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• ☕️What Else is Brewing Thursday Morning
  We want to wish our Jewish readers a very Happy Hanukkah. The holiday begins tonight and lasts for eight...
  We want to wish our Jewish readers a very Happy Hanukkah. The holiday begins tonight and lasts for eight days. Arriving during a global spike in antisemitic rhetoric and attacks, Hanukkah’s message of finding light in times of darkness has taken on greater resonance this year.
  
  Three people were killed in a shooting on UNLV’s campus. Police said the shooter was also dead.
  
  Republican senators blocked a bill for more than $66 billion in aid for Ukraine, insisting that US border security measures be added even as the president warned that the US will have to stop providing weapons if new funds aren’t approved by the end of the year.
  
  GOP presidential hopefuls Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Vivek Ramaswamy sparred at a debate last night, but front-runner Donald Trump once again did not participate.
  
  Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg were slapped with a civil lawsuit by the state of New Mexico that claims Facebook and Instagram have become “a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom to prey.”
  
  McDonald’s is going big on more than Grimace Shakes. The burger chain is planning a massive expansion over the next four years, with almost 10,000 new locations. It’s also testing out a new alien-themed restaurant concept.
  
  Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the US into WWII.
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• Closing Oil & Gas Prices
  Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery...
  Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery fell $2.94 to $69.38 per barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for February delivery fell $2.90 to $74.30 per barrel.
  
  Wholesale gasoline for January delivery fell 8 cents to $2.03 a gallon. January heating oil fell 6 cents to $2.58 a gallon. January natural gas fell 14 cents to $2.57 per 1,000 cubic feet.
  
  
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• Las Vegas police say suspect is dead after campus shooting at UNLV
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police said a suspect was found dead Wednesday as officers responded to what...
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police said a suspect was found dead Wednesday as officers responded to what officials of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, called a “confirmed active shooter” on campus.
  
  The university said on Twitter [Now X], that the shooter was at the Beam Hall, Frank and Estella Building, home of UNLV’s Lee Business School, and that police were responding to an additional report of shots fired at the nearby student union.
  
  Las Vegas police posted on X that a suspect “has been located and is deceased” about 40 minutes after the initial alert was posted.
  
  “This is not a test,” the university had written in that alert. “RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.”
  
  The shooting occurred in a city still scarred by one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay casino and hotel in Las Vegas, in which 60 were killed and hundreds more wounded.
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• U.S. stocks finish lower as S&P 500, Dow industrials suffer three straight sessions of declines
  U.S. stock indexes ended lower on Wednesday,...
  U.S. stock indexes ended lower on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 SPX, -0.39%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA booking a third straight session of losses as investors awaited more labor-market data for clarity about the state of the economy. The Dow industrials fell 70 points, or 0.2%, to end at 36,054, while the S&P 500 finished 0.4% lower and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.58% retreated 0.6%. U.S. businesses added 103,000 new jobs in November, paycheck company ADP said on Wednesday, in another sign of slower hiring and a softer labor market. Investors will monitor jobless claims numbers on Thursday morning before contemplating the widely followed official data on nonfarm payrolls, wages, and the unemployment rate, due out Friday 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.
  
  
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• Energy Sector Commentary
  The energy sector is off to a lower start, pressured by weakness...

  The energy sector is off to a lower start, pressured by weakness in the crude complex. Meanwhile, the major equity futures are edging higher and treasury yields are lower as investors cheer falling labor costs.  In sector news, JP Morgan issued several rating changes across its E&P coverage universe. At the same time, ExxonMobil updated its corporate plan outlook, upping its buyback program to $20 billion in stock for 2024, and updating 2024 capex to $23 billion to $25 billion versus the 2023 budget of $23 billion.

  
  

  WTI and Brent crude oil futures are extending losses for the fifth consecutive session as market participants do not expect recent voluntary cuts to have a major impact on oil prices, amid a weakening demand outlook. Concerns over China's economic health following yesterday’s credit rating decrease by Moody’s also weighed on prices. Traders will now turn to inventory data due later today after digesting last night’s API print, which showed a build of 594K barrels and greatly differs from Reuter’s 1.4-million-barrel draw estimate.

  
  

  This morning, natural gas futures are higher as analysts expect a large-than-average decline in storage levels. Consensus is looking for a draw of (104) Bcf vs the 5-yr average of (48) Bcf.

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