• Energy complex falls on reports that the EU discussed a proposal to release diesel from stockpiles (Brent -3.2%, EU Gasoil -5.5%).
• US equity futures climb, while NKE falls on a downbeat earnings report.
• DXY slightly lower; JPY gains on hotter-than-expected Tokyo CPI.
• Fixed income benchmarks benefiting from lower energy prices as markets await the US jobs report.
• Looking ahead, highlights include US NFP (Sep). Speakers include ECB’s Vujcic & Fed's Logan.

"International markets are an afterthought." 

Blasts rock capital... If verified it would be first time Addis Ababa has been hit by drones.

Tit-for-tat after Budapest booted ten Russian diplomats...

'Prevent' unit logged X and Reddit posts - then spent a year hiding the database...

Ratcheting nuclear rhetoric in Europe & abandonment of New START...

In a system that rejects mass immigration, the population can fall, opening up room for cheaper housing, lower rents, and even an increase in the birthrate...

"The fastest peacetime shift in modern military history."

The U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein (who got off leash...)

$52 billion of Warner Bros. debt priced on Wednesday. By Thursday the 8-year second-lien notes were around 95, CDS was at a 17-year high, and the CFO was calling it "one-day choppiness."

Every once in a while, foreign policy as 'moral high ground' mythmaking gets exposed as a total sham...

Legal cigarettes now cost nearly A$60 a pack as organized crime captures a growing share of the country’s nicotine trade...

TSYs haven from EU bond's 'Red October'... dovish FedSpeak... time's up for Iran...

Markets had anticipated conflict. They had not anticipated decapitation...

"Policy is moving beyond grants toward equity, price floors, loans, offtake and stockpiles designed to preserve capacity through commodity cycles."