Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik fed information to his friend John Podesta while helping the FBI in the congressional investigation of Hillary Clinton, according to newly leaked emails from WikiLeaks. With just days to go before the U.S. presidential elections, WikiLeaks released batch number 26 of the #PodestaEmails.

If the S&P 500 ends the day lower today, it will mark seven straight days of declines. This 'event' has only occurred three other times in the last 20 years... and each coincided with a major financial crisis...

"It's different this time"

Recall that in the days leading to the Brexit vote, one of the most closely followed indicators of public sentiment was online bookmaker betting, where in a curious split, the majority of smaller wages was for Brexit, however the total amount better was skewed by a handful of far bigger bets on "remain." However, when it comes to Trump, there appears to be confusion - or interference - at least in the last several days.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who promised last week to stop cursing after a personal chat with god, once again slammed the United States on Wednesday for halting the planned sale of 26,000 rifles to his country, calling those behind the decision "fools" and "monkeys" and indicating he might turn to Russia and China instead. Duterte's tirades against the US have become a virtiually daily event, and on Wednesday he said that he once believed in Washington, but had since lost respect for what is the Philippines' biggest ally, Reuters reported.

Well that escalated quickly... again...

Hope? Nope!

And bonds & bullion continue to strengthen...