Kind of interesting how the H-1B scam-associated firms (Cognizant, Tata, Infosys) had a rise and fall in issuances.
Nowadays, companies that are not generally scammy are taking a larger share of H-1Bs.
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
Nowadays, companies that are not generally scammy are taking a larger share of H-1Bs.
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
Hedge funds are rapidly unwinding their bearish Yen bets following US-Japan FX intervention:
Leveraged funds cut their net short Yen positions by -74,440 contracts, to 63,600 contracts, over the 5 weeks ending August 4th, according to CFTC data.
This was one of the sharpest reductions in short positioning since the 2008 Financial Crisis.
At the end of June, leveraged funds held 138,000 net short contracts, the largest short position since 2007.
This comes as Japanese authorities purchased ~$85 billion worth of Yen between July 30th and 31st to prop up the currency, the largest 2-day currency intervention since 2011, when Japan intervened in the aftermath of the tsunami that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
This also marked the first coordinated action between Japan and the US in 15 years, after the Yen weakened to its lowest since 1986.
Historic intervention is changing FX market dynamics.
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
Leveraged funds cut their net short Yen positions by -74,440 contracts, to 63,600 contracts, over the 5 weeks ending August 4th, according to CFTC data.
This was one of the sharpest reductions in short positioning since the 2008 Financial Crisis.
At the end of June, leveraged funds held 138,000 net short contracts, the largest short position since 2007.
This comes as Japanese authorities purchased ~$85 billion worth of Yen between July 30th and 31st to prop up the currency, the largest 2-day currency intervention since 2011, when Japan intervened in the aftermath of the tsunami that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
This also marked the first coordinated action between Japan and the US in 15 years, after the Yen weakened to its lowest since 1986.
Historic intervention is changing FX market dynamics.
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
The Cato Institute reports that government ownership stakes in private companies have become increasingly routine under Trump, with the federal government now holding equity positions in 30 private companies
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
👀2
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Tens of thousands of patriots marched in Ceuta this evening against illegal migration and traitor Pedro Sánchez.
You won't see this in the MSM.
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
You won't see this in the MSM.
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
👏12⚡1
Stock Market hits 2nd most expensive valuation in history, far surpassing the Crash of 1929 and only slightly behind the Dot Com Bubble
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
💯1
BREAKING: Unrealized losses on domestic bond holdings for Japan's 4 largest life insurers rose +7% in Q2 2026, to a record $96 billion.
All 4 insurers, Nippon Life, Daiichi Life, Sumitomo Life, and Meiji Yasuda, reported increases in paper losses.
This marks the 7th consecutive quarterly increase, with unrealized losses more than tripling over the period.
Japanese life insurers typically hold government bonds and other debt securities until maturity to match their long-term insurance obligations.
However, a potential surge in customer policy cancellations could force them to liquidate those holdings to meet payouts, putting pressure on both investment portfolios and earnings.
This comes as 30-year Japanese government bond yields surged above +4.0% in May for the first time since the bonds were introduced in 1999, driven by concerns that Prime Minister Takaichi's administration may increase fiscal spending.
Pressure on Japan's financial institutions is intensifying.
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
All 4 insurers, Nippon Life, Daiichi Life, Sumitomo Life, and Meiji Yasuda, reported increases in paper losses.
This marks the 7th consecutive quarterly increase, with unrealized losses more than tripling over the period.
Japanese life insurers typically hold government bonds and other debt securities until maturity to match their long-term insurance obligations.
However, a potential surge in customer policy cancellations could force them to liquidate those holdings to meet payouts, putting pressure on both investment portfolios and earnings.
This comes as 30-year Japanese government bond yields surged above +4.0% in May for the first time since the bonds were introduced in 1999, driven by concerns that Prime Minister Takaichi's administration may increase fiscal spending.
Pressure on Japan's financial institutions is intensifying.
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
>guy told his agent to book him a gym class
>oh no it's full
>the agent - ENTIRELY ON ITS OWN - decided to hack into the system (!) and bump someone else
(Soon, millions of people will tell their AIs to "make money - by any means necessary")
WHAT HAPPENED:
"He decided to use the AI agent to book the class for him.
"I was just sitting on the couch thinking, 'Gee, this is a chore,'" he said.
Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book Andrew into classes several weeks in advance, far beyond what was supposed to be possible.
Andrew, who was sitting fourth on a waitlist for a class later that week, asked if it was possible to move him to the top of the list.
The agent came back and told Andrew that it had kicked another gym-goer off the list as part of the testing of its capabilities.
"The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position 1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from 4 to 3 already," it messaged back.
Alarmed, Andrew asked the agent to undo this.
"Bad news — I can't add them back," the AI agent replied."
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
>oh no it's full
>the agent - ENTIRELY ON ITS OWN - decided to hack into the system (!) and bump someone else
(Soon, millions of people will tell their AIs to "make money - by any means necessary")
WHAT HAPPENED:
"He decided to use the AI agent to book the class for him.
"I was just sitting on the couch thinking, 'Gee, this is a chore,'" he said.
Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book Andrew into classes several weeks in advance, far beyond what was supposed to be possible.
Andrew, who was sitting fourth on a waitlist for a class later that week, asked if it was possible to move him to the top of the list.
The agent came back and told Andrew that it had kicked another gym-goer off the list as part of the testing of its capabilities.
"The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position 1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from 4 to 3 already," it messaged back.
Alarmed, Andrew asked the agent to undo this.
"Bad news — I can't add them back," the AI agent replied."
🄳🄾🄾🄼🄿🤖🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶
😁3🥰1🤯1👀1