US Bombs Alleged Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific, Killing at Least One

Comey Indicted As Trump DOJ Takes Second Bite At The Apple The U.S. Department of Justice has secured a new federal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, marking the second criminal case brought against him by the Trump administration in under a year. The charges center on a controversial May 2025 Instagram post in which Comey shared a photograph of seashells arranged on a beach to form the numbers "86 47." According to CNN, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter (who ran to CNN to leak the news), the indictment was...

CENTCOM Claims US Military Has Escorted A Billion Barrels Of Crude Out Of Hormuz Brent crude futures eased toward $103 a barrel by the end of the week as mixed Iran headlines and hopes for renewed diplomacy around next week's United Nations General Assembly weighed on energy markets. On Saturday morning, CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper said the US had escorted 1 billion barrels of oil and more than 2,000 commercial vessels out of the Persian Gulf over the past couple of months. Hostilities at the Hormuz chokepoint continued into Friday, as...

Futures, Yields Flat Ahead Of August Jobs Report US futures are choppy, trading between unchanged and modestly higher, ahead of today's jobs report which sees a modest increase in August payrolls (but the risk is for another negative print, see our preview here). As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are flat and Nasdaq futures gain 0.5% as Mag 7 stocks trade mixed premarket, with NVDA (+1.4%) and AMZN (+0.7%) leading and TSLA (-2.1%) lagging. Bond yields are steady as traders wait to see whether Friday’s payrolls report will offer the...