Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:

• US Says Red Sea Patrol Will Be Able to Thwart Houthi Attacks.
• China’s Video-Game Curbs Send Shivers Through Stocks Worldwide.
• OpenAI Is in Talks to Raise New Funding at Valuation of $100 Billion or More.
• Oil Posts Biggest Weekly Gain in Two Months on Red Sea Chaos.
• Wall Street Learns That This Year, Nothing Beat Owning the S&P 500.
• Musk Blasts Public Markets, Says Indexing Has ‘Gone Too Far’.
• Shorting the Dollar Is Gaining Favor After Fed’s Great Pivot.
• ‘Revenge Spending’ Drives Ballooning US Credit Card Balances.

Zero Hedge:

• 'Trump Derangement Syndrome Just Became Orwellian'; VDH
• Container Ships In Red Sea All But Disappear As Key Trade Route Freezes.
• Albert Edwards Warns Of A "Seismic Shock That Could Shake Investors To The Core" In 2024.
• 'Pursuing Litigation, Not Democracy' - Federal Judge Rejects Lawsuit To Remove Trump From Ballot.
• White House Prepares For "Serious Scrutiny" Of Nippon-US Steel Deal.
• Actors Report Being 'Blacklisted' For Unvaccinated Status.
• After Telework Surge, Federal Buildings Remain Largely Empty.
• President Trump’s Plan To Save America’s Cities: Gingrich.
• Tesla Launches New Mega Factory Project In Shanghai, Designed To Manufacture 10,000 Megapacks Per Year.
• Pentagon Alarmed Over Huge Price Tag Of Countering Cheap Yemeni Drones.
• American Hostage Dies In Gaza - White House Silent, No Plan On Horizon.
• Majority Of San Franciscans Support Testing Cash-Assistance Recipients For Drug Use: Poll.
• Large Bank Deposits Rise As Money-Market Outflows Accelerate, Small Banks Still Stressed.
• 'Whatever It Takes' Won't Be Enough.
• The bull/bear signal, liquidity, GenAI and Santa hedging.
• Christmas Gifts: The Newest Target Of Climate Change Activists.
• Russia Says Oil Exports Rose By 7% in 2023 Compared To Year Before Ukraine War.
• Stocks meander into Christmas after cool PCE - Newsquawk US Market Wrap.
• Crypto, Crude, & Crap Stocks Rally As Yield Curve Steepens, Rate-Cut Hopes Soar.

Wall Street Journal: 

• The Great Blue to Red State Migration Continues. The latest Census data finds that on present course six progressive states would lose 12 House seats in 2030 reapportionment.
• The Fight Over Apple’s iMessage and Those Green Bubbles.
• Iranian Spy Ship Helps Houthis Direct Attacks on Red Sea Vessels.
• A ‘Recipe for Disaster’: Insiders Warned Meta’s Privacy Push Would Shield Child Predators.
• Israel Hunts for Hamas Leaders in Gaza’s Khan Younis.
• Airline Passengers Are Still Losing It.

CNBC:

• Tencent loses over $43 billion in market value after China proposes new online gaming rules.
• Tech giants like Google and Meta slashed to DEI programs in 2023.
• Nike, Foot Locker shares sink after athletic apparel maker cuts revenue outlook.
• Karuna Therapeutics surges 47% after Bristol Myers Squibb announces $14 billion deal.

Reuters:

• Cummins to pay record-setting $1.675 billion US environmental fine.

MarketWatch.com:

• ‘Santa Claus’ rally time for stock market? Why investors should dial back their expectations for this seasonal year-end gift.
• OpenAI discussing new funding round that could give it $100 billion valuation: report
• U.S. new-home sales plunge in November.
• OpenAI discussing new funding round that could give it $100 billion valuation: report.
• American households are invested in the stock market like never before. That could mean seven lean years, says Wall Street veteran. 
• Biotech stocks set for a rebound in 2024, analysts say.

NewsMax:

• GOP Politicans Aim to Bump Biden Off 3 Swing-State Ballots.
• More Ships Carrying Oil Avoid Red Sea Route. 
• Container Rates Spike to $10K Amid Red Sea Crisis. 
• Holt, Shaffer: US 'Paid for Both Sides' in Middle East.  
• Rep. Burlison on the 'Worst Example' of DOJ Politicization.
• Matthew Whitaker: Colo. Ruling 'Complete Farce'.
• Colo. GOP Chair: Taking Trump Off Ballot Un-American.

Fox News:

• Obama reportedly got involved behind the scenes as Harvard's leader faced antisemitism controversy.
• Supreme Court declines quick ruling on Trump case in blow to special counsel's timeline.
• Biden earns himself a place in the history books with unprecedented approval ratings.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• BREAKING: GOP State Lawmakers Draft Bills to Remove Joe Biden from 2024 Ballots in Three Swing States.
• Minnesota Cities Received Millions in Federal Grants to Buy Electric Buses For Public Transit, But the Buses Failed in Subzero Temps, Had Charging Issues.
• Far-Left Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Hit with Ethics Complaint For Omitting Portions of Husband’s Income on Disclosure Forms.
• Reporter Tayler Hansen: “90% Passengers Flying Out of Laredo, Texas are Illegal Aliens” Border Patrol Not Testing Migrants for Dangerous Infectious Diseases.
• Illegal Alien from Colombia Released Into US Given 2031 ICE Check-in Date.
• Skyrocketing Food Prices Are Prompting Many Americans to Stock Up on Long-Term Storage Beef.
• Democrat Lawyer Found Guilty in $7 Million COVID Relief Fraud to Buy Rolls-Royce and 10-Carat Diamond Ring for $148,000.
• Top DOJ Official Lisa Monaco: FBI Sees Surge of 1,800-Plus Reports Related To Israel-Hamas War, Radical Islamic Terror Threats – Three Presidential Candidates Threatened.
• Vigilant Fox: Tucker Carlson Issues Major Warning on What the Establishment Has in Store for Trump.
• Trump to Remain on West Virginia Ballot After Obama-Appointed Judge Dismisses Case.
• The Satanic Roots of the Left’s All-Out War on Christian America.
• “Send Them All Back…Trump, Get in Here and Clean This Mess Up!” – Chicago Activist Mugged by Reality EXPLODES on Corrupt Chicago City Council for Coddling Illegals and Seemingly Endorses Trump (VIDEO).
• Leo Hohmann: In Relentless Pursuit of Endless Vaccines: Bill Gates Strikes Again with New ‘Wafer’ Vax.
• They Don’t Even Hide it Anymore: Democrat Staffer Kisses Satanic Statue at Michigan Capitol – Calls It Sexy.
• BOOM!: EPSTEIN Files to Be RELEASED, Hollywood Elites in PANIC MODE | Elijah Schaffer’s Top 5 (VIDEO).
• The Democrats’ Lawfare Attacks Aren’t Working – Trump Now Leads Joe Biden Among 18-34 Year-Olds. 
• THICK AS THIEVES: Clinton and Epstein – 1993-2013.
• Ablechild on Mass Killings: More Likely Related to Big Pharma than to Guns.

Epoch Times:

• Illinois Residents Sue to Keep Out EV Battery Company with CCP Ties.
• Beijing Can’t Fix China’s Economic Problems.
• Sen. Scott Calls on Grocery Stores to Stop Selling Garlic, Other Food From China.
• The CCP’s Gene Warfare.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 997,917 Reports(+9,212 from prior week) Through November 3rd, 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.