Bloomberg:
- The New Covid-19 Variant Is Already Disrupting Travel Around the World.
- More Businesses Will Stand Up to China After the Peng Shuai Outcry.
- Fastest Inflation in Euro’s History Set to Raise Pressure on ECB.
- Mexico to Require Visas for Brazilians Amid Migration Surge.
- Enbridge Plan to Keep Oil Pipelines Full Rejected by Canadian Regulator.
- Trading Desks Expected a Quiet Holiday. That’s Not What They Got.
- Oil’s Black Friday: Algos, Options Turn Tumble Into a Crash.
- OPEC+ Leans Toward Ditching Output Hike as Oil Sinks on Virus.
- Black Friday Discounts Fade as Demand, Inflation Power Ahead.
- Parts of Southern California Still in Dark as Power Cuts Continue.
- Thinner Crowds Ease Retail Supply Woes: Black Friday Update.
- Biden Talked Inflation with Fed, Upcoming Picks to Share Concern.
- Biogen Stock Plunges 40% Since June on Alzheimer’s Drug Turmoil.
- Fed’s Bostic Plays Down Risk From New Variant, Is Open to Faster Taper.
- ‘A Big Shock:’ the Market’s Covid Angst Explained in Charts.
- Traders Unwind Rate-Hike Bets as New Covid Fears Spread.
- Prince Andrew Accuser Says Claims Not Voided by Epstein Release.
Wall Street Journal:
- The Omicron Variant Panic. Markets fall, but the biggest danger is more government lockdowns.
- Biden’s Economic Plans Collide With Inflation Reality.
- Alibaba Empowers Business Units to Be More Agile as Challenges Mount.
- Ukraine President Says Russia Is Backing a Planned Coup.
- Black Friday Shopping Is Back, but the Doorbusters Aren’t.
- On the Front Lines of the Supply-Chain Crisis.
- Biden’s Covid Death Milestone. Despite the Vaccines, More Americans have died of the virus in 2021 than in all of 2020.
- Vaccine Mandate Legal Challenges Muddy the Waters for Employers Preparing to Implement Rules.
- Dow tumbles 900 points for worst day of year on fears of new Covid variant, S&P 500 drops 2%.
- Biden recommends reforms to oil and gas drilling but stops short of ban.
- Vaccine makers move quickly against new omicron Covid variant, testing already under way. Pfizer and BioNTech said they expect more data from lab tests in two weeks at the latest. “These data will provide more information about whether B.1.1.529 could be an escape variant that MAY REQUIRE AN ADJUSTMENT of our vaccine if the variant spreads globally,” the companies said. Pfizer and BioNTech said they can adapt their mRNA vaccine within six weeks and start shipping batches within 100 days if an escape variant is identified.
- Black Friday loses some luster as shoppers turn out to hunt scarce deals.
- Peloton has sued Lululemon in feud over cycle maker’s new apparel line.
- Oil drops 13% in worst day of 2021, breaks below $70 as new Covid variant sparks global demand concerns.
- South Africa health minister says travel bans ‘unjustified,’ as world reacts to new Covid variant.
- Car shopping for Black Friday deals is very different this year. Here’s what to know.
- Bitcoin enters bear market territory as risk assets plunge on new Covid variant.
MarketWatch.com:
- The U.S. stock market suffers ugly Black Friday selloff. Here are the biggest losers (and the winners).
- WHO warns world leaders against knee-jerk reaction to coronavirus variant from South Africa as U.K. and EU impose travel bans.
- Major cryptocurrencies tumble amid concern about new COVID variant.
- Opinion: On a very Black Friday for investors, many Reddit Apes were talking about buying and HODLing.
Fox News:
Newsmax:
- WHO Skips Over Greek Letter 'Xi' for New Variant .
- Rep. Tenney: China 'Worse Than the Soviet Union' of the 1980s.
Nature:
- Why US coronavirus tracking can’t keep up with concerning variants. (April 7) Laboratories supported by the US government have doubled the rate at which they are sequencing SARS-CoV-2 genomes over the past two months. Still, the number of genomes that the country shared in the online genome repository GISAID in March represented only 1.6% of its positive COVID-19 cases that month.
Zero Hedge:
- A Scared Nu World: Here's What We Know About The COVID "Omicron" Strain.
- China Launches "Combat Readiness" Drill Near Taiwan As US Delegation Arrives To Island For 2nd Time This Month.
- Professor Who Defended Pedophiles Announces Resignation.
- Amazon Shelling Out $3,000 Signing Bonuses, Chartering Ships, In Unprecedented Holiday Push.
- Soros, Druckenmiller, & The Mundell-Fleming Trilemma.
- Inflation Stretching Budgets Thin For Americans As They Rethink Holiday Buying.
- After Today's "Crazy" Meltdown, What Is Oil's Fair Value? Goldman Has The Answer.
- Watch: California Town Declares Independence From "Dictatorship Powers" Of State, Federal COVID Mandates.
- 26 More Cases Of Heart Inflammation Linked To Pfizer Jab.
- Vaccine Mandates Pressure Businesses, Stoke Division Amongst Employees, Executives Say.
- New York ER Closes As Employees Refuse To Comply With Vaccine Mandate.
- Deep Discounts Are Harder To Find This Black Friday Amid Snarled Supply Chains.
- The Metaverse Is A Scam: We're Being Herded Into The Matrix.
- 'Red Friday' - Stocks Suffer Worst 'Black Friday' Selloff In 70 Years.
- WHO Classifies "Omicron" As A "Variant Of Concern"; South Africa Lashes Out At Travel Restrictions.
- With VVIX In Full "Yikes" Mode, Negative Convexity "Accelerant Flows" Are Now In Play.
- California Port Truckers "Drowning" In Supply Chain Inefficiencies.
- Passengers On Last Flights Back To UK From South Africa Faced Few, If Any, Restrictions.
- LA Firefighter Being "Investigated" For Literally Wiping His Ass With Vaccine Mandate Letter.
- Former Pro Calls For "Investigation" After Another Soccer Player Suddenly Collapses.
TheGatewayPundit.com:
- All Four Botswana “Nu” Variant Patients Were Fully Vaccinated.
- Yesterday’s Conspiracy Is Today’s Medical Journal Headline: NEJM Explains How COVID Vaccines May Produce Spike Proteins that Lead to Myocarditis.
- MUST SEE LIST of Colleges and Universities Offering Therapy For Students Affected By “Racist” Rittenhouse Verdict.
- New COVID Virus Variant Identified in Africa Is “Highly Transmissible and Vaccine-Resistant”.
- “Those Who Play with Fire Get Burned” – China’s Message to Joe Biden for Including Taiwan in an Online Call.
- Filipino Basketball Star Roider Cabrera Suffers Cardiac Arrest and Collapses – Is Rushed to Hospital After Losing Consciousness (VIDEO).
- THIS TIME THERE’S VIDEO: Adama Traore Is Latest High-Profile European Soccer Star to Collapse on the Pitch During European Match.
- Phoenix Officials Push to Defund the Police With Vaccine Mandates – Hundreds Expected To Quit – Police and Firefighters Ask AG Brnovich to Step In.
- “It Would Be Crazy” To Kill Myself: Newly Released Federal Bureau Of Prisons Records Reveal That Jeffery Epstein was “Future-Oriented and Psychologically Stable” Before He Allegedly Committed Suicide In His Cell.
The Epoch Times:
EuroWeekly:
- EU’s most vaccinated country returns to ‘state of calamity’. Around 87 per cent of the Portuguese population of just over 10 million inhabitants is fully vaccinated, and the rapid implementation of vaccination in the country has been widely praised.
OpenVAERS:
- VAERS COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 654,412 (US) Reports Through November 12, 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).