DC Judge Tosses Charges Against Former F.B.I. Officials Accused Of Lying About Hunter Biden Laptop A federal magistrate judge on Monday dismissed the criminal complaint against two former FBI officials accused of misleading Congress in 2023 about the bureau’s work on the Hunter Biden laptop investigation. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said the case against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides “cannot be described as anything other than […]

France Votes To Tax Big Tech By The Gigabyte – And Someone Just Bent The Barrel Back France’s National Assembly voted on Friday to tax the internet by the gigabyte. An amendment to the 2027 budget would charge every company that sends data to French internet subscribers €0.055 per gigabyte, and its Socialist authors expect it to raise €10 billion a year.But by Sunday, someone had turned the tax on the party that wrote it. An […]

Mechanical, Technicals, And An Election Submitted by Peter Tchir, Academy SecuritiesAnother hectic week! This market is not getting any easier to manage.I want to refocus attention on a subject that continues to come up in conversations and that we tried to address in last week’s report: Stocks & Credit: Cheap but Getting Cheaper? Energy: Not So Much? That subject is why energy prices are still high, if, according to […]

Key Events This Week: Midterms, Jobs, Earnings, Central Banks And More Welcome to the first business day of November, and as DB’s Jim Reid writes in his Morning Reid note, the week ahead is a big one in the US and with it for global markets, with tomorrow’s midterm elections and Friday’s October jobs report the obvious highlights, alongside the ISM surveys and Wednesday’s Treasury quarterly refunding announcement. Elsewhere, […]

5 Days Later: Oracle Slides After Blowing Through Entire Four-Year “Hard Cap” In One Morning With $20BN Bond, Stock Offering Another day, another hyperscaler scrambling to raise capital.Just one week after Meta tapped shareholders for up to $95 billion, when we said, well, the obvious…Good for META. Now let’s see everyone else’s equity offering pic.twitter.com/l0ve6NNBVl— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 26, 2026 … and just days […]

Kid Rock Tells Bill Maher What He Thinks Of El-Sayed – Compares To ‘Pieces Of Sh*t’ 9/11 Hijackers Kid Rock used a Friday night appearance on Bill Maher’s HBO show to go after Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s Senate race, comparing a candidate he called “well-spoken, even a good-looking guy” to the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center just days before Tuesday’s election. Kid Rock just TORE APART […]

Lindsay Clancy Returns To Court As Defense, Prosecutors Discuss 2nd Trial Date Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times,Lindsay Clancy is scheduled to appear in court again on Nov. 2 as her attorneys and prosecutors convene to discuss possible dates for a new trial, and finish presenting motions left pending from a September hearing.Clancy was very nearly acquitted for the January 2023 murder of her three young children. […]

Showdowns This week is shaping up as a series of showdowns. In the United States we have the midterm elections where prediction markets favor the Democrats overwhelmingly to take control of the House and, less assuredly, to also net control of the Senate.Dem sweep odds, from BofA’s Michael Hartnett (citing Polymarket) pic.twitter.com/6wQQO4RR6G— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 1, 2026 Flowing on from the midterms we see […]

South Africa’s Biggest City Faces Total Infrastructure Collapse Over 50 years of communist anti-colonialism in the third world, aided by some liberal governments in the west, has provided uncomfortable truths about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to human civilization.  The first and most controversial truth is that, in many cases, third world societies are self destructive and incapable of maintaining the most basic of […]

Shorts Beware? China’s Plunge Protection Team Stabilizes Stocks With $15 Billion Swap Rescue Plan China’s version of the Plunge Protection Team is coming out swinging Monday morning, after the central bank announced earlier today that it would inject a new round of a $15 billion swap facility to rescue stocks from a vicious bear market. After markets closed, the People’s Bank of China said it would hold a one-year swap auction […]

For First Time In Years, Air Force Sends F-16s To Remote Aleutians, Near Russia Authored by Nicholas Slayton via Task & Purpose,The Air Force sent several F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to a remote part of the western Aleutian Islands this month, as part of a wider North American Aerospace Defense Command exercise. The deployment was notable as it was the first time in years that fighter jets were at Eareckson Air Station in […]

Trump To Deliver Final Midterm Pitch At Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times,President Trump will deliver remarks at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Nov. 2, a day before the midterms, according to a White House official.The address is expected to serve as Trump’s final campaign message, aiming to help Republicans retain control of Congress.The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was among […]

Iran’s Supreme Leader Floats More US Talks In Rare Overture; Oil Prices Tumble Update(0855ET): Oil is tumbling in the wake of a somewhat rare headline out of Tehran Iranian President Pezeshkian says the Supreme Leader has granted the government some authority on dialogue, ISNA reportsOIL FALLS TO INTRADAY LOW, BRENT TRADES NEAR $106/BBLOil prices down 6% on hopes of US-Iran diplomacyThis marks some of the most significant […]

Ukrainian & Russian Emergency Alert Apps Hacked With Fake Nuclear Attack Warnings Uknown hackers have perpretrated an incredibly cruel prank or action meant to sow mass fear and confusion within the Ukranian population, amid the ongoing war.The country’s nationwide emergency alert mobile app was penetrated, and hackers sent residents in Ukraine’s capital urgent notifications of an impending nuclear strike. Some messages were […]

Rare Iranian Strike On Vessel Hundreds Of Miles From Strait Of Hormuz Sunday saw another vessel attacked in Persian Gulf regional waters. The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency (UKMTO) reported that a ship was struck by two projectiles some 83 miles east of Ras al-Khafji, which is the Saudi town on the Kuwaiti border in the northern Persian Gulf.Signficiantly and unusually, this particularl attack occurred hundreds of miles from […]

Futures Rise As Oil Slides Below $100 On Trump Iran Diplomacy Report, Tech Bounces Ahead Of Midterms US futures are higher as a slide in oil, a tentative tech rebound and some old-fashioned seasonality lift sentiment on the eve of the midterms: crude tumbled more than 4% after Axios reported that Trump told Netanyahu he wants to give diplomacy with Iran more time before resuming strikes, chips bounced after Friday’s 7.2% SOX puke, […]

French Rail Giant Alstom Crashes On “Painful” Second Warning Alstom shares crashed in European trading after costly delays on German train orders forced the French train manufacturer and rail-equipment supplier to slash its earnings outlook (again), forecast a 1.5 billion euro cash burn, and signal plans to sell assets to shore up its balance sheet.Alstom’s problems center on its Coradia Max regional trains, where engineering […]

Iranian ‘Ghost Fleet’ Tanker Filmed Slipping US Blockade With 500,000 Barrels Of LPG For China A sanctioned Iranian tanker carrying about 500,000 barrels of liquefied petroleum gas slipped past the U.S. naval blockade and delivered its cargo to China, according to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), which says it filmed the ship at a Malaysian anchorage along the way.Tanker laden with Iranian LPG transiting the Gulf of Oman (Credit: […]

‘Despicable Betrayal!’,’Sold Her Soul!’: Haley Stevens’ Staff Quits, Dems Melt Down After She Endorses Republican In Michigan Update (1335ET): Democrats are having a meltdown after Rep. Haley Stevens flipped and endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for a coveted Michigan Senate seat – appearing with him on Sunday at a black church in Detroit ahead of midterms, just two days away.  Mike Rogers and former Democratic Senate candidate […]

Trump Agrees To Expedite Visa For Ghanaian Mother Of Teen Killed In NYC Shooting, Mamdani Says Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Oct. 31 that President Donald Trump has agreed to grant an expedited B-2 visa to a Ghanaian mother whose teenage son was fatally shot in the Bronx, New York City, on Oct. 29.Javits Frimpong, a 15-year-old boy from Ghana who lives in the Bronx with his […]

“Absolutely Zero Chance”: DHS Vows To Block Latest Migrant Caravan While State Dept Targets Organizers With Visa Restrictions Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,The State Department has taken steps in the past week to impose visa restrictions on more than 15 people allegedly involved in planning or promoting recent migrant caravans headed toward the U.S. southern border.The individuals allegedly recruited, coordinated, […]

The Jungle Devours Europe Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,The European Union has over four-hundred-fifty million people. The non-E.U. nations of Europe – including the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, and Albania but excluding Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Turkey – have another hundred million people. Combined, Europe has over two hundred million more people than the United States […]

UK’s NHS Trust Invites White Staff To Take £250 Course On Becoming ‘Disruptors’ Of Racism An NHS hospital group in southwest England has pitched its staff a £250 anti-racism course meant for “individuals who are white and live in the world as white people,” as part of its Black History Month offerings.The course, From Allies to Disruptors, is run by the Birmingham equality charity brap and consists of six half-day online workshops […]

After 10 Youths Beat German Teen, Mayor’s Calls For More ‘Civic Courage’ Widely Mocked As Example Of ‘State Failure’ Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix News,The mayor of the German city of Frankfurt (Oder), Axel Strasser, has called on residents to demonstrate greater civic courage after bystanders did nothing as a group of teenagers repeatedly punched and kicked a 14-year-old student, including to the head, while he lay on the […]

“Serious Warning”: Germany Misses November NatGas Storage Levels As Cold Snap Looms Germany faces an imminent cold snap with natural gas inventories well below their 15-year seasonal average, leaving Europe’s largest economy with a limited buffer against back-to-back cold blasts. Prolonged cold would accelerate storage withdrawals and increase dependence on costly replacement LNG supplies from international markets. European NatGas […]