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AZAZ0909 C-560 with a fly over of Wright-Patterson AFB and Dayton Int'l Airport after it's activity in PA and heading east
VENUS91 USAF 98-0001 C-32 departed JBA-this is the other AC that is used as AF2-ne
LOBO474 C-560 departed Bangor, ME from a Cherry Pt origin and sw
Carlos Ghosn: US ex-Green Beret and son arrested over escape from Japan
US authorities have arrested a former special forces soldier and his son for allegedly helping ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn flee Japan last December. Former Green Beret Michael Taylor, 59, and his son Peter, 26, were detained in Massachusetts on Wednesday. Japanese prosecutors issued warrants for their arrest in January. Mr Ghosn, who was detained in Japan on charges of financial misconduct in 2018, made a dramatic escape from house arrest last year. He denies the charges against him. Despite being monitored 24 hours a day, on 29 December he managed to fly to Beirut, Lebanon, via Turkey. Details of the Taylors' alleged involvement in the escape are unclear. But Japanese prosecutors have said the two were in Japan at the time and helped Mr Ghosn evade security checks as he left.
Earlier this month prosecutors in Turkey charged seven people over the escape. The suspects - four pilots, two flight attendants, and an airline executive - are also accused of helping Mr Ghosn flee. Full details of the escape have never been fully explained. Mr Ghosn, who holds Brazilian, French and Lebanese nationalities, ran Renault and Nissan as part of a three-way car alliance. He is accused of misreporting his compensation package, but has insisted he can never get a fair hearing in Japan. Since his arrival in Lebanon, he has told reporters he was a "hostage" in Japan, where he was left with a choice between dying there or running.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52744435
BlackRock’s Biggest Credit ETF Swells to Record Amid Fed Pledge
The world’s largest credit ETF has ballooned since the Federal Reserve said it will backstop the market.
Total assets in BlackRock’s iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond exchange-traded fund, ticker LQD, touched a record $46.7 billion on Tuesday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That compares to $28.2 billion on March 19, just days before the central bank said it would purchase investment-grade corporate bonds and certain ETFs that tracked them.
The Fed’s move spurred a rally in high-grade bond markets, where investors were shedding their holdings in an effort to raise cash amid dire economic data. The central bank’s pledge combined with the asset class’s strong fundamentals makes investment-grade bonds look appealing, according to Columbia Threadneedle’s Ed Al-Hussainy.
“Investment-grade credit is particularly attractive at the moment – it captures large corporates with solid balance sheets and good access to market financing to weather this recession,” said Al-Hussainy, a senior strategist at the firm. “And of course, the asset class has an explicit Fed backstop.”
LQD has rallied since the Fed announced the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility on March 23, which kicked off its first purchases last week. Corporate-debt funds led the intake for fixed-income ETFs last week, with investment-grade funds posting inflows and high-yield funds seeing outflows.
The Fed’s touch has also been felt in the junk-bond market, with BlackRock’s iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, ticker HYG, also hitting a record size of $21.7 billion this week. U.S. policy makers expanded the bond-buying program to include recently downgraded debt last month, though the “preponderance of ETF holdings” will be concentrated in funds tracking high-grade credit.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blackrock-s-biggest-credit-etf-swells-to-record-amid-fed-pledge-1.1438887
that was such a good show, that no one saw-half-empty for the most part
the actual shows were mostly half-empty in the states-saw several on west coast and one was mebby 1/4.
promotion over-estimated draw.
the people that fail with any of the music/movie stuff are ones who cannot separate the product from the people who produce it.
>not saying you are one but plenty in here.