"GPIF To The Rescue?" Yen Jumps After Japan Urges Pension Funds To Invest More At Home

2026 Rate-Hike Expectations Plummet After Cooler-Than-Expected PPI Following yesterday's cooling (in-line) consumer price inflation data (driven in large part by energy deflation), US producer prices were expected to rebound modestly in July from a 0.3% MoM decline (headline) in June. Instead, headline Producer Prices were unchanged MoM (cooler than expected), pushing the annual change down from +5.5% to +4.7% YoY... Source: Bloomberg Core PPI (Ex Food and Energy) also printed cooler than expected (+0.2% MoM vs +0.3% MoM), dragging Core PPI YoY down to +4.2%... Final demand services: Prices for final demand services...

Former NIH Head Secretly Helped With Paper Dismissing Theory COVID-19 Came From Lab Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Then-National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins, around the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, acknowledged that he secretly assisted with a paper stating the virus that causes COVID-19 "is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," according to a newly released missive. Dr. Francis Collins speaks in Washington on Sept. 9, 2020. Michael Reynolds/Getty Images "This is work that Tony, Jeremy, Larry, and I helped with, but are...

Israel has capped off an August that saw a steady increase in number and intensity of incursions into southwest Syria with a further escalation, with multiple new infiltrations into the country and at least one new detention reported. The weekend operations were largely against the Quneitra Governorate, where IDF troops entered Al-Samdaniya al-Gharbiya, and established a […]