Tuesday Watch

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• US Warns Against Israeli Assault on Rafah in Draft UN Security Council Text.
• Houthi Strikes Force Crew to Abandon Ship for First Time.
• China Stocks’ Insipid Reopen Adds Pressure on Beijing to Do More.
• US Moves to Restore Stockpiling ‘Panic Button’ in EV Metals Fight with China.
• Stocks Pause Near Record as Traders Await Catalyst: Markets Wrap. 
• Asia Stocks Muted, Baht Falls on PM Rate Cut Plea: Markets Wrap. 
• Oil Holds Near Three-Month High After Another Red Sea Attack.
• Goldman Gauges Show Why Biden’s Benefit From Economy in Doubt.
• Bayer Plans to Slash Dividend by 95% in Bid to Pay Down Debt.
• Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions.
• Nike Joins Growing List of US Companies Doing Large Layoffs.
• Meeting-Free Fridays Aim to Boost Slumping End-of-Week Productivity.
• Deutsche Bank Ends Prized Covid Custom: Four-Day Weekends From Home. 
• Truist Nears Sale of Insurance Arm to Stone Point, CD&R.
• A $6 Trillion Wall of Cash Is Holding Firm as Fed Delays Cuts.
• Dozens of Banks Rapidly Piled Up Commercial Property Loans.

Zero Hedge:

• Who Is The WOAT President?
• "Enough Is Enough": 'Squad' Member Tlaib Comes Out Against Biden.
• Understanding The Trump Phenomenon: It's Not What The Elites Think.
• Wawa Targets "Most Aggressive Growth" In Company's History With Huge Push South. 
• Medvedev Warns Of Nukes On Berlin, London & Washington Before Russia Would Return To 1991 Borders.
• A Market Only A Mother Or AI Could Love. 
• Presidents' Day News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
• How The US Regime Subsidizes Immigration (Both Legal & Illegal).
• GOP Efforts To Shore Up Election Security In Swing States Face Challenges.
• "12 Fellas Down. 1 To Go": Nikki Haley Has Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Weekend On Social Media.
• This Is A Cycle Of Illusion: You See What You Want To See.
• Pentagon Confirms $32M Drone Downed Off Yemen, Same Day UK Tanker Destroyed.
• Almost Entire Population Of California Under Weather Alerts Amid Atmospheric River Pounding.
• Cognitive Tests For Presidential Candidates A 'Good Idea,' Reagan’s Daughter Says.
• Hillary Clinton Claims "Wannabe Dictator" Trump Will Pull US Out Of NATO, "Militarize American Law Enforcement".
• COVID Vaccine Shedding Is 'Real', FDA & Pfizer Documents Are Proof: Clinicians.
• Goldman "Focused On Put-Buying" As UBS Warns Of "Difficult Phase For Equity Markets".
• FedEx Founder Issues Dire Warning About 'Unsustainable' Government Debt.
• Key Events This Week: Nvidia Earnings And FOMC Minutes.
• VDH: Biden's Lies On Top Of Lies On Top Of Lies...
• George Santos Sues Jimmy Kimmel For $750K Over Late-Night Prank.
• Moore: The Biden 'Bull Market' Is Just Bull.
• China Plunge Protectors Emerge In Last Hour Of Trading To Push Stocks To Session Highs After 10-Day Holiday.
• Why America Will Never Overcome Its Mountain Of Debt.
• Market's Bullishness On Euro Against Dollar Looks Misplaced.
• Futures Flat With US Markets Closed For President's Day.
• FDA Approves First Medication To Treat Severe Frostbite.
• 200 (Clueless) Economists Demand The EU Incorporate Climate In Economic Models.
• Mainland China bolstered after the holiday break, US markets closed today - Newsquawk Europe Market Open.
• US Officials Concede No Active Surveillance On Long-Term Effects Of COVID-19 Vaccines.
• Mapping The World's Top 50 Science And Technology Hubs.
• Black Activist Lawyer's Idea To Stop Law-Breaking: Just Legalize Crime.

Wall Street Journal:

• Ozempic Is Taking Off With the World’s Largest Obese Population.
• Aboard a U.S. Carrier, a Front-Row Seat to China Tensions.
• America’s Oil Power Might Be Near Its Peak.
• Nvidia’s Staying Power Is the $2 Trillion Question.
• Israel Sets Deadline for Rafah Ground Offensive Within Weeks. 
• One of the Most Expensive Luxury-Property Markets Is Becoming a Lot Cheaper.
• The Boom in Battery Metals for EVs Is Turning to Bust.
• Billions Start Flowing to Chip Makers for New U.S. Factories.
• A Venture Capitalist’s View of AI: Where the Money Is.

CNBC:

• Houthis claim ‘catastrophic’ attack in Red Sea that prompted crew to abandon ship.
• Magnificent 7 profits now exceed almost every country in the world. Should we be worried?

Reuters:

• Germany likely in recession, Bundesbank says.
• Capital One considers acquisition of Discover Financial, source says.

MarketWatch.com:

• As Nvidia prepares to post results, these three Europe chip names are tipped for gains, JPMorgan says.

NewsMax:

• About-Face: Biden Now Willing to Meet With Speaker on Aid Package.
• Israel Expects Up to 8 Weeks of Intense Fighting in Gaza.

Fox News:

• Biden admin reportedly goes full-throttle on trying to prevent you from driving gas cars.
• Border Patrol union slams Biden over border crisis: 'Catastrophic disaster'.
• Chemical found in popular breakfasts linked to potential health issues, study says.

FiveThirtyEight.com: 

• Updated GOP South Carolina Primary Poll Average: Donald Trump 64.7%, Nikkei Haley 31.6%.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

•  NOT Making Headlines: Russian Dissident Navalny Compared Himself to Trump and His Persecution and Censorship by the Democrats and Biden Regime.
• MUST READ: Lara Trump Echoes Clueless Ronna McDaniel in Securing the 2024 Election – It Won’t Cut It and We All Know It – Here Are 10 Points That MUST Be Addressed.
• REPORT: Trucking Company Cancels Shipments to New York City on Monday (VIDEO).
• Chicago Activist Calls for Moratorium on Migrants: Poor and Homeless an ‘Afterthought’ in Their Own City.
• Embalmer Shares Shocking Video of Removing “Strange White Fibrous Clots” from a Dead Body — “I Didn’t Start Seeing This Until Early 2021” (GRAPHIC VIDEO). 
• SHOCK VIDEO: Huge Line of Illegals “As Far as the Eye Can See” Traverse Down Steep, Rocky Mountain After Crossing Into San Diego. 
• Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Says He’s Boycotting in “Loser State” New York — Sets Sights on Oklahoma, North Dakota, West Virginia, Florida, and Texas for Future Ventures. 
• House Panel Issues Subpoena for Penny Pritzker, Others, Over “Continued Failure” to Comply with Harvard Antisemitism Probe.
• Military Survey: One World Leader’s Regime is Overwhelmingly Considered the Greatest Threat to America.
• House Dems Furious After Guest Chaplain Dares to Tell Truth About Liberal America.
• Dr. Michael J. Schwartz, Author of “Fauci’s Fiction” Joins Rose Unplugged (AUDIO).
• Mass Shooter and Cop Killer in Minnesota Previously Defended Obama – Deceased Officers Named.
• EXCLUSIVE FOIA RELEASE: Iranian Regime Interfered in 2020 Presidential Election the Week Before Election – Chris Krebs Kept This from Congress During Testimony.
• Green Tyrants Get Horrible News as Finance Giants Pull Out Left and Right.
• Biden Border Crisis: Military-Age Syrian Men Illegally Cross Into San Diego (VIDEO).
• California Democrats Introduce Bill That Would Force Homeowners and Renters to Disclose Number of Firearms to Insurance Companies, Government.
• Here We Go: WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyesus Warns of Inevitable ‘Disease X’ Pandemic — ‘A Matter of When, Not If’ (VIDEO).
• Leftist Italian Judge Declares Sending Illegal Migrants Back to Libya is a Crime in Blow to PM Meloni.
• WATCH: Moment Two Minor Teens Get Into Heated Exchange Before Shooting Up Kansas City Chiefs Parade.
• TRUMP’S TOUGH TALK WORKS: Germany Vows To Spend Over 2% GDP in Defense ‘For Decades to Come’, Pressures European Allies To Do the Same.
• Gina Godbehere Running for Maricopa County Attorney Against Incumbent Rachel Mitchell who Defended Maricopa County’s Rigged Elections – SIGN NOMINATION PETITION HERE.

The Epoch Times:

• US Could Lose Space Race to China After NASA Retires International Space Station, Experts Warn.

X:

• @SaltyGoat17 - Dutch MEP Rob Roos says "climate change" is a fabricated crisis, adding, "We are heading to a new kind of communism." He's 100% correct!! Watch and share because what he describes is what is coming our way FAST!! (video)
• @amuse - Hacker shows judge how, with nothing more than a ballpoint pen, he can change vote totals on Georgia’s Dominion voting machines. Gov @BrianKempGA refuses to update the machines or move to paper ballots. Who is paying/pressuting him not to fix them?
• @LaNativePatriot - BREAKING - They Just Made It Official, New Bill Introduced “Courage To Serve Act” This Will Allow Migrants Serve In The US Military & Get Citizenship With Benefits. Please tell me…. How did Rome fall again? (video)
• @stclairashley - This is INSANE. Thank you for covering the migrant crisis
  @nickshirleyy.
• @Resist_CBDC - ALL sides working together to enslave you. No one is coming to save US - WE must save ourselves. "countries are moving to digital ID ... to engage with government and conduct their business" - Digital ID is necessary for #Agenda2030 permanent scarcity and rationing "the real world events is this technology revolution" - AI will permit individualized 24/7 digital manipulation.
• @KanekoaTheGreat - NEW: A recent poll from the Pew Research Center reveals 8 out of 10 Americans hold negative views about the U.S. government's handling of illegal immigration. Astonishingly, 73% of Democrats, 89% of Republicans, and 80% of adults overall believe that the government is doing a "very" or "somewhat" bad job of dealing with illegal immigration. Just 18% have a positive view of the government’s handling of the border, with 1% claiming that the government is doing a "very good" job. Notably, there has been an 11% surge in dissatisfaction among Democrats compared to a similar Pew survey conducted less than 8 months ago. (graph)
• @WallStreetSilv - "They will spend $252 MILLION on the illegal migrants". "17,000 migrants come into this city and that's just in Chicago". "In one generation, the black vote will be null". "They will have an additional 24,000 people on the voting rolls". "They're playing chess, and you all are playing checkers". "You are damning our youth, our next generation to poverty" (video)
• @WallStreetApes - America Being Permanently Rigged & Dismantled Right Before Our Eyes. “Breaking News and a ruling that could decimate the landmark Voting Rights Act. A panel of federal appeals court judges has ruled that only the federal government, not citizens, not groups, can sue under a key part of the voting rights act, which effectively guts that legislation in 7 states.” (video) NEW 2024 Update: 80% Of Americans Tested Positive For Hazardous Pesticide Called Chlormequat. These Pesticides Are Even Commonly Found In Children’s Cereals. Manufacture Don’t Have To Include The Ingredient On The Box Because They’re Pesticides. Important Info About Americans Being Scammed By The Food Industry. FDA Only Requires Grass Fed Beef To Be Fed Grass The Last 30 Days Of Its Life.
• @LaraLogan - Yes - anything that stands in the way of their ability to steal another election must be stopped.
• @GameofTrades_ - ATTENTION: Housing defaults have just hit the highest levels since 2013. This is now starting to look scary.
• @megynkelly - This is what this madness has wrought folks. Being “pc”/polite/saying nothing when you know it’s wrong has gotten us to abusing babies. Pls pls pls find your voice. This is sick. It’s mental illness - and we are enabling it.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,003,176 Reports(+2,451 from prior report) Through January 26th, 2024.

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 +.5% on average.
• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 100.25 -1.75 basis points.
  
• China Sovereign CDS 64.25 -.25 basis point.
• China Iron Ore Spot 125.8 USD/Metric Tonne -1.3%.
  
• Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 40.3 -.05%
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 73.2 +.8%.
• Volatility Index(VIX) futures 15.1 +1.0%. 
• Euro Stoxx 50 futures -.08%.
• S&P 500 futures -.06%.
• NASDAQ 100 futures +.04%.

Morning Preview Links

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are mostly higher, boosted by industrial 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 75% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Record US Stock Rally Is Under Threat From a World in Turmoil.
• Cracks Start to Emerge in Global Central Bank Synchronicity.
• France Lowers Its 2024 Economic Growth Forecast to 1%.
• Spain Conservatives Win Regional Election as Socialists Retreat.
• Thousands March in Mexico City Against President, Ruling Party.
• Israel to Launch Rafah Offensive Unless Hostages Home by Ramadan.
• SoftBank Stock Rises on CEO’s Plan for $100 Billion Chip Project.
• Asia Stocks Rise as China Holiday Data Buoys Mood: Markets Wrap.
• Oil Near Highest This Year as Mideast Tensions Stoke Bullishness.
• Goldman Lifts S&P 500 Target to 5,200 on Profit Expansion.
• Companies Scramble to Reduce Expectations as Stocks Ignore Risks.
• Apple Set to Face Near €500 Million EU Fine in Spotify Row.
• CRE Market Woes Mount as Assets Get ‘Stranded’ by New CO2 Rules. 
• Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week.
• Washington’s Blame Game and Market Worries: Sunday US Briefing.

Zero Hedge:

• "F**k Around & Find Out": Truckers Warn Loads To NYC Will Be Rejected Starting Monday
• Chinese Stocks Set To Soar
• "Everything Is Going Wrong For The Deep State" - Martin Armstrong Warns That's What "Makes Them So Dangerous" Now
• In Trading, "The Narrower Your Focus, The Tighter Your Timing, The More Likely You'll Lose".
• San Francisco Appoints First Non-Citizen To Election Commission.
• Lawless America: Truck Hauling Corvettes Hijacked In 'Grand Theft Auto'-Like Robbery.
• Taxing Billionaires Won't Reduce Taxes For The Middle Class.
• Weekend News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
• Leading Scientific Journal Humiliated After Publishing Fake AI-Generated Paper About Rat With Giant Penis.
• Harvard Professor Says "All Hell Broke Loose" When His Study Revealed No Racial Bias In Police Shootings.
• Morgan Stanley: Biden's Red Hot Government Spending And Fiscal Stimulus Ends When The Reverse Repo Runs Out.
• The trouble with Tesla and 10 other weekend charts.
• Assange's Final UK Court 'Moment Of Truth' Arrives As Wife Warns He 'Will Die' If Extradited To US.
• Watch: Mobs Of Violent African Migrants Riot, Attack Police In Holland.
• Biden Says Ukraine May Lose More Cities After Avdeyevka Due To US Aid Delay.
• The Great Reset Didn't Work: The Case Of EVs.
• Idaho House Approves Death Penalty For Certain Sex Crimes Against Children.
• "License To Play God": Physician Group Files Brief Against Biden In COVID.
• "He Ingested A Drug": Former YouTube CEO's Son Found Dead In UC Berkeley Dorm.
• Major Victory For Russian Army As Ukraine Forces Flee Eastern City.
• Is The Fed's Next Move A Rate Hike.
• NATO's New Mission: Peace Through Censorship.
• State Department Threatens Congress Over Censorship Programs.
• How The CIA Destabilizes The World.
• US Air Force Needs Robotic Wingmen In Fight Against Communist China: Report.
• Fentanyl Lollipops? Top Border Patrol Doctor Asked Staff For Narcotics Before UN Meeting In New York: Whistleblowers.
• Iran Transported $2.8BN Worth Of Oil In 2023 Under Washington's Nose. 
• Incest Is Best? The Economist Says Copulating-Cousins Cool "In Most Cases".
• Turley: Obscene Award Against Trump Is Testing New York's Legal Integrity.

Wall Street Journal:

• He Tamed Deutsche Bank. But Markets Still Aren’t Convinced.
• FBI Director Says China Cyberattacks on U.S. Infrastructure Now at Unprecedented Scale.
• How Companies Are Starting to Use Generative AI to Improve Their Businesses.
• Beware the Top Google Search Result. It Might Be Wrong.
• Two Police Officers, Paramedic Are Shot to Death in Minnesota.
• Trump Fraud Ruling Threatens to Curb Family Business.
• Why New York City Can’t Fix Its Ugly Scaffolding Problem.

CNBC:

• Companies — profitable or not — make 2024 the year of cost cuts.
• CNBC Daily Open: Fears over yet another hot inflation gauge.
• ‘It is urgent’: European leaders appeal for greater support for Ukraine as Russia makes major gain.
• Sony plunged $10 billion after its PS5 sales cut. But a bigger issue is its near decade low games margin.
• Biden administration to reportedly relax EV rule on tailpipe emissions.
• Top Wall Street analysts like these 3 stocks for long-term growth.

NewsMax:

• Netanyahu Cabinet Votes to Reject 'Unilateral' 2-State Solution.
• Brazil's Lula Likens Gaza War to Holocaust; Israel Incensed.

Fox News:

• Radio icon Charlamagne tha God deals devastating blow to 'uninspiring' Biden.
• Kansas City mayor accuses gov of racist trope for calling parade shooters 'thugs'.
• Gen Z has found their state of choice and it's not California or New York.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Major Exposé Part 1: Soros-Financed Non-Profit Caught in Global Election Interference Scheme — Retired Gen. Wesley Clark Admits Interfering in Elections in Italy, Greece, and Hungary (VIDEO).
• EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Forces Army Reserve Troops in Midwest to Conduct Mock Exercise with Gov. Abbott’s “Drowning Migrants in the Rio Grande” and Texas Soldier Shooting Swimming Migrants Yelling “America First“ — A Violation of HATCH Act.
• EXCLUSIVE: “New York Became My TOP Loser State” – Kevin O’Leary Speaks with The Gateway Pundit Following New York Judge’s “Attack on Every Entrepreneur in America”.
• United States Sees LARGEST Population Increase in History in 2023 – Thanks to Joe Biden’s Open Borders.
• DEI Monsters Take Down 90-Year-Old Disability Volunteer for Not Understanding Pronouns.
• Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) Requests Formal Inquiry into Intelligence committee Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) for “Reckless Disregard” in Sounding Alarm on “Serious National Security Threat” in Attempt to Interfere with FISA Reform Legislation and Ensure Funding for Ukraine.
• LAWRENCE SELLIN EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Department of Agriculture Is Conducting Bird Flu Research with a Chinese Scientist Linked to People’s Liberation Army.
• Sheriff Office Confirms Mitch McConnell’s Sister-in-law Angela Chao Drowned After Car Went into Texas Pond.
• NYPD Faces Unprecedented Surge in Violence: Over 5,300 Officers Assaulted in 2023 and 1,200 Injured in Just 90 Days.
• WAYNE ROOT: LET “THE GREAT NEW YORK CITY BOYCOTT” BEGIN. CONSERVATIVES TO NEW YORK: “DROP DEAD.”
• Does Anyone Believe This?… New York Governor Tells Businesses “They Have Nothing to Fear” After Democrat State Leaders Fleece Donald Trump of $355 Million.
• Here We Go: CDC Confirms Mysterious Outbreak on Cruise Ship Infecting Over 150 Passengers and Crews (VIDEO).
• Four Out of Five Americans Test Positive for ‘Emerging Contaminant’ Found in Popular Cereal Brands: Study.
• Praise Where Praise Is Due… Jesse Watters Talks Mail-In Ballots and Democrat Voter Fraud on FOX News – The Most Important Issue Facing the Nation (VIDEO).
• “85 Million of Us Are Going to Vote! – They Can’t Cheat Enough to Beat Him!” – Crowd EXPLODES as Michigan Autoworker Promises 85 Million Voters for Trump in 2024! (VIDEO).

Epoch Times:

• CCP Tightens Exit Controls Amid Sharp Increase in Citizens Fleeing China.
• Exports to China Soar to $17 Billion as Trade Barriers Fall.
• How’s the Decoupling From China Going?

X:

• @disclosetv - NEW - Biden's "green energy plan" could allow Chinese firms to "extend their global monopoly" and "dominate" the U.S. market. (map)
• @JackPosobiec - Watch how easily Obama lies directly to an interviewer. Now rethink everything from his 8 years in office. (video)
• @realstewpeters - Man calls for the EXTERMINATION of White people LIVE on C-SPAN! (video)
• @GameofTrades_ - Credit card defaults from small lenders have hit RECORD levels. This is even higher than the peak of the Dot Com bubble and Financial Crisis Let that sink in. (graph)
• @VigilantFox - “NO LIVES WERE SAVED” by the COVID-19 injections, says researcher and scientist @denisrancourt. In fact, Rancourt and his fellow scientists found in their analysis that all-cause mortality INCREASED every time the COVID-19 shots were deployed. (graph)
• @WallStreetApes - California & All Of America, YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS. Clouds Look Different, Weather Is Different, It’s Not Climate Change, It’s THIS. (video)
  
• @BGatesIsaPsycho - US Patent - Cloudseeding. Nothing to see here - just a US Patent for Cloud Seeding 3D Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles. Remember it’s just a patent though - I’m sure they would never stratospherically inject these in the atmosphere. Amy Schumer develops VAIDS. Vaccine acquired immune deficiency syndrome is very very real. (pic) HOLY CRAP - Tucker Carlson calls out Satanic WEF Depopulation Agenda “You’re the Target & Don’t Lie to yourself”. (video)
  
• @Real_RobN - And here it is, Video and Audio CONFIRM, PA election officials could not reconcile the 2020 election and conspired by altering and destroying evidence to cover it up, “everyone in there was sweating bullets because they thought they were going to be taken away in cuffs”. (video)
• @DiedSuddenly - Crimes against humanity. (graph)
• @KanekoaTheGreat - Harvard surveyed 150 misinformation experts and determined they "strongly leaned toward the left of the political spectrum." Less than 5% identified as "slightly right." Do you recall when the terms misinformation and disinformation were introduced into public discourse? This introduction coincides with the government's efforts to suppress populism and domestic dissent, particularly following Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.
• @dom_lucre - DEVELOPING: My coverage about the children mining cobalt in Congo has reached the continent of Africa. From what I see, most of the continent is happy and hopeful that European journalists are starting to report on the blood and pain that children go through to make our technology and expose the corruption of Joe Biden and the Democrat party. (video)
• @wideawake_media - Speaking on a WEF panel, climate doomsday preacher, Al Gore, dials the ludicrous and apocalyptic rhetoric up to eleven. "[Greenhouse gases are] now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day." (video)
• @JunkScience - The climate hoax is only still alive because climate realists have been censored for decades. The hoaxers have never been right. We've never been wrong. Yet we are shut up and shut down. Here, climate hoaxers try to censor the refinery trade association @AFPMonline for labeling Biden's intentionally impossible-to-meet fuel economy standards a mandate for EVs.
• @WallStreetSilv - These are packages you can buy in Vancouver, Canada. You can literally go to the store in Canada and legally buy these hard drugs. (pic)
• @TheChiefNerd - “The US government is spending $1 million of American taxpayer money to fund experiments on dangerous bird flu viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists. 

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,003,176 Reports(+2,451 from prior report) Through January 26th, 2024.

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.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Global Factory Check-Up Is About to Reveal Extent of Nascent Recovery.
• Systemic Risk Concerns Grow Among Money Managers as Real Estate Woes Cause Turmoil.
• Top Investors Share the Toughest Lessons They Had to Learn.
• Wall Street Is Warming to Big Shale After $250 Billion of Deals.
• Bahamas Bank Deltec Accused of Giving Bankman-Fried ‘Secret’ Credit to Buy Tether.
• The Brutal Reality of Plunging Office Values Is Here.
• Wall Street Week: Fed in 'Too Much of a Hurry' on Rates, Summers Says.
• Lilly’s Climb Has Morgan Stanley Asking $1 Trillion Question.

Zero Hedge:

• "F**k Around & Find Out": Truckers Warn Loads To NYC Will Be Rejected Starting Monday
• Major Victory For Russian Army As Ukraine Forces Flee Eastern City
• Conditions Not Right For Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks, China Says After Appeal From Kiev.
• Middle America Is Dying, And D.C. Doesn't Care.
• US Prepares New Weapons Transfer To Israel, Ironically While Pushing For Ceasefire.
• Cultural Marxism & The Corruption Of Common Law.
• 10 Reasons Why The World Can't Run Without Fossil Fuels.
• Fani 'Tainted' Whole Case: Trump.
• RFK Jr. Scores Big Win In Lawsuit Accusing Biden Admin Of Censoring COVID Vaccine Info.
• US (Re)Designates Houthis A Terrorist Organization.
• Is Artificial Intelligence Hope? Hype? Or A Market Disaster In The Making?
• Bidenomics Fail: White House Plans Downshift In Electric Vehicle Transition As Demand Slides.
• Chicago Mayor Extends Contract On Anti-Crime Program That He Campaigned Against As Racist.
• From Censorship To Criminalizing Dissent.
• The 'Liberal Gap' Opening Up Between American Men & Women.
• The US Housing Market: Rent-Serfs & Artificial Scarcity.
• Texas To Build Military "Base Camp" On Mexico Border To House 1,800 Soldiers.
• Conspiracy Theory Debunker Finds Real Conspiracies.
• EU "Suicide Pact" Threatens To Flood Continent With 75 Million More Migrants.
• If only there were signs...(part 2).
• RFK Jr: The Wuhan Cover-Up & The Rise Of The Biowarfare-Industrial Complex.
• How Progressive Policies Are Designed For Civilizational Suicide.
• Tennis Courts Slated For Empty Manhattan Lot After Office Tower Plans Postponed.
• Elite Colleges Reconsidering SAT Score Requirements.
• Kremlin Calls Nuclear Space Weapon Story A 'Trick' To Get Biden's Ukraine Aid Passed. 
• Visualizing Racial Diversity In America's 10 Largest States. 
• "Biden Reelection Chances Do Not Look Favorable": Political, Economic Indicators "Not Promising", Gallup Finds.
• Study Finds 80% Of Americans Exposed To Fertility-Lowering Chemicals In Cheerios, Quaker Oats.
• Russian Media Thrilled By Biden's LNG "Gift" To Putin.
• Slave Descendants Want $74,000,000,000 From Saint Louis University.
• US Banks Saw $65BN Deposit Flight Last Week, Loan Volumes Shrank. 
• Stocks and bonds sold on hot PPI but dollar pares gains on soft UoM - Newsquawk US Market Wrap.
• Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid As Stagflation Fears Wreck 52-Year-Old Equity Win-Streak.

Wall Street Journal:

• Selling Insurance Has Become One of the Worst Jobs in California.
• It’s the End of the Web as We Know It.
• Inside Kim Godwin’s Challenging Tenure as ABC News President. 
• How the Big Airlines Beat the Budget Guys at Their Own Game.
• How to Stay Mentally Sharp Into Your 80s and Beyond.
• Harvard Alumni Are Going After a New Target: the Football Coach.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (LHX) and (DBRG).

CNBC:

• Germany’s defense minister says spending 2% on defense ‘can only be the start’.
• Why Monster Beverage is the best-performing stock of the last 30 years.
• What will retail look like in five years? Top industry executives share their predictions.

MarketWatch.com:

• Small-cap stocks haven’t been this volatile in nearly a year. What it means for the long-suffering segment.
• Nvidia is expected to be the best performer in the S&P 500 through 2025, by this measure.

NewsMax:

• Joe DiGenova: Choose Fla. Over N.Y. for Business.
• Rep. D'Esposito to Newsmax: Trump NY Case Blatant 'Political Persecution'.
• Hamas: 'Many' Israeli Hostages Dead, Suffering.

Fox News:

• SEE IT: Liberal MSNBC host has unexpected reaction to Trump penalties, questions merits.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Michael Whatley, the Trump-Endorsed Candidate for RNC Chair, Previously Told Voters to Disregard Trump’s Endorsement of Rep. Ted Budd for Senate Days After Announcement — Also Shows No Concern for Voter Fraud Claims or Forensic Audit in North Carolina.
• National Geographic Names Drag Queen and Climate Activist ‘Traveler of the Year’.
• “Most Secure Election in US History” Former CISA Director Chris Krebs Joined CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to Begin the Propaganda Campaign Ahead of the 2024 Election.
• SICK: Funeral of Transgender Activist and Atheist Prostitute Faces Backlash for Including Prayers for Sex Change and Celebrating ‘Whoredom’ at Catholic Cathedral in NYC (VIDEO).
• WATCH: Illegal Alien From China Admits on Video He is Not Seeking Asylum – Only Here to “Take the Money” (VIDEO).
• Dutch PM Rutte Urges European Leaders to ‘Stop Moaning and Whining and Nagging About Trump’, Says NATO Has to ‘Work With Whoever Is on the Dance Floor’.
• (VIDEO) East Palestine Residents React to Biden’s Visit OVER One Year After Toxic Chemical Explosion, Say They are Still Suffering from Health Issues, Worried About “Cancer Cluster” – “He Has NOT Helped Us. He’s Too Little Too Late.”.
• U.S. Will Build Five New Military Bases for Somali National Army, Costing Over $100 Million.
• San Francisco Appoints First Non-Citizen to Sit on the City’s Elections Commission – And She’s Only Been in the US Since 2019.
• Dagen McDowell Warns New Yorkers: “It’s Not Just Trump They Are After! If You Run a Business in New York State – You Better Get the Hell Out of Here!” (VIDEO).
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Fires Back at Dem Senator Coons Over Ukraine Aid — Challenges Him to ‘Fight Russia on the Front Lines Himself’.
• MASSIVE Explosion Leaves Virginia Home Completely Incinerated and Causes Ground to Shake – One Firefighter Killed and 11 Others Injured (VIDEO).
• An Update — President Trump Was A Victim Of Espionage, Both Foreign And Domestic.
• Glenn Beck Lists the TOP TEN Times That Joe Biden Has Acted Like a Dictator.
• North Carolina RINOs Attack Conservative Lt. Governor Mark Robinson for Defending Women’s Bathrooms.
• “If This Judgment Sticks, Every Developer Must Be Jailed – It’s Appalling – It’s UnAmerican” – Entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary on Today’s Colossal Ruling Against President Trump and His Two Sons.

Epoch Times:

• China Merges Small Banks with Bigger Ones as Temporary Solution to Looming Financial Crisis.
• US Air Force Reoptimizes in Face of Growing Threats From the CCP.

X:

• @JesseBWatters - The DOJ is bringing felony charges against the "credible" FBI informant who said Joe & Hunter Biden were involved in a $10m bribery scheme with Burisma. Everyone who blows the whistle on the Biden's seems to get locked up. (video)
• @RepMTG - You want to know one of the BIG reasons why I fight so hard to force a peace deal in Ukraine? Here you go.
• @FactsMatterRB - 𝗔 𝟳𝟳% 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀? That's what a WHO sub-agency is projecting by 2050 worldwide. Meanwhile, why is the CDC now tracking the unvaccinated? (video)
• @carolmswain - Harvard professor says ‘all hell broke loose’ when his study found no racial bias in police shootings.
• @GameofTrades_ - Bankruptcy filings are aggressively moving higher. (graph)
• @WallStreetSilv - Why are Chinese migrants the fastest growing group entering America illegally? This needs to be looked at very carefully. Something seems very suspicious about this. (video) New Yorker goes off about NYC migrant crisis. "They're not legal, If they were legal, they need to pay taxes" "There's no laws against illegal migrants committing crimes" "It's lawlessness" (video)
• @Libsoftiktok - A group of mostly Chinese military-age males wait to be released into the US. Once they enter they will disperse throughout the country. Nothing to see here… (video)
• @amuse - Flashback: GA Gov @BrianKempGA called for an audit of the 2020 election and within hours his key staffer and boyfriend of his daughter was killed in a suspicious explosion. Kemp dropped all objections to the election afterward. Is that why he won’t remove Big Fani?
• @WallStreetApes - A Break Down Of Taylor Swift’s NFL Boyfriend Travis Kelce New Scam. Travis Kelce Is Breaking Into Hollywood & Financing His Own Firm Except He’s Not. He’s Using Joe Biden’s Green Energy Tax Credit From The Inflation Reduction Act, Meaning YOU Are Paying For It. American Tax Payers Are Picking Up The Bill
• @BGatesIsaPsycho - Chile Fires Looks like hell on Earth. Strange that the lying MSM aren’t using it as an opportunity to push their bogus Climate Change hoax Agenda. Expect to see Blackrock Sponsored Lithium mines during recovery. (video)
• @DC_Draino - Media is freaking out over a Russian leader being killed in Russia prison, but didn’t say much when an American journalist was arrested & killed by the Zelensky regime in Ukraine. I repeat, an American journalist was arrested & killed by the Zelensky regime in Ukraine Gonzalo Lira Say his name you cowards.
• @TuckerCarlson - Ep. 75. The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy." (video)
• @CitizenFreePress - Elon Musk wants to know who Trump is supposed to pay "given that there were no victims."
• @jorna_gc - Joe Biden uses Navalny’s death to call for Congress to pass the Senate’s $95.3 Billion foreign aid bill. (video)
• @ImMeme0 - Folks in Chicago are waking up and they are FED UP. (video) You are witnessing smugglers openly transporting pounds of drugs from Mexico into the U.S. in broad daylight without encountering any interference. (video)
• @TonyClimate - Rewriting history is at the core of the #ClimateScam.
• @greg_price11 - You literally cannot make this up. Biden’s DOJ has filed a lawsuit against the state of Tennessee because they made it illegal for prostitutes to knowingly spread HIV. They are saying it’s a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• @JackPosobiec - YOUTUBE KIDS IS FILLED WITH THE LGBT AGENDA. IT'S ALL BEING NORMALIZED TO ENGAGE THEM AT THE YOUNGEST AGE. UNINSTALL IT. (video)
• @IGSquawk - Weekend markets update: #DAX 17063 -0.02% #DOW 38584 +0.02% #NASDAQ 17667 +0.04% #FTSE 7696 +0.00% #HANGSENG 16288 +0.01% #GBPUSD 12602.3 -0.03% #EURUSD 10778.5 +0.01% #USDJPY 15020.5 -0.02%.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,003,176 Reports(+2,451 from prior report) Through January 26th, 2024.

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.