Former Mossad chief David Barnea has made some big admissions of late...

"Where's the umbrella?"

Just like Nazi Germany seized Czechoslovakia's gold and its robust military-industrial complex in the run-up to World War II, so too is today's Germany plotting to seize Poland's gold and subordinate European NATO's largest army to Berlin...

• US equity futures were varied ahead of the US midterm elections and with Apple (-2.7%) ultimately declining post-earnings.
• AUD/USD ultimately weakened after the RBA hiked the Cash Rate by 25bps to 4.85% via a 6-3 vote but stopped short of signalling another hike in December.
• Crude future

The political damage to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is far harder to repair...

Seven rounds of cuts under two CEOs since 2023, and the stock is still 44% below its 2021 peak while the S&P 500 has nearly doubled.

"We looked at how a unit could deploy these types of autonomous capabilities in a theater like EUCOM..."

From Atlanta G20: US intel-sharing with Ukraine has actually grown...

"My life is hard enough as it is." Walt Z checked the time for strangers. They filmed a prank... America wrote him a check...

Modest needs? 

Democrat sweep?

Another key official, Poland's Supreme Court First President Zbigniew Kapiński, has joined the growing chorus of those condemning the prime minister...

Unfortunately, the majority of that price jump is coming on the back of almost doubling of jet fuel prices compared to this time last year.

Indeed...

US officials reveal secretive 'smaller strikes' have persisted for weeks...

CoreX kept two bankrupt copper mines alive for two years waiting for a stamp from Astana. The stamp went to a company registered one week earlier, with one founder and a $500 million plan nobody can trace.

Though boasting many of the same natural advantages as San Francisco, the Bay Area city is awash in dysfunction, especially in enforcing public order and preventing crime.