After realizing Thursday's straddle "nearly 8x over to the downside", the S&P now prices a 1.45% move for payrolls, the highest since March. The labor data, meanwhile, looks fine.

Oh it's creepy alright...

$17.5 billion of junk bonds back data centers in newly blue states that aren't due to be finished until after Texas lawmakers go home. On the biggest one, every quarter of delay costs about $87 million in interest.

Deals a heavy blow to Netanyahu...

"The AI race shifts from a prisoner's dilemma to a war of attrition: scarce power favors the biggest balance sheets..."

California Cryobank charges $70,000 for exclusive access to a donor’s stored sperm, as fertility providers expand premium services that limit the number of recipient families and charge additional fees beyond IVF treatment costs.

The drones and counter drone systems were part of a roughly $782 million investment...

"...state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California's values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us."

"It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk..."

"The numbers are getting so fricking big that *what if* we don't make that almost 'assumed' late afternoon low-then-rally" - McElligott tallies $47BN in levered ETF selling, $61BN in vol control and $7BN of dealer gamma per 1%.

"This afternoon, two more offending oil tankers collided with naval mines in the insecure area..."

Backers want a lower price, the November timetable is in doubt, and executives and advisers are set to meet to review the deal...

"It can't be any more clear..."

Your brain is the battlefield. If you stop letting others control it, they lose...

This is "early capitulation" but "everything ends badly..."

The US government holds half of all multifamily mortgages...