China’s “Golden September” Stalls: Car Sales Crash 28% As Exports Become Lifeline New data released by the China Passenger Car Association earlier on Monday show that China’s peak car-buying season hit the brakes, with September passenger-vehicle retail sales plunging 28% from a year earlier as manufacturers increasingly relied on overseas buyers to cushion soft domestic demand. The CPCA said in the report that retail sales fell to […]

Tehran Rejects Alleged US Partial Peace Concessions To Iranian Demands As ‘Inadequate’ Talks between Washington and Tehran have obviously long been stalemated, amid a return to ramped-up Iranian attacks on energy transit in the Strait of Hormuz, but messages have continued to be exchanged on an indirect diplomatic level, also as Washington seeks a way out of the crisis. Iran indicated Monday it is reviewing a latest offer from […]

“Memory Remains The Epicenter”: Micron Tumbles Below $1,000 As Kospi Catches-Down And CXMT Shrinks The DRAM Cell Micron just delivered the kind of quarter that would have sent the stock into orbit in June. Instead, it is tumbling and about to lose the $1,000 handle. Barely two weeks after Micron (MU) guided to $60-$63 billion in fiscal Q1 revenue, crushing the $56.8 billion consensus, and a week after Goldman calculated that Micron […]

Starbucks Kills Chipotle Takeover Rumor: “We’re Not Buying” The Burrito Chain Hopes of buying a Starbucks Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso and a Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl under one roof through a possible merger of the two quick-service restaurant chains were squashed Monday morning. “As a matter of policy, we don’t comment on rumors and speculation, but we want to be clear we are not buying Chipotle,” a Starbucks […]

Zelensky Says He’ll Hold Elections If Putin Agrees To 60-Day Ceasefire Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he would hold elections in Ukraine if Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a 60-day ceasefire, comments that came after President Trump said Ukraine needed a new president to reach a deal with Russia. Zelensky’s term expired in May 2024, but he has […]

“Full-On Truman Show”: Former State Dept. Official Exposes USAID’s Censorship Machine In Brazil Former State Department official Mike Benz laid out USAID’s sweeping involvement in Brazil’s political and institutional landscape, detailing a network of American funding that reached media organizations, universities, activist groups and organizations involved with the country’s election system. Benz, who serves as executive director […]

Cyberattack Disrupts Refrigeration Systems At Hundreds Of French Supermarkets A cyberattack targeting supermarket refrigeration equipment has caused widespread disruption across France, leaving hundreds of stores facing spoiled inventory, financial losses and potentially costly equipment damage, according to France 24. Roughly 150 to 200 Intermarché locations and nearly 100 Coopérative U stores were caught up in the incident, […]

The War On Columbus Was Never Really About Columbus Authored by Jarrett Stepman via The Daily Signal, Christopher Columbus is having a revival thanks to President Donald Trump and the good sense of the American people. This is a remarkable change from just a few years ago, when it seemed likely that the country was ready to purge Columbus, the Founding Fathers, and pretty much any notable figure from our past. It was so over […]

Feds Raid Ilhan Omar’s DC Home As Immigration Fraud Investigation Heats Up Federal agents raided the Washington, D.C., home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) early Monday morning as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman’s immigration paperwork, according to Fox News. The pre-dawn operation began around 6 a.m., with multiple agents wearing Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) jackets observed […]

Riyadh Airport Closure Extended As Saudi Arabia Projects ‘Normalcy’, Hosting World Petroleum Congress Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport’s closure has been significantly extended in an unprecedented move by aviation authorities following the two weekend ballistic missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthis which left at least 13 people killed and over 300 injured. Prior strikes rocked the airport last week, and in all 15 have […]

‘No Beardos, No Weirdos’: Hegseth’s ‘State Of The Force’ Speech Shows Recruiting Up, Generals Out Authored by Mike Fredenburg via The Epoch Times, Secretary of War Hegseth’s Sept. 30 State of the Force speech was refreshingly blunt, but it was also extremely informative. On the blunt side of things, Hegseth let the sergeants, chiefs, and junior officers know that the U.S. military was done with the woke mindset that had been […]

Futures Flat As Oil Rebounds After Trump’s “Energy Ceasefire” Unravels, Memory Stocks Slide US futures are flat, with S&P contracts clinging to small gains and the Nasdaq slipping into the red as memory stocks slide, after a weekend of contradictory geopolitical headlines whipsawed oil (see below). As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures were 0.1% higher at 7,865 while Nasdaq futures were down 0.1%. Dow futures are up about 0.1%. That […]

Netflix Reportedly Readies First Major Layoffs Since 2022, Cutting 5% Of Staff With Shares Down 42% In A Year Continued wokeness does not seem to be working out well for Netflix, which is planning to cut about 5% of its workforce, with an announcement expected as early as next week, Puck News reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company had about 16,000 full-time employees at the end of last year, so a 5% […]

US Bankruptcy Filings Rise By 11% In First 9 Months Of 2026 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A total of 469,719 bankruptcy filings, both individual and commercial, have been filed in the first nine months of 2026. The total number of filings is up by 11 percent from the same period last year, the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) said in an Oct. 8 statement. Individuals made 444,252 filings in the January […]

EU NatGas Nears Mutli-Year Highs Even As Citi Sees Supply Crunch Easing Europe’s main natural gas price benchmark is headed for multi-year highs despite the “energy ceasefire” reported between Russia and Ukraine over the weekend and improving Strait of Hormuz energy flows. Europe is heading into the Northern Hemisphere winter without Qatari LNG exports and with storage levels well below 15-year lows. Dutch TTF futures trade around […]

Chinese Lithium Futs Plunge As EU Hybrid Cap Deals Fresh Blow To Battery Demand Lithium futures in China plunged on Monday after a Bloomberg report said the European Union will cap imports of Chinese hybrid vehicles at 350,000 per year, with the “safeguard measure” set to take effect in the coming weeks. Under a four-year safeguard measure that could take effect Dec. 1, the bloc will limit Chinese hybrid imports to 350,000 vehicles […]

Trump Declares Ukraine Energy Ceasefire; Zelensky Says “News To Me” As Russia Attacks Powerplant US relations with Ukraine are once again spiraling fast, especially following President Trump’s ‘shock’ declaration Saturday while addressing Zelensky’s anger at the diesel deal with Russia, “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal… And I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.” The rebuke had been in response […]

Crypto Wallet-Maker Ledger Confirms Unauthorized Hardware Implant, Says Losses May Exceed $86M Authored by Michael Millard via CoinTelegraph.com, Hardware wallet maker Ledger, which has been investigating reports of crypto losses involving its devices purchased from a Southeast Asian reseller, confirmed that one of the affected users’ devices contained an unauthorized hardware implant. Ledger said in a Saturday post on X that it […]

UBS Identifies “The Next Leg Of The AI Trade” Catherine Gordon, UBS’s energy and resources expert, highlighted “AI Infrastructure Constraints Emerge As Next Leg Of The Trade” in a Friday note to clients. The theme closely aligns with our “Owning The Bottlenecks” note, which centered on companies positioned to benefit from supply constraints in the critical materials space that feed not only the AI infrastructure buildout but also […]

Europe And Russia Flirt With Nuclear War Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, There is no shame in armistice when the alternative is Armageddon… War is ugly and awful. People who experience it generally detest it. In movies, soaring soundtracks make falling buildings and gunfights seem exciting. In real life, people feel excruciating physical and emotional pains that never really fade. It’s Hell on Earth. After WWI, […]

EU Caps Chinese Hybrids At 350,000 As Deutsche Maps Every Trade Weapon Left In Europe’s Arsenal Brussels has finally picked a rung on the “escalation ladder.”  According to a document seen by Bloomberg, the EU will cap imports of Chinese hybrid vehicles at 350,000 cars per year, with the “safeguard measure” taking effect as soon as December 1. The limit rises 6% a year from the second year and the measure runs for four years. And […]

UK Govt Wants “Interventionist State Policing & Regulating Of Online Space” Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian, The United Kingdom already has one of the most controlled digital environments in the world. We have a social media ban for children in place, requiring everyone to scan their ID or otherwise verify their age to use social media. They require age verification for “adult content”. There are proposals and […]

The Latest Nord Stream News Might Lead To Something Much More Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Regardless of however the “friendly competition” evolves between Germany and Poland over leading NATO 3.0 , one thing is certain, and it’s that US-led creative energy diplomacy will likely shape the post-war European security architecture. Reuters cited five unnamed sources to report that US Special Envoy for Russia Jared […]

Jack Of All Trades Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, At 9:40 at night, I walked out of the restaurant and looked down at my hands. They were stained with pigment – reds, pinks, and earthy browns worked into the cracks around my fingernails from making makeup. Tins of lipstick and eyeshadow Mollie Engelhart made for her farm store. Courtesy of Mollie EngelhartI had just finished making 200 tins of lipstick and […]

Leftist Mob Politicizes Cornell “Rape” Case Despite Evidence Of False Accusations A clear pattern is emerging, and it’s a dangerous one.  The political left has been systematically combing through any criminal or civil court cases which are gaining media traction and national attention, then hijacking those cases and turning them into vehicles for political gain.   Their motive may simply be an effort to attach themselves to […]