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Strong Indian Purchases Push Asia's Crude Imports To One-Year High
02.06.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Strong Indian Purchases Push Asia's Crude Imports To One-Year High Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Record-high crude imports in India have pushed Asia’s oil arrivals in May to the highest level in a year, per data compiled by LSEG Oil Research and cited by Reuters columnist Clyde Russell. Asia, the key crude oil importing region...
"A Full-Scale War Isn't A Foregone Conclusion", Warns Russian Think Tank Head
01.06.2024, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "A Full-Scale War Isn't A Foregone Conclusion", Warns Russian Think Tank Head Ahead of the "Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era" conference in Moscow on Thursday, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Director General Ivan Timofeev told Russian state-owned news agency Tass about the increasing likelihood of a full-scale war between...
Gain-of-Function May Explain Bird Flu Jump To Cows And Humans
31.05.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gain-of-Function May Explain Bird Flu Jump To Cows And Humans Authored by Yuhong Dong, M.D., Ph.D. and Xiaoxu Sean Lin, M.D., Ph.D. via The Epoch Times, (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock) In the past six months, bird flu has surprised scientists at least twice. Bird flu viruses have circulated mainly in birds for a long time. However...
Futures Dip On Disappointing Tech Results As Markets Brush Off Trump Verdict
31.05.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Dip On Disappointing Tech Results As Markets Brush Off Trump Verdict Futs are slightly lower as bond yields rise after European inflation prints came in stronger than expected and PCE looms. As of 7:30am S&P futures are down -0.2%, off the worst levels of the session; Nasdaq futures slumped 0.5% as last night’s latest round of tech earnings...
The State Of World Hunger
31.05.2024, 09:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The State Of World Hunger At least 735 million people were affected by hunger in 2022, according to the most recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). And as Statista's Martin Armstrong reports, nowhere does the problem have a larger scale than on the African continent. According to FAO, about 61 percent...
The Improvement Of Russian-Taliban Ties Opens Up New Opportunities For India
31.05.2024, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Improvement Of Russian-Taliban Ties Opens Up New Opportunities For India Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russia is poised to strategically partner with the Taliban upon the impending removal of its domestic terrorist designation, which will in turn revolutionize bilateral relations with Afghanistan. Readers can learn more about each complementary...
Chinese National Arrested For Allegedly Operating "World's Largest Botnet"
30.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese National Arrested For Allegedly Operating "World's Largest Botnet" Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, A Chinese national has been arrested for allegedly running a botnet of 19 million infected IP addresses in nearly 200 countries, amassing at least $99 million by leasing his network to criminals for cybercrimes including COVID-19 pandemic...
Futures, Rates Drop As Salesforce Implosion Sours Mood
30.05.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Rates Drop As Salesforce Implosion Sours Mood US equity futures are weaker despite lower bond yields, breaking away from this week’s narrative of Equity/Yields negative correlation, after Salesforce plunged 15% due to disappointing guidance. Small-caps are poised to outperform but have failed to hold gains this week. As of 7:45am, S&P futures...
Supply Shock: Shipping Container Costs Top $10,000 Amid Red Sea Turmoil Thinning Global Capacity
30.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supply Shock: Shipping Container Costs Top $10,000 Amid Red Sea Turmoil Thinning Global Capacity A more conventional supply shock is underway - nowhere near the nuclear-level hit by government-enforced lockdowns several years ago. The Israel-Hamas war has led to Iran-backed Houthis freezing the critical maritime chokepoint of the Bab al-Mandab...
American Globalism Versus 'America First'
30.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - American Globalism Versus 'America First' Authored by Francis P. Sempa via RealClearDefense, Hal Brands, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has laid out in an essay in Foreign Affairs the key differences between what he rightly calls “American Globalism”...
Negotiations For The Global Pandemic Treaty Have Broken Down, But Fearmongering Of What Is Coming Next May Revive Them
29.05.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Negotiations For The Global Pandemic Treaty Have Broken Down, But Fearmongering Of What Is Coming Next May Revive Them Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, The World Health Organization was hoping that there would be a vote on the global pandemic treaty at the World Health Assembly at the end of this month, but now that is not going...
Futures Slide As Bond Yields Spike To 3 Week High
29.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide As Bond Yields Spike To 3 Week High US futures are weaker with tech and small caps underperforming after the NDX made a new ATH yesterday on the back of the relentless Nvidia meltup. The weakness has been driven by surge in yields, a result of the latest batch of hawkish Fed remarks, two very weak bond auctions and stronger macro data...
How The War Redirected Ukraine's Grain Exports
29.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How The War Redirected Ukraine's Grain Exports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the temporary blockage of its Black Sea ports have redirected the flow of grain from "the world's breadbasket". One of the world’s leading producers of wheat, corn and vegetable oils, Ukraine shipped much of its grain internationally prior to the war, with seven of...
Is Russia Preparing To Strategically Partner With The Taliban?
29.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Russia Preparing To Strategically Partner With The Taliban? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Taliban remain international outcasts due to their refusal to implement a truly ethno-politically inclusive government per their prior promises as well as their treatment of women. Although no tangible progress has been made on either of those...
Co-Founder Of China's SenseTime Says AI Development Gap With US Is Closing
29.05.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Co-Founder Of China's SenseTime Says AI Development Gap With US Is Closing The idea that China will collapse after decades of supergrowth, despite its current challenges with a real estate crisis and a demographic winter, is ridiculous, as the most significant risk to America's big tech empire is the potential failure of US sanctions containing Chinese...
Rep McCaul Leads US Delegation To Taiwan After Major Chinese Military Drills
28.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rep McCaul Leads US Delegation To Taiwan After Major Chinese Military Drills Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Rep. Michael McCaul, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation in Taiwan, a trip that came after China concluded two days of major drills around the island that it launched in response...
Today Markets Switch To "T+1" Settlement: Here's All You Need To Know
28.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Today Markets Switch To "T+1" Settlement: Here's All You Need To Know In a witty turn of the phrase, Bloomberg writes today that "the US stock market is finally as fast as it was about a hundred years ago" and it's true: it's been about one century since share trades in New York settled in a single day, as they will from Tuesday under new SEC rules...
Planes, Grains, & Automobiles... And 'Coinz'
28.05.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Planes, Grains, & Automobiles... And 'Coinz' By Michael Every of Rabobank Planes, Grains, & Automobiles - and 'Coinz' ECB Chief Economist Lane yesterday backed the view a June rate cut is in the bag and even implied July might be too. He pointed out that the majority of EU inflation was due to an energy supply shock now fading: which would be why European...
Futures Rise On Apple China Sales Rebound As Attention Turns Back To Inflation
28.05.2024, 14:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise On Apple China Sales Rebound As Attention Turns Back To Inflation Stocks traded in a narrow range as markets reopened in the US and Europe with investors putting (a stronger than expected) Q1 earnings season in the history books, and looking to Friday's core PCE print prints and central bank speakers for hints on the timing of interest-rate...
Visualizing Daily Protein Sources By Region
27.05.2024, 10:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing Daily Protein Sources By Region Protein plays a vital role in creating and maintaining every cell in our bodies. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu, breaks down how people in different regions of the world get their protein intake. The figures come from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO), accessed via Our World...
Obnoxious Weeds Team Up To Fight Cancer–New Review
27.05.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Obnoxious Weeds Team Up To Fight Cancer–New Review Authored by Alexandra Roach via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Recently, I gave a presentation about edible plants at my local library. Kitchen herbs, in fact, that double as medicinals, which people can easily grow in their gardens or on window sills. While preparing my presentation, I was reminded...
Would Returning To The Gold Standard Resolve Our Most Pressing Monetary Problems?
26.05.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Would Returning To The Gold Standard Resolve Our Most Pressing Monetary Problems? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We all know the problem with fiat currency: the temptation to print more currency is irresistible, but ultimately destructive. Money in all its forms attracts quasi-religious beliefs and convictions. This makes it difficult...
Iran, China, India, Pakistan And Turkey: Military-Aged Men Making Global Run For Biden's Open Border
23.05.2024, 20:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran, China, India, Pakistan And Turkey: Military-Aged Men Making Global Run For Biden's Open Border With migrants now rushing to cross into the United States in case Trump wins the November election, Fox News' Bill Melugin brings us disturbing footage from Jacumba, California - where he interviewed a group of military-aged men hailing from various...
Political Shellshocks Loom For Markets
23.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Political Shellshocks Loom For Markets By Michael Every of Rabobank Shellshock Yesterday, the RBNZ held hawkishly and talked about a rate hike, with no cuts seen until end-2025. The UK’s inflation numbers were awful both headline and core, with services CPI at around 6%: yet the BOE evidently wants to cut rates as soon as it can. Then the Fed minutes...
S&P To Open At All-Time High After Blowout Nvidia Earnings Spike Global Markets
23.05.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P To Open At All-Time High After Blowout Nvidia Earnings Spike Global Markets Global markets rallied and US equity futures are sharply higher, poised to push the S&P to a new all time high, after blowout earnings from Nvidia reassured investors that the global artificial-intelligence juggernaut will keep powering equity markets. As of 7:30am, S&P...
JPM Predicts Global AI Data Centers Will Consume 681 Olympic-Sized Pools Of Fresh Water Daily
23.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPM Predicts Global AI Data Centers Will Consume 681 Olympic-Sized Pools Of Fresh Water Daily Wall Street banks are in a frenzy over "The Next AI Trade," piling into the 'Powering up America' investment themes, whether that's power grid companies, commodities, such as copper, gold, silver, and uranium, and artificial intelligence chipmakers, to...
Futures Drop, Yields Jump On Red-Hot UK Inflation, Nvidia Earnings On Deck
22.05.2024, 13:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop, Yields Jump On Red-Hot UK Inflation, Nvidia Earnings On Deck US futures are lower on Nvidia day; with the stock down 56bps in premarket trading, while Mag7 and semis are also all lower pre-mkt. As of 7:20am, S&P futures are down 0.1%, just off session lows amid signs of sticky inflation that dampened bets on early interest-rate cuts; Nasdaq...
During 'War Drill', Greek Navy Chases Russian Tankers Out Of Oil Transfer Hotspot
21.05.2024, 20:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - During 'War Drill', Greek Navy Chases Russian Tankers Out Of Oil Transfer Hotspot The Greek Navy has established a temporary obstacle in the Laconian Gulf, approximately 110 miles southwest of Athens, to disrupt a 'floating oil base' used by Russian tankers for ship-to-ship transfers of crude oil and related products. These products are then loaded...
ASML Chip Machines In Taiwan Have 'Kill Switch' In Event Of Chinese Invasion
21.05.2024, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ASML Chip Machines In Taiwan Have 'Kill Switch' In Event Of Chinese Invasion The US faces one of the worst geopolitical climates since the end of World War II. As the war rages on in Eastern Europe and conflict risks broadening across the Middle East, there are mounting concerns the People's Republic of China could invade Taiwan by the end of the decade...
Russia & Afghanistan Plan To Build Logistics Center For Oil Transit To South Asia
20.05.2024, 22:22 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Afghanistan’s acting Industry and Trade Minister Nooruddin Azizi told Reuters that Russia and Afghanistan plan to build a logistics center for oil transit to South Asia, involving Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, in its northwestern Herat province. Because of tensions with the West, it may be judged strategically unreliable to continue maritime exports...
Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers
20.05.2024, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers After last week's non-stop rollercoaster, it will be a quieter week ahead for global macro with perhaps the most interesting event of the week being Nvidia's earnings on Wednesday. The company always reports a couple of weeks after the main stretch of US earnings season...
Futures Rise, Commodities Soar After Iran's President Dies In Helicopter Crash
20.05.2024, 13:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Commodities Soar After Iran's President Dies In Helicopter Crash Futures are higher across the board as investors shift their focus from macro to micro, following a rollercoaster week that saw stocks slide then reverse higher after a soggy CPI and retail sales print, to close at an all time high and the Dow above 40,000. AI is in focus...
Analyzing The Strategic Importance Of Russia's Reportedly Planned Afghan Oil Hub
20.05.2024, 12:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Analyzing The Strategic Importance Of Russia's Reportedly Planned Afghan Oil Hub Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Continued maritime exports to the Indian Ocean Region across the Baltic, Black, and Mediterranean Seas might be deemed strategically undependable due to tensions with the West, hence the need to pioneer a more reliable alternative...
America's Competitors Think That The Window Of Opportunity Is Now Open To Divide The World
20.05.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Competitors Think That The Window Of Opportunity Is Now Open To Divide The World By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “The United States still thinks in terms of the Cold War and is guided by the logic of bloc confrontation, putting the security of ‘narrow groups’ above regional security and stability, which creates a security...
Fears Mount Of Undersea Cable Sabotage By Chinese Repair Ships, Report Says
19.05.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fears Mount Of Undersea Cable Sabotage By Chinese Repair Ships, Report Says State Department officials told a team of Wall Street Journal reporters about the increasing risks that undersea telecommunications cables could be susceptible to espionage. The officials became concerned when a state-controlled Chinese firm that repairs undersea cables...
White House Reacts To Ultra-Rare Putin-Xi Hug During Visit Highlighting Closer Military Ties
18.05.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White House Reacts To Ultra-Rare Putin-Xi Hug During Visit Highlighting Closer Military Ties The Biden administration has reacted to what might be called the hug heard around the world (or 'felt' perhaps). During the last day of Russian President Vladimir Putin's two-day visit to China where he met with President Xi Jinping, the two shared an ultra-rare...
Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week
17.05.2024, 12:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week US equity futures are flat to end a torrid week which saw all indexes hit a fresh all-time high while the terminally anachronistic Dow Jones briefly topped 40,000. Pre-market, MegaCap Tech are mixed: AMZN +20bp, MSFT +20bp, META -22bp, GOOGL -18bp. WMT is down 27bps pre-mkt, after its +7.0% rally post-earnings...
Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move
16.05.2024, 13:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move US index futures are flat after notching new record highs on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, spurred on by a miss in the US CPI print and retail sales data on Wednesday, which also boosted bets the Federal Reserve will ease policy. That inflation data, which the market was feverishly anticipating,...
Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed
16.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed About a month ago, HSBC Global Research noted a forecast for a "weak" bull market in commodities. New data shows that the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April rose by .3% from the previous month and by 3.4% year-over-year. Although inflation is still increasing,...
Environmental Protection Not A Major Issue For Majority
16.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Environmental Protection Not A Major Issue For Majority In a survey of 38 countries carried out by Statista Consumer Insights, only between 21 and 44 percent of respondents said that they considered environmental protection a major issue for their country. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, respondents in Brazil were the most concerned about...
Diesel Takes Another Hit And May Be Driving Down Broader Oil Market
16.05.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Diesel Takes Another Hit And May Be Driving Down Broader Oil Market By John Kingston of FreightWaves With the benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges down for the fifth week in a row, diesel consumers should be reveling in the fact that market trends appear to have completely thrown out concerns about the Middle East conflict and are focused...
The Grain That Feeds The World Is At Risk Of An Upside Breakout
15.05.2024, 19:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Grain That Feeds The World Is At Risk Of An Upside Breakout Rice is a staple food for over 3.5 billion people worldwide, especially in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. It's grown in over 100 countries, with 90% of the world's rice produced in Asia. We have been tracking the prices of Thai white rice, which surged to 15-year highs in 2023 and...
Putin To Visit China To Discuss Energy Ties
15.05.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin To Visit China To Discuss Energy Ties By Julianna Geiger of OilPrice.com Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit China on May 16-17 for discussions with President Xi Jinping, in part to discuss expanding energy and trade partnerships. The state visit, initiated by Xi, will cover topics such as China's Belt and Road Initiative as well...
US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print
15.05.2024, 13:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print Equity futures were set to hold yesterday's gains ahead of today's CPI report, but will move violently either higher or lower after today's CPI number is released, which will either validate or reject Jerome Powell’s latest signals that interest rates will be higher for longer (our CPI preview is here)...
Mass Starvation: Here's Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared
15.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mass Starvation: Here's Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, The concept of mass starvation has not been in the forefront of American society for a very long time. Even during the Great Depression the US was majority agrarian and most people knew how to live off the land. In fact, the US has never...
"Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech
14.05.2024, 12:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech US equity futures are flat into tomorrow's CPI/Retail Sales print with PPI the major macro data point today, while Fed Chair Powell also speaks. Futures are flat after also closing unchanged yesterday when the return of the meme stonk mania sent GME and AMC soaring, and hammered L/S hedge funds...
Musk Wins Latest Censorship Battle In Australia As High Court Rules Against eSafety Commissioner
13.05.2024, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Musk Wins Latest Censorship Battle In Australia As High Court Rules Against eSafety Commissioner Authored by Rebekah Barnett via 'Dystopian Down Under' blog, Can Australia’s eSafety Commissioner block content globally on demand? Not today, ruled the Australian Federal Court, in a win for Elon Musk’s social media platform X. US billionaire Elon Musk...
Key Events This Week: All Eyes On CPI As Fed Speakers Galore
13.05.2024, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: All Eyes On CPI As Fed Speakers Galore After a very slow week, the key event for markets this week will be US inflation data with April’s PPI (Tuesday) and CPI (Wednesday) the highlights. We’ll see if the higher-than-expected US inflation seen in Q1 extends into Q2 or not. Markets will also hear from Powell (tomorrow) and Vice...
Mapping Life Expectancy Around The World
11.05.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping Life Expectancy Around The World Over the last two centuries there has been significant progress in human health and longevity. Initially, in the early 19th century, life expectancy did not surpass 40 years globally, reflecting harsh conditions like extreme poverty, limited medical care, and poor sanitation. By 1950, this figure had seen notable...
Asia Embraces Coal As The U.S. Rejects It
11.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Asia Embraces Coal As The U.S. Rejects It Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via RealClear Wire, Vietnam and other Asian countries are on a coal spree! Given the dynamics of energy use in the rapidly developing industrial sector there, it is no surprise that these nations have backpedaled on big promises made at international climate conferences to reduce emissions...