Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:      

• Paranoia Written All Over S&P 500 in Struggle to Get Back to Record. 

• China Scraps U.S. Farm Tour, Stoking Pessimism on Trade Deal.

• Oil Posts Biggest Weekly Gain in Eight Months After Saudi Attack.

• Merkel’s Climate Deal Will Cost Billions And Everyone Hates It.

• Kennedy Takes On Massachusetts Democrat Markey for Senate Seat.  

• Hold That Recession: U.S. Indicators Are Trouncing Forecasts.  

• Mexico’s Record-Setting Homicides, Slugglish Economy Test AMLO.

• Iran Dilemma, U.S. Health and a Balkan Weed Craze: Weekend Reads.

Wall Street Journal: 

• Muni-Bond Investors Embrace Higher-Risk.

• Democratic Opponents Search for a Plan Against Elizabeth Warren.

• U.S. to Send Military Forces to Saudi Arabia.

• U.S. Grants Apple 10 Exemptions from Tariffs on Chinese Imports.

• Hong Kong Unrest Persists With Violence Between Protesters, Police.

• The War for Talent in the Netflix Age.

MarketWatch.com:

• ‘Don’t smoke the Kool-Aid,’ analyst says in sober note on the cannabis sector.

Fox News:  

• Ukraine foreign minister defends Trump phone call at center of latest impeachment clamor.

CNBC:

• The stock market rotation that rocked investors this month may have been driven by a technicality.

• Iran’s warning to Saudi Arabia about all-out war is ‘ridiculous,’ Saudi’s Al-Jubeir says.

• Pentagon will deploy US forces to the Middle East after Saudi Arabia oil facilities attack.

• Wall Street analysts say these stocks have ‘underappreciated’ stories.

• Stocks will soar 17% through next year, market bull Ed Yardeni predicts.

Zero Hedge:

• Arab Spring 2.0?: "Sisi Must Leave" Mass Protest Rocks Egypt's Streets Overnight.

• 90% Of Plastic Waste Polluting Earth's Oceans Comes From Asia and Africa.

• Did Trump-Biden-Ukraine Drama Just Implode? WaPo Reports No "Quid Pro Quo" Offered During Phone Call.

• Trump's Real War Is With The Deep State, Not Iran.

• "Stiff, Strong, And Tough" - Researchers Discover New Plastic That Could Revolutionize Body Armor.

• US Army Prepares To Test New Anti-Drone BLADE System To Defend Against Drone Swarms.

• Trump Pounces On Biden-Ukraine Scandal As Whistleblower Story Flips On Dems.

• Canada's "Wokest" PM Just Took A Hit In The Polls After Blackface Scandal.

• Talks Back On: Here's The Reason Why China Canceled Its Trip To Montana And Nebraska.

• Dramatic Footage Captures Major Russia-China War Games Involving Over 120K Soldiers.

• Iran Vows Major War Even If US Conducts "Limited Strikes".

• Did Trump-Biden-Ukraine Drama Just Implode? WaPo Reports No "Quid Pro Quo" Offered During Phone Call.

• Bankrupt Illinois Cities Forced To Cut Services To Fund Pensions.

• The Coming Crisis Of China's One-Party Regime.

• Climate-Alarmist Parents Warned Not To Cause 'Eco-Anxiety' By Terrifying Children.

• Three Spy Planes Could Soon Be Flying Over Baltimore To Counter Murder Crisis.

• Walmart To Stop Selling E-Cigarettes Amid National Vaping Scrutiny.

• Is California About To Get Hit By A Hurricane For The Very First Time In History?

• Stocks & Bond Yields Sink Amid Quad Witch Chaos, Trade Turmoil, & Powell Promises.

Business Insider:

• The UAW failed to organize Tesla and VW in the US and is now running a baffling strike against GM.

The Telegraph: 

• China’s $400bn oil deal with Iran is a major step in the cold war that could derail trade talks.