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US Markets May Be Closed But Tech Stocks Continue To Melt Up
19.06.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Markets May Be Closed But Tech Stocks Continue To Melt Up The cash market may be closed for the woke, virtue-signaling Juneteenth holiday, but that won't stop algos from gorging on the latest tech bubble, and sure enough, Nasdaq 100 futures extended their gains to an 8th consecutive day, following a strong run for technology shares that saw Nvidia...
The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses
19.06.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses Last October, when the wounds from the March 2023 bank failures - which surpassed the global financial crisis in total assets and which sparked the latest Fed intervention, setting the market's nadir over...
Ozempic Fuels 'Downsize Me' Trend As Slimmed Down Americans Hunt For New Clothes
19.06.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ozempic Fuels 'Downsize Me' Trend As Slimmed Down Americans Hunt For New Clothes If Ozempic and or Mounjaro users can avoid processed foods and get some exercise, they'll likely maintain their weight loss. The good news is that some of these individuals, who have ditched greasy burgers and donuts, are possibly already on the hunt for smaller clothes...
On The Edge Of The Programmable Ledger: CBDCs
19.06.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - On The Edge Of The Programmable Ledger: CBDCs Authored by J.R. Bruning via The Brownstone Institute, New Zealand’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), has opened a consultation on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This is the second of four stages. RBNZ considers that Stage Three will involve the development of prototypes...
We Approach 'State' Singularity
18.06.2024, 23:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - We Approach 'State' Singularity Authored by Bruce Pardy via The Brownstone Institute, Many citizens of the West believe that they live in free societies, or something close... But as time goes on, public authorities increasingly insist on having a say in everything... People cannot build things on their own land without permits. They cannot run businesses...
CBO Figures Out How To "Math", Raises 2024 US Budget Deficit By $400BN To $1.9 Trillion
18.06.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CBO Figures Out How To "Math", Raises 2024 US Budget Deficit By $400BN To $1.9 Trillion This should come as a shock to exactly nobody. Last week, the Treasury reported that in May, the US government collected $323.6 billion in tax receipts, it spent more than double that, or some $670 billion... ... resulting in a May budget deficit of $347 billion...
Why Trump Is The Best Choice For Bitcoin
18.06.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Trump Is The Best Choice For Bitcoin Authored by Brian Morgenstern via Bitcoin Magazine, One in four Americans own Bitcoin. That’s more Americans than are over the age of 65, but how often do you hear candidates talk about senior concerns compared to concerns of crypto owners? President Donald Trump has been making a concerted effort in the...
Biden Officials To Attend Bitcoin Roundtable In DC: Leaked Report
18.06.2024, 15:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Officials To Attend Bitcoin Roundtable In DC: Leaked Report U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna, representing California's 17th congressional district, is set to host a Bitcoin and blockchain roundtable in Washington D.C. in early July, according to a private email sent by Khanna's Office, seen by Bitcoin Magazine. Bitcoin Magazine's Nik Hoffman reports...
Futures Flat As Tech Stocks Rise For 7th Consecutive Day
18.06.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Tech Stocks Rise For 7th Consecutive Day Futures are flat with gigatech naturally outperforming into today’s retail sales print where the expectations are for beats to resume after last month's sharp miss. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures were completely flat, while Nasdaq futures were up for the 7th day in a row as it nudges toward the...
The US' Security Pact With Ukraine Is A Consolation For Not Approving Its NATO Membership
18.06.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US' Security Pact With Ukraine Is A Consolation For Not Approving Its NATO Membership Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Zelensky celebrated his country’s new security pact with the US on Thursday as “bring[ing] our relations to the level of a true alliance”, but the reality is that it’s just a consolation for the US not approving...
Brasilien legt Plan gegen Organisierte Kriminalität im Amazonasgebiet auf
18.06.2024, 05:01 Uhr. amerika21 - https: - Brasilia. Die Regierung von Präsident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva verstärkt die Bekämpfung illegaler Aktivitäten im Amazonasgebiet. Eine Vereinbarung zwischen dem Justizministerium und der Nationalen Bank für wirtschaftliche und soziale Entwicklung sieht die Umschichtung in Höhe von... weiter 18.06.2024 Artikel von Redaktion zu Brasilien, Umwelt...
Retail Sales To Beat Estimates According To Latest Card Spending Data
18.06.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Sales To Beat Estimates According To Latest Card Spending Data Last month was the first time in about a year, when the Bank of America retail sales forecast - one derived from real-time debit and credit card spending and which is usually spot on and unerringly correct - was wrong, predicting a small beat when in fact the final number was a big...
China's New Home Prices Plunge The Most Since October 2014
18.06.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's New Home Prices Plunge The Most Since October 2014 So much for that Chinese housing "bailout", which we correctly warned would be woefully insufficient. A slew of data published early Monday local time, showed that among various other economic measures, China’s housing slump deepened in May and triggered new calls for the government to pump...
Free Money Advocates: Undoing Medical Debt From Credit Reports Isn't Enough
17.06.2024, 19:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Free Money Advocates: Undoing Medical Debt From Credit Reports Isn't Enough Via SchiffGold.com, The Biden Administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) just issued a proposal to ban medical debt from factoring into your credit score. But for free-money socialists and their Keynesian bedfellows, this doesn’t go nearly far enough:...
Ex-Biden Appointee Arrested, Charged With Felony Over Alleged Hate Crime Hoax
17.06.2024, 16:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ex-Biden Appointee Arrested, Charged With Felony Over Alleged Hate Crime Hoax Another day, another Democrat hate crime hoax - this time allegedly by a former Biden White House appointee and current candidate for a county commissioner seat in Texas. Patel with Joe and Jill Biden (undated): x/TaralVPatel Taral Patel, 30, was arrested for online impersonation...
Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Retail Sales, Housing And PMIs
17.06.2024, 16:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Retail Sales, Housing And PMIs In terms of the holiday-shortened week ahead, the main data highlights are US retail sales tomorrow, UK CPI on Wednesday, and Japanese inflation and the global flash PMIs on Friday. For central banks, we have meetings concluding in Australia (tomorrow), UK, Switzerland and Norway...
French Markets Stabilize After Le Pen Says She'll Work With Macron In Appeal To French Moderates
17.06.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - French Markets Stabilize After Le Pen Says She'll Work With Macron In Appeal To French Moderates In a bid to shore up political support from the centrists, over the weekend France's surprise political leader Marine Le Pen - who blew president Macron away in the European Parliament elections - assured that she would work with Macron should she prevail...
The Real Story Behind the Fed's "Soft Landing" Narrative
17.06.2024, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Real Story Behind the Fed's "Soft Landing" Narrative Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) last week left the target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) unchanged at 5.5 percent. The target rate has now been flat at 5.5 percent since July of 2023—as the Fed waits...
Futures Flat As European Stocks Stabilize
17.06.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As European Stocks Stabilize Futures are flat to start the holiday-shortened week (markets are closed Wednesday for Juneteenth). As of 8:00am, S&P futures are unchanged just above 5500, while Nasdaq futures rose 0.2%; France’s CAC 40 benchmark erased most of its opening 1% advance and global stocks ceded most of their early gains sparked...
How Does Crypto Perform In An Inflationary Recession
17.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Does Crypto Perform In An Inflationary Recession By Sebastian Bea of Coinbase Asset Management A pinch of paranoia is an essential ingredient in the risk management toolkit as markets hunt to humiliate hubris. Investors are tasked with monetizing megatrends. Macro risks are seen as a nuisance for growth-focused investment styles. But macro risks...
"There Seems To Be A Sense Of Incredulousness Around What Is Going On In The Markets"
16.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "There Seems To Be A Sense Of Incredulousness Around What Is Going On In The Markets" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Same but different A few topics that we have touched on over the past few months continue to be relevant. What is interesting is that a few of those topics now seem to have garnered far more attention than in the past. Discrepancies...
What Causes Stagflation?
16.06.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Causes Stagflation? Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute, In the late 1960s Edmund Phelps and Milton Friedman challenged the popular view that there can be a sustainable trade-off between inflation and unemployment. In fact, over time, according to Phelps and Friedman, loose central bank policies set the platform for lower economic...
The Crises And Sacrifices Yet To Come
16.06.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Crises And Sacrifices Yet To Come Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, The sense that we're approaching a tipping point into a crisis with no easy resolution is pervasive, a sense that beneath the veneer of normalcy (the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates and that will fix everything), we sense the precariousness of this brittle normalcy...
Putin On G7 Seized Assets Plan: "Despite All The Trickery, Theft Is Still Theft"
15.06.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin On G7 Seized Assets Plan: "Despite All The Trickery, Theft Is Still Theft" After on Thursday Group of Seven leaders agreed at a summit in Italy to give Ukraine $50 billion utilizing interest from frozen Russian Central Bank assets, President Putin has addressed the move during a speech before his Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He once again denounced...
Top Tech Trio Melts Up To Record High As Rest Of Market, Europe Burns
14.06.2024, 22:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Top Tech Trio Melts Up To Record High As Rest Of Market, Europe Burns Another day, another tech-led meltup, which managed to reverse the early slump in the stock "market", and push the S&P to just shy of closing green, and the 41st record high of 2024, on the back of just one idea: this one. Frankly, the whole AI meltup has become stupid: with the Mag...
Silver Demand In The Solar Sector Could Squeeze Silver Supply In The Future
14.06.2024, 20:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Silver Demand In The Solar Sector Could Squeeze Silver Supply In The Future Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Silver use by the solar energy sector is one of the primary factors driving the overall demand for silver, and there is reason to believe photovoltaic silver off-take will continue to increase in the years ahead. Not only is the demand...
Rothschild mit großem Auftritt in Saudi-Arabien
14.06.2024, 16:40 Uhr. uncut-news.ch - https: - Die Edmond de Rothschild Gruppe, ein bedeutender Akteur im globalen Finanzwesen, hat angekündigt, innerhalb eines Jahres ein neues Büro in Saudi-Arabien zu eröffnen. Außerdem plant die renommierte Schweizer Bank die Einrichtung einer Plattform für Fremdfinanzierungen, um Infrastrukturprojekte im Land zu unterstützen. Diese Initiative steht im...
Macron Has Gambled... And Lost
14.06.2024, 15:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Macron Has Gambled... And Lost By Elwin de Groot, Head of Macro Strategy at Rabobank We still have one more day to go in the European session before the weekend, but the week in review is already showing to be one of quick decisions, where the bond market was ‘saved’ by the US inflation data and where Macron may have asked for a Papal blessing....
French Development Banks Pulls Bond Sale As Macron Sparks EU Market Meltdown
14.06.2024, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - French Development Banks Pulls Bond Sale As Macron Sparks EU Market Meltdown Sacre bleu!! The implications of French President Macron's shock announcement of snap legislative elections after sustaining a hammering from the far-right Rassemblement National in European elections are starting to show up in some much more worrying systemic signals for the...
Futures Slide, Yields Tumble As European Turmoil Sparks Global Risk-Off
14.06.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide, Yields Tumble As European Turmoil Sparks Global Risk-Off After stocks hit a 4th consecutive record and a 30th All Time High on Thursday on absolutely atrocious breadth (more than two thirds of the S&P closed red), futures traded lower as the rally finally fizzled. At 8:00am ET, S&P futures were down 0.5%, but off session lows, while Nasdaq...
The Entire System Is Crumbling! Major Red Flags Are Popping Up For Banks, Small Businesses And Retailers
14.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Entire System Is Crumbling! Major Red Flags Are Popping Up For Banks, Small Businesses And Retailers Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, If the economy is fine, why are so many signs of trouble erupting all around us? Those that keep insisting that the U.S. economy is heading in the right direction conveniently ignore the...
Is LTCM Replaying Itself In US T-Bills?
13.06.2024, 18:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is LTCM Replaying Itself In US T-Bills? Authored by Kane McGukin via BombThrower.com, When it came to finance, they were the smartest guys in the room. Two Nobel laureates, one-half of the “Black Scholes” options pricing equation, and leverage. When the carnage of LTCM stopped it was understood that it was not a case of genius men wielding math...
Wells Fargo Fires Employees Over "Mouse Jigglers"
13.06.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wells Fargo Fires Employees Over "Mouse Jigglers" In the era of hybrid work, with employees splitting their time between two days in the office and three days working remotely, employers have ramped up using productivity monitoring software. However, employees have outsmarted some of these surveillance programs with gadgets like mouse movers, otherwise...
S&P Set For 29th Record High Of 2024 As Futures Continue Relentless Grind Higher
13.06.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P Set For 29th Record High Of 2024 As Futures Continue Relentless Grind Higher Futures are higher, again, with Tech leading, again, and small-caps lagging, the same trend that we saw after the Powell press conference despite small-caps leading the way most of the session. As of 8:00am, S&P futures were up 0.1% and set for the 29th all time high print...
Central Bankers Worried That BRICS Is Fragmenting The Global Monetary System
13.06.2024, 13:16 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - On the ECB blog, Piero Cipollone intensified his claims that BRICS is “fragmenting” the global monetary system. Cipollone highlighted how countries like China, Iran, and Russia are creating alternative payment systems, disrupting global financial efficiency. The European Central Bank (ECB) official Piero Cipollone, who previously declared...
Intel Halts Multibillion Chip Plant Expansion In Israel, Still 'Committed' To Region
13.06.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Intel Halts Multibillion Chip Plant Expansion In Israel, Still 'Committed' To Region Via The Cradle The US-based chip giant Intel Corp is halting a $25 billion chip manufacturing project in Israel, the local publication Calcalist reported this week. The Israeli news agency writes that Intel’s decision to stop the building of the multibillion-dollar...
Caucus Cash: How Black And Hispanic Leaders Raise Millions From Big Business
13.06.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Caucus Cash: How Black And Hispanic Leaders Raise Millions From Big Business Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, Like-minded members of Congress have created hundreds of caucuses to help them work on specific issues – including the Arthritis Caucus, the Freedom Caucus, the U.S.-Japan Caucus, the Special Operations Forces, and the...
The Achilles Heel Of The Fiat Money System
13.06.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Achilles Heel Of The Fiat Money System Authored by Thorsten Polleit via The Mises Institute, The fiat money system will not disappear just like that. Any expectations or hopes to that end should be tempered. Yes, the fiat money system could collapse; yet there is a significant likelihood it will persist longer than most people might think. This...
Trump Wants Bitcoin "Made In The USA" After Hosting Mining Industry Heads
12.06.2024, 21:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Wants Bitcoin "Made In The USA" After Hosting Mining Industry Heads Donald Trump reiterated his support for the Bitcoin mining industry on Wednesday after hosting a meeting with several executives from United States crypto mining firms. Today was a historic moment in our journey towards hyperbitcoinization. The former and next President of the...
Three States Start Summer With Sound Money Policies
12.06.2024, 20:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Three States Start Summer With Sound Money Policies Via SchiffGold.com, Earlier this year, four states took steps toward strengthening sound money by lifting or reducing taxes faced by holders of physical gold and silver. Only a few months later, three other states have actually implemented new sound money policies, and by doing so, they have improved...
Golf And Investing: Mastering Long And Short Games For Success
12.06.2024, 18:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Golf And Investing: Mastering Long And Short Games For Success Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Let’s play a hole of golf to appreciate how two distinct aspects of golf provide valuable lessons for investors. You tee off with a driver on a 450-yard par four hole. Your drive is perfect. Not only does the ball land in the middle...
"Unequivocally A Good Report": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Dovish CPI Shocker
12.06.2024, 16:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Unequivocally A Good Report": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Dovish CPI Shocker As we expected in our preview calling for "optimism for a low print", today's CPI delivered the kind of downside surprise that bond bulls and the Fed have been waiting for, as both headline and core came in a tenth lower than expected, largely driven by a 3.6% drop in gasoline...
Biden Approves Sending 2nd Patriot System To Ukraine Ahead Of G7
12.06.2024, 15:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Approves Sending 2nd Patriot System To Ukraine Ahead Of G7 "We’re going to continue to drive up costs for the Russian war machine," White House spokesman John Kirby has said as President Biden departs for meetings with Group of Seven leaders in Italy. The Thursday through Saturday meeting will focus in large part on unveiling new sanctions and...
CPI Preview: "Optimism For A Low Print"
12.06.2024, 14:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CPI Preview: "Optimism For A Low Print" If May was a month that brought us that much closer to the Fed's "soft landing" soft landing, where jobs slumped and CPI came slightly below estimates (as we predicted), June has been a mirror image with last week's payrolls report coming in red hot (if one can claim that a 600K+ drop in full-time jobs is a red...
Futures Set For New Record High Ahead Of CPI, Fed Double Header
12.06.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Set For New Record High Ahead Of CPI, Fed Double Header Futures are up modestly after another record close on Wall Street heading into today's double whammy of CPI, and FOMC Dot Plot update, with Nasdaq leading and small-caps lagging. As of 8:00am, S&P futures are up 0.1% to 5,390 and set to extend the stretch of record highs as traders position...
Study Finds Heart Rate Variations Occur More In Women Than Men During Solar Storms
12.06.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Study Finds Heart Rate Variations Occur More In Women Than Men During Solar Storms A new study finds that space weather, such as solar storms, impacts heart rate variations in women more than men. This research emerges just as Solar Cycle 25 has entered a maximum period, bringing a surge in solar activity such as sunspots, solar flares, and more...
Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System In Europe, Using Poland As A Testing Ground
12.06.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System In Europe, Using Poland As A Testing Ground Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, “Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance!” After running pilot tests in Brazil and parts of the Asia Pacific for roughly two years, Mastercard is finally rolling out its biometric retail payments...
FOMC Preview: From Three Rate Cuts To Two
12.06.2024, 04:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FOMC Preview: From Three Rate Cuts To Two Coming just hours after the May CPI print, tomorrow's - and the month's - main event is the FOMC decision due at 2pm ET, when the Fed is widely expected to leave rates on hold at 5.25-5.50%, and the statement will likely also largely be reiterated after slight tweaks in the May statement. Attention will fall...
China's Real Estate Crisis: A New Experiment In State Intervention
12.06.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Real Estate Crisis: A New Experiment In State Intervention Via SchiffGold.com, The real estate market is responsible for anywhere from 20% to over 30% of China’s GDP (depending on who you ask). And with the latest meltdown that began with the implosion of Evergrande, the situation just keeps getting worse, inspiring a slew of government...
Companies Unleash 2nd Biggest Stock Buyback Spree On Record Ahead Of Buyback Blackout This Friday
11.06.2024, 21:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Companies Unleash 2nd Biggest Stock Buyback Spree On Record Ahead Of Buyback Blackout This Friday How powerful are stock buybacks? Think of this way: back on April 22, we bottom-ticked the market when we reported that with the S&P dipping below 5,000, stocks were set to soar as "traders frontrun the end of buyback blackout period." The S&P took and...