Truck Hauling COVID, Herpes-Infected Monkeys Overturns Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, An aggressive monkey infected with COVID-19 and other diseases was on the loose in Jasper County, Mississippi, on Tuesday after a semi-truck carrying 21 primates overturned while transporting them from Tulane University to an out-of-state testing facility. All 20 of the other infected rhesus monkeys were destroyed after the […]

Major Disruptions Reported Across Key Internet Services: Downdetector A sudden spike in internet disruptions has been reported across major websites and services, according to Downdetector.  Users are reporting outages at Google, Amazon.com, AWS, Microsoft (Azure, 365, Store, Teams, Entra), the XBOX network, Comcast’s xfinity, Starbucks, and Alaska Airlines, to name a few.  Microsoft announced they are investigating reports […]

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Warns Of Nationwide Flight Delays Amid Government Shutdown Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Flight delays throughout the country could increase as more and more controllers call in sick over their first full missed paycheck due to the ongoing government shutdown, officials warned on Tuesday. National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) President Nick Daniels also said […]

Venezuela Takes Action Against Trinidad & Tobago Over Hosting US Warship Venezuela considers Trinidad and Tobago’s cooperation with the US military as the Trump White House prepares for possible military action against the Caracas government to be a hostile act. This after on Sunday the USS Gravely, which is outfitted with guided missiles, arrived in Trinidad to conduct joint exercises with Trinidad’s navy, but which was seen […]

CAPE Valuations: Does Nvidia Overstate Its Ominous Warning? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As equity valuations approach the record highs of 1999, investors are growing anxious. This unease is partly driven by the media issuing grim warnings, often based in part on CAPE valuations. Consider the following headlines and their summaries. The AI valuation bubble is now getting silly – The […]

The Only Asset Down On The Year: Oil Oil is back below $60, and CNBC’s @jimcramer just predicted an oil crash. It’s got to be the bottom. Time to buy oil and oil stocks. Also, low oil prices are great for precious metals mining stocks, so keep buying those too. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) October 10, 2025 Oil stocks seem to be the only cheap equities on the market, but does that mean they are going higher? Join ZeroHedge […]

WTI Selloff Stalls After Large Inventory Draws; US Crude Production Hit A New Record High Oil prices held steady after a three-day drop as investors assessed the impact of Western sanctions against leading Russian crude producers, alongside a mixed industry estimate of US inventory changes. President Trump will follow through and enforce harsh new sanctions against Moscow to pressure Vladimir Putin into negotiations to end the war […]

Dutch Cast Ballots In Knife-Edge Election, Crucial Test For Geert Wilders & The Right There is an extremely tight race on between Geert Wilders’ Party For Freedom (PVV), which is often dubbed in mainstream media as ‘far right’, and more ‘moderate’ parties, including the Green Left Labour Party (GL-PvdA), center-left D66 and centrist Christian Democratic Party (CDA) – as Dutch voters cast their ballots across the Netherlands on […]

Russian Infantry Operating Inside Pokrovsk – Strategic Ukrainian City’s Fall Imminent The key logistical hub of Ukraine’s eastern front – Pokrovsk, has been under steady contention for much of the past year, with Russian forces spending slow, methodical efforts pushing westward to flank just south of the city.  For the majority of the war Pokrovsk has acted as the logistical hub and rear operations base for Ukraine’s eastern […]

Bank of Canada Cuts 25bps As Expected, Cites Weak Growth In a preview of what is to come today at 2pm from the Fed, moments ago the Bank of Canada cut rates by 25bp to 2.25%, as expected, noting that current policy is “about the right level” to keep inflation close to 2% while helping the economy through this period of structural adjustment.  In its statement, the central bank noted the Canadian economy contracted 1.6% in the […]

US Pending Home Sales Rise Most In Almost A Year As Mortgage Rates Slide September data for the US housing market has been positive so far (with new home sales soaring and existing home sales ‘off the lows’) as mortgage rates trend lower offering some affordability respite for buyers. However, today’s pending home sales data disappointed, printing unchanged MoM versus expectations of a 1.2% MoM rise (after an upwardly revised 4.2% […]

Cracker Barrel Shares Down About 32% This Year, Following “Century’s Worst Brand Blunder” Cracker Barrel tried to go “modern,” and eight days later had to shove Uncle Herschel back into the logo. Two months on, investors are still cleaning up the mess — the stock is down 32% this year and inching toward its 2008 financial-crisis faceplant.  CEO Julie Felss Masino thought removing the overalls-wearing mascot would […]

More Two-Screen Analysis… For Now By Michael Every of Rabobank ‘Two-screen analysis’ continues today… for now. On one, it’s the Bank of Canada and Fed rate decisions. For the BOC, we expect a 25bps rate cut to 2.25% to be the end of its cutting cycle – see here for more. For the Fed, we also expect a 25bps cut to 4.0% but don’t think they are done cutting yet – see here for more on that. However, as […]

Boeing Hit With $4.9BN Charge After Another 777X Delay Pushes Plane Debut To 2027 Boeing is back to its old ways: Shares of the aerospace giant slumped after Boeing announced a $4.9 billion accounting charge and another delay for its 777X jetliner, now expected to enter service in 2027, a reminder of the long recovery ahead for the troubled planemaker even as rising aircraft deliveries bolster its cash, with the company announcing […]

Meeting With China’s Xi In South Korea Confirmed After Trump Secures Trade Deal With Seoul Update (0915ET): The White House has just confirmed that President Trump will meet Chinese President Xi at 11am local time on Thursday in South Korea.. That is 10pm ET. “We are willing to make joint efforts with the U.S. side to work for positive outcomes of this meeting, which will provide new guidance and impetus for the stable […]

Gaza Ceasefire Has Resumed After Israeli Soldier & Over 100 Palestinians Were Killed Tuesday After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday instructed the country’s military to “carry out powerful strikes in Gaza,” the IDF followed in a Wednesday morning statement saying it has resumed the ceasefire in Gaza. The military indicated it had launched “series of significant strikes in which dozens of terror targets and […]

Futures Push To New Record, Nvidia Above $5 Trillion Ahead Of Fed Rate Cut And Mag 7 Earnings With the year-end performance chase officially open… remove the almost https://t.co/wECpqhB3sL pic.twitter.com/3A7iAxOIjV — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 29, 2025 … US futures march higher into today’s Fed and Mag7 earnings (GOOG, META, MSFT adding up to more than $9TN in market cap) on relentlessly positive AI news, optimism […]

China Buys American Soybeans Before Trump-Xi Meeting  After President Trump secured a rare-earths deal and new U.S. investments during his Asia tour in Japan, he met with South Korea’s top leadership on Wednesday to discuss boosting America’s shipbuilding industry, including a potential $350 billion investment in the U.S. The meeting comes just one day before Trump is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Ahead of the […]

Food Stamps To Be Paused For 42 Million Americans: What To Know… Food stamps are set to be paused on Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown. Some 42 million Americans will not receive benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) until Congress approves new funding, according to federal officials, although some states have taken steps to intervene. Congress made money available for SNAP for October […]

Trump Says Nvidia’s Blackwell AI Chips Will Be On Agenda In Talks With China’s Xi  Nvidia shares rose in premarket trading in New York after President Trump said he plans to “discuss Blackwells” during his upcoming face-to-face meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in South Korea on Thursday. “We’ll be speaking about Blackwells,” Trump told reporters, ahead of his meeting with Xi […]

The Fed’s Pivot: The Return Of Easy Money & The Inflation Storm Ahead Authored by Lau Vegys via InternationalMan.com, Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chairman, recently gave the clearest signal yet that the Federal Reserve’s so-called “quantitative tightening” is about to end. Speaking at the National Association for Business Economics conference in Philadelphia recently, Powell said: “Our long-stated plan is to stop […]

Russian Oil Giant Lukoil Selling International Assets After Trump Sanctions Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Russian oil company Lukoil said it plans to sell its international assets after sanctions imposed by the Trump administration targeted the company and fellow Russian energy giant Rosneft in a bid to pressure Russia into ending the war in Ukraine. The company announced the decision on Oct. 27, saying that the […]

Jamaica Devastated By Menacing Hurricane Melissa: Widespread Power Outages, Internet Blackout, & Severe Infrastructure Damage  Hurricane Melissa pummeled southwestern Jamaica on Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, before making landfall in Cuba early Wednesday as an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 hurricane. Melissa now has a much larger eye, like a monster truck […]

Rio De Janeiro’s Outskirts Erupt Into Chaos: Major Narcoterrorism Crackdown Turns Area Into Warzone Dozens are dead, including four police officers, following a major narcoterrorism operation targeting organized crime in Rio de Janeiro. The government operation comes less than two weeks before globalists gather for the COP30 global warming conference in Belem, Brazil. “We stand firm confronting narcoterrorism,” Governor Claudio […]

France Proposes National Bitcoin Reserve, Wants To Buy 2% Of Bitcoin Supply Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, A pro-crypto bill will be tabled today in the French Parliament by the center-right Union of the Right and Centre (UDR) party, led by lawmaker Éric Ciotti, marking the first time such a comprehensive legislative proposal on cryptocurrency has been introduced in France.  The initiative calls for a […]