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Monday Morning’s Top Stories Before The Opening Bell – Mike Swanson (08/12/2019)

10-year Treasury yield falls below 1.7% amid trade, global growth worries – CNBC

Trade war is raising the risk of U.S. recession, Goldman Sachs warns – MarketWatch

Tail Risk: Part 1, The Persistent Effects of the Great Recession – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Loius

Gold’s Path To $5,000: The ‘New Economic Reality’ – SeekingAlpha

The Global Week Ahead – Scotia Bank

Tesla Electric Car Explodes After Hitting Tow Truck in Moscow – Moscow Times

Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident – Bloomberg

Russia to Leapfrog Saudi in Wealth League as Oil Power Shifts – Yahoo Finance

A Supercomputer Will Help the US Air Force Predict the Weather – Defense One

Sprott to Acquire Tocqueville Gold Strategies – Global NewsWire

World’s No. 1 copper miner gets $300m from Canada – Mining.com

BlackRock takes stake in owner of Sports Illustrated, Juicy Couture, Nautica – Fox Business

Saudi Aramco to buy Reliance stake, reports 12% earnings slide –  Reuters

Hong Kong grounds all flights as protest paralyzes airport – CNN

Moscow riot cops drag away protesters as 50,000 strong crowd demand fair Russian elections outside Vladimir Putin’s offices – The Sun

Russia Demands Google Cease Sending YouTube Push Notifications for Protest Livestreams – Gizmodo

Lyubov Sobol: The woman driving Russia’s opposition protests – BBC

Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t checked on for hours before apparent suicide: report – Fox News

Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide makes no sense –  The Hill

Unsealed documents detail alleged Epstein victim’s recruitment at Mar-a-Lago – Politico

Barr asks inspector general to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s death – Axios

‘No Impropriety’ by Trump in Transfer of Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia, GOP Probe Concludes – Newsweek

Fort Detrick lab shut down after failed safety inspection; all research halted indefinitely – Frederick News Post

Saudi rallies around exiled Yemen leader after UAE-backed separatists seize Aden – Reuters

Amazon’s Alexa devices are being made by Chinese schoolchildren illegally working overtime – Business Insider

Flight attendant accused of being drunk on flight is arrested and fired – AOL

Frontier offering free flights to passengers named ‘Green’ or ‘Greene’ for Green Week – WZTV Fox

Plant based diet may reduce cardiovascular death risk by 32% – Medical News Today