Human Interest

In today's trifecta of after hours earnings results, all three behemoths representing different key parts of the US economy, stumbled after either missing expectations, or guiding lower.

First, it was Mondelez, which missed on the top and bottom line, reporting Q4 EPS of $0.47 below the $0.49 expected, on disappointing revenue of $6.77BN, below the $6.87BN expected. The company also missed on margin reporting Q4 adj. gross margin 39.0%, below the est. 40.1%. Some other details:

While reports are rolling in about Twitter censoring or curating President Trump's tweets (at least some of which Trump is aware of), outrage is building over increasingly Orwellian suspensions of conservatives - the latest being a 2 week old account which was apparently way too honest about Social Justice Warriors (activist idiots). "He He Silly Comics" (@sillyfunnycomic) set up shop over at Twitter on January 20th and began tweeting hilarious comics which immediately began picking up steam.

Here are a few examples:

The Simpsons seem to have an uncanny knack of predicting future events. They have made several  predictions in the past including the 9/11 attacks, an Ebola outbreak, and a Syrian war…they even predicted a Donald Trump Presidency back in 2000. Well it looks like they’ve done it again…. In May 2012 the Simpsons appear to have predicted that Lady Gaga would perform at the Super Bowl’s halftime show and even showed the singer floating from the stadium roof in a harness.

In a striking announcement by John Bercow, the speaker of the British House of Commons, Donald Trump is to be barred from giving a historic address in Westminster Hall, the British Parliament's grandest and most prestigious hall.

Bercow announced he would not give the US President permission to speak in the 11th Century Westminster Hall when he makes a state visit. John Bercow slammed Trump for "racism and sexism", his undermining of judges and his migrant ban. Bercow's intervention is unusual because Speakers are expected to remain above Parliament's partisan fray.