Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Israeli Military Proceeds Into Rafah Despite Court Ruling
• China Firms Seek Dumping Probe for EU Pork, Global Times Says. 
• China’s Housing Rescue Has a Poor Track Record in Pilot Cities.
• Asian Stocks to Climb as Risk Sentiment Rebounds.
• Options Volatility Is Getting Crushed With Little Relief Ahead.
• Some Good News for Bond Traders Stuck in Fed Waiting Game.
• Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week.

Zero Hedge:

• Hamas Says It Captured Members Of Israeli Force In Ambush.
• Sam Altman-Backed Oklo Signs Deal To Power Another Data Center.
• "The Laptop Is Real": Justice Department Denounces Claims Of Russian Disinformation As A Biden "Conspiracy Theory".
• "Unequivocally More Cautious": Hedge Funds Sold Stocks At The Fastest Pace Since January.
• Cocaine, Meth Found In Tractor-Trailers During California Border Searches.
• "Sunny With A Chance Of Rain": A Look Inside Morgan Stanley's Mid-Year Outlook.
  
• Even CNN (!) Debunks Trump 'Reich' Ad Hysteria.
• Why Are They Drugging The Students?
• Sinaloa's Top Assassin Extradited To US For Flooding Nation With Fentanyl.
• House Democrats Pushing Back Against 'Divisive' Netanyahu Speech To Congress.
• Watch: Trump Booed, Heckled, Cheered At Rowdy Libertarian Convention -- Mocks Party's Poor Performance.
• The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor Is Larger Than Ever, And Frustration Is Growing To Very Dangerous Levels.
• NATO Country Says Goal Should Be Breakup Of The Russian Federation.
• Twister Chaos Tears Through Texas, Five Dead, Dozens Injured.
• New US $275M Munitions Package Only Prolongs Ukraine's Agony, Russia Says.
• EU Says ChatGPT Outputs Too Much False Information To Comply With Rules.
• Checking in on China.
• Goldilocks does Europe.
• Treason Of The Intellectuals And Danger From Within.
• Hidden Food Threat: Experts Warn Of Dangers Of RNAi Crops.
• Gov. Newsom Signs Bill Allowing Arizona Doctors To Provide Abortions In California.

Wall Street Journal:  

• Tech Workers Retool for AI Boom.
• Donald Trump Hush Money Verdict Is Set to Shape a Summer of Presidential Politics.
• America’s New Island Fighters Are Preparing for Conflict—a Stone’s Throw From Taiwan.
• Alvin Bragg Hasn’t Proved His Case in the Trump Trial. The evidence shows why the charges should never have been brought.
• Twelve Injured in Turbulence on Qatar Airways Flight to Dublin.
• What Was Anthony Fauci’s Top Aide Hiding? ‘I learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear,’ David Morens wrote in one email.

CNBC:

• Here’s what adding Nvidia would mean for the 128-year-old Dow Industrial Average.

MarketWatch.com:

• Stocks are making Americans feel richer — and the Fed’s inflation fight harder.

NewsMax:  

• McCaul, Key Lawmakers Arrive in Taiwan as Chinese Threats Escalate.
• Rep. Owens: Colleges Disappointing American Families.

Fox News:

• National park official censors symbol honoring fallen heroes — patriotic convoy strikes back.
• Airstrike kills two top Hamas commanders after barrage of missiles fired at Israel from Gaza.
• Teacher leaves profession after kids won't put down smartphones.
• Senator blasts federal officials over report American flags were barred from beloved park.

TheGatewayPundit.com: 

• “USA! USA! USA!” President Trump Receives Rock Star Welcome at NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway (VIDEO).
• MORE LIES: Democrat Senator Chris Murphy On Biden Border Crisis: “The President Has Such Limited Ability to Issue Executive Orders That Would Have an Impact on the Border” (VIDEO).
• WHO Global Pandemic Treaty Fails After Two Years of Negotiation, Commie Chief Says He Will ‘Try Everything’ to Reach Fresh Agreement.
• UPDATE: Chinese Nationals Breached US Military Bases and Sensitive US Sites Over 100 Times in Recent Years.
• WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan Laughs in Buttigieg’s Face When He Is Unable to Explain Why Only 7 or 8 Charging Stations Have Been Built.
• Senator Demands Answers After Superintendent of Denali National Park Brooke Merrell Tells Construction Workers to Remove US Flag from Equipment – It “Detracts” from Park Experience.
• Sign of a Sick Society: Many of the People in Airport Wheelchairs Could Be Part of a Disgusting Scam.
• Brutal News for Kansas City Employee Who Doxed Harrison Butker: Mayor’s Final Word Ends Her Career.
• Massachusetts Trans “Woman” Goes on Stabbing Rampage at Massachusetts Movie Theater – Stabs 4 Girls Ages 9 to 17 without Warning.
• Report: Scientists Find Earth-Sized Planet That Could Hold Life.
• What Do Missouri RINOs and Chameleons Have in Common?
• Angry Muslims Step Up ‘Abandon Biden’ Campaign Across Nine Swing States, Seek to Make Democrats ‘Pro-Palestinian Party’.
• Bitter Co-Host of ‘The View’ Ana Navarro Insults Latino Trump Supporters: ‘Very Stupid Attitude’ (VIDEO).
• Kevin O’Leary Slams Biden Over Student Loan Debt Bailouts: ‘It’s Unfair’ (VIDEO).
• President Trump at Libertarian National Convention 2024: “Unlike Joe Biden, I Don’t Throw People in Jail for Disagreeing With Me” (VIDEO).
• WW3 WATCH: NATO Chief Says U.S. Must Allow Ukraine to Fire Missiles Against Russian Mainland.
• Hate Crime Charges Against Christian Veteran Who Beheaded Satanic Altar in Iowa Capital Have Been Dropped.

Epoch Times:

• Beijing’s Property Rescue Plan: More Debt and Overcapacity.

Around X:

• @BGatesIsaPsycho

• “As a Scientist I can tell you….there is NO Global Warming, there was NO Pandemic, Nitrogen is not a problem, Cow farts are not a problem”. “You can double the amount of Co2 & it will NOT have an effect on the Earths mean surface temperature, period”. Real Scientist stating real facts - you don’t hear this on Legacy Media as it goes against their Paymasters Globalist Pseudoscience sponsored Agenda. Do you understand how it all works yet? (video)
  

• @wideawake_media

• Never forget the fraudulent way in which "Covid deaths" were recorded. "Deaths for any reason within 28 days of a positive [fraudulent PCR] test." "Tested positive" within 28 days of being hit by a bus? Covid death. "Tested positive" within 28 days of being shot in the head? Covid death. "Tested positive" within 28 days of committing suicide? Covid death. Can you imagine how high the number would be if the same methodology was used to record vaccine deaths?

• @JamesMelville
  

• She raises the inconvenient truth surrounding many net zero ‘solutions’. “These so-called green or ethical solutions aren’t solutions at all. Just very good marketing from the $1.5 trillion a year climate change industry.” (video)

• @WallStreetApes

• This Is Getting Absolutely Ridiculous. What Chemicals Are They Putting In Our Food?! This woman “Got this apple from Universal Studios Resort” on October 4th, 2023 She filmed this on April 30th, 2024 and the Apple still looks to be in near perfect condition. “I don't know any apple that could last the heat for that long and be in perfect condition. — It has developed its first bruise.” “What are you putting in these apples? Where are you getting these apples?” (video)

• @WallStreetSilv

• Everything is fine ...... (graph)

• @newstart_2024

• Bill Gates: "Cows alone account for about 6% of global emissions and so we need to change cows. Just cows alone...the one that is gone better than I would expected 5 years ago is this work to make what's called artificial meat...it's dramatic reduction in methane emissions, animal cruelty..." (video)

• @JackPosobiec

• BREAKING: UK climate agency is found to have fiddled with the historic global temperature record in the exact way planned in the leaked 'Climategate' emails to exaggerate global warming.

• @Rasmussen_Poll

• The investigation into 2020 counterfeit ballot drop spikes was in high gear. The transport trucks were being traced and the printing sources were soon to be revealed. Then someone very high up stepped in, and shut it all down so that Biden could ‘win’ …

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,010,545 Reports(+992 from prior report) Through April 26th, 2024.

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.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• US Sees Chinese ‘Provocations’ in Military Drills Around Taiwan.
• China Slammed in G-7 Show of Unity Threatening Trade Escalation.
• French Far-Right Seen Trouncing Macron’s Party in EU Elections.
• US Curbs Imports of Some Australian Poultry on Bird Flu Fears.
• India’s Markets Brace for Selloff as Modi’s Poll Goals in Doubt.
• Fed’s Favorite Underlying Inflation Gauge Is Seen Cooling.
• Bets on Risky CLOs Are Paying Off With 20% Gains: Credit Weekly.
• Trafigura Faces Off With Aluminum Bulls Over Huge Metal Stash.
• Yellen Says Higher Path for Rates Boosts Need to Lift Revenue. 
• Cash-Strapped Shoppers Are Sending Budget Chains Into Bankruptcy.

Zero Hedge:

• Exposing The CIA's Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media.
• Hartnett: Magnificent Inflation.
• 24 GOP Governors Tell Biden Not To Sign WHO Pandemic Agreement.
• Hypocrite Dems Demanding Alito Recusal Played Dumb Over Virulent Anti-Trumper Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
• Special Counsel Requests (Another) Gag Order For Trump In Classified Docs Case.
• Republicans Are Winning The Voter Registration Battle In Battleground States.
• What History Reveals About Interest Rate Cuts.
• Unity Vs Division: Leftists Appalled That Black And Latino Voters Turn Out For Trump.
• Average US Vehicle Age Hits 12.6 Years As Inflation Takes Toll.
• Exceptionally Strong PBoC And Chinese Private Sector Buying Continues To Boost Gold Price.
• 13th Oregon County Votes To Secede And Join 'Greater Idaho'.
• Extreme Hurricane Season Could Trigger "Carrier Revenge".
• Inflation To The Nines.
• The 10 most important observations from this week.
• Supreme Court Faces Historic Finish To Eventful Term.
• US Special Forces Operator Kills Undocumented Chechen Outside Home In Possible Spy Incident.
• Elon Warns AI Will "Do Everything Better Than You", Make Employment Obsolete.
• OJ Prices Squeeze Into Blue-Sky Breakout As Food Inflation Fears Soar.
  
• "We're Numb" To Chaos: Baltimore Crowned America's Overdose Capital.
• Wanted By ICC, Netanyahu Set To Address US Congress.
• Hedges: The Slow-Motion Execution Of Julian Assange Continues.
• CJ Hopkins: Asymmetric Idiocy.
• Iran's Military Concludes No Foul Play In Raisi Helicopter Crash.
• First McDonald's, Now Burger King Admits Consumers Are Broke With Planned Reintroduction Of $5 Meal Deal.
• They Want To Scare You With Myths Of "Unhampered Capitalism".

Wall Street Journal:  

• Inside Rockefeller Clan’s Intensifying Feud With Exxon.
• The U.S. Built a $320 Million Pier to Get Aid to Gazans. Little of It Has Reached Them.
• Student Suspended for Award Winning AI Tool Fights Back.
• The Massive Immigration Wave Hitting America’s Classrooms.
• I Regret to Inform You That Sweatpant-Jeans Are Sweeping America.
• Missionaries Slain in Haiti Had Dedicated Lives to Orphanage.
• Far From the Protests, Some Students Try to Meet in the Middle.
• The Great AI Challenge: We Test Which Bot Is Best.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (AMD) and (WBD).

CNBC:

• How digital health companies are capitalizing on the GLP-1 boom.
• The Fed probably won’t be delivering any interest rate cuts this summer.
• Rise of resort day passes offers travelers luxury on a budget.
• Elon Musk plans xAI supercomputer, The Information reports.

MarketWatch.com:

• Memorial Day kicks off a cruel summer for inflation-weary Americans — with one bright spot.
• Cats on the moon? Google’s AI tool is producing misleading responses that have experts worried.

NewsMax:

• Hunter Biden Emails Show Father's 2013 China Trip Leveraged.
• Rep. D'Esposito: Migrants Sucking Up Americans' Resources.
• Sen. Kevin Cramer: Young Don't Know Cost of Freedom.

Fox News:

• Biden slammed after $320M Gaza pier runs into the 'exact same problems' as land routes.
• Second lawsuit filed against Disney after alleged waterslide trip turns into nightmare fuel. 
• Delayed passengers fume after getting stuck on sweltering hot flight with 'power failure'.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• 30-Year-Old Professional Golfer Grayson Murray Dies Suddenly After Withdrawing from Charles Schwab Challenge.
• “You Can Clap For That” – Biden Peeved at Lack of Applause From West Point Cadets (VIDEO).
• HERE WE GO: Navy Commander Confirms DOZENS of Penetration Operations by Foreign Nationals Reported at US Bases Over Last Few Weeks (Video).
• Victor Reacts: And They Say Trump Wants to be a Dictator? Dems Target SCOTUS (VIDEO).
• Billy Price, Former Cincinnati Bengals First Round Pick, Announces Retirement at 29 Due to “Terrifying” Blood Clot.
• The Fix Is In: Joe Biden to Address Trump’s Manhattan Verdict From White House after Jury Delivers Verdict.
• New Illinois Bill Mandates “Climate” Brainwashing in Schools.
• BIDENOMICS: Nearly 80 Percent of Americans Now Consider Fast Food a ‘Luxury Item’.
• Wife Of J6 Hostage Reveals Exactly How The Government Stalks, Harrasses And Intimidates Families While Psychos Send Death Threats – Merrick Garland Continues to Arrest One J6 Attendee Per Day.
• MUST-SEE: Steve Bannon Criticizes Conservative Elites for Lacking the Courage to Prevent Western Cultural Collapse — Advocates for Populist Nationalism.
• KA-CHING! Big Pharma Stocks Soar as They Plan Next Vaccine to Solve Bird Flu Pandemic.

Epoch Times:

• Communist-Style Surveillance and Stalking Have No Place in Canada.
• Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Spying for the Chinese Regime.
• CCP War Games Test Ability to ‘Seize Power’ in Taiwan.

Around X:

• @elonmusk

• The goal of citizenship for all illegals is very clearly stated by the leader of the Senate. For some reason, a lot of people still think this is some crazy conspiracy theory! (video)

• @BGatesIsaPsycho

• “It’s stunning - the lack of media interest in the whole Maui story”. Who is she & what happened to her? (video)
• “ALDI is considering selling edible insects to help with cost of living crisis”. “I’m sure Bill Gates is over the moon”. And just like that another ‘Conspiracy Theory’ becomes ‘Conspiracy Fact’. Would you eat bugs? Apparently they’re a good source of protein. (video)
• “400,000 Chickens have been killed in Victoria to halt the spread of Bird Flu”. “The deadly disease has now been detected at a second farm”. Bird Flu is perfect for the Globalist Agenda:- Kill birds/chickens.  Reduce food - eggs/meat.  Target cattle.  Financially ruins Farmers.  Cross Borders virus.  Human vaccines available.  With Bird Flu now being reported by Legacy Media in numerous countries it would appear the Globalists are going with this so called disease to finish off what they started with Covid. (video)
• Will Migrants be used to form Armies to keep Western Countries citizens under control when the inevitable unrest & chaos ensues? It would explain why every country is importing huge numbers of military fighting age men, men who have no allegiance to the Country they’ve emigrated too & no respect or connection to you as a citizen there. There is already evidence emerging that this maybe the case!!. (video)

• @RepublicSentinel
  

• Iowa prosecutors dropped hate crime charges against Michael Cassidy, the Christian veteran who tore down a Satanic altar erected in the Iowa Capitol, meaning he will not face prison time, his lawyers told. (pic)

• @CartlandDavid
  

• Dr. Pierre Kory Reveals Why Ivermectin Had to Be Destroyed. Before COVID, Ivermectin was celebrated as a “miracle drug” for its role in bringing river blindness to the brink of extinction. But the propagandists told you it was a dangerous “horse dewormer.” Why? (video)

• @BehizyTweets

• BREAKING: After just a few reports of gang activity in Central El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele deployed thousands of troops to go stop it at once. Imagine if US politicians cared this much about the safety of our people. (video)

• @PeterSweden7

• BREAKING: Bird flu has been detected at farms in Australia. Authorities have slaughtered 500.000 chickens in response.
• IT'S HAPPENING. In Japan they are now openly on TV talking about the harms of the covid injections. SHARE - The TRUTH is coming out. (video)
  

• @JimFergusonUK
  

• Breaking Alert: There is going to be another pandemic and lockdown. Make no mistake about it. The H5N1 vaccines are already being flown in and globalist collaborators within our media are preparing to push the globalist narrative.
• Dr. Deborah Birx Admits She Manipulated Data and Altered CDC Guidelines to Deceive President Trump. Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President, has admitted in a new book that she quietly called her own shots during the COVID-19 plandemic. Birx confessed to manipulating data and quietly altering CDC guidance without the administration’s knowledge or authorization.

• @wideawake_media

• MUST-WATCH: Prof. Stefan Homburg thoroughly dispels the myth that there was a pandemic starting in 2020. "There were no more severe respiratory illnesses than usual in 2020 and 2021. Corona came, influenza disappeared." "Age-standardised mortality was not higher in 2020 than usual. Mortality only increased since 2021 [just after the "vaccine" roll-out started]." "The idea of a 'pandemic' arose exclusively from new types of mass testing... [which] led the public to believe that there were more sick people and deaths than usual, which was not true." (video)
  

• @PierreKory
  

• We spent trillions "fighting COVID-19" yet had more deaths than countries that did nothing. The public is waking up to this scam, so the WHO is enacting a draconian treaty to protect its racket. We must stop this at all costs. This article shows how.

• @amuse

• LAWFARE: The 65 Project is Canceling Lawyers Who Dare to Represent Republican Politicians. Run by David Brock and funded by George Soros the 65 Project is an all out war on the 6th Amendment to the Constitution.

• @amyforsandiego

• Ex Kaiser nurse, fired for not getting the COVID shot, reacts to a letter from the HMO begging her to reapply. Her response? "See you in court!” (video)

• @stillgray

• The Columbia protesters professing to be communists and freedom fighters? They’re all wealthy. (pic)
  

• @WallStreetApes

• Conspiracy Theorists Are Right Again. Patrick Bet-David Has Uncovered The Legislation That Legally Allows The US Government To Suppress Inventions & Technology. “In 1951, the US enacted the Invention Secrecy Act. What is that? Allows the government to legally classify and keep certain inventions secret if deemed a threat to national economy or security.” (video)
• How Corrupt Is The FBI? “I'm finance director for Donald Trump in Mississippi, so we raise money. I've talked to a number of very wealthy individuals that God has blessed, that say I can't give money to Donald Trump because the FBI would show up at my door.” “I tell them, think of what you just said. If you make a legitimate, honest campaign contribution to the Republican nominee for President, the FBI will come to your door. And they acknowledge that's a reality in the United States of America.” (video)
• WOW This Video Says It All About Democrats. GOP California State Rep Bill Essayli attempts to read a bill that would “End California's protection of illegal immigrants who are convicted child sex offenders” and THEY CUT HIS MIC and stopped him from speaking. (video)

• @WallStreetSilv

• ALERT: Canadian Food Bank System On The Brink Of Collapse. "The food system nationwide could collapse". "The system simply can't keep up". "44% say they are doing worse financially than last year". "1 in 4 Canadians are experiencing food insecurity". (video)
• The UK is lost ... this is seriously messed up. How did it get this bad? (video)

• @MJTruthUltra

• We’re gonna have the country on edge and in fear. “I don’t think there’s gonna be much of a human threat, but I think there’s gonna be a major strain on the food supply.” • The Government reimburses the farmers if they destroy the flocks and herds. • The top 500 food production plants have been wiped out mysteriously. “You can’t make this up, largest national supplier of eggs in Texas ordered the culling of millions of egg laying hens.” (video)

• @newstart_2024

• Elon Musk hits out at Irish climate plan to cut 200k cattle “Leave the farmers alone”: In an exclusive interview with Ben Scallan, Elon Musk has said that the Irish government’s plan to cut 200,000 cattle nationwide will have “zero” impact on the climate, and bets $1 billion that the impact would “not even be measurable.” (video)

• @robbystarbuck

• The Biden Admin’s desperate plot to remove the Guatemalan Attorney General just got more insane. Remember, she’s investigating child trafficking at the US border and how the Biden Admin may be involved. Rep. @WarrenDavidson exposed a tactic the Biden admin is using that involves threats that affect the kids of Guatemalan congressmen. He then directly confronted Secretary of State Tony Blinken about why the Biden Admin’s trying get Guatemala’s AG thrown out of office as she investigates how the Biden Admin may be involved in or funding child trafficking at the border. Here’s the new tactic:

• @TonyClimate

• The @PRPAuthorityprovides the electricity for all of the Colorado cities along I-25 north of Denver. They are currently getting 4% of their electricity from wind and solar, and almost half of their energy from the Rawhide coal fired power plant - which they plan to shut down soon. #NetZero madness. (pic)

• @MarioNawfal

• THERE ARE "FOREVER CHEMICALS" IN U.S. DRINKING WATER. New data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reveals that 89.3 million Americans consume drinking water contaminated with toxic PFAS, commonly known as "forever chemicals." This alarming statistic is based on initial tests covering approximately one-third of the water systems, indicating that the actual scale of contamination could be even more extensive.

• @JamesMelville

• “We are here to tell you, WHO globalitarian misanthropists - you picked this fight, you wanted this fight. Well guess what? Let’s fight. You are the small fringe minority. You do not have the right to dictate to the people.” ~ Christine Anderson German MEP. (video)
  

• @IGSquawk 

• Weekend markets update: #DAX 18699 +0% #DOW 39068 +0.02% #NASDAQ 18804 +0.01% #FTSE 8318 +0.03% #HANGSENG 18687 +0.02% #GBPUSD 12738 +0% #EURUSD 10848 -0.02% #USDJPY 15700 +0.02%.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,010,545 Reports(+992 from prior report) Through April 26th, 2024.

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.

Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:

• China's Housing Crash Could Set Back Millions of Promising Careers.
• Bearish Trades Crater Fast in Wall Street’s High-Momentum Rally.
• Nvidia Stock Split Looks to Be First of Many in Tech, BofA Says.
• Funds Are Most Bullish on Gold in Four Years as Prices Hit Record.
• Lululemon Shares at Bottom of S&P 500 as Sales Concerns Grow.

Zero Hedge:

• Exposing The CIA's Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media.
• Rents Are Plunging In These Major U.S. Cities.
• Lula's Brazil: A Cautionary Tale For Free Speech In The West.
• No, Artificial Intelligence Will Not Solve All Problems.
• Penn Protestor Who Claims She Was Left 'Homeless' Is Daughter Of Affluent Celebrity Game Show Host.
• House Republicans Take Aim At Biden Energy Policies, Vow To Install "Different Vision" In 2025.
• DARPA And DoD-Backed AI Chip Company Seeks To Raise $70 Million.
• The Doom Of The Total State.
• Janet Yellen Acknowledges: "Cost Of Living Is A Problem" For Consumers.
• Behind The 'Cloward-Piven' Downfall Of America.
• Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman Endorses President Trump, Says Nation Going "In Wrong Direction" Under Biden.
• First Time Since GFC: Holders Of AAA 'CRE-Backed' Debt Hit With Losses.
• Stocks close green after UoM inflation expectations ease - Newsquawk US Market Wrap.
• House Panel Approves Measure To Rehire Troops Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine.
• The WHO's Pandemic Treaty And A Bird Flu Crisis Are Both Arriving At The Same Time.
• 'Best' Macro Week In 4 Months Is Bad News For Most; But Nasdaq And Ethereum Surged.

 Wall Street Journal:  

• The Hidden Driver of Soaring Home Insurance Costs.
• U.N. Court Orders Israel to Halt Some Military Operations in Rafah.
• What Our Brains Know About Stocks—but Won’t Tell Us.
• Jailed Trump Adviser Navarro Says He Has No Regrets.
• Britain to World: Don’t Let What Happened to Us Happen to You.

CNBC:

• Truth Social struggles to grow its U.S. user base, new data on Trump Media app shows.
• Google’s AI Overview is catching heat for some obvious factual errors.
• CEOs of AI startups are the new tech rockstars.
• UAW challenges Mercedes-Benz union vote, asks NLRB for new election.
• Oil prices bounce back from three-month lows but book a loss for the week.

MarketWatch.com:

• GameStop shares soar on completion of $933 million stock sale after meme frenzy.
• Copper prices are set to quadruple on surging ‘green’ demand, legendary trader Andurand says.

NewsMax:

• GOP Lawmakers Joining to Stop HHS Rule on Transgender Procedures.

Fox News:

• Judge rules on Alec Baldwin's bid to dismiss involuntary manslaughter charge.
• Nearly half of states balk at global pandemic agreement in warning to Biden admin.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• ‘His Legitimacy Has Ended’ – Putin Says Zelensky Is No Longer President of Ukraine After the End of His Constitutional Mandate.
• Healthcare Giant BEGS Unvaccinated Doctors to Return to Work | Beyond the Headlines.
• Federal Agents Found Out During 2016 Election That Joe Biden Met with Hunter’s Chinese Business Partners – But Kept It a Secret.
• Billionaire Blackstone’s CEO Steve Schwarzman Pledges Full Support and Funding for Trump in the 2024 Presidential Election.
• Missouri State Rep. Ben Baker’s Daughter and Son-in-Law Killed By Gang in Haiti.
• Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s Record ‘Indefensible’.
• Super Size Me Filmaker Morgan Spurlock Dies at 53.
• The Carbon Credit Scam: Financial Cost, Virtue Signaling, Little or No Environmental Benefit.
• Chinese Communist-Connected Orgs Are Crushing RNC Investments In Swing States (Video).

Epoch Times:

• China’s Economic Landscape Little Changed Despite Recent Developments: Goldman Sachs.

Around X:

• @BGatesIsaPsycho

• “We’re making in here - 30Million Mosquitoes a week”. When Bill Gates isn’t too busy trying to vaccinate the entire World, block out the Sun, selling fake meat & sterilising cattle he also invests in & develops Genetically Modified Mosquitoes. (video)

• @BehizyTweets
  

• This lady's speech at the Trump rally was beyond amazing, her message to the Democrats running New York was sensational. "Keep your welfare, we DON'T want your welfare, we want jobs." (video)

• @PeterSweden7

• Did you know this? In September 2019 Bill Gates invested $55 million in BioNTech. A few months later covid came. BioNTech made the Pfizer mRNA injection. A few years later Bill's investment was worth over $550 million. What a timing. Weird how you never heard anything a out this on the mainstream media...

• @KLVeritas
  

• HHS talking to Pfizer and Moderna about mRNA based bird flu vaxx. Have they learned nothing?!!!! “Federal health officials are ramping up efforts to combat what they claim is the growing threat of H5N1 bird flu with plans to produce 4.8 million vaccine doses and increase influenza surveillance nationwide.

• @wideawake_media

• While Western militaries obsess over pronouns and gender ideology, the Chinese military is building robot dogs armed with machine guns. (video)

• @warintel4u
  

• China has completely surrounded Taiwan in all directions. China currently has over 30 ships and 40+ fighter jets active in training. —Current Report (pic)

• @amuse

• Biden is facing a September deadline to evacuate all 1,000 US troops before Russian forces take over the base.

• @JamesMelville

• “Governments are going after farmers? They grow our food goddammit. They are going after farmers? There’s no way in which that’s positive.” ~ Joe Rogan (video)

• @Yolo304741

• This is INSANE. (video)

• @VigilantFox  

• Patrick Bet-David Warns the Next George Floyd Event Is Coming. “They need chaos back again, except they’re going to do it in a different way.” PBD says that smearing Trump doesn’t work. He is polling 13 points HIGHER among black voters this time around. So, what’s the strategy? “You need chaos ... All they’re waiting for is the next George Floyd.” Bet-David says that strategy “worked very effectively” in 2020. (video)

• @LaraLogan

• Uh oh. I am a “Democrat but….”. (video)

• @newstart_2024

• The globalist-led World Bank issued a report recently that proposes the idea of making drastic cuts to global agriculture production in order to achieve "net zero emissions." The plot involves centralizing the world's farms in the hands of just a few wealthy individuals who plan to cut almost one-third of the world's greenhouse gas emissions by radically altering the way food is grown. The report touts the proposed changes in nice-sounding terminology that claims food production will continue in such a way as "to feed a growing population." The reality, though, is that the proposal threatens to eliminate large swaths of agricultural production that in turn could lead to famine and starvation.

• @glennbeck

• So, Microsoft is rolling out a new AI feature that will take constant screenshots of your computer and store them for "recall." Umm...does this include any financial information I have open? And can the government subpoena these screenshots? (video)

• @DrEtiquette

• Flashback to Nov 3, 2020! 138,000 votes were dumped at 4:30 am in Wisconsin and all 138,000 votes went to Joe Biden. This is statistically impossible. (video)

• @StevePhillipsMD

• My patients are getting endless viral infections, not seen this in decades of practice. My friend's "healthy" niece & nephew were both just in ICU with infections. Cancer is skyrocketing in the young. I'm enraged at what they've done to us.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,010,545 Reports(+992 from prior report) Through April 26th, 2024.

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.

Stocks Rising into Final Hour on US Economic Data, Lower Long-Term Rates, Earnings Optimism, Tech/Consumer Discretionary Sector Strength

Economic Gauges:

• S&P 500 Current Quarter EPS Growth Rate YoY(481 of 500 reporting) +7.7% unch.
  
• S&P 500 Blended Forward 12 Months Mean EPS Estimate 256.87 +.58:  Growth Rate +12.7% +.3 percentage point, P/E 20.7 -.1
  
• S&P 500 Current Year Estimated Profit Margin 12.89% +1.0 basis point
  
• NYSE FANG+ Current Quarter EPS Growth Rate YoY(9 of 10 reporting) +52.9% unch.
  
• NYSE FANG+ Blended Forward 12 Months Mean EPS Estimate 328.88 +.34: Growth Rate +22.6% +.1 percentage point, P/E 32.1 -.1
  
• Bloomberg US Financial Conditions Index 1.06 -4.0 basis points
  
• Bloomberg Euro-Zone Financial Conditions Index 1.06 +9.0 basis points
  
• US Yield Curve -48.5 basis points (2s/10s) -2.5 basis points
  
• US Atlanta Fed 2Q GDPNow Forecast +3.5% -10.0 basis points
  
• US Recession Within 6 Months Probability(3M/18M Forward Yld Curve Spread) 46.8% unch.
  

• Cleveland Fed Inflation Nowcast Core PCE YoY +2.74% unch.: CPI YoY +3.37% unch.
  
• 10-Year TIPS Spread 2.33 +1.0 basis point
  
• Highest target rate probability for July 31st FOMC meeting: 88.9%(unch.) chance of 5.25%-5.5%. Highest target rate probability for Sept. 18th meeting: 50.2%(+1.8 percentage points) chance of 5.25%-5.5%.
  

Overseas Futures:

• Nikkei 225 Futures: Indicating +130 open in Japan 
• China A50 Futures: Indicating +5 open in China

• DAX Futures: Indicating +62 open in Germany

Portfolio:

• Higher:  On gains in my financial/consumer discretionary/industrial/tech sector longs
  

• Disclosed Trades: Covered some of my (IWM)/(QQQ) hedges
  

• Market Exposure: Moved to 100% Net Long
  

Bear Radar

Style Underperformer:

• Small-Cap Value +.6%
  

Sector Underperformers:

• 1) Electric Vehicles -.9% 2) Healthcare Providers -.5% 3) Computer Services -.2%

Stocks Falling on Unusual Volume: 

• IMCR, BNTX, RYAAY, NTES, TITN, CLBT, EXAS, INTU and WDAY
  

Stocks With Unusual Put Option Activity:

• 1) WDAY 2) KEY 3) LUMN 4) INTU 5) CVE
  

Stocks With Most Negative News Mentions:

• 1) INTU 2) AKRO 3) VSTM 4) SMMT 5) DRCT
  

Sector ETFs With Most Negative Money Flow:

• 1) XLF 2) XOP 3) ARKK 4) XLI 5) XBI

Charts:

• ETFs Falling on Unusual Volume
• Stocks Falling on Unusual Volume

Bull Radar

Style Outperformer:

• Small-Cap Growth +1.2%
  

Sector Outperformers:

• 1) Alt Energy +3.6% 2) Computer Hardware +2.1% 3) I-Banks +1.8%

Stocks Rising on Unusual Volume:

• MRUS, IMTX, DECK, MGNI, RUN, VSAT, FLNC, FSLR, NXT, GH, STEP, ROST, ZIM, ARRY, BURL, MORF, CLCO, CAVA, LSPD, PUBM, HOOD, ENPH, ASPN, BJ, VRT, DELL, CROX, LEGN, GIL, CWK, TGI, CRTO, NTGR, QCOM, ELF, SVV, BV, SBLK, BAH, GGAL, GSL, IP and FMS
  

Stocks With Unusual Call Option Activity:

• 1) WDAY 2) ROST 3) INTU 4) BURL 5) EBAY

Stocks With Most Positive News Mentions:

• 1) MRUS 2) DECK 3) AKAN 4) GH 5) WOOF
  

Sector ETFs With Most Positive Money Flow:

• 1) SMH 2) XLV 3) XLK 4) URA 5) XME
  

Charts:

• ETFs Rising on Unusual Volume
• Stocks Rising on Unusual Volume