For much of 2026, weak Chinese demand prevented oil prices from surging. That has just changed. 

Hunter Biden will reportedly distribute 200 million of the LAPTOP token to his substack subscribers, members of a mailing list and investors in President Trump’s memecoin...

US markets were closed for the Labor Day Holiday, while Trump called for a stop to US sales of Canada’s Bombardier aircraft.

"Upon learning of the incident, Long Realty promptly ended its affiliation with the individual..."

The market is pricing a fantasy: limited inflation, modest hikes, resilient growth and fading supply shocks....just as vol seasonality turns.

Nickel has been priced at a consistent premium to copper ever since it started to be mined on a large scale in the mid-19th century. That seeming law of nature looks on the brink of breaking.

"We don't want this trade war. We didn't start it."

White-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 bitcoin, worth about $320 million, from the federation wallet that backs L-BTC.

"Against this backdrop, we continue to favor Vale and Ternium over CSN, Gerdau, and Usiminas." 

The bipartisan inquiry follows a record Entity List expansion and cites pending cases, transshipment risks, and concerns about declining detention activity.

Europe's gas buffer is gone. Winter hasn't even started.

"Recent top-level meetings have all called for more proactive fiscal policy to counter growth pressures, and capital injections into financial institutions are part of that fiscal toolkit" 

We ended last week with the Dutch thinktank acknowledgement that "The world as we knew it no longer exists.” We start this week knowing many are going to be profoundly uncomfortable with the new world that replaces it...

More nuclear energy seems to be the only thing Washington can agree on…

The New York hospital system will halt puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery for minors and fund $2 million in care for those harmed as children.

After Friday's blowout jobs report, attention now turns to inflation, and this week we get the two big reports addressing that: Thursday's PPI followed by Friday's CPI.

Goldilocks over-bid... a 1%-straddle into Astra and CPI week?