Today's Headlines
Bloomberg:
- EU’s Looming Gas Price Cap Could Trigger Abrupt Market Changes.
- Germany Beat Putin’s Energy Squeeze. But for How Long?
- Ukraine Latest: Russia Claims Advances in Zaporizhzhia Region.
- UK Activates Coal Reserve to Boost Supply During Cold Snap.
- Germany and France Push for Huge Spending to Compete With US.
- ECB’s Knot Wants at Least Two More Half-Point Rate Hikes.
- France Lifts Military Budget as Risk of High Intensity War Grows.
- Scholz and Macron Pledge to Strengthen EU in Response to Russia.
- Latin American Presidents Throw Weight Behind Campaign to Free Assange.
- Lula Fires Brazil’s Army Chief Arruda After Riots in Capital.
- Brazil and Argentina Are Discussing Whether to Combine Currencies.
- Ukraine Latest: Germany Signals Approval for Poles to Send Tanks.
- Asia Stocks Sentiment Buoyed by Tech, Fed Comments: Markets Wrap.
- Biden Says ‘No Regrets’ Over Handling of Classified Documents’ Discovery.
- Missteps on Secret Papers Create Self-Inflicted Crisis.
- Investors Struggle With When to Dive Back Into US Stock Market.
- Citadel Makes $16 Billion to Top Paulson’s ‘Greatest Trade Ever’.
Wall Street Journal:
- Tesla’s Price Cuts Put Pressure on Rivals.
- Fed Sets Course for Milder Rate Rise.
- Europe’s Leaders Are in Battle of Wills Over Ukraine War.
- Debt Ceiling Looms Over Capitol.
- Investors Plow Into Renewables, but Projects Aren’t Getting Built.
- Genesis Demise Marks End of Era for Crypto’s Pseudo-Banks.
- The First ETF Launched 30 Years Ago, Revolutionizing Investing.
- For Future Viral Threats, Health Officials Look to Sewage.
- The Deceptive Campaign for Bivalent Covid Boosters. Studies show they fail to live up to their promise, but vaccine makers and experts keep pushing them.
- WATCH:Police, mayor give update after 10 killed in mass shooting with suspect still on the loose.
- Kim Kardashian gives lecture at Harvard Business School, gets ripped online.
- Administrator wants 'privileged white voices' dismissed from curriculum plans.
CNBC:
- Top Wall Street analysts pick these stocks to climb 2023’s wall of worry.
- The 10 best cities to buy a home in 2023 are all in the South.
- Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction.
Zero Hedge:
- Fiery But Peaceful In Atlanta? CNN Once Again Suggests That Leftist Riots Are Not Violent.
- Police Arrest 6 After Fiery Atlanta Riots, Mayor Confirms Antifa Used Explosives.
- Six More Classified Documents Discovered At Biden House.
- Police Release First Images Of California Mass Shooting Suspect.
- Turkey Outraged After Sweden Allowed Quran Burning In Front Of Stockholm Embassy.
- The Trillion-Dollar Coin Idea Is Just Another Way To Rip Us Off.
- Two Democrats Call For Investigation Into Biden Classified Documents Case.
- FAA Won't Divulge Data Behind Pilot Heart Arrhythmia Decision.
- Max pain market.
- "Such Demographic Decline Has Never Happened Across Major Global Economies".
- Weekend News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
- Climate Alarmists Panic That Twitter Under Musk Allows More Dissenting Views On Global Warming.
- Peru Closes Famed Machu Picchu Ruins, Tourists Trapped, As Anti-Govt Unrest Spreads.
- Election Integrity Watchdog Finds California Lost 10.9 Million Mail-In Ballots in 2022 Midterms.
- Mike Wilson: "The Consensus View Has Shifted Sharply, Particularly Regarding The Recession".
- Where Did All The Workers Go?
- Elon Musk Reveals "Major Side Effects" After 2nd COVID Booster.
- 'Penetration Rates' Across Global Dating Apps.
- Don't Call It Capitalism: The Fed's $8 Trillion Hoard Of Financial Assets.
- Going Cashless: Norway's Digital Currency Project Raises Privacy Questions.
- The Nord Stream Pipeline Could Be Repaired Within A Year.
- 10 Dead, 10 More Injured In Mass Shooting During California Lunar New Year Celebrations.
- The Dangerous Fantasy Of Scotland's Net-Zero Energy Transition.
- Record-High 250,000 Migrant Encounters Across US-Mexico Border In December 2022: CBP.
- School System Failing And Is No Longer There To Educate, Says Teacher.
- IRS Reminds Wage Earners To Adjust 2023 Withholding Now Or Face A Surprise Later.
- Goldman Trader: "Sell Strength On Any Move Back Toward The August Highs Of 4300".
- Newsom Twosome: Siebel Newsom's Films - Shown In Middle Schools - Feature Porn, Radical Gender Ideologies, And Her Husband Gavin.
MarketWatch.com:
NewsMax:
TheGatewayPundit.com:
- “I Want America to Wake Up and Pay Attention, Something Ain’t Right!” – Silk Describes How Her Sister Diamond ‘Died Suddenly’ in Her Kitchen (VIDEO).
- REVEALED: China Sent Hunter Biden a 3-Carat Diamond at About the Same Time Joe Biden Was Stealing and Relocating Classified Documents (VIDEO).
- 35-Year-Old Middle School Coach and Teacher Drops Dead in Front of His Class After Suffering from Heart Attack.
- Illegal Alien Gang Member Arrested For The Rape And Murder Of 20-Year-Old Maryland Woman With Autism.
- Biden White House MonkeyPox Response Coordinator Urges Americans to Take the COVID, Flu, and MonkeyPox Vaccines at the Same Time.
- Washington D.C. Made Itself the Enemy of the American People.
- Corrupt Mainstream Media Colludes to Censor Reporting of Diamond’s Memorial Service – Blackout of President Trump Continues.
- “I Don’t Want You to Worry About Paying for Nothing” – President Trump to Silk Regarding Memorial Service for Her Sister Diamond.
- Local Reporter Calls Riot in Atlanta “Largely Peaceful Protest” as Police Cruiser Goes up in Flames in the Background (VIDEO).
- UNBELIEVABLE: Urgent Care Physician Warns of Stroke Season After Flu Season (VIDEO).
- DEVELOPING: ‘Revenge’ Riot Erupts in Atlanta: Antifa Militants Destroy Businesses, Light Cop Car on Fire After Fellow Comrade Killed By Police (VIDEO).
- UH-OH: Biden Lackey and Manager of UPenn Biden Center Was Involved in Trump Impeachment Sham.
The Epoch Times:
Twitter:
- @P_McCulloughMD - Breaking @TrialsiteN : Tip of icerberg all countries seeing "safety signal" blinded @AlbertBourla cannot. Associated with kidney injury which always worsens cardiovascular outcomes. Bad news continues to pour in on failed biotech.
- @911NewsBreaks - 15 MILLION VIEWS: Pfizer CEO confronted in Davos,
The World Economic Forum wants this video removed. BANNED on Facebook,
Instagram and YouTube. Great work by Avi Yemini and Ezra Levant. (video)
OpenVAERS:
- VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 922,020 Reports(+3,512 from prior week) Through January 6th, 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.
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).
- COVID Money Tracker. Tracking the Covid response.
Night Trading
- Asian indices are -.25% to +.25% on average.
- Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 105.75 unch.
- China Sovereign CDS 52.25 -.25 basis point.
- China Iron Ore Spot 124.9 USD/Metric Tonne -1.0%
- Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 48.6 +.13%.
- Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 55.8 +.7%.
- Bloomberg US Financial Conditions Index .13 -9.0 basis points.
- Volatility Index(VIX) futures 21.0 -.41%.
- Euro Stoxx 50 futures +.44%.
- S&P 500 futures -.09%.
- NASDAQ 100 futures -.12%.
Earnings of Note
Company/Estimate
Before the Open:
Before the Open:
- (BKR)/.40
- (BOH)/1.42
After the Close:
- (BRO)/.46
- (CR)/1.90
- (LOGI)/1.03
- (ZION)/1.66
Economic Releases
10:00 am EST
- The Leading Index for Dec. is estimated to fall -.7% versus a -1.0% decline in Nov.
Upcoming Splits
- None of note
- The Eurozone Consumer Confidence report and the Jefferies Restaurant/Foodservice/Gaming/Lodging/Leisure Summit could also impact trading today.
- 9:30 am - 4:00 pm EST