Judge Rules EPA Must Reinstate $7 Billion Biden-Era Subsidies For Solar Promotion Authored by Jeremy Lott via The Epoch Times, A $7 billion federal government grant program for solar promotion, authorized during the Biden administration, was reinstated by a federal judge on Sept. 18 in a ruling that rebuffed the Trump administration’s efforts to cancel it. Solar panel array at a solar farm near Lancaster, Calif., on June 17, 2026. […]

Verizon Says Cut Cable Behind FAA Ground-Stops East Coast Airports, Not Their Fault (Update 1540ET): Verizon confirmed the “unknown equipment issue” behind the massive ground stop in the tri-state area was a cut fiber cable in New Jersey. The company says construction contractors working near an Amtrak rail line dug it up, that Verizon’s facilities were fully functional until that happened, and that the carrier bears no […]

Bessent Declares All Iran Airlines To Be ‘Shut Down Around The World’ Wednesday Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared on Monday that by Wednesday Sept. 23, “all the Iranian airlines will be shut down around the world.” “If they land, you cannot provide them with fuel, you cannot provide them with landing services, you cannot sell them tickets, or you will be knocked out of the dollar system,” he described. Bessent on Iran: On […]

US Opens Foreign Funding Investigations Into Duke, University Of North Dakota Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The State Department and the Department of Education are investigating Duke University and the University of North Dakota over allegedly violating foreign funding disclosure rules. The statue of Washington Duke on Duke University’s East Campus with Baldwin Auditorium is shown in Durham, N.C., on April […]

Big Tech’s Next AI Battleground Is Your Face, Loop Capital Says Smartglasses are set to be the “next major computing platform,” according to Loop Capital analysts, as Meta currently leads the space, with Google, Samsung, Apple, and SNAP preparing their own AI-powered eyewear. Loop Capital analyst Rob Sanderson wrote in a note on Sunday that an “inflection point” has arrived for smart glasses, which are “transitioning from wearable […]

Trump’s 48-Hour Houthi Strike Whiplash Was Triggered By Desire To ‘Help His Friend’ MbS President Trump’s abrupt Saturday return to the White House from Camp David, where he had been slated to spend the whole weekend, had set off an avalanche of speculation on potential military escalation in the Middle East. The NY Times and Axios are reporting that the Commander-in-Chief was close to a ordering new anti-Houthi intervention but […]

Critical Metals Shares Soar On Trump’s Greenland Deal As Mining Stocks Eye Rebound After Summer Slump Critical Metals jumped 37.5% to $9.22, while Greenland Energy surged 126% and Greenland Mines soared 136% on news this past weekend that President Trump had announced a security deal with Denmark and Greenland. This is fueling Wall Street’s expectations of greater US access to the territory’s mineral resources. Trump said Friday […]

Wall Street Turns Its Back On Consumer Stocks As Fuel Costs Soar And Yields Surge US gasoline prices near $4.44 a gallon at the pump, record diesel prices of $6.40 a gallon, and the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike this week, its first since July 2023, are compounding pressure on household budgets and borrowing costs. Against that troubling backdrop, UBS warns that Wall Street is “turning more skeptical on consumer recovery.” […]

Powerful Explosion Rocks Aleppo Ammo Depot In Latest Mystery Blast A terrifying blast erupted outside the major northern Syrian city of Aleppo overnight, which caused area residents to evacuate their homes, and with sustained explosions visible for miles around. The explosion happened at an army base in an outlying town, injuring at least four people, after which a series of blasts persisted, which unleashed shrapnel across the […]

What Do You See Here? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A K-pop star holding a pair of Chuck Taylors was enough. Crop the frame, squint at a star-shaped spotlight, and a Nike subsidiary is suddenly in the business of hoods and hangings, according to disturbed leftists who see racism everywhere. Instead of ignoring the demented behaviour, Converse pulled the image, apologised on cue, and promised to “do better.” The […]

SoftBank To Sell $11 Billion In Junk Bonds At Soaring Yields To Fund OpenAI Investments It’s only appropriate that just hours after we published an extensive report looking at the trillions in debt funding the AI supercycle – which just this year stands at $568bn, of which $259bn issued in IG, followed by $256bn across Private Credit, Direct Lending, and other bilateral/non-syndicated lending (for SPVs and infrastructure finance), […]

Fertilizer Stocks Tumble As Trump Says “Working On Massive” Belarus Potash Deal “The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social just before 11 a.m. ET. Trump continued, “The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers.” The immediate market impact: Intrepid […]

Qatar’s Energy Minister Says Bessent’s “Worthless” Hormuz Claim Is “Completely Wrong” Qatari Energy Minister Saad Al-Kaabi blasted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday, saying he was “wrong” to claim the Strait of Hormuz would become “worthless” to the oil industry in two years. “I think this is completely wrong,” Saad Al-Kaabi said Sunday at the Qatar Economic Forum in New York. Speaking to Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow on […]

Bessent Hails “Very Successful” China Talks As Trump-Xi Summit Puts AI, Rare Earths And Energy On The Table Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent emerged from roughly eight hours of talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on Sunday calling the meeting “very successful,” with Washington and Beijing agreeing to new mechanisms covering trade and artificial intelligence just days before President Donald Trump hosts Chinese […]

Bitcoin Soars Above $85k (Jan Highs) As Saylor Sees Clarity Act Collapse ‘A Win’ Bitcoin has surged above $85,000 this morning for the first time since late-January… The rally comes alongside advances in stocks and bonds, as falling oil prices and optimism ahead of a summit between US President Trump and China’s Xi Jinping are buoying markets more broadly. Rival digital assets have also bounced. Ether, the second-largest […]

Denmark Confirms Trump-Greenland Deal Would Boost Arctic Security Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A top Danish official said on Sept. 19 that an agreement announced by U.S. President Donald Trump for the United States to handle security for Greenland would lead to a better outcome in the region. Both Denmark and Greenland, an autonomous island that is Danish territory, expressed hope that the deal would end any […]

US Shipment Of F-35s Goes MIA In Shocking Detour To Hong Kong Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Lawmakers and the Trump administration are investigating the odd disappearance of a U.S.-bound shipment of F-35 fighter jet components from Australia, which were originally meant to be repaired on U.S. soil, according to new reporting by Politico. The report, published Friday and citing three anonymous sources, noted that an […]

Key Events This Week: Trump-Xi Meeting, Fed Speakers, PMIs And Durables After an extremely busy week for central bank decisions, the week ahead brings a mix of economic data, even more central bank decisions, lots of Fed speak, and geopolitical events. The first read of the September PMIs across the major economies on Wednesday should provide the most timely update on global growth momentum, while investors will also be watching […]

Another Tanker Struck In Strait Of Hormuz As Iran’s President Heads To NY Just as the Iranian delegation of President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to fly to New York City for this week’s UN General Assembly, where it’s expected that the Iranians could be engaged in some sideline diplomacy with the White House, another tanker incident has unfolded off in the Persian Gulf area. The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency is reporting […]

Is Trump Secretly Pushing For A Deal When Iran’s President Arrives In NY By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank  All The News That Is Not Fit To Price Political and geopolitical developments again stole the headlines over the weekend, with attendant market implications. Active European gasoil futures are lower this morning despite news that Ukraine had launched a “massive” drone attack against Moscow that […]

Media TV Pool Won’t Cover Trump As CNN, MS NOW, Politico To Sue Over White House Ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico notified the federal government on Monday that they intend to sue the Trump administration to get their White House credentials back, three days after the president announced from Truth Social that he was barring all three from the building. President Donald J. Trump makes an announcement on health care in the Oval Office at […]

Warner Bros, Paramount Jump After Settling Lawsuits With California And Other States Update: (10:05am ET). Well, that was fast: following a Friday leak that a settlement was imminent, moments ago, Bloomberg reported that Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, citing a person familiar with the matter. Settlement talks came to […]

South Korea Gives Almonty’s Major Tungsten Mine Final Green Light To Supply The West Bloomberg reports that Almonty Industries has secured final administrative approval from South Korean authorities to commercially process tungsten at its Sangdong mine. The approval positions Sangdong to begin supplying major Western customers and accelerate supply chain decoupling from China for the critical industrial metal. As Beijing restricts […]

Trump Pushes Zelensky To Halt Russia Refinery Attacks Amid High Diesel  President Trump continues to seek to pressure Ukraine’s Zelensky to halt long-range drone strikes on Russia’s refineries, in a bid to calm rising diesel prices especially while the parallel Strait of Hormuz crisis persists. Financial Times reports Monday that the US president just held a fresh phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart over the matter, where […]

US Futures Rise, Near All-Time High, As Oil, Yields Drop On US-China Diplomacy Optimism US futures are higher driven by Trump / Xi optimism around AI, Middle East, and trade with Middle East kinetic headlines over the weekend reflecting a pause to escalation. Sentiment was lifted by signs of progress on geopolitical issues: it’s a big week for talks, with Trump set for a summit with China’s Xi Jinping on Thursday and a […]