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Fed Has Never Hiked In October Ahead Of US Elections: UBS The US-Iran conflict has pushed Brent crude toward $106 a barrel, while the 10-year Treasury yield has climbed to its highest level in nearly two decades. Traders are looking at whether elevated energy prices will make inflation sticky and prompt another Federal Reserve rate hike in late October.  This week's US economic releases could reinforce those new concerns. Stronger growth would give the Fed greater mobility to tighten policy, while inflation would strengthen the case for further rate hikes.  UBS' Simon Penn wrote in a note...

Chinese Pig Farmers Report Suspected Swine Fever Outbreaks As Prices Fall Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, Pig farmers in several parts of China are reporting suspected outbreaks of African swine fever that they say have killed large numbers of pigs and forced some farms to clear their herds, adding pressure on small producers already struggling with falling prices and weak demand. Piglets drink milk from a sow at a pig farm in Yaji, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China on March 21, 2018. Thomas Suen/ReutersFarmers in several provinces told The...

"They Will All Go To Jail": Trump Threatens California Election Officials If They Let Non-Citizens Vote On Friday President Donald Trump warned California election officials that they will go to prison if they count mail-in ballots from about 20,000 people who have been identified as possible noncitizens by the federal government, intensifying the legal dispute with the state mere weeks before the midterm elections. FILE – Ballots are sorted the day after California’s primary election at the LA County Ballot Processing Center, June 3, 2026, in City of Industry, Calif. (AP...