Core US Factory Orders Better Than Expected In December

A report published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on the “moral injuries” that IDF soldiers are dealing with includes several accounts of atrocities committed against Palestinians in Gaza, including one story about an IDF commander spitting on the bodies of children. The soldier, who went by the alias Yuval, said the incident occurred in southern Gaza near […]

Minnesota Democrats Unanimously Vote To Protect Rep. Ilhan Omar... And Dead Voters Authored by Eric Utter via AmericanThinker.com, Minnesota Senate Democrats recently voted - unaminously - against removing deceased persons from the state’s voter rolls. This tracks with the fact that almost 100% of dead people vote for Democrats, making them Democrats’ most loyal voting bloc, even surpassing that of serial killers. (This may explain why, historically, Democrat gerrymandering seems designed to encompass as many cemeteries as possible. O.K., that is just an unfounded assertion, but it seems likely, does it not?) The dead — and serial killers...

Terrible 5Y Auction: Worst Bid To Cover In 4 Years, Highest Tail Since 2024, Dealers Jump Another day, another very ugly auction. After yesterday's appallingly bad 2Y auction, moments ago the Treasury sold $70BN in 5Y paper in what was another terrible auction. Just after 1pm, the auction stopped at a high yield of 3.966%, up from 3.608% in February and the highest since May 2025. It also tailed the When Issued 3.966% by 1.4bps, the biggest tail since Oct 2024. The bid to cover was 2.29, down from 2.32 last month and...