Human Interest

At least one person has died following the collapse of a building at Didcot power station in in Oxfordshire, UK. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue service have confirmed one person has died, five are injured and three are missing in the blast Witnesses reported hearing a massive blast at the site before part of the building collapsed. The incident occurred at the Didcot power station in Oxfordshire, around 70 miles (113 km) west of London. The decommissioned Didcot plant closed in 2013 and demolition work had been taking place.

Back in November, when Martin Shkreli had just unleashed his ill-fated manipulation of Kalobios stock, one trader got crushed. As we reported then, one "E-trader", Joe Campbell, decided to go $35,000 short KBIO the night before the massive ramp in the stock following the Shkreli press release and ended up owing ETFC "a wonderful $106K" margin call.

His response was to launch a GoFundMe website opening up his plight to generous online donors. Surprisingly, many appeared on  short notice, providing several thousand in online donations to help him fill his margin hole.

A huge fireball crashed into the Atlantic earlier in February and went virtually unseen. NASA reported that the meteor exploded in the air 620 miles (1,000 kilometers ) off the coast of Brazil on February 6th, releasing energy equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT, the same as the first atomic weapon that levelled Hiroshima in 1945 It is the largest incident of its type since February 2013 when a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, leaving more than 1,600 people injured.

The British government are set to release highly classified UFO documents this week, as part of a move to declassify the UK’s “X-Files”. The documents are rumoured to contain details that prove the existence of aliens which the government, until now, have been desperate to cover-up. Ancient-code.com reports: UFO researchers have been engaged in a 30-year-long fight for the release of 18 top secret Ministry of Defense (MoD) files about UFO sightings.

In the last two months, NYSE Short Interest has risen 4.5%, back over 18 billion shares near the historical record highs of July 2008 (and up 7 of the last 9 months).

There are two very different perspectives on could take when looking at this data...