Rubio Suggests US Will Starve Iran Until Tehran Agrees to Peace Deal

Jefferies Sets 9000 Target For Market: Everything Must Go Right Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In this week's Daily Market Commentary, we flagged the growing chorus calling for 9,000 on the S&P 500. The most detailed version comes from Jefferies, which now sees 9,000 by the end of 2027. With the index closing at 7,764.64 on Tuesday, that's another 15.9% from here. Jefferies isn't alone, either. FactSet's bottom-up analyst target sits even higher at 9,261. In a matter of weeks, the S&P 500 9,000 target went from a bold call...

White House Suspects NY Times Reporters Have Situation Room Recordings Senior Trump administration officials are convinced that two New York Times reporters have somehow obtained recordings of White House Situation Room meetings, which would represent an astounding breach of security, Axios reported on Sunday.  "We're afraid some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded," a White House official told Axios. "And we have no idea which ones."  The White House Situation Room hosts some of the most consequential conversations on Earth  The two journalists are Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and the officials...

Texas PUC Approves "Ride-Through" Rules For Data Centers By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive, The Texas Public Utility Commission on Thursday unanimously approved rules that will require large computational loads, like data centers and crypto-mining facilities, within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas footprint to stay stable and connected to the grid through disruptions. Modern computational loads, Kenteel Engineering said in a June blog, are “engineered to protect extremely sensitive and expensive equipment,” and during a voltage dip are programmed to disconnect or enter momentary cessation. However, this presents a reliability problem, Kenteel Engineering...