Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:                    

• Oil Majors Won’t Come Running to Help World Facing Energy Crunch.
• Biden Pushes G-20 to Improve Energy Supplies to Address Crunch.  
• A Year After Xi’s Crackdown, Battered Tech Stocks Still Struggle.
• U.S., EU Near Trade Deal to Remove Steel, Aluminum Tariffs.  
• Goldman Now Sees Fed Hiking Rates in July as Inflation Lingers.  
• Cable Broadband Growth Is Sputtering, and No One’s Sure Why.  
• Craig Fuller on the Huge Challenge of Getting the Ports To Operate 24/7.
  
• Nvidia, Tencent in Race For Next Spot in Trillion-Dollar Club.  
• Your Weekend Reading: In Glasgow, the Whole World Is at Stake.  
• Charting the Global Economy: Inflation Builds in U.S. and Europe.   
• Three Days Will Reveal Global Alert Level on Inflation: Eco Week.  
• Corporate Credit Traders to Watch for Taper Announcement at Fed Meeting.

Wall Street Journal: 

• G-20 Leaders Back Deal to Overhaul Corporate Tax.
• Climate Consensus Sought After Decades of False Starts.
• Biden Framework’s New Programs Face Expiration Dates.
• Narrowing Yield Gap Signals Worries Over Fed, Growth.
• Even Paint Makers Are Feeling the Chip Shortage.
• Mask Mandates, Critical Race Theory Heat Up School-Board Elections.
• Journalists Venture Beyond Their Newsrooms to Try to Cash In.
  

IG:

• Weekend Markets Trading Live.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (ALB) and (NVR).
• Had bearish commentary on (HOOD).
  

CNBC:

• Facebook’s Meta mission was laid out in a 2018 paper declaring ‘The Metaverse is ours to lose’.
• G-20 leaders endorse global minimum corporate tax deal for 2023 start.
• GlobalFoundries CEO: We’re sold out of semiconductor chip capacity through 2023.
• American Airlines cancels more than 700 flights amid weather and staffing issues.
• House Democrats eye Tuesday vote on infrastructure and safety net bills.

Fox News:

• Fury grows over Biden plan to give illegal immigrants payments surpassing some 9/11 victim families. 
• Hilaria Baldwin drives husband Alec around in posh ski town after deadly 'Rust' shooting.
• Young boy dies in raging fire as vaccine mandate takes first responders off job. 
• Thousands of Air Force troops set to reject vaccine mandate.
• Migrant caravan rejects visa offers from Mexican officials, keeps going toward US.

Newsmax: 

• Biden, EU Take Up Iran Nuke Program Talks at G-20 in Rome.
• Rep. Murphy: Child Vaccine Mandates 'Problematic'.

USA Today:

• COVID vaccines for kids aren't as clear-cut as for adults: 5 factors for parents to consider. What about rare side effects? Pfizer-BioNTech's safety trials included about 5,000 children, which is not enough to identify rare side effects. The potential side effect of greatest concern is called myocarditis, a swelling of the heart muscle that can also be caused by COVID-19. Myocarditis after vaccination has been seen mainly in adolescents and young adults, mostly male, after their second dose of vaccine.

Reuters:

• Singapore has administered at least 10,094,499 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, that's enough to have vaccinated about 88.5% of the country's population(4th best rate in world). Singapore is reporting 3,700 new infections on average each day(463 infections per 100K people reported last 7 days), 100% of the peak - the highest daily average reported on Oct. 30.
  

Our World in Data:

• Singapore is seeing the number of COVID-19 patients in it's ICUs hit record levels despite the 4th best vaccination rate in the world(88.5% fully vaxxed).

WXYZ-TV Channel 7:

• After the vaccines were available to everyone, did you lose an unvaccinated loved one to COVID-19? Comment section:
  

Apex World News:

• Dr. Ruben on the FDA panel says people are never going to "learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it. That's the way it goes." (video)

Zero Hedge: 

• The $1 Trillion Child Tax Credit Is Really Universal Basic Income. 
• Multi-Millionaire Activision CEO Signals Virtue With 99.9% "Gender Equality" Pay Cut.
• Carriers Must Move 60K Containers Out Of Los Angeles/Long Beach By Halloween.
• US, EU Near Last-Minute Deal To Roll Trump-Era Tariffs On Steel And Aluminum.
• Biden Hits Iran With New Sanctions Ahead Of Nuclear Deal Talks.
• AT&T's 'Racial Re-Education Program' Asserts "White People, You Are the Problem".
• Lincoln Project Democrat Operatives Busted For White Nationalist Hoax.
• "Stop Medical Apartheid!" - Police Passive As Huge Crowd Protests Australia's Draconian Pandemic Powers Bill.
• Americans' Biggest Fear Is "Corrupt Government Officials".
• Supreme Court Declines To Block Maine COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate For Health Workers.
• Humanity Is Sleepwalking Towards Medical Apartheid...
• COP26 Is A Global Energy Embarrassment.
• Shellenberger: The Root Cause Of America's Homelessness Epidemic & Why The Term 'Homeless' Is Misleading.
• McMaken: Three Reasons To Start Taking Secession Seriously.
• PETA Wants Major League Baseball To Stop Saying "Bullpen" Because It's "Insensitive To Cows".

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Virginia Democrats Freak Out After 300,000 Absentee Ballots They Hoped to Drop in Upcoming Election Are Held Up by USPS.
• EXCLUSIVE: Due to COVID’s Success, China Is Now Working on Integrating Bio Warfare with Information Warfare in the Future. 
• AG Merrick Garland Called On the FBI to Stalk and Harass American Parents Because They Objected to This Porn Book in their School’s Library — (Warning on Content).
• Another Virginia Election, Another Election Steal – Virginia’s Fairfax County Reportedly Not Requiring Last Four Digits of SSN’s on Absentee Ballots.
• Analyst Suggests Joe Biden’s Poll Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Look. 
• Powerful: Nurse Films Herself Being Escorted Out Of Hospital For Refusing Vaccine — “Count The Cost”.
• Glenn Youngkin Draws Huge Crowd in Deep Blue Alexandria, Virginia (No Sightings of Lincoln Project Tiki Torch Hacks).

The Epoch Times:

• Green Energy Investors Neglect Human Rights Risks in China, Analyst Says.
• Los Alamos Laboratory Hiring Hundreds Amid Vaccine Firings.

Covid-19(Data, Maps, Graphs):

• Our World in Data:  New Global Covid-19 Cases(7-day rolling average graphs). New US Covid Hospital Admissions/ICU Admissions/Deaths
  
• FT.com:  Fully Vaccinated by Country(graph). Global Lockdown Stringency Index(map).
• Bloomberg.com:  International Travel Restrictions.  Case Graphs by State.
  
• NYTimes.com:  County Trends and Clusters. Local ICU Occupancy.
  
• Brown School of Public Health:  Covid Severity by State/County(map).  US Hospital Capacity(region).
  
• CovidActNow:  Covid Severity/Infection Rate by Metro Area.
  
• KFF:  US Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity.
  
• Carnegie Mellon: Covid-Like Symptoms in Community. Covid Symptom Searches on Google. Covid-Related Dr.Visits.  Restaurant Visits. Wearing Masks. (graphs)
  
• Safegraph.com:  Commerce Patterns(graphs).