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>>133205

tyb

morning

Goldman Jumps On Blowout FICC Revenue Despite "Significant Decline" In I-Banking

One day after JPM reported disappointing earnings (coupled with a rather dismal economic outlook) and its stock plunged to one-year lows, moments ago Goldman Sachs bucked the trend, its stock jumping 1.6% after reporting better-than-expected first quarter trading revenue, which led to a solid overall revenue beat (Q1 revenue $12.93BN, Exp. $11.73BN), with EPS of $10.76 also coming in well above expectations of $8.90, with the only red flag being the weakness observed previously at JPM, namely at the investment banking group, though even here the miss was modest, with revenue coming in at $2.13BN, vs est of $2.28BN.

Cutting to the chase, here are all the relevant details:

*Trading rev. $7.87 billion, estimate $5.84 billion

*FICC sales & trading revenue $4.72 billion, estimate $3.12 billion

*Equities sales & trading revenue $3.15 billion, estimate $2.73 billion

*Debt underwriting rev. $743 million, estimate $685.4 million

*Financial advisory revenue $1.13 billion, estimate $1.12 billion

then oops...

*Investment banking revenue $2.13 billion, estimate $2.28 billion

And some more headline details:

*Net interest income $1.83 billion, estimate $1.81 billion

*Total operating expenses $7.72 billion, estimate $7.39 billion

*Compensation expenses $4.08 billion, estimate $3.97 billion

*Annualized ROE +15%, estimate +12.5%

*Standardized CET1 ratio 14.4%, estimate 14.2%

*Assets under management $2.39 trillion, estimate $2.23 trillion

It was a turbulent quarter dominated by the devastating invasion of Ukraine,” DJ and CEO David Solomon said in a statement.

“Despite the environment, our results in the quarter show we continued to effectively support our clients and I am encouraged that our more resilient and diversified franchise can generate solid returns in uncertain markets.”

Going back to the bank's trading results, the big (and pleasant) surprise here was the bank’s whopping FICC sales and trading revenue of $4.72 billion, up 21% Y/Y, which blew out estimates of a 20% drop to $3.12 billion - and which was the largest FICC revenue in at least 5 years (the next largest was $4.235 billion in the extraordinary Q2 of 2020-cough, Reverse Repo and all this "supply showing up, after the flood of Federal Reserve support to fight the Covid pandemic) - with revenues "significantly higher, reflecting higher net revenues in intermediation and significantly higher net revenues in financing." Equity sales and trading revenue also beat expectations, coming in at $3.15 billion versus the $2.73 billion seen by analysts if 15% lower Y/Y, with Goldman explaining that revenues "reflected lower net revenues in both intermediation and financing." That said, according to Goldman, the Q1 2022 operating environment was "characterized by strong client activity and increased volatility amid an evolving macroeconomic backdrop." As a result, overall trading rev. of $7.87 billion, far above the $5.84 billion expected, and up 4% vs a year as the Ukraine-war linked volatility sparked a lucrative frenzy in capital markets.

Some more details on global markets and the bank's whopper of an FICC quarter, where it appears that while the bulk of revenue came from commodities, although FICC financing also benefited from mortgage lending. It wasn't all great news, however, and just like JPM, Goldman reported a reversal of the trend observed in Q4 (when trading was weak and banking was strong) with weakness in IBanking, as revenue here came in at $2.13 billion, below expectations of $2.28 billion.

The bottom line: the size of Goldman's FICC trading revenue beat was so big and powerful, it allowed investors to ignore the company's weakness in Ibanking, and helped push its stock sharply higher in the premarket, bucking the trend set previously by JPMorgan.

moar

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-jumps-blowout-ficc-revenue-despite-significant-decline-i-banking

and they managed to pin the entire 1MDB thang on one guy-what a "successful" qtr for them

all pb

>>125037 This Is the Only Goldman Banker Standing Trial for 1MDB

>>126332 U.S. says Goldman banker took millions in kickbacks in 1MDB scandal-nikkei

>>132749 1MDB scandal: Ex-Goldman Malaysia boss found guilty-bbc

The "luster" already starting to wear off of the equity bump on those "results"

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GS

BOXER84 USAF C-40C departed JBA to the ne-this is Nancy's 'usual' AC but not it's normal call sign for her when on it

interdastin callsign here

DINAR01 USAF C-5 Galaxy departed Dover AFB nw

>>133214

DINAR1 USAF C-5 Galaxy went to Harrisburg Int'l, PA for some low alt fly bys

82-8000 747 does this on occasion here as well

BOXER84 USAF C-40C heading for Lehigh Valley Airport in PA and doing same so this a cert flight

Canada #31 >>>/qresearch/16075273

==Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab, has offered Elon Musk a position on the board for a $2B investment, after the billionaire announced his decision to buy Twitter.

"Together we can build infrastructure for a free speech internet"

Yerp-Med before Sunset

FLICK72 USAFSOC C-32B (red dot) departed Shannon, Ireland after a ground stop refuel-last seen heading se from Belfast ground stop on 0412 and dropped from scope over the 'heel' of Italy and reappered earlier today heading nw-prolly went to Tel Aviv-they like turning 'off' for those arrivals-only seen a few of the AFSOCs go straight into Tel Aviv

High Level G5 here

PAT78 USAF G5 departing RAF Northolt after arriving on 0411 from Tallinn, Estonia ground stop (of about 4 hours) and Riga, Latvia departure

Arrived at Vilnius, Latvia on 0409 from JBA and then to Tallinn on 0411

Belgian AF BAF657 A400M inbound to Brussels from Halifax departure-departed JBA yesterday after arriving same day from Halifax ground stop

Dutch AF NAF11 G4 nw from Plovdiv, Bulgaria after ground stop of about 5 hours-back to Rotterdam Airport

Belgian AF BAF04 on ground at Brussels from Cyprus depart

RAF RRR7214 RC-135 Rivet Joint on patrol eastern Poland

German AF GAF627 A400M back to Wunstorf AB after over Rzesow Airport at the southern tip of the RAF Rivet joint

Hungarian AF HKY161 nw from Turda Romania

DUKE28 US Army Beech Super King Air nw from Constanta Romania

NATO01 E-3TF Sentry AWACS just north of Constanta, Romania circling

NCHO221 USAF DC-10 extender as the mobile filling station for it and HOMER41

HOMER41 USAF RC-135 Rivet Joint back to Souda Bay Crete after trackin' in eastern Romania

Canadian AF CFC4221 C-130 Super Hercules se from Budapest

Italian AF IAM3145 nw from Kuwait

Hungarian AF HUAF191 A319 nw from Tel Aviv departure

>>133220

dis one?

Always fuggen late-from wut I habs no idea

Supposed to have left over an hour ago

'''Not AF1 Joe-empty callsign" in 09-0016 USAF C-32A departed JBA for Piedmont Triad Int'l Airport, Greensboro, N.C.

Biden to speak about inflation in Greensboro

The White House has released President Joe Biden’s itinerary for his visit Thursday to Greensboro. Biden is scheduled to speak at 2 p.m. in the Alumni-Foundation Event Center at the NC A&T University. The building, where many COVID-19 tests had taken place, is at 200 North Benbow Road in Greensboro. The White House previously had said that Biden would be speaking about manufacturing in America, rebuilding supply chains and bringing down costs. It is unclear how many people will be in the center,I'll take not many on a weekday during work hours which is about 30,000 square feet, and who will be allowed inside. The event is open to the media. A representative of U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning (D-Greensboro) had said last week that she looked forward to being with Biden on his visit. Rep. Deborah Ross (D-Raleigh) had said Tuesday she was planning to attend.

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/president-biden-to-speak-about-inflation-in-greensboro/

https://factba.se/biden/calendar

>>132972 pb Not AF1 Joe going to Greensboro and some schedule irregularities from Sat 0409

>>133224

got this one too

Elon Musk Needs ‘Massive Loan’ or Big Tesla Stock Sale to Buy Twitter

Even for the world’s richest person, $43 billion is a steep price.

Elon Musk’s proposed all-cash offer to buy Twitter Inc. represents about one-sixth of his $259.3 billion fortune. Yet the vast majority of that wealth is tied to his stake in Tesla Inc., the electric carmaker he co-founded that has surged in value over the past two years and lifted him to the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The purchase isn’t straightforward, but Musk has several financing paths. One option is to sell his Tesla shares outright. Another is borrowing against them to stage a leveraged buyout, possibly with outside partners. Musk, 50, currently has about $3 billion in cash or other somewhat liquid assets after spending $2.6 billion buying a 9.1% stake in Twitter in recent months, according to Bloomberg calculations.

For Musk to raise the additional $36 billion in cash needed to buy the rest of Twitter would require selling about 36.5 million Tesla shares, or more than a fifth of his stake. Such an exit could risk a slide in the company’s share price -- not to mention potentially raise questions about the commitment, financial and otherwise, of its chief executive officer.

and TSLA stock dumped on the open cause they realize this-Cathie Wood shitting pants in 3...2..1.-cap #2-3

His other option is to borrow against his positions in Tesla and space exploration company SpaceX. But even for the wealthiest person in the world, there are limits: The Bloomberg index estimates that he’s already borrowed about $20 billion against his shares, leaving about $35 billion remaining that he could theoretically take out against the two holdings. Twitter shares fell 0.4% to $45.68 at 11:59 a.m. in New York. Musk offered $54.20 per share in cash.

Musk had 52% of his Tesla shares pledged as of June 30, according to the company’s most recent proxy filing. The maximum that can be borrowed against pledged shares is 25% of their value, according to a Tesla policy.

Since then, Musk has increased his share count by exercising options. His 172.6 million shares are worth $172 billion, meaning he could borrow $43 billion by pledging all of them.

Musk said in December 2019 that he had also pledged some of his SpaceX shares. His 47% stake in the company is worth about $47.5 billion, based on its February 2021 funding round. If there’s a similar maximum loan-to-value ratio, he could raise another $12 billion by fully pledging his SpaceX position -- although banks tend to be much more cautious funding a privately held position, given the lack of liquidity.

Also, Musk has Tesla options worth $56 billion that he might be able to borrow against. Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley were three of the banks that provided Musk personal loans, according to a 2020 Tesla filing. He has hired Morgan Stanley to advise on the Twitter bid, and his family office, Excession, is run by longtime adviser Jared Birchall, a former Morgan Stanley banker.

No matter how he goes about it, buying all of Twitter would be a stark shakeup of Musk’s empire. His purchase of a 9.1% stake, first disclosed last week, marked his first significant diversification outside of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has played up his devotion to both Tesla and SpaceX, frequently tweeting about their achievements and claiming to sleep on the floor of a Tesla factory to set an example to his employees. Meanwhile, since disclosing his stake in Twitter, he has appealed to fellow users about potential moves and in one case suggested the website might be dying, given the lack of tweets from some celebrities.

In recent years, Musk has indicated he’s streamlining at least some aspects of his financial affairs. He’s sold multiple mansions in California after vowing to “own no home,” in 2020. He currently lives in Texas, where he relocated the headquarters of Tesla last year.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/elon-musk-needs-massive-loan-or-big-tesla-stock-sale-to-buy-twitter-1.1752435

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA

>>133227

BREAKING: Twitter shareholder Saudi Prince Al Waleed rejects Musk's bid to take over platform

The Insider Paper reported on Twitter on Thursday that one large Twitter shareholder, Saudi Prince Al Waleed, has rejected Elon Musk's large, $43 billion offer to buy the company outright and take it private. Al Waleed holds over 5 percent of Twitter's shares after a stock buy in 2015. This includes his own holdings, as well as those held by his investment company Kingdom Holding Company. He made the buy while Twitter was struggling to grow outside the US. Al Waleed said the offer simply wasn't high enough, given the potential for the platform's growth. Musk holds more than 9 percent of the shares.

Twitter responded to Musk's offer to buy the company outright, saying that they would be meeting to discuss it today. An all-hands meeting has been called for the entire company.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-twitter-shareholder-saudi-prince-al-waleed-says-no-to-musks-takeover/

https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/1514615956986757127?cxt=HHwWjoCs9YTM_4QqAAAA

>>133226

np

anything for the fam

>>133230

kek!

stolen

wish I had that a few days ago

>>133234

even though this already in QR it good info

FBI releases classified documents from 2018 Horizon Air plane theft, crash

The Federal Bureau of Investigations has released more than 500 pages of previously classified documents about the investigation of a Horizon Airlines plane stolen from Sea-Tac Airport and crashed on Ketron Island in 2018 by a ground services worker.

One new piece of information that was released surrounded what was in a spiral notebook of 29-year-old Richard “Beeboo” Russell, who stole and flew an empty Horizon Air Bombardier Q400. The FBI noted that Russell wrote about then-President Donald Trump and the effects his immigration policies were having. He wrote he had the desire to do something that would benefit all mankind. Investigators said Russell worked alone when he was working as a ground service agent for the airline, and that he towed the turboprop out a hanger, climbed into the cockpit, and took off.

The flight data indicates Russell, who was never trained as a pilot, was in full control of the plane until his final descent, when he crashed into Ketron Island and killed himself.

Russell was a ground agent who had limited access to planes and towing equipment.

I play some video games....gimme the coordinates to that orca I wanna talk to THAT guy?

Authorities said they saw no apparent security violations before he stole the plane, but Russell had been drinking a lot, resulting in his friends and family trying an intervention, of which they indicated he seemed fine afterward. Days after the crash, one of Russells’ coworkers told KIRO 7 that they both had issues with being overworked and underpaid at Horizon Air, and he apparently learned to fly the plane from video games, but he did not know how to land it.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/fbi-releases-classified-documents-2018-horizon-air-plane-theft-crash/EIYCMGT6LJEWJKURH6ZHPQWOCI/

still top 5 trolls (non-45 related) ever

>>133223

'No callsign Joe in 09-0016 USAF C-32A on ground at Piedmont Triad Airport, Greensboro NC

landed about 30 minutes ago

EVAC928 C-130 Hercules arriving at JBA from Mansfield Regional Airport, OH

Pretty much over 300kts ground speed the entire time

interdasting that it goes to JBA

Porsche 928 'safety car'

Pig-san

Authorities Seize $13 Billion From Abramovich Associates In "Largest Asset Freeze In UK History"

Update (1400ET): UK authorities are aggressively pursuing assets belonging to Roman Abramovich to such an intense degree that they have even decided to freeze £10 billion ($13.1 billion) of his assets.

Here's the FT with more: The UK is to freeze an estimated £10bn of assets held by two longstanding business associates of Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch best known for his ownership of Chelsea Football Club. The sanctions on Eugene Tenenbaum and David Davidovich bring the total number of oligarchs, family members and associates with ties to Russia on the UK list to 106, the government said on Thursday. According to the government, corporate filings show that Tenenbaum, a director at Chelsea, took control of Ervington Investments, an Abramovich-linked investment vehicle, on February 24, the day Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine.

UK foreign secretary Liz Truss called the move the "largest asset freeze action in UK history."

the rest is here and already known

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jersey-authorities-freeze-7-billion-assets-allegedly-belonging-roman-abramovich

>>133245

*well over 300kts the entire time and touched a tad over 400kts as well-aided by tail wind certainly

So pretty much WIDE open and then some

Top speed is 338.90knots or about 390 mph according to 'official' specs

THIS is something for sure

>>133223

Biden says decision imminent on sending top U.S. officials to Ukraine

President Joe Biden on Thursday signaled that his administration is close to making a decision on sending top U.S. officials to Ukraine after reports said such a move was being considered. "We'll be making that decision now," Biden told reporters.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-says-decision-imminent-on-sending-top-us-officials-to-ukraine-2022-04-14

So this is interdasting

This is Polish President Duda's AC and call sign leaving Krakow but this article sez he was in Kyiv meeting with the Baltic State leaders....see below

So is Krakow where they keeping Zelensky??

He has used this plane and callsign many times before

It started out at Rzesow and went to Warsaw then to Krakow and now back to Warsaw

Polish AF PLF101 737 leaving Krakow returning to Warsaw

Polish president: Russian invasion of Ukraine is ‘terrorism'

Polish President Andrzej Duda said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “terrorism,” adding that those who committed war crimes in the country must be punished.

Duda made the remarks during a news conference on Wednesday, when he and leaders of the Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the country’s capital of Kyiv. “It’s not war, it’s terrorism when soldiers are sent to murder civilians,” Duda said at the news conference. “It is a face of war that we are not able [to] and cannot accept.”

Duda also said at the news conference that Russia must be held accountable for the crimes they are committing in the region, CNN reported.

“The perpetrators of these crimes, both direct and indirect, must be punished. Prosecutors collect evidence in places where mass murders took place. It is inconceivable that such things should happen in the modern world,” Duda said at the news conference.

https://thehill.com/news/3267269-polish-president-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-is-terrorism/

>>133255

this pf speculated that Zelensky was in Rzesow and this AC has been there today as well

The plot deepens.....

member we also had the EVAC helo land on the Polish border and take someone to the hospital at Rzesow too

from Feb 15th

>>126542, >>126546, >>126548 lb Mystery US helicopter lands on Ukraine-Poland border-rt

Am not there so all this is pure speculation on muh part but that is an AC Duda has used in the past quite a bit.

I have not seen him wif own eyes enter or exit this AC

But quite interdasting we have another "clandestine "visit" to Kyiv when BoJo was supposedly there too and his normal AC was nowhere near it

from April 9th

pb

>>132841, >>132844, >>132845, >>132846 Boris Johnson Makes Surprise Trip To War-Torn Ukraine For Zelensky Meeting

watcha think?

>>133257

awfully curious dhat one.

Here he is with that call sign on different plane-the one in cap #2

>>126121, >>130659, >>132315 pb

and this

>>132153 same AC (as above) same call sign

Possibruh I just figured out Zelensky in Krakow or Rzesow but have not seen any ACs from those Baltic states but rarely do at any time.

here is the tail # 0112 last visible activity on 0411

so someone certainly got caught lyin.

>>133258

alright I'll do eet

but prolly gonna be zactly as you say

Mkt Fag: $2T OpEx today and Goldman/Shitibank/Wells Fartgo/Morgan Stanley lay turds but don't look at dhat...just 'up' on muh DOW for most of the day-then the ejector seat pulled edition

Interdasting here as the RUT had being doing well despite the overall indices over the last few days but the closing numbers reflect this

Russell 2000: 2,004.98 -20.12(-0.99%)23red circle upper middle of cap #2

A bit ominous dat.....

This below explains a lot of the big chunks seen today and this week-but still think the ones earlier in the week and last week were Softbank. Markets closed tomorrow and Bond market closed early today too. Also not bothering with the overcovered Musk TWTR stuff-you've al seen it by now.

Skittish Stock Traders Are Bracing for $2 Trillion Option Expiration

Inflation is surging, central banks are on the move and now it’s earnings season. To top it all off, stock traders face the market-roiling potential of a monthly options expiration estimated at more than $2 trillion. Roughly $495 billion in single-stock derivatives are set to expire Thursday, with another $980 billion of S&P 500-linked contracts and $170 billion in options tied to the State Street fund tracking the S&P 500 all running out as the holiday-shortened week ends, according to estimates from Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Rocky Fishman. Such volumes have been a source of volatility in the past year.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2022/04/14/skittish-stock-traders-are-bracing-for-2-trillion-option-expiration

NASDAQ having some reeeally big exits that have screwed it all day can see them on the left side of cap#2 but as if by another "magicians act" showing up there was a YUGE buy at 12:56pm EST of 2.25B-and everything on the NAS turned at the same time-TSLA too. The earlier stuff is still likely Softbank cause they don't care they just "dump"-in a world of hurt for cash right now. Looks like another exit on the NAS of 2.84B at 2:30pmEST-taking advantage of the "help" at 12:56pm EST and that "help" was it the LOD before that last chunk showed up. TSLA dumping and since that is the biggest exposure of the hopium "expert" Cathie Wood's ARKK fund she is having a bad time with that-betcha she doubles down again and some story will come out later about her BTFD.

DOW has bounced off the neckline (previous days close) twice so up it went after that and then down into the close.

Goldman's "results" are all about fixed income-feeding at the reverse repo teet imo- >>133213 Shitibank pretty much the same but 'up' they go-the only outlier is WFC and JP Morgan who is still down today-but some appear to be "nibbling" on it intra-day see below with regards to share price. So as mentioned last week the crowded trade is to short the banks and the only reason that XLF (Bank ETF) has not shit the bed is that it's largest component (%-wise) is Berkshire Hathaway at about just under 13% and next is JP Morgan at 11.47%-so "uncle Warren" is not really a bank but it is the largest position in the "Big Bank Index"....

see ZH cap #4 for todays bond complex action

Treasuries ohhh muh Treasuries...yields back up again(after two days of dropping) because of muh "aggressive Fed hikes" bullshit again-we already know they don't set rates the bond markets does so this is even wayyy moar tired than Putinflation. Also the aforementioned OpEx gong on today....who dafuq noes at this point but most of this shit ain't real to begin with as you only really see about 10% of everything done on a daily basis rfleceted in muh "markets"..it does not reflect the trillions of transactions in darkpools or 'off book' deals/swaps. New York Fed President John Williams said on Thursday that the U.S. Federal Reserve should reasonably consider raising interest rates by a half percentage point at its next meeting in May, which was seen as a further sign that even more cautious policymakers are on board with bigger rate hikes . This was after the ECB said it plans to cut bond purchases - known as quantitative easing - this quarter, then end them at some point in the third quarter-again lotsa luck with the non-maturing ones-who gonna buy those...youmight wanna ask the Bank of Canada, Japan and our own FRB.

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>>133264

2 of 2

C Profit sank 46% from a year earlier to $4.3 billion-cause that is always 'good' news and the same shit they all do-shitibank "set aside $1.9 billion to shield itself from potential losses stemming from its exposure to Russia" to be reapplied to muh bottom line in Q2. Morgan Stanley same as Goldman...all fixed-income. MS said investment banking revenues fell 37% year-on-year and as a reminder "repurchased $2.9 billion of its outstanding common stock under its share repurchase program, and announced a $0.70 quarterly dividend". So essentially creating EPS by "magic" and buying back almost $3B in own stock....ree-dick-u-lous. Wells Fartgo also "beat"-Net interest income at the bank increased 5% in the first quarter due to lower mortgage-backed securities premium amortization, a decrease in long-term debt, and higher loan balances.

Noninterest income, however, fell 14%, driven by lower mortgage banking income, the bank said. But then the usual "magic" here as well "The bank repurchased 110.1 million shares, of $6 billion, of common stock in the first quarter." An the only equity shitting the bed is Wells Fartgo on well above average volume too.

Oil up on muh russian oil embargo-so much for muh SPR releases....kek-see cap #3 previous post

They do that and oil will skyrocket (especially Brent)-put on a full embargo-but all this does it make it "sweeter" fro Armaco IPO coming soon. So they are going to "table it" until after the April 24th election in France (Merde Boi vs Le Pen). Don't wanna piss of those voters now would ya Merde Boi?

Some Headlines

The Fed Just Disengaged Its Volatility Suppression Machine

see cap #1 this post

The Fed minutes released last week revealed the central bank intends to start reducing its balance sheet by as much as $95 billion per month beginning in May. Investors ought to pay very close attention to this development because, for a very long time now, the Fed has effectively used its asset purchase program to suppress volatility across a variety of markets including the equity market.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-just-disengaged-its-volatility-suppression-machine

see cap#2 for this

Mortgage rates top 5% for first time in a decade

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates continued to climb this week as the key 30-year loan rate reached 5% for the first time in more than a decade amid persistent high inflation. The average 5% rate on the 30-year mortgage was up from 4.72% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday. The average rates in recent months have been showing the fastest pace of increases since 1994. By contrast, a year ago the 30-year rate stood at 3.04%.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2022/04/mortgage-rates-top-5-for-first-time-in-a-decade.html

in of course you say that news:

Citigroup Sees ‘Significant Interest’ as Mexico Sale Talks Kick Off

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/citigroup-sees-significant-interest-as-mexico-sale-talks-kick-off-1.1752521

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC

https://www.macrotrends.net/2566/crude-oil-prices-today-live-chart

https://www.thebalance.com/mortgage-rates-trends-april-14-2022-5225973

and in "just US" news

Fired Goldman Trader Loses Bid to Revive Claim Against Bank

A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. managing director failed to convince a court to revive his claim that he was illegally fired for blowing the whistle on compliance lapses at the bank. Christopher Rollins sued Goldman in 2018, but the case was sent to arbitration. A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority panel dismissed his claims last year, and a federal judge in New York on Thursday rejected Rollins’s attempt to overturn the arbitral decision.

Rollins claimed he was terminated for highlighting the bank’s dealings with controversial German financier Lars Windhorst and its failure to comply with anti-money-laundering laws. According to Rollins, he was made a scapegoat after transactions with Windhorst raised questions, even though the client relationship had been cultivated by more senior Goldman managers.

In seeking to vacate the March 2021 arbitral award, which also required him to pay $8,887.50 in fees, Rollins argued to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos that he had been denied access to evidence, including compliance records showing that Windhorst was on a restricted list. But Ramos found that Goldman produced tens of thousands of pages of documents in the case and noted that Rollins conceded that he had received a fair hearing. The parties also introduced “ample evidence” about Goldman’s decision to terminate him including more than 100 exhibits and Rollins called 11 witnesses, the judge said.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/fired-goldman-trader-loses-bid-to-revive-claim-against-bank-1.1752570

Empty callsign Joe in 09-0016 C-32A going to Hagerstown, MD from Piedmont Triad Int'l Airport Greensboro, NC

Already "done" and going to Camp David-see cap#3

https://factba.se/biden/calendar

SAM715 USAF G5 departed DeKalb-Peachtree, GA Airport after a 7 hour ground stop

SAM700 USAF G5 departed Maxwell AFB Montgomery , AL after an overnight >>133149 pb

>>133267

09-0016 USAF C-32A returns to JBA after dropping off empty callsign Joe at Hagerstown Regional Airport, MD

>>133246

Makes a set with this one

SAM832 USAF C-40B departed JBA ne across the pond-this has been used by the State Dept in the past-Pompeo used it a lot for Int'l travel but this is not Blinken and can't find anything on Victoria Nuland or Wendy Sherman either. Check it in the morning to see where it goes then mebby have a better idea of who this is.

German AF GAF 671 (shows as LH1) Global Explorer departed Dulles Int'l after arriving on 0412

Departed Koln then stopped at Brussels Int'l prior to arrival at Dulles

Germans must be berry nervous about energy needs because they have shut down almost all of it's Nuclear reactors and are relying on Muh Russia for Gas

Hungarian AF HUAF574 Falcon 7x departed Birmingham Int'l Airport, AL after arriving on 0412

Were at Maxwell AFB Montgomery, AL after arriving from Kecskemet AB on 0411 and then went to Birmingham, AL the next day

Suspicious Activity Reports: OCC Authority for Exemptions to Suspicious Activity Report Requirements: Final Rule

On March 16, 2022, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a final rule amending the OCC's suspicious activity report (SAR) regulations. This rule allows the OCC to issue exemptions from the requirements of those regulations based on a request from a bank1 subject to those regulations that meets the criteria specified in the final rule. The final rule adopts, with changes in response to comments, the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on January 22, 2021.

*harmonizes the OCC's legal authority to issue exemptions from its SAR regulations with preexisting exemptive authority of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (FinCEN).

*establishes processes for the OCC to facilitate changes related to SAR regulations required by the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020.

*establishes processes for the OCC to grant relief to banks that develop innovative solutions intended to meet Bank Secrecy Act requirements more efficiently and effectively.

*does not, by itself, result in any exemptions from SAR requirements. The final rule only clarifies the OCC's legal authority to issue such exemptions in the future.

When issuing any exemptions, the OCC expects to coordinate with FinCEN and the other federal banking agencies. For exemption requests from the OCC's SAR regulations that would also require an exemption from FinCEN's SAR regulation, a bank would need to seek an exemption from both the OCC and FinCEN.

Issued by Benjamin W. McDonough Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel

https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/bulletins/2022/bulletin-2022-13.html

Since all four of the 'new' appointees are swamp creatures-one from JP Morgan and was a Vice President and Asst.General Counsel, another from Shitibank and Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, another was a Hussein Admin appointee for SIGTARP-Special Inspector General for the TARP programs-that did jack shit like the two others in their positions. The last one was an assistant to the recently departed only other "regulator" at the CFTC prior to these four being named and worked for Senator John Thune for 15 years and has ZERO experience and no bidness being in this position. At least the other three are known criminals that assisted in the cover up of all the malfeasance going on within JP Morgan Shitibank and the SIGTARP program

See here: The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) is a federal law enforcement agency and an independent audit watchdog that targets financial institution crime and other fraud, waste, and abuse related to TARP.

https://www.oversight.gov/inspectors-general/special-inspector-general-troubled-asset-relief-program

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What we've got with today's "news" above is the fuggen O.C.C. who require the COMEX participants (regulated by the CFTC and housed at the CME group in Chicago) to compile the data used by the O.C.C. for the Qtrly derivatives report telling everyone that when Bank of America blows up they will give them an 'exemption' or anyone else involved in this fiasco allowed to continue.

They will do that or have to declare 'Force Majeure' and if they do that they will just start over with this bullshit again and then EVERYONE will get an "exemption"

All background on Silver Manipulation..the players and the fallout.

All pb

>>131558 O.C.C Quarterly Derivatives Report Q4 2021-March25th, 2022-Silver derivatives increase BofA/JPM abut equal on opposite sides of the trade

>>132204, >>132278 New-look CFTC hails diversity after four commissioners confirmed-and will continue to do nuffin-complianceweek and backgrounds of the confirmed appts SSDD

>>128059, >>128060, >>128061 Mkt Fag: Derivatives and Silver price containment/JP Morgan and Hussein Admin used UBLs 'death' to manipulate

>>120116, >>120121 Ted Butler: Bank of America's silver short position is even larger than he thought

>>128008, >>128012 Mkt fag: Silver Action lately from a technical/historical standpoint

>>128098 Mkt Fag submits proof of rigging: $25.25B in Silver "traded" on the COMEX on February 24th

>>128457, >>128460 anon submits a theory and some additional information on Silver COMEX trade-Exchange of Futures positions for cash

>>128805 moar on Ag: Silver contracts getting paid off via EFP-cmegroup data

>>130225, >>130226, >>130241, >>130242 Update on Silver trash for cash activity-week of March 6th: $1.55B

>>130598, >>130599 The Hunt Brothers and Silver Thursday

>>131776 Silver: as soon as trading opens up the expected hit job on Ag..straight down on open

>>132044, >>132055 Mkt Fag: Some input on the 1st Qtr close today re: Input pricing and silver "experts"

>>132009 ICE Weighs Moving Its London CDS Clearinghouse to Chicago + background on another famous "move" and it's results (DTCC to 55 Water St and why) History of DTCC and "blythe" the CDS queen bnnBBerg/njeda/silverdoctors/moneyweek

>>131229 Blythe Masters SPAC Merger Sends Forge Global Stock Soaring

from July 7, 2016

Former NYMEX Trader Breaks Down “The Mechanics Of Silver Manipulation”

https://www.silverdoctors.com/silver/silver-news/nymex-trader-alledges-this-how-jpmorgan-silver-manipulation/

4.6m 21km W of El Sauzal, B.C., MX

2022-04-14 21:30:55 (UTC-07:00)

14.3 km deep

Off Ensenada in Baja Norte

felt this sucker...kind of a slow roller and heard it before the shake

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/3

4.7 earthquake off Ensenada, Mexico shakes San Diego County

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/breaking/story/2022-04-14/4-7-earthquake-off-ensenada-mexico-shakes-san-diego-county

night

morning

Australian AF ASY534 C-17 Globemaster on descent for Dover AFB

Likely picking up moar "equipment" and the heading to Rzesow Airport in Poland-mebby a stop off at Ramstein AFB or after.

Aussies been doing this for about two weeks nao

Departed Brisbane on 0413-late and stopped at Nadi int'l Airport, Fiji for 2 hours then on to Hickam AFB, Oahu

Departed Hickam earlier today and stopped at Travis AFB, CA for a little under 3 hours