Israel Election: Early Turnout Hits 45-Year High As ‘Bibi Fatigue’ Threatens Netanyahu’s Grip Shin Bet chief David Zini has said as Israelis head to the polls in record numbers on Tuesday, “Voter turnout is high, and we can confidently tell the citizens of Israel that the elections are being monitored and conducted in a proper and inspiring manner.”Today is Israel’s first national legislative election since the Oct.7, 2023 Hamas-led […]

Could A Democratic Midterm Win Crash Markets? Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceThe Brazilian selloff over the last 36 hours is a reminder that political outcomes can become catalysts for violent market repricing.With the midterm elections just days away, I think investors should consider what a Democratic victory could mean for a stock market already showing signs of exhaustion.I’ve spent months arguing that extraordinary […]

Mercedes Slashes Outlook As China Demand Hits Wall; Europe’s Auto Profit Warnings Pile Up Mercedes-Benz Group AG became the latest European automaker to slash its profit outlook as deteriorating demand in China and rising input costs squeeze margins.Shares tumbled in European trading this morning as the auto industry as a whole confronts intensifying Chinese competition, softening demand, and ongoing cost pressures.”Mercedes-Benz […]

Americans’ Consumer Confidence Rebounded Dramatically Off COVID Lows In October After crashing below COVID lows in September, The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index surged back to the highest level since June in October’s data released today. The headline index rose by 7.5 points to 91.7 (1985=100) in October, up from 84.2 in September (a slight upward revision) and dramatically better than the 81.0 expected.The Present […]

Iran Says Tanker On Fire After Mine Strike, Following US Commander’s Rare Hormuz Flyover Iran has continued hunting tankers in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, and on Monday its state media has cited the IRGC to say an ‘offending’ oil tanker caught fire after hitting mines east of the Strait of Hormuz.Ironically this happened just after an unusual public relations flyover conducted by the Pentagon. The head of US Central […]

Bolsonaro Drops Annulment Bid As Party Concedes To Lula, Vows Congressional “Fortress” Against Socialist Rule After the Brazilian runoff election, right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro has abandoned plans to seek its annulment, as his Liberal Party has formally recognized the reelection of socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.Lula’s socialist regime wasted no time attacking Bolsonaro after the election. Federal Police snatched […]

“Affordability Remains Challenging”: US Home Prices Rise Even As Mortgage Rates Rip Home prices in America’s top 20 cities rose for the 5th straight month in August (the latest data just released by S&P Cotality Case-Shiller), up 0.27% MoM (vs +0.30% exp) lifting pries 2.65% YoY (the strongest since May)..However, prices declined in real terms for the 15th consecutive month in August 2026, though Rebecca Kaufman, Associate […]

Jordan Bombs ‘Militant Camp’ In Southern Syria After Church Attack, High Death Toll Jordan’s response to the last Friday terror attack on an Orthodox Church in Hammoud, Karak – south of the capital Amman – has been somewhat unexpected. On Monday the country’s air force carried out a major bombing raid on southern Syria.There were three gunmen that had targeted St. George church during a funeral. The attackers killed at least eight […]

Mexican Illegal Faces Charges After Beheading Iwo Jima Statue Miguel Alonso Maldonado Sorianom, illegal migrant from Mexico residing in the US, has been officially charged after battering a replica of the Iwo Jima flag-raising statue near the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia. One of the figures on the statue was beheaded before police apprehended the man.  Prince William County Circuit Court Chief Judge Petula Metzler […]

Core Durable Goods Orders Rise For 18th Straight Month, AI Spend Proxy Dips After an unexpected dip in headline durable goods orders last month, preliminary September data was expected to show a significant rebound, and it did, rising 1.8% MoM. However, this was a small miss relative to the +1.9% MoM expected but the August decline was revised up to a +0.1% MoM change (from -0.1%)…This left headline durable goods orders up a solid […]

Futures Rise, Oil Slides As Iran’s Supreme Leader Talks Peace And Shrugs Off Ras Tanura Attack US futures are higher as hopes for a diplomatic end to the Iran war got a fresh boost after Monday’s Mecca Pact talks in Tehran, with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei calling for pursuing the conditions set out by Iranian officials to end the war and an Iranian ambassador floating a seven-day plan to reopen Hormuz, which more than offset a […]

Apple Offers iPhone Duo Replacement After ‘Crackgate’ Emerges Well “crackgate” unfolded for Apple over the weekend and into the new week as some users of the foldable iPhone reported “hearing a crunching sound” while using the new smartphone, only to discover that the display had malfunctioned and the screen had cracked.X and Reddit users first posted about these malfunctions, along with footage of broken iPhone Duo devices with […]

One Big Club Update: Judge Rules DOJ Unlawfully Fired Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey, Orders Her Reinstated A federal judge ruled Monday that the Justice Department unlawfully fired Maurene Comey, the former Manhattan federal prosecutor who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases and the daughter of ex-FBI Director James Comey, and ordered her reinstated retroactively with back pay. Maureen Comey U.S. District […]

US Army Says It Has Helped 1.5 Billion Barrels Of Oil Out Of Hormuz Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice,U.S. forces have helped Persian Gulf producers move more than 1.5 billion barrels out of the Strait of Hormuz since the Iran war began, Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said during a visit to the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.More than 3,000 commercial vessels have successfully transited the […]

Europe Faces Early Winter Stress Test As Cold Snap Looms, NatGas Prices Near Triple Digits US natural gas futures have fallen to levels last seen in April as unusually warm weather across the Lower 48 suppresses heating demand, potentially reflecting El Niño’s weather-related influence. Europe faces a much different outlook: a cold snap forecast for next week has helped push benchmark TTF NatGas prices toward 100 euros per […]

French Consumer Confidence Tanks As Bond Crisis, Far-Left Riots Deepen Gloom French consumer confidence cratered to its lowest level in 13 years as a bond market selloff that sent yields soaring, weeks of social unrest sparked by far-left groups, and political instability all collided at once, casting a dark economic cloud over the European country.New national sport in France: looting. https://t.co/dTywW4gJuK— RadioGenoa […]

IEA Birol Warns Of No “Credible Pathway” Back To Pre-War Energy Markets In 2027 IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol told the Singapore International Energy Week conference on Monday that global energy markets won’t return to pre-war conditions in 2027 and that prolonged supply disruptions, especially of refined products such as diesel and jet fuel, will keep pressure on economies and threaten fuel availability heading into the […]

This Is Easily The Most Stupid Thing Ever… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity,A Council official turned up at the home of YouTube pianist Brendan Kavanagh – better known as Dr K – to investigate his 12-year-old daughter Zoe’s pretend teddy bear cafe for illegal trading.Yes, really. Stuffed animals, toy tea sets, play money, and a handwritten “prices” sign in a family property triggered a formal Bedford Borough planning […]

MAGA At UN? Trump Admin Floats Viktor Orban For Secretary-General Viktor Orbán as Secretary-General of the United Nations?  The proposal was featured in an unexpected weekend Wall Street Journal headline. The publication reports that Trump administration officials are floating the former Hungarian prime minister as UN chief. via Associated Press The WSJ cites some degree of emerging support for this prospect, but it would […]

Will Germany See Mass Riots On Halloween Night? ‘France-Style’ Protests Promoted Across Social Media Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix, With Halloween approaching on Oct. 31, German security authorities are intensifying preparations for planned youth protests in more than 20 cities, warning that the events could be overtaken by violent actors in patterns seen during recent mass unrest in France. Many of the videos feature […]

The Forgotten Trump Campaign Promise That Will Come Back To Haunt Republicans In The Midterms A mounting financial burden costing American families thousands of dollars a year is emerging as an overlooked issue in the 2026 midterm elections as new polling suggests that the expense of caring for aging relatives could influence voters in some of the nation’s most competitive congressional races.While inflation, the Iran War and border […]

“Democracy Has Failed”: Bolsonaro Says Lula’s Socialist Regime Seized His Passport Summary:Bolsonaro Says Lula’s Socialist Regime Seized His PassportIbovespa Stock Index Plunges 20%, Triggers Circuit Breaker Real Crashes 11% To 5.58/USDBrazil Markets Crater After Socialist Lula’s Shock Victory; Bolsonaro Seeks To Annul RunoffBolsonaro Says Lula’s Socialist Regime Seized His Passport Beyond the turmoil in Brazilian markets that […]

Europe Plans To Copy Trump’s Critical Material Playbook Brussels is looking to borrow President Trump’s playbook to make “rare earths great again” in the West, with proposals to take equity stakes in miners and support new critical material projects. The move aims to break an alarming dependency that has given Beijing massive leverage over Western industry and trade negotiations, particularly through China’s dominance of rare earth […]

What’s The Real Importance Of Putin’s Recent Prediction Of The EU’s Inevitable Collapse? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The salience isn’t whether he truly believes it, but whether his Foreign Ministry and intelligence services politicize their assessments of this scenario to conform to what they think he wants to hear, which would go against what he earlier said about the need to abandon wishful thinking. Putin […]

Trans Activists Want Harry Potter Christmas Lights Pulled Over Rowling – And Sadiq Khan Won’t Touch It More than 10,000 people have emailed London Mayor Sadiq Khan asking him to cancel Harry Potter-themed Christmas lights on Oxford Street, the Telegraph reported Sunday, and the company that runs the display is going ahead with them. The Good Law Project, which launched the campaign, says the lights “will not make trans people feel […]