Notes today: 

• Pregnant woman says fetus should count as a passenger in the HOV lane. Says Texas can’t have it both ways. 

• Great News: Musk said he’s ending his $44 billion arrangement to acquire Twitter  and take it private. 

• The US economy added 372K jobs last month, well above market expectations of a 268K rise, while the jobless rate held steady as expected. 

• Consumer credit in the US increased by USD 22.35 billion in May - slowing significantly. Market expected 31.9 billion. 

• Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot on the campaign trail for Sunday’s upper house elections. 

• Narcissistic, dishonest Brexiteer Boris Johnson is soon-to-be former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. 

• Claims of the largest cyberattack (1 billion Chinese) in Chinese history have sparked an open debate about the extent to which Beijing hoovers up personal data and uses private firms to “safeguard” that trove. 

• Mexico’s had its debt rating cut by Moody’s to Baa2, putting it two steps above junk and on par with Uruguay and the Philippines. (7/7/2022 U.S. State Department issues new travel advisory impacting Tijuana, Rosarito and Baja California)