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Thursday Morning’s Top Stories Before The Opening Bell – Mike Swanson (08/22/2019)

US futures turn negative, pointing to slightly lower open – CNBC

Trump backtracks on tax cut claims as Fed officials say July rate cut was a ‘recalibration’ – Yahoo Finance

DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Gundlach says Federal Reserve has lost control – Reuters

Why This Jackson Hole Meeting Looks Like One of Best – Bloomberg

Surge in corporate debt with negative yields poses risk “unlike anything” investors have ever seen – CNBC

US has half a million fewer jobs than believed after big government revision – USA Today

Here’s what bitcoin’s relationship with the stock market and gold looks like over the past 90 days – Market Watch

Home-Builder Stocks Can Keep Rallying on Low Interest Rates, Analysts Say – Barrons

BHP hints at selling off energy coal business, again – Mining.com

Simply Good Foods to Buy Protein-Food Producer for $1 Billion – WSJ

Cost of spherical Vegas Strip venue put at $1.2 billion-plus – The Associated Press

Apple needs millions of TV+ subs – Cowen – SeekingAlpha

Walmart sues Tesla after solar panels catch fire at stores – Engadget

Bernie Sanders proposes $16.3 trillion Green New Deal plan – Reuters

Why Hong Kong protesters wave US and British flags – South China Morning Post

Army Says No Afghanistan Withdrawal Plans Yet – Defense One

Who are the members of Sudan’s new sovereign council? – Middle East Eye

Epstein may have gamed the system from beyond the grave – AP News

Trump swats at Danish prime minister for ‘nasty’ statement on Greenland – POLITICO

Trump Cites Newsmax, Wayne Root on Jews – Newsmax.com

Rick Perry, The Man In Charge Of American Nuclear Weapons, Fell For An Instagram Hoax – Buzzfeed News

Sean Spicer joins Dancing with the Stars – Washington Examiner

MLB warns players of dangers of ‘gas-station sexual-enhancement pills,’ report says – Sporting News

Robert De Niro Suing Former Employee For Binge-Watching 55 Episodes Of ‘Friends’ On Work Time – YourTango

Warren Buffett is Buying More Bank Stocks: Should You Too? – Yahoo Finance