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This is wild. Free chips and salsa could be the next casualty of the trade war, per KERA News. Trump slapped a 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes, which supply about 90% of U.S. tomato imports. Then bad weather hit, and tomato prices spiked to a 20-year high, around $80 a box. Some stores stopped carrying tomatoes altogether. Now restaurants are saying they can't afford to put salsa on the table anymore. Some Texas spots already charge up to $5.25 a basket, per Texas Monthly. Free chips and salsa could become the next casualty of the trade war, per KERA News. Read more: https://t.co/dwmfJxfB15

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BREAKING: Trump now says his $5,000 "Trump Dividend" would go to every U.S. citizen if Republicans win the midterms. On September 9, he promised it to "every adult citizen." With 316 million citizens, that is $1.58 trillion. "If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000," Trump told the convention, describing the payments as working "very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders." Read more: https://t.co/FaZEfK4kWq

JUST IN: US President Trump has just said he will do a $5000 “Trump Dividend” to every US citizen including children rather than just US adults if Republicans win the midterms "If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000," Trump told the convention, describing the payments as working "very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders." Read more: https://t.co/FaZEfK4kWq

GameStop, $GME, CEO Ryan Cohen has bought $17 million in stock https://t.co/3Lz6dma4hK

"The bond markets are functioning in an orderly manner," the IMF has said.

The European Union and Canada plan to build new undersea cables and increase fuel shipments as part of an “Alliance for the Future” to counterbalance the US and China, per Bloomberg

JUST IN: Trump says: No diesel export ban being considered

Michael Burry is leading a group seeking to block the construction of 25 homes uphill from where he lives in a tony Silicon Valley town, per Bloomberg

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This is unusual. Trump says "certain levels of inflation" will pay off the $40 trillion debt "very rapidly." He has blamed Biden for "the biggest inflation in history" and said prices are "coming down rapidly." CPI and PCE are both at 3.4% now, well above the Fed's 2% target. President Donald Trump told TIME in an interview published that "certain levels of inflation will also pay off that debt very rapidly," referring to the roughly $40 trillion national debt. Read more: https://t.co/TxF2fCnVT2

Wow. Tesla, $TSLA, is up about 5% today after Q3 deliveries hit 486,532, beating estimates of 461,974. SpaceX, $SPCX, is up more than 6%, days after Starship reached orbit for the first time. Together, they're worth more than $3 trillion. https://t.co/tBePS6Q2Ui Unusual Whales was created for you to track these moves. See all options content right on site. See more: https://t.co/AYaggpZ04T

BREAKING: The G7, which includes Britain, France, Japan and others, agreed to release diesel from reserve stockpiles to ease record-high prices driven mostly by the war in Iran.

BREAKING: DOJ said it is not reopening a criminal probe into Jerome Powell.

Trump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end" At night one of the first-ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, Trump unveiled his rebrand of the Democrats: the "Dumocrats." Read more: https://t.co/XRaX8aJt2T

Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, per WaPo

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1.93 million Americans have been jobless for 27+ weeks, which represents the 3rd-highest share since the Great Recession, per YF

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack, per the Atlantic Membership in the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union doubled after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and now stands at about 20,000, according to the report. Read more: https://t.co/Q69rxrmEch

The spread on the riskiest US corporate bonds has jumped above 1,000 basis points over Treasuries for the first time since the regional banking crisis in 2023, per Bloomberg.

Wow. Nike, $NKE, is down more than 6% today, hitting its lowest level since September 2013. It is down more than 55% in a year. It has lost roughly $60 billion in market cap. If you invested $1 in $NKE 5 years ago, it would now be worth about 23 cents. Yesterday, it missed revenue estimates and guided for sales to fall again this year. To get updates on all $NKE option content, subscribe to Unusual Whales. See more: https://t.co/cOITktBbk5

Technology remains strong. Recent large flows in the SPDR $XLK technology ETF have preceded this recent move Nearly $2M of the 195c 10/16 opened in the last couple of weeks The 200c saw similar flows, these totaling $1.3M Traders may be speculating on further upside going into the middle of the month, as the 205c had a trader (albeit much smaller) active recently as well

Look at this. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revised August job numbers down by 29,000, shifting the initial gain of 162,000 jobs down to 133,000. July was revised down by 31,000 (from +21,000 to a loss of -10,000), making a combined 60,000-job downward revision for the prior two months. Unusual.

BREAKING: Iran says it will respond to attacks by the US decisively, immediately, painfully and lethally The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the era of cost-free threats against Iran is over, warning that any act of aggression will be met with a 'painful and regret-inducing' response. Read more: https://t.co/GmBwCgSfeA

Elon Musk will advise the Pentagon on the future of war, per WaPo The group has 120 days to submit its findings, after which the Pentagon promises a full public rollout of the study. Read more: https://t.co/C8kxZPkE6g