by Martin Armstrong Apple has been fighting off governments who are trying to eliminate all privacy by demanding the company provide back doors to allegedly combat terrorism. Now France is demanding that Apple allow its forthcoming coronavirus contact-tracing app to operate in the background of all its iPhones without building in any privacy measures, as reported by BBC. This further … Read more
by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) By Lars Schall Thursday, April 23, 2020 Jan Nieuwenhuijs, formerly known under the nom-de-plume Koos Jansen, is a precious metals analyst from the Netherlands who, among other things, has been intensively involved with the Chinese gold market. He used to be known for his regular contributions to his BullionStar blog. … Read more
Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio has announched a $5.7 billion investment from Facebook. The deal makes its founder, blockchain enthusiast Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in Asia. Facebook and Jio will target digital payments in India, specifically its 30 million neighbourhood shops. Source: https://decrypt.co/26603/asias-richest-blockchain-fan-just-won-a-deal-with-facebook
by Troflecopter After a long time of very responsibly trading blue chip stocks for modest gains single digit gains, last week I started contriving a plan to get into oil and “hit it big”. I spent at least 40 hours considering all my possible options. Then on Monday afternoon, it became clear to me – it … Read more
by leecharles_ First of all, what is Implied Volatility and Historical Volatility? Implied Volatility (IV) is how volatile the market expects a stock to be in the future over a year. IV is forward looking! For example, a stock price of $100 with an IV of 25% means the stock price could move $25 in … Read more
Congress tells FCC to reverse 5G ruling opposed by US military – or it will https://t.co/epk9H83fUV — John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) April 24, 2020 “Bipartisan leaders of two powerful congressional committees told the Federal Communications Commission to reverse a ruling allowing a Virginia company to activate a 5G network that could disrupt military and other GPS … Read more
Canadian Lawmakers and Scholar Express “Serious Concerns” About WHO and Its Relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (Minghui.org) Several Canadian lawmakers have expressed serious concerns about the relationship between the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. According to Canadian media CBC, the conservative leader Andrew … Read more
by gohoos13 There was another page of them as well. Some for 5/1.
by sbaleaky Here’s what I can say about the Small Business Administrations EIDL process: https://imgur.com/a/DQNu4qv iaasbalo 4.9M apps so far, thousands added into the Rapid SBA portal every second for processing Min credit score is 570 (will be auto declined, if not, a LO will decline) Max loan is $500k – no if ands or buts. … Read more
PPP UPDATE: PPP should be relaunching Monday morning. It will will include not just the $310 billion @potus will sign today, but also an additional significant amount of money from #PPPloans being returned by several publicly traded large companies. https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1253651979307450368?s=21 Businesses were expecting the PPP to start again this week. Absolutely ridiculous… AC
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by anonuser123987 Section I: Executive Summary Investment Thesis (Valuation as of 4/20) Zoom provides a ‘video-first’ cloud-native scalable communications platform that changes how people interact through frictionless video, voice, chat, and content sharing It primarily serves enterprises in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, but also caters to individuals as well … Read more
by robbinhood69 Check this https://robintrack.net/symbol/AAL https://robintrack.net/symbol/LVS https://robintrack.net/symbol/CCL I seriously haven’t found a ticker that has a drop in buyers from the retail side. EVERYONE is BTFD right now. Every fund manager is realizing this and unloading bags. No real reason to pull the rug when you can just slowly sell off whatever shares you have. … Read more
#Beijing is doing everything it can to clamp down on #HongKong's pro-democracy camp before September's parliamentary elections. In classic #Communist fashion, the #CCP has weaponized the #RuleOfLaw and is using it to strip HK of its #Freedom.pic.twitter.com/jRWE2vzBbK — Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) April 24, 2020
by Dagoru95 I thought it was a little bit crazy, but then it got me thinking, and it’s actually interesting. Imagine a world were investors invest in companies they like/find useful/ or at least have actually tried and realized it’s potential. “Dear Prospective Investor, IBKR aims to provide an exceptionally inexpensive and versatile platform for … Read more
“Retail has been plowing into these oil contracts thinking they’re buying spot crude oil when they’re buying the next front month. So they’re paying $22 a barrel when the spot market’s negative $38. Retail investors are going to get fleeced if they continue to fly into these oil ETFs,” he said Monday on CNBC’s “Closing … Read more
by ardme Yeah I know most people in here are interested in equity markets. I am also primarily interested in equities. But just for discussion I wanted to bring this up and see what people think… I was just listening to the Bigger Pockets podcast (a podcast for real estate investors) and everyone on there … Read more
Administration faces significant hurdles in getting Fed to help rescue an oil industry squeezed by plunging crude prices given CB’s aversion to helping specific industries & ITS LACK OF AUTHORITY TO HELP BUSINESSES THAT ARE INSOLVENT …BECAUSE IT’S AGAINST THE LAW!@business — Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) April 24, 2020 How to ruin your banking system… … Read more
If corporate America expects us to bail them out every time we have a crisis, then maybe we need to start charging corporations a higher tax rate as an insurance premium… Jim Chanos @jfc_3_ https://t.co/K6fBI00Ozt pic.twitter.com/nIDw1WaSRL — Real Vision (@RealVision) April 24, 2020