Futures Rebound, Oil Pares Gain After Iran Declares End To Military Operations

Samsung Strike Threat Sparks Selling Contagion In Memory Stocks President Trump's China trip has concluded, with the multi-day summit producing comments from both sides that pointed to warming bilateral relations. As Trump returns aboard Air Force One on Friday morning, traders are shifting focus to overnight turmoil in South Korea, where labor action risks rattled Samsung shares and other memory stocks, and dragged the country's benchmark KOSPI index lower. Samsung’s strike is set to formally begin on May 21. Because the company’s semiconductor fabs are already highly automated, the impact...

Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court To Allow Voter Citizenship Verification Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Justice Department on Sept. 8 requested that the Supreme Court let the government verify the citizenship of voters using a federal immigration database. A federal judge earlier in the year ruled that the Trump administration was violating privacy laws by using the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to verify the citizenship of people on state voter rolls. An appeals court upheld the ruling on Sept. 4 in a split decision, with the...

Escobar: The New Great Game, Revisited Authored by Pepe Escobar via 'Geopolitics Prime' substack, It took only a few Yemeni missiles on Saudi refineries to wake up “leadership” vectors of the Ummah; not over 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the death cult. The Mecca Sunni NATO pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan remains a puzzle. Or dodgy sub-standard theatre – complete with photo ops and sparse intel sharing. The full text has not been released. Everything is quite vague, only stressing “collective deterrence”. Against whom, it’s in the eyes of the...