Saturday, August 20, 2016

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:
  • U.S. Harboring Gulen Is Destroying Turkey Ties, Premier Says. U.S. failure to extradite Fethullah Gulen, the Islamic cleric blamed by Turkish authorities for the failed military coup last month, is “destroying” Turkish-American relationships, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said in a stern rebuke ahead of a visit by Vice President Joe Biden. “Nothing is the same after July 15,” Yildirim told journalists on Saturday in Istanbul. “America knows this, and we know they know it.” The premier described bilateral relations as “so-so.” Biden is scheduled to visit NATO ally Turkey on Aug. 24, a diplomatic move that follows Turkish officials’ repeated requests for extradition or deportation of Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania. The visit aims to improve ties and also discuss developments in neighboring Syria, Yildirim said.
  • Shale Drillers Party Like It’s 2014 as Oil Finds Bull Market. Shale drillers are adding the most oil rigs since crude was worth $100 a barrel as confidence that OPEC may finally agree to freeze output pushed futures into a bull market. U.S. producers have put 76 oil rigs back to work in eight weeks, the biggest and longest increases since 101 were added a couple months before the price crash started in mid-2014, Baker Hughes Inc. data released Friday show. The count rose by 10 this week, bringing the total oil rig count to 406.
  • Rate Hike or No, Bank of America Calls Treasuries a Winning Bet.
Wall Street Journal:
Barron's:
  • Had bullish commentary on (CLR), (C), (FB), (WLL), (GLD), (BATRK) and (APC).
Fox News:
  • At least 22 dead, 94 injured in Turkey wedding bombing. At least 22 people were killed and 94 others were injured Saturday when a bomb exploded at an outdoor wedding in southern Turkey, the provincial governor's office said. Gaziantep Province Gov. Ali Yerlikaya said the blast during the wedding in the city of Gaziantep, near the border with Syria, was a terror attack.
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