“Wouldn’t Call That A Surprise”: Delta Slashes Profit Outlook As Jet Fuel Prices Near Record Highs Delta Air Lines shares fell as much as 3.5% early in the US cash session after the carrier slashed its full-year earnings forecast as soaring jet fuel costs squeezed margins. The cut isn’t totally unexpected given today’s jet fuel prices, but it serves as a warning: Delta owns a refinery that helps cushion the refining crisis blow, […]

US Hits ‘Rogue’ International Criminal Court With Sweeping Sanctions On Friday the Trump administration rolled out sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court, calling it a “rogue” organization and declaring that the action is part of an effort to ultimately dismantle the tribunal. “We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,” US Secretary […]

Watch: Influencer Fights “Terminator” Robot In Wild Cage Match A social media influencer stepped into the ring against a real-life “Terminator” robot in a bizarre showdown that offered a startling glimpse into the rapidly advancing world of humanoid robotics. Frankie LaPenna, a 29-year-old influencer known for his outrageous online stunts, faced off against a six-foot-tall humanoid robot, one of three REK machines he fought, during […]

Big Banks And The Democrats Killed Clarity; This Is The Next Target In Their Sights… Authored by Jordan Schachtel via American Greatness, Just before the Senate adjourned for campaign season, big banks joined forces with longtime critic Elizabeth Warren and Senate Democrats to kill the Clarity Act. The bill would have clarified federal rules for cryptocurrency markets and created a reliable, trustworthy entrance point for […]

Saudi Pilot Among 3 Killed In Riyadh Airport Attack; Houthis Under Pressure On Red Sea Coast Saudi Arabia has finally reopened King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Friday following attacks by the Houthis that killed three people and injured several on Thursday, and caused widespread flight suspensions and delays in the region. Airport facilities and aircraft were hit in the attack, with at least one Saudi Airlines […]

IMF Warns Tokenized Markets Could Amplify Financial Risks Authored by Nate Kostar via CoinTelegraph.com, Tokenization could reshape financial markets by making trading and settlement more efficient, but legal uncertainty and risks to financial stability could hinder wider adoption, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a Thursday analysis, the IMF said tokenized financial markets are growing rapidly but remain […]

Guilfoyle Donor Scandal Explodes As Vance Balks, Rubio Dodges And The Donor Calls It Quid Pro Quo The left finally has something new to sink its teeth into, as the Kimberly Guilfoyle donor scandal widens – with JD Vance keeping his distance, a donor on a media tour, and a records demand sitting on the ambassador’s desk.  The allegation, reported by the WSJ late Wednesday – is that six days before her July 9, 2025, Senate […]

Unwanted, Not Unwarranted By Maartje Wijffelaars, senior economist Rabobank Oil prices rose again yesterday, reaching a session high of about $105 per barrel as Iran struck tankers – an outcome our energy analysts warned about if Iran appeared to be losing control over Hormuz. Reports that the US could strike Iran before the midterms and a hurricane hitting US output added pressure. Brent crude then fell after President Trump […]

The BBC Seems To Hate White People… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The corporation that lectures Britain about “fair” pay has published its own wage numbers. In six of its seven career bands, white staff took home a lower median wage than black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic minority colleagues. The figures come from the BBC’s own 2025/26 pay-gap tables. Black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic minority employees […]

UMich ‘Current Conditions’ Sentiment Crashes To Record Low As ‘Independents’ Lose Faith After sliding back near cycle lows in September (as Republicans lost faith in the recovery and MidEast tensions re-escalated), analysts expected UMich consumer sentiment to fall further in preliminary October data released this morning. And the analysts were right as The University of Michigan’s preliminary sentiment index decreased to 46.3, […]

Iran Strikes LPG Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz, As Houthis Reportedly Mine Bab al-Mandab Summary Houthis reportedly mine Bab al-Mandab: Saudi media reports ‘dense’ mining in the strategic Red Sea shipping route, with demining operations underway. Iran escalates tanker attacks & threats: The IRGC claims it struck an LPG tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a major fire, and threatens further action against violating vessels. […]

Masa Passes The Hat: SoftBank Seeks $100 Billion From The Gulf After Maxing Out Junk Bonds, Margin Loans And Japanese Retail The scramble for AI cash is on (or rather, accelerating). Just hours after the FT reported that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is roughly $20 billion lower than the figure that had been making the rounds previously, the same paper reported that Masayoshi Son is trying to raise up to $100 billion from Gulf […]

“Migrants Join Forces With Antifa” As EU Riots Spread From France To Belgium Europe is demonstrating that the globalist progressive experiment is crashing and burning, as far-left riots, which we pointed out at the start of the week, were “spreading like cancer” from France to Belgium, continue on Friday. What’s to say the social unrest will stop there? The chaos and social unrest mimic the US Marxist BLM riots in 2020, when […]

RFK Jr. Announces New Clinic For People Injured By Vaccines Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials have opened a new clinic to treat patients with vaccine injuries and announced other new developments on Oct. 8 that they say will change how the government handles reports of health problems following vaccination. The new National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]

DOE Presses PJM On Ratepayer Protections From Large Load Costs By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday urged the PJM Interconnection to revise its reliability backstop procurement plan to prevent cost shifts onto existing utility customers from data centers and other large loads. PJM should file a proposal by Oct. 29 in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision last […]

German Police Advise Women To Vomit To Stop Rape Attacks Authored by – Remix News Staff – via Remix News, It has been revealed that police in the northern German city of Bremen have for more than a decade advised participants in workplace safety seminars that deliberately inducing vomiting can be one way to interrupt an attempted sexual assault or rape. Franka Haedke, a spokeswoman for the Bremen police, said the guidance is […]

Futures Rise After OpenAI Damage Control Sparks Tech Rebound, Oil Slides US futures are higher as a trifecta of AI relief, easing geopolitical tensions and fading energy prices has lifted sentiment into the final trading day of the week: OpenAI walked back Thursday’s FT-sparked revenue scare by telling people it expects to reach or exceed $70 billion in annualized revenue by year-end, while President Trump said the US would not […]

The AI Rally Trapdoor Just Swung Open Violently  Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Last week, I wrote a piece titled “It’s Official: The AI Emperor Has No Clothes,” arguing that the artificial intelligence bubble was approaching the point where investors would be forced to confront the financial reality underneath years of hype, circular financing and absurd valuations. A couple of weeks earlier, I had predicted that the AI […]

Apple Slides After Report Says iPhone 18 Pro Component Orders Slashed, Signaling Early Demand Trouble Jefferies and Bernstein analysts have already flagged soft demand for the iPhone 18 in major markets. The launch of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max is an early test for CEO John Ternus, with a new report suggesting Apple has told suppliers to cut component production. Apple shares are down 2% in premarket trading this morning after […]

“Small Disruption Now Has Outsized Price Consequences”: Jefferies Warns As Hurricane Takes Aim At US Gulf Energy Isaias has strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane in the overnight hours and is forecast to intensify further before making landfall along the US Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday. Nearly two-thirds of Gulf of Mexico crude production is already shut in, while roughly 500,000 barrels a day of refining capacity is […]

Tower Stocks Soar, Big Three Wireless Carriers Puke As SpaceX Strikes Low-Band Spectrum Deal Summary The Rise of Starlink Mobile  Tower Stocks Jump; Carrier Stocks Tumble Musk says this is the “last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle needed for SpaceX to provide complete phone coverage in America.”  SpaceX Secures Spectrum Deal To Challenge Big Telecom Tower Stocks Erupt, Carriers Puke Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced […]

Fashion Police: Fifteen-Year-Old Boy Is Arrested After Joking About How A Politician Dresses Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, The King may have no clothes, but he has cops… Fraser, of Walsall in the West Midlands, says he still does not understand why four police officers arrested him at his home two months ago Credit: Andrew Fox The leader of the Conservative Party on the Wolverhampton City Council, Simon […]

JPM Warns Strike At Major Chilean Copper Mine Could Deliver “Significant” Production Hit A new potential bottleneck has emerged in the global copper market as London futures hover just shy of record highs amid persistent scarcity concerns. Natalia Corfield, JPMorgan’s head of Latin America corporate credit research, wrote in a note earlier today that a strike at Centinela, a major source of Antofagasta’s copper production in […]

France’s Debt: Too Heavy To Lift, Too Big To Spot Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, A spread can be historically wide and still offer inadequate compensation for what lies ahead… At around 150 basis points over Bunds, French ten-year government bonds look tempting. The spread is exceptionally wide by France’s historical standards. For investors accustomed to treating France as a core European sovereign, the […]

Turkey Rules Out Launching Attacks On Yemen From Saudi Arabia Via Middle East Eye Turkey will not send troops to Saudi Arabia to launch attacks on Yemen under the Mecca defense pact, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday. “This is not an offensive agreement. Turkey will not send troops to another country’s territory to launch an attack there,” he said during a live press conference in Ankara. Fidan added that […]