Passengers on virus-hit #DiamondPrincess cruise ship start disembarking in Yokohama after 2-week quarantine period

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Latest from Japan and beyond on the #coronavirus outbreak: * Passengers on virus-hit #DiamondPrincess cruise ship start disembarking in Yokohama after 2-week quarantine period For more on #COVID19https://t.co/N2WIshn9ep pic.twitter.com/ijYshPSCK4 — Kyodo News | Japan (@kyodo_english) February 19, 2020 From one week ago: [The Epoch Times, February 11, 2020] (Reported by Epoch Times reporter Xu Menger) … Read more

STATISTICIAN: “I have never in my years seen an r-squared of 0.99,”, “As a statistician, it makes me question the data.”

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via barrons: “China’s economic data have always been fraught. Now, all eyes are on the coronavirus numbers, which economists and investors are using to estimate the outbreak’s toll—and they are too perfect to mean much. A statistical analysis of China’s coronavirus casualty data shows a near-perfect prediction model that data analysts say isn’t likely to … Read more

Imminent Russia-Turkey Conflict

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Neither side is backing down. Turkey doesn’t want to go out of Idlib Russia wants to continue operation until all of Idlib is taken back by Syrian Army. Russia pointed out today it is the “worst case scenario” if Turkey attacks Syrian army forces. Today, Erdogan pointed out Idlib operation is imminent! Turkey will definitely … Read more

Dan Bongino : “Things Democrats have blanket immunity on in our “justice” system: 1) lying under oath, 2) Logan Act violations, 3) election interference, 4) political spying, 5) violent speech suppression, 6) foreign collusion”

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https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1229908805036707840?s=09 Related: YOU KNOW? WHAT I WANT TO SEE IS SOME PUNISHMENT:  Trump Trolls Senate Democrat Caught Meeting With Iranian Regime: That Sure Sounds Like A ‘Violation Of The Logan Act’. ANN ALTHOUSE ON MIKE BLOOMBERG, THE DEMOCRATS, AND THE MEDIA. “The DNC changed the qualification rules to help Bloomberg. They got rid of the requirement of a … Read more

Networks want us to think Bloomberg is solid #2 Nationwide, but the poll was only over a three day period, less than 1400 people, and included an oversampling of African Americans

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http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/UPDATED_Tuesday-Release_NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_2002171446.pdf#page=3 Bloomberg did poll second highest on this poll, but it’s a joke how definitive they present it when the poll itself is such a small sample size and limited time period. Bloomberg campaign says it’s a two-man race for the nomination per Bloomberg the news organization owned and controlled by Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/4x2zg06Bgx — Yashar … Read more

ONE LAW FOR THE LORDS AND ONE FOR THE PEASANTS. ALL FUN AND GAMES, TILL THE TUMBRILS ROLL:

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Judge Amy Brennan Jackson plans to go full steam ahead with sentencing Stone. Yesterday I wrote: Once upon a time, this sort of [juror] bias [as evidenced by Tomeka Hart] would have been something liberals would have recognized as disqualifying. But now, since it hurt Trump and Stone, I predict that the judge, Obama appointee Amy Berman … Read more

This Malware Makes ATMS Spit out All Their Money… “Potentially this can affect any country in the world.”

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via futurism Big Money Jackpotting attacks, which are hacks that make ATMs spew money, are becoming increasingly common around the world. Hackers equipped with black market software are targeting cash machines with dated software and substandard security and walking away with millions over the course of a series of attacks, according to a collaborative investigation by Motherboard and German newsroom Bayerischer Rundfunk. Though … Read more

We now live in a world where “upsetting” the markets is a primary concern of the Fed

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We now live in a world where “upsetting” the markets is a primary concern of the Fed. Gone are the days when Fed’s job was all about the health of the economy. Everything so highly levered that if markets unravel,fear is everything unravels . https://t.co/4RdDjzVpPd — Frank Giustra (@Frank_Giustra) February 19, 2020 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1230119498923085824 Year-to-date, pretty … Read more

So China output not a problem – its distribution that’s frozen?

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a) So China output not a problem – its distribution that's frozen?b) Twittersphere suggested that JLR had zero sales in China. Demand not a problem ?c) How many key fobs can you put in a suitcase ? all these questions… — Τάκης Χριστοδουλόπουλος  (@takis2910) February 19, 2020 Hong Kong port data just registered one … Read more

The next bear will be the most severe?

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https://twitter.com/anilvohra69/status/1229789530724585474 We live what is probably the most surprising bull market in history. Excess of demand-side policies, massive liquidity injections, and low rates have zombified the economy and driven debt to all-time highs, while the economic slowdown is evident.https://t.co/1GaZwuAOI1 — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) February 19, 2020 "I have never in my career seen anything as … Read more

I have created an algorithm to deduce topics and sentiment from financial headlines. Ive graphed the top 5 most feared topics over time vs VIX for the past month, which gives some interesting results.

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by atc2017 So some weeks past Ive shared some result of the algo I developed for detecting fear in financial markets. Some request were made to show this over time, so I turned the data in to a stacked plot showing fear intensity along with the topic over time and plotted it versus the VIX. … Read more

Fox: IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland

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SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook Inc is slated to begin a tax trial in a San Francisco court on Tuesday, as the Internal Revenue Service tries to convince a judge the world’s largest social media company owes more than $9 billion linked to its decision to shift profits to Ireland. The trial, which Facebook expects will take three to four weeks, could … Read more

Virgin Galactic: now a $6B company. Had $170M worth of assets in June 2019

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by MakeoverBelly For a company with a $6B market cap I thought there would be any articles detailing what’s actually inside the thing. Found nothing, so here’s some data for you (as of June 30, 2019): ​ Cash and cash equivalents: $85,324,000 Inventories: $27,508,000 Raw Materials: $23,106,000 Work in-progress: $4,402,000 Property, Plant, and Equipment: $40,456,000 … Read more

GM Better Figure Out How to Stop Shrinking, I Mean Globally & Pronto, Before It’s Too Late

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GM tries to shrink itself out of trouble. And it shrinks where it wants to grow. But when will it stop before hitting zero? Ugly charts of GM’s global vehicle sales, by region. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. GM announced this weekend that it would pull out of Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand, in line with its … Read more