'Starmer Out' Odds (& Gilt Yields) Rise As Embattled UK PM Vows To 'Prove Doubters Wrong'

IMO Draws Up Hormuz Evacuation Plan For 800 Ships Trapped In Gulf Tanker traffic through the Hormuz chokepoint remained muted as of Tuesday morning, with maritime movement still far below pre-US-Iran conflict levels. The ship backlog in the Persian Gulf has now swelled to a staggering 800 vessels, underscoring the scale of the disruption, while the International Maritime Organization is reportedly drawing up evacuation plans for stranded ships. Bloomberg quoted the Secretary-General of the IMO, Arsenio Dominguez, who stated on the sidelines of Singapore Maritime Week earlier today that the...

"Stocks Should Go Up, Not Down": Trump Rages At Market Reaction To 'Great' Jobs Report Global capital markets are a mess following this morning's hotter than expected rise in US employment. Nasdaq is down 2%... Yields are spiking dramatically... The dollar is rampaging higher... And Gold (and bitcoin) are getting clubbed like a baby seal... All of which prompted President Trump to exclaim that "stocks should go up, not down" on the back of a strong jobs report: It appears the President has not been watching for the last couple of decades as The Fed has...

Virginia Democrats Move To Require Teaching Jan. 6th As An "Insurrection" Authored by Jonathan Turley, Virginia Democrats are moving to require teachers to tell students that Jan. 6th was an “insurrection” and effectively bar them from referencing “peaceful protests” or election irregularities. The characterization of the riot as an insurrection is historically and legally false. However, any parents who want to send their children to Virginia public schools would have to accept this form of indoctrination as part of their children’s education. In the last election, Democrats campaigned as moderates, including Abigail...