WTI Holds Losses After Big Crude Build, Record US Production Oil prices weakened for a second session early on Wednesday as a report showed an unexpected surge in U.S. oil inventories, keeping demand and over-supply concerns top of mind for traders. “API data indicated the largest US crude inventory build in more than three months, with stockpiles rising by 6.5 million barrels last week. If confirmed by the EIA later today, it […]

Motorist Yells “Allahu Akbar” After Plowing Into Pedestrians On French Atlantic Island Sky News reports a man in his mid-30s carried out multiple deliberate vehicle ramming attacks on pedestrians and cyclists on Wednesday morning on Île d’Oléron, a French island off the Atlantic coast. BREAKING: Two people are in intensive care following a driver knocking down several people on the French island of Ile d’Oleron. The mayor of […]

Supreme Court To Decide On Trump’s Tariffs: Here’s What To Know Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Nov. 5 in a landmark case over the legality of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times More specifically, the justices are expected to hear two cases—Learning Resources, Inc. […]

Yields Rise, Rate-Cut Odds Slide As ISM Services Survey Signal Inflation Fears After yesterday’s mixed picture on Manufacturing (PMI up, ISM down), analysts expected both Services surveys this morning to show an upward bounce. S&P Global’s Services PMI disappointed but did rise from September’s 54.2 to 54.8 (but that was less than expected and less than the 55.2 preliminary print) ISM’s Services PMI beat expectations, […]

Schumer And Jeffries Demand Meeting With Trump To End Record Gov’t Shutdown Update (0935ET): With the election night sweep in hand, the Democrats reach out, hoping for bipartisan support… “We write to demand a bipartisan meeting of legislative leaders to end the GOP shutdown of the federal government and decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis. Democrats stand ready to meet with you face to face, anytime and […]

Scott Jennings Issues Blunt Warning As CNN Panel Gloats Over Democratic Victories Via VigilantFox.com, CNN’s “expert” political panel gloated in victory as conservative commentator Scott Jennings issued a blunt warning to the Democratic Party on Tuesday night. The results are in, and it’s official. New Jersey and Virginia elected Democratic governors. Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City, and arguably […]

Britain “Doomed” Under Labour As Wealthy Scramble To “Get The Hell Out Of London”, Ryanair Boss Warns Authored by John-Paul Ford Rojas via ThisIsMoney.co.uk, The UK is doomed under Labour, the boss of Ryanair has warned as he claimed wealthy people were scrambling to ‘get the hell out of London’ before being hit by a Budget tax raid. Michael O’Leary said he had no faith in the Chancellor’s ability to restore growth and […]

Yields Spike After Treasury Refunding Unexpectedly Warns Bessent Considering “Increases To Future Auction Sizes” Superficially, there were no surprises in the quantitative aspects of this morning’s Treasury refunding announcement: as previewed earlier, the Treasury just announced a total quarterly refunding size of $125 billion, just as expected, and furthermore indicated it’s not looking to boost sales of notes and bonds “for at […]

ADP Employment Report Shows Labor Market Rebound In October Following the new weekly update of ADP’s employment report showing a rebound to job additions after two straight month of declines, analysts expected a 30k rise in jobs for October’s monthly report. And analysts were right with ADP reporting 42k jobs added in October (better than expected) Source: Bloomberg Services added 32k jobs while Goods Producers added 9k… […]

Futures Rebound From Session Lows As Government Shutdown Becomes Longest Ever Welcome to day 36 of the government shutdown which officially makes it the longest shut down in history. Futures are trading moderately lower, following weaker Asian and European sessions, but well off session lows as Japan retraced nearly 50% of its losses during the session. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are down 0.2% having earlier slid far more […]

Recession Watch: Could The Next One Be Right Around The Corner Authored by Carlo Putti via BondVigilantes.com, Recessions often appear crystal clear when analysed in retrospect. It’s easy to sit back, glance at the Bloomberg screen, and spot the evident recession we had in 2008 or the dot-com bubble of 2000. However, discerning whether an economy is on the brink of a recession, or even if it is already are in one, is […]

Americans Are Cautiously Optimistic About AI Ever since ChatGPT was publicly released in November 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved right in front of our eyes. Having long been a buzzword describing a futuristic concept, AI in 2025 has become a transformative force shaping industries, education, healthcare and, to a growing extent, our daily lives. Proponents of the technology think that AI has almost […]

Seven Killed After UPS Cargo Jet Crashes Near Louisville Airport Update (0640ET): Late Tuesday, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo jet operated by UPS suffered a catastrophic engine fire while taking off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The aircraft failed to generate enough lift and crashed into an industrial park near the airport, killing three crew members and at least seven people on the ground. UPS Flight 2976 […]

RFK Jr. Calls For Global Ban On Mercury In Vaccines Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), All countries should remove mercury from vaccines following the precedent set by the United States, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said via a video address during the Nov. 3 meeting of the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Geneva, Switzerland. Thiomersal, also known as thimerosal, is a mercury compound […]

These Are The World’s Most Militarized Economies In 2024, the U.S., China, and Russia were the top countries by military spending, representing more than half of the global total. Overall, global military expenditures hit a record $2.7 trillion, a 9.4% increase over the year. Amid rising geopolitical tensions, all five regions of the world increased their military spending for the second consecutive year. This graphic, via Visual […]

BBC Busted Doctoring Trump’s J6 Speech To Smear Him As Violent Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, British news channel BBC “doctored” President Donald Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, to make it appear he called on supporters to riot at the Capitol before lawmakers certified the 2020 election.  The alteration was exposed in an internal memo first reported by British newspaper The Telegraph. The doctored […]

Nigerian Officials Deny Christian Slaughter, Call For “Sit Down” With Trump When South African president Cyril Ramaphosa traveled to the White House this year with his big grin and large entourage, he did not seem to understand the nature of the visit.  He seemed to believe he was there to wine and dine with President Trump, as he had done with Joe Biden on multiple occasions, and that American money would flow from the encounter […]

Children Face Higher Risk Of Neurodevelopmental Disorders If Exposed To COVID-19 In Womb: Study Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Children whose mothers contracted COVID-19 while pregnant face an elevated risk of developing autism or another neurodevelopmental disorder, according to a new paper. A woman who is four months pregnant holds her belly in this photo taken on Aug. 10, 2018. Ulises Ruiz/AFP […]

Germany Dodges Russia’s Offer Of Non-Aggression Guarantee For NATO, EU Amid enduring anxiety over the potential for the Ukraine war to escalate into a third world war, Russia last week offered to cement its disinterest in invading Europe by entering into a formal non-aggression pact with European Union and NATO states. However, Germany quickly signaled its disinterest in such a treaty — at least for now.  In making the case for […]

The EU Has A Rare Earths Problem, Poland May Have The Answer Via Remix News, The EU has a serious shortage of rare earths, which are vital for industrial and technological production on the continent. Poland may have at least a partial solution, and it has to do with Poland’s expertise in mining and extraction. In a wide-ranging interview, Tomasz Zdzikot from the SET Foundation talks about how Europe has lagged behind in the […]

Russia Should Investigate The Taliban’s Claim About US-Pakistani Drone Cooperation Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, While there are reasons to suspect that the Taliban has self-interested political motives in peddling lies about Pakistan, there are also reasons for Russia to take its latest claim very seriously… Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed over the weekend that “American drones are indeed operating […]

Commercial Technology Most Often Target Of Chinese Spies The case of a former aide to two New York governors who stands accused of excerting influence, falsifying documents, sharing information and carrying out shady business deals while receiving favors and kickbacks from the Chinese government and Chinese companies is expected to go to trial early this month. While in many ways, the case of Linda Sun and her husband Chris Hu is […]

Why One Doctor Says Depression Treatment Needs A Reset Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For years, people have been told their sadness was the result of a chemical imbalance—a fixable flaw—like how insulin helps people with Type 1 diabetes. The Epoch Times/Shutterstock The “chemical imbalance” theory has shaped mainstream treatment for depression, fueling widespread prescriptions of […]

Hawaii Has The Highest Homelessness Rate In America, Mississippi The Lowest There are around 772,000 homeless Americans (nearly 230 for ever 100,000 Americans), according to the last time a point-in-count assessment was done in 2024. In this visualization, Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, take a look at the highest homelessness rates by state, measured per 100,000 residents. The data for this visualization comes from the U.S. […]

The Governor, The CEO, & The FBI: Scandal Threatens New York Hospital Authored by Benjamin Weingarten via RealClearInvestigations, After taking the helm at New York’s financially troubled Nassau University Medical Center late last year, Megan C. Ryan stumbled upon something baffling in the books: a two-decade-long series of transactions engineered by New York State that may have shortchanged the hospital by a staggering $1 […]