Paris Attacks Could Mean Big Profits For Weapons Companies

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Paris Attacks Could Mean Big Profits For Weapons Companies
Topic Started: Dec 28 2015, 03:13 PM (100 Views)
Darcie	Dec 28 2015, 03:13 PM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: Most of the world has suffered from the Paris terror attacks. Over 100 people are dead, hundreds are wounded, and their friends and families are suffering the direct effects of the attack. Many more people across the world feel newly unsafe, huge numbers of terrorized refugees may be denied safe harbor, and innocent people across the world are likely to be threatened, attacked, and killed in retribution for a crime that they also oppose. But one winner to come out of the chaos and terror has been the industry that develops and sells the most advanced tools for destruction that the world has ever seen. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose just 1.37 percent since the world learned of the Paris attacks, weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s stock price rose 4.2 percent, and the French weapons company Thales gained a whopping 7.75 percent. Raytheon posted its second-largest gain of the last three years Monday. http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/17/3723107/weapons-paris-profit/ I have always found it strange how weapon manufacturers are soooo quiet and really work to fade in the woodwork. Wonder how many say they yearn for peace and have stock in these companies.



campy	Dec 28 2015, 03:22 PM Post #2
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	O.K. Darcie. A challenge. Are the stocks being successful because of the military of the world or because terrorists are buying the weapons. The terrorists are not using advanced weapons. The worlds military like to have the most advanced weapons. It gives them an edge .



wildie	Dec 28 2015, 04:11 PM Post #3
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	campy Dec 28 2015, 03:22 PM O.K. Darcie. A challenge. Are the stocks being successful because of the military of the world or because terrorists are buying the weapons. The terrorists are not using advanced weapons. The worlds military like to have the most advanced weapons. It gives them an edge . We Canadians are doing alright from weapons sales. Are the French selling to ISIL and we sell to the Saudi's?



campy	Dec 28 2015, 04:22 PM Post #4
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	I'm looking at the big percentage gains and it's sophisticated weapons and aircraft.



Darcie	Dec 29 2015, 02:37 AM Post #5
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	wildie Dec 28 2015, 04:11 PM campy Dec 28 2015, 03:22 PM O.K. Darcie. A challenge. Are the stocks being successful because of the military of the world or because terrorists are buying the weapons. The terrorists are not using advanced weapons. The worlds military like to have the most advanced weapons. It gives them an edge . We Canadians are doing alright from weapons sales. Are the French selling to ISIL and we sell to the Saudi's? Hypocrites aren't we all. Heck we relish the terrorist attacks, more money to be made. I just with we would stop lying and pretending we don't want this happening, just more money in our banks, and a growing economy.



campy	Dec 29 2015, 02:46 AM Post #6
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	Darcie. Check your links. The gains are not from small arms which terrorists use. It's plane manufacturers and sophisticated ewuipment. None of which are used in terrorist attacks. To me there is no link to the terrorist attacks and the sale of weapons to military buyers with huge bucks.



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