Scientists studying the remains of a human-like species nicknamed the “hobbits“, say that they were not Home sapiens. The mysterious human-like species died out on the Indonesian island of Flores over 15,000 years ago.

With Turkey on the brink of going to war with Russia and, implicitly, Iran, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking for an excuse to invade Syria. 

The rebels Turkey and Saudi Arabia back are staging what amounts to a last stand at Aleppo and the Kurdish YPG is moving to cut the Azaz corridor, which would effectively mean that Turkey has no way of resupplying the insurgency.

For the past five days, Ankara has been shelling the YPG in a futile attempt to stop their advance. 

Just when it seemed that the Syria's proxy war would remain confined within the "comfortable" realm of conventional weaponry, moments ago Reuters gave the first hint of a potential, and radioactive escalation, when it reported that Iraq is searching for "highly dangerous" radioactive material stolen last year, according to an environment ministry document and seven security, environmental and provincial officials.

So let's get this straight. Russia and OPEC 'agree' to consider (not actually act upon) "freezing" production levels (at current record high levels) and the market plunges amid disappointment over no cuts. And today WTI spikes and erases all those losses as Iran supports the "freeze" plan but will not cut its own production plans...

As Reuters reports,

Tepper did it again.

Recall that exactly one year ago, we wrote about David Tepper's latest TV appearance on BBG TV, when we reported that "David Tepper Dumps 40% Of US Equity Exposure Despite Claiming "Stocks Inexpensive" in which we said the following: