Today's Headlines
Bloomberg:
- Anger in Europe After Chinese Diplomat Says Ex-Soviet States Not Sovereign
- Central Bankers See Above-Target Inflation as Biggest Risk.
- Macron’s Push to Get China’s Help on Ukraine Is Unraveling Fast.
- Riskiest Country Debt Left Out of Emerging-Market Renaissance.
- Europe’s High-Yield Currencies Dethroned by ECB Inflation Fight.
- Sudan Evacuations Push Ahead as Fragile Cease-Fire Falters.
- Russia’s Medvedev Says G-7 Export Ban to Trigger Grain Deal Exit.
- Asian Stocks Are Mixed at Start of Data Heavy Week: Markets Wrap.
- McCarthy Says House Will Pass GOP Debt-Limit Bill This Week.
- Bed Bath & Beyond Has Stopped Paying Severance to Store Workers.
- Engaged Couples Issue Verdict on Bed Bath & Beyond.
- What’s Happening in EM: The Sovereign Bond Laggards (Podcast).
- SVB Still Seeing Outflows After First Citizens Takeover, FT Says.
- NBCUniversal CEO Shell Leaves After ‘Inappropriate Relationship’.
- Bonds in Trouble as $1 Trillion Liquidity Drains: Credit Weekly.
- Fed’s Next Rate Move May Crystallize With Coming Data: Eco Week.
- Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week.
- Your Sunday US Briefing: Biden vs Trump 2.0; Tech, Banking Earnings.
- Tech Surge Sends Valuations to Extremes, but Traders Don’t Care.
Wall Street Journal:
- Leak of Government Secrets Adds Pressure to Overhaul Security Clearances.
- Tech Billionaires Bet on Fusion as Holy Grail for Business.
- Individual Investors Are Still Hungry for Stocks—While Shunning Risk.
- The Surprising Surge of Faith Among Young People.
- Subscription Price Creep Is Real. Our Guide to Pushing Back.
- First Republic Earnings to Shed Light on Depth of Bank Crisis.
- Amazon, Facebook, Google Headline Busy Earnings Week for Tech.
- Former Anheuser-Busch exec reacts to Bud Light's marketing VP taking leave of absence.
- Texas cattle found dead with tongues cut out with 'apparent precision'.
- Disneyland dragon bursts into flames during 'Fantasmic' show at the park.
CNBC:
- The bad loan term that’s back for banks trying to spot a recession.
- Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy protection after failed turnaround efforts.
- How HBO and Netflix have evolved away from each other in the past decade.
Zero Hedge:
- Nashville Official Says School Shooter’s Manifesto Is 'Astronomically Dangerous'.
- Republicans Help Democrats Advance Biden’s Judicial Nominees Amid Feinstein’s Absence.
- Tesla Market Share In California Tumbles To 59.6% From 72.7%.
- "We Scrambled, And Spoke With Well Over 100 Banks. Not One Will Provide Financing".
- Florida LGBT Group Cancels Pride Parade After City Says No Kids Allowed.
- Taibbi: News Blackout In Effect.
- TME Weekend: Boring for longer.
- Gov. Ivey Replaces Alabama Education Director Over 'Woke' Training Book.
- Weekend News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
- Bovard: Spy Letter About Hunter Biden Shows How Dems Are Undermining Democracy.
- The Censorship Industrial Complex Is The Revolt Of The Elites.
- Chicago Employees Fired For Not Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Must Be Reinstated: Judge.
- Will We Ever Get Accountability?
- US Military Evacuates Embassy Staff From War-Torn Sudan.
- X-Date Could Hit As Soon As June: Latest Tax Data Puts Worst-Case Scenario In Play.
- Ukraine Official Demands Endless Streams Of Western Military Aid.
- Is Biden's Credit Score Screw Job On Mortgage Pricing Even Legal?
- Extinction Rebellion Founder Outed As Diesel-Using, Packaged-Fruit-Buying Hypocrite.
- Big Banks, Corporations Getting 90 Percent Of Biden’s Green Energy Credits: Congressional Study.
- New York's Democrat Mayor Says Migrant Crisis Has 'Destroyed' The City, Biden Admin Has 'Turned Back'.
- Should You Fear AI?
- PM Orbán Says US Cannot Push Hungary Into War, Rest Of Europe Be Wise To Follow His Policy.
- Needed: A 'Made In The USA' Policy Plus Energy Independence To Counter Inflation & The Rising National Debt.
- A Pyrrhic End To 130 Years Of Vicious Bad Money And Banking Crises.
- Banks Or Buddies - Where Do People Borrow Money From?
- Gun-Free Zones, Red Flag Laws Only Make Gun Crime Worse: Economist.
- US Tries To Blame Russia For Sudan "Deep State" War.
- "Entire Downtown Is Effectively Dead:" Baltimore City Descends Further Into Turmoil.
- First Smart Gun With Fingerprint Unlocking Hits The Market.
- Anti-CRT Measures Adopted By 28 US States.
- Feds Have No Data On How Regulations Reduce Emissions: Audit Finds.
- Bragg Drops Case Against Jordan, Allowing House GOP To Depose Ex-Manhattan Prosecutor.
NewsMax:
TheGatewayPundit.com:
- Kenneth Joseph Thomas a Veteran and Father of Four Did Not Enter US Capitol, Did Not Attack Police, Faces 30 Years in Prison.
- Elderly Woman Convicted for Spitting at Black Lives Matter Activist During Violent ‘Summer of Love’ — Could Serve 90 Days in Prison.
- AOC Calls for Government Ban on Tucker Carlson and FOX News Hosts for “Inciting Violence”.
- After Disastrous Debates in 2020, Democrats Have Decided to Not Hold Presidential Debates in 2024.
- Bush, Obama And Clinton Partner With Corporations, and Soros’-Funded NGO To Fly Migrants Into US Interior.
- EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Mayors Team Up with Anti-Defamation League to Assault Free Speech.
- Lawsuit Filed Against DOJ For Records on Appointees Installed in the Department to Advance Biden’s Radical Agenda.
- Get Woke, Go Broke: Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy – Company Threw Conservatives Under the Bus and Dropped MyPillow Products.
- Mueller “Pitbull” Andrew Weissmann Believes FOX Should Now Be Under Government Control.
- Why Is the Western Media Ignoring the U.S. Role in Sudan?
- Bill Maher Asks Why Black Celebrities Don’t Speak Out Against Black Crimes Like in Chicago and New York (VIDEO).
- Rep. Nancy Mace: We Found SEVERAL MORE Biden Family Members Involved, More Shell Companies, and Sources of Funds Unknown (VIDEO).
- HORROR: Woman Kidnapped Right Off New York City Street and Carried Away in Minivan (VIDEO).
- Judge Rules Chicago Employees Fired For Not Getting Vax Must Be Reinstated, Repaid For Lost Wages And Benefits.
- Fetterman Admits He Was ‘Not the Kind of Senator’ Pennsylvania Deserved While He Was Hospitalized for Depression.
- “It’s a Settlement That Never Should Have Happened…Something Else Had to Have Been Involved.” – Harvard Professor and Attorney Dershowitz on FOX Settlement with Dominion.
The Epoch Times:
OpenVAERS:
- VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 953,415 Reports(+1,831 from prior week) Through April 14th, 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 -.5% to unch. on average.
- Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 127.75 +.75 basis point
- China Sovereign CDS 72.75 +.25 basis point.
- China Iron Ore Spot 105.9 USD/Metric Tonne -2.1%
- Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 47.6 unch.
- Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 57.8 +.9%.
- Bloomberg US Financial Conditions Index .01 -4.0 basis points.
- Volatility Index(VIX) futures 19.6 +1.0%.
- Euro Stoxx 50 futures +.05%.
- S&P 500 futures -.22%.
- NASDAQ 100 futures -.25%.