Says AI Growth Zones will benefit communities...

"Crude is the signal, and now we think about products ... they are the noise." 

“We had the Oracle numbers as a reminder that there’s a tech story that’s still very, very vibrant. That’s what investors keep coming back to. We know for at least the next two quarters that earnings are going to be really robust.”

Fat black woman statue now shares Trafalgar Square with Nelson...

...the market is at...an impasse

"Consensus across the floor, given parameters laid out by the Fed Leadership, sees 25bp or above on Core CPI as the threshold above which the Fed acts." 

...roughly 34 arrests per day.

Just chaos...

CISA, NSA, and FBI say DeepSeek, Alibaba, and others pulled billions of tokens from Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok...

Producing and distributing pornography remains illegal in Ukraine and can carry years in prison, yet tax authorities began demanding money from Ukrainians earning income through adult platforms...

• Gulf Foreign Ministers plan to meet with their Iranian counterpart in an effort by Oman and Iran to secure a deal on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, according to FT.
• Saudi Crown Prince MBS called President Trump twice on Thursday, urging him to launch strikes against Houthis, but Trump declined.
• IEA OMR sees 2026 world oil demand falling more than prior due to the impasse in US-Iran talks.
• US equity futures are bid; Oracle shares gain after a strong earnings report.

Things are not going quite as Scott Bessent had expected... 

"Price cuts, pending sales and delistings together can tell you whether sellers are satisfied, panicking, or somewhere in between..."

Oil prices climb, nearing worst levels of war...

A Home Office document still sitting in the public record has detonated a fresh revolt in the tiny British village of Piddington.

The blob is back...