NewsWare’s Trade Talk: Monday, October 21

S&P Futures are moving lower this morning as the market prepares for a host of earnings announcements this week. China’s PBOC lowered two of its short-term lending rates this morning. Shares of Boeing are higher this morning as a deal to end the months-long strike is said to have been reached. Merger talks between Humana and Cigna are said to have restarted. Starboard appears to have taken a stake in KVUE. Tuesday morning earnings announcements are schedule for GE, GM, MMM, MCO, LMT, RTX, TXN, & VZ. In Europe, markets are lower with banks and insurance stocks moving lower. Oil prices are higher by more the +1.50% this morning.

China to offer subsidy to families for having more children: report

“China’s Communist Party chose brutal coercion, with damaging consequences that are likely to persist for the foreseeable future.”

Zelensky vows to get nuclear weapons if Ukraine not invited to join NATO

“What way out do we have? Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, or we have to be in some kind of alliance.”

JK Rowling would reject peerage if offered for a third time—says she turned it down twice before

Harry Potter author JK Rowling says that she turned down two offers of a peerage after comments by a Conservative MP stating that she would appoint her to the House of Lords.

UK court convicts veteran for praying near abortion clinic

Adam Smith-Connor, a father of 2 and a British army veteran who served in Afghanistan, had lost a son to abortion many years prior to when he bowed his head and unassumingly prayed near the abortion clinic.

Drone hits Netanyahu’s home after Israel kills Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar: ‘This will not deter me’

The IDF confirmed that the drone, which originated from Lebanon, hit an undisclosed building on the property but caused no reported casualties

CHRISSY CLARK: NY voter registration group led by convicted voter fraudster gives away Taylor Swift concert tickets to get young people to polls

Civic Innovation Works’ leader Tate Hausman is a political operative with ties to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Hausman was notably convicted of voter fraud in 2009 for falsifying absentee ballots.

Philippine police on manhunt for gang of armed men who allegedly kidnapped an American YouTuber from a remote village

Police identified the victim, who was shot in the leg by the armed gang dressed in all black and whisked away in a speedboat, as 26-year-old Elliot Onil Eastman from Vermont.

JACK POSOBIEC: ‘Bully the vote’

“President Trump isn’t running against Kamala Harris. He’s running against a regime. He’s running against the elites, and that’s why all of us need to be hard-nosed and steely-eyed.”