Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• China Home Market Slump Deepens as Prices Fall for Fourth Month.
• China’s Property Crisis Reaches Biggest Builder Country Garden.
• Beijing Reports Omicron Case 3 Weeks Before Winter Olympics.  
• China’s Economy Loses Steam Just as Omicron Spreads: Eco Week.
• U.S. Vaccinations Stall; Beijing Reports Omicron: Virus Update.
• Meme Stocks, De-SPACS and Biotech Slump in Rough Start to 2022.  
• Glaxo Rejects $68 Billion Unilever Bid for Consumer Business.  
• Biden’s Bad Winter Gets Worse With Inflation, Virus and Russia.
  
• Charting the Global Economy: Inflation’s Grip Tightens Further.
• Ackman Says Fed Needs Half-Point Rate Hike to Regain Credibility.  
• Wall Street’s Big Banks Are Set to Tap the Corporate Bond Market.  
• Fed Will Find It Hard to Talk About Path Ahead After March Hike.  
• Roughed-Up Treasury Market Must Now Reckon With Supply Shifts.  
• FBI Deployed to Hostage Situation at Synagogue in Texas.  
• Southeastern U.S. Braces for Major Winter Storm.

Wall Street Journal:

• Tech Giants Weave an Undersea Web of Power.
• People Really Want to Ski. Vail Is Racing to Keep Up.
• U.S. Businesses Sour on Saudi Arabia in Blow to Crown Prince.
• LSE Proposes Special Listings for Private Companies.
• The Week Biden’s Agenda Hit a Wall.
• Australia Feared Letting Djokovic Stay Would Fuel Antivaccine Sentiment.
• Omicron, Inflation and Labor Shortages: CEOs Brace for Change in 2022.
• New Maps Pit Republicans vs. Republicans and Democrats vs. Democrats. 
• Can Politics Get Better When Higher Education Keeps Getting Worse? Voters have the sense to resist notions like critical race theory. A generation from now, they may not. 
• A Deceptive Covid Study, Unmasked. Duke researchers look at transmission in schools and end up reinforcing their prior assumptions.
• The Pain of Online School Remains, Even When Kids Are in Classrooms.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (ADBE), (ANGI), (PXD), (COP), (DVN) and (FCX).
  

Fox News: 

• LIVE UPDATES: New details emerge about suspect who's been holding rabbi, 3 others hostage for hours.
• GOP state attorney general unveils slew of investigations hours after starting job.
• Biden reportedly set to RAM THROUGH police reform agenda using executive action.
• Dem committee’s new hire supports 'abolition' of police.

CNBC:

• The Fed is about to see a lot of new faces. What it means for banks, the economy and markets.
  
• Bill Ford is doubling down on Ford shares, and quietly amassing more control of the company. 
• How the U.S. fell behind in lithium, the ‘white gold’ of electric vehicles.

Zero Hedge:

• Fully Vaccinated Australians In Hospital For COVID-19 Surpass Unvaccinated.
• Leaked Fauci Financials Expose How Millionaire Doctor Profited From Pandemic.
• How Goldman Is Convincing Its Clients Not To Freak Out About Fed Rate Hikes.
• Japan Faces Three Meter High Tsunami Threat After Undersea Volcano Eruption In South Pacific.
• Politicizing COVID-19 From The Start.
• Democrats Moving Away From Lockdown Restrictions Over Fears Of Being Crushed Politically.
• TME Saturday: Sentiment screams buy, but....
• Supermarkets Slash Hours As Workers Call Out Sick; Store Shelves Remain Bare.
• Denial Of Natural Immunity In CMS Vaccine Mandate "Unprecedented In Modern History": Scott Atlas.
• The Great Omicron Sickout: Millions Of Unwell Americans Causing "Hellacious" Worker Shortages.
• British Government Used "Propagandistic" Fear Tactics To Scare Public Into Mass Compliance.
• Labor Shortage Hits CVS, Walgreens, Forcing Pharmacies To Close Early.
• Malone: 'Mass Formation' Deployed On You After Over 200 Years Of Study.
• Teachers Across France Stage Mass Walkout Over Govt's Ever-Changing COVID-19 Rules.
• China Reveals AI News Anchor, Almost Indistinguishable From Real Human.
• Gene Discovered In Georgia Sewer Resistant To World's Most Important Antibiotics.
• German Government Considering Shutting Down Telegram; Report.
• Norway Rakes In Highest-Ever Oil Revenues As Prices Surge.
• German Health Minister Supports Vaccine Mandate For All Adults.
• Sullivan: Chances That Russia Invades Ukraine "High".
• Iran Promotes Video Depicting Assassination Of Trump At Mar-a-Lago.

MarketWatch.com:          

• U.S. South braces for major winter storm.
  
• Buying a car from the factory sounds expensive, but it can actually save you money. Here’s how to do it.

NewsMax:

• DeSantis: Roberts, Kavanaugh Lacked 'Backbone' on Vaccine Mandate Ruling. 
• Twitter Bans Account for Threat to Kill Trump, But Ayatollah's Account Still Active.
• Rep. Fallon: 'Red Tsunami' Coming in This Year's Races.

TheGatewayPundit.com: 

• DirecTV Cancels OAN after Joe Biden Orders Media Outlets and Tech Giants to Banish Voices that Deviate from the Regime’s Official Narrative.
• Transgender UPenn Swimmer Lia Thomas Claims to be the “Jackie Robinson of Trans Sports”.
• UPDATE: Virginia Governor Youngkin Signs 11 Executive Actions on First Day in Office Including Banning CRT, Ending Vax Mandate, Ending School Mask Mandate, etc.
• Celine Dion Cancels Remaining North American Tour Dates Due to Recent Health Issue – “Severe and Persistent Muscle Spasms”.
• “Parents Should Have a Say in What is Taught in Schools” – Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin Receives Standing Ovation at Inauguration Speech (VIDEO).
• Hostage-Taker at Texas Synagogue Claims to be Brother of Incarcerated Terrorist “Lady Al-Qaeda” – Crisis Still Ongoing.
• New Normal: Football Star Alphonso Davies Develops Myocarditis – Will Be Out for Weeks.
• EXCLUSIVE: New Information Shows Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos Was Intimately Behind the Insertion of Drop Boxes Across the Country.
• 15-Year-Old Soccer Player from Brazil Dies from Cardiac Arrest Following National Football Cup Tournament Game.

Twitter:

• @LFConaction - #France Its packed !! You would think this is #Paris but it is the city of #Montpellier that is protesting against the Vaccine Pass and the insults President Macron has proffered against the people of France. (video)
  

GETTR:

• @DiscloseTV - NEW - Peer-reviewed large PSM study from Brazil finds, "regular use of ivermectin as a prophylactic agent was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates." NOW - Large protest against compulsory vaccination in #Vienna, Austria. (video) 

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 723,041 Reports(+7,185 from prior week) Through January 7, 2021. 

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.

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).