Chinese Pig Farmers Report Suspected Swine Fever Outbreaks As Prices Fall

Trump Talk & 'Thucydides Trap' Threat Triggers Market Mayhem Overnight Traders are waking this morning in the US to some relative market mayhem and questioning what came first - the oil spike or the geopolitical angst - to trigger these moves as it appears the market finally remembered there's more going on in the world than trading 'short compute' demand to the moon... Oil prices are up significantly (WTI >$100)... Bond yields are breaking out everywhere (30Y UST 5.10%!, 30Y Gilt 5.82% - highest sine 1982)... Equity markets sharply lower overnight (Kospi -6%,...

Iran War Threatens China's 4.5 Percent Growth Target: Analysts Authored by Jarvis Lim via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), China’s already-strained economy faces mounting pressure as the Iran war threatens to choke export growth and suppress domestic demand, putting its 4.5 percent growth target at risk, experts say. A woman takes a photo of the Lujiazui financial district across the Huangpu River on the Bund promenade in Shanghai, China, on March 5, 2026. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images As the U.S.–Israeli war against the Iranian regime stretches past the two-month mark, President Donald...

Japan Holds Off On New Oil Reserve Release Despite September Import Drop Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Japan expects its oil imports next month to be lower than this month's but has no plans to release additional crude from storage, the country's economy minister said. Oil imports next month are seen at 80% of the average monthly for 2025, Ryosei Akazawa said, as quoted by Reuters. The report noted that the August import rate had been 100% of the 2025 monthly total. The change is prompted by the redirection of tanker traffic...