Thumos-Maxxing By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank US sovereign yields steadied yesterday as a 10-year bond auction saw strong investor demand. $39bn of bonds were sold with a high yield of 5.30% with a bid to cover ratio of 2.77x and low primary dealer takedown. The result signals that investors are beginning to view government debt as attractive at current levels and eased fears of a disorderly correction in […]

Jobless Claims Confirm ‘Low-Hire, Low Fire’ Economy For the fourth week in a row, the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time printed below 200k (197k) implying the layoff/separation rate is extremely subdued. Employers are not cutting headcount in any meaningful way – job security for people who already have jobs is still pretty good. California saw by far the biggest jump in initial claims… […]

Blame The Parents… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, First-graders generally do not walk into reading class with a loaded 9mm, shoot the teacher, and then dare the police to come get them. But in this case, that is exactly what happened. Body-camera footage from a shooting at Richneck Elementary in Newport News, Virginia, was released this week after over three years of being sealed. The video shows a 6-year-old, […]

Futures Slide As Oil Jumps On Iran Strike Report, Bond Rout Resumes Ahead Of 30Y Auction US equity futures are lower, extending Wednesday’s decline, with the S&P sliding further from Tuesday’s record high as oil spikes on reports that Trump may order fresh strikes on Iran before the midterms, a tanker was hit off Qatar in the first strike deep inside the Persian Gulf in about a month, and an approaching storm has shut some US […]

Le Pen Seen As Most Credible Presidential Candidate As French Bonds Suffer Worst Decade Since 1803 France’s politicians seem to be getting a dire warning from the bond market: rein in reckless spending or risk a fiscal crisis as borrowing costs skyrocket.  UBS strategist Julien Conzano, head of European macro credit strategy in London, sees bond market pressure pushing both the crisis-stricken Macron government and Marine Le […]

One Year For Killing A Young Father… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Copenhagen court has handed a one-year sentence to the African-born repeat offender who punched Swedish police officer and father of two Christian Zedig to death at a World Cup fan zone this past Summer. The killer pleaded guilty and he will not appeal. The sentence is so lenient because under Danish law, killing a man who stepped in to ‘stop a […]

25% Of US Offshore Gulf Oil Output Shut As Hurricane Isaias Nears, Threatens Refineries Hurricane Isaias forced offshore oil and natural gas producers in the Gulf of America to halt a sizable amount of production as the Atlantic’s first hurricane of the season churned toward the coast, with potential landfall impacts across portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. Isaias had sustained winds of 75 […]

Pentagon Prepares ‘Options’ For Trump To Strike Iran Before Midterms; Tanker Attacked Off Qatar Update(1615ET): The Atlantic is reporting Wednesday afternoon that the Pentagon is preparing strike options for the Commander-in-Chief to consider, and that Trump may actually pull the trigger before the midterm elections – though the report emphasizes that the decision is still being debated: After months of on-again, off-again […]

Qatar Masses Tanker Fleet With 2% Of Global LNG Shipping Capacity Ongoing tensions in the Gulf region pushed Brent crude futures back above $101 a barrel. Reports of Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia, missile interceptions near Riyadh, and concerns about tanker attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have produced a lot of uncertainty about supplies ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter. In recent weeks, crude flows through the Strait of […]

US Troops Face Month-Long Curfew In Okinawa After Alleged Murder Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, The U.S. military in Okinawa, Japan, is pausing operations for 48 hours, imposing a month-long curfew, and conducting training after a Marine was arrested on suspicion of robbing and murdering a Japanese woman. MV-22 Osprey aircraft sit on a runway at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa prefecture, […]

“You’ve Got Mail”: China Got Its Hands On F-35 Stealth Parts Because A UPS Worker Missed An Email Forget hackers, honey traps and photon-counting lasers. China’s latest haul of F-35 secrets apparently came courtesy of an unread email. According to a new Bloomberg report, the F-35 cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door that ended up in Beijing’s possession were routed through Hong Kong because a United Parcel Service (UPS) employee […]

Tanker Crews Running Hormuz Describe Risky Tactics: Lights Out, Sandbags Up, Hugging Coast The Trump administration has been boasting of bigger than ever war time oil transit flows through the Strait of Hormuz, but it is happening still at great risk to tankers, captains, and crew members. American forces “have assisted thousands of ships through the Strait of Hormuz in recent months by providing coordinated protection,” […]

Macron Goes Full Orwell Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, French President Emmanuel Macron went full Orwell this week. While long the darling of Western media, Macron has been one of the most anti-free-speech leaders in the world. This week, he declared that “The so-called American ‘free speech’ today, which some people have promoted, is the opposite of free speech.” Having Emmanuel Macron holding forth on free […]

Ebola Patient Dies As Disease Spreads To Kenya A Kenyan man who had lived in Congo for seven years tested positive for Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo virus, Kenyan authorities said on Oct. 6. He traveled by vehicle to Kampala, Uganda, flew into Nairobi on Saturday, was isolated at a city hospital on arrival, and died Monday, the first Ebola death in Kenya’s history. Kenyan Secretary of Health Aden Duale briefs reporters on an Ebola […]

Spain’s Government Revives Rent Cap Decrees Ahead Of Snap Election Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, Spain’s Socialist-led government on Tuesday reapproved two housing decree laws that Parliament rejected last week, a defeat that prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to dissolve the country’s Legislature and call a snap election. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who is also a leader of the ruling Socialist Party, […]

Golden Naked Trump Statue Unveiled At European Parliament A golden statue of a naked Donald Trump is on display at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, at one of the busiest intersections connecting two of the Parliament’s buildings, and is scheduled to stay until Thursday. Named Orange Plague, the 8.5-foot sculpture shows the US president holding justice scales and a long golf club, its ball made to look like the world, […]

Germany’s Political Firewall Against The AfD Party Is Crumbling Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix, After yesterday’s vote in the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) now holds the office of state parliament president for the first time in any German state. After winning the role, which is similar to a speaker position, 35-year-old Tobias Rausch sent shockwaves through the German political establishment […]

The Founding Fathers Never Would Have Tolerated Multiculturalism Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Multiculturalism as a subversive movement is the defining political schism of our time. Is is the fulcrum point for numerous civilization changing events and a direct trigger for the exponential decline of the western world. Anyone who ignores the effects of multiculturalism will be oblivious to the many disruptions coming […]

Iowa City Council Meeting Opens With “Hail Satan” Invocation A former city council member opened Tuesday’s Ottumwa, Iowa, council meeting with a satanic prayer that ended in “Hail Satan,” and the city says it had no legal way to stop him. The invocation fell within a policy the council itself adopted on Jan. 20, according to the Ottumwa Courier. In other news, Ottumwa residents had a Satanist on their city council. Matt Dalbey, a […]

Houthis Escalate Saudi Strikes, Briefly Disrupt Riyadh Air Traffic, Hit Bases Near Border Wednesday has witnessed more direct attacks on Saudi territory launched by Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, coming soon after Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia announced they have triggered the Mecca Defense Pact. Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree announced the fresh launch of ballistic missiles and drones targeting King Khalid […]

Biden’s FBI Spied On Trump Campaign Manager’s Communications And Trump Family Travel According to newly released White House documents, former special counsel Jack Smith’s team monitored the phone and email metadata of Susie Wiles while she ran Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, and the travel of Trump family members. The records show that investigators logged her contacts with journalists, defense attorneys, and political […]

Iran Slams Door On Nuclear Talks: No Deal Unless US Meets Its Conditions Via The Cradle There have been no nuclear negotiations taking place between Washington and the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing what it said was an Iranian official.  “No negotiations [have] taken place with the US about Iran’s nuclear program… Washington must first meet Tehran’s conditions before nuclear talks can start,” the […]

Porsche Plans 20% Price Hike On Top-End 911s In Profit Push During Capital Markets Day in Weissach, new Porsche CEO Michael Leiters offered Wall Street desks a bleak outlook, warning that the turnaround will take time and that operating conditions are unlikely to improve significantly over the next few years. Leiters signaled to investors a shift toward value over volume. He said the focus is now on prioritizing higher revenue per […]

Arizona Democratic House Candidate Raped While Repairing Campaign Signs: Report Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia says she was sexually assaulted in mid-August while repairing a campaign sign late at night in the Sun City area, according to a Phoenix New Times report published October 7. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed it received a report on August 31 and that the investigation […]

China Says It Can Spot An F-35 With A Laser… From 38 Miles, At Night, In A Simulation Every few months, a Chinese research institute announces it has found a way to see the unseeable F-35, and every few months the fine print turns out to be doing most of the work. This week’s entry: a laser. According to the South China Morning Post, researchers at the China Airborne Missile Academy, the PLA Air Force’s main air-to-air missile […]