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EXCHANGE: COMEX
EXCHANGE: COMEX
CONTRACT: JANUARY 2026 COMEX 100 GOLD FUTURES
SETTLEMENT: 4,449.700000000 USD
INTENT DATE: 01/08/2026 DELIVERY DATE: 01/12/2026
FIRM ORG FIRM NAME ISSUED STOPPED
099 H DEUTSCHE BANK AG 841
332 H STANDARD CHARTERED B 5
363 H WELLS FARGO SECURITI 27
435 H SCOTIA CAPITAL (USA) 46
624 H BOFA SECURITIES 851
661 C JP MORGAN SECURITIES 250 219
686 C STONEX FINANCIAL INC 1 2
690 C ABN AMRO CLR USA LLC 2
737 C ADVANTAGE FUTURES 2 15
880 H CITIGROUP 12
905 C ADM 7
TOTAL: 1,140 1,140
MONTH TO DATE: 6,591
GOLD: NUMBER OF NOTICES FILED FOR JANUARY/2026: 1140 CONTRACTs NOTICES FOR 11400 OZ or 3.545 TONNES
total notices so far: 6591contracts for 659100 OR 20.500 tonnes)
SILVER NOTICES: 369 NOTICE(S) FILED FOR 1.845 MILLION OZ OZ/
total number of notices filed so far this month : 6890CONTRACTS (NOTICES) for 34.450 million oz
HUGE CHANGES:
INITIAL STANDING FOR JANUARY: 22.915 MILLION OZ FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S HUGE 1.495MILLION OZ QUEUE JUMP//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 36.765 MILLION OZ//
JULY: 50.925 MILLION OZ (QUITE SMALL)
AUGUST: 59.455 MILLION OZ (QUITE SMALL)
SEPT. 50.510 MILLION OZ.(QUITE SMALL)
OCT; 82.020 MILLION OZ (WILL BE STRONG THIS MONTH)/ OCC WANTS TO REIN IN THESE ISSUANCES!
NOVEMBER: 36.425 MILLION OZ
DEC: 45.765 MILLION OZ
JANUARY 2026: 40.365 MILLION OZ
AND JULY: 46.720 MILLION OZ//
AUGUST: 4.70 MILLION OZ INITIAL STANDING PLUS TODAY;S 5,000 OZ QUEUE JUMP //NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 10.960 MILLION OZ
SEPTEMBER: 68.040 MILLION OZ NORMAL DELIVERY(INCLUDES ALL QUEUE JUMPING AND EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL TRANSFERS) PLUS 3.0 MILLION OZ EX FOR RISK = 71.040 MILLION OZ. (THIS IS THE FIRST AND ONLY ISSUANCE OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK FOR SILVER SINCE MAY.)
OCTOBER: 39.565 MILLION OZ OF NORMAL DELIVERY INCLUDES ALL QUEUE JUMPING
PLUS
2.110 MILLION OZ EXCHANGE FOR RISK//TOTAL OZ STANDING IN OCT ADVANCES TO 41.675 MILLION OZ
NOVEMBER: INITIAL STANDING AT 11.575 MILLION OZ FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S 195,000 OZ QUEUE JUMP WHICH FOLLOWS ALL OTHER QUEUE JUMPS OF 9.155 MILLION OZ//STANDING ADVANCES TO 19.670 MILLION OZ/
DECEMBER: INITIAL AMOUNT STANDING FOR DELIVERY: 49.33 MILLION OZ// FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER STRONG 835,000OZ QUEUE JUMP+ DEC. FIRST EXCHANGE FOR RISK 0F .850 MILLION OZ + LAST WEEK.S 495,000 OZ EXCHANGE FOR RISK AND THEN A 3RD ISSUANCE IF 1.00MILLION OZ THEN FINALLY DEC 249ISSUANCE OF 1.35 MILLION OZ EXCHANGE FOR RISK//NEW TOTAL EX FOR RIS IS 3.685 MILLION OZ // STANDING ADVANCES TO 68.415 MILLION OZ//
JANUARY: INITIAL STANDING 22.915 MILLION OZ FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S 1.495MILLION OZ QUEUE JUMP//STANDING ADVANCES TO 36.755 MILLION OZ//
- MAY: SUMMARY FOR MAY TONNES WHICH STOOD FOR DELIVERY:
4. AUGUST: 60.547 TONNES OF INITIAL GOLD FIRST DAY NOTICE FOLLOWED BY THE NET MONTH’S QUEUE JUMP OF 47.2312 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD THE FOLLOWING EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE RECEIVED FOR THE MONTH: 5.4432 TONNES EX FOR RISK/AUG 7 , AUG 11: 2.413 TONNES EX FOR RISK AND AUG. 12 OF 2.637 TONNES EX FOR RISK//AUG 25: 9.107 TONNES , AUGUST 26: 9.1010 TONNES AND NOW AUGUST 27: 9.0699 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 107.5117 TONNES OF GOLD NORMAL STANDING (INCLUDES ALL MONTHLY QUEUE JUMPS/EX FOR PHYSICAL TRANSFERS//) +44.696 TONNES EX.FOR RISK = 152.208 TONNES
5.SEPT: INITIAL 8.093 TONNES OF GOLD PLUS TODAY’S QUEUE JUMP OF 0.4883 TONNES PLUS 2.2827 TONNES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK TODAY//NEW TOTAL EX. FOR RISK/MONTH = 22.923//NEW TOTAL STANDING FOR GOLD SEPT ADVANCES TO = 48.801 TONNES!!
6.OCTOBER: 90.012 TONNES OF INITIAL GOLD STANDING WITH TODAY’S TINY 0.00311 TONNES QUEUE JUMP WHICH FOLLOWS ALL OTHER QUEUE JUMPS DURING OCT OF 76.1656 TONNES
THEN WE MUST ADD OUR 14.553 TONNES OF OUR ISSUANCE OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK/6 OCCASIONS//NEW TOTAL OF GOLD STANDING ADVANCES TO 197.5141 TONNES OF GOLD.
7.NOVEMBER BEGINS WITH 15.651 TONNES INITIALLY STANDING FOR DELIVERY FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S QUEUE JUMP OF 2.323 TONNES FOLLOWED BY ALL PREVIOUS QUEUE JUMPS IN OF OF 21.3775 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR TWO EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE OF 4.5596 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 43.9716 TONNES OF GOLD.
8. DECEMBER BEGINS WITH INITIAL STANDING OF 83.813 TONNES OF GOLD FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S 0.1335TONNE QUEUE JUMP WHICH FOLLOWS ALL OTHER QUEUE JUMPS OF: 37.163 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 115.390 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR 4 EXCHANGE FOR RISK FOR DECEMBER OF 6.587 TONNES/NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 121.977 TONNES
9. JANUARY: INITITAL STANDING: 13.785 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR HUGE QUEUE JUMP OF 1.934 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWS ALL OTHER QUEUE JUMPS OF 14.002TONNES //NEW TOTAL QUEUE JUMPS 20..302//NORMAL DELIVERY OF GOLD ADVANCES TO 22.236 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR TWO EXCHANGE FOR RISK OF 12.778 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 34.980 TONNES.
NEW STANDING FOR GOLD, JANUARY CONTRACT AT 34.980 TONNES OF GOLD
JAN. 2025: 257.919 TONNES (ISSUANCE WILL BE PRETTY GOOD THIS MONTH BUT MUCH LOWER THAN LAST MONTH)
FEB: 207.21 TONNES//EX FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE (WILL BE A FAIR SIZED ISSUANCE THIS MONTH)
MARCH 130.84 TONNES//QUITE SMALL THIS MONTH.
APRIL; 208.57 TONNES. STRONG THIS MONTH
MAY: 113.499 TONNES OF GOLD EFP ISSUANCE//QUITE SMALL THIS MONTH
JUNE: 97.79 TONNES OF GOLD EFP ISSUANCE/EXTREMELY SMALL
JULY : 150.877 TONNES// QUITE SMALL
AUGUST: 175.86 TONNES A LOT LARGER THIS MONTH.
SEPT. 116.13 TONNES VERY SMALL
OCT. 252.72 TONNES//CERTAINLY MUCH LARGER THIS MONTH/VERY STRONG
NOV: 124.74 TONNES
DEC: 190.04 TONNES//GOOD SIZED THIS MONTH FINAL.
TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUED FOR YEAR 2025: 2,026.20 TONNES (LOWER THAN LAST YR 2,569.00 TONNES
JANUARY: 43.42TONNES
SPREADING OPERATION
NOW SWITCHING TO GOLD FOR NEWCOMERS, HERE ARE THE DETAILS
SPREADING LIQUIDATION HAS NOW COMMENCED AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE NEW ACTIVE FRONT MONTH OF OCT. WE ARE NOW INTO THE SPREADING OPERATION OF GOLD
HERE IS A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF HOW THE CROOKS FLEECE UNSUSPECTING LONGS IN THE SPREADING ENDEAVOUR ;MODUS OPERANDI OF THE CORRUPT BANKERS AS TO HOW THEY HANDLE THEIR SPREAD OPEN INTERESTS:HERE IS HOW THE CROOKS USED SPREADING AS WE ARE NOW INTO THE NON ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF NOV HEADING TOWARDS THE ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF FEB., FOR GOLD: AND MARCH FOR SILVER
YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE THAT THE COMEX OPEN INTEREST STARTS TO RISE BUT SO IS THE OPEN INTEREST OF SPREADERS. THE OPEN INTEREST IN WILL CONTINUE TO RISE UNTIL ONE WEEK BEFORE FIRST DAY NOTICE OF AN UPCOMING ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH (OCT), AND THAT IS WHEN THE CROOKS SELL THEIR SPREAD POSITIONS BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME OF THE DAY. THEY WILL USE THE SELL SIDE OF THE EQUATION TO CREATE THE CASCADE (ALONG WITH THEIR COLLUSIVE FRIENDS) AND THEN COVER ON THE BUY SIDE OF THE SPREAD SITUATION AT THE END OF THE DAY. THEY DO THIS TO AVOID POSITION LIMIT DETECTION. THE LIQUIDATION OF THE SPREADING FORMATION CONTINUES FOR EXACTLY ONE WEEK AND ENDS ON FIRST DAY NOTICE.”
WHAT IS ALARMING TO ME, ACCORDING TO OUR LONDON EXPERT ANDREW MAGUIRE IS THAT THESE EFP’S ARE BEING TRANSFERRED TO WHAT ARE CALLED SERIAL FORWARD CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS AND THESE CONTRACTS ARE LESS THAN 14 DAYS. ANYTHING GREATER THAN 14 DAYS, THESE MUST BE RECORDED AND SENT TO THE COMPTROLLER, GREAT BRITAIN TO MONITOR RISK TO THE BANKING SYSTEM. IF THIS IS INDEED TRUE, THEN THIS IS A MASSIVE CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD AS WE NOW WITNESS A MONSTROUS TOTAL EFP’S ISSUANCE AS IT HEADS INTO THE STRATOSPHERE.
The crooks also use the spread in the TAS account (trade at settlement). They buy the spot TAS (e.g. June) and sell the future TAS two months out (e.g. August). Then they unload the front month (i.e. unload the buy side first so the price of gold/silver falls. This occurs in the middle of the front delivery month cycle. They unload the sell side of the equation, two months down the road. The crooks violate position limits as the OCC refuse to hear our complaints.
First, here is an outline of what will be discussed tonight:
1.TODAY WE HAD THE OPEN INTEREST AT THE COMEX IN SILVER FELL BY A HUGE SIZED 3918 CONTRACTS OI TO 150,366 AND FURTHER FROM THE COMEX HIGH RECORD //244,710( SET FEB 25/2020). THE LAST RECORDS WERE SET IN AUG.2018 AT 244,196 WITH A SILVER PRICE OF $14.78/(AUGUST 22/2018)..THE PREVIOUS RECORD TO THAT WAS SET ON APRIL 9/2018 AT 243,411 OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS WITH THE SILVER PRICE AT THAT DAY: $16.53). AND PREVIOUS TO THAT, THE RECORD WAS ESTABLISHED AT: 234,787 CONTRACTS, SET ON APRIL 21.2017 OVER 7 YEARS AGO. HOWEVER WE HAVE NOW SET A NEW RECORD LOW OF 114,102 CONTRACTS JULY 3.2023
EFP ISSUANCE 810 CONTRACTS
OUR CUSTOMARY MIGRATION OF COMEX LONGS CONTINUE TO MORPH INTO LONDON FORWARDS AS OUR BANKERS USED THEIR EMERGENCY PROCEDURE TO ISSUE:
MAR 810 CONTRACTS and 0 ALL OTHER MONTHS: ZERO. TOTAL EFP ISSUANCE: 0 CONTRACTS. EFP’S GIVE OUR COMEX LONGS A FIAT BONUS PLUS A DELIVERABLE PRODUCT OVER IN LONDON. IF WE TAKE THE COMEX OI LOSS OF 3342 CONTRACTS AND ADD TO THE 810 E.FP. ISSUED
WE OBTAIN A MEGA HUGE SIZED LOSS OF 3108 OF OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS FROM OUR TWO EXCHANGES WITH OUR LOSS OF $2.40 THE RATS ARE FLEEING THE ARENA.
THUS IN OUNCES, THE GAIN ON THE TWO EXCHANGES TOTALS 15.540 MILLION PAPER OZ
OCCURRED WITH OUR LOSS IN PRICE.OF $2.40
OUTLINE FOR TODAY’S COMMENTARY
1a/COMEX GOLD AND SILVER REPORT
(report Harvey)
b, ) Gold/silver trading overnight Europe,//GOLD COMMENT
Peter Schiff)
c) Commentaries from: Egon von Greyerz///Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Pam and Russ Martens
ii a) Chris Powell of GATA provides to us very important physical commentaries
b. Other gold/silver commentaries
c. Commodity commentaries//
d)/CRYPTOCURRENCIES/BITCOIN ETC
2.ASIAN AFFAIRS JAN 6/2025
YOUR EARLY CURRENCY VALUES/GOLD AND SILVER PRICING/ASIAN AND EUROPEAN BOURSE MOVEMENTS/AND INTEREST RATE SETTINGS FRIDAY MORNING.7:30 AM
SHANGHAI CLOSED UP 60.25 PTS OR 1.50%
//Hang Seng CLOSED UP 368.21 PTS OR 1.38%
// Nikkei CLOSED UP 681.20 PTS OR 1.31
//Australia’s all ordinaries CLOSED DOWN 0.57%
//Chinese yuan (ONSHORE) CLOSED DOWN TO 6.9840
/ OFFSHORE CLOSED DOWN AT 6.9797/ Oil UP TO 58.46 dollars per barrel for WTI and BRENT UP TO 62.04 Stocks in Europe OPENED ALL GREEN
ONSHORE USA/ YUAN TRADING DOWN TO 6.9840 OFFSHORE YUAN TRADING DOWN TO 6.9797/ONSHORE YUAN TRADING BELOW OFF SHORE AND DOWN ON THE DOLLAR// / AND THUS WEAK//OFF SHORE YUAN TRADING DOWN AGAINST US DOLLAR/ AND THUS WEAKER
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A)NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA
outline
b) REPORT ON JAPAN/
OUTLINE
3 CHINA
OUTLINE
4/EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
OUTLINE
5. RUSSIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS
OUTLINE
6.Global Issues//COVID ISSUES/VACCINE ISSUES
OUTLINE
7. OIL ISSUES
OUTLINE
8 EMERGING MARKET ISSUES
9. USA
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1. COMEX DATA//AMOUNTS STANDING//VOLUME OF TRADING/INVENTORY MOVEMENTS
GOLD
LET US BEGIN:
THE TOTAL COMEX GOLD OPEN INTEREST ROSE BY A STRONG SIZED 4699 CONTRACTS TO 493,909 OI WITH OUR SMALL LOSS IN PRICE OF $0.80 WITH RESPECT TO THURSDAY’S // TRADING/ //COMEX CLOSING TIME:… WE LOST LITTLE NET LONGS, WITH THAT PRICE LOSS FOR GOLD. AND AS YOU WILL SEE BELOW, OUR GAIN IN PRICE ALSO HAD A FAIR NUMBER OF EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUED (1400). WE HAD SOME T.A.S. LIQUIDATION TUESDAY. IT SEEMS THAT THE SPECULATORS WENT MASSIVELY HUGE TO THE LONG SIDE WITH OUR FRBNY PROVIDING STILL THE MASSIVE NECESSARY PAPER AND OTHER CENTRAL BANKERS CONTINUING ON THE LONG SIDE .
YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE COMEX OI IS NOW GAINING HUGELY FROM ITS LOW OI OF AROUND 418,000 TO NOW 493,909 AND NOW AMPLE ENOUGH FOR A RAID BY OUR BANKERS LIKE LAST MONDAY. FROM CHINA WE LEARN THAT THE GOLD LEASE RATE IS NOW AROUND ONE TO 2 %
WE THUS HAD A TOTAL GAIN IN OI ON BOTH OF OUR EXCHANGES, THE COMEX AND LONDON’S EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL EQUATING TO 6106 CONTRACTS (OR 18.97 TONNES). THEN WE WERE NOTIFIED OF ANOTHER MONSTER 3,000 CONTRACT EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE IN GOLD CONTRACTS FOR 300,000 OZ OR 9.331 TONNES OF GOLD. IN DECEMBER WE HAVE RECORDED 5 ISSUANCES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK/4 FOR DEC AND THE LAST ONE ON DEC 31 FOR JANUARY. WE NOW HAVE 3 CHOICES FOR THE RECIPIENT OF THIS ISSUANCE AND IT MUST BE A CENTRAL BANK. YOU WILL RECALL THAT THE BUYER ASSUMES THE RISK OF THAT DELIVERY. (THUS TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER IS 6.56 TONNES/4 OCCASIONS AND THEN WE HAVE TWO ISSUED IN JANUARY: 3.446 TONNES EARLY AND THEN JAN 9 ISSUANCE OF 9,331//TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK JANUARY 12.778 TONNES WHICH WILL BE ADDED TO OUR NORMAL DELVERIES.
HERE ARE THE CHOICES FOR THE RECIPIENT OF THOSE ISSUANCES:
1 THE CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND. BUT THEY RECEIVED CLEARANCE THAT THEIR GOLD IS BACK SO IT IS NOT LIKELY THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THEIR RESERVES.
2. THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE USA: THE FED. LOGICAL CHOICE AS THEY CLAMOUR TRYING TO REDUCE THEIR 39 TONNES OF SHORTAGE.
3. THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA AS THEY BATTLE WITS WITH THE USA.
TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK FOR DECEMBER IS 6.56 TONNES AND THIS WAS ADDED TO OUR NORMAL DELIVERY TOTALS.. THE JANUARY ISSUANCE WILL BE ADDED TO OUR DAILY TOTALS!! (3.447 TONNES)
DETAILS ON OUR NEW JANUARY COMEX CONTRACT MONTH//
IN TOTAL WE HAD A STRONG SIZED GAIN ON OUR TWO EXCHANGES OF 6106 CONTRACTS DESPITE OUR SMALL LOSS IN PRICE. HOWEVER, OUR FRIENDLY PHYSICAL LONDON BOYS HAD ANOTHER FIELD DAY AGAIN THROUGHOUT OF THE WEEK AS THEY WERE READY FOR THE FRBNY.S CONTINUED ORCHESTRATED ATTACKS VERY EARLY IN THE COMEX SESSIONS AS THEY TRIED TO ABSORB EVERYTHING IN SIGHT FROM THEIR DAILY ATTACKS. LONDONERS EXERCISED THEIR BOUGHT CONTRACTS FOR PHYSICAL GOLD VIA THE EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ROUTE AND THANKED THE FRBNY AND OUR SHORT SPECULATORS FOR THE THOUGHTFULNESS. LONDON ANNOUNCED EARLY IN THE YEAR (AND SCARCITY CONTINUES TO THIS DAY) THAT THEY WERE OUT OF GOLD. WRONGLY IT WAS ATTRIBUTED TO THEIR SHIPPING PHYSICAL GOLD TO COMEX FOR STORAGE DUE TO TRUMP’S INITIATION OF TARIFFS. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THIS GOLD LEFT LONDON TO OTHER CENTRAL BANKS, AND COMEX BANKS HAVE BEEN PAPERING THEIR LOSSES (DERIVATIVE) WITH KILOBAR ENTRIES.
THE LIQUIDATION OF T.A.S. CONTRACTS THROUGHOUT THE MONTHS OF JUNE THROUGH JANUARY/ CONTINUES TO DISTORT OPEN INTEREST NUMBERS GREATLY ALTHOUGH THE T.A.S. ISSUANCES IN GOLD HAVE GENERALLY BEEN ON THE LOW SIDE COMPARED TO SILVER WHICH HAVE BEEN HUGE. TODAY’S NUMBER HOWEVER IS A STRONG T.A.S ISSUANCE CONTRACTS. THE CME NOTIFIES US THAT THEY HAVE ISSUED 1408 T.A.S CONTRACTS AND WILL BE USED FOR RAID PURPOSES TO STOP GOLD’S RISE AND TO TEMPER HUGE LOSSES IN OTC DERIVATIVE BETS AND IT WAS IN FULL FORCE DURING LAST WEEK AND CONTINUING ON THIS WEEK. IT SURE LOOKS LIKE THE BIS HAS GIVEN THE FRBNY ITS MARCHING ORDERS TO COVER AND THAT MAY EXPLAIN THE HUGE NUMBER OF T.A.S. ISSUANCES IN DECEMBER.
HERE IS A SUMMARY OF GOLD STANDING FOR DELIVERY ON OUR LAST 9 MONTHS:
- FOR APRIL AT 209 TONNES
2. AND THIS CONTINUED INTO MAY WITH FINAL STANDING AT 90.23 TONNES.
3. JUNE WHICH IS A HUGE DELIVERY MONTH , FINAL STANDING WAS RECORDED AT A STRONG 93.085 TONNES. //(TOTAL NET QUEUE JUMPING FOR THE JUNE MONTH: 31.027 TONNES.)
4. IN JULY WE HAD HUGE DELIVERY NOTICES ESPECIALLY FOR A NON ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH WITH INITIAL STANDING AT 17.947 TONNES PLUS MANY QUEUE JUMPS + 3.75 TONNES EX FOR RISK = 41.106 TONNES OF GOLD // FINAL TOTAL TONNES STANDING JULY: 41.106 TONNES
5. FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST:
INITIAL AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING FOR AUGUST: 60.547 TONNES PLUS THE MONTHS HUGE QUEUE JUMPS OF 47.2312 TONNES +44.696 TONNES EX FOR RISK (7 ISSUANCES) //NEW STANDING 152.208 TONNES WHICH IS MONSTROUS!!!
6. FINAL AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING FOR SEPT; INITIAL STANDING; 2,602 CONTRACTS OR 260,200 OZ FOR 8.093 TONNES OF GOLD FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S 0.4883 TONNES QUEUE JUMP TO GO ALONG WITH TODAY’S 1.244 TONNES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE TODAY AND // TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE SEPT: 22.923 TONNES//NEW TOTALS STANDING ADVANCES TO 48.801 TONNES OF GOLD!!!
7. OCTOBER:
OCTOBER: INITIAL STANDING FOR GOLD: 90.164 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR LATEST OCT 30 QUEUE JUMP OF 0.00311 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWS OCT 29 QUEUE JUMP OF .4096 WHICH FOLLOWS; OCT 28 QUEUE JUMP OF .5069 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWS OCT 27 OF 0.3048 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWS: OCT 24 OF 0.8615 TONNES, FOLLOWING OCT 23 QUEUE JUMP OF 1.695 TONNES OCT 22 JUMP OF 8.622 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWS OCT 21: 3.8600 TONNES TO OCT 20 QUEUE JUMP OF 7.695 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWED OCT 17 RECORD SETTING: 12.031 TONNE QUEUE JUMP WHICH FOLLOWED THURSDAY’S QUEUE JUMP OF 8.326 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWED WEDNESDAY;S 6.469 WHICH FOLLOWED ALL PREVIOUS QUEUE JUMPS OF 42.549 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR TOTAL 4679 EXCHANGE FOR RISK CONTRACTS ON 6 OCCASIONS FOR 467,900 OZ OR 14.553 TONNES.! TOTAL STANDING ADVANCES TO 197.511 TONNES OF GOLD
SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER STANDING:
THAT IS;
a) INITIAL STANDING 90.164 TONNES
b) INITIAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE OF 500 CONTRACTS FOR 50,000 OZ OR 1.555 TONNES
c) ANOTHER 3 CONSECUTIVE EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCES OF 2150 CONTRACTS FOR 215000 OZ OR 6.687 TONNES
D) AFTER A ONE DAY HIATUS, A 5TH ISSUANCE FOR 1000 CONTRACTS //100,000 OZ OR 3.1104 TONNES
E) AFTER A TWO WEEK HIATUS: ITS 6TH ISSUANCE FOR 1029 CONTRACTS/102,900 OZ OR 3.200 TONNES
TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK OCT 6 OCCASIONS: 14.553 TONNES
TO WHICH WE ADD ALL OUR QUEUE JUMPING IN OCT: TOTAL MONTH;: 92.7648 TONNES
(ALL OF THESE QUEUE JUMPS ARE REPRESENTED BY CENTRAL BANKS DESPERATELY ADDING TO THEIR OFFICIAL RESERVES)
EQUALS
197.5141 TONNES OF GOLD!!
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8. NOVEMBER:TOTAL TONNES STANDING INCLUDING ALL QUEUE JUMPS AND EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE:
INITIAL GOLD STANDING AT THE COMEX IS 5032 CONTRACTS OR 503,200 OZ (15.651 TONNES) FOLLOWED BY ITS TODAY’S QUEUE JUMP OF 2.323 TONNES/ FOLLOWED BY ALL NOVEMBER QUEUE JUMPS OF 21.3775 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR SECOND EXCHANGE FOR RISK OF 1016 CONTRACTS FOR 101600 OZ OR 3.165 TONNES TO OUR FIRST EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE OF 1.3966 TONNES/// NEW EXCHANGE FOR RISK: 4.5595 TONNES//NEW TOTAL GOLD STANDING IN NOVEMBER ADVANCES TO 43.9716 TONNES
9. DECEMBER: INITIAL AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING FOR DELIVERY: 83.813 TONNES OF GOLD FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S 0.1337 TONNES OF QUEUE JUMP WHICH FOLLOWS ALL OTHER NET QUEUE JUMPING OF 37.163 TONNES//STANDING ADVANCES TO 115.257 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR FOUR ISSUANCES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK OF 6.559 TONNES/NEW STANDING IS THUS: 121.977 TONNES.
10. JANUARY: INITITAL STANDING: 13.785 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR HUGE QUEUE JUMP OF 1.934 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWS ALL OTHER QUEUE JUMPS OF 14.002TONNES //NEW TOTAL QUEUE JUMPSl 15.936 //NORMAL DELIVERY OF GOLD ADVANCES TO 22.236 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR TWO EXCHANGE FOR RISK OF 12.778 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 34.980 TONNES.
THE FED IS THE OTHER MAJOR SHORT OF AROUND 39+ TONNES OF GOLD OWING TO THE B.I.S. THE OCC ORDERED THE BANKS TO COVER THEIR GOLD LOSSES FROM OCC BETS. THIS IS SUCH A SMALL FRACTION OF WHAT IS OWED!!! THE FRBNY BORROWED GOLD FROM THE BIS TO COVER THOSE HUGE LOSSES OF AROUND 39 TONNES OF GOLD.. THE FED IS VERY WORRIED ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO GOLD PRICES IF THEY DO NOT BORROW THIS GOLD. SO IT IS POSSIBLE/PROBABLE THAT THE FED IS THE BUYER OF 10.006 TONNES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK/DECEMBER/EARLY JANUARY!!
THE MAJOR FOUR OR FIVE BANKS ARE ALSO WORRIED ABOUT THEIR HUGE PRECIOUS METAL DERIVATIVE SHORT EXPOSURE (NORTH OF ONE TRILLION DOLLARS) AND THIS IS PROBABLY THE MAJOR REASON FOR GOLD/SILVER’S RISE THESE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. THEY ARE TOTALLY TRAPPED., AND THEIR FAILURE TO STOP OTHER CENTRAL BANK PURCHASES OF PHYSICAL GOLD IS THE MAJOR ISSUE OF THE DAY. IT SURE DOES LOOK LIKE THE BIS HAS NOW GIVEN THE FED ITS MARCHING ORDERS TO COVER ITS PHYSICAL GOLD SHORT AS THEIR OUTSTANDING LOAN OF 39+ TONNES REMAIN ON THE BOOKS OF THE BIS AND THE END OF THE YEAR IS APPROACHING.
THE FRBNY IS STILL NON COMPLIANT WITH RESPECT TO BASEL III BUT IT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR THEM TO BE COMPLIANT ONLY COMMERCIAL BANKERS MUST BE.
OUR PHYSICAL LONDONERS BOUGHT NEW MASSIVE QUANTITIES OF LONGS AT ANY PRICE AND THIS GOLD BOUGHT WILL BE TENDERED FOR PHYSICAL ON A T + ???? BASIS. BECAUSE GOLD IS BASEL III COMPLIANT, GOLD IS SUPPOSED BE DELIVERED IN A VERY TIMELY ONE DAY. CENTRAL BANKS AROUND THE WORLD, BEING REPRESENTED BY OUR LONDONERS, ARE THE REAL PURCHASERS OF THIS GOLD.
EUROPE IS NOW BASEL III COMPLIANT. THE WEST ( COMEX) IS NOW COMPLIANT EFFECTIVE JULY 1//2025.
THE PROBLEM FOR THOSE PROVIDING THE SHORT PAPER IS THE SHOCK TO THEM ON RECEIVING NOTICE THAT THE LONGS WANT THE PHYSICAL GOLD AS THEY TENDER FOR THAT SHINY YELLOW METAL. THE HIGH LIQUIDATION OF OUR TWO SPREADERS: 1) THE MONTH END SPREADERS AND 2. T.A.S DURING THESE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS IS SURELY DISTORTING COMEX OPEN INTEREST BUT THAT DOES NOT STOP LONDON’S ACCUMULATION OF PHYSICAL! YOU CAN ALSO VISUALIZE THAT PERFECTLY WITH THE HUGE AMOUNTS OF QUEUE JUMPING ORCHESTRATED BY CENTRAL BANKERS BOLTING AHEAD OF ORDINARY LONGS AS THEIR NEED FOR PHYSICAL IS GREAT AS THEY SCOUR THE PLANET LOOKING FOR GOLD, AND THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING EACH AND EVERY MONTH
EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE/JAN//BORROWINGS FROM THE FRBNY:
THE CME REPORTS THAT THE BANKERS ISSUED A FAIR SIZED EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL OF 1400 CONTRACTS.
THAT IS A FAIR SIZED 1400 EFP CONTRACT WAS ISSUED: : /FEB 1400 & ZERO FOR ALL OTHER MONTHS:
TOTAL EFP ISSUANCE: 1400 CONTRACTS. THESE EFP;S CIRCLE AROUND LONDON ON A 13 DAY BASIS AND ARE NOW USED BY GLOBAL CENTRAL BANKS TO EXERCISE FOR PHYSICAL GOLD WITH THE OBLIGATION TO DELIVER BEING FORCED ONTO COMEX BANKS. THE GOLD GENERALLY DELIVERED COMES FROM LONDON BUT THEY ARE OUT!! THUS COMEX BECOMES THE MAJOR SOURCE FOR OUR CENTRAL BANKERS. THE REGULATORY BODY THAT IS SUPPOSE TO CONTROL THESE EFP’S IS THE O.C.C. HEADQUARTERED IN BOTH LONDON AND WASHINGTON. SEEMS NOW THAT THE OCC IS CLAMPING DOWN ON THIS EFP’S CIRCLING AROUND IN LONDON AS THEY ORDERED THE BULLION BANKS TO COVER MUCH OF THEIR DERIVATIVE BETS ON THESE CONTRACTS!! THUS THE FRBNY SAVED OUR BULLION BANKS FROM EXTINCTION WITH THIS BORROWED GOLD FROM THE BIS OF 39 TONNES
WE HAD :
- LITTLE LIQUIDATION OF OUR T.A.S. SPREADERS DURING THE COMEX SESSION + AND DID HAVE HUGE GOVERNMENT LIQUIDATION
- ZERO MONTH END SPREADERS LIQUIDATION!!. WILL NOT COMMENCE UNTIL THE END OF JANUARY..
T.A.S.SPREADER ISSUANCE//JANUARY
AS PER OUR NEWBIE TRADE AT SETTLEMENT (TAS) MANIPULATION OPERATION (WHICH CRAIG HEMKE HAS POINTED OUT HAPPENS USUALLY DURING MID MONTH IN THE DELIVERY CYCLE), BUT NOW ON A DAILY BASIS, THE CME REPORTS THAT THE TOTAL T.A.S. ISSUANCE FOR THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY MORNING WAS A FAIR SIZED 1408 CONTRACTS
THE RAIDS WHETHER ON OPTIONS EXPIRY MONTH OR T.A.S. DRIVEN, ACCOMPLISHES TWO IMPORTANT ASPECTS FOR OUR CROOKS:
- STALLS THE ADVANCE IN PRICE
- LOWERS THEIR ADVANCING DERIVATIVE LOSSES.
THAT SET UP THURSDAY’S SMALL LOSS IN PRICE IN GOLD WITH A CORRESPONDING VERY STRONG GAIN OF COMEX OI AND A FAIR EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE..
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THE COMEX IS IN TOTAL TURMOIL ESPECIALLY THESE PAST 6 MONTHS WITH THE FOLLOWING;
- WITH JULY’S RARE TWO ISSUANCES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK (LATE IN JULY)
- AND THIS WAS FOLLOWED WITH AUGUST’S 7 ISSUANCES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK FOR 44.696 TONNES
- TO BE FOLLOWED BY SEPTEMBER’S 7 ISSUANCES FOR EXCHANGE FOR RISK FOR 22.923 TONNES.
- TO BE FOLLOWED BY OCTOBER’S 6 ISSUANCES FOR 14.553 TONNES
- TO BE FOLLOWED BY NOVEMBER’S TWO ISSUANCES FOR 4.5575 TONNES
- THE LONDON BANKING AUDITORS HAVE SO FAR REFUSED TO GIVE CERTIFICATION ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND’S SISTER HOLDING OPERATION, THE E.E.A. ON ITS GOLD AND OTHER ASSETS HELD UNDER THE E.E.A.(SEE ROBERT LAMBOURNE’S LETTER OCT 8/
- FRBNY BORROWS ANOTHER 24 TONNES OF GOLD FROM THE BIS IN OCT TO SAVE THE BULLION BANKS FROM EXTINCTION AFTER THE O.C.C ORDERED THE BULLION BANKS TO BE ONSIDE WITH THEIR DERIVATIVES. THE FRBNY IS NOW SHORT 54+ TONNES OF GOLD.
- MASSIVE REMOVAL OF COMEX CONTRACTS FROM PRELIMINARY OI TO FINAL OI//RECORD 33,000 CONTRACTS REMOVED FRIDAY NOV 21//
- MASSIVE T.A.S. CONTRACTS ISSUED FOR 5 CONSECUTIVE DAYS/SIGNALLING A MASSIVE RAID TO BE!
- MASSIVE RAIDS AT THE COMEX CALLED UPON EVERY OTHER DAY LAST WEEK
JAN 2025:
113.30 TONNES (WHICH INCLUDES 43.408 TONNES EX FOR RISK)
FEB: 2025:
256.607 TONNES (WHICH INCLUDES 18.4567 TONNES OF EX FOR RISK)
MARCH:
STANDING FOR GOLD : 60.33 TONNES + 7.6179 TONNES EX FOR RISK = 67.9479 TONNES WHICH IS EXTREMELY HIGH FOR A NON DELIVERY MONTH.
APRIL:
FINAL STANDING FOR GOLD: 201.573 TONNES + 8.3571 TONNES EX FOR RISK = 209.953 TONNES
MAY: FINAL STANDING 90.235 TONNES WHICH INCLUDES QUEUE JUMPING AND 9.591 TONNES EX FOR RISK.
JUNE: FINAL STANDING 62.534 TONNES PLUS 0.1493TONNES OF QUEUE JUMP EQUALS 93.085 TONNES
JULY: 17.947 TONNES INITIAL STANDING FIRST DAY NOTICE PLUS TODAY’S 0 TONNES QUEUE JUMP + 1.555 TONNES EX FOR RISK/PRIOR + 2.195 EX FOR RISK TODAY = = 41.106 TONNES
AUGUST:INITIAL AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING: 60.547 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR 7 MONTHLY ISSUANCES OF: EXCHANGE FOR RISK TOTALLING 44.696 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES AS FOLLOWS:
107.5117 TONNES NORMAL DELIVERIES (INCLUDES ALL QUEUE JUMPS /EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL TRANSFERS) +
5.4432 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK/PRIOR/AUGUST 7
2.413 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK AUGUST 11
PLUS 2.637 TONNES EX FOR RISK AUGUST 12
PLUS: 9.107 TONNES EX FOR RISK AUGUST 25
PLUS 9.1010 TONNES EX FOR RISK AUGUST 26!!
PLUS 9.0699 TONNES EX FOR RISK AUGUST 27
PLUS 6.923 TONNES EX. FOR RISK/AUGUST 28
MONTHLY TOTAL 44.696 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK!MONTH OF AUGUST.
EQUALS
152.208 TONNES TONNES OF GOLD.
SEPT:
SEPT: 25.878 TONNES OF GOLD INITIAL GOLD STANDING TO WHICH WE ADD OUR 22.923 TONNES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUED 7 TIMES DURING THE MONTH:
TOTAL EX FOR RISK// FOR MONTH = 22.923//NEW TOTALS FOR GOLD STANDING SEPT ADVANCES TO 48.801 TONNES
THIS IS HUGE FOR A GENERALLY WEAK SEPTEMBER DELIVERY MONTH.
OCTOBER: INITIAL AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING: 90.164 TONNES OF GOLD FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S TINY 0.00311 TONNES QUEUE JUMP WHICH FOLLOWS ALL PREVIOUS QUEUE JUMPS OF 76.1656 TONNES WHICH MUST BE ADDED TO OUR 6 ISSUANCES OF 14.553 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK//TOTAL NEW STANDING FOR GOLD IN THIS ACTIVE OCTOBER DELIVERY MONTH ADVANCES TO 197.5141 TONNNES.
NOVEMBER WHERE INITIAL AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING IS REGISTERED AT 15.651 TONNES OF GOLD FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S QUEUE JUMP OF 2 TONNES AND FOLLOWED BY ALL OTHER NOV QUEUE JUMPS OF 21.3775 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR TWO EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE FOR 4.5596 TONNES.
/STANDING ADVANCES TO 43.9716 TONNES OF GOLD.
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DECEMBER: INITIAL AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING FOR DELIVERY IN THIS ACTIVE MONTH IS 83.813 TONNES FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S 0.XXXX TONNES QUEUE JUMP. THIS FOLLOWS ALL OTHER QUEUE JUMPING: 37.163 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 115.390 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR FOUR EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE OF 6.559 TONNES//NEW STANDING THUS INCREASES TO 121.977 TONNES
. JANUARY: INITITAL STANDING: 13.785 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR HUGE QUEUE JUMP OF 1.934TONNES WHICH FOLLOWS ALL OTHER QUEUE JUMPS OF 14.002TONNES //NEW TOTAL QUEUE JUMPS OF 15.936 //NORMAL DELIVERY OF GOLD ADVANCES TO 22.236 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR TWO EXCHANGE FOR RISK OF 12.778 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 34.980TONNES.
HERE ARE THE AMOUNTS THAT STOOD FOR DELIVERY IN THE PRECEDING 48 MONTHS 2021-2024
DEC 2021: 112.217 TONNES
NOV. 8.074 TONNES
OCT. 57.707 TONNES
SEPT: 11.9160 TONNES
AUGUST: 80.489 TONNES
JULY 7.2814 TONNES
JUNE: 72.289 TONNES
MAY 5.77 TONNES
APRIL 95.331 TONNES
MARCH 30.205 TONNES
FEB ’21. 113.424 TONNES
JAN ’21: 6.500 TONNES.
TOTAL YEAR 2021 (JAN- DEC): 601.213 TONNES
YEAR 2022: STANDING FOR GOLD/COMEX
JANUARY 2022 17.79 TONNES
FEB 2022: 59.023 TONNES
MARCH: 36.678 TONNES
APRIL: 85.340 TONNES FINAL.
MAY: 20.11 TONNES FINAL
JUNE: 74.933 TONNES FINAL
JULY 29.987 TONNES FINAL
AUGUST:104.979 TONNES//FINAL
SEPT. 38.1158 TONNES
OCT: 77.390 TONNES/ FINAL
NOV 27.110 TONNES/FINAL
Dec. 64.000 tonnes
(TOTAL YEAR 656.076 TONNES)
JAN/2023: 20.559 tonnes
FEB 2023: 47.744 tonnes
MAR: 19.0637 TONNES
APRIL: 75.676 tonnes
MAY: 19.094 TONNES + 1.244 tonnes of exchange for risk = 20.338
JUNE: 64.354 TONNES
JULY: 10.2861 TONNES
AUGUST: 38.855 TONNES(INCLUDING .6842 EXCHANGE FOR RISK)
SEPT: 15.281 TONNES FINAL
OCT. 35.869 TONNES + 1.665 EXCHANGE FOR RISK =37.0355 tonnes
NOV: 18.7122 TONNES + 16.2505 EX. FOR RISK = 34.9627 TONNES
DEC. 47.073 + 4.634 TONNES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK = 51.707 TONNES
TOTAL 2023 YEAR : 436.546 TONNES
2024/STANDING FOR GOLD/COMEX
JAN ’24. 22.706 TONNES
FEB. ’24: 66.276 TONNES (INCLUDES 1.723 TONNES EX. FOR RISK)
MARCH: 18.8398 TONNES + 1.1695 EX FOR RISK = 20.093 TONNES
APRIL: 2024: 53.673TONNES FINAL
MAY/ 2024 8.5536 TONNES + 3.3716 TONNES EX FOR RISK/= 11.9325
JUNE; 95.578 TONNES. + 1.045 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK =96.623 THIS IS THE HIGHEST RECORDED GOLD STANDING SINCE AUGUST 2022
JULY: 11.692 TONNES
AUGUST 69.602 TONNES//FINAL STANDING
SEPT. 13.164 TONNES.
OCT 39.474 TONNES + + 20.917 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK =60.391 TONNES
NOV . 11.265 TONNES +4.665 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK/TUESDAY + 3.11 TONNES OF EX. FOR RISK/PRIOR = 19.0425 TONNES
DEC: 80.4230 TONNES PLUS DEC MONTH EXCHANGE FOR RISK TOTAL 14.6836 TONNES EQUALS 95.1066 TONNES
total year 2024: 540.30 tonnes
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COMEX GOLD TRADING BEGINNING JANUARY,. CONTRACT;
THE SPECS/HFT WERE SUCCESSFUL IN LOWERING GOLD’S PRICE( IT FELL BY $0.80 /)
WE HAD LITTLE T.A.S. SPREADER LIQUIDATION THURSDAY // COMEX SESSION// WITH OUR LOSS IN PRICE ////.. BUT OUR SPECULATORS REMAIN RELENTLESS POURING INTO THE COMEX// WITH OTHER EASTERN CENTRAL BANKS TENDERING FOR PHYSICAL TUESDAY NIGHT WHICH ALSO EXPLAINS THE HUGE NUMBER OF TONNES OF GOLD STANDING FOR JANUARY IN AN OFF MONTH. THE COMEX IS ONE BIG MESS!!
THURSDAY NIGHT//FRIDAY MORNING
THE CROOKS HOWEVER COULD NOT STOP OTHER CENTRAL BANK LONGS, SEIZING THE MOMENT, THEY EXERCISED AGAIN FOR PHYSICAL IN A BIG WAY TENDERING FOR PHYSICAL THURSDAY EVENING/FRIDAY MORNING AND THUS OUR HUGE NUMBER OF GOLD CONTRACTS STANDING FOR DELIVERY AT THE COMEX. CENTRAL BANKERS WAIT PATIENTLY FOR THE GOLD
A LITTLE REVIEW OF GOLD STANDING THESE PAST 4 MONTHS:
STANDING FOR GOLD OCT THROUGH TO JANUARY:
- ANALYSIS// OCT DELIVERY MONTH GOING FROM FIRST DAY NOTICE// OCT COMEX CONTRACT TO FINALIZATION OCT 31:
OCT AT 90.164 TONNES TO BE FOLLOWED BY ALL PREVIOUS QUEUE JUMPS OF 75.696 TONNES WHICH WE ADD OUR 14.553 TONNES EX FOR RISK/6 OCCASIONS:
/ TOTAL STANDING 197.551 TONNE/OCTOBER FINAL//ABSOLUTELY A MONSTER DELIVERY FOR A NORMALLY QUIET OCT MONTH
2. AND NOW NOVEMBER:
NOVEMBER BEGINS WITH A HUGE 15.651 TONNES INITIALLY STANDING FOR DELIVERY FOLLOWED BY OUR TODAY’S QUEUE JUMP OF 2.323 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWED ALL OTHER NOVEMBER QUEUE JUMPS OF 21.3775 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR TWO ISSUANCES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK OF 4.5596 TONNES..
NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 43.9716 ONNES OF GOLD.
3. AND NOW DECEMBER:
3. DECEMBER: INITIAL AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING FOR DELIVERY: 83.813 TONNES FOLLOWED BY A 0 CONTRACT QUEUE JUMP FOR NIL OZ OR 0.000 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWS OTHER DEC QUEUE JUMPS OF: 0 TONNES///STANDING ADVANCES TO 115.390 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR FOUR EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE OF 6.559TONNES/NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 121.977TONNES
4. NOW JANUARY:
JANUARY: INITITAL STANDING: 13.785 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR HUGE QUEUE JUMP OF 1.934 TONNES WHICH FOLLOWS ALL OTHER QUEUE JUMPS OF 14.002TONNES //NEW TOTAL QUEUE: 15.936 TONNES //NORMAL DELIVERY OF GOLD ADVANCES TO 22.236 TONNES TO WHICH WE ADD OUR 2 EXCHANGE FOR RISK OF 12.778 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 34.980TONNES.
ALL OF THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED WITH OUR LOSS IN PRICE TO THE TUNE OF $0.80
WE HAD A SMALL XXXX CONTRACTS REMOVED TO THE COMEX TRADES TO OPEN INTEREST (CROOKS)//PRELIMINARY TO FINAL. AND THIS IS TOTALLY INSANE .
INITIAL GOLD COMEX
JAN 9
JAN 2026 CONTRACT MONTH
GOLD
| Gold | Ounces |
| Withdrawals from Dealers Inventory in oz | nil |
| Withdrawals from Customer Inventory in oz | 2 ENTRIES i) JPMorgan 83,592.600 oz 2600 killobars ii) Brinks: 24,016.747 (747 kilobars) total withdrawal 107,609.297 oz |
| Deposit to the Dealer Inventory in oz | 0- ENTRIES |
| Deposits to the Customer Inventory, in oz | DEPOSITS/CUSTOMER i) JPMorgan: 32151.000 oz 1000 kilobars xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI |
| No of oz served (contracts) today | 1140 notice(s) 114,000 OZ 3.545 TONNES OF GOLD |
| No of oz to be served (notices) | 558contracts 55800 OZ 1.735 TONNES |
| Total monthly oz gold served (contracts) so far this month | 6591notices 659,100 oz 20.500TONNES |
| Total accumulative withdrawals of gold from the Dealers inventory this month | NIL oz |
| Total accumulative withdrawal of gold from the Customer inventory this month |
dealer deposits: 0
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DEPOSITS/CUSTOMER
DEPOSITS/CUSTOMER
1 ENTRIES
DEPOSITS/CUSTOMER
i) JPMorgan: 32151.000 oz
1000 kilobars
total deposit: 32,151.000 oz
customer withdrawals:
2 ENTRIES
i) JPMorgan 83,592.600 oz
2600 killobars
ii) Brinks: 24,016.747
(747 kilobars)
total withdrawal 107,609.297 oz
0 ENTRIES
they are draining the comex of gold
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ADJUSTMENTs 1//dealer to customer Brinks’
i) 1 Brinks: dealer to customer: 19,190.605 oz
ii) Loomis dealer to customerL 81,985,050 oz
chaos inside the comex
AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING FOR DECEMBER
THE FRONT MONTH OF JANUARY STANDS AT 1698 CONTRACTS FOR A GAIN OF 265 CONTRACTS.
WE HAD 357 NOTICES FILED ON THURSDAY, SO WE GAINED A STRONG 622 CONTRACTS OR 62,200 OZ (1.934TONNES) OF A QUEUE JUMP (
FEB LOST 12,857 CONTRACTS DOWN TO 302,686 CONTRACTS
MARCH LOST 88 CONTRACTS DOWN TO 2601
We had 234 contracts filed for today representing 234,00 oz
Today, 0 notice(s) were issued from J.P.Morgan dealer and 250 notices issued from their client or customer account. The total of all issuance by all participants equate to 1140 contract(s) of which 0 notices were stopped (received) by j.P. Morgan dealer and 219 notice(s) was (were) stopped (received) by J.P.Morgan//customer account
To calculate the INITIAL total number of gold ounces standing for JAN /2026. contract month, we take the total number of notices filed so far for the month (6591) to which we add the difference between the open interest for the front month of JAN ( 1698 CONTRACTS) minus the number of notices served upon today (1140 x 100 oz per contract) equals 714,900 OR 22.236Tonnes of gold to which we add our two exchange for risk in January of 12.778 tonnes//new standing advances to 34.980 onnes
thus the INITIAL standings for gold for the JAN contract month: No of notices filed so far (6591 x 100 oz +we add the difference for front month of JAN (1698 OI} minus the number of notices served upon today (1140x 100 oz) which equals 714,900 OR 22.236 TONNES plus our two exchange for risk of 12.778 tonnes//new standing advances to 34.980 tonnes
new total of gold standing in JANUARY is 34.980 tonnes
TOTAL COMEX GOLD STANDING FOR JANUARY ..: 34.98 TONNES TONNES WHICH IS STRONG FOR THIS NORMALLY VERY NON ACTIVE ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF JANUARY.
volume THURSDAY confirmed 279,135 fair
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COMEX GOLD INVENTORIES/CLASSIFICATION
NEW PLEDGED GOLD:
241,794.285 oz NOW PLEDGED /HSBC 5.94 TONNES
204,937.290 OZ PLEDGED MANFRA 3.08 TONNES
83,657.582 PLEDGED JPMorgan no 1 1.690 tonnes
265,999.054, oz JPM No 2
1,152,376.639 oz pledged Brinks/
Manfra: 33,758.550 oz
Delaware: 193.721 oz
International Delaware:: 11,188.542 oz
total pledged gold: 1,857,830.151 oz 57,78 tonnes pledged gold lowers
TOTAL OF ALL GOLD ELIGIBLE AND REGISTERED GOLD 36,311,917.240. oz
TOTAL REGISTERED GOLD 19,180,166.668 or 596.58Tonnes
TOTAL OF ALL ELIGIBLE GOLD 17,131,751.240 OZ
REGISTERED GOLD THAT CAN BE SERVED UPON 17,322,336oz ((REG GOLD- PLEDGED GOLD)=
538.797 Tonnes // (declining rapidly)
total inventories in gold declining rapidly
SILVER/COMEX
JAN 9 2026
INITIAL/
| Silver | Ounces |
| Withdrawals from Dealers Inventory | NIL oz |
| Withdrawals from Customer Inventory | 5 entries i) Asahi 596,715.950 oz ii)Brinks 619,579.450 oz iii)CNT 601,775.150 oz iv) JPMorgan 320,480.000 v) Loomis 600,360.150 oz total withdrawal: 2,738,910.700 oz |
| Deposits to the Dealer Inventory | 1 ENTRY i) Into CNT 598,431.350 oz total deposit 598,431.35 o |
| Deposits to the Customer Inventory | 1 ENTRIES i) CNT 4949.49 oz total deposit: 4949.49 oz |
| No of oz served today (contracts) | 369 CONTRACT(S) ( 1.845million OZ |
| No of oz to be served (notices) | 461contracts (2.305 MILLION oz) |
| Total monthly oz silver served (contracts) | 6890contracts 34.450MILLION oz |
| Total accumulative withdrawal of silver from the Dealers inventory this month | NIL oz |
| Total accumulative withdrawal of silver from the Customer inventory this month |
DEPOSITS INTO DEALER ACCOUNTS
1 ENTRY
i) Into CNT 598,431.350 oz
total deposit 598,431.35 oz
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DEPOSIT ENTRIES/CUSTOMER ACCOUNT
0 ENTRIES
i
withdrawals: customer side/eligible
5 entries
i) Asahi 596,715.950 oz
ii)Brinks 619,579.450 oz
iii)CNT 601,775.150 oz
iv) JPMorgan 320,480.000
v) Loomis 600,360.150 oz
total withdrawal: 2,738,910.700 oz
adjustments: / / 2 dealer to customer
i) Asahi 1,002,692.7700z
ii) CNT 543,306.900 oz
TOTAL REGISTERED SILVER: 125.448MILLION OZ//.TOTAL REG + ELIGIBLE. 442.479Million oz
registered silver dropping in numbers
CALCULATIONS FOR THE NEW STANDING FOR SILVER FOR JANUARY
silver open interest data:
FRONT MONTH OF JANUARY /2026 OI: 830 OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS FOR A LOSS OF 1325 CONTRACTS. WE HAD 1624 NOTICES FILED ON THURSDAY SO WE GAINED 299 CONTRACTS OR A STRONG QUEUE JUMP OF 1.495 MILLION OZ QUEUE JUMP WHERE THEY WILL TAKE DELIVERY ON THIS SIDE OF THE POND.
FEB GAINED 378CONTRACTS UP TO 3801CONTRACTS
MARCH LOST 3087 CONTRACTS DOWNTO 101,487
TOTAL NUMBER OF NOTICES FILED FOR TODAY: 369 or 1.845MILLION oz
CONFIRMED volume; ON THURSDAY 175,714huge//
AND NOW JANUARY. DELIVERIES:
To calculate the number of silver ounces that will stand for delivery in JANUARY. we take the total number of notices filed for the month so far at 6890 X5,000 oz = 34.450MILLION oz
to which we add the difference between the open interest for the front month of JANUARY (830) AND the number of notices served upon today (369)x (5000 oz)
Thus the standings for silver for the JANUARY 2026 contract month: (6890 Notices served so far) x 5000 oz + OI for the front month of JAN(830 minus number of notices served upon today (369x 5000 oz equals silver standing for the JANUARY.contract month equating to 36.755MILLION OZ
NORMAL STANDING: 36.755MILLION OZ WHICH IS HUGE FOR A GENERALLY SMALL DELIVERY MONTH OF JANUARY.
New total standing: 36.755 million oz. THE SILVER COMEX IS NOW UNDER MASSIVE SIEGE!! AND THIS IS HAPPENING WITH THE MASSIVE SIEGE ON GOLD AS WELL.
We must also keep in mind that there is considerable silver standing in London coming from our longs in New York that underwent EFP transfers.
There are 127.180 million oz of registered silver
JPMorgan as a percentage of total silver: 185.031/445.031million. 41.57%
The record level of silver open interest is 234,787 contracts set on April 21./2017 with the price on that day at $18.42. The previous record was 224,540 contracts with the price at that time of $20.44.
Now that we have surpassed $28.40 the next big line in the sand for silver is $34.76. After that the moon
the next big line in the sand for silver is $34.76. After that the moon
END
BOTH GLD AND SLV ARE MASSIVE FRAUDS
JAN 9/2026/WITH GOLD UP $49.30 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 2.58 TONNES OF GOLD FROM THE GLD/// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1064.55 TONNES
JAN 8/2026/WITH GOLD DOWN $0.80 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 2.00 TONNES OF GOLD FROM THE GLD/// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1067.13 TONNES
JAN 7/2026/WITH GOLD DOWN $38.50 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 2.00 TONNES OF GOLD FROM THE GLD/// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1067.13 TONNES
JAN 6/2026/WITH GOLD UP $47.00 TODAY/BIG CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 5.43 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1065.13 TONNES
JAN 5/2026/WITH GOLD UP $122.80 TODAY/BIG CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 5.43 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1065.13 TONNES
JAN 2/2026/WITH GOLD DOWN $10.10 TODAY/BIG CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.43 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1070.56 TONNES
DEC 31/WITH GOLD DOWN $42.50 TODAY/SMALL CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 0.86 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1071,99 TONNES
DEC 30/WITH GOLD UP $41.50 TODAY/NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 0.86 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1071,99 TONNES
DEC 29/WITH GOLD DOWN $190.70 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 2.86 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1071,13 TONNES
DEC 26/WITH GOLD UP $39.15 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 3.61 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1068.27 TONNES
DEC 24/WITH GOLD UP $2.15 TODAY/NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1064.66 TONNES
DEC 23/WITH GOLD UP $52.85 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A FRAUDULENT DEPOSIT OF 12.12 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD/// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1064.66 TONNES
DEC 22/WITH GOLD UP $80,25 TODAY/NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: // /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1052.54 TONNES
DEC 19/WITH GOLD UP $22.20 TODAY/NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: // /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1052.54 TONNES
DEC 18/WITH GOLD DOWN $9.05 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF .85 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1052.54 TONNES
DEC 17/WITH GOLD UP $39.45 TODAY/NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1051.69 TONNES
DEC 16/WITH GOLD DOWN $3.95 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.43 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1051.69 TONNES
DEC 15/WITH GOLD UP $10.15 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 2.29 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 105.12 TONNES
DEC 12/WITH GOLD UP $14.20 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 4.01 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1050.83 TONNES
DEC 11/WITH GOLD UP $85.00 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.15 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1046.82 TONNES
DEC 10/WITH GOLD UP $85.00 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.15 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1046.82 TONNES
DEC 9/WITH GOLD UP $18.50 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.14 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1049.11 TONNES
DEC 8/WITH GOLD DOWN $23.40 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 0.33 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1050.25 TONNES
DEC 5/WITH GOLD UP $9.30 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A FRAUDULENT DEPOSIT OF 4.00 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1050.58 TONNES
DEC 4/WITH GOLD UP $9.95 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.72 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1046.58 TONNES
DEC 3/WITH GOLD UP $14.25 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.71 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1048.30 TONNES
DEC 2/WITH GOLD DOWN $53.35 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 4.58 TONNES OF GOLD VAPOUR INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1050.01TONNES
DEC 1/WITH GOLD UP $22.75 TODAY/NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 1.14 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1045.43TONNES
NOV 28/WITH GOLD UP $51.85 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 1.14 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1045.43 TONNES
NOV 26/WITH GOLD UP $25.40 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A FRAUDULENT PAPER DEPOSIT OF 4.57 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1040.57 TONNES
NOV 25/WITH GOLD UP $46.60 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 1.14 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1040.57 TONNES
NOV 24/WITH GOLD UP $16.95 TODAY/SMALL CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 0.29 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1040.86 TONNES
NOV 21/WITH GOLD UP $18.55 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 2.00 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD// /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1039.43 TONNES
NOV 20/WITH GOLD DOWN $20.45 TODAY/NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: /// ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 1041.43 TONNES
GLD INVENTORY: 1064.55 TONNES, TONIGHTS TOTAL
SILVER
JAN 9 WITH SILVER UP $4.15 HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 6.119 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV OZ FROM THE SLV. /. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 524.329MILLION OZ //
JAN 8/WITH SILVER DOWN $2.40/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 10.481 MILLION OZ OUT OF THE SLV OZ FROM THE SLV. /. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 518.210MILLION OZ //
JAN 7/WITH SILVER DOWN $2.78/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 10.481 MILLION OZ OUT OF THE SLV OZ FROM THE SLV. /. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 525.730 MILLION OZ //
JAN 6/WITH SILVER UP $4.93 /SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 363,000 OZ FORM THE SLV. /. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 528.691 MILLION OZ //
JAN 6/WITH SILVER UP $4.93 /SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 363,000 OZ FORM THE SLV. /. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 528.691 MILLION OZ //
JAN 5/WITH SILVER UP $5.90 /SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 363,000 OZ FORM THE SLV. /. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 528.691 MILLION OZ //
JAN 2/WITH SILVER UP $0.22 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A SMALL WITHDRAWAL OF 0.363 MILLION OZ OUT THE SLV/. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 529.054 MILLION OZ //
DEC 31/WITH SILVER DOWN $6.41 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A MASSIVE DEPOSIT OF 4.806 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV/. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 529.054 MILLION OZ //
DEC 30/WITH SILVER UP $6.89 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 2.72 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV/. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 524.248 MILLION OZ //
DEC 29/WITH SILVER DOWN $5.88 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.814 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV/. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 526,968 MILLION OZ //
DEC 26/WITH SILVER UP $4.88 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.813 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV/. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 528.782 MILLION OZ //
DEC 24/WITH SILVER UP $0.95 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 3.083 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV/. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 530.595MILLION OZ //
DEC 23/WITH SILVER UP $2.40 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A FRAUDULENT DEPOSIT OF 17.13 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV/. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 533.678 MILLION OZ //
DEC 22/WITH SILVER UP $1.28 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 1.541 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV/. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 516.541 MILLION OZ //
DEC 19/WITH SILVER UP $2.06 /NO CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: . ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 515.000 MILLION OZ //
DEC 18/WITH SILVER DOWN $1.13/NO CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: . ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 515.000 MILLION OZ //
DEC 17/WITH SILVER UP $2.93/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A HUGE WITHDRAWAL OF 1.36 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 515.000 MILLION OZ //
DEC 16/WITH SILVER DOWN $.07/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A HUGE WITHDRAWAL OF 1.36 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 56.360 MILLION OZ //
DEC 15/WITH SILVER UP $1.62/SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A SMALL DEPOSIT OF 635,000 INTO THE SLV. ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 517.720 MILLION OZ //
DEC 12/WITH SILVER DOWN $2.30/NO CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: ./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 517.085 MILLION OZ //
DEC 11/WITH SILVER UP $3.52/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A HUGE DEPOSIT OF 3.537 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 517.085 MILLION OZ //
DEC 9/WITH SILVER UP $2.41/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A HUGE WITHDRAWAL OF 1.179 MILLION OZ OUT THE SLV./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 510.828 MILLION OZ //
DEC 8/WITH SILVER DOWN $0.48/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A HUGE WITHDRAWAL OF 5.497 MILLION OZ OUT THE SLV./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 512.007 MILLION OZ //
DEC 5/WITH SILVER UP 0.39/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A HUGE DEPOSIT OF 3.083 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 517.448 MILLION OZ //
DEC 4/WITH SILVER DOWN $1.12/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A HUGE DEPOSIT OF 4383 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 514.365 MILLION OZ //
DEC 3/WITH SILVER UP $0.23/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A HUGE DEPOSIT OF 1.956 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 510.012 MILLION OZ //
DEC 2/WITH SILVER DOWN $0.65 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A MASSIVE AND FRAUDLUENT PAPER DEPOSIT OF 6.167 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 508.057 MILLION OZ //
DEC 1/WITH SILVER UP $2.21 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 907,000 OZ INTO THE SLV./ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 501.890 MILLION OZ //
NOV28/WITH SILVER UP $3.28 TODAY/NO CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV:/ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 500.983 MILLION OZ //
NOV26/WITH SILVER UP $1.86 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A MAMMOTH DEPOSIT OF 2.267 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV/ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 500.983 MILLION OZ //
NOV25/WITH SILVER UP $0.69 TODAY/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A MAMMOTH DEPOSIT OF 8.163 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV/ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 498.716 MILLION OZ //THIS IS A FRAUDULENT TRANSACTION
NOV24/WITH SILVER UP $0.43 TODAY/SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 277,000, OZ OUT OF THE SLV/ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 490.553 MILLION OZ MILLION OZ
NOV21/WITH SILVER DOWN $0.53 TODAY/SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 635,000 OZ INTO THE SLV/ :INVENTORY RESTS AT 490.190 MILLION OZ MILLION OZ
NOV20/WITH SILVER DOWN $0.53 TODAY/NO CHANGES IN SILVER AT THE SLV: :INVENTORY RESTS AT 489.555 MILLION OZ MILLION OZ
CLOSING INVENTORY 524.329MILLION OZ OF SILVER…
PHYSICAL GOLD/SILVER
1/PETER SCHIFF
JOHN RUBINO
jAMES RICKARDS
2. MATHEW PIEPENBURG/VON GREYERZ
ALASDAIR MACLEOD.
Consolidating amid uncertainty
Chinese silver demand is on pause allowing prices to drift from all-time highs. Meanwhile, gold marches on towards a test of its post-Christmas highs.
| Alasdair MacleodJan 9∙Paid |
However, the physical silver shortage is what matters and will continue to drive prices. In gold, there is a dawning realisation that there must be something solid behind its bull market, with speculators returning to Comex. And those clever people behind Tether’s gold stablecoin have been ramping up their reserves buying a further 26 tonnes in 2025 Q4, making them larger holders than most central banks.
Silver’s frenetic rush paused this week with dealers assessing its next move. In European trade this morning it was $77.95, up $4.05 from last Friday’s close, but below Wednesday’s high point of $82.60. At $4471, gold is up $40 on the week, closing in on all-time highs.
Silver prices in Shanghai have held significant premiums over London spot, peaking at almost $90 at one point. This led to strong opening prices in London until Thursday, exacerbating the shortage of physical, until things seem to calm down in Chinese markets overnight. It is worth bearing in mind the Chinese propensity for gambling, which is bound to lead to some wild trading conditions.
Meanwhile, on Comex speculators both in the US and using the Globex facility have stayed out of it. The next chart confirms that the low level of speculator interest remains, despite silver’s dramatically bullish run:
A reweighting of Bloomberg’s Commodity Index and the S&P GSCI which are adjusted once a year to ensure that no commodity dominates their compositions is now taking place, leading to funds tracking them selling gold and silver futures. Presumably, the pause in prices for gold and silver are to a degree at least attributable to this event. However, as an event taking place over the coming week it is a temporary factor which must be to some extent already discounted.
Importantly, as the chart above shows silver has not been driven by speculator interest, so the vulnerability to this position-unwinding should be limited. Instead, it is certainly possible that the physical liquidity crisis in London could quickly resume as the price driver, while Comex open interest declines even further as a result of tracker fund liquidation.
Circumstances in the gold contract are markedly different. Yesterday’s preliminary open interest on Comex rose by over 13,000 contracts, confirming that a developing speculator interest is beginning to drive prices:
This interest is despite the unwinding of commodity fund rebalancing, suggesting that there is decent momentum behind it.
Presumably, it reflects growing uncertainty over the dollar’s future at a time when the US is pursuing a more aggressive foreign policy with respect to the western hemisphere. Some of the speculator interest is likely to reflect trend chasing rather than reasoned analysis, but if this buying gains further momentum, there’s room for an additional 100,000 contracts, allowing for a rebalancing liquidation of perhaps 25,000—30,000 tracker contracts.
Stand for deliveries on Comex continue apace, with 1,013 tonnes of silver in the last five trading sessions, and 25.65 tonnes of gold. Since 1 January 2025, totals are 16,550 and 1,257 tonnes respectively.
A notable development is stablecoin Tether’s acquisition of gold. In the last quarter of 2025, it bought 26 tonnes. This is in addition to 116 tonnes held at end-September. Some of this gold is backing its smaller Tether Gold stablecoin, which now has 16.24 tonnes valued at $2.335 billion. Interestingly, Tether retains 126 tonnes in its main stablecoin pot.
Clearly, Tether anticipates growing demand for its stablecoin and has a reserve of gold to draw upon as demand increases. The attractions of a blockchain backed coin compared with ETFs and their high expense ratios are obvious. Its development should be closely watched…
. CHRIS POWELL AND HIS GATA DISPATCHES
4. ANDREW MAGUIRE/LIVE FROM THE VAULT KINESIS / AND TODAY;S 254
5. COMMODITY REPORT//:
5B. COMMODITY REPORT//SILVER/SILVER LEASE RATES:/SILVER
Shanghai silver inventories
Harvey and Chris,
The Shanghai Gold Exchange weekly silver inventory report was published today. It covers the period from 30 December to 7 January and there was a 215t reduction of inventory to 726t. This is apparently the lowest since July 2016, so nearly a decade.
Lease rates for silver in Shanghai remain over 20% and there is no sign of lease rates reducing in London from c7%/8%. On the face of it, they are unlikely to fall on this news.
Bob
SILVER COMMENTARIES
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YOUR EARLY CURRENCY VALUES/GOLD AND SILVER PRICING/ASIAN AND EUROPEAN BOURSE MOVEMENTS/AND INTEREST RATE SETTINGS FRIDAY MORNING.7:30 AM
ONSHORE YUAN: CLOSED DOWN AT 6.9822
OFFSHORE YUAN: DOWN TO 6.9805
HANG SENG CLOSED UP 822.83PTS OR 1.61%
2. Nikkei closed DOWN 822.83PTS OR 1.61%
3. Europe stocks SO FAR: ALL GREEN
USA dollar INDEX UP TO 98.82 /// EURO FALLS TO 1.1665DOWN 1 3BASIS PTS
3b Japan 10 YR bond yield: FALL TO. +2.08// DOWN 0FULL BASIS PTS/ VERY TROUBLESOME//Japan buying 100% of bond issuance)/Japanese YEN vs USA cross now at 157.64… JAPANESE YEN NOW FALLING AS WE HAVE NOW REACHED THE ENDING OF THE YEN CARRY TRADE AGAIN AND THE REPATRIATION OF YEN DENOMINATED BONDS TRADING IN THE USA/EUROPE. JAPAN 30 YR BOND YIELD: 3.650UP 0 FULL BASIS PTS. AND STILL VERY TROUBLESOME
3c Nikkei now ABOVE 17,000
3d USA/Yen rate now well ABOVE the important 120 barrier this morning
3e Gold UP /JAPANESE Yen DOWN CHINESE ONSHORE YUAN: DOWN OFFSHORE: DOWN
3f Japan is to buy INFINITE TRILLION YEN worth of BONDS. Japan’s GDP equals 5 trillion USA
Japan to buy 100% of all new Japanese debt and NOW they will have OVER 50% of all Japanese debt.
3g Oil DOWN for WTI and DOWN FOR DOWN this morning
58.19 VS 62.36
3h European bond buying continues to push yields LOWER on all fronts in the EMU. German 10yr bund YIELD DOWN TO +2.8218 Italian 10 Yr bond yield DOWN to 3.430 SPAIN 10 YR BOND YIELD DOWN TO 3.244
3i Greek 10 year bond yield DOWN TO 3.365
3j Gold at $4466.50 Silver at: 77.91 1 am est) SILVER NEXT RESISTANCE LEVEL AT $80.00
3k USA vs Russian rouble;// Russian rouble UP 0 AND 32/100 roubles/dollar; ROUBLE AT 79.26
3m oil (WTI) into the 58dollar handle for WTI and 621handle for Brent/
3n Higher foreign deposits moving out of China// huge risk of outflows and a currency depreciation. This can spell financial disaster for the rest of the world/
JAPAN ON JAN 29.2016 CONTINUES NIRP. THIS MORNING RAISES AMOUNT OF BONDS THAT THEY WILL PURCHASE UP TO .5% ON THE 10 YR BOND///YEN TRADES TO 157.64 10 YEAR YIELD AFTER FIRST BREAKING .54% LAST YEAR NOW EXCEEDS THAT LEVEL TO 2.081% STILL ON CENTRAL BANK (JAPAN) INTERVENTION//YEN CARRY TRADE IS NOW UNWINDING//YEN BOND TRADING OVERSEAS REPATRIATED.//JAPAN 30 YR: 3.501 UP 31BASIS PTS.
30 SNB (Swiss National Bank) still intervening again in the markets driving down the FRANC. It is not working: USA/SF this 0.7994 as the Swiss Franc is still rising against most currencies. Euro vs SF: 0.9314 well above the floor set by the Swiss Finance Minister. Thomas Jordan, chief of the Swiss National Bank continues to purchase euros trying to lower value of the Swiss Franc.
USA 10 YR BOND YIELD: 4.192 UP 1 BASIS PTS…
USA 30 YR BOND YIELD: 4.856 DOWN 1 BASIS PTS/
USA 2 YR BOND YIELD: 3.507 UP 2 BASIS PTS
USA DOLLAR VS TURKISH LIRA: 43.14UP 7 BASIS PTS/LIRA GETTING KILLED
10 YR UK BOND YIELD: 4.4050 UP 0 PTS
30 YR UK BOND YIELD: 5.147 DOWN 1 BASIS PTS
10 YR CANADA BOND YIELD: 3.401 DOWN 1 BASIS PTS
5 YR CANADA BOND YIELD: 2.938 DOWN 0BASIS PTS.
1a New York OPENING REPORT
1B European opening report
US equity futures point to slightly modest gains ahead of the December jobs report and the potential tariff decision by SCOTUS – Newsquawk US Market Open
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 05:51 AM
- US President Trump cancels a second attack on Venezuela, suggesting the two countries “are working well together”.
- US President Trump said companies will spend at least USD 100bln in Venezuela, and he will be meeting oil executives today.
- European equities open firmer; Rio Tinto (-2%) & Glencore (+8%) resume merger talks; US equity futures trade tentatively ahead of NFP.
- DXY moves higher whilst USTs trade steady ahead of key US data; JPY underperforms.
- Crude pares back some of Thursday’s gains as Trump cancels a second wave of attacks in Venezuela; spot gold trades sideways.
- Looking ahead, highlights include US Jobs Report (Dec), Potential SCOTUS tariff decision, University of Michigan Sentiment Prelim (Jan), Canadian Jobs Report (Dec), Speakers include ECB’s Lane, Fed’s Kashkari & Barkin.
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EUROPEAN TRADE
EQUITIES
- European equities (STOXX 600 +0.4%) have opened mostly on a strong footing, tracking tailwind from APAC which finished higher after tentative trade during most part of the session.
- European sectors have opened slightly skewed to the green. Basic Resources is boosted by upside in Glencore (+8%) after the Co. and Rio Tinto (-2%) resumed talks on a mining megadeal. Elsewhere, ASML (+4.4%) jumps following strong Q4 TSMC (+0.7% pre-market) earnings, where its revenue jumped 20%.
- US equity futures are lower/flat in the premarket. The RTY (-0.1%) is slightly lower, whilst the NQ, YM and ES are flat. Not much news thus far in the early premarket hours. However, ahead, all eyes will be on the NFP data, a potential Supreme Court ruling and US Michigan Consumer Sentiment Preliminary.
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FX
- DXY has been edging higher since APAC trade as traders position for the US jobs report, with the US data yesterday also pointing to no imminent meltdown in the labour market (with the 4-week initial claims average hitting its lowest level since April 2024, while Revelio estimated growth of 71k jobs). Headline nonfarm payrolls are expected to be relatively in line with the prior. Consensus looks for 60k nonfarm payrolls to be added to the economy vs the 64k in November.
- JPY is the laggard amid a double-whammy from the firmer USD alongside net-dovish BoJ sources, via Bloomberg, which suggests BoJ officials are set to keep rates on hold this month, and that officials have no pre-conceptions on the pace of hiking rates. USD/JPY looks set to test a couple of resistance levels (19th Dec high at 157.76 and the 20th Nov peak at 157.89) ahead of 158.00.
- Elsewhere, G10s are broadly lower with the antipodeans among the worst performers despite firmer copper prices and positive risk sentiment, but after Chinese CPI Y/Y missed forecasts. European FX are mildly pressured by the USD with region-specific catalysts on the lighter end. EUR/USD saw no reaction to above-forecast November Retail Sales or commentary from ECB’s newest member Radev, who joined as Bulgaria officially adopted the EUR.
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FIXED INCOME
- A contained session for fixed income as we count down to US NFP.
- Into that, USTs are holding in a narrow 112-05 to 112-12+ band. As it stands, markets ascribe around a 13% chance of a cut in January, with a move not implied until the June meeting, where there are c. 22% implied odds for a hold. For 2026 as a whole, pricing currently looks for the Fed Funds Rate to end the year in a 3.00-3.25% band vs the current 3.50-3.75%, according to CME FedWatch.
- Bunds are also rangebound. No move to the morning’s very strong November Industrial Production, a series that was driven primarily by 7.8% M/M growth in autos. That aside, specifics for EGBs are a little light with all eyes on NFP. For the bloc, we await the EU-Mercosur deal vote; it should pass; however, the support of Italy is not guaranteed, but is needed to hit the ‘qualified majority’ rule. On that point, France is set to vote against the Mercosur deal, as things currently stand with the safeguards.
- China’s Finance Ministry sold 10-year bonds with the yield at 1.8627%. Into this, the OAT-Bund 10yr yield spread remains steady around the 70bps mark.
- US FHFA Director Pulte said President Trump’s USD 200bln mortgage bond order can be executed quickly and that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have cash to buy.
- US President Trump instructing representatives to buy USD 200bln in Mortgage Bonds to drive down mortgage rates and make cost of owning a home more affordable.
COMMODITIES
- Following Thursday’s bid higher, which saw WTI Feb return above USD 58/bbl and Brent Mar briefly topping beyond USD 62/bbl, benchmarks have fallen back lower at the start of Friday’s European session. WTI and Brent extended the lower bound of APAC’s USD 0.55/bbl range to trough at USD 57.62/bbl and USD 61.83/bbl respectively before rebounding to USD 58/bbl and USD 62.20/bbl.
- Spot XAU started the Asia-Pac session on the backfoot, slowly falling from USD 4484/oz to USD 4453/oz, before oscillating in a tight c. USD 25/oz band as the European morning continues as markets await the highly-anticipated NFP report and the potential SCOTUS tariff decision.
- After 2 days of selling from its ATH at USD 13.39k/t, 3M LME Copper has started to rebound from Thursday’s trough of USD 12.52k/t and is currently trading at USD 12.92k/t as the European session continues. The recent selloff in red metal comes amid a selloff in the tech-heavy NQ, with copper being a much-needed material in the semiconductor space.
- Senior Thai Financial Official said they are looking into potential tax measures on gold trading and/or imports.
- US shale chiefs warned that Venezuelan oil will hobble US drillers and that the President’s effort to reduce crude prices will hurt the sector struggling to sustain production growth, according to FT.
- US President Trump said companies will spend at least USD 100bln in Venezuela and he is meeting with oil executives on Friday.
- Marathon Petroleum (MPC) reportedly interested in Venezuelan oil and plans to submit a bid.
- US Interior Secretary Burgum said the US is ending the discount on Venezuelan oil for China. Knocking Russia out of the Venezuelan oil market. Venezuela won’t use Russian diluent anymore.
- Russian crude oil production came in at 9.33mln BPD in December, Bloomberg reports; over 100k BPD below November’s level due to drone activity and the impact of sanctions.
TRADE/TARIFFS
- US GOP is reportedly pushing ahead to prevent China from getting access to US tech such as chips, via Axios.
- EU decision on Mercosur should come before 16:00GMT, Politico reported. Examination of the safeguard text will begin at around 10:00GMT. Italy is reportedly still weighing how much backlash it can absorb before agreeing to the deal, according to the diplomats cited. Italy continues to edge closer to supporting the agreement.
- Japan’s Finance Minister Katayama will meet counterparts in Washington between January 11th to 14th on rare earth supplies.
- US President Trump posted that data shows the US has the lowest trade deficit since 2009, and is going even lower, adds GDP is predicted to come in at over 5%, and success of the country is due to tariffs.
- Japanese food and alcohol products are reportedly seeing customs delays in China, according to Nikkei.
- UK PM Starmer will exclude the City of London from his push for “closer alignment” with the EU, following lobbying by financial services firms against any return to Brussels rule, FT reported.
NOTABLE EUROPEAN DATA RECAP
- EU Retail Sales YoY (Nov) Y/Y 2.3% vs. Exp. 1.6% (Prev. 1.9%, Rev. 1.5%).
- EU Retail Sales MoM (Nov) M/M 0.2% vs. Exp. 0.1% (Prev. 0.3%, Rev. 0%).
- Italian Retail Sales YoY (Nov) Y/Y 1.3% vs. Exp. 1.5% (Prev. 1.3%).
- Italian Retail Sales MoM (Nov) M/M 0.5% vs. Exp. 0.3% (Prev. 0.5%).
- Spanish Industrial Production YoY (Nov) Y/Y 4.5% vs. Exp. 1.0% (Prev. 1.2%).
- French Industrial Production MoM (Nov) M/M -0.1% vs. Exp. 0% (Prev. 0.2%).
- French Household Consumption MoM (Nov) M/M -0.3% vs. Exp. 0.2% (Prev. 0.5%, Rev. 0.4%).
- Hungarian Retail Sales YoY (Nov) Y/Y 2.5% vs. Exp. 2.7% (Prev. 3.1%).
- Norwegian Inflation Rate MoM (Dec) M/M 0.1% vs. Exp. -0.2% (Prev. 0.1%).
- Norwegian Inflation Rate YoY (Dec) Y/Y 3.2% vs. Exp. 3% (Prev. 3.0%, Rev. 3%).
- Norwegian Core Inflation Rate YoY (Dec) Y/Y 3.1% vs. Exp. 3% (Prev. 3.0%, Rev. 3%).
- Norwegian Core Inflation Rate MoM (Dec) M/M 0.1% vs. Exp. -0.2% (Prev. -0.3%).
- Norwegian PPI YoY (Dec) Y/Y -11.4% vs. Exp. -8.6% (Prev. -8.1%).
- Swedish Industrial Production YoY (Nov) Y/Y 4.2% vs. Exp. 6.0% (Prev. 5.9% ).
- Swedish Industrial Production MoM (Nov) M/M -0.1% vs. Exp. 4.5% (Prev. -6.8%, Rev. -6.6%).
- Swedish GDP MoM (Nov) M/M 0.9% vs. Exp. 0.2% (Prev. -0.3%).
- Swedish Construction Output YoY (Nov) Y/Y 1% vs. Exp. 3.0% (Prev. 3.6% ).
- German Industrial Production MoM (Nov) M/M 0.8% vs. Exp. -0.4% (Prev. 1.8%); driven mainly by autos.
- German Balance of Trade (Nov) 13.1B vs. Exp. 16.5B (Prev. 16.9B, Rev. 16.9B).
- German Imports MoM (Nov) M/M 0.8% vs. Exp. 0.2% (Prev. -1.2%).
- German Exports MoM (Nov) M/M -2.5% vs. Exp. 0% (Prev. 0.1%).
CENTRAL BANKS
- BoJ officials are set to keep rates on hold this month, Bloomberg reported citing sources; adds that officials have no preconceptions on the pace of hiking rates. Officials see little need to shift underlying inflation view. Will closely watch impact of weakening JPY. Likely to raise economic growth outlook on stimulus. The Bank is said to weigh downgrade of CPI outlook on government measures.
- ECB’s Radev said the current level of rates is appropriate.
- TD is now expecting the RBA to raise rates by 25bps at its next meeting in February.
- Thai Central Bank Chief said gold trading has significant impact on Thai Baht.
NOTABLE US HEADLINES
- US President Trump, on Venezuela, posted “I cancelled the previously expected second Wave of Attacks, which looks like it will not be needed, however, all ships will stay in place for safety and security purposes”. Adds at least USD 100bln will be invested in big oil, and will be meeting with those firms today.
- South Korean Finance Ministry said will allow around-the-clock FX trading from July. said: To explore the possibility of joining CPTPP. To bring in various improvements to stock and forex markets for MSCI upgrade. To prepare policy support for semiconductor defence, biopharmaceutical, petrochemical, steel and steel industries. To introduce digital asset spot ETFs. USD 350bln in US investment package is to bolster shipbuilding and nuclear energy sectors.
- US President Trump posted “I will be interviewed by Sean Hannity, NOW! FoxNews. President DJT”.
- US Treasury Secretary Bessent said US won’t force institutional investors to divest from home buying, also said lowering the suspicious activity report threshold to USD 3,000 and noted probe related to money services businesses in Minnesota.
- Majority of US House voted to support the bill to renew health insurance subsidies for three years.
GEOPOLITICS
RUSSIA-UKRAINE
- Russian drone attack on Kyiv causes explosions and triggers a fire, according to the mayor.
- US Interior Secretary Burgum said the US is ending discount on Venezuelan oil for China. Knocking Russia out of the Venezuelan oil market. Venezuela won’t use Russian diluent anymore.
MIDDLE EAST
- Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei said US President Trump should focus on running his own country. Iran won’t back down in the face of vandalism. Will not tolerate foreign-backed operatives.
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei is to give a speech about protests momentarily, according to state media.
- Iranian state media claimed that terrorist agents from the US and Israel set fires and sparked violence on the streets amid unrest, according to Sky News.
- Palestinian media reported Israeli raids continue on various areas of the Gaza Strip, according to Sky News Arabia.
- Israel rejected Lebanon’s claim that Hezbollah has been disarmed, saying the effort is far from sufficient and that the group is rearming with Iranian support.
OTHERS
- Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei said US President Trump should focus on running his own country. Iran won’t back down in the face of vandalism. Will not tolerate foreign-backed operatives.
- China’s Foreign Ministry, on US President Trump’s remarks on Taiwan, said there is no room for any external interference and the issue is purely an internal matter.
- Iranian state media claimed that terrorist agents from the US and Israel set fires and sparked violence on the streets amid unrest, according to Sky News.
- South Korea’s Blue House said President Lee and Japanese PM Takeichi are to discuss regional peace and stability and rapidly changing global politics, while the sides may discuss China-Japan disputes at their summit next week.
- US President Trump said they will start hitting cartels on land and he has asked Venezuela to free political prisoners.
- Palestinian media reported Israeli raids continue on various areas of the Gaza Strip, according to Sky News Arabia.
- Israel rejected Lebanon’s claim that Hezbollah has been disarmed, saying the effort is far from sufficient and that the group is rearming with Iranian support.
- Russian drone attack on Kyiv causes explosions and triggers a fire, according to the mayor.
CRYPTO
- Bitcoin trades steady around the USD 90k mark.
APAC TRADE
- APAC stocks followed suit to the mixed performance on Wall Street with the regional bourses predominantly in the green, albeit with traders bracing for the US Non-Farm Payrolls report and a potential Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs.
- ASX 200 was ultimately flat as strength in energy and consumer stocks was offset by losses in financials, tech and mining, while Rio Tinto shares fell by more than 6% after reports that the Co. and Glencore revived merger talks.
- Nikkei 225 outperformed following the stronger-than-expected Household Spending data from Japan, which showed surprise Y/Y growth of 2.9% (exp. -0.9%), while the gains were led by index heavyweight Fast Retailing after it posted higher profits and upgraded its guidance.
- Hang Seng and Shanghai Comp were indecisive after mixed inflation data from China and the substantial weekly liquidity drain by the PBoC, while there was a mixed reaction in tech stocks following reports that China is to approve some NVIDIA (NVDA) H200 purchases as soon as this quarter.
NOTABLE ASIA-PAC HEADLINES
- Japan megabanks are to jointly lend USD 1.5bln to the Saudi government.
- Capital Economics said regarding China’s inflation that the recent pickup in consumer inflation in China was driven by temporary factors like weather-related food price hikes and not successful policy measures. said:With these disruptions easing, headline inflation could turn negative again.
- South Korea’s Blue House said President Lee and Japanese PM Takeichi are to discuss regional peace and stability and rapidly changing global politics, while the sides may discuss China-Japan disputes at their summit next week.
- China’s Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang met with Disney’s (DIS) CEO in Beijing and said they welcome companies to invest in China, according to Xinhua.
- Mediatek (2454 TT) 2025 Revenue +12.3% Y/Y.
- Acer (2353 TT) – FY25 (TWD): Revenue 28.5bln (prev. 24.5bln Y/Y).
- TSMC (2330 TT) December (TWD) rev. 335.0bln (prev. 343.6bln M/M), 2025 rev. rose 32% Y/Y to 3.81tln.
NOTABLE APAC DATA RECAP
- Japanese Coincident Index Prel (Nov) 115.2 vs. Exp. 116.2 (Prev. 115.9).
- Japanese Leading Economic Index Prel (Nov) 110.5 vs. Exp. 110.4 (Prev. 109.8).
- Japanese Foreign Exchange Reserves (Dec) 1369.8B (Prev. 1359.4B).
- Japanese Household Spending MoM (Nov) M/M 6.2% vs. Exp. 2.7% (Prev. -3.5%).
- Japanese Household Spending YoY (Nov) Y/Y 2.9% vs. Exp. -0.9% (Prev. -3.0%).
- Chinese Inflation Rate YoY (Dec) Y/Y 0.8% vs. Exp. 0.9% (Prev. 0.7%).
- Chinese Inflation Rate MoM (Dec) M/M 0.2% vs. Exp. 0.0% (Prev. -0.1%).
- Chinese PPI YoY (Dec) Y/Y -1.9% vs. Exp. -2% (Prev. -2.2%).
1c Asian opening report
2b. JAPAN
3. CHINA/
4 EUROPEAN/NATO AFFAIRS/SCANDINAVIA
UK
“Appalling”: Debanking Explodes To Record High In Britain
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 04:15 AM
An estimated 453,230 accounts were shut down in the United Kingdom in the last year, a stunning figure that has drawn outrage from the country’s leading conservative lawmaker.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called the shocking figure “appalling” and slammed European rules that he believes “makes it cheaper for banks to close accounts over unusual transactions.” Farage, who was elected to the British Parliament in 2024 and leads the conservative populist Reform Party, is no stranger to debanking, having had his accounts closed by Coutts in 2023.
So what’s the banks’ excuse? “Financial crime reasons,” they said, according to documents obtained by The Telegraph under Freedom of Information rules.
The Telegraph reports:
It comes ahead of the introduction of new rules which will force lenders to give customers longer before they close accounts – at least 90 days’ notice – as well as offer clearer explanations of why they shut the accounts.
But the requirements will only apply to accounts opened after April 28 this year and will be subject to exemptions to allow banks to comply with financial crime rules.Financial institutions are allowed to close accounts for commercial reasons, and if they suspect criminal activity. There is no legal right to a bank account in the UK, unlike in countries such as France and Belgium.Banks have faced criticism over their failure to explain to customers exactly why accounts have been closed. This is often blamed on anti-money laundering and other financial crime rules which lenders must follow.
Nonetheless, British officials defend closing the accounts, claiming they were shut down after a thorough review.
“Banks must comply with strict legal and regulatory requirements in terms of verifying customers and preventing financial crime. As a result, a small proportion of accounts are closed, but only after extensive review and investigation,” a UK government spokesperson told The Telegraph.
“Fighting financial crime is one of our priorities. Fraud makes up over 40 pc of crime in the UK, robbing people of their hard-earned money,” An FCA spokesman said in a separate statement.
“It’s important banks and building societies play their part, including closing accounts they have suspicions about. Only a tiny fraction of accounts are closed – and we expect firms to act proportionately and treat customers fairly.”
While British officials don’t appear to see the problem with the surging number of closed bank accounts, critics across the pond in the United States see the escalating situation as a cautionary tale.
Adam Smith Institute’s Maxwell Marlow told The Telegraph: “The scourge of debanking continues to blight the British public and significantly impacts the Square Mile.”“Our finance system thrives through freedom – it is why we were the centre of global capitalism for so long, and we became rich from it. If we choose to reject these principles by ignoring this issue, our liberties and prosperity will be punished collectively,” Marlow added.
Across the pond – in August, President Donald Trump took a series of actions to thwart “debanking,” which was pervasive during the Biden administration, signing an executive order aimed at preventing financial institutions from denying services based on customers’ political or religious beliefs.
The order, titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” directs federal regulators to scrutinize banks for past or present policies that may have encouraged discriminatory practices and to impose remedies such as fines or consent decrees where violations are found.
The order also requires the removal of “reputational risk” considerations from supervisory guidance, which the administration argues have been used to pressure banks into restricting access for certain lawful industries or individuals.
END
GERMANY
German Prez Gets Schnitzel In A Twist, Says Trump Destroying World Order
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 02:45 AM
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is absolutely freaked out about Donald Trump, and says the ‘world order’ is at risk of disintegrating into a “den of robbers” where the unscrupulous simply take what they want.
Wait, you mean:
– Like Ukrainian oligarchs busted embezzling $100M IN US taxpayer money (for starters)?
– Like the Panama papers?
– Like the Siemens bribery scandal where German officials took $1.4 billion to secure contracts?
– Like the UK’s BAE Systems arms scandal in which millions in bribes made their way to Saudi officials?
– How about the Danske Bank money laundering scandal?
– Or the worldwide pandemic industrial fraud complex?
We’ll give you a minute to recover…
Steinmeier’s comments appeared to refer to actions such as Trump’s ousting of Venezeula’s dictator president Nicolas Maduro over the weekend – which the Sour Kraut (⌐■_■) said constituted an attack on global democracy ‘like never before.’ Because whatever you think of Maduro or Trump plucking him out of bed, he was definitely a poster child for democracy, right?
Next, Steinmeier turned his ire towards Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine as a watershed – with Trump’s behavior representing a second historic ‘rupture.’
“It is about preventing the world from turning into a den of robbers, where the most unscrupulous take whatever they want, where regions or entire countries are treated as the property of a few great powers,” he said, adding that active intervention was needed in threatening situations – and that countries such as Brazil and India must be convinced to protect and maintain the world order.
Hey Frank, why does Germany shut down public pools in the summer these days? Is it because you let a bunch of people in who “take whatever they want?”
END
SWEDEN
UNBELIEVABLE
Swedish Migration Board Employee Blows Whistle On Agency Run By Migrants Who Refuse To Integrate, And Serve Their Own
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 02:00 AM
Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,
The Swedish Migration Board, the authority charged with deciding who may live in Sweden and under what conditions, has been described by internal sources as an organization largely staffed by personnel with a migration background who often speak their own languages and seek to prioritize those from their own country of origin to establish a greater cultural foothold in Sweden.
Swedish news outlet Samnytt spoke to long-serving employees of the organization who blew the whistle on its structural weaknesses and its inability to adhere to the agency’s requirement for neutrality on migration policy.
“Currently, the majority of the staff have a background other than Swedish. Many do not even have Swedish citizenship. And they speak their own language with their own group,” said one source who has worked within the authority for several decades and is still employed there.
They explained that the authority employs around 6,000 people and largely operates in open-plan offices, where employees are free to choose where they sit. In practice, this has led to, ironically, a distinct lack of integration.
“Kurds normally sit together with other Kurds, even if there are different clans among the Kurds, Somalis sit with other Somalis, and Syrians with other Syrians, and so on,” the source said.
“What affects us the most is that everyone speaks their own language, meaning you don’t understand what is said between groups and employees,” they added.
Earlier attempts to require Swedish as the working language within the authority have reportedly been abandoned. Instead, according to Samnytt’s source, parallel linguistic environments have become normalized within the very institution responsible for assessing integration, residency, and citizenship.
“This not only affects language, that people don’t understand each other or what is being said, but it also causes different groups to form within the authority, clans that are involved in bringing their own clan members or relatives from their home countries here. They have brought the Middle Eastern clan mentality into the authority,” the source said.
The Migration Board’s transformation is described as having accelerated during the 2015 migration crisis, when Sweden received more asylum seekers than its system was designed to handle. During that period, the authority’s role shifted from neutral administrator of the law to an increasingly politicized actor.
The source estimates that around 35 percent of employees at the Migration Board are Muslim and described a noticeable change following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Many may have been more moderate Muslims, but after Oct. 7 you could see that more and more Muslim women started wearing the hijab,” the source said. “Songs about ‘from the river to the sea’ could also be heard from the coffee room inside the Migration Board,” the source said.
Employees who object to this culture or raise concerns internally are reportedly ostracized and accused of disloyalty. “What has become unpleasant is that we who feel that things are not going right at the authority, and it is usually Swedes, have to talk behind closed doors so that no one hears,” Samnytt was told.
“You are removed from your position, perhaps placed in the reception,” the source said when asked what happens if an employee speaks openly about their concerns. “It is difficult to fire someone here, since the union is quite strong, but you are simply removed from influence, and all opportunities for a career within the authority disappear.”
When asked what message should be sent to responsible politicians, the source was unequivocal. “Shut down the entire agency. It can’t be changed,” they said.
“If you change the name or transfer responsibility to other agencies, the same people will follow. It will be the same thing again. If you want to change this, you have to take a completely new approach, with new people.”
The allegations come amid previous controversies surrounding the Migration Board. In February 2024, a 30-year-old Iraqi man employed as an administrator at the authority was reported to police on suspicion of data breaches, misconduct, and accepting bribes. According to documents seen by Samnytt, the man may have earned millions of kronor by selling residence permits to other migrants.
The agency has also faced criticism for social media posts explaining how asylum seekers could go back on holiday to countries they claimed to have fled.
The full exposé can be read in full here.
END
5. RUSSIA AND MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS
tbn israel last 24 hrs…
ISRAEL VS HAMAS
IRAN
Amid protests, Khamenei digs in, vows Iran won’t ‘back down’ to ‘vandals and saboteurs’
Islamic Republic’s supreme leader says Trump, who’s threatened to hit Iran if demonstrators are killed, has hands ‘stained with the blood of Iranians’ and will be ‘overthrown’
By AgenciesToday, 2:10 pm
Iranian protesters seen marching and torching regime-owned vehicles, statues and structures in Tehran on January 8, 2026. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Iran’s supreme leader signaled Friday that security forces would crack down on protesters after they screamed from windows and marched through the streets overnight, directly challenging US President Donald Trump’s pledge to support those peacefully demonstrating.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Trump as having hands “stained with the blood of Iranians” as supporters shouted “Death to America!” in footage aired by Iranian state television.
Protesters are “ruining their own streets to make the president of another country happy,” Khamenei said, referring to Trump. There was no immediate response from Washington, though Trump reiterated his pledge to strike Iran if protesters are killed.
The cleric-ruler called the demonstrators “vandals” and “saboteurs, in a speech broadcast on state TV.
Khamenei predicted the “arrogant” US leader would be “overthrown” like the imperial dynasty that ruled Iran up to the 1979 revolution.
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“Everyone knows the Islamic Republic came to power with the blood of hundreds of thousands of honorable people, it will not back down in the face of saboteurs,” he added.
Despite Iran’s theocracy cutting off the nation from the internet and international telephone calls, short online videos shared by activists purported to show protesters chanting against Iran’s government around bonfires as debris littered the streets in the capital, Tehran, and other areas into Friday morning.
Iranian state media alleged “terrorist agents” of the US and Israel set fires and sparked violence. It also said there were “casualties,” without elaborating.
The full scope of the demonstrations couldn’t be immediately determined due to the communications blackout, though it represented yet another escalation in protests that began over Iran’s ailing economy and that has morphed into the most significant challenge to the government in several years. The protests have intensified steadily since beginning on December 28.
The protests also represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could be swayed by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, whose fatally ill father fled Iran just before the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Pahlavi, who called for the protests Thursday night, similarly has called for demonstrations at 8 p.m. Friday.
Demonstrations have included cries in support of the shah, something that could bring a death sentence in the past but now underlines the anger fueling the protests that began over Iran’s ailing economy.
So far, violence around the demonstrations has killed at least 42 people while more than 2,270 others have been detained, said the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
“What turned the tide of the protests was former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s calls for Iranians to take to the streets at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday,” said Holly Dagres, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “Per social media posts, it became clear that Iranians had delivered and were taking the call seriously to protest in order to oust the Islamic Republic.”
“This is exactly why the internet was shut down: to prevent the world from seeing the protests. Unfortunately, it also likely provided cover for security forces to kill protesters.”
When the clock struck 8 p.m. Thursday, neighborhoods across Tehran erupted in chanting, witnesses said. The chants included “Death to the dictator!” and “Death to the Islamic Republic!” Others praised the shah, shouting: “This is the last battle! Pahlavi will return!” Thousands could be seen on the streets before all communication to Iran cut out.
“Iranians demanded their freedom tonight. In response, the regime in Iran has cut all lines of communication,” Pahlavi said. “It has shut down the Internet. It has cut landlines. It may even attempt to jam satellite signals.”
He went on to call for European leaders to join Trump in promising to “hold the regime to account.”
“I call on them to use all technical, financial and diplomatic resources available to restore communication to the Iranian people so that their voice and their will can be heard and seen,” he added. “Do not let the voices of my courageous compatriots be silenced.”
Pahlavi had said he would offer further plans depending on the response to his call. His support of and from Israel has drawn criticism in the past — particularly after the 12-day war Israel waged on Iran in June. Though demonstrators have shouted in support of the shah in some demonstrations, it isn’t clear whether that’s support for Pahlavi himself or a desire to return to a time before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The internet cut also appears to have taken Iran’s state-run and semiofficial news agencies offline as well. The state TV acknowledgement at 8 a.m. Friday represented the first official word about the demonstrations.
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State TV claimed the protests saw violence that caused casualties but did not elaborate. It also said the protests saw “people’s private cars, motorcycles, public places such as the metro, fire trucks and buses set on fire.”
Iran has faced rounds of nationwide protests in recent years. As sanctions tightened and Iran struggled after the 12-day war, its rial currency collapsed in December, reaching 1.4 million to $1. Protests began soon after, with demonstrators chanting against Iran’s theocracy.
It remains unclear why Iranian officials have yet to crack down harder on the demonstrators. Trump warned last week that if Tehran “violently kills peaceful protesters,” America “will come to their rescue.”
In an interview with talk show host Hugh Hewitt aired Thursday, Trump reiterated his pledge.
Iran has “been told very strongly, even more strongly than I’m speaking to you right now, that if they do that, they’re going to have to pay hell,” Trump said.
Trump demurred when asked if he’d meet with Pahlavi.
“I’m not sure that it would be appropriate at this point to do that as president,” Trump said. “I think that we should let everybody go out there, and we see who emerges.”
Speaking in an interview with Sean Hannity aired Thursday night on Fox News, Trump went as far as to suggest 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may be looking to leave Iran.
“He’s looking to go someplace,” Trump said. “It’s getting very bad.”
END
IRAN
IRAN BURNS
Ayatollah Breaks Silence: Blames US For Instigating “Vandals & Saboteurs” As Cities Burn
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 11:20 AM
Iran’s supreme leader has just taken to X where he for the first time explicitly called out the United States for instigating ongoing unrest in the Islamic Republic, where raging economic protests have taken root in more that one hundred cities and towns – with in some instances rioters torching buildings and cars.
“Today like the past, the US is wrong in its calculations about Iran,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote. Importantly he added context to this assertion in a Friday speech – his first since protests began in a Tehran market 13 days ago – that authorities will “not back down” as Tehran officials have charged that the unrest has a foreign hand behind it.
The Ayatollah denounced the protesters as “vandals” and “saboteurs” and called out their alleged foreign agendas, amid increased images of city sectors burning, ongoing clashes with police, and reports of some limited exchanges of gunfire.
Protesters are now “ruining their own streets to make the president of another country happy… because he said he would come to their aid” – in reference to President Trump, after the US leader has warned at least twice that there could be American military intervention if Iran starts killing protesters.
Trump also claimed in a FOX interview, but without citing specific intel or any evidence that the Ayatollah is “looking to go somewhere. It’s getting very bad.” The claim is based on anonymously sourced reports that he could flee to Moscow if things got bad enough.
However, given the nature of Iran’s brand of Shia revolutionary Islam, it remains highly unlikely that the country’s Supreme Leader and top Shia cleric would simply or hastily just flee (perhaps would face ‘martyrdom’ first?) – especially during the opening phase of such unrest, given also the country has weathered similar ones over several years prior, including the so-called ‘anti-hijab protests’.
By some international accounts, these current protests have yet to reach the size of the 2022 large-scale demonstrations, but that could change at any moment at this rate.
Thursday saw an escalation as the internet was cut throughout almost the entirety of the country, as much more images emerged of largely peaceful demonstrations quickly turning violent in some areas:
There were violent clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in several locations in Iran on Wednesday, as a wave of unrest sparked by the country’s economic crisis continued for an 11th day.
Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, said two policemen were shot and killed by armed individuals in the south-western town of Lordegan.
Videos posted on social media showed a tense stand-off between protesters and security forces, with the sound of gunfire in the background. In footage from several other areas, security forces appear to fire guns and tear gas towards crowds of protesters, some of whom are throwing stones.
Like with Syria of the last decade of the anti-Assad insurgency, information out of Iran can be hard to assess and interpret, given almost no international reporters or observers are on the ground. This means that professional activist networks and NGOs outside the country can dominate the narrative, cheerleading the spiraling crisis from afar.
To be expected, Israel is also cheering this on, and had even last week issued brazen statements – including that Mossad stands ‘with’ the protesters and is even helping them (a statement full of the usual ambiguity and psychological warfare). Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo has stated the same.
Below is an example of some of the worst and most simplistic propaganda which has no basis in any presentable evidence, and by ‘anon’ sources which don’t tend to have any understanding of the internal dynamics of the country and people:
According to one such ‘anti-Iran media’ source and agency, “The 42 documented fatalities include 29 protesters, eight security personnel and five children or adolescents, figures released on Thursday by the US-based rights group HRANA showed.”
Russian state media sources have alternately been highlighting the ample evidence of rioting and crowds attacking police, in some locales:
The clear admission from even Western mainstream reports that some eight or at least several among the security forces have been killed seems a full-on admission that this is sliding into more than just economic protests by common people. Will Tehran be targeted by the external ‘powers that be’ for regime change next after Maduro? Will the protests be hijacked and fully driven by nefarious actors and enemy intel? …The next proxy war for the fate of the Persian heartland?
RUSSIA VS UKRAINE
A final warning … maybe … winter is coming with a vengeance in Ukraine .. will power hold enough to enough keep pipes from bursting … do not bet on this
ROBERT H….
A Russian “Oreshnik” Missile struck Lviv, Ukraine at about 5:20 PM eastern US time today, January 8, 2026.
Several factual realities confirm it was an Oreshnik:
1) No inbound missiles were tracked ANYWHERE over Ukraine, meaning the warheads came down from space.
2) Six Separate (MIRV-type) Impacts were video recorded striking LVIV.
3) The “Oreshnik” has AT LEAST six (6) MIRV warheads
4) An Oreshnik is launched vertically, goes straight up into space, the MIRVs detach and come straight down over any target, anywhere on earth.
Ample videos should appear soon enough… the key is that warheads arrived from space …. Imagine if they were nuclear …. Russian patience is growing thin .. the West CANNOT STOP WARHEADS FROM SPACE … AND THEY CANNOT BE RECALLED !!!!! We will soon enough approach a CUBAN missile like crisis … the difference is that missiles will launch this time unless common sense prevails …
6. GLOBAL ISSUES//COVID ISSUES/VACCINE ISSUES/HEALTH ISSUE
GLOBAL ISSUES
MARK CRISPIN MILLER
Dr Paul Alexander
Like the deadly medical isolation, sedatives, Remdesivir, ventilator response that killed many in fraud COVID 1)we may have killed millions with ASPIRIN overdose 8.0-31.2 g per day in 1918 Spanish Flu
2)we did not have antibiotics THEN that would have saved millions who died due to BACTERIAL pneumonia 3)we HAD antibiotics NOW in COVID yet did not use it 4)100 years after 1918, still immune response
| Dr. Paul AlexanderJan 8 |
Millions may have died re Spanish Flu not due to any influenza virus, but due to bacterial pneumonia secondary to viral infection and the over-dosing using newly discovered aspirin and using toxic deadly dosing.
A key point is we have clear evidence that natural immunity exists for at least 100 years as when we looked at people who were infants, children and had the flu in 1918 (exposed), we saw immune response (in 2008/2010 research) to the Spanish flu. Natural immunity is real and life-long, showing how much our health officials and governments and medical doctors lied to us.
And that we had the antibiotics that were needed in this COVID due to bacterial pneumonia secondary to the viral infection and doctors knew that, and doctors refused to use it…doctors acted IMO with criminal negligence. Must be held accountable.
Newswize
MICHAEL EVERY/OR OR PICTON/GIFFIN OR RABOBANK EXECUTIVE/COMMENTARY ON WORLDLY AFFAIR
7. OIL ISSUES/NATURAL GAS/ENERGY ISSUES/GLOBAL\
USA/RUSSIA
this may not end well. USA seizes another oil tanker of Russian origin
(zero hedge)
US Seizes Another Oil Tanker In Caribbean As ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Steams Ahead
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 08:45 AM
The foreign policy move to dismantle the so-called “dark fleet” of crude oil tankers moving Venezuela’s oil around the world, through President Trump’s gunboat diplomacy to secure the Western Hemisphere, was once again on full display on Friday morning.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Coast Guard forces boarded a fifth oil tanker, Olina, as part of a widening blockade targeting sanctioned dark-fleet vessels.
Olina, previously sanctioned for transporting Russian oil, was last tracked near Venezuela.
The seizure of Olina is likely to further ignite tensions between Washington and Moscow, days after the US seized Marinera (formerly Bella 1) in the North Atlantic. Russia previously told the US not to seize Bella 1, which was shadowed by Russian Navy assets.
Latest from the Western Hemisphere:
- Donroe Doctrine: US Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker In Atlantic, Intercepts Dark-Fleet Ship In Caribbean
- Chevron Contracts 11 Tankers For Venezuela Port Calls As Don-Roe Doctrine Begins
- The “Don-Roe Doctrine” Has Already Set The Tone For 2026
- White House Mulls Payments Up To $100,000 Per Greenlander To Join US
- US Plans To Keep Troops In Caribbean Through 2028, Planning Docs Show
The Trump administration is using these seizures to dismantle Venezuela’s dark fleet of about 1,000 tankers that evade sanctions – a network that carries about 70% of the country’s oil exports, much of which ends up in Asia.
Marco Rubio said earlier this week that the blockade provides maximum leverage over Caracas, while also warning Russia, China, and Iran against backing Venezuela. This gunboat diplomacy is supported by the U.S. Navy, including the USS Gerald R. Ford, and backed by Justice Department resources, signaling that more tanker seizures are just ahead.
8. EMERGING MARKETS//AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND ISSUES
CANADA
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January 06, 2026Updated:January 07, 2026
Canada is heading into a period of higher debt that could exhaust the federal government’s taxation and borrowing capacity, reduce its credit rating, and trigger a financial crisis similar to the one seen in the 1990s, according to Simon Fraser University economics professor Herbert Grubel.
“You can’t pile on debt forever. There must be a critical point at which people who are lending you money say, ‘we don’t trust that you can repay it,’ and you get into a crisis,” Grubel told The Epoch Times.
The emeritus professor recently warned in a Financial Post op-ed that Canada is heading into a “1990s-style fiscal reckoning” due to unsustainable debt levels. Grubel forecasted in his Dec. 4 article that if the trend continues, the government’s taxation and borrowing capacity will become exhausted and revenues won’t cover the cost of running the government and paying interest on the debt, and the situation could even lead to bankruptcy.
“As we approach this point, our credit rating will fall and the interest rate we pay will rise, worsening the problem. In the end, there will be no bids at our bond auctions. We will have no choice but to declare bankruptcy,” he wrote.
Other economists share Grubel’s concerns that Canada’s rising debt levels could become unsustainable and would eventually lead to problems with its credit rating, interest rates, and inflation levels, though they have diverging views on the issue of bankruptcy.
Carleton University business professor Ian Lee told The Epoch Times that while Canada cannot literally “declare bankruptcy” in a manner similar to businesses, the country could eventually see a fiscal crisis where the dollar devalues and the cost of imported goods rises.
University of Calgary economics professor Trevor Tombe also said the federal government’s debt-to-GDP ratio is unsustainable, “and something will have to give.” He said that with Canada committing to increasing its military spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035 to meet NATO requirements, Ottawa will need to find a way to reduce its debts by either increasing taxes, reducing spending on items like transfers to provinces, or even raising the retirement age and making the requirements for applying for Old Age Security more stringent.
“We do need to have a longer-term perspective, really think a decade or two down the line, so that we can make choices today that secure our fiscal future. The long-term perspective is missing from a lot of fiscal policy debates in Canada today,” Tombe said in an interview.
University of New Brunswick political science professor Herbert Emery said Canada is facing a more “complicated” debt crisis than it did in the 1990s, as the country has fewer options to use economic growth as a way out. Emery noted that in the 1990s, Ottawa was saved by achieving a trade surplus through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and higher exports to the United States, and by the Bank of Canada lowering interest rates.
Emery said Ottawa may be forced to “pursue austerity budgets going forward,” with less room now for the Bank of Canada to further lower interest rates or for Canada to increase exports to the United States given its implementation of tariffs.
Livio Di Matteo, an economics professor at Lakehead University, said Canada needs to have a discussion on its rising yearly deficits, particularly given the large infrastructure spending outlined in the latest budget. However, he said a fiscal crisis comparable to the mid-1990s “does not appear imminent at this time” since debt servicing costs are currently much lower than they were during that time period.
Greece and Argentina
In his op-ed, Grubel notes that the combined gross debt of Canada’s various governments is 113.9 percent of GDP, whereas back in 1990 it was at just 73.7 percent, according to figures from the International Monetary Fund. With the latest federal budget projecting a $78.3 billion deficit, Grubel said this trend is “unsustainable.”
“There’s no movement to balance the budget,” Grubel said in an interview with The Epoch Times.
A Bank of Canada sign is seen in Ottawa on May 25, 2020. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
Grubel said he doesn’t know when Canada’s debt levels will hit the critical point where bondholders lose trust that the debt can be repaid, but pointed to Greece as an example of runaway debt eventually causing problems for the country.
The Greek sovereign debt crisis that emerged in 2009 exposed structural weaknesses in Greece’s economy, including significantly higher debt and deficits than previously reported. A loss of market confidence led to widening bond yield spreads and soaring borrowing costs. As a eurozone member without an independent monetary policy, Greece was forced to implement strict austerity measures in exchange for EU-IMF bailout programs.
Unlike Greece, Canada has its own central bank and currency, which gives it more options to deal with its debt load and calm investors.
Lee noted that Argentina has also gone through a few economic crises over several decades that could serve as a lesson for Canada. He said the Argentinian government undertook massive spending in the 1970s while its productivity fell, which when combined with weak institutions, resulted in a falling credit rating and periods of hyperinflation.
Lee said it took 50 years for Argentina to “run down and destroy their economy,” noting that debt crises don’t happen “overnight.” Lee said many countries that have run into fiscal crises due to high debt levels have eventually seen the value of their currencies begin to decline “precipitously,” which then drives up the cost of imported goods and increases inflation.
He said Canada’s economy could hit a “wall” if it continues posting high yearly deficits of over $70 billion. “We’re not talking little trivial deficits of $2 billion or $5 billion. We’re talking very large deficits that are growing faster than the GDP growth rate of the economy. This is the bad news,” he said.
Canada in the 1990s
Persistent deficit spending caused Canada’s debt levels to rise during the 1980s, and the 1990s recession made the country’s fiscal situation worse. In response to this, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Canada’s credit rating in 1992 from AAA to AA+, while Moody’s downgraded it from Aaa to Aa1 in 1994 and then to Aa2 in 1995.
As Grubel noted in his op-ed, at one Bank of Canada bond auction in 1994 aimed at funding the federal government’s deficits, there were no bids until 30 minutes before closing. Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien told Reuters in 2011 that if there had been no bids, “there would have been a day when [Canada] would have been the Greece of today.”
In response, Ottawa began shrinking the size of the federal government as opposed to merely limiting the pace of spending growth, while also bringing in small tax increases.
The 1995 budget implemented a series of spending cuts, amounting to a 19 percent reduction in program expenditures by 1997–98, a 60.4 percent cut in subsidies to business organizations between 1994–95 and 1997–98 that included eliminating railway subsidies, and multiple state-owned corporations being sold to the private sector.
Within four years, the federal government saw a budget surplus, and the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio fell from 94.2 percent in 1993 to 67.2 by 2007, Grubel stated in his op-ed.
However, Emery said other factors at the time helped Ottawa lower its debt levels that it likely will not have in 2026.
Emery said Canada’s 1990s debt crisis was amplified by the Bank of Canada raising interest rates in order to tame inflation, with rates rising to 20 percent by 1981 and falling to 7 percent by 1987, before again increasing to 14 percent in 1990.
“In 2025, we have got inflation back down and interest rates are low, so we don’t have the same monetary policy trigger for a debt crisis like we had in the 1990s,” he said. The Bank of Canada lowered interest rates to 2.25 percent in October 2025.
Emery also said the solution to Canada’s debt crisis in the ’90s had to do with Canada’s entry into NAFTA in conjunction with a weak dollar, “generating massive increases in exports and weaker increases in imports.” The professor said exports were no longer driving growth to the same extent after 2001, and in 2025 Canada is “looking at a loss of access to the U.S. market and a contraction in exports.”
Emery said if Canada is heading into a debt crisis, it is for “different reasons” from those in the 1990s, and that the country “likely won’t be rescued by trade” as was the case in the 1990s. He said if Canada’s GDP growth slows or contracts, then the country’s debts will “go from ‘no big deal’ to the kinds of conditions in bond markets professor Grubel describes for the 1990s,” and Ottawa may need to look at further austerity measures.
Di Matteo said Canada’s total government debt servicing costs are much lower than those in the 1990s, as interest rates are much lower. He noted that total general government debt service costs in 2024 by all levels of government were about 8 percent of total government expenditure, with interest rates at around 4 percent, while in 1995 they were 20 percent and interest rates rose to over 8 percent.
“However, given the total stock of debt, debt service costs have been rising and a spike in interest rates would be of concern and that could spike a renewed fiscal crisis, but we are not yet at that point,” Di Matteo said.
The Latest Budget
Budget 2025 included measures to shrink the size of the public service, with plans to cut the number of public servants by 40,000 positions from the 2023–24 peak by the end of the 2028–29 fiscal year. The budget states that the government will rein in spending under its current comprehensive expenditure review, saving $13 billion annually by 2028–29, for a total of $60 billion over five years along with other savings and revenues.
However, the 2025 budget still projected a $78 billion deficit for the current fiscal year and did not include a declining debt-to-GDP ratio as one of its fiscal anchors as the previoustwo budgets had outlined. The government says large portions of the spending are meant to stimulate the economy.
Budget 2025 has two fiscal guardrails: maintaining a shrinking deficit-to-GDP ratio and balancing day-to-day operating spending with revenues by 2028–29. Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques has said it is unlikely that Ottawa will be able to meet these fiscal anchors.
Shortly following the budget’s release in early November 2025, the Fitch Ratings agency said it “underscores the erosion” of the Canadian federal government’s finances and that increasing debt levels could put “pressure” on its current AA+ credit rating. Fitch had downgraded Canada’s credit rating from AAA to AA+ back in June 2020, citing the effects of the pandemic on government finances.
Other ratings agencies like S&P and Moody’s currently rate Canada as AAA and Aaa respectively.
Tombe said that while the federal government could not declare bankruptcy, it could choose to reduce payments on its debt or stop paying them altogether, which is what the Alberta government did back in the 1930s.
“I don’t think that’s a reasonable future for the federal government, because at the end of the day, the federal government can always create currency to repay its debt obligations,” he said.
Tombe said he does not see “any realistic likelihood of us turning to monetizing the federal debt,” and that it is more likely the federal government would impose austerity measures to deal with the debt.
“I mean, that’s much better than messing with the inflation target and the money supply,” he said.
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VENEZUELA/USA
US Control Of Venezuela Could Last For Years, Trump Says
Thursday, Jan 08, 2026 – 09:00 PM
The White House issued two interesting, and somewhat perplexing new statements on Venezuela amid the post-Maduro ‘transition’.
First, the White House said Wednesday that the US would be “dictating” future decisions made by the Venezuelan government – which is now officially headed up by Acting President Delcy Rodriguez, who was Maduro’s VP since 2018, and is seen as a ‘loyalist’ to his political movement and system.
“We’re continuing to be in close coordination with the interim authorities,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in the latest press briefing.
Leavitt added that “their decisions are going to continue to be dictated by the United States of America.” As expected, officials in Caracas are pushing back.
“The government of Venezuela is in charge in our country, and no one else. There is no foreign agent governing Venezuela,” Rodriguez said, and she went to call on Washington to release Maduro, who has declared to a New York federal court that he is a political “prisoner”.
As for the future of Venezuelan oil, Vice President JD Vance said the US has leverage over Venezuela through control of where it is permitted to sell its oil.
“We control the energy resources, and we tell the regime, you’re allowed to sell the oil so long as you serve America’s national interest, you’re not allowed to sell it if you can’t serve America’s national interest,” Vance told FOX this week.
The other interesting and highly revealing statement concerns questions of timeline. President Trump has newly said that oversight of Venezuela could last “years”.
According to the NY Times, which interviewed Trump on his plans for Venezuela:
President Trump said on Wednesday evening that he expected the United States would be running Venezuela and extracting oil from its huge reserves for years, and insisted that the interim government of the country — all former loyalists to the now-imprisoned Nicolás Maduro — is “giving us everything that we feel is necessary.”
“Only time will tell,” he said, when asked how long the administration will demand direct oversight of the South American nation, with the hovering threat of American military action from an armada just off shore.
“We will rebuild it in a very profitable way,” Mr. Trump said during a nearly two-hour interview. “We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil. We’re getting oil prices down, and we’re going to be giving money to Venezuela, which they desperately need.”
The publication reviews further, “Mr. Trump’s remarks came hours after administration officials said the United States plans to effectively assume control of selling Venezuela’s oil indefinitely, part of a three-phase plan that Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined for members of Congress.”
The Times adds: “While Republican lawmakers have been largely supportive of the administration’s actions, Democrats on Wednesday reiterated their warnings that the United States was headed toward a protracted international intervention without clear legal authority.”
Indeed some degree of blowback or internal turmoil is expected, given Venezuela’s long fractured factions including anti-Chavista armed groups, also which operate out of neighboring Colombia.
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Guyana: The Little Caribbean Country With A Big Role To Play In Trump’s Regional Shift
Thursday, Jan 08, 2026 – 11:30 PM
Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times,
With the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in a bold Jan. 3 military raid and a large naval force still prowling the southern Caribbean to ensure that Maduro’s successors cooperate with the Trump administration, other subtle, but key, developments in the region can be overlooked.
Among under-the-wire events is a December 2025 agreement between the United States and Venezuela’s neighbor, Guyana. That agreement could have profound implications, not only in the immediate context of unfolding events in Venezuela, but also for the long-term execution of the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, unveiled in November 2025 by U.S. President Donald Trump.
A U.S. delegation led by senior Pentagon adviser Patrick Weaver and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of War Joseph Humire met with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali in the nation’s capital, Georgetown, on Dec. 9.
Ali told Guyanese media outlets that the nations had signed a statement of intent to “expand joint military cooperation,” a process that will be “evolving … in the coming months.” He stated that there “will be greater discussions on more levels of cooperation and the integration of [the two countries’] work.”
The statement of intent is not a formal mutual defense treaty, he said, calling it a “reinforcement” of long-term training and collaboration between the United States and Guyana.
But such a pact could be on the table, Ali hinted, referring to the U.S. military effort dubbed Operation Southern Spear.
“The U.S. government now is launching what they call the Southern Spear of security,” he said. “They are now coming up with a strategy for the Western Hemisphere, and the U.S. government is to invest more and pay attention more to the [Caribbean] and Western Hemisphere.”
Southern Spear has been in the spotlight off Venezuela since September. The USS Gerald Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, and the USS Iwo Jima, an amphibious assault ship, are the most visible components of the campaign that destroyed drug-smuggling speedboats, imposed a selective blockade on sanctioned oil tankers, and led to the Jan. 3 U.S. military operation that captured Maduro.
Guyana has a “growing role” in implementing that strategy, State Department principal deputy spokesman Tommy Pigott said in a Jan. 6 statement.
The commitment to “deepening security cooperation with Guyana to address shared challenges” was affirmed during a Jan. 6 phone call between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ali, Pigott said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) and Guyanese President Irfaan Ali stand for a photo opportunity as they meet on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 24, 2025. Stefan Jeremiah/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Territorial Dispute
A former British colony, Idaho-sized Guyana is rich in minerals, has extensive offshore oil deposits, is perched on eastern Caribbean sea lanes, and is embroiled in an almost 200-year-old border dispute with Venezuela, used by the Maduro regime as an excuse to menace its sparsely populated neighbor with naval intrusions and troop buildups.
Venezuela has long claimed Guyana’s approximately 61,600-square-mile Essequibo region as its territory, despite a U.S.-mediated 1899 Paris ruling involving Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, and Venezuela, subsequently affirmed by the International Court of Justice.
Venezuela’s agitation over Essequibo, which spans two-thirds of Guyana, increased significantly after Exxon Mobil discovered oil in the Stabroek Block off its shores in 2008 and began drilling in 2015.
The Punta Playa deposit contains an estimated 11 billion barrels of oil, making it one of the 21st century’s largest petroleum finds. It produces 900,000 barrels daily as of November 2025, according to Exxon Mobil. Venezuela, by comparison, has an estimated 300 billion barrels of oil reserves but only produces 1 million barrels per day.
In 2013, the Venezuelan navy boarded and impounded a survey ship operated by Anadarko Petroleum, an Exxon Mobil contractor, before releasing it. In 2018, Venezuela approached and “intercepted” an Exxon Mobil survey ship, according to the Guyanese foreign ministry, forcing it to abandon explorations.
In November 2023, Maduro announced a “people’s vote” to “respond to the provocations of Exxon, the U.S. Southern Command, and the president of Guyana” with a Dec. 3, 2023, referendum asking Venezuelans to annex Essequibo.
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro holds Simón Bolívar’s sword as he speaks at a rally against a possible escalation of U.S. actions toward the country, at Fort Tiuna military base in Caracas, Venezuela, on Nov. 25, 2025. Leonardo Fernandez Viloria / Reuters
A map shows the Stabroek Block, an oil and gas reservoir off the coast of Guyana. Venezuela has long claimed Guyana’s 61,600-square-mile Essequibo region, despite a U.S.-mediated 1899 Paris ruling. Illustrated by The Epoch Times
Venezuelans approved the measure, paving the way for the province of “Guayana Esequiba.” The Maduro regime portrayed the outcome as a mandate by voters united by a decades-long, nationalistic, cross-party issue.
The brewing crisis spurred the UK to dispatch a warship, a U.S. Army delegation to visit Guyana, and the Pentagon’s Southern Command to begin joint flight operations with the Guyana Defence Force, actions that convinced Maduro to meet with Ali in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to sign the Argyle Accords and agree to de-escalate tensions.
But the Maduro regime has never complied with the Argyle Accords, instead amassing troops and military equipment along its border with Guyana, according to a March report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. How Maduro’s deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, now sworn in as Venezuela’s acting president, will proceed in honoring the Argyle Accords is uncertain.
Increasing Provocations
In February 2024, less than two months after the Maduro–Ali pact, Venezuelan naval and air aggression forced Guyana to place a moratorium on oil exploration in the western reaches of the Stabroek Block.
In April 2024, Maduro signed a bill that formally established the Venezuelan state of “Guayana Esequiba” and began enlarging a base on Anakoko Island at the confluence of the Cuyuni and Wenamu rivers. Guyana claims that Venezuela has illegally occupied the island since 1966.
Vehicles drive past a sign indicating the entrance to Tumeremo, the Venezuelan-created administrative capital of Guayana Esequiba, on May 26, 2025. In April 2024, then-Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro signed a bill that formally established the Venezuelan state of “Guayana Esequiba” and began enlarging a base on Anakoko Island at the confluence of the Cuyuni and Wenamu rivers. Pedro Mattey/AFP via Getty Images
The provocations did not cease with Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025. The Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs openly mocked Ali as “the Zelensky of the Caribbean” in a March 1, 2025, statement posted to social media, referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. That same day, an armed Venezuelan Guaiquerí-class patrol ship entered Guyana’s waters and approached the Liza Destiny, an Exxon Mobil vessel, demanding that the crew produce documents.
In late March 2025, Rubio traveled to Guyana.
“In my meeting with [Ali], we strengthened the economic and security ties between our two nations,” he wrote on X. “The United States stands with Guyana in support of its territorial integrity against the Maduro regime.”
A month before, in February, six Guyanese soldiers had been wounded along the Cuyuni River after suspected Venezuelan gang members opened fire. Similar events occurred in the same border area in May and August.
On May 25, 2025, Venezuela held regional and gubernatorial elections, including for “Guayana Esequiba.” Neil Villamizar, an admiral in the Venezuelan navy, was named governor after what the U.S. State Department called the “latest sham election” organized by the Maduro regime.
That same day, while commemorating the 59th anniversary of Guyana’s independence from Great Britain, Ali said Guyana was ready to defend its territory against Venezuela.
“[The] abuse of our airspace and our waterways by all kinds of criminal elements, all kinds of illegitimate trade [will no longer be tolerated],” Ali said in December 2025.
“We have to do this in partnership if we are to have a region that is safe for our children 30, 40, 50 years from now,” he said.
That partnership includes a revitalized U.S. presence in Guyana that predates its independence but that has gained renewed relevance as the Trump administration refocuses the nation’s foreign policy on backyard backwaters neglected for decades. With Maduro awaiting trial in New York City, it is uncertain whether the Rodríguez administration will continue to press its territorial claims.
Aerial view of ships carrying machinery on the Demerara River in Georgetown, Guyana, on Aug. 29, 2025. The United States established two bases in the former British Guiana: a naval air station at Makouria, 20 miles from Georgetown, and an air base about 25 miles south of Georgetown along the Demerara River. Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images
Renewed US Presence
As part of the March 1941 Lend-Lease Act with the UK, the Soviet Union, France, China, and other Allied nations, the United States secured 99-year leases to ports and airfields across the Caribbean and elsewhere in exchange for food, oil, munitions, mothballed warships, and other assistance.
The United States established two bases in British Guiana: a naval air station at Makouria, 20 miles from Georgetown, to patrol for German U-boats menacing the Panama Canal, and an air base about 25 miles south of Georgetown along the Demerara River.
The air base, Atkinson Air Force Base, was a key transit point for U.S. aircraft, troops, and supplies heading to Africa and Europe. It was also the pivot for the “Green Project,” which the War Department described as “one of the greatest airborne troop movements in history,” with thousands of GIs passing through on their way home at war’s end.
The United States unilaterally suspended the leases in 1949. Atkinson is now Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana’s biggest commercial airport, adjacent to the Guyana Defence Force’s Camp Stephenson headquarters. Makouria Naval Air Station is now Guyana’s Jungle and Amphibious Training School.
An aerial view shows the Stabroek Market in Georgetown, Guyana, on Sept. 2, 2025. A U.S. delegation met with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali on Dec. 9, 2025, and returned to Washington with an agreement to expand military cooperation between the two countries. Joaquín Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images
It is increasingly common to see U.S. military at both former U.S. installations and at Guyana’s air base near Eugene F. Correia International Airport on the Atlantic Coast; at Eteringbang on the Cuyuni River, where an all-weather 2,100-foot runway was recently built; and at Ramp Road Ruimveldt Naval Station in Georgetown, where a U.S. Southern Command-funded multimillion-dollar project financed numerous improvements.
In July 2023, Guyana hosted U.S. Southern Command’s Tradewinds joint exercises that included soldiers, airmen, and sailors from the United States, Mexico, Canada, the UK, France, and the 15 member states of the Caribbean Community alliance.
In late 2025, the Pentagon announced that components of the U.S. Army’s 800-man 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade would begin rotational deployments to Guyana “as demand for army advisors in the region continues to grow.”
In late January and early February 2024, 12th Air Force Maj. Gen. Evan Pettus, now deputy U.S. Southern Command commander, went to Georgetown to meet with Guyanese military commanders. In December 2024, Ali visited Southern Command headquarters near Miami.
In November 2025, in one of his tenure’s last overseas trips, Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, former Southern Command commander, met in Georgetown with senior government leaders.
Guyanese army soldiers carrying Russian-made AK-47 7.62mm caliber rifles march as they participate in joint military exercises with U.S. Southern Command troops at Camp Stephenson in Timehri, Guyana, on July 26, 2023. Keno George/AFP via Getty Images
Military Bases
After Maduro’s December 2023 summit with Ali in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a top Guyanese official who attended the meeting told The Associated Press that the Venezuelan leader was “convinced Guyana could host” a permanent U.S. military base, which would dissolve the Argyle Accords.
“We have not been approached by the United States to establish a military base in Guyana,” Guyanese Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said after a January 2024 visit by then-U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Erikson.
Since April 2024, Maduro has claimed that the United States operates “secret military bases” in Essequibo, justifying Venezuela’s increased military presence along its borders.
“We have information proving that in the territory of Guayana Esequiba, temporarily administered by Guyana, secret military bases of the (U.S.) Southern Command … a body of the CIA … have been installed,” he said, accusing the United States of “aggression” designed “to prepare for an escalation against Venezuela.”
Jagdeo, in a Dec. 19, 2025, news conference, said a military confrontation between the United States and Venezuela appeared imminent. However, unlike the year before, he did not respond to questions about U.S. forces operating from Guyana or whether there was renewed talk about the United States establishing military bases there.
Now-Guyanese Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo delivers a speech during the last day of a summit in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, on June 3, 2011. Jagdeo, in a Dec. 19, 2025, news conference, did not respond to questions about U.S. forces operating from Guyana or whether there was renewed talk about the United States establishing military bases there. Guy-Gervais Kitina/AFP via Getty Images
In the context of unfolding events, most analysts focus on Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, and nations to the south when pondering how the Trump Corollary will be unfurled.
“The Guyana aspect is one of the hidden gems in this, as far as the U.S. is concerned, because the U.S. has the majority of the offshore energy reserves off Essequibo,” said Gregory Copley, president of the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association and editor-in-chief of Defense & Foreign Affairs publications.
“I think the Guyanese would welcome increased cooperation with the United States,” he told The Epoch Times.
Anders Corr, publisher at Journal of Political Risk and principal at Corr Analytics in Pittsburgh, who is also a contributor to The Epoch Times, said, “It would certainly make sense for Guyana to request a U.S. military base because that would give Guyana’s oil resources, other energy resources, a protection it won’t get anywhere else.”
“Trump is very much over spending money to protect other countries without getting something for it,“ he told The Epoch Times. ”So he would probably ask for some kind of a concession on the part of Guyana for that sort of protection. And he might very well get it.”
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Your 11:00 AM bourses for Europe and the Dow along with the USA dollar index closing and interest rates:FRIDAY CLOSING TIME 11:00 AM//
London: CLOSED DOWN 3.52 PTS OR 0.04%
GERMAN DAX: CLOSED UP 5.20 OR 0.02%
FRANCE: CLOSED UP 9.05 PTS OR 0.12%
Spain IBEX CLOSED UP 58.30 PTS OR 0.33%
Italian MIB: CLOSED UP 113.02 PTS OR 0.25%
WTI Oil price 56,53 10.00 EST/
Brent Oil: 60.3210:00 EST
USA /RUSSIAN ROUBLE /// AT: XXXXROUBLE UP 0 AND XXX/ 100
CDN 10 YEAR RATE: 3.409 UP 1XBASIS PTS.
CDN 5 YEAR RATE: 2943UP 1BASIS PTS
CLOSING NUMBERS: 4 PM
Euro vs USA 1.16754DOWN 0.0004 OR 4BASIS POINTS//
British Pound: 1.3431DOWN 0.0004 OR 4 basis pts/
BRITISH 10 YR GILT BOND YIELD: 4.399 DOWN 2 FULL BASIS PTS//
BRITISH 30 YR BOND YIELD: 5.1504DOWN 1 IN BASIS PTS.
JAPAN 10 YR YIELD: 2.10 3 UP 2 FULL BASIS PTS (DANGEROUS TO THEIR ECONOMY
JAPANESE 30 YR BOND: 3.383 DOWN 10 PTS AND STILL VERY DANGEROUS TO THEIR ECONOMY
USA dollar vs Japanese Yen: 157.28 UP 0.411OR YEN UP 41BASIS PTS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS/YEN FALLING DEEPLY IN VALUE
USA dollar vs Canadian dollar: 1.3869 UP 0.0005 PTS// CDN DOLLAR DOWN 5 BASIS PTS
West Texas intermediate oil: 58.09
Brent OIL: 62.33
USA 10 yr bond yield DOWN 1 BASIS pts to 4.176
USA 30 yr bond yield DOWN 1 PTS to 4.846%
USA 2 YR BOND 3.494 UP 1 PTS
CDN 10 YR RATE 3.402 UP 1 BASIS PTS
CDN 5 YEAR RATE: 2.939 UP 1 BASIS PTS
USA dollar index: 98.70 UP 3 BASIS POINTS
USA DOLLAR VS TURKISH LIRA: 43.15 GETTING QUITE CLOSE TO BLOWING UP/
USA DOLLAR VS RUSSIA//// ROUBLE: 80,.11 DOWN 0 AND 35/100 roubles //
GOLD $4,465.50(3:30 PM)
SILVER: 76.55 3;30 PM)
DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE: UP 237.96 OR 0.48%
NASDAQ 100 UP 222.86 PTS OR 0.95
VOLATILITY INDEX 14.49 DOWN 0.96 PTS OR 6.21%
GLD: $ 414.49 UP 2.98PTS OR 0.22%
SLV/ $72.3 UP 2.69PTS OR OR 3.83%
TORONTO STOCK INDEX// TSX INDEX: CLOSED UP 234.29PTS OR 0.72%
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USA DATA RELEASES
Atlanta Fed Nearly Doubles Q4 Growth Estimate To 5.4% After Strong Data
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 08:05 AM
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times,
U.S. economic growth prospects received a fresh boost this week as the Atlanta Federal Reserve nearly doubled its estimate for fourth-quarter output after a raft of strong data, while Fitch Ratings lifted its projections for full-year 2025 and 2026 growth after delayed government releases showed firmer economic momentum.
The Atlanta Fed’s closely watched GDPNow model lifted its estimate of fourth-quarter real gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 5.4 percent on Jan. 8, up from 2.9 percent a day earlier, after incorporating new data on trade, consumer spending, and services activity.
Separately, Fitch said on Jan. 8 that delayed economic releases revealed firmer momentum in the second half of 2025 than previously assumed, prompting upward revisions to its medium-term growth forecasts.
Geiger Capital described the Atlanta Fed’s upgrade as a “massive expansion” largely attributable to the narrowing trade deficit, with new data released on Jan. 8 by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) showing that America’s trade gap shrank to its lowest level in 16 years.
“We’re running it hot. Get on board,” Geiger Capital said in a post on X.
Trade Data
The Atlanta Fed upgrade was driven primarily by a sharp improvement in net exports following October trade data released by the BEA.
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $29.4 billion, the smallest monthly gap since 2009, as imports fell sharply while exports climbed to a record high. In the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow calculations, the contribution of net exports to fourth-quarter growth swung from a 0.3 percentage-point drag to a nearly 2 percentage-point boost, accounting for most of the headline jump.
Consumer spending also strengthened modestly in the “nowcast” model, which showed real personal consumption expenditures growth rising to about 2.1 percent on Thursday from 1.8 percent a day earlier, while inventories, investment, and government spending were little changed.
The Atlanta Fed also cited recent business survey data showing improving momentum late in the year.
A Jan. 7 report from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) showed U.S. service-sector activity strengthening in December. The ISM Services Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 54.4, its highest level of 2025, as new orders, business activity, and employment all rebounded.
The service sector, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of U.S. economic output, saw business activity climb to its strongest level since December 2024, while the employment index returned to expansion territory for the first time in seven months.
Eleven industries out of 16 surveyed by ISM reported growth in December 2025, including retail trade, finance, and transportation.
However, price pressures remained elevated despite some easing, with ISM’s prices index staying above 60 for a thirteenth straight month, a level that signals persistent inflationary forces buffeting the service sector.
Fitch Lifts Outlook
In a separate assessment, Fitch said the U.S. economy performed better than previously estimated once delayed government data were incorporated.
Fitch now estimates that the U.S. GDP grew 2.1 percent in 2025, up from 1.8 percent projected in its December outlook, and raised its 2026 growth forecast to 2.0 percent from 1.9 percent.
The agency said third-quarter growth was “considerably stronger than anticipated,” with upside surprises in consumption, government spending, and net trade. While overall private investment was weaker than expected, information technology investment remained robust, rising by 14 percent year-over-year and contributing significantly to output.
Fitch noted that consumer spending has been supported by buoyant equity markets, even as real income growth slowed and households drew down savings. The saving rate fell from 5.1 percent early in 2025 to 4.0 percent by September, suggesting consumers were increasingly dipping into their savings to fund their consumption.
Fitch expects inflation pressures to reemerge in 2026 as delayed tariff pass-through feeds into prices, forecasting consumer inflation of 3.2 percent by the end of 2026. Unemployment is expected to average 4.6 percent, roughly in line with recent readings, as slower job growth is offset by a slowdown in the expansion of the labor force.
The rating agency expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates twice in the first half of 2026, taking the upper bound of the federal funds rate to 3.25 percent.
Further, the Congressional Budget Office on Jan. 8 released updated economic projections showing steady but moderating growth, with real GDP expected to rise by 2.2 percent in 2026 before easing to an average of 1.8 percent in 2027 and 2028, amid higher tariffs, slower labor force growth, and cooling inflationary pressures.
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jobs report
The US economy added just 50,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate fell
Updated 8:45 AM EST, Fri January 9, 2026
What we’re covering here
• The US economy added just 50,000 jobs in December, according to the latest monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4% from a revised 4.5%.
• For much of the past 12 months, the only sectors to have added jobs in the aggregate are health care and leisure and hospitality.
The US economy added just 50,000 jobs last month
From CNN’s Alicia Wallace
People work in a restaurant in Manhattan on December 16, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Hiring slowed at the end of last year, as employers added an estimated 50,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.4%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday.
December’s estimated job gains, which are subject to revision, capped off what was a sluggish year for the US labor market.
2025 was the weakest year of employment growth outside of recession years since 2003, BLS data shows.
The labor market, which was already slowing heading into 2025, cooled sharply as hiring stalled out across most industries, a pullback economists attributed to high uncertainty (in part due to massive shifts in trade and immigration policy) as well as stubborn inflation and high interest rates.
Economists were expecting a net gain of 55,000 jobs in December and an unemployment rate of 4.5%.
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UMich Confidence Rebounds In January Off Record Lows As Tariff Fears Abate
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 10:17 AM
Having ended 2025 at the lowest Current Conditions Sentiment levels in, well, ever… expectations for preliminary January data were for a modest rebound… and it did (very modestly).
- The preliminary January sentiment index climbed to 54 from 52.9 in December, according to the University of Michigan (better than the 53.5 expected).
- The expectations index rose to a five-month high of 55. The survey reflected improvements in both the short- and long-term economic outlooks.
- The current conditions gauge climbed to a three-month high after slipping to a record-low in December. Consumers’ perception of their current financial situation improved in January, while expectations declined.
Source: Bloomberg
USA ECONOMIC COMMENTARIES
Lenders & Homebuilders Jump After Trump Unveils QE-Style $200B Mortgage Bond Buying Plan To Unfreeze Housing Market
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 07:10 AM
Upate (0710ET):
Shares of LoanDepot, Rocket Companies, and Opendoor Technologies surged in premarket trading after President Trump signaled plans to push Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to purchase $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities, a move aimed at driving down mortgage rates and improving affordability ahead of the midterm election cycle.
If the QE-style program is implemented, it would represent a direct government intervention to lower lending costs, providing near-term relief to a housing market effectively paralyzed by years of high prices and elevated borrowing costs, producing some of the worst affordability conditions in a generation.
The prospect of lower rates could act as a positive tailwind for mortgage originators, realtors, and adjacent real estate services that have endured several years of depressed transaction volumes, with some realtors forced to return to their previous bartending jobs.
Wall Street analysts view MBS purchases as a mechanism to tighten mortgage spreads, especially since Chair Powell stopped reinvesting in MBS several years ago.
Citizens analyst James McCanless told clients, “If this directive actually happens, it could be favorable at face value for mortgage rates, especially with the Federal Reserve having stopped MBS reinvestment several years ago.”
McCanless said, “Trump’s post about buying MBS and the potential impact on rates was the first piece of potentially good news for the builders and their customers if it comes to fruition.”
UBS analyst John Lovallo noted that “MBS purchases are one of several ways the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) can be leveraged to reduce mortgage rates/improve affordability in the near-term,” adding, “GSEs could also potentially subsidize mortgages and reduce guarantee fees (G-fees), the latter of which equated to 65bps on a 30-year mortgage in 2024.”
Jim Reid at Deutsche Bank said that $200 billion should be viewed in the overall context of a roughly $9 trillion agency MBS market and that “spreads between mortgage bonds and Treasuries tightened by nearly 10bps on the news with home-lender stocks gaining in after-hours trading.”
Premarket stock reaction: LoanDepot jumped about 17%, while Rocket and Opendoor rose about 8%.
The State Street SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) is up a little more than half a percent.
UBS analyst Simon Penn told clients that Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was quoted as saying the mortgage-backed securities purchases can happen very quickly because both agencies have the cash on hand to do so.
The Trump administration appears to have moved on from the prospect of a 50-year mortgage, something we’ve told readers was a bad idea.
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First, Trump short-circuited the Fed’s rate-cut process. Now he is pursuing QE by launching his own version.
In a post on Truth Social late Thursday, President Trump said he was directing the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds, which he framed as his latest effort to bring down housing costs ahead of the November midterm election.
“This will drive Mortgage Rates DOWN, monthly payments DOWN, and make the cost of owning a home more affordable,” Trump wrote in his post.
He added that his decision not to sell Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during his first term allowed them to amass “$200 BILLION DOLLARS IN CASH” and that he was making his announcement “because of that.”
Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte, said soon after that the president aims for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae to execute the purchases. Pulte said Thursday the bond purchases “can be executed very quickly. We have the capability, we have the cash to do it, and we are going to go about executing it very smartly and in a very big way.”
“It is one of my many steps in restoring Affordability, something that the Biden Administration absolutely destroyed,” the president said. Mortgage backed securities rallied relative to Treasuries on the news.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have added billions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities and home loans to their balance sheets in recent months, fueling speculation that they’re trying to push down lending rates and boost their profitability ahead of a potential public offering; now those speculations have been validated.
The government-backed housing-finance giants increased their retained portfolios, the portion of bonds and loans they hold onto rather than sell to investors, by more than 25% in the five months through October, according to recent figures.
The announcement comes one day after Trump said on Wednesday that he would seek to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes. The president’s advisers have repeatedly raised alarms that affordability has become a political albatross for the GOP and could cost the party control of Congress in the elections this fall.
In keeping with Trump’s housing obsession, overnight, Politico reported that the White House is drafting an executive order broadly targeted at addressing Americans’ frustration with the cost of living, including a push to allow people to dip into their retirement and college savings accounts to afford down payments on homes.
Of course, by simply adding even more fuel to the demand side – which is what this kind of conversion from savings into home equity will do – it will achieve the opposite of what Trump is pursuing, which means even more mortgage bond purchases, which means even more rate cuts, which means even more direct intervention in the market by various third parties, which means even more endogenous liquidity generated, and so on. Of course, it also means we have barely scratched the surface of where gold and bitcoin will eventually trade.
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USA// GREENLAND
White House Mulls Payments Up To $100,000 Per Greenlander To Join US
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 05:45 AM
The Trump administration has mulled sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders of up to $100,000 in exchange for their vote to secede from Denmark and join the United States, Reuters reports, citing four sources familiar with the matter.
The exact dollar figure and logistics of any payments are unclear, however US officials, including White House aides, have floated payments ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per person to residents of the overseas territory of Denmark with a population of 57,000 people – despite Copenhagen’s insistence that Greenland is not for sale. The move would cost at most $5.7 billion – about what the US sends Israel and Egypt on an annual basis.
One of the sources familiar with White House deliberations said the internal discussions regarding lump sum payments were not necessarily new. However, that person said, they had gotten more serious in recent days, and aides were entertaining higher values, with a $100,000-per-person payment – which would result in a total payment of almost $6 billion – a real possibility.
Many details of any potential payments were unclear, such as when and how they would be doled out if the Trump administration pursued that route or what exactly would be expected of the Greenlanders in exchange. The White House has said military intervention is possible, though officials have also said the U.S. prefers buying the island or otherwise acquiring it through diplomatic means. -Reuters
The proposed payments are one of several plans under discussion by the White House for acquiring Greenland – including the use of the US military – to take control of the island whose own population has repeatedly debated its own independence and economic dependence on Denmark.
“Enough is enough … No more fantasies about annexation,” said Greenland’s PM Jens-Frederik Neilsen in a Sunday Facebook post after US President Donald Trump repeated his intention to acquire the island during interviews with reporters.
European leaders have responded to Trump’s comments with disdain. On Tuesday, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Britain and Denmark issued a joint statement declaring that only Greenland and Denmark can decide what happens.
Trump has given several reasons for the need to acquire Greenland – including that it is rich in minerals needed for military applications, and that the Western Hemisphere needs to be under the geopolitical influence of Washington.
“We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark isn’t going to be able to do it,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, adding “It’s so strategic.”
One Reuters source said that White House aides were eager to carry over the momentum from the Maduro operation – in which US forces captured the Venezuelan leader and his wife over the weekend.
Another option under discussion is trying to enter into a type of agreement with the island called a Compact of Free Association (COFA) – which have only ever been extended to small island nations including Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau – in which the US government will provide many essential services such as mail delivery and military protection in exchange for the ability to operate freely in COFA countries and trade with the US largely duty free.
To do this, Greenland would likely need to separate from Denmark.
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GM Cuts EV Exposure After Policy Shift, Takes $6B Charge
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 10:40 AM
Imagine all of the malinvestment that took place in autos, on EVs, thank to the government distorting markets and forcing EV adoption when genuine demand may not have been robust. Now, we’re seeing the consequences of returning to a freer market.
General Motors will record a $6 billion charge after scaling back several electric-vehicle projects, reflecting both weaker demand and the impact of new federal policies under President Donald Trump, according to Reuters.
Most of the charge — $4.2 billion in cash — stems from terminating contracts and compensating suppliers that had prepared for higher EV production. GM said the charge will appear as a special item in its fourth-quarter earnings. Additional costs are expected in 2026 but will be smaller than the current year’s EV-related charges.
Despite the pullback, the company said its U.S. lineup of about a dozen EVs remains intact: “We plan to continue to make these models available to consumers.”
GM’s announcement follows Ford’s much larger move in December, when it revealed a $19.5 billion writedown after canceling several EV programs. Ford CEO Jim Farley said at the time: “When the market really changed over the last couple of months, that was really the impetus for us to make the call.”
Automakers across the industry began retreating from aggressive EV expansion last summer after a sweeping Trump tax and spending package and the elimination on September 30 of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit, which triggered a sharp drop in sales. GM’s EV deliveries fell 43% in the fourth quarter, after customers had rushed purchases before the credit expired.
Reuters writes that while GM once pledged to phase out gasoline vehicles by 2035, analysts have since lowered long-term EV forecasts. GM CEO Mary Barra has said the company will adjust based on customer demand.
The company has already slowed EV operations: halting battery production at two joint-venture plants, cutting shifts at its Detroit EV factory, and repurposing a planned Michigan EV facility to build gas-powered pickups and the Cadillac Escalade. GM also disclosed a separate $1.1 billion charge tied to restructuring its China joint venture.
Some analysts question GM’s heavy focus on fully electric vehicles. CFRA analyst Garrett Nelson warned: “GM’s lack of hybrid exposure could partially reverse recent market share gains,” citing surging hybrid demand.
Industrywide, EV sales growth has slowed dramatically. Research firm Omdia reported U.S. EV sales rose just 1.2% in 2025, and Edmunds projects EVs will represent about 6% of U.S. vehicle sales in 2026, down from 7.4% last year.
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KING NEWS
| The King Report January 26, 2026 Issue 7656 | Independent View of the News |
| The US trade deficit tumbled to -$29.4B in October, the lowest level since 2009. -$58.7b was expected. September was revised to -$48.1B from $52.8B. Exports +2.6%, September revised to 3.6% from 3%; Imports -3.2%, September revised to 0.8% from 0.6% Challenger Job Cut for December are 35,553 (-8.3% y/y), prior 71,321 Initial Jobless Claims 208k, 212k expected, prior 200k Continuing Claims 1.914m, 1.9m expected, 1.8958m prior (from 1.866m) Q3 Nonfarm Productivity 4.9%, 5% expected, 4.1% prior (revised from 3.3%) Unit Labor Costs -1.9% (???), -0.1% expected, prior revised to -2.9% (??) from +1.0% BBG: “The drop in employment costs illustrates a bifurcation in the economy, whereby the labor market has softened despite solid economic growth…” (Or the data is fudged!) The valuation rotation appeared on Thursday. At the 11:30 ET European close, the DJIA and DJTA were up smartly; the NY Fang+ Index was down sharply. Traders that bought Fangs and tech for the CES were jettisoning their holding because the show ends today. Defense stocks were strong. ESHs traded in a 7-handle range, and mostly positive, from their 18:00 ET opening until they broke down at 21:37 ET. ESHS sank to a daily low of 6935.25 (-28.00) at 1:28 ET. ESHs then gyrated in a large range until they broke higher after 10:00 ET. After turning positive at 10:06 ET, ESHs stalled and gyrated wildly between 3-handle gains and double-digit losses. After a brief spike to a daily high of 6972.50 at 12:52 ET, ESHs did a jagged A-B-C decline to 6949.25 at 14:15 ET. ESHs then traded in an 8-handle range until the late manipulation pushed them to 6967.00 at 15:36 ET. ESHs eased down to 6959.00 at 15:50 ET. They rose to 6965.75 at 16:01 ET. Gold rallied moderately; silver fell moderately. Commodity pundits believe rebalancing gold versus silver in portfolios is occurring. Positive aspects of previous session The DJIA and DJTA rallied smartly on the valuation rotation. Defense stocks were strong. Negative aspects of previous session Fangs & techs declined smartly. Apple declined for the 7th straight session. USHs were -16/32 at the NYSE close. Ambiguous aspects of previous session Why has action turned listless in a seasonal period where it should be robust? First Hour/Last Hour NYSE Action [S&P 500 Index]: 1st Hour: Up; Last Hour: Up Pivot Point for S&P 500 Index [above/below indicates daily trend to traders]: 6917.36 Previous session S&P 500 Index High/Low: 6931.28; 6899.33 (5) GOP senators join Democrats to stop Trump from policing Venezuela Sens Kaine and Paul plan new resolutions targeting potential military action in Greenland, Cuba, Mexico and Colombia – The Senate will have to take another vote… the 60-vote filibuster threshold, before it becomes official… https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senators-join-democrats-stop-trump-from-policing-venezuela Dozens of House Republicans defy Trump, join Democrats in failed veto override effort The bills are the only two that Trump has vetoed so far this term One of the bills was the “Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act,” led by Trump ally Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo… Boebert’s bill was aimed at expanding the availability of fresh water in eastern Colorado, where Boebert’s district is located… She also insinuated in a statement to local outlets that the move could have been in response to her support for releasing the federal government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein… https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dozens-house-republicans-defy-trump-join-democrats-failed-veto-override-effort House passes nearly $180B funding package after conservative rebellion over Minnesota fraud fears – Rep Ilhan Omar requested more than $1 million for a Minneapolis-based social justice project https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-nearly-180b-funding-package-after-conservative-rebellion-over-minnesota-fraud-fears The House voted to revive Obamacare funds. The bill goes to the senate; but senators have their own bill. German president says US is destroying world order https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/german-president-says-us-is-destroying-world-order/ar-AA1TQ5qJ @WallStreetMav: Germany is committing cultural and economic suicide … but they think the US is the problem? 1) Germany let millions of Muslims invade, go on welfare, assault & rape their daughters. 2) Germany is destroying their own economy with their energy policy & regulations. 3) Now German companies are closing factories, moving jobs to countries with lower energy costs and less regulation. 4) German puts more people in jail for speech crimes than any other European country, except Britain. @ianmiles: The President of Austria says there will come a day when he asks all Austrian women to wear a hijab to fight back against “Islamophobia.” https://x.com/ianmiles/status/2009343923144282502 Sana Ebrahimi @__Injaneb96: This is Tehran… You are watching a revolution unfold live while the world’s media stays dead silent. Legacy media has become nothing more than a propaganda machine, what news could possibly be bigger than this? (The Cult of Obama loved & coddled Iran’s mullahs!) https://x.com/__Injaneb96/status/2009329328635719872 @NiohBerg: Tonight is the most important night in Iran since the 1979 catastrophe. It will decide whether the uprising fails due to the sheer oppression, or whether the people can push forward towards victory. But we won’t know yet, because the regime has cut Iran off from the world. Trump more than once warned Iran that he would hit them hard if they shot protestors. If Trump does NOT fulfill the promise, he is finished! @ChuckDeVore: Except that, per the St. Louis Federal Reserve: A record high 30% of single-family home purchases in the first half of 2025 were made by investors, of which, one-fifth were institutional, so, 6%. Agree or disagree on policy but gauge the issue correctly – it’s current turnover that matters, not people like me sitting in the same house for 15 years. https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/oct/role-single-family-rentals-us-housing-market Trump orders government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to push mortgage rates down (What big investor(s) complained to Trump and got him to do a quasi-TACO?) https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/2009380252452044849/photo/1 WSJ’s @NickTimiraos: The main mechanism to do this would be… Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which under their existing agreements with the U.S. Treasury are allowed to hold no more than $225 billion (for each company) in mortgage investments. Both companies held around $124 billion in those portfolios as of November 2025, meaning they could each purchase $100 billion more in MBS. Fed Balance Sheet: -$67.016B on -$74.B of Repos; Reserves: +$38.969B Today – The Santa Rally window is closed. The Consumer Electronics Show ends. The SCOTUS will issue its tariff ruling. The S&P 500 Index low yesterday was 6899.33. This is important support now. We do NOT know how the markets will react to the SCOTUS tariff decision of the Dec NFP. However, traders will play for the Friday Rally. We doubt that Team Trump will produce a bad Dec NFP! Expected economic data: Dec NFP 70k, Mfg. -5k, Wages 0.3% m/m & 3.6% y/y, Workweek 34.3; Unemployment Rate 4.5%, Labor Force Participation Rate 62.4%; Oct Housing Starts 1.33m, Permits 1.35m; Jan UM Sentiment 53.5, Current Conditions 51.8, Expectations 54.9, 1-yr Inflation 4.1%, 5–10-year Inflation 3.3% ESHs are -0.75; NQHs are -25.50; and USHs are +9/32 at 20:17 ET. Precious metals were up sharply due to DJT’s MBS; but have retreated. T-Bill & MBS QE together?! “To the moon, Alice!” Tres important question: Can the US markets and economy function without constant intervention? S&P Index 50-day MA: 6817; 100-day MA: 6710 150-day MA: 6549; 200-day MA: 6317 DJIA 50-day MA: 47,749; 100-day MA: 46,880; 150-day MA: 45,882; 200-day MA: 44,685 (Green is positive slope; Red is negative slope) S&P 500 Index (6921.46 close) – BBG trading model Trender and MACD for key time frames Monthly: Trender and MACD are positive – a close below 5896.83 triggers a sell signal Weekly: Trender is positive; MACD is negative – a close below 6420.50 triggers a sell signal Daily: Trender and MACD are positive – a close below 6851.33 triggers a sell signal Hourly: Trender and MACD are negative – a close above 6931.77 triggers a buy signal Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan told constituents to “put their bodies on the line” to protect illegals from being “kidnapped” by ICE, weeks before a woman who did just that was shot while trying to ram an ICE agent in Minneapolis. https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/2009316329585823821 “There needs to be blood”: Democrats’ voters tell them to “get shot” in Trump resistance push July 7, 2025 https://www.axios.com/2025/07/07/democrats-trump-resistance-violence-congress People, pols, and media are ignoring the human tragedy in the Minneapolis ICE shooting. Three children now have no mother. This is heartbreaking, and yet very troubling. How could a mother of three become so radicalized against ICE that she put herself in jeopardy to protect illegal immigrants? Sadly, we know. Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘warrior’ who trained to resist feds before shooting – Good… linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and “involving kids in political and social activism,”… Good became involved in “ICE Watch” — a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids… (Dems deceitfully called Good a ‘legal observer’) https://trib.al/uxNBRTk @RYboating: “Epidemic of political vigilantism” Scott Jennings is correct! This is not organic-it is being funded by our enemies. We need to cut off the head of the snake! https://x.com/RYboating/status/2009304419456979262 @overton_news: CNN’s JENNINGS: “It strikes me that we are undergoing an epidemic of political vigilantism right now.” “Why are people showing up in vehicles, in convoys, not just in Minneapolis, but all over the country in an effort to obstruct lawful federal law enforcement activities?” “This is not an isolated incident. We’ve had hundreds of car rammings against ICE agents across the country.” “According to DHS, this lady in this car today, along with other vehicles, had been tracking ICE agents around. Why are people believing that they can drive their car into a federal law enforcement situation, and that’s somehow appropriate?” “I understand they don’t like the fact that these agents are enforcing existing immigration law… but that’s not how we change laws in this country.” “If you don’t like the law, you talk to politicians. You don’t drive your car into the middle of a building or a law enforcement situation.” “If I don’t like how much the IRS is charging me in taxes, I don’t drive my car into the Treasury Department. I call my congressman.” “Political vigilantism is being encouraged by Democratic officials like Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who earlier this year told people to, quote, ‘put your bodies on the line.’” “And Governor Tim Walz has been calling these guys Gestapo all year.” “What do you think happens when you radicalize a base of people like this?!” https://x.com/overton_news/status/2009107629776265694 @FischerKing64: NPR just now: ‘There is controversy in Minnesota after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman while she was sitting in her car.’ That is how you mislead entire segments of the population. Vice President JD Vance: “There is a part of me that feels very, very sad for this woman, not just because she lost her life, but because I think she is a victim of left-wing ideology. What young mothers shows up and decides they’re going to throw their car in front of ICE Officers who are enforcing legitimate law?” “You have got to be a little bit brainwashed to get to that point … Not peacefully protesting, but to throw your vehicle in front of legitimate law enforcement officers and drive your car into them. To get to that point, you have to be I think radicalized in a very, very sad way. I certainly wish that she had not gotten there. I know there is an ICE officer who wishes he was not put in the position where he had to fire a gun to defend his own life.” https://x.com/JennieSTaer/status/2009340937827414489 @megbasham: There have been more than 100 vehicular ramming incidents targeting ICE and CPB agents in the last year. More than 100. For example, in October in Chicago, an ICE officer was hit by a car and dragged under the vehicle, sustaining serious injuries. And just last month in St. Paul, two ICE agents were hit by a vehicle during an arrest. So sure, go ahead and try to claim this officer should have been able to guess what was in a radical’s head as she accelerated her 2 ton SUV directly at him. But try to remember, these officers know that they are targets, and that Democrats are ginning up as much agitation against them as they can from violent erratic protestors. Every day, they go to work, knowing there are targets on their backs. Especially from vehicular ramming. But sure, Monday morning quarterback the guy who was struck (and who, but for lack of tire traction on an icy street, might not be here today). @MrAndyNgo: Democrats call for rioters to “put your body on the line.” Rioters do that. One eventually gets shot while accelerating an SUV into an ICE agent. Democrats and leftists blame the Trump administration and urge for more direct action against ICE. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2009131575724625972?s=02 Wife of ICE shooting victim says ‘I made her come down here’ to confront agents as she breaks down in harrowing footage https://t.co/fTUeIgyYpo It is reasonable to ask or ponder if the ICE agent in question was wrong in firing his weapon. The WH Press Sec, VP Vance and others noted that Dems, leftists, and the media have vilified, demonized, and threatened ICE agents. Subsequently the ICE agents have been impeded, threatened, and assaulted, including over 100 car rammings over the past year. NYP: The ICE agent who opened fire in Minneapolis on Wednesday was dragged 100 yards by an illegal migrant in Minnesota last June after his arm was trapped inside the vehicle during a traffic stop. The attack on the officer happened June 17 in Bloomington, Minnesota, when ICE agents conducted a traffic stop on Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, a serial illegal immigrant with a lengthy rap sheet with charges including domestic assault and sex crimes against an underage teenager… https://x.com/RyanSaavedra/status/2009322230287880498 The ICE agent in question was seriously injured in June when he was dragged by an illegal in a car for about 300 feet and received 33 stitches. This video might help a person form a decision: https://x.com/0hour1/status/2009263907102163442 Slow Mo: https://x.com/pvtjokerus/status/2009000735980273969 VP Vance: “Everybody repeating the lie this is some innocent woman out for a drive in MN – YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.” “What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ENDED, DRAGGED by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg, so you THINK maybe he’s a little bit SENSTIVE about somebody ramming him with an automobile?!” “What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America.” “What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job. “If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left-wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques, to try to make it impossible for the president of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws.” “You people in the media have been LYING ABOUT THIS ATTACK. She was trying to RAM THIS GUY with her car! He shot back. He’s already been seriously wounded before!” https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2009334764159877151 “One of the ways we tone down the temperature is to have a media that tells the truth.” – JD Vance https://x.com/RobertBluey/status/2009342763809038722 Fox News’ @brithume on Minneapolis shooting: “I don’t think I’ve seen a conflict between the federal government and the states as intense as this since the civil rights movement of the 1960s when southern states were trying to block enforcement of civil rights laws and the rest of it.” “These ICE agents had every right to be there and, indeed, one might argue had a duty to be there. They are this nation’s enforcers of the immigration laws and they certainly would like cooperation from local and other officials. This is their job and there’s no evidence here they weren’t doing their job or doing it improperly. The way these local officials are reacting is extraordinary.” “That statement the Mayor made laced with obscenities telling the agents to ‘get the F out of Minnesota’ is something we haven’t seen in a very long time and I can’t believe across the country this will sit well with the public.” https://x.com/TVNewsNow/status/2009050066053443821 Familiar groups mobilize immediately after ICE shooting of Minnesota protester Coordinated protests launched by socialist, climate and Palestinian rights groups using similar language https://www.foxnews.com/us/familiar-protest-groups-mobilize-immediately-after-ice-shooting-minnesota-protester Left-Wing Protest Industrial Complex Activates Across Multiple Cities after ICE-Involved Shooting in Minn… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/left-wing-protest-industrial-complex-activates-across-multiple-cities-after-ice-involved Socialist group tied to Mamdani closely allied with Maduro, now leads protests of U.S. actions https://justthenews.com/government/security/mamdanis-dsa-closely-allied-maduro-years-now-leads-protests-his-capture-us There is an inordinate number of women in the Minneapolis ICE Watch and protests. They are reportedly from familiar leftist groups. Patel says FBI investigating organizers, funders of anti-ICE protests for impeding law enforcement Warning comes after protester tried to run into ICE agent and was fatally shot. https://justthenews.com/government/security/patel-says-fbi-investigating-organizers-funders-anti-ice-protests-impeding-law @DefiyantlyFree: Minnesota has spent years building an infrastructure of ICE watch patrols, NGO backed rapid response teams, and politically wired nonprofits that can flip from ordinary life to street mobilization in minutes… It is an on the ground surveillance and response network that local reporters have already documented in detail. A Star Tribune investigation into the “organized resistance to ICE” in Minnesota reads like a field manual for modern grassroots intelligence operations… Volunteers position themselves near schools, mosques, and high risk housing, phones ready. Their job is to film, warn, and, when they choose, physically interpose themselves between agents and targets. When roughly 2,000 federal agents arrive in a region that has spent years quietly building an anti enforcement machine, confrontation is not a question of if but when… Within hours, local NGOs and national groups issue public calls to action. Protest times and locations spread across social media and encrypted channels simultaneously… One organization appears repeatedly in any serious look at Minnesota’s anti ICE apparatus: COPAL, short for Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina. COPAL is not just another advocacy group. It runs a formal immigrant defense “rapid response” program that sits at the heart of Minnesota’s ICE watch system… https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/2009114049833836981 @Breaking911: For the seconds consecutive day, ICE agents are being surrounded and getting assaulted right now in Minneapolis. https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2009273317132325009 @AlexisMcAdamsTV: A man just showed up and spit at/on a federal agent. He was quickly taken into custody. Now people are yelling F ice. https://x.com/AlexisMcAdamsTV/status/2009304688970068069 @AFpost: A rioter was arrested in Minneapolis after blocking the path of CBP Commander Bovino. https://x.com/AFpost/status/2009372108351004673 @bennyjohnson on Thursday: Left-wing paid rioters effed around and are now finding out in Minneapolis. They are literally getting dragged across the street by federal agents. Law enforcement is not messing around. Enough is enough. https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2009284388224111088 @PressSec: “Let me be clear, @POTUS and his entire administration stand fully behind the heroic men and women of ICE, and will always uphold Law and Order in the United States of America. The deadly incident that took place in Minnesota yesterday occurred as a result of a larger, sinister, left-wing movement that has spread across our country, where our brave men and women of federal law enforcement are under organized attack.” @chiIIum: This is the woman who seems to be the lead at “Whipple Watch.” She directed people to take their cars into the neighborhoods to start their watch, and is now organizing a small group to chase out a young man she’s calling a “white supremecist” because he’s using a megaphone calling for “patriots” to come to Minnesota to counter the communists. https://x.com/chiIIum/status/2009288932228296829 @libsoftiktok: Tiktoker says she also drives around trying to interfere with ICE and now she’s nervous after a woman was shot. I can think of a very easy solution to avoid getting shot by law enforcement… https://t.co/PpelpL0qno Authorities have allowed, and Dems have encouraged, people to impeded and interfere with ICE operations, which is a federal crime. We have regularly averred that when there are NO or de minis consequences for criminal behavior, it will not only continue, but it will also proliferate. @CynicalPublius: Somewhere along the way in America, it became general knowledge that one can flout the law anyway you want when protesting some government action or event, so long as you are taking the Marxist position and protesting a non-Marxist position. I don’t know how we got here. It’s the essence of a lawless society, but it’s really not, as only one side of the political aisle gets to be lawless and the other does not (see J6, e.g.)… Fox’s @MZHemingway: My tolerance for left-wing lawlessness ended in 2020 during their BLM riots and now I’m just so done with it I can’t possibly express how done with it I am. The country can’t survive the left’s support for lawlessness. It is destroying us. Everyone who is illegally impeding law enforcement engaged in lawful operations should be arrested ASAP. The groups that are coordinating and inciting these attacks and interferences with federal law enforcement should also be charged with any violations of the law. Where there protests or riots after Trump was shot, or Kirk was assassinated, or a Bernie Sanders supporter tried to assassinate about two dozen GOP Reps, etc.? @WesternLensman: We’ve endured a year of this demonizing rhetoric from Democrats about ICE. There is zero mystery why these things continue to happen. https://t.co/jxD5V5NONl @Dapper_Det: The Democratic Party has orchestrated a violent campaign to resist, obstruct, assault & murder ICE to keep illegal aliens from being deported to further their welfare state which DEMS get rich from. The female shot dead in Minneapolis today was brainwashed to death. The fact that Dems and their media allies fight so hard to protect and enrich illegal immigrants speaks volumes about the importance illegal immigrants hold for Dems! @JesseKellyDC: The Democrat Party ceases to exist without foreigners. Always remember that. They left Americans behind long ago. Foreigners ARE the Democrat voting base. @CynicalPublius: Everything makes sense when you consider the following seven immutable truths: 1. A large majority of native-born Americans strongly oppose Democrat policies. 2. The only way Democrats can win national elections is to import new voters, both legal and illegal. 3. The way to ensure that the newly-imported voters vote Democrat is to give them free stuff… 4. Trump’s efforts to deport illegals are therefore an existential threat to the Democrat Party… 5. Because of the foregoing, it is imperative to Democrats that they shut down ICE operations. 6. A key factor in the attempt to shut down ICE operations is to create martyrs… @Shilohmarx: Kamala Harris won Minnesota by 137,947 votes. Minnesota reported 197,188 duplicate voter registration applications. https://t.co/yucW0FvJUq Border Patrol Union – NBPC @BPUnion: MN Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Frey should be held accountable for their anti-law enforcement rhetoric. It’s this type of asinine commentary that has gotten our ICE officers and BP agents put into these predicaments where they have been hurt and assaulted at an alarming and record-setting rate! These agitators who impede and interfere with law enforcement officers put themselves at risk of arrest and in some cases, injury or death, due their unlawful activity. Law enforcement is not to blame! We stand with ICE and all of Law Enforcement! @BillMelugin_ An independently owned Marriott hotel in Bloomington, MN confirms to @FoxNews they have ID’d & fired an employee who doxxed ICE agents by leaking their names, emails, and surveillance images of them as they checked in at the front desk. The images appeared in an anti-ICE Reddit post that went up last night… @MrAndyNgo: The far-left extremists in Minnesota feel emboldened for violence because of a steady stream of moral support from Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey, the Hennepin County Attorney, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and the Democrat Party. It’s like 2020 again. @JackPosobiec: It is starting to appear like the agitators in Minneapolis deliberately staged this provocation looking to entrap ICE agents. They followed ICE all day. One blockaded the road while others stood outside filming, as seen in the video. 4 ramming incidents occurred just today (Wed). https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/2009040818896830650 @seanmdav: Democrats wanted someone to get shot. They did everything they could to get one of their own killed so they could do another election year martyrs brigade riot season. Let’s hope Trump learned the real lesson of 2020 that these communists have to be crushed, not coddled. @BillMelugin_: Sanctuary state governor Tim Walz is asking the Feds to allow his Minnesota state law enforcement to be part of the federal investigation into the deadly ICE shooting. Ironic, of course, given Minnesota does not cooperate with ICE. “Let us be part of this,” Walz said. GOP House Majority Whip/MN Congressman Tom Emmer statement to @FoxNews in response to the MN Star Tribune publishing the ICE agent’s name: “The Star Tribune is trying to get ICE agents killed.” – @GOPMajorityWhip GOP @SenEricSchmitt: Our brave ICE agents are risking their lives every day to execute their duty in impossibly volatile conditions. There are only two reasons their line of work is so dangerous right now: 1. There are millions of illegal aliens in our country who pose an existential threat to our safety, security and way of life. 2. The Left has spent the past year smearing, demonizing, and dehumanizing ICE and other law-enforcement agents in the most vicious terms imaginable—and encouraged their most radical foot-soldiers to confront and fight them in the streets. Antifa has been waging war on ICE in our major cities for the past 12 months. ICE agents are facing a 1300% increase in vehicular attacks. An 8000% increase in death threats. The environment they’re operating in is completely unprecedented. Loss of life is always tragic. But when the Left villainizes our law enforcement officers for doing their jobs, our communities face incredibly dangerous situations. Ex-federal prosecutor @shipwreckedcrew: One more time — once she directed her vehicle in the direction of the officer in front of her, that was “assault on a law enforcement officer with a deadly or dangerous instrument.” It does not matter if she hit him or he evaded her. .. Use of deadly force is authorized to neutralized a threat to the community, i.e., preventing her from driving away. You may not like the law, but that is the state of the law. It has developed over dozens of cases all with multiple factual barriers. Pointing her car at the officer and starting forward was no different legally from pointing a gun at him and firing. The fact that the shooter misses is irrelevant. VP JD Vance announced a new assistant attorney general to investigate fraud nationwide. @lamps_apple: Sarah Clarke, Mayor Jacob Frey’s wife, worked for Hylden Advocacy & Law. Hylden Advocacy & Law provided legal and lobbying representation to Feeding Our Future ($250 million food aid fraud). Hylden is also listed as a paid lobbyist on a Somali Museum founded by Osman Ali (museum received $4.5 million months after the owner plead guilty to fraud) Clarke left Hylden’s firm in January when the investigation took off. Clarke’s exit was abrupt and without explanation, leaving many unanswered questions… At least eight people named in the indictment donated $1,000, the maximum allowable contribution, to Frey’s 2021 mayoral campaign. Three of Mayor Frey’s appointees were federally indicted. Abdi Nur Salah, a former senior policy aide to then-Council Member Abdi Warsame, moved up the City Hall ranks into the role of Frey’s senior policy aide in 2018. Sharmarke Issa was appointed by Frey to chair the housing authority in 2019 and reappointed in 2021. Abdikadir Ainanshe Mohamud was appointed by Frey to the newly created Minneapolis Community Safety Workgroup. @elonmusk: Wow, Frey is super deep in the fraud @MamdaniWatch: Bill Maher talks about Zohran Mamdani: “He definitely has the power and influence to elect JD Vance, or whoever is the Republican candidate next time. It is a walking commercial for the Republican Party nationally.” https://t.co/yRgPChf9g7 @toobaffled: “At least half of all U.S. children have had otitis media by their first birthday. By age six, 90% have had it. This condition accounts for 26,000,000 visits to physicians every year. In addition, about 1,000,000 have tubes inserted in their ears every year. Thus $1,000,000,000 is spent every year on this operation. Just imagine what it means if this is all, or mostly all, caused by the pertussis vaccine. This particular glue ear of otitis was not known in American medical practice before the late 1940s or early 50s… In other words the time the pertussis vaccine was introduced.” – Harris Coulter PhD, Medical Historian, ‘Why the P in DPT May be Hazardous to Your Child’s Health’ https://x.com/toobaffled/status/2008849865418428622 Fox’s @BillMelugin_: DHS statement to @FoxNews re: Border Patrol shooting in Portland: “At 2:19 PST, US Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon. The passenger of the vehicle and target is a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and involved in a recent shooting in Portland. The vehicle driver is believed to be a member of the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents. Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot. The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene. This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.” @alx: They’re going to start using their cars as weapons against ICE Agents and law enforcement and Democrats will continue to side with the criminals. @Grummz: The Left is out there shooting at presidents, assassinating podcasters, and running over ice agents… But the politician of the right still won’t support Doge or fix the filibuster and are scared of being called unreasonable. And don’t even get me started on the DOJ. @TheOfficerTatum: The View’s Joy Behar claims we’re now living in “fascist America” and wants Americans to “wake up” and realize there’s a dictatorship. These women only continue to fuel the flame with their rhetoric, and it’s at the courtesy of ABC News and Disney of course. https://x.com/TheOfficerTatum/status/2009423481637663185 @CarmineSabia: One thing we know for certain. If Renee Nicole Good had been killed by an illegal alien, it would not have even made the news. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” — Edmund Burke | |
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Woman Killed In Minneapolis Was “ICE Watch” Left-Wing Activist Trained To Resist Fed Agents: Report
Friday, Jan 09, 2026 – 05:45 AM
Update (1858):
The New York Post reports that Renee Nicole Good was an anti-ICE “warrior” and part of a network of left-wing activists who worked to “document and resist” ICE operations in Minnesota.
Key details from the NYPost report:
Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday.
Good and her wife Rebecca, 40, who were raising the child together and sent the boy to Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972 which has from its inception been “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” according to co-founder Susie Oppenheim.
It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in “ICE Watch” — a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city.
“From my understanding, she was involved in social justice … we are a tight-knit community and a lot of parents are [activists],” former Southside gym teacher Rashad Rich, who resigned from the school last month, told The Post.
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County worker Kristin Peter, 30, who was also at the vigil, said Renee was on the same ICE Watch team as one of her coworkers, and that she herself was attending a meeting of the group Thursday night.
NYPost’s report throws a wrench into the just a “driver” or just a “woman” narrative that some corporate media outlets ran earlier.
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Update (1755ET):
Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot and killed by ICE, was driving a Honda Pilot SUV that the Missouri Department of Revenue confirmed was registered with Missouri license plates. Business records show that Good operated a maintenance company in Kansas City, Missouri, called “B.Good Handywork LLC.”
Even though the Minneapolis City Council released a statement saying Good was “a member of our community,” it does not answer whether she was a full-time resident or simply part of an out-of-town left-wing resistance network conducting pressure campaigns against ICE operations in the sanctuary city.
One eyewitness described Good as “the main car in the protest, as I understand it. She was very successful in blocking traffic. She was doing exactly what she set out to do.”
At the beginning of the interview, the eyewitness said, “I woke up to some commotion out front. I heard some whistles going on out front.”
We must note that the whistles sounded before Good accelerated her car forward after blocking the street, prompting the officer to fire several shots into the vehicle, killing the activist.
Reuters associates “shrill sound of whistles” as an “anti-ICE resistance tool”…
Democrats were quick to label Good as a “legal observer.”
Local media confirmed.
Left-wing activists can train to be legal observers with the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild. As the Capital Research Center notes, the NLG has been consistently identified with radical-left politics and was heavily influenced by communists in its early years. Key Weather Underground figures like Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers had strong ties to the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Dohrn served as the first law student organizer.
“The idea of community members watching law enforcement officers through organized patrols originates from the Black Power Movement,” NLG wrote on its website, adding, “The National Lawyers Guild, as the first integrated bar association in the U.S., took components from this practice and developed its Legal Observer Program in 1968 in New York City in response to protests at Columbia University and city-wide antiwar and racial justice demonstrations.”
Not even a week ago, we noted, “Today, the Guild provides legal support and protest training for Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other left-wing street movements, teaching activists how to push confrontation to the legal edge without crossing into prosecutable domestic terrorism.”
It appears the White House has some understanding of why Good was blocking the street or impeding ICE agents, as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier that the Minneapolis ICE shooting “occurred as a result of a larger, sinister, left-wing movement that has spread across our country.”
MSM being MSM.
Meanwhile…
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