Morning Market Internals

NYSE Composite Index:

• NYSE Volume Running -4.2% Below 100-Day Average 
• Nasdaq/NYSE Volume Ratio 8.1 +.5
  
• 4 Sectors Declining, 7 Sectors Rising
• 61.2% of Issues Advancing, 36.2% Declining
• 13 New 52-Week Highs, 177 New Lows
• 25.0%(+5.0%) of Issues Above 200-day Moving Average
• Average 14-Day RSI 33.0 +2.0
  
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk-Off Index 62.8 +1.5%
  
• Russell 1000: Growth/Value 18,027.6 +.67%
  
• 1-Day Vix 14.0 -32.8%
  
• Vix 20.3 -4.4%
  
• Total Put/Call .93 -24.4%
• TRIN/Arms 1.20 -15.5%
  

Monday Watch

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Risk of Israel-Hamas War Spillover Remains Elevated, US Says. 
• Israel-Hamas War Escalation Puts Qatar’s Clout to the Test.
• Israel Deepens a War With Hamas That Has No End in Sight. 
• How This Israel-Hamas Conflict Is Like Nothing That’s Happened Before. 
• China’s Government Debt Supply Surges in October to 2023 High.
• Germany Eyes Imports of Nigerian Natural Gas in Scholz Visit.
• House Prices Are Falling in Most Parts of the UK, Zoopla Says.
• Oil, Bonds Fall as Investors Temper Mideast Bets: Markets Wrap.
• Oil and Gas Markets Eye Escalation Risk as Gaza War Deepens.
• The Big Bond Market Event Wednesday Is at Treasury, Not the Fed. 
• Fed to Weigh How Much Fuel Consumers Have Left After Rate Hikes.
• Stock Traders Face Pivotal Week as Apple Steals Fed Spotlight. 
• 11 Hours With Sam Bankman-Fried: Inside the Bahamian Penthouse After FTX’s Fall.
• Hedge Funds Pile Into Uranium Stocks Poised for ‘Dramatic’ Gains.
• Johnson Says He Expects House to Pass Israel Aid Bill This Week. 
• Soaring Neutral Rate to Hurt Treasuries, Nasdaq, Survey Shows.

Zero Hedge:

• March 9, 2022... Will Live In Infamy
• David Hogg Now Blames "White Woman In Suburbs" For Gun Violence
• Breakthrough Study 'Infects' Animals With Human Alzheimer’s Through Microbiome.
• Gold's About To Have Its Day: Jim Grant Warns No One's Prepared For "Higher Yields For Much, Much, Much Longer".
• The Influence Of Influencers Is Rising... Except In China.
• Weekend News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
• Jack Smith's War On Free Speech: AG Garland Should Rein In His Special Counsel.
• Attacks On US Bases In Syria Continue Unhindered After Pentagon's Friday Airstrikes.
• Cocky Runner Sprints From 172nd To 5th Place After Competing As A Girl.
• Wider War Will Bring Inevitable Attempts At Martial Law In America.
• Watch: Muslim Rioters Storm Airport, Surround Rumored Flight From Israel, In Southern Russia.
• The Specter Of Hyperinflation Looms Over The Economy.
• Mike Wilson: Forget About The Year-End Rally.
• Kendi's Critical Race Theory Is A Failed Marxist Doctrine.
• TME Weekend: Will Powell prevent a “scarytale” ending?
• Visualizing The Key Investment Theme Of Each Decade (1950-Today).
• DOJ Corroborated Information From FBI Source Who Provided Biden Bribery Allegations: Official.
• We Didn't Start The Fire.
• Silence Around Surgical Errors Is Jeopardizing Patients, Experts Say. 
• The Political Risks Of Mandating EVs For Everyone.
• How Migration Flows To Europe And North America Changed.
• Hamas’s October 7 Attack: Discourse In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence.
• White House Freezes Gun Exports In New Attack On US Gun Manufacturers.
• COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Reduce A Major Beneficial Bacteria, Gut Biodiversity: Research.
• Advice For Men From TV's 'Hercules': Bring Back Masculinity.
• Warnings About Alarming Pre-Oct 7 Hamas Activity Ignored, Say Israeli Surveillance Soldiers.
• Senator Demands Answers From FDA On Safety Signal For COVID Vaccines And Children.

Wall Street Journal:

• Saving More in 401(k) Can Boost Your College Financial Aid.
• The Hunt for Crypto’s Most Famous Fugitive. ‘Everyone Is Looking for Me.’
• Israeli Ground Operation Pushes Deeper Into Gaza.
• Antisemitic Comments Increase Across Chinese Social Media.
• Iran’s Fellow Traveler in Mexico City. President López Obrador seems to be playing footsie with Iranian allies.
• Americans Can’t Stop Spending. Five Reasons Why.
• ‘Buy the Dip’ Investing Mantra Lives On in Bond Market.
• Hedge Fund Two Sigma Is Hit by Trading Scandal.
• Alaska Fishermen Struggle as Rules to Save King Salmon Limit Their Catch.
• Insurers Spar With Administration Over Coverage for Mental-Health Care.
• Thanks to Big Data, Landlords Can Squeeze the Most Out of Renters.

CNBC:

• UAW in tentative deal to end labor strike with Stellantis but expands its strike at General Motors.
• Panera now displaying warning about its caffeinated lemonade in all stores after lawsuit over customer’s death.

MarketWatch.com:

• How to ride out the ‘fear cycle’ in a spooky week ahead after U.S. stocks slip into correction.
• Big Tech earnings have been strong, but Apple is about to answer the thousand-dollar question.
• Opinion: Robo-taxis remain a pipe dream and greedy companies have only themselves to blame.
• A major source of liquidity for buying U.S. government debt is draining. Here’s why that’s bad news for the Fed and the market.
• Here’s how a government shutdown in November would likely impact stocks.

NewsMax:

• IDF Strikes Lebanon as Rockets Pummel Central Israel.
• Israeli Tanks Deep Into Gaza as Jets Hit Hundreds of Targets.
• Sullivan: US Asking Israel 'Hard Questions' on Gaza Operation.
• DeSantis: Biden 'Letting Iran Take Potshots' at US Troops.
• Rep. Hageman: Biden's Actions Helping Fund Iran.  
• DeSantis: There's 'Sickness on These College Campuses'.
• Speaker Johnson: Standalone Bill For Israel Likely This Week.

 Fox News:

• 'Squad' member issues stark warning to Biden regarding stance on Israel war.
• Treasury just dropped a financial bomb, but Bidenomics means the worst is yet to come.
• Experts reveal the worst beverages for your health — and they're not all alcoholic.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Strategist James Carville Claims Top Democrats Are Telling Him to Shut Up About Biden’s Dismal Polling Numbers.
• “I’m Ashamed of the UN – Let’s Get Out” – Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová Calls on Czech Republic to Exit UN After Rogue Regimes Cheer Hamas Following Slaughter of 1,400 Jewish Civilians
• Newsom Plows Over Small Child Then Spanks Him During Basketball Game in China (VIDEO)
• TERRIFYING VIDEOS: Muslim Lynch Mob Searches for Jews at Russian Airport in Dagestan; Storms Concourse and Tarmac, Tries to Search Planes After Rumor of Flight From Israel.
• Gun Sales Spike 200% in Maine After Tragic Mass Shooting.
• THOUSANDS of Palestinians Loot UN Warehouses in Gaza – UN Official Warns of “Civil Order Starting to Break Down” (VIDEO).
• At Least 18 Injured and 2 Dead in Shooting Incident During Halloween Celebration in Tampa, Florida.
• Michelle Obama Looks Disheveled in ‘Get Out the Vote’ Pitch Amid Rumors of Possible Presidential Bid.
• Canada’s Trudeau the Latest Leader to Backtrack and Delay on Climate Alarmist Policies – Rolls Back Home Heating Oil Carbon Tax for 3 Years.
• ‘It’s Not a Yes or No Question” – Crazed UMass Professor Rachel Weber Refuses to Say Hamas Slaughter of 1,400 Civilian Jews was a Terrorist Act (VIDEO).
• ‘Overcharged’: Major Study Reveals Alarming True Cost of Owning an EV, ‘Fueling’ Equal to $17.33 Per Gallon.
• Muslims Wave ISIS and Taliban Flags at Anti-Israel Protest in Hamburg, Germany.
• Engineering the Sky – The Great Climate Change Lie.
• AbleChild Founder Sheila Matthews on War Room: Psychology Industrial Complex Behind School Shootings (VIDEO).
• Mathew Perry’s Post Promoting “Could I Be Any More Vaccinated” Shirt Resurfaces After Star’s Death.
• New FDA Findings Reveal COVID-19 Shots Pose Stroke Risk in Older Adults When Combined with Certain Flu Shots – Just as the Biden Admin Was Promoting. 
• Sam Bankman-Fried Finally Deposes in His Defense, Gets Scolded by the Judge – Will Face Brutal Cross-Examination and Mysterious Rebuttal Witness.
• RED PILLED: Left Wing ‘Young Turks’ Co-Host Blasts Destructive Progressive Policies in California: ‘No One is Safe, Everyone’s Angry’ (VIDEO).

The Epoch Times:

• Chinese Ex-Premier's Sudden Deaths Adds to Leadership Turbulence: Analysts.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 988,705 Reports(+1,488 from prior week) Through September 29th, 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 -1.0% to unch. on average.
• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 138.75 unch.
  
• China Sovereign CDS 84.0 -.25 basis point.
• China Iron Ore Spot 119.7 USD/Metric Tonne +.03%.
  
• Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 41.25 +.02%.
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 62.6 +1.2%.
• Bloomberg US Financial Conditions Index -.30 -1.0 basis point. 
  
• Volatility Index(VIX) futures 20.9 -1.6%. 
• Euro Stoxx 50 futures -.22%.
• S&P 500 futures +.34%.
• NASDAQ 100 futures +.49%.

Morning Preview Links

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are modestly lower, weighed down by commodity and technology shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open modestly higher and to weaken into the afternoon, finishing mixed.  The Portfolio is 25% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Iran Warns of New Fronts Against the US If Gaza War Drags On.
• Israel Warns of ‘Long’ War as Invasion of Gaza Strip Begins. 
• One Last Make-or-Break Week of 2023 Has Treasury Traders on Edge.
• Market Turns Vicious on Profit Misses in Tough Earnings Season.
• Private Debt Funds Have a $500 Billion Conundrum.
• X Starts Subscription Tiers That Cost Up to $16 a Month. 
• Worst October for Stocks in Five Years Has Investors Exiting Market.
• Gold Jumps Past $2,000 as Israel-Hamas Clash Raises Haven Allure.
• Mortgage Rates at 8% Make a Brutal US Housing Market Even Worse.
• Exxon and Chevron Megadeals Reveal Why Days of Easy Oil Are Over.
• Charting the Global Economy: Inflation Picks Up in US, Tokyo.

Zero Hedge:

• House Weaponization Panel Gets IRS To End 'Abusive' Surprise Visits; Taibbi Thanks Jim Jordan
• Erdogan Vows To Get Israel Branded As "War Criminal" State, Also Blames West For Gaza "Massacre"
• Senator Demands Answers From FDA On Safety Signal For COVID Vaccines And Children.
• Joy Behar Reminds America She's A Moron With AR-15 Misinformation.
• House Speaker Johnson: Russia, China, & Iran Are The New Axis Of Evil.
• Hartnett: "The Greatest Credit Event Of All Is Disorderly Rise In Bond Yields Leading To Dollar Debasement".
• EV Skeptic Toyota Chairman Says People Are 'Finally' Waking Up To Reality Of Electric Vehicles.
• Musk Prepares To Save Gaza's Internet With Starlink Deployment.
• Our Neofeudal, Neocolonial World.
• Time To Think 'Quadrillions', As There's 'Zero Fiscal Restraint' In D.C.
• Pence Pulls Out Of Presidential Race As Trump's Lead Widens.
• Abercrombie & Epstein? Ex-CEO Sued Over Gay Sex Trafficking, Abuse Allegations.
• Biden Chose Venezuela Over Canada For Oil.
• Grand Central Terminal Shut Down By Left-Wing Pro-Palestinian Protesters.
• Earnings Beats Are Barely Rewarded, While Misses Unleash Hell.
• Israeli Tanks Exchange Fire With Hamas Inside Gaza, Small Arms Clashes Heard, As Offensive Expands.
• Emergency Oil Meeting Discusses Potential For Diesel Outages.
• These Are The Cities With The Most Bubble Risk In Their Property Markets.
• Pay No Attention To The Country Behind The Curtain.
• Fungal Infection In The Brain Produces Effects Similar To Alzheimer's.
• These Are The Most Popular Halloween Costumes In 2023.
• Watch: Zennials Are Terrified Of Military Draft As War Looms.
• Just The Facts On 'Geofencing'.

Wall Street Journal:

• Netanyahu Announces Second Phase of Gaza Operations
• Americans Stuck in Gaza. ‘Are We U.S. Citizens or Not?’
• UAW Expands Strike With GM After Reaching Tentative Deal With Stellantis
• Mortgage Companies Are Asking Ex-Employees to Give Back Their Bonuses
• Biden Has Canceled About $127 Billion of Student Loans Despite Supreme Court Ruling. Here’s How.
• The World’s Biggest Carmaker Made a Huge Bet on Tech. It Went Wrong Fast.
• Elon Musk’s Outlook on Our Future Turns Dour.
• The Shady ‘Work From Home’ Excuses.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (LLY).

CNBC:

• UAW expected to announce tentative agreement with Stellantis to end labor strike.
• Use this hidden Google feature to detect and delete your personal information in search. 
• Why it’s so expensive to be single in the U.S.
• What China’s slow-motion real estate crisis means for the global economy.

Reuters:

• Investors on edge as Middle East conflict intensifies.

MarketWatch.com:

• Is America’s spending spree ‘sustainable’? Consumers are leaning on their savings to spend, and some economists are worried.
• Here’s the next line in the sand the S&P 500 needs to defend or risk a bigger drop, says Bank of America.
• ‘Magnificent Seven’ stocks have shed more than $1.2 trillion in value since the market’s July peak.
• Biden wants an extra $162 billion from Congress. Here’s how it could go with new House Speaker Mike Johnson.

NewsMax:   

• Israel Expands Ground Operation in Gaza, Bombs Hamas Tunnels.
• Netanyahu Spokesman: 'Cease-Fire Is Not Negotiable'.

Fox News:

• SOON: Netanyahu expected to speak after meeting with families of Hamas hostages.
• College lecturer refuses to answer when student asks if she would condemn terrorism.
• Billionaire pulls major funding to Ivy League school over anti-Israel protests on campus.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Adam Guillette, President of Accuracy in Media, Vows to Expand Operation to Expose College Anti-Semites After His Home Is Swatted in Florida.
• Happening Now: Tens of Thousands Protest Against Israel in London – Chants for “Intifada”.
• Documentary Implicates Schwab, Gates, WHO, UN and Other Globalist Entities in Massive Crime of ‘Democide’.
• University Draws Backlash After Students Offered Extra Credit to Attend Pro-Palestinian Event.
• Disney’s Controversial Woke Live-Action ‘Snow White’ is Being Delayed for a Year.
• War Criminal Dead: Israeli Forces Eliminate Hamas Operative Asem Abu Rakaba the Terror Leader Responsible for Paragliders Flying into an Israeli Concert to Murder Nearly 300 Youths.
• Radical California Dem Candidate in Critical Swing District BRAGS About Prosecuting January 6th Protesters – Gets Destroyed So Badly that He Limits Replies on His X/Twitter Account (VIDEO).
• Major Republican Donors Circling Back to Supporting Trump: ‘I Want to Win’.
• ‘Sanctuary City’ of New York Now Offering Illegal Immigrants Free One-Way Airplane Tickets to Leave.
• Greg Gutfeld Explains Pro-Hamas Protests on College Campuses: ‘You’re Witnessing a Hysteria’ (VIDEO).
• Joe Biden Heads to Delaware For Another Vacation as US Forces Are Under Attack by Iran-Backed Terrorists (VIDEO).
• VIDEO: Hundreds of Alleged “Jewish-American Protesters” SHUT DOWN Grand Central Station in Manhattan – Demand Israel Halt Operations Against Hamas. 
• Ivanka Trump Will Be Forced to Testify in Father’s Trial After Judge’s Ruling.
• Billionaire Declares on Fox: College Students Protesting Israel ‘Have Sh*t for Brains,’ Vows to Cease Donations to Columbia University (VIDEO).
• Major Jewish Group Calls on NFL, MLB, NBA to End Their Support for #BLM AntiSemites.

Epoch Times:

• The Epoch Times:The Writing’s on the Great Wall for a China Crash.

X:

• @OvertonLive - NEW- Iran’s Top Diplomat: U.S. ‘Will Not Be Spared from This Fire’ if It Continues to Support Israel. (video)
• @spectatorindex - BREAKING: Iran's foreign minister says its allies have 'their finger on the trigger' amid impending Israeli ground campaign in Gaza.
• @kylenabecker - Debunking the Media's Claim That All of Trump's 2020 Election Challenges Were 'Baseless'.
• @matttttt187 - Covid-19 shots were not owned or made by Pfizer or Moderna. They were owned and made by the military. Pfizer and Moderna were paid to make it appear like it came from the pharmaceutical industry. (video) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warns Americans to stay away from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: "We will defend Palestine at any price." (video) The subtext is that there can be some privacy and confidentiality safeguards built into CBDCs, but at the end of the day those would still be subject to being overridden or dispensed with.
• @WallStreetSilv - Remember this gem of a video that SBF did? It was all about how SBF didn't care about money, he was going to give away his billions of $$$ to save the world. Crypto was just a method to make the world a better place. And the media praised him non-stop. (video)
• @BillMelugin_ - BREAKING: New CBP data reveals Border Patrol released over 900,000 migrants into the U.S. in fiscal year 2023 after they were apprehended crossing illegally, including a staggering 155,821 releases in September alone. These numbers do not include ICE or ports of entry releases. For context, 900,000+ is a population size larger than several US states, including Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, & North & South Dakota. (table)
• @unusual_whales - BREAKING: The average monthly mortgage payment is a whopping 52% higher than the average monthly rent on a house or apartment, the highest amount since the 2008 housing crash, per The Wall Street Journal.
• @Fxhedgers - SLUMP IN BIG PURCHASES CLASHES WITH GOVERNMENT’S STRONG CONSUMER DATA (Bloomberg). Sales of appliances, orthodontics and boats weaken, firms say. US needs Americans to keep up spending to avoid recession.
• @WatcherGuru - JUST IN: Elon Musk plans to turn X into a full on finance platform within a year, says you won't need a bank account anymore, Verge reports.
• @BenSwann_ -  WATCH — US Senator @RonJohnsonWI says COVID was “pre-planned by an elite group of people.” (video) WOW — Pascal Najadi, the son of WEF co-founder Hussain Najadi, is calling for the arrests of Bill Gates, WHO leadership, the WEF, Klaus Schwab, Big Tech and Pfizer. (video)
• @ImMeme0 - We live in Banana Republic. Shroyer NEVER enter the Capitol building during the riot. (pic)
• @TomFitton - Biden's authoritarian scheme to force us all to drive electric cars is faltering.
• @EndWokeness - Asian-American residents of Brighton Park, Chicago are furious about illegal migrants coming to their neighborhood. 87% of this area voted for Biden in 2020. (video)
• @TonyClimate - In 1923, the North Pole was melting, glaciers were vanishing and the Arctic was experiencing "unheard-of high temperatures." (pic)
• @IGSquawk - Weekend markets update: #DAX 14614 -0.06% #DOW 32355 -0.11% #NASDAQ 14143 -0.30% #FTSE 7269 +0.00% #HANGSENG 17195 0.00% #GBPUSD 12122.2 +0.07% #EURUSD 10564.4 -0.03% #USDJPY 14965.7 +0.05%.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 988,705 Reports(+1,488 from prior week) Through September 29th, 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.

Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Israel Latest: Iranian Minister Warns US Over Support of Israel.
• Iran Warns of New Fronts Against the US If Gaza War Drags On.
• Allies Fear US Is Overextended as Global Conflicts Spread.
• US Military Attacks Two Syrian Facilities It Says Are Linked to Iran.
• Stanford Slammed by Alumni, Students for Hamas Response.
• Worst October for Stocks in Five Years Has Investors Exiting Market.
• GM, Stellantis Agree to 25% UAW Pay Hike as Sides Near Deal.
• Americans Hold Off From Big Purchases in Worrying Sign for the Economy.
• Bank Stocks Sink Past SVB Crisis Lows as Rates Upend Business.
• Oil Surges as Israel Military Expands Ground Activity in Gaza.
• Used-Car Dealer Halts Plans for Subprime Auto Loan Offering.
• Gold Jumps Past $2,000 as Israel-Hamas Clash Raises Haven Allure.
• Bayer Hit With $175 Million Award in Roundup Cancer Trial. 
• US Core PCE Prices Jump Most in Four Months as Spending Picks Up.
• Morgan Stanley Gives All Three CEO Contenders Special Bonuses of $20 Million.

Zero Hedge:

• Israeli Tanks Exchange Fire With Hamas Inside Gaza, Small Arms Clashes Heard, As Offensive Expands.
• "Abrupt Change Is Coming": Tucker Carlson Issues Dire Warning For America.
• The Graphite Grip: How China's Crackdown On Exports Threatens Global EV Battery Supply Chain.
• FDA Should Recall 'Adulterated' Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine: Robert Malone.
• Migrant Hot-Potato: NYC Offers Illegals Plane Tickets To Anywhere But The Big Apple.
• Qatar Sentences Eight Indians To Death Over Israel Spy Charges.
• Gun Czar Kamala Harris Praises Australian Gun Confiscation.
• "There Is No Cure": Long-Forgotten Virus Could Return, US Is Not Prepared.
• Broke Millennials Wait For Boomer Parents To Die For Next 'Great Wealth Transfer'.
• The Inflation Reduction Act: A Bidenomics Loser In 2024.
• Watch: Chinese Jet Comes Dangerously Within 10 Feet Of US B-52 Bomber.
• Health Care Worker Crisis Looms As Burnout And Mental Health Issues Surge, CDC Warns.
• Dave Chappelle Hits Back: "I Got Misquoted All Over The World" Following WSJ's Coverage Of Boston Show.
• COVID Deception.
• Clemson Removes Menstrual Items From Men's Bathrooms After Backlash.
• Fed Admits Banks Suffered Massive Deposit Outflows Last Week.
• Kunstler: "If We Manage To Avoid WW3, America Has Its Own Grave Problem To Consider...".
• Oil and Gold surge after Israel announces ground invasion plan; NDX holds gains on strong AMZN & INTC numbers - Newsquawk US Market Wrap.
• Bonds, Gold, & Crypto Surge; Stocks Purged As USA Credit Risk Rises Into WW3.

Wall Street Journal:

• Israel Widens Ground Operations as Airstrikes Intensify.
• Watch: How Israel Is Preparing to Dismantle Hamas.
• Biden’s Regulators Gang Up on a Christian College. Multiple agencies attack Grand Canyon University for dubious reasons.
• ‘A Ghost Town’: Maine Residents Shelter in Place as Authorities Hunt Shooting Suspect.
• You Don’t Need a New iPhone. You Just Need a New Battery..
• X Launches Two Premium Tiers in Bid for Subscription Revenue.
• Halloween Candy Is Getting Scary Expensive.

CNBC:

• Dow drops more than 350 points to end brutal week, S&P 500 closes in correction territory
• Google commits to invest $2 billion in OpenAI competitor Anthropic.
• Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, CVS say they’re at a breaking point — here’s what their days look like.
• Microsoft’s AI boost helped cloud business outpace rivals Amazon and Google in latest quarter.
• Here’s what Sam Bankman Fried said in his first full day on the stand in his $8 billion fraud trial.
• Google paid $26 billion in 2021 to become the default search engine on browsers and phones.
• Abercrombie & Fitch, ex-CEO sued over sex abuse and trafficking accusations.
• What China’s slow-motion real estate crisis means for the global economy.
• This new tool lets artists ‘poison’ their artwork to deter AI companies from scraping it.

Reuters:

• Ford shares fall after pulling full-year forecast, wider losses in EV unit.

MarketWatch.com:

• Biden wants an extra $162 billion from Congress. Here’s how it could go with new House Speaker Mike Johnson.
• Jamie Dimon and family selling a million shares of JPMorgan stock for ‘financial diversification’ purposes.
• Opinion: Financial markets worldwide now face a higher chance of extreme events, El-Erian warns.
• ‘That’s exactly what we did back in the housing boom in 2006’: One economist on what we’re getting wrong about the affordable-housing crisis.

NewsMax:   

• Israel Rebuffs Allies' Calls to 'Pause' Assault; 1st Open Disagreement.
• About 30 Children Among 200-Plus Hostages.
• IDF: Hamas Hiding Tunnels, Ops Centers in Gaza Hospital.
• David Mamet: Dems Have 'Betrayed the Jews'

Fox News:

• US won't draw 'red lines' for Israel in war with Hamas terrorists as fighting escalates.
• Homeowners rage over Dem-run city's plan to build camp for illegal immigrants.
• Major automakers come clean, admit Americans aren't buying climate change friendly cars.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• WARNING ON CONTENT — NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN VIDEO from Oct. 7 Hamas Attack on Israel, The Slaughter in the Bunker – EXCLUSIVE TO GATEWAY PUNDIT – BANNED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA
• HE HAS GONE CRAZY IN HIS HATRED OF “TRUMP” – President Trump Absolutely DESTROYS Lawless NYC Judge Engoron After Case Collapses
• MUST SEE: TGP Reporter Confronts Serial Liar Adam Schiff on Russiagate Lies and Persecution of President Trump for Speaking Out Against Rigged Elections.
• SWAT Team Raids Home of Man Behind Harvard Truck Exposing Names of Antisemites and Terrorist Sympathizers (VIDEO).
• Victor Reacts: The Invasion Continues – 500 Illegals Detained in Arizona (VIDEO).
• Robert Card Allegedly Attacked Bar During Deaf Cornhole Event Night, Started Hearing Voices After Receiving “High-Powered Hearing-Aids”.
• “Hey Hillary! Why Did Your Husband Visit Epstein Island 26 Times!” – Chaos Erupts as Hillary’s Security DRAGS Brave Man Out of Campaign Event for Demanding Answers Regarding Her Husband’s Relationship with Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein (VIDEO).
• O’Keefe Media Group: Mole Inside ActBlue Discloses Secret Conference in Boston… Police Called on O’Keefe as He Questions FEC Money Laundering Allegations! (VIDEO).
• Tucker Carlson Drops Episode 34: Of All of Biden’s Crimes, Backing the Ukrainian Government as it Throws Priests in Jail May be the Most Revealing (VIDEO).
• WATCH: South Park Hilariously ROASTS Woke Disney and Anti-White Race-Swapping in their Special “Joining the Panderverse”.
• Oversight Chair Comer Plays Hardball, Demands Joe Biden Provide Evidence to Back Up Claim $200,000 Check From Jim Biden Was ‘Loan Repayment’
• BREAKING: Far-Left CNN Officially Closes Its World News Headquarters in Atlanta After More Than 35 Years (VIDEO).
• WAYNE ROOT: This Jewish Republican Responds to the Dumbest & Most Dangerous Thing Obama Has Ever Said.
• Outrageous: THOUSANDS of Hamas Supporters Utter Disgusting Chants in Support of Terrorist Organization and TORCH American Flag During Massive Protest in New York City (VIDEO).
• Speaker Mike Johnson Wants to Separate Ukraine Aid from Israel Assistance: ‘The American People Demand Accountability for Their Tax Dollars’.
• BREAKING: Trump to Present Classified Information of Foreign Interference in 2016 and 2020 Elections at January 6th Indictment Trial.
• Michelle Obama Strangely Quiet about the 224 Jews Including 30 Children Who Were Taken Hostage by Hamas Barbarians – What Gives?
• DOJ Rips Family Apart: J6 Political Prisoner Billy Chrestman’s Kids Are Homeless Amid Torture In 33-Month Pretrial Detention.

The Epoch Times:

• China's Xi Makes Unprecedented Visit to Central Bank as Chinese Developers Struggle With Insolvency.
• DeSantis Warns China 'Key Player' Behind Ukraine, Israel Wars.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 988,705 Reports(+1,488 from prior week) Through September 29th, 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.