Today's Headlines
Bloomberg:
- Standoff With Russia Over Ukraine Heads Into Tensest Week Yet.
- Stocks Decline, Crude Rallies Amid Ukraine Tension: Markets Wrap.
- Oil Extends Eight-Week Rally on Intensifying Ukraine Tensions.
- $100 Oil Threatens to Compound World Economy’s Inflation Shock.
- Gold Holds Biggest Gain Since October as Investors Seek Haven.
- Peloton Should Abandon Hardware and Become the Android of Fitness.
- J&J Starts Trial on Bankruptcy Strategy Under Attack by Congress.
- 3M’s Legal Woes Cast $33 Billion Shadow Over CEO’s Growth Plan.
- Fed Rate-Increase Path to Be Data-Dependent, Measured, Daly Says.
- Manchin Prods Fed to Tackle Inflation, Citing Economy Risk.
- NYC’s Adams Endorses James For Re-Election as Attorney General.
- The Carry Trade Is Faltering, Just as It Began to Deliver Gains.
- Cotton Output From World’s Top Producer Projected to Rebound.
- World’s Top Economies Confront Inflation, Disease, War: Eco Week.
Wall Street Journal:
- Russians Are Already Waging Hybrid War, Ukraine Says.
- Inflation Was Hottest in Atlanta, Mildest in San Francisco in 2021.
- Inflation Is Everywhere, Including Places You Might Not Expect.
- Wood’s ARK Stays the Course, Betting Big on Innovation.
- Europe’s Net-Zero Carbon Crackup Begins Ahead of Schedule. Politicians everywhere will rue the day they tried to enlist financial markets to do their green bidding.
- Teens Find Rising Used-Car Prices Dash Hopes of First Car.
- Nike’s Supply-Chain Snags Bring Pain to Sneakerhead Shops.
- Clinton camp allegedly paid to 'infiltrate' Trump servers to create link to Russia.
- Father of drowned SEAL candidate demands answers, makes stunning accusation against Navy.
- Texas will go blue, Dems will unionize ‘hell’ out of it: AOC.
CNBC:
- Key bridge to U.S. remains closed as Canada police clear protesters.
- The Federal Reserve’s rate debate and Ukraine tensions could jolt markets in the week ahead.
- White House national security advisor describes what Russian attack on Ukraine might look like.
- Saudi Arabia transfers Aramco shares worth $80 billion to state fund.
Zero Hedge:
- Durham: Clinton Allies Spied On The Executive Office Of The President.
- 'Bigger Than Watergate': Trump Furious After Durham Spy Scandal Bombshell, Demands Prosecutions, Reparations.
- "Something Isn't Right" - 38 Lawmakers Demand Biden Undergo Cognitive Testing As Soon As Possible.
- "Buy The Dip And Sell The Rally" - What Hedge Funds Are Doing In The Current Market Turmoil.
- Morgan Stanley: The Amount Of Hiking Needed To Contain Inflation Will Soon Stall The Economy.
- USDA Suspends Mexican Avocado Imports, Stokes Yet More Food Inflation.
- 'Freedom Convoy' Spreads As New Canada-US Border Crossing Shuts Down.
- Hedge Fund CIO: We Are Left To Wonder At What Level Rising Bond Yields Will Matter.
- Rand Paul Encourages Truckers To "Clog Up" Cities As DHS Scrambles To Stop Convoy From Disrupting Super Bowl.
- Police Arrest Ambassador Bridge Truckers In Dawn Raid After Thousands Flock To Demonstration In Ottawa.
- Fed One Meeting Away From Creating A Doomsday Market Sinkhole.
- Free Speech In The UK?
- US Taxpayer Dollars Are Flooding Back Into Afghanistan.
- The European Energy Crisis Was Inevitable.
- Visualizing The Growth Of Lithium Production By Country.
- Separation Or Purge? Sharing A Society With The Political Left Is Impossible.
- Retired 3-Star General: Critical Race Theory Leading To Military 'Failure'.
- China's Rare Earth Monopoly Is Diminishing.
- World Economic Forum 'Insane Pro-CRT Propaganda' Video Draws Sharp Rebuke.
- Americans Love The NFL, But Change Is Looming.
- "We're At End Days Here" - US Faces Rampant Shortages Of 116 Different Pharmaceutical Drugs.
- The 20 Internet Giants That Rule The Web.
- Oakland Truckers Overwhelmed By Looming CARB Rule, Supply Chain Obstacles.
- Biden Admin Urges Court Not To Allow Release Of 'Secret Report' On Dominion Voting Machines.
- Canadian Oil Exports To U.S. At Record Level.
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NewsMax:
TheGatewayPundit.com:
- Wow! Last Week the “Experts” Admitted Lockdowns Did Not Reduce Mortality Rates — NOW They Admit Masking Was Mostly Worthless.
- BREAKING: Evidence Shows Hillary Team Paid Tech Company to ‘Infiltrate’ Servers in Trump Tower and Later the Trump White House in an Attempt to Link Trump to Russia.
- UNREAL: Liz Cheney’s Husband is Partner at Latham & Watkins Which Works on Behalf of Companies Linked to China’s Military and Individuals Connected to Spying on President Trump.
- Hillary Clinton Still has Her Trump-Russia Lies Posted on Twitter and Twitter Still Has Them Posted Without a Fake News Warning Label.
- “I Hope Donald Trump Sues Them All for Everything!… This is the Biggest Scandal We’ve Ever Seen!” – Maria Bartiromo EXPLODES Over News Hillary Camp Paid to Infiltrate Trump Servers to Link Trump to Russia (VIDEO).
- This Explains a Lot: Creepy Dr. Zeke Emanuel, the God-Father of Death Panels, Was Dr. Fauci’s Director of Dept. of Bioethics, the “Ethical” Oversight Board at NIH.
- ANOTHER J-6 INFILTRATOR? Megan Paradise, the Ray Epps Female Clone, Caught on Megaphone Directing Trump Supporters to US Capitol, Broke into Lawmaker’s Office, Filmed the Room, Has Not Been Arrested.
- Flashback: Top Obama Adviser Valerie Jarrett Refuses to Answer if Obama Directed the Criminal Spying on Trump (VIDEO).
- The Free Press Is Dead and COVID Lockdowns Are Back in Place – The People of Hong Kong Are Being Punished for Once Being Free.
- President Trump (and TGP) Got It Right – He Was Being Spied on – Those Who Claimed He Was Not Were Lying Political Hacks.
- EXCLUSIVE: GA Sec of State Raffensperger Promised President Trump His Office Would Address Auditor Bryan Geels’s 97,000 Ballot Issues – They Never Did, Instead They Gave Pieces of Call to Media to Claim Trump Was Stealing the Election.
- Jake “the Snake” Sullivan Was Right in the Middle of Hillary’s Trump Russia Collusion Lies – Now He’s Biden’s Nat Security Advisor.
- Stasi
Tactics: Canadian Police Show Up to Woman’s Home and Harass Her Over
Pro-Convoy Facebook Posts – Admit They are “Monitoring” Citizens’ Online
Activity – (VIDEO).
Twitter:
- @ezralevant - May I introduce you to Surrey, British Columbia, near the Washington State border. This is going to be like whack-a-mole until Trudeau submits. (video)
- @byronYork - Here, in four tweets, are all 13 pages of John Durham's new finding that is getting a lot of attention:
- @ScooterCasterNY - “Besides Ukraine, there is nothing, She is our heart” - Kids & Adults Take Arms on Kyiv beach to train for possible Invasion of #Ukraine. (video)
- @HannaLiubakova - A column of heavy military equipment was moving towards Homiel and Ukrainian border. Russia and the regime in Belarus have concentrated around 150,000 troops and offensive weapons, including Iskander missiles, around Ukraine's borders. (video)
- @backtolife_2022 - Unreal scenes in Canada as heavily armed forces move in to make arrests and tow all vehicles from ambassador bridge. (video) Canada COVID protests - more demonstrators join "Freedom Convoys". (video)
- @risemelbourne - France Freedom Convoy Everyone is headed to Brussels These Convoys are growing and UNITING the People. (video) Long Live Freedom. (video) NZ Boom Anti Mandate, Anti Everything Haka Extravaganza Stunning Scenes. (video)
- @ThevoiceAlexa - For those who just discovered me, I am the French Quebec journalist for Rebel News. This is the question I asked @JustinTrudeau during the leaders debate. (video)
- @MDBreathe - I wonder why all the Westernized countries have all the hospitalizations? (map)
- @zerohedge - Contributions by individuals of more than $50,000 to Clinton Foundation, 1999-2014, by nationality of donor. (graph)
OpenVAERS:
- VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 747,759 Reports(+7,760 from prior week) Through January 28, 2021.
SKirsch.com:
- Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.
Covid-19(Data, Maps, Graphs):
- Our World in Data: New Global Covid-19 Cases(7-day rolling average graphs). New US Covid Hospital Admissions/ICU Admissions/Deaths
- FT.com: Fully Vaccinated by Country(graph). Global Lockdown Stringency Index(map).
- Bloomberg.com: International Travel Restrictions. Case Graphs by State.
- NYTimes.com: County Trends and Clusters. Local ICU Occupancy.
- Brown School of Public Health: Covid Severity by State/County(map). US Hospital Capacity(region).
- CovidActNow: Covid Severity/Infection Rate by Metro Area.
- KFF: US Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity.
- Carnegie Mellon: Covid-Like Symptoms in Community. Covid Symptom Searches on Google. Covid-Related Dr.Visits. Restaurant Visits. Wearing Masks. (graphs)
- Safegraph.com: Commerce Patterns(graphs).
Night Trading
- Asian indices are -1.75% to -.5% on average.
- Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 97.75 +2.75 basis points.
- China Sovereign CDS 54.5 +.5 basis point.
- Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 54.41 -.03%.
- Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 3,481.0 +25.0 points.
- Volatility Index(VIX) futures 27.4 -.9%.
- Euro Stoxx 50 futures -1.9%.
- S&P 500 futures -.01%.
- NASDAQ 100 futures -.09%.
Earnings of Note
Company/Estimate
Before the Open:
Before the Open:
- (THS)/.10
After the Close:
- (AAP)/1.96
- (ANET)/.73
- (CAR)/6.07
- (SCI)/.97
- (VNO)/.76
- (ZD)/2.08
Economic Releases
- None of note
Upcoming Splits
- None of note
- The Leerink Healthcare Conference, Japan GDP report and the (MMM) strategic update could also impact trading today.
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