Today's Headlines
Bloomberg:
- St. Petersburg Explosion Kills Pro-War Blogger Tatarsky.
- UBS to Cut Staff Up to 30%; Prosecutors Look at CS Deal.
- Emerging Market Era More Grind Than Go-Go After Rough Start.
- Japan’s Manufacturer Sentiment Worsens to Two-Year Low.
- Economists Split on Whether Australia to Pause Tightening Cycle.
- Norway’s Krone Leads Commodity FX Higher on OPEC+ Production Cut.
- US Stock Futures Fall, Yen Weakens as Oil Rallies: Markets Wrap.
- Oil Rockets 8% After OPEC+ Jolts Market With Surprise Output Cut.
- OPEC+ Makes Shock Million-Barrel Cut in New Inflation Risk.
- Russia Extends Pledged Oil Output Cuts Through 2023, Novak Says.
- Manchin Steps Up Clash With Biden Over Electric-Car Tax Credits.
- A $15 Billion Swap-Based ETF Exposes the Latest ESG Headache.
- Mind the Aftershocks: Post-Tantrum Market Calm Unnerves Traders.
- Apple Is Just Two Months Away From Debuting Its First Reality Headset.
- US Biotech Firm Apellis Is Said to Attract Takeover Interest.
- Endeavor Group Nears Deal to Acquire Vince McMahon’s WWE.
- Texas Town With Biggest US Pay Raise Keeps Powell on Hiking Path.
- One Risk Was Missing From Strategists’ 2023 View: Banking Crisis.
- Even High-End Travelers Are Reining In Their Spending.
- Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodities Markets This Week.
Wall Street Journal:
- Blinken Presses Russian Foreign Minister to Release WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich.
- The Coming Biden Bailout of Blue States and Cities. Taxpayers will be on the hook for mismanaged pensions and projects from stadiums to subways.
- DEI at Law Schools Could Bring Down America. After the Stanford episode, Ilya Shapiro sounds a warning: The threat to ‘dismantle existing structures’ is an idle one in English class. But in legal education it targets individual rights and equal treatment under the Constitution.
- Do Scientists Regret Not Sticking to the Science? Taking political stands squanders the credibility of experts.
- Media Keep Stifling the Covid Debate. A highly regarded institute published an analysis raising questions about masks. News organizations ignored it, then attacked it.
- America Has Too Much Parking. Really.
- SVB Collapse Complicates Banks’ Efforts to Unload Over $25 Billion of Junk Debt.
- Individual Investors Slow Stock Purchases.
- Cancer Patients Choose Lifestyle Over More Aggressive Treatment.
- Bull vs. Bear: The Fed.
- After Direct Hit, Arkansas City Surveys Tornado’s Wreckage.
- Senator Manchin makes plea to District Attorney Bragg after Trump indictment.
- Hospital director calls for drastic increase in capacity for gender surgeries for minors.
CNBC:
- Why some college professors are adopting ChatGPT AI as quickly as students.
- Swiss prosecutor investigates Credit Suisse takeover by UBS.
- Top analysts are bullish on these five long-term picks.
Zero Hedge:
- Did Bud Light Go 'Woke' With Trans-TikTok Star? Boycott Calls Intensify.
- Oil Surges In Early Trading After OPEC+ Surprise 'Unipolar World'-Challenging Production Cut.
- OPEC+ Makes Surprise 1 Million-Barrel Oil Production Cut.
- Leaks From Bragg's Grand Jury Are A Crime.
- "Markets Will Always Outsmart The Best AI Systems That Our Computer Scientists Develop".
- Kentucky Governor Signs Bill Banning ESG Investment In Public Pensions.
- Weekend News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
- CDC Research Team Members Fell Ill Studying Toxic Ohio Derailment, Agency Confirms.
- Tesla Reports Record Deliveries Of 422,875 In Q1 2023, Helped By Price Cuts.
- What Wild And Crazy Thing That No One Was Expecting Will Happen In Q2?
- Luongo: Indicting Trump Is The End Of US Politics.
- Illegal Immigration Surged At Northern US Border With Help Of Americans.
- Short Oil Bets Plunge The Most In 7 Years.
- "Embarrassing": Some Democrats Say Trump Indictment Was A Strategic Mistake.
- Fetterman Home After 6 Weeks In Hospital For Severe Depression.
- Fentanyl-Dealing California Police Union Official Charged.
- Renewables Surpass Coal In US Electricity Generation.
- Debt Deflation: "The Adjustment To Reality Is Likely More Violent Than Anything Seen In The '70s".
- Where Can People Trust In The Rule Of Law?
- Demand For Fuel Tankers Jumps Amid Global Trade Reshuffle.
- These Are The 50 Most Visited Websites In The World.
- 63 Christian Dissidents Face Deportation Back to China.
- These Are Asia's Richest Families.
- Breaking The Kevlar Ceiling: Homegrown Terror Gets A Gender Swap.
- In AI We Trust.
- Transgender Youth More Likely To Support Violent Radicalization: Study.
- White House Refuses To Pay For Twitter Verification.
- Journalist Says DOJ Targeting Him For His Aggressive Post-Jan. 6 Commentary.
- Trump Supporter Found Guilty, Faces Ten Years In Prison For 2016 Anti-Hillary Meme.
- Investigation Reveals 'Revolving Door' Of DOJ, Big Tech Employees.
- "They're All Libertarians" Until Their Deposits Are At Risk.
- The Warnings Unheeded Now Threaten Our Fundamental Freedoms.
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TheGatewayPundit.com:
- Report: Trump Attorneys Believe Soros-Funded DA Will Impose Gag Order on Trump On Monday – Will Prevent Him from Campaigning.
- Chief Investigator at Manhattan DA’s Office Susan Hoffinger Previously Donated to Biden and Other Dems.
- Toxic RINO Asa Hutchinson Announces 2024 Presidential Bid, Calls on Trump to Drop Out of Race (VIDEO).
- Alvin Bragg’s Political Donors Include Numerous Donation Mules – And at least one Prominent Business in India.
- Bragg Was Looking to Charge Trump with a Felony, Could Land Himself in Prison for Years Instead.
- Manchin is Angry Biden Regime is “Writing Rules and Regulations That are Totally Foreign” to What He Thought the “Inflation Reduction Act” Would Do (VIDEO).
- IT NEVER ENDS: Now the Biden Administration is Coming for Our Cheap Light Bulbs.
- Democrat Judge in FOX News-Dominion Case Says All Statements About Dominion Were False – What a Crock!
- Washington State Analysts the Latest Group to Discover THOUSANDS of Illegal Election Donation Mules Donating MILLIONS to Democrat PAC Act Blue.
- Capitol Police Are Withholding Thousands of hours of CCTV from Congress and J6 Political Prisoners.
- Program Analyzing Signatures in Kari Lake Case Ranks 10 Percent Match as ‘High-Confidence,’ County Denies – Report.
- Senator Josh Hawley Calls for Nashville Shooting to be Investigated as a Hate Crime (VIDEO).
The Epoch Times:
Twitter:
- @alexbruesewitz - "Trump's Real Crime: Waging War Against Globalism" Must watch segment. @StephenM and @TuckerCarlson nail it. (video)
- @RobinBrooksIIF - Biggest illusion in markets currently is that Europe's energy shock is over. You just have to look at the giant trade deficit in January 2023 and compare it to the same month in previous years to see this isn't true. Fair value for EUR/$ is 0.90. The energy shock is ongoing... (graph)
OpenVAERS:
- VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 945,820 Reports(+1,909 from prior week) Through March 17th, 2023.
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.
Night Trading
- Asian indices are -.25% to +.5% on average.
- Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 131.0 -3.75 basis points.
- China Sovereign CDS 73.0 -4.0 basis points.
- China Iron Ore Spot 125.6 USD/Metric Tonne +.18%
- Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 47.8 -.10%.
- Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 55.2 +2.1%.
- Bloomberg US Financial Conditions Index -.45 -4.0 basis points.
- Volatility Index(VIX) futures 22.5 +1.7%.
- Euro Stoxx 50 futures n/a.
- S&P 500 futures -.20%.
- NASDAQ 100 futures -.48%.