T-Note.
The Federal Reserve is directly responsible for these unprecedented low yields. For much of the past 12 years, the Fed has been manipulating interest rates lower by buying up trillions of dollars in bonds (quantitative easing) in order to avoid crashing the Wall Street banks. The Wall Street banks are holding tens of trillions of dollars in interest-rate derivative bets — betting that rates won’t rise substantially or will drift lower. So the Fed has to make sure that’s what happens even if struggling Americans have to choose between paying rent or going hungry.
Consider the math. Let’s say you are a widow living on Social Security and a small pension. Let’s say you had a nest egg before the Wall Street crash in 2008 of $150,000 on which you earned 4 percent ($6,000 a year) from a T-Note. But you’ve had to dip into that principal over the past decade to make ends meet. You have just $125,000 left and the 4 percent T-Note has matured. If you roll that over at 0.75 percent, the going rate on a 10-year T-Note, your supplemental income shrinks from the pre-crisis $6,000 to a post-crisis $937.50.
That’s the kind of income squeeze tens of millions of retired senior citizens in America are facing, thanks to the Federal Reserve’s cozy ties to Wall Street.
Now seniors have another financial worry. Cash dividends on stocks are being suspended or cut at a rate not seen since the last financial crisis.
Here’s a sample of some of the cuts: Apache Corp. slashed its quarterly dividend by 90 percent. Harley-Davidson cuts its dividend from 38 cents to 2 pennies – a decline of 95 percent. Occidental Petroleum reduced its dividend by 86 percent. Royal Dutch Shell cut by 66 percent. The oil field services company, Schlumberger, cut its dividend by 75 percent while the San Francisco-based bank, Wells Fargo, slashed its quarterly payout by 80 percent to 10 cents a share.
Now consider the big corporate names on the following list that have suspended their dividend in its entirety — for how long it’s very hard to predict. This list of 55 companies is by no means an exhaustive list. It’s simply the names we could verify digging through corporate press releases.
A sampling of companies that have announced dividend suspensions in 2020:
Alaska Air Group, AMC Entertainment Holdings, American Airlines, Aptiv, ArcelorMittal, Arch Coal, Bed Bath & Beyond, Boeing, Brinker International, Carnival, Cato, Cheesecake Factory, Choice Hotels, Columbia Sportswear, Continental Resources, Coty, Dave & Buster’s Entertainment, Delta Airlines, Dine Brands Global (Operator of IHOP and Applebee’s), Disney, Dunkin’ Brands Group, Estée Lauder, Expedia Group, Ford, General Motors, Gildan Activewear, Goodyear Tire, Group 1 Automotive, HCA Healthcare, Hilton, HSBC, Kelly Services, Kimco Realty, Las Vegas Sands, MTS Systems, Macy’s, Marathon Oil, Marriott, Meredith Corp., Molson Coors, National Oilwell Varco, Nordstrom, Park Hotels & Resorts, Plantronics, Ralph Lauren, Ross Stores, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Southwest Airlines, Standard Motor Products, TJX Companies, Terex, Westpac Banking, Weyerhaeuser, Western Digital, Wynn Resorts
In addition to hurting retirees’ sources of income in the short term, the cuts and suspension of dividends could deliver long-term pain to the total returns that all investors are expecting from the stock market. Total return represents the combination of growth in the share price combined with the reinvestment of cash dividends.
Most investors do not realize that cash dividends on stocks represent, in real terms (after inflation), approximately 75 percent of their long-term total return.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/08/as-retirees-anguish-over-a-sub-one-percent-treasury-note-u-s-companies-are-suspending-their-dividends-at-a-rate-not-seen-since-the-2008-crash/
since those were options "purchased" at a much lower price-the profit is the difference between the option price exercised and the sale price executed-I'm certain there will be moar
Netflix CEO, Salesforce CEO are particularly greedy when it comes to doing this.
Especially Benioff at Salesforce-been doing that for many years.