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Spain Gasses Its Own People; Police Probe Migrant/Soros NGO Acid Buys In Ceuta Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spanish National Police have been examining a bulk purchase of hydrochloric acid and aluminium foil in Ceuta after supermarket staff flagged a large group of migrants, reported as mostly Moroccan, buying the two products together. Spanish outlets citing police sources identified activists from the NGO No Name Kitchen as accompanying those buyers. Investigators have been trying to establish whether the materials were meant for homemade "acid bombs" - plastic bottles packed with...

FOMC Minutes Preview: Scrutiny For Hawkish Bias Today's FOMC minutes will be scrutinized for further insight into policymakers' appetite for additional rate hikes and the thinking behind the Committee's hawkish shift at last month's meeting. The minutes are an account of the June 17th meeting and therefore will not reflect subsequent developments, including the softer-than-expected June nonfarm payrolls report or Chair Warsh's appearance at the ECB's Sintra Forum. Nonetheless, as Newsquawk writes in its FOMC Minutes preview, the June meeting, Warsh's first as Fed Chair, marked a significant shift under...

UMich Sentiment Surges To Pre-War Highs; AI Fears Becoming "Salient" Having rebounded from record (46 year) lows in June, University of Michigan's final July Sentiment survey was expected to show further improvement MoM, but a slight decline from the preliminary print as gas prices started rising again following the apparent end of the MoU-driven MidEast ceasefire. However, from 49.5 final for June, UMich headline print rose to 54.4 preliminary and has now jumped further to 55.2 (54 exp) final - the highest since February. Both Current Conditions and Expectations sub-indices also rose with...