US Pending Home Sales Stick Near Record Lows In July
The choppy performance of the US housing market continued in July with pending home sales falling 0.4% MoM (worse than the 0.2% MoM rise expected). However, this print managed to push sa…
A 3rd Property!? Pulte Drops New Criminal Referral On Lisa Cook As Mortgage Scandal Widens
(Update: 2215ET): A third property?
On Thursday night, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte dropped a second criminal referra…
Washington Mayor Credits Federal Surge For Drop In Crime, Backs Trump’s Infrastructure Request
Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times,
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Aug. 27 that crime has decreased since President Dona…
Q2 GDP Revised Sharply Higher As Data Center Investments Sharply Boost Growth
While the number mostly reflects a reversal of the tariff frontrunning seen in Q1 (which dragged GDP sharply lower due to a surge in imports), moments ago we got…
Fragile Investors, Fragile Markets
Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance
This past weekend I joined internationally acclaimed journalist, news anchor, and producer Michelle Makori for a wide-ranging conversation on markets, monetary policy, a…
Initial Jobless Claims Refuse To Show Any Signs Of Cracking
Initial jobless claims improved last week, falling from 234k to 229k, remaining in the same near-record-low range it has been in for the last three years. On an unadjusted basis, …
Futures Drift Near Record High As Nvidia Fails To Restart Rally
US equity futures are flat as the much-anticipated print from NVDA failed to produce any real fireworks one way or the other, at least relative to sky-high expectations. Most …
CDC Director Susan Monarez Ousted In Vaccine Policy Clash With RFK Jr.; Four Top Officials Quit In Leadership Crisis
Department of Health & Human Services announced on X late Wednesday that Susan Monarez, the first Senate-confirmed direct…
U.S. Kicks Off Migrant Deportations To Rwanda
The landlocked East African nation of Rwanda has received its first batch of illegal aliens deported from the U.S., as the Trump administration accelerates efforts to remove rapists, gang membe…
Trump’s Dreams Of Nobel Peace Prize Face Resistance From Norwegian Committee: Report
Via The Cradle,
At least three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee have spoken out against US President Donald Trump, casting serious do…
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