Apple Drops After Mixed Results: America, Europe Revenue Miss; Iphone Sales Disappoint, But China Surges Again

Services ISM Smashes Estimates, Prints At 56.1 Highest Since 2022, As Prices Paid Tumble After the Manufacturing ISM print earlier this week came modestly stronger than expected (albeit with the Prices Paid component spiking and sending 10Y yields higher), some were expecting a similar improvement in today's Services ISM print. What they got instead, was a blowout number, and one suggesting that whatever weakness the US economy was in for much of the latter part of 2025, is now over. At 10:00am ET, the ISM Services print came out at 56.1,...

More Than 450 TSA Agents Have Quit During DHS Shutdown Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than 450 Transportation Security Administration agents have quit since the start of the partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown. Travelers wait in long security lines at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, on March 23, 2026. Ronaldo Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images The partial shutdown has been ongoing since March 15, when funding for the agency lapsed without additional funding in place.  Lauren Bis, acting assistant secretary for Public Affairs at...