Korean Officials Are "Paying Close Attention" As Foreign Outflows Trigger Bond/Won Collapse

Russia Scrambles To Restore Fuel Supplies As Refineries Resume Operations By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Amid the ongoing fuel crisis in Russia, authorities are rushing to ease concerns that the shortages are worsening. Russia has been suffering from a gasoline and diesel crunch since the spring, when Ukraine intensified its drone attacks at Russian refineries, aiming to cripple fuel supply to the front lines and to the domestic Russian market. The drone hits on refineries, including deep into Russian territory more than 1,000 miles from the border with Ukraine, have become a nearly...

Short-Term Bitcoin Holders Are Realizing Their Largest Losses On Record; Most Oversold Since 2018 Collapse After this week's bloodbath... Bitcoin is now flashing its most oversold signal since 2018, raising the odds of a relief rebound toward $70,000 in the coming weeks. The extremely oversold reading followed a roughly 30% decline in BTC over the past month, as geopolitical risks, higher oil prices, fading hopes for a 2026 Federal Reserve rate cut, and panic over Strategy’s latest Bitcoin sale weighed on sentiment. In addition, there was some online chatter seems to speculate that retail investors may be selling crypto to...

Alaska Governor Vetoes Election Reform Bill Due To 'Significant Operational Burdens' Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a major election reform bill on April 30, arguing it would place “significant operational burdens” on the state’s Division of Elections months before high-stakes statewide and federal contests. Alaska Gov. Michael Dunleavy in Washington on Oct. 29, 2019. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times The bill, at least a decade in the making, sought to allow absentee and other ​voters track their ballots and see when they had been...