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Jamaica’s Catastrophe Bond Poised For Big Payout Within Weeks After Hurricane Melissa’s Insane Strength

Jamaica’s Catastrophe Bond Poised For Big Payout Within Weeks After Hurricane Melissa’s Insane Strength

Hurricane Melissa was the most powerful storm to make landfall in Jamaica in over 170 years, ripping through the Caribbean island’s wes…

Chicago PMI Beats But Remains In ‘Contraction’ For Second Straught Year

Chicago PMI Beats But Remains In ‘Contraction’ For Second Straught Year

There’s good news and bad news in today’s macro data (what scarce data there is).

MNI’s Chicago Business Barometer (PMI) printed a better than expected 43.8 (42.3 exp…

New York Declares Emergency Over Looming Pause In Food Stamps

New York Declares Emergency Over Looming Pause In Food Stamps

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday declared a state of emergency due to the federal Supplemental Nutrition As…

Trump Reacts To Headlines Of ‘Imminent’ Land Attack: ‘No Strikes On Venezuela’

Trump Reacts To Headlines Of ‘Imminent’ Land Attack: ‘No Strikes On Venezuela’

Update(1155ET): It took a few mere hours for President Trump to react to headlines from early this morning declaring, “US strikes on Venezuela possibly days awa…

Coinbase CEO’s Bizarre Final Words On Q3 Call Just Paid Off A Lucky Few

Coinbase CEO’s Bizarre Final Words On Q3 Call Just Paid Off A Lucky Few

Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com,

Coinbase boss Brian Armstrong shook up two prediction markets in the final seconds of Thursday’s third-quarter earn…

Futures Rebound Lifted By Strong Amazon, Apple Earnings

Futures Rebound Lifted By Strong Amazon, Apple Earnings

US equity futures rebound from the Thursday drop, led by Mag 7. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are 0.8% higher and Nasdaq futures gain 1.2%, on pace for sixth and seventh straight mont…

China Boosts U.S. Soybean Purchases Following Trump-Xi Trade Talks

China Boosts U.S. Soybean Purchases Following Trump-Xi Trade Talks

Following President Donald Trump’s postive meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which cooled simmerin…

Air Traffic Controllers Ask Public For Donations As Shutdown Drags On

Air Traffic Controllers Ask Public For Donations As Shutdown Drags On

Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Air traffic controllers who missed their paychecks for the first time on Oct. 28 during the ongoing gov…

Oh SNAP: Judges Order Trump Admin To Use Emergency Funds For Food Assistance

Oh SNAP: Judges Order Trump Admin To Use Emergency Funds For Food Assistance

Two judges have stepped in over the federal government suspension of food-aid benefits for tens of millions of Americans set to end on Nov. 1 amid the shutdown. 

Seven Scary Charts To Frighten Investors This Halloween

Seven Scary Charts To Frighten Investors This Halloween

Authored by Jack Ridge via BondVigilantes.com,

Fixed Income investors may find themselves shutting the curtains and hiding under the sofa this Halloween. There is much to be fearful …