Spirit Airlines 'Bites The Dust' As All Flights Canceled

Saudi Arabia At The Breaking Point Authored by Larry C. Johnson via Sonar 21, For most of this war, Saudi Arabia has been the shock absorber of the world oil market. When Hormuz closed, Riyadh pushed crude west through the East-West pipeline to Yanbu on the Red Sea and kept at least part of its exports moving. That bypass is now under attack. Ansar Allah has seized islands at the mouth of the Red Sea, declared a "maritime ban" on Saudi shipping and claimed strikes on Saudi airports, and in September...

When Wall Street Says Sell, Check Who's Waiting To Buy  Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Today let me offer up one of my patented periodic reminders to do your own work. As many have already pointed out, there was something almost too neat about Citadel’s timing before the Situational Awareness blowup. In late June, Citadel Securities published a market-structure review warning that U.S. equities had become unusually concentrated, that investors were increasingly expressing bullishness through leverage, and that leveraged exposure was piling particularly aggressively into technology and semiconductors. They also warned of a...

Stocks Fall, Oil And Rates Rise As Inflation "Roars Back" US equity futures and bonds were lower as oil climbed, with a key inflation report showing the impacts of higher energy and supply disruptions stemming from the war in Iran. Stocks are poised to fall from all-time highs after the core CPI rose more than expected in April. As of 9:15am S&P futures ewere down 0.2% and Nasdaq futures dropped 0.7% as a slide in chipmakers and big tech names dragged down the market in early US hours. In premarket trading, all Mag 7 stocks were lower. Treasury...