The problem was never “age shaming,” it was a shameless effort to shield this president from tough questions and public exposure...

REAR VIEW: Dovish core PCE; Dissenter Hammack says more work to do on inflation; Hungary's MOL confirms disruption to Druzhba oil deliveries; Williams says the Fed is still restrictive; Goolsbee tows a dovish tone; Daly says projections are always about the data; UoM sentiment unrevised, inflation expectations ease; Disappointing Novo Nordisk obesity drug trial data; Jawboning out of Japan; Downbeat NKE commentary.

...triple-witch trauma, dovish Goolsbee, big short squeeze, massive positive breadth, and cool PCE.

The CRE bomb has been building for quite some time now...

Marks the first trip to Damascus by US State Department officials in over a decade.

...the slide in yields “looks quite extreme,”

The company said that an agreement with a capital investment firm has fallen through...

Short selling in US equities over the past 4 sessions is the largest since early January and ranks in the 100th percentile on a 5-year lookback...

Cross-border tit-for-tat missile exchanges between Russia & Ukraine are really accelerating fast...

...levying farmers 300 kroners (~$43) per ton for carbon dioxide emissions

Coming into Friday, hedge funds sold US equities for a 4th straight session and at the fastest pace in more than 8 months...

Trump will begin his first 100 days with an emphasis on his economic plans...

"I am grateful to God that I am still alive today..."

"I do think they’re going to restart the QE engine. Because I think that they’ve already lost control of the long end of the bond market..."

"...tailwinds are fading fast..."

The legacy media has lost all ability to influence the public. With Trump's win, a concerted effort to censor alternative media and citizen journalists will intensify...

Moscow says 'retaliation' for ATACMS, Storm Shadow strikes the day prior...

"One of the largest ever tax frauds by a return preparer..."

"I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit..." 

“Tariffs will endanger nearly $600 billion in exports to our largest trading partner, two-thirds of which are manufactured goods,...