Unrealized losses on domestic bonds at Japan's major life insurers have soared to 30.86 trillion yen ($194 billion) as of the end of June, up 60% year-on-year.

"The industrial economy either grinds to a halt, or consumers are about to be hit with the biggest energy pass-through in history." 

 

CENTCOM Chief Cooper said the Lincoln has "among the lowest number of cases related to mental health"...

Ex-officer hit with criminal conviction over satirical meme as free speech collapses under two-tier justice...

Massive deficits. $1tn+ of AI capex. A wall of debt hitting the market. Maybe the long end isn't fighting the Fed. Maybe there's simply too much paper.

Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Ghalibaf said the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the blockade and oil embargo are lifted.

"We're in conversations with almost all national security government bodies..." 

Tehran says MoU long ago rendered "irrelevant" as it expired Monday...

Do other countries ignore science when they have fewer shots?

Peter Thiel exited Nvidia. Three months later, 72% of his public equity portfolio is sitting in energy and utilities. The AI bottleneck is moving.

"Everybody knows what this is. Everybody knows they're fighting for Israel."

"It's a guidebook to migration when people are searching for illegal immigration," said one journalist about the new Meta information warning

"Hence, a gas shortage could ensue late ..." 

It comes in several flavors, and all of them are bitter...

US President Trump reiterated US control of the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran wants to make a deal, but also stated that Iran won't make the deal he thinks is necessary and he is not seeking an extension of the Iran MoU.

...it’s not far-fetched that he might be flirting with a radical policy recalibration even if he soon changes his mind.

... driven by expanding supplies to domestic electronics manufacturers and the increased production of its latest-generation 3D NAND architecture...

...long gamma (mean reversion) offsetting the all-greed, no-fear regime in stocks...

We are now back to the buttered days of journalism for the opposite reason we left them behind.