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'Low Hire, Ho Fire' Economy Confirmed By Latest Jobless Claims Data The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time remains near multi-decade lows at 206k last week in line with expectations and flat to the prior month... Continuing jobless claims ticked up modestly but remain near two-year lows, below the 1.8mm Maginot line... However, surveys (Conference Board) remain sure it is 'hard to get a job' in this labor market... But, the official data (BLS) shows that the American workforce is growing... So, today's data reinforces the 'low hire, no fire'...

The “progress” in last week’s Rome talks on Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon left the situation without any timetable, and as Israel continues to escalate strikes against southern Lebanon, all indications are that they’re prepping for an open-ended occupation of the region. Israeli newspapers are now reporting that the IDF is establishing another line of “permanent” […]

Bernstein Puts Timeline On When EU Rearmament Supercycle "Goes Boom" Readers by now know how we've laid out the looming rearmament supercycle in the West colliding with the "own the bottlenecks" theme, as resource nationalism makes industrial metals and rare earths scarce because of Beijing's export restrictions. Adrien Rabier, Bernstein's equity analyst covering European aerospace and defense, penned a note on Tuesday explaining why the European defense rearmament cycle remains a top investment theme and even outlined a timeline. In a report titled "European Defense: Beyond the order boom," Rabier said...