Markets....
Actual employment data vs expectations ..
US Yield Curve ends the week at a new expansion low, 75 bps to inversion. https://pensionpartners.com/waiting-for-an-inverted-yield-curve-waiting-for-godot/ …
Volatility Index: -49% since the post-Brexit closing high of 25.76, the largest 2-week Vol crash in history. $VIX
Chart: New record low for the long bond; below 2.1% -
US 30-yr yield hit an all-time low today while the S&P 500 (total return) hit an all-time high. Just another day.
S&P: 497 stocks closed higher today, tied for 2nd place all-time. $SPX
CFTC shows COMEX gold & silver net longs hit record high, WTI crude futures net longs cut to lowest since March http://www.cftc.gov/Marketreports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm …
US Baker Hughes Rig Count 440 (prev. 431); Oil Rigs 351 (prev. 341), Gas Rigs: 88 (prev. 89)
Rig count rises most in a year..
UK Politics / Post Brexit News....
US Banks not pulling up stakes..
Trade talks with India start..
Much better address than Farage address..
Checking May on immigration. ..
@FraserNelson This arrogant failure by the government to plan for Brexit has created weeks of avoidable uncertainty & market turbulence
Denmark and Norway want the EU to offer Britain generous exit terms. Germany, France, Sweden and Finland don't:
42 Tory MPs are calling for the leadership contest to be accelerated due to the "exceptional post-Brexit times".
Dallas......
Note - news flow changes as an incident unfolds in real time...
Blue Lives certainly matter. Shootings condemned by organizer of the protest in Dallas.
FBI Issues Alert in Louisiana: Violence Against Law Enforcement Officers, Riots http://jwatch.us/bJCfHx via @JudicialWatch
Alert warns that “multiple groups are calling for or planning riots and/or violence against law enforcement in Baton Rouge and Shreveport
@fredwalton216 Louisiana beginning Friday July 8 2016 and continuing through at least July 10, 2016. 2
Boston police issues warning about possible threats to officers http://fox25.com/29uBJzx
WATCH: Protests growing larger in Atlanta, police blocking http://cbsn.ws/29u9jTQ
Obama:I order that flag of the US shall be flown at half-staff at the White House & upon all public buildings & grounds until sunset July 12
'Vague threat' made against Orlando Police Department, chief says http://dlvr.it/LlcWHG
Dallas shooter killed by police , identified as former US Army veteran Micah Johnson.
Dallas police chief: we used a robot to detonate a bomb next to the suspect, killing him. He did NOT shoot himself.
This seems a pretty current and accurate status
Dallas Chief: 4 people working together with rifles, triangulated in positions for attack.
Just documenting footage...
fred walton @fredwalton216
The snipers appear to have acquired a level of training from somewhere , that's beyond capabilities of amateurs.
We still don’t have a complete comfort level that we have all the suspects,” Chief Brown said.
Horrible news-anyone thinking this helps is dangerously misguided.Keep the families of the officers in your prayers
Odds & Ends.....
Powerful statement from French Trade Minister regarding Barroso.
Bomb explosion on a Taiwan train. WTF is breaking out all around the globe ??
35 killed in deadly attack on Shiite shrine north of Baghdad as Abadi sacks security chief
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/080720161 …
Financial & political crisis for Italy on display..
No comments:
Post a Comment