DraftKings Crashes As “Aggressive Prediction Investments” Drive EBITDA Outlook Cut DraftKings shares crashed 24.5% in Friday’s premarket trading after the sports betting operator slashed the midpoint of its 2026 adjusted EBITDA forecast to $225 million from $800 million. The mad dash into prediction markets overshadowed a 16% year-over-year increase in third-quarter revenue to $1.33 billion.”In just a few months, we have become the […]

Voters In 8 States Approve Citizenship, Voter ID Measures For State Elections Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,Voters in eight states backed ballot measures that sought stricter election rules during Tuesday’s election, approving voter ID and U.S. citizenship requirements. Voters fill out their ballots at Scarborough High School in Scarborough, Maine, on Nov. 3, 2026. Scott Eisen/Getty Images In West Virginia, South […]

Burger Bloodbath Intensifies As Yet Another Major Franchisee Goes Bust Another fast-food franchisee has filed for bankruptcy, becoming the latest casualty of mounting financial pressures squeezing restaurant operators across the United States.Global Midsouth Holding Corp., a franchisee of Checkers and Rally’s, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 28, just one day before a scheduled foreclosure auction involving one […]

Trump Says US ‘Locked And Loaded’ For Renewed Strikes Against Iran Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),U.S. President Donald Trump said that Iran cannot do anything regarding its nuclear program without approval from Washington and that he would soon decide whether to resume renewed military operations against Tehran. President Donald Trump in New Jersey, on July 19, 2026. David Ramos/Getty Images Trump’s […]

US Jobs Soar By 165K Blowing Away Estimates; Unemployment Rate Drops Putting Dec Rate Hike Back In Play In our preview of the October jobs report, we said that the labor data has rarely looked this solid going into a monthly payrolls report: claims near 57-year lows, the lowest October layoffs since 2023, JOLTS openings up 333K and ADP above expectations. If anything, the risk is to the upside of the 63K consensus, and the […]

Nasdaq Futures Bounce As Dip-Buyers Pick Through AI Wreckage Ahead Of Payrolls US futures are higher, led by a sharp rebound in semis and memory names, as dip buyers emerge after Thursday’s AI bloodbath which saw the Nasdaq 100 suffer its worst day since March 2020, while traders brace for the October jobs report; at the same time the dollar is up against every G10 currency and oil reversed an early jump above $100 after Qatar’s […]

Firewood Stacked? Meteorologist Warns “First Legit” Cold Blast Of Season To Hit Mid-Atlantic & Northeast New model guidance suggests readers in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast had better have their firewood stacked, anthracite coal stockpiled, and heating oil and LP tanks filled to the brim, because the first proper intrusion of cold air into both regions could begin as soon as next week, with the possibility of lake-effect snow […]

Tesla To “Wind Down” Cybertruck Production At Gigafactory Texas “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production,” Elon Musk revealed on X early Friday morning. Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production— Elon […]

Trump, Qatar’s Emir Discuss Iran Peace Deal As Brent Suffers Biggest Weekly Drop Since COVID Crash Brent crude futures briefly tumbled to $96 a barrel before rebounding to $98.50 as diplomatic efforts to end the nine-month war with Iran progressed toward the end of the week. President Trump spoke with Qatar’s emir about Doha’s efforts to broker a peace deal between Washington and Tehran. The Democratic sweep in Tuesday’s midterms […]

Is Anthropic About To Delay The Biggest IPO Ever? Backers want a lower price, the November timetable is in doubt, and executives and advisers are set to meet to review the deal…Major institutional backers are pushing Anthropic to cut the $1.5 trillion valuation it had been targeting for its IPO, and one suggested pricing could fall closer to $1 trillion, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, after the Nasdaq Composite lost […]

Above-Average Returns: Why The Next Decade Differs Authored by Lance Roberts via Real Investment Advice,Sixteen years of above-average returns came mostly from rising valuations, and that is the one source that cannot be repeated from here.Key TakeawaysSince the end of 2009, the S&P 500 compounded at 14.34% a year, or 11.41% after inflation. The long-run real average since 1881 is 6.72%.Of that 11.41%, some 4.33 points a year […]

Investigation Exposes America’s Growing Cancer Crisis And Reveals Where It’s Worst A growing cancer crisis is gripping younger generations across the United States as increasing numbers of Americans in their 20s, 30s and 40s are being diagnosed with diseases once overwhelmingly associated with older adults, according to an analysis conducted by the Daily Mail.A 2025 National Cancer Institute study identified 14 types of cancer with […]

Butane’s Perfect Storm Sends Prices To Decade Highs Authored by Natalia Katona via OilPrice,Butane prices are surging across the world. Northwest European November butane prices have reached $1,125/t by early November, their highest level in 30 years, having exceeded even the peaks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In Asia, the AFEI butane index stood at $1,180/t on November 3. US butane Belvieu prices have climbed to a […]

Democrats Spent Year Demanding Data Center Moratoriums. They Own The Narrative. Will They Own The Fallout? Thursday’s selloff in hyperscaler and neocloud stocks deepened as investors reassessed the mounting risks that the Democratic sweep in the US midterms poses to the AI infrastructure boom. By midday in New York, the Nasdaq was down more than 5%, while Morgan Stanley’s neocloud index had plunged 12%, reflecting concerns that […]

France’s Debt Crisis Could Trigger A Much Bigger European Meltdown Authored by Alastair Paynter via OilPrice,A budget deficit of 5.1% and public debt exceeding 115% of GDP raise concerns about France’s fiscal sustainability and the eurozone’s resilience.Industrial decline, energy disruptions, political instability and growing nationalist movements are putting pressure on EU cohesion.France’s presidential election, Poland’s political […]

China’s New ‘AutoDNA’ AI Lab Needs Humans For Just Two Chores Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have built a laboratory in which a team of AI agents designs and runs DNA experiments from a single typed prompt, with people stepping in only to restock reagents and service the hardware, according to a paper published this week in Nature. Robots run this laboratory in Japan — and are changing how scientists work  | […]

Ukraine’s Azov Brigade Admits Holding AWOL Soldiers At Residential House Amid Torture Allegations Authored by John Weeks via Antiwar.com,A riot erupted Monday night outside a residential house in Ukraine’s Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, a suburb approximately 12 miles west of Kyiv, after social media posts claimed the military was torturing conscripts in the basement and that medics were being denied access to the […]

Is Russia Rehearsing An Attack In Orbit? Two Russian satellites are drifting toward the orbit of a second US-registered radar satellite run by Finland’s ICEYE, weeks after a sibling spacecraft closed to within about 500 meters of the first, and one analyst says that earlier pass “looks like an attack rehearsal.”Greg Gillinger, a senior space analyst at Integrity ISR and a former US Air Force intelligence officer who has tracked the […]

Nearly Half Of Poles Demand PM Tusk’s Resignation After Dramatic Takeover Of Constitutional Court Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix News,Nearly half of Poles believe Prime Minister Donald Tusk should step down, according to the first poll released after his dramatic takeover of the Constitutional Tribunal, which involved riot police seizing the building. Another poll also shows that if elections were held now, his party would […]

San Francisco Snubs Pelosi’s Pick For A Radical With Creepy Legislative Record San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan (D-CA) conceded the race for the city’s open congressional seat to state Sen. Scott Wiener on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, handing the seat Rep. Nancy Pelosi held for decades to the candidate she did not endorse. Pelosi, the former House speaker, backed Chan and campaigned for her in the closing stretch of the race. Chan […]

Arab-Led Parties To Back Eisenkot To Form Israel’s Next Government via Middle East EyeThe Arab-led Joint List has said it will back Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to form a new government, dealing a heavy blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to remain in power.The Joint List announced on Thursday that it would “recommend that Gadi Eisenkot be tasked with forming the government”, bringing the total number of […]

Exclusive Sperm Donor Access For IVF Can Now Cost Up To $70,000 Sperm banks and donor-matching services are expanding premium options for patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), offering greater control over donor selection, identity disclosure and the number of families permitted to use sperm from the same donor. These services are increasingly available to single women, same-sex couples and couples experiencing male […]

Pentagon Delivers 25,000+ Drones And Counter-Drone Systems To CENTCOM In A “Massive Surge” Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times,The U.S. Department of War announced on Wednesday that a “massive surge” of over 25,000 drone and counter-drone systems were delivered to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) this year. A member of the U.S. military carries an Anduril Ghost-X drone during Falcon Peak, an exercise to test anti-drone […]

Newsom Wipes Out 548 ‘Racist, Inhumane’ Death Sentences With One Letter California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday he will commute every death sentence in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole, wiping out the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere with 548 people on it, 529 men and 19 women, according to ABC7.In a letter he shared with the announcement, Newsom said he was using his “constitutional […]

Congress Demands Closed-Door Briefing With Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Over His Alleged Chinese Spy Contact Three House Republican committee chairs have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to sit for a closed-door briefing on Nov. 18 about his dealings with Alice Huang, the Megaspeed executive they describe in a Nov. 5 release as a publicly reported Chinese intelligence asset.Chairmen @RepBrianMast, @RepMoolenaar and @RepRickCrawford sent a […]