White House Tasks Intel Community With Assessing How Iran Would Respond to US Ending War Without a Deal

Arizona Border Wall Construction Begins, Targets Smuggling Corridor Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has begun work on a project to build a stretch of border wall in southern Arizona. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Aug. 25 that the wall project is located along "one of the most dangerous smuggling and trafficking corridors on the Southwest border." The wall segment is part of a $46.6 billion effort by the Trump administration to fill the border with 30-foot steel bollard walls, vehicle barriers, and technology designed...

Tech Leads Strong Growth Signals From US Services Sector Surveys; But Prices Are Soaring After last weeks impressive moves in Manufacturing survey data (though burdened with the baggage of a surge in Prices Paid), all eyes are on the Services side of the US economy with mixed results expected (S&P up, ISM small down). S&P Global US Services September slightly better than expected (58.8 vs 58.7 exp/flash vs 56.5 prior) - strongest in five years ISM US Services slightly worse than expected (54.9 vs 55.0 exp vs 55.4 prior) Quite a divergence... “September has seen...