While we have become used to the almost daily trading-halts in Japanese government bonds, when the CME reports that Silver trading was halted four times overnight, it is increasingly clear that this market is anything but ‘normal’:
*SILVER TRADING WAS HALTED FOUR TIMES OVERNIGHT, CME GROUP SAYS
*SILVER TRADING WAS STOPPED FOUR TIMES IN 20-SECOND HALTS
*SILVER TRADING WAS HALTED IN `STOP-LOGIC EVENTS’, CME SAYS
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-20/silver-halted-4-times-overnight-amid-flash-crash
Neumayer Station camera catches crazy sky light May 18, 2013.
http://www.awi.de/NM_WebCam/livemovieT.html
from The Daily Sheeple:
NASA reports:
For the past eight years NASA astronomers have been monitoring the moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface.
Lunar meteor showers have turned out to be more common than anyone expected with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year.
They’ve just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program. “On March 17, 2013 an object about the size of a small boulder [...]
The office implementing most of President Obama’s healthcare law is not furloughing its workers as a result of sequestration, its director said Wednesday.
Gary Cohen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, said Wednesday that his office has not cut its workers’ hours and pay as a result of the automatic budget cuts that went into effect in March.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/295877-official-no-furloughs-for-office-implementing-obamacare#ixzz2RPzeHQx0
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Fox News Channel’s coverage of the bombing at the Boston Marathon last week propelled the network to the top of the cable rankings for the first time in nearly a decade. In both total day and primetime for the April 15 to April 21, the News Corp-owned news network pulled ahead of usually top ranked USA.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/fox-news-tops-all-cable-for-1st-time-since-2005/
murmansk ?@murmansk3m
FLASH: FOXNEWS overtakes all of cable last week in BOTH prime and total day, ranking number [...]
While we are used to seeing insta-crashes in our highly-regulated and trustworthy equity markets, the unregulated digital world of Bitcoins suffered another flash-crash last night. According to Ars Technica, the 23% plungefest in the value of the digital currency (the second in a week) was due not to Waddel & Reed, not HFT algos, but ‘forking’ Cryptographic algos gone wild agreeing on different (legacy) keys as being correct - akin to finding Tungsten in your Gold bars [...]
BIG BEAR (CBSLA.com) — Fish and Game officers Tuesday fired shots at a carjacking suspect who was apparently barricaded in a home in the Angelus Oaks area of Big Bear.
The incident at the home, which is located near Highway 38 and Glass Road, was reported around 12:50 p.m. The San Bernardino Police Department is sending a 12-man tactical team to the scene.
Read more:
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/02/12/authorities-responding-to-big-bear-home-on-report-of-hostage-situation-unknown-if-connected-to-dorner/
Many new, unusual state laws will take effect when the ball drops at midnight and millions of Americans ring in the New Year, including one that will limit the number of cats in a household.
Turns out 2013 will be unlucky for cat lovers in Wellington, Kan., where the city will be restricting the number of cats in a household to no more than four.
The law was put in place after 231 cats were [...]
“Abnormally low winter temperatures in Russia continue to claim more and more lives. Twenty-one people froze to death in only one day; 147 others were hospitalized with frostbite. The cold weather in central Russia is not going to get any warmer soon. On December 19, the cold has reached St. Petersburg, where temperatures fell below -20 degrees Centigrade. It is 30 degrees below zero in the Ivanovo region, -22C in [...]
By Tracy Connor, NBC News
Embattled U.N. envoy Susan Rice is dropping out of the running to be the next secretary of state after months of criticism over her Benghazi comments.
“Today, I made the decision that it was the best thing for our country, for the American people that I not continue to be considered by the president for nomination of secretary of state,” Rice told NBC’s Brian Williams.
“I didn’t want [...]
FLASH: Russia loses contact with most of its civilian satellites, International Space Station after cable breaks: RIA News Agency
https://twitter.com/zerohedge
Russia loses contact with satellites, space station-RIA
Published: Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012 | 9:15 AM ET
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49820628
Russian satellite system official sacked on Sunday 11/11/12.
then suddenly connections are lost??
Russian satellite system official sacked
Russia’s defense industry housecleaning continued over the weekend when satellite navigation system designer Yuri Urlichich was sacked from his job.
Urlichich, the chief designer [...]
Some people may actually see sounds, say researchers who found this odd ability is possible when the parts of the brain devoted to vision are small.
These findings points to a clever strategy the brain might use when vision is unreliable, investigators added.
Scientists took a closer look at the sound-induced flash illusion. When a single flash is followed by two bleeps, people sometimes also see two illusory consecutive flashes.
http://www.livescience.com/24191-why-some-people-see-sound.html
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The FDNY is at a high-rise under construction in Midtown where a crane has collapsed.
The call came in around 2:30 p.m. Monday at the building on West 57th Street. The top of the crane, about 75-stories up, could be seen dangling down from the luxury building.
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http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/29/high-winds-collapse-crane-from-building-under-construction-in-midtown/
A Crane On Top Of A Midtown Building Has Broken And Could Fall
he crane on top of the the One57 building has broken. [...]
DENVER – The campaign plane carrying Ann Romney, the wife of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, made an emergency landing in Denver around 2:30 Friday afternoon, the campaign reported via Twitter.
Andrea Saul, the campaign’s press secretary, tweeted: “.@AnnDRomney plane makes emergency landing in CO. All okay. Thank goodness.”
…
http://kdvr.com/2012/09/21/ann-romneys-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-denver/
The cabin of the plane apparently filled with smoke, according to a campaign aide. Romney’s plane was headed to California but landed in [...]
Despite the deceleration in the Chinese economy, it is still looked to as an engine of growth for the global economy.
Further deterioration in its manufacturing sector would certainly come as a blow to markets.
Unfortunately, massive stimulus looks increasingly unlikely.
The PMI reports are considered one of the more reliable economic indicators out of China. And those watching how the Chinese economic slowdown plays out will be watching this evening’s HSBC Flash PMI number very closely. This is the preliminary [...]
FLASH: — REU: US AMBASSADOR TO LIBYA AND THREE OTHER EMBASSY STAFF KILLED IN TUESDAY ROCKET ATTACK IN BENGHAZI-LIBYAN OFFICIAL
http://www.twitter.com/mpoppel
There are three reports that the US Ambassador to Libya has been killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.
Bloomberg is citing reports from both Xinhua and Sky Arabia.
And it is also being reported by Al-Arabiya.
More to come…
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/reports-us-ambassador-to-libya-has-been-killed-in-consulate-attack-2012-9#ixzz26FEK71oj
Benghazi’s US consulate ablaze after armed assault – video: The US consulate in the [...]
An armed mob has attacked the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi and set fire to the building, witnesses reported, in what they said was a protest at a film they said offended Islam.
A little earlier, Libya’s deputy interior minister Wanis al-Shari, told AFP the crowd had attacked the building and that information was confirmed by the US embassy in the capital Tripoli.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/52597/World/International/Mob-sets-fire-to-US-consulate-in-Benghazi-witness.aspx
From Pragmatic Capitalism:
China’s flash PMI in August fell to a nine-month low of 47.8 with broad weakness in output, employment, prices, and new orders. This obviously is not a huge vote of confidence for the direction of the global economy. Markit has more details on the report:
- Flash China Manufacturing PMI™ at 47.8 (49.3 in July). Nine-month low.
- Flash China Manufacturing Output Index at 47.9 (50.9 in July). Five-month low.
Commenting [...]
The eurozone looks destined for its second recession in three years, as business surveys showed the economic rot is even spreading to Germany, the region’s largest and strongest economy.
Markit’s Flash eurozone composite PMI, which measures manufacturing and services activity, edged up to 46.6 in August.
Although this was marginally better than the 46.5 forecast by economists, it is the seventh month that the PMI has fallen below the 50 level that divides growth from [...]
Here’s what you need to know.
At 10:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, HSBC reports its China Flash Manufacturing PMI numbers. The prior reading on the index was 49.3, indicating a slight contraction in manufacturing.
At 2:00 a.m. Thursday, Germany reports GDP, which economists expect grew at 0.3 percent annualized rate in the second quarter.
At 3:00 a.m. France reports its PMI numbers, and economists are looking for a 43.7 reading on the manufacturing index and a 50 reading on [...]
FXstreet.com (Barcelona) – After the ECB shocker, Nomura now expects market pressure to increase rapidly, “pushing Spain and Italy to activate the EFSF over the coming week or so,” forcing the ECB into some kind of action, they suggest. “This next leg of the crisis could prove more pronounced given the size of the bond markets involve” Nomura adds.
http://www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/article.aspx?storyid=85ec6dac-afa1-49df-abee-45c2fe0cc98b
Growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector slowed in July to the second-weakest level since the country emerged from recession, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The Markit flash U.S. manufacturing purchasing managers index dropped to 51.8 from 52.5 in June, which is the worst level since December 2010 and second-worst since late 2009. Any readings above 50 indicate an improvement from the prior month.
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Germany Markit Flash purchasing managers index (PMI) fell to 47.3 in July, down from 48.1 in June. This represents the sixth straight month of declines.
Markit
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-flash-pmi-2012-7#ixzz21XNUzRot
From Markit, the latest Eurozone-wide services PMI chart (flash).
It just keeps going down.
Click here to download the full report.
Markit
This is partly why European markets are getting so bloodied today.
Source: businessinsider
Shellie Zimmerman, wife of George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin, was arrested Tuesday on one count of perjury, the Seminole County, Fla., Sheriff’s Department said.
Deputies arrested Shellie Zimmerman, 25, about 3:30 p.m. ET, after they were advised by the office of State Attorney Angela Corey that a warrant had been issued.
She was booked into John E. Polk Correctional Facility and released on $1,000 bond, officials said.
George Zimmerman, 28, was charged [...]
UPDATE
Another weak number out of China.
ORIGINAL
Don’t forget, China produces two manufacturing PMI numbers.
At 10:30 PM EST, we get HSBC’s May PMI number.
Earlier this month, the Flash (or preliminary) HSBC PMI number came in at 48.7.
Earlier this evening, we got the official May PMI number, which fell to 50.4 from 53.3 last month. This was much worse than the 52 economists were expecting.
Markets instantly sold off on the news.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/china-hsbc-pmi-2012-5#ixzz1wVOD8dvz
INTERNATIONAL DRIVE, Fla. -
Authorities have shut down Interstate 4 near Walt Disney World after a brush fire ignited Friday afternoon, sending smoke across the roadway.
The fire, located near International Drive and Interstate 4, is 13 acres and growing near the Orange County/Osceola county line, a few miles from Disney World, according to the Osceola County fire chief.
The Florida Highway Patrol has shut down eastbound I-4 at Osceola Parkway, which is [...]
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