Exxon Jumps 4% After Company Boosts 2030 Cash-Flow Outlook Exxon is trading sharply higher today, rising nearly 4% after the opening bell as investors reacted to a stronger long-term outlook from the company. The oil giant raised its expectations for future earnings and cash flow through 2030, driven by continued growth in its most profitable assets and additional structural cost savings. The update has pushed Exxon shares back […]

Job Openings Unexpectedly Soar Even As Number Of Quits Plunges To 5 Year Low After a two month data hiatus, moments ago the BLS published the first jobs-linked report when it released the October JOLTS job openings and labor turnover survey. And following the last published JOLTS, which hit a little over two months ago on Sept 30, covering the month of August and which reported just 7.227 million job openings, the October report […]

Bad News Democrats: Tesla Takedown Operation Fails As Purchase Sentiment Recovers Sentiment around Elon Musk’s Tesla brand has significantly improved from the low levels seen earlier this spring, following a coordinated takedown effort by Democratic-aligned billionaire-funded NGOs, left-wing activist networks, far-left militant groups, progressive lawmakers, and left-leaning corporate media operating in what appeared to be a […]

Trump Reversing “Humphrey’s Executor” Is NOT Priced In By Michael Every of Rabobank There are key central bank decisions this week, starting with the RBA today. However, the market has already priced in their expected outcomes. What it’s failing to price in, though it’s more important, is the stream of political and geopolitical developments in which it operates. Not Trump threatening Mexico with an extra 5% tariff over water; […]

White House Draws Up Post-Maduro Plans As Trump Warns His “Days Are Numbered” In a new interview with Politico released Tuesday President Trump stated that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s “days are numbered” but still declined to say exactly what he has planned in terms of potential military action against Venezuela.  He was asked specifically whether he might order boots on the ground in Venezuela, to which Trump […]

Time For Ukraine To Have Elections As It’s ‘Not A Democracy Anymore’: Trump President Donald Trump didn’t hold back in a new televised interview with Politico wherein he weighed in on the state of the Ukraine war and how President Zelensky is conducting himself. Given Zelensky has put the brakes on the Trump-proposed pace plan by definitively rejecting the territorial concessions aspects to the document, the US president’s […]

Musk Claims EU Commissars Are ‘Responsible For Murder Of Europe’ Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Elon Musk escalated his confrontation with Brussels on Monday, declaring on X that “the EU commissars are responsible for the murder of Europe” after the European Commission insisted it would “make sure” the social media platform pays the €120 million fine imposed last week for alleged violations of the Digital […]

Futures Flat With Fed/Oracle Event Bonanza On Deck US futures are unchanged, with traders looking forward to two market-moving events on Wednesday: the Fed meeting (where 22bps of easing is priced in) and Oracle results. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 contracts are little changed. Pre-market, Mag 7 are mostly lower except for a 0.5% gain in NVDA: TSLA -0.9%, META -0.5%, GOOGL -0.3%. Since yesterday’s close, […]

ADP Weekly Employment Report Signals Rebound In Labor Market After a dismal few months, the US labor market turned up for the four weeks ending Nov. 22, 2025, private employers added an average of 4,750 jobs a week., according to ADP’s new weekly employment data This week’s positive number hints at an upswing in the labor market after four straight weeks of negative pulse estimates, after four straight weeks of losing jobs. […]

Gas Prices Drop To Lowest Level In Nearly 5 Years Across US Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Gasoline prices have dropped to their lowest levels in nearly five years and stand at around $2.90 per gallon on average as of Monday, according to data from GasBuddy, a company that tracks gas prices. “The national average has just slipped below $2.90 per gallon for the first time since May 2, 2021,” GasBuddy analyst […]

China To Limit Nvidia’s H200 Chip Access After Trump Greenlights Exports Update (Tuesday AM): President Trump’s decision to greenlight exports of Nvidia’s H200 chips to China signals an effort to ease tensions with Beijing, following the trade truce from earlier this fall and ahead of his expected meeting with President Xi Jinping in China in April 2026. Even with Trump opening the door for Nvidia’s high-end data-center AI chips […]

Pepsi Cuts Deal With Activist: Plans Product Overhaul And Layoffs PepsiCo reached a deal with activist investor Elliott Investment Management that will trim its U.S. product lineup by 20%, prioritize affordability for working-poor consumers, and move forward with a workforce restructuring as part of a broader cost-cutting push. Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott built a $4 billion stake in Pepsi earlier this year, aiming to overhaul […]

No Restrictions On How ‘Trump Accounts’ Can Be Used: Bessent Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview that “Trump Accounts” established by the administration can be used for any purpose. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks with reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington on Oct. 22, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images For […]

Consumer Stock Bosses Reinforce ‘K-Shaped’ Bifurcation Theme A bifurcated consumer landscape is one of the top themes (besides everything AI) of the third-quarter earnings season. Even though most consumer companies beat expectations and raised FY25 guidance, notably Dollar General, Five Below, and Ulta, management teams highlighted an unsettling financial squeeze on working-class and lower-income consumers.  Readers have […]

“The Days Of Censoring Americans Online Are Over”: Senior US Diplomats Slam EU’s “Attack” On American Tech Platform X Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and several other senior U.S. officials have criticized the internet policies of the European Union (EU), likening them to censorship, after the governing bloc last week levied Elon Musk’s social media platform X with a $140 million […]

Another $222 Million Saved In Terminated Contracts: DOGE Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal agencies have terminated and descoped 43 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.5 billion, saving $222 million in taxpayer funds, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in a Dec. 6 post on X. The Department of Government Efficiency website displayed on a phone, in this photo […]

These Are America’s Most-Murderous Cities This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, highlights the top 30 U.S. cities with the highest homicide rates per 100,000 residents, offering a population-adjusted view that goes beyond raw totals. The data for this visualization comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via USAFacts. New Orleans and Memphis Lead the Nation New Orleans tops the list with […]

Why Does The End Of The World Look So Profitable? Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, Sovereignty is shifting from public institutions to private tech entities like Palantir and SpaceX, which secure massive government contracts and offer “governance as a service.” The AI boom’s massive resource demands, particularly for energy and water, are being subsidized by the public, driving up costs while “efficiency” in the […]

Zelensky Definitively Shuts Door On Trump Peace Plan, Won’t Cede Territory Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky while meeting with so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ European leaders in London on Monday definitively ruled out that his country will agree to cede territory as part of a peace deal. He specified that the question of territorial compromise is why he has not reached agreement on Donald Trump’s peace deal. “There are […]

Machine-Speed Warfare: When Drones Decide Faster Than Humans Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, On June 1, 2025, 117 quadcopters—total cost under $120,000—flew from hidden launchers inside Russia and crippled 10 strategic bombers across five air bases in a single morning. Operation Spiderweb, as Ukraine called it. It was a public demonstration of a new form of conflict: When the price of precision falls far enough, […]

Netanyahu Rejects Retirement In Exchange For Pardon: ‘Let Voters Decide’ In Israel there’s talk of the scenario where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can receive a full pardon in his criminal corruption cases if he agrees retires from political life, and on Sunday he addressed this controversial proposal during a press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. When asked by a reporter if he will retire in order to obtain […]

What’s The Likelihood Of A NATO-Russian Non-Aggression Pact? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Putin recently proposed providing Europe, the majority of whose countries are part of NATO, with formal guarantees that it won’t attack. In connection with this, he also assessed that those who fearmonger about Russia are serving the interests of the military-industrial complex and/or trying to bolster their domestic image, […]

Jim Quinn On The West’s Mass Collective Societal Suicide Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Historians will look back at the wreckage of a once-great American civilization and not with wonder that tens of millions of people who were entirely dependent upon government welfare payments were nonetheless allowed to vote. Even to include millions of illiterate 3rd world illiterate aliens who snuck in, then were […]

Seattle’s Woke World Cup Agenda Implodes As ‘Pride Match’ Set Between Countries With Anti-Gay Laws Authored by Sarah Anderson via PJMedia.com, You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried… The 2026 World Cup has been the talk of the sports – and political – world lately. The United States, Mexico, and Canada will host it, and last week, the presidents of all three countries attended and participated in the draw to determine […]

Governor Pritzker’s Sanctuary Policies Freed 1,700 Criminal Aliens Since January Illinois sanctuary policies have allowed more than 1,700 criminal illegal aliens to slip back onto the streets since President Trump took office on January 20, and the Department of Homeland Security is now calling out state officials for putting politics ahead of public safety. Among those released are individuals charged with or convicted of homicide, […]