These Were The Best And Worst Performing Assets Of June, Q2 And The First Half
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It may have been a soggy start to July, the second half and the third quarter, but at least memories are still fresh of the euphoria blowout that was Q2. So let's take a look at the quarter that was before the market rollercoaster makes it all a blur.
Here are the highlights, courtesy of Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid
FBI Denies Report Claiming 3 Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes Were Fake: Some May Be ‘Legitimate’
An FBI spokesperson is shutting down a viral report claiming that three ransom notes pertaining to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom, Nancy Guthrie, are fake.
“The FBI and its task force partners have received several ransom notes over the course of this investigation. Some have been deemed to be extortion attempts without legitimacy,” an official statement from FBI Phoenix shared via X on Wednesday, July 1, reads in part. “Other ransom demands may potentially be legitimate and are still being investigated as such.”
The statement continued, “This case continues to be investigated as a kidnapping for ransom case. The FBI has and will continue to offer all assistance possible in the investigation — however local authorities remain the lead.”
FBI Phoenix pushed back on the Tuesday, June 30, Reuters report claiming investigators believe three notes sent to TMZ and local media outlets had no real connection to Nancy, 84, going missing.
Related: Savannah Guthrie Gets Emotional After Ransom Note Claims Mom Nancy Is Dead
Today show host Savannah Guthrie got emotional while pleading with viewers on Tuesday, June 23, after reports emerged that her missing mom, Nancy Guthrie, may be dead. “I love you guys, and I love this place, and this is unusual and unprecedented, to say the least, to be sitting here.” Savannah, 54, told her cohosts […]The report cited an anonymous FBI source, claiming two ransom notes reported in early February, and a more recent third message from someone claiming to know the kidnappers’ identities, were all proven to be counterfeit.
“None of the ransom notes are believed to be genuine,” the official alleged to Reuters. (The second ransom note allegedly stated that Nancy was “buried in nature” following her supposed death, reporter Briana Whitney exclusively told Us Weekly in June.)
After reviewing the first and second ransom notes, Whitney told Us that the second note’s “verbiage” caught her eye.
Related: Reporter Details 'Red Flags' in Alleged Ransom for Savannah Guthrie's Mom
New details are emerging about an alleged ransom note received in the case for Savannah Guthrie‘s missing mother, Nancy Guthrie. During an appearance on CNN on Wednesday, February 4, Mary Coleman, an anchor for Arizona’s KOLD 13 News, described the alleged note sent via email, claiming it was “clear after a couple sentences” that it […]“I thought it was interesting that the term ‘we’ was used, and that it could be somebody trying to fool people that it’s more than one person,” the journalist told Us. “But that’s how it was written. It [was] kind of offbeat and odd … not a way that we would typically write something. That stuck out.”
In yet another update on Wednesday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department released their own statement, noting “every tip and lead is taken seriously and is forwarded directly to our detectives, who continue to work in coordination with the FBI.” They added, “Any questions regarding alleged ransom notes should be directed to the FBI.”
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Security footage from her doorbell camera showed a masked figure wearing a black Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack approaching her door on the night she is believed to have vanished. Authorities described the suspect as a “male, approximately 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build.”
Ever since Nancy’s disappearance, Today show host Savannah, 54, as well as her sister, Annie Guthrie, and brother, Camron Guthrie, have pleaded for their mother’s safe return.
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CCJ report: U.S. murder rate drops 21%, on track for lowest level in modern records
OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
4:59 PM – Wednesday, July 1, 2026
The United States murder rate has plummeted to what experts project is its lowest level since at least 1900.
According to an extensive annual crime trends report released by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ), homicides nationwide have fully reversed their staggering pandemic-era spikes.
Data analyzing major American municipalities suggest that murders plummeted by roughly 21% from 2024 to 2025, marking the single-largest one-year percentage drop recorded in modern U.S. history.
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Breakdown of Murder Stats
Although the CCJ report states that the projected 2025 rate of ~4.0 per 100,000 would be “the lowest rate ever recorded in law enforcement or public health data going back to 1900,” FBI data (uniform crime reports) provides the most commonly cited modern national homicide/murder statistics, and reliable, standardized national FBI estimates begin around 1960.
The previous modern low was 4.4 – 4.7 in 2014, and similar levels in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Pre-1960 data, going back to 1900, comes primarily from public health records.
These are not as complete or nationally representative as later FBI data — as early 20th-century coverage was limited to certain states and had underreporting issues. Adjusted historical estimates often put early 1900s rates higher than the raw reported figures, which sometimes looked artificially low.
Critics of the report have called the phrasing misleading since FBI’s consistent apples-to-apples national tracking starts later, and the true modern-era lows are in the 1950s–60s and 2014.
LOWEST murder rate since 1960!
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 30, 2026
This is what happens when you let the world’s best cops DO THEIR JOB!
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I don’t care what people think about me, but the RESULTS at this FBI under President Trump speak for themselves.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 30, 2026
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“The United States almost certainly had the lowest murder rate ever recorded in 2025, with the FBI having data back to 1960,” stated crime data analyst Jeff Asher. “And the available evidence suggests that we’re going to go even lower this year.”
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CCJ Report
The massive drop in lethal violence is part of a sweeping, broad-based decline across nearly every category of criminal offense. Alongside the historic drop in homicides, the CCJ data revealed that 11 of 13 tracked crimes fell significantly over the same period.
Gun assaults dropped by 22%, robberies declined by 23%, and carjackings fell by an astonishing 43%.
Criminologists note that the data signals a complete deflation of the sudden, chaotic crime wave that gripped the country between 2020 and 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted social institutions and pushed the national murder rate to a modern high of 6.8 per 100,000. The year 2020 also saw a significant surge in civil unrest, marked by widespread protests and outbreaks of violence tied to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
Nonetheless, public safety officials who previously feared that the country had settled into a permanently violent “new normal” are now looking at unprecedented peace across major hubs, with cities like Richmond seeing a 59% drop, Los Angeles down 39%, and Atlanta recording fewer than 100 homicides for the first time since before the pandemic.
While politicians across the ideological spectrum have been quick to claim credit for the positive shift, CCJ researchers argue that the record-low numbers are driven by a “complex, multifactorial web of social recovery and focused intervention” rather than a single policy.
While the drop to a 125-year low is a major achievement for public safety, crime data analysts remind the public that a rate of 4.0 per 100,000 residents still equates to roughly 13,000 to 14,000 preventable American deaths per year.
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