Economy & Finance

Futures Flat With $2.8 Trillion In Options Set To Expire US equity futures are flat even as the global equity rally extended into Europe, following Friday’s gains in Asia and Thursday’s record close on Wall Street. As of 8:00am, S&P futures are unchanged while Nasdaq 100 futures rise 0.1% after NFLX had a solid report, but […]

Chevron Clears Final Hurdle To Hess Megadeal After Winning Exxon Arbitration Shares of Chevron and Hess climbed in premarket trading in New York after the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris rejected Exxon Mobil’s attempt to block Chevron’s $53 billion acquisition of Hess.  An arbitration panel from the ICC dismissed Exxon’s claim that it had the right

“False, Malicious, Defamatory” – Trump Demands Unsealing Of Epstein Files, Threatens Lawsuit After WSJ Hit Piece Donald Trump sent notorious sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein a bawdy birthday letter with a drawing of a naked woman, an acknowledgement that the two “have certain things in common,” and a wish for “every day [to] be another wonderful secret,”

EU Rolls Out Toughest Oil Sanctions Yet On Russia In 18th Round Brent crude futures rose earlier after the European Union approved its 18th round of sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine. However, with a multi-year track record of Western sanctions—and repeated predictions by their leaders that Moscow would collapse due to lost

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? New York Democrats—and the broader party in desperate need of a course correction—continue to double, triple, and even quadruple down on all things woke. They’ve now taken it a step further by openly cheerleading socialism and Marxism. This increasingly radical un-American direction, backed by a network of dark money-funded NGOs,

The Hidden Risks In Common Breakfasts – And How To Fix Them Authored by Zena le Roux via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In much of the Western world, breakfast has become a rushed ritual of sugary cereals, flavored yogurts, and white toast. These habits may feel normal, but they’re far from harmless. AtlasStudio/Shutterstock Many

The EU Depends On China & Russia For Rare Earths Almost half of the European Union’s imports of rare earths came from China last year, according to the latest data from the European Union’s statistical office (Eurostat). As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, Russia followed in second place with a share of around 29

Low IQ Jasmine Crockett Says USAID Is Vital To Fund Sesame Street In Iraq… Or Something Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Idiocracy-a-like Democrat Jasmine Crockett argued during a hearing that USAID, the slush fund decimated by DOGE, is desperately needed in order to fund US propaganda in places like Iraq to ensure Islamists there

It May Soon Be Morning In America For TikTok, Too Authored by Sam Raus via RealClearPolitics, Freedom is in the air. America just celebrated the Fourth of July – our Independence Day – as the nation approaches its 250th birthday next year. The Trump administration has notched a major legislative victory, passing its long-promised reconciliation

Israeli Leaders Call For Syrian President’s Assassination Hardline and outspoken Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has called for Israel to “eliminate” Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, following the latest escalation in sectarian violence this week. “The shocking images from Syria prove one thing: once a jihadist, always a jihadist,” Ben Gvir said in a video