Europe-Med.-Gulf'' activity

High level Italian AF IAM9002 A319 (red circle) This is Mario Draghi-confirmed as he has used this AC many times south from Strasbourg, France ground stop of 4 hours and returning to Rome

STRASBOURG, France —Italian Premier Mario Draghi is calling for Europe to move more rapidly toward greater defense integration following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Draghi told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg on Tuesday that European defense spending “is a deeply inefficient distribution of resources, that blocks the construction of a true European defense.” He called for a conference to improve coordinated of defense spending.

https://www.boston.com/news/russia-ukraine/2022/05/03/live-updates-finland-sweden-not-decided-on-joining-nato/

High-Level German AF GAF906 left Koln to go pick someone up in Berlin-this AC has been used by Olaf Scholz and Merkel in the past

Since it's got a Porsche Model # as it's call sign I bet Olaf Scholz is going somewhere but he sez he won't got to ~~Kyiv~~ Rzesow

JASDF JF421 Kawasaki C-2 departed Izmir, Turkey after a ground stop-departed Dubai last night

JASDF JF001 777 on ground at Rome- PM Kishida arrived from Bangkok about 7 hours ago-it's under the AC with the red circle (Draghi's AC)

NATO01 E-3A Sentry AWACS (that was not visible yesterday) over eastern Romania

Italian AF IAM1412 tanker heading back to Pisa with French AF FAF4099 KC-135 tanker taking over for it in eastern Romania

Italian AF IAM4674 C-130 Hercules departed Rzesow after a ground stop sw

Italian AF IAM3102 Falcon 900 west from Milan-Linate Airport

Italian AF IAM3160 Falcon 50 south from Riga

Dutch AF MMF18 A330 MRTT on the track over Rzesow

Croatian AF 9ACRO CL-600 sw from Zagreb to Madrid-this may be the PM or President as this is one of two high-level VIP transports they have..also both have been 'fighting" in public so beleive what you want about that..just playing good/bad cop imo.

Belgian AF BAF652 A400m departed Patras Airport, Greece nw

Further north we have Swedish AF SVR45 G4 'White Raven' ELINT AC dropping altitude to start it's ISR patterns in the Baltic Sea-this had been over eastern Poland for a few weeks but has now returned to it's duty over teh Baltic Sea

SAM015 USAF C-40B State Dept AC ws from JBA

BOXER43 USAF C-40C wn from JBA-this was Nancy/Schiff AC that returned from Warsaw yesterday

00-9001 USAFSOC C-32B departed McGuire and went to JBA

SAM986 USAF G5 departed Peterson AFB after an overnight-arrived from JBA yesterday

986 =23

>>16201541

planefag bun

>>16201055, >>16201070, >>16201268 pf reports

Tiger Global Craters 15% In April, Bringing YTD Loss To Record 44% As Melvin Capital's Implosion Continues

Last week, when news broke that Archegos Capital's Bill Hwang was arrested for massive, multi-billion market manipulation, we joked that the infamous Tiger Cubs - the echo chamber of groupthinking hedge funds spawned by Julian Robertson - was calling Bill Hwang to find out who his travel agent is…

Tiger cubs calling Bill Hwang to find out who his travel agent is — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 29, 2022… because once their LPs got whiff of their underperformance for 2022, it would get from bad to disastrous for the so-called "smart money."

They (and we) didn't have long to wait, because this morning Bloomberg reported that the latest scorecard for the biggest "tiger" of all, Tiger Global, had performed just as badly as expected, suffering a catastrophic plunge in April when it dropped another 15%, bringing its loss in 2022 to 44%. Tiger Global’s long-only fund was hit even worse, tumbling 25% last month and extending its drop for the year to 52%. Yes, one of the world's most respected "hedge funds" has lost more than half of its value in 4 months! A spokeswoman for the firm, which managed $35 billion across its hedge, long-only and crossover funds at the end of last year and now manages much, much less, declined to respond to Bloomberg requests for comment.

Tiger Global, founded ironically in 2001 in the depths of the post dot-com bubble, is heading for its worst year ever and is driven by the record crash in fast-growing tech companies which have driven the firm’s gains, and which are coming down now faster than they went up. In April, the Nasdaq 100 fell 13%, its biggest monthly slump since 2008.

Chase Coleman’s firm, riding on the back of the Fed's relentlessly growing balance sheet, had long been one of the hedge fund world’s "best performers" although it now appears that it was all just a function of Fed liquidity and very little talent. Tiger Global’s long-only fund was hit even worse, tumbling 25% last month and extending its drop for the year to 52%: BBG

An entire generation of traders has no idea what to do when Fed isn't bailing their ass out — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 3, 2022

Through 2020, Tiger Global’s annualized returns at the hedge fund were more than 20%, with just two down years. But last year’s 7% decline has been followed by this year’s losses, performance which prompted an unusual note of contrition in an investor letter last month.

“In this moment, we are humbled, but steady in our conviction and confident about the go-forward opportunity,” the firm wrote after revealing a 34% drop in the first quarter. “We are reassessing and refining our models using all the inputs available to us.”

Blah blah blah. Here is all you need to know to explain Tiger's rise and fall.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tiger-global-craters-15-april-bringing-2022-loss-record-44-melvin-capitals-implosion

>>16201616

not unnoticed

kek

>>16201711

>>16201606 Tiger Global Craters 15% In April, Bringing YTD Loss To Record 44% As Melvin Capital's Implosion Continues