1000 points of Dow swings, VIX manipulations, and desperate talking heads, and still red...

On the day, Nasdaq was red, S&P unch, Small Caps green...

The U.S. mainstream media excludes almost all reporting and analysis that challenges the neocon/liberal-interventionist “group think” about the supposed Russian threat, but once in awhile a backhand acknowledgement of reality slips through, as Gilbert Doctorow was surprised to find. By Gilbert Doctorow The newest issue of Foreign Affairs continues to show a significant drop-off of professionalism in…

The search for a former EastEnders actress and her two children, has led police to the discovery of three bodies in the back garden of the family’s home in southeast London. Sian Blake, 43, and her sons Zachary, 8, and Amon, 4, have been missing since 13 December. The Telegraph reports: Sian Blake – a motor neurone sufferer whose condition is said to be life-threatening – and four-year-old old Amon and Zachary, eight, have not been seen for more than three weeks.

Earlier we showed why, one day after JPM said that "the regime of buying the dips might be over and selling any rallies might be the new one", another major bank, this time Citigroup, said that after six years of outperformance, "fading EPS momentum and rising Fed funds mean that... we cut the US to Underweight."