Hedge Funds, ETFs, Central Banks Suffer Billions In Losses On Apple

It wasn't that long ago that Apple was the most beloved stock by the hedge fund community, and although in recent months the company's popularity faded somewhat among the 2 and 20 crowd it is still one of the most popular names among the professional investing community. Which on a day that saw AAPL stock tumble as much as 10% is clearly bad news.

As Bloomberg notes, eight hedge funds that own large stakes in Apple have seen the value of their holdings plunge about $2.13 billion since the company cut its revenue outlook, with AQR Capital Management suffering some of the biggest losses as it saw its holdings decline by about $732 million on Thursday. The firm held 8.8 million shares as of Sept. 30, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Adage Capital, which has Apple as the firm’s biggest holding as of Sept 30, was hit by a $500 million loss assuming it has not changed its holdings since Sept 30 when it held about 6 million shares valued at $1.35 billion.

Separately, Bloomberg also observes that AAPL's price plunge will also have a significant impact on exchange-traded funds. The company is held by 266 U.S. ETFs, representing total allocations of $46 billion, or more than 1% of all U.S. ETF assets, and is among the top two holdings of four of the five largest ETFs.

As Eric Balchunas writes, the S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), for example, owns the most Apple of any ETF with $8.1 billion, but that represents only a 3.3% weighting. The Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (QQQ) holds $5.8 billion worth, but has Apple at a 10% weighting. As a result, QQQ feels Apple's moves more acutely, despite owning less in absolute terms

And then there is the Swiss National Bank, which as of Sept 30 held 15.8 million shares of AAPL stock. Assuming no changes to its holdings, the central bank has suffered nearly $1.4 billion in losses on its AAPL stake alone in just the last three months.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-03/hedge-funds-central-banks-suffer-billions-losses-apple

‘Godfather of Vaccines’ Admits Using Orphans, Handicapped Children & More For Vaccine Experiments

Dr. Stanley Plotkin is a well known MD who has played a very significant role in manufacturing multiple vaccines. He’s widely known as one of the ‘godfathers’ of vaccines, a ‘medicine’ that’s claimed to have saved millions of lives, and is heavily marketed as one of the most successful medical developments in history. Anyone who questions this narrative and the safety of vaccines often faces harsh ridicule, despite the thousands of scientific studies published in peer-reviewed journals that strongly oppose conventional vaccine knowledge published by government-run health regulatory agencies like the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) or the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Before we get to Plotkin’s testimony, there are a few things I want to point out.

Something is wrong here. When information and evidence is presented showing that vaccines may not be as safe as we think, we tend to respond with ridicule or silence. Let’s take aluminum, for example. It’s been added to vaccines for approximately 100 years without any safety testing. There are no appropriate studies showing that aluminum is safe to inject into a child, yet there are multiple studies that show aluminum does not exit the body, but rather stays in the body, travelling to distant organs and eventually ending up in the brain. This is one of many examples that show vaccines are not as safe as they are marketed to be, but the response to these studies is often complete silence or ridicule.

After scientists discovered that aluminum from vaccines is transported to the brain via what are called macrophages (white blood cells), another study was published last year looking further into this subject by studying the brains of multiple autistic people. When they opened the brains up, they found the highest aluminum content in brain tissue ever measured, even more so than Alzheimer’s patients. You can access that study, and others, in the article linked below:

The idea that vaccines aren’t entirely safe gained a lot of attention when one of the lead authors of a 2004 study came forward. His name is Dr. William Thompson, a senior researcher at the CDC who co-authored one of the most widely cited studies to debunk any link between the MMR vaccine and autism. The study allegedly found:

https://govtslaves.info/2019/01/03/godfather-of-vaccines-admits-using-orphans-handicapped-children-more-for-vaccine-experiments-2/

https://www.ebiomedicine.com/article/S2352-3964(15)30047-5/fulltext

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-gillam/spider-bites-cdc-ethics-c_b_12525012.html

https://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/11/21/4-billion-growing-u-s-payouts-for-vaccine-injuries-deaths-keep-climbing/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFMP6O2tuz4

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14754936

Pompeo: U.S. Seeks To Ensure “Turks Don’t Slaughter Kurds” In Syria

The U.S. Secretary of State said that Washington will talk with Ankara to make sure it will not “slaughter” Kurds in Syria after the upcoming withdrawal of American troops from the war-torn country.

“The importance of ensuring that the Turks don’t slaughter the Kurds, the protection of religious minorities there in Syria. All of those things are still part of the American mission set,” Mike Pompeo said during an interview with Newsmax, a U.S. news and opinion site popular with conservatives, on January 3.

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria led to a backlash from the media and many politicians. One of the main sources of criticism was the timing of the surprise decision, which came ahead of a planned Turkish military operation against Washington’s proxies in northeastern Syria, where the vast of majority of Syria’s Kurds live.

Pompeo’s defended Trump’s decision and stressed that the withdrawal will go ahead. However, he didn’t give a more precise timeline so as not to tip off U.S. adversaries. Recent reports claim that the currently timeline for the withdraw will be four months.

Despite acknowledging that the U.S. had “real concerns” with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Secretary of State stressed that Washington and Ankara have to work together on many issues.

“There are lots of places where we need to work with President Erdogan and the Turkish leadership to get good outcomes for the United States,” the National quoted Pompeo as saying.

It’s unclear yet how the U.S. will be able to ensure the safety of Syrian Kurds after the withdrawal of its forces. One of the ideas that are being mentioned now is the deployment of Arab forces from countries friendly to Damascus, such as the UAE and Egypt. However, this is yet to be confirmed.

https://southfront.org/pompeo-u-s-seeks-to-ensure-turks-dont-slaughter-kurds-in-syria/

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PM: Mandelblit facing ‘thuggish, inhumane’ pressure to announce indictment

As Netanyahu accuses ‘left, media’ of seeking to ‘steal’ the April election, AG warns of attempt ‘to undermine the public’s trust’ in the justice system

In increasingly combative comments as corruption probes against him come to a head, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out Thursday at “the left” and at “the media,” claiming they were coordinating a “thuggish” campaign to pressure Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to announce an indictment against him in order to “steal” the April 9 elections.

Mandelblit, meanwhile, warned of attempts “to undermine the public’s trust in the professionalism and impartiality” of the justice system’s decisions.

In a statement to the press, Netanyahu asserted that “For years now, left-wing protesters and the media have leveled thuggish, inhumane pressure at the attorney general to get him to file an indictment against me at any cost — even when there’s nothing there.

“This pressure is now reaching a climax. They’re trying to force the attorney general to brazenly intervene in the elections by ordering me to a hearing, despite knowing that it won’t be possible to conclude the hearing process by election day. It’s unconscionable to start a hearing process before elections that can’t be concluded by the elections,” Netanyahu said.

“The left….has a clear purpose: to try to depose a prime minister through a drumhead court-martial and to steal the election from you, the citizens of Israel.”

Netanyahu’s was responding to growing reports that Mandelblit intends to announce his decision on whether to indict the premier, pending a hearing, before the election — possibly as early as next month.

Earlier Thursday former state attorney Moshe Lador, who oversaw the prosecution of former president Moshe Katsav and ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert, told Israel Radio Mandelblit must make a decision on the three corruption cases by the end of February, “so the public can digest and internalize its meaning” before election day.

While Lador insisted Mandelblit’s decision must be free of any political considerations — “the decision must be based on ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ whether there is or isn’t enough evidence to construct an indictment” — he also said voters had the right to learn whether the evidence against Netanyahu was serious before making their decision on election day.

“The timing is unavoidable. There’s no other choice because of the elections.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-mandelblit-facing-thuggish-inhumane-pressure-to-announce-indictment/

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