Neueste Heute 01.06.2024 31.05.2024
Electricity Demand May Cure Debt Concerns
01.06.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Electricity Demand May Cure Debt Concerns Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The future of electricity demand for everything from electric cars to Bitcoin mining to artificial intelligence may also be the cure for our debt concerns. Before you dismiss that statement, let me explain. One of the bears’ primary arguments against...
Blinken To NATO Leaders: Ukraine Has 'Strong & Well-Lit Bridge To Membership'
01.06.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blinken To NATO Leaders: Ukraine Has 'Strong & Well-Lit Bridge To Membership' US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday addressed a meeting of NATO foreign and defense ministers in Prague. The meeting is being held in preparation for a bigger Washington summit set to take place in July. Blinken previewed that the later summit will bring Ukraine...
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...
Bad Macro, Worse Micro, But Biden Batters Big Caps As Bitcoin, Bonds & Bullion Rip
30.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bad Macro, Worse Micro, But Biden Batters Big Caps As Bitcoin, Bonds & Bullion Rip 'Mixed' - markets, macro, and micro - today GDP's secondary print showed weaker consumption and a slight decline in growth and PCE from the primary print (bad is good). Then the 4-week moving average of jobless claims printed at 8 month highs (bad is good). And then Pending...
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...
BYD's New Ultra Long-Range Hybrid Can Go 1,250 Miles Without Recharging Or Refueling
30.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BYD's New Ultra Long-Range Hybrid Can Go 1,250 Miles Without Recharging Or Refueling Range anxiety with electric vehicles becomes less of a problem when switching to hybrids - a plan almost all of the auto industry is now embracing after finding out the economics of pure BEVs are a prohibitive nightmare. For example this week Bloomberg reported that...
When Will Gold & Silver Miners Start Believing In Their Product?
29.05.2024, 19:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Will Gold & Silver Miners Start Believing In Their Product? Authored by Stefan Gleason via Money Metals, Miners spend billions of dollars every year pulling precious metals out of the ground. They toil mightily for years on end to produce these stores of value – but then they turn right around and sell all their gold and silver immediately in...
An Older, Anxious, Mildly Paranoid Analyst
29.05.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - An Older, Anxious, Mildly Paranoid Analyst By Michael Every of Rabobank An older, anxious, mildly paranoid analyst US Treasury yields spiked higher yesterday after strong consumer confidence data and weak bond auctions, pushing the dollar up. The Fed’s Kashkari said the FOMC hasn’t entirely ruled out further rate hikes, but the odds are “quite...
Gaza Pier Operations Suspended Indefinitely After It Breaks Apart By Heavy Seas
29.05.2024, 15:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gaza Pier Operations Suspended Indefinitely After It Breaks Apart By Heavy Seas The US-constructed pier off Gaza is officially done - for the time being at least. It is out of commission indefinitely after a series of problems and setbacks, the latest being inclement weather and heavy seas which have literally broken it apart. The damage from heavy...
Elon Musk's xAI Raises $6 Billion To Accelerate AI Race Against OpenAI
28.05.2024, 13:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk's xAI Raises $6 Billion To Accelerate AI Race Against OpenAI Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, announced early Monday morning that it had raised $6 billion from investors in a Series B fundraising round. This funding will accelerate its artificial intelligence development as the AI tech war with OpenAI intensifies. Some key investors were Valor Equity...
A Final Indignity To The Arsenal Of Democracy?
28.05.2024, 05:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Final Indignity To The Arsenal Of Democracy? Authored by Thaddeus McCotter via American Greatness, It is Memorial Day weekend. A time for us to commemorate and reflect upon the ultimate sacrifices given by our fallen citizen-soldiers and the enduring grief of their families and loved ones, which were and are selflessly borne in the defense of their...
Mayor Pete Bombs CBS Interview, Blames Airline Turbulence On Climate Change, As Host Laughs In His Face
27.05.2024, 16:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mayor Pete Bombs CBS Interview, Blames Airline Turbulence On Climate Change, As Host Laughs In His Face Transportation Secretary Mayor Pete made his rounds on Face the Nation this weekend where he was both laughed at to his face by the host and suggested during the interview that increased airline turbulence is occurring as a result of climate change...
Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Gigafactory Of Compute' For AI
27.05.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Gigafactory Of Compute' For AI Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com, Billionaire mogul Elon Musk’s xAI has plans to build a supercomputer in partnership with Oracle to power the next version of its “Grok” artificial intelligence (AI) large language model. According to a report from The Information, citing a...
Biden's $320M Gaza Pier Has Detached & Drifted Onto Israeli Beach
25.05.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's $320M Gaza Pier Has Detached & Drifted Onto Israeli Beach A section of the $320 million floating pier built and erected off Gaza's coast has broken off and floated onto an Israeli beach. The Saturday mishap is the latest setback for the US humanitarian aid project, after three US troops were reported injured aboard the pier two days prior, including...
Hedges: The Slow-Motion Execution Of Julian Assange Continues
25.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedges: The Slow-Motion Execution Of Julian Assange Continues Authored by Chris Hedges via Scheerpost.com, The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal the order to extradite him to the United States may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. It does not mean Julian will elude extradition. It does not mean the court has...
DARPA And DoD-Backed AI Chip Company Seeks To Raise $70 Million
25.05.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DARPA And DoD-Backed AI Chip Company Seeks To Raise $70 Million It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that DARPA is hurriedly throwing in with the ongoing AI trend... In fact, Bloomberg reported this week that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for an additional $70 million to help further its "quest to develop an ultra-efficient...
US Service Member Critically Injured In Gaza Pier Op To Bypass Israeli Blockade
24.05.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Service Member Critically Injured In Gaza Pier Op To Bypass Israeli Blockade A cost of US government support of Israel's war in Gaza gained a grim new dimension Thursday, as three American service members suffered "non-combat injuries" in the humanitarian relief operation off the Gaza coast, with one in critical condition. The military branch of...
Loose Talk About The End Of Everything: VDH
24.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Loose Talk About The End Of Everything: VDH Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin issued an odd one-sentence communique: “There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be fought...
The Unifying Principle: Here's Why The Political Divisions In The US Today Cannot Be Mended
24.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Unifying Principle: Here's Why The Political Divisions In The US Today Cannot Be Mended Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Recently I was watching a short documentary about the history of political discourse and division in the US and it got me thinking about how the internal conflicts of the past might relate to the rampant social battles...
In Blow To China, Argentina's Milei Looking To US For Defense Cooperation
24.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Blow To China, Argentina's Milei Looking To US For Defense Cooperation Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Over the past decade China’s security footprint in Argentina has grown considerably, but analysts say recent indicators demonstrate President Javier Milei may be shifting defense cooperation back towards the...
Last Hope Against Biden-Bucks - House Passes Bill Blocking The Fed From Issuing A CBDC
24.05.2024, 02:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Last Hope Against Biden-Bucks - House Passes Bill Blocking The Fed From Issuing A CBDC The CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act passed the United States House of Representatives on a largely partisan vote on May 23. As CoinTelgraph's Derek Andersen reports, the bill, which must still face a vote in the Senate, amends the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to prohibit...
China's Rapid Nuclear Expansion Is Threatening US Dominance In The Sector
24.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Rapid Nuclear Expansion Is Threatening US Dominance In The Sector Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, China is quickly becoming the world's leading producer of nuclear energy, raising concerns for US competitiveness. China's plans for floating nuclear plants in the disputed South China Sea create tension with neighboring countries. China...
Ranking Trump's Vice-Presidential Options
23.05.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ranking Trump's Vice-Presidential Options Authored by Sean Trende via RealClearPolitics, Playing the Veepstakes guessing game is often a losing one for analysts. Vice-presidential selection is ultimately a highly personal choice, and it is simply too difficult to venture into the mind of one individual and mimic their thought process. Perhaps more importantly...
US House Passes FIT21 Crypto Bill With Bipartisan Support, Biden Does Not Threaten Veto
23.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US House Passes FIT21 Crypto Bill With Bipartisan Support, Biden Does Not Threaten Veto A majority of US House of Representatives members voted in favor of legislation to establish regulatory clarity over digital assets, CoinTelegraph reports. In a 279 to 136 vote on May 22, House lawmakers approved H.R.4763, or the Financial Innovation and Technology...
Concerns Grow Over The Increasing Abilities Of AI
23.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Concerns Grow Over The Increasing Abilities Of AI Authored by Raven Wu and Cindy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Big tech companies’ full commitment to developing artificial intelligence (AI), even enabling AI to “see” and “speak” to the human world, has led to a growing concern over humans being controlled by technology. (Andrey Suslov/Shutterstock)...
Nearly 70% Of Gaza Aid From US-Built Pier Stolen
22.05.2024, 18:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nearly 70% Of Gaza Aid From US-Built Pier Stolen Authored by Joshua Marks via The Gatestone Institute, Close to three-fourths of the humanitarian aid transported from a new $320 million floating pier built by the U.S. military off the Gaza coast was stolen on Saturday en route to a U.N. warehouse, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Eleven trucks "were cleaned...
WTI Rallies After Crude Inventory Build, Another Large SPR Addition
22.05.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rallies After Crude Inventory Build, Another Large SPR Addition Oil prices edges lower again this morning (for the third straight day) after API reported crude and gasoline builds overnight in the US, and on the other side of the Atlantic, Genscape data showed expanded inventories in Europe’s oil trading hub. Additionally, Bloomberg reports...
Another Sanction Failure: The US Blacklisted Xiaomi Three Years Ago Now it Makes EVs
22.05.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Sanction Failure: The US Blacklisted Xiaomi Three Years Ago Now it Makes EVs Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Just three years ago, the Chinese company Xiaomi decided to build cars. It succeeded where Apple failed. The Wall Street Journal reports A Chinese Phone Maker Did Something Apple Couldn’t: Make an EV Xiaomi is a Chinese...
WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build
21.05.2024, 22:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build Oil (and gasoline) prices were lower today (WTI sliding back near two-month lows) as the Biden administration said Tuesday it is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer. However, the...
Stocks Inch Higher As Fearless Vol-Sellers Continue To Push Ahead Of NVDA/FOMC Mins
21.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Inch Higher As Fearless Vol-Sellers Continue To Push Ahead Of NVDA/FOMC Mins It's quiet... too quiet... Small Caps lagged on the day but the rest of the majors struggled to gain any momentum as long gamma and low vol compressed the ranges. Some early hawkish (though nothing new) remarks from Fed's Waller ("...in the absence of a significant weakening...
Benchmarking Your Portfolio May Have More Risk Than You Think
21.05.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Benchmarking Your Portfolio May Have More Risk Than You Think Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentdvice.com, During ripping bull markets, investors often start benchmarking. That is comparing their portfolio’s performance against a major index—most often, the S&P 500 index. While that activity is heavily encouraged by Wall Street and the...
Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy
21.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy Almost two months ago, we highlighted what we called at the time 'The Next AI Trade' - that in fact it is not the tech itself, but the electrical power required to run the tech that is the limiting factor on the growth of AI (and Data Center) expansion. These pages have been...
How Private Equity "Adds Value" In A Fiat-Financed World
21.05.2024, 15:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Private Equity "Adds Value" In A Fiat-Financed World Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, This past weekend I was at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference in Montreal, where I moderated a panel on Bitcoin As A Treasury Asset For Corporations. At the time I disclosed that 100% of easyDNS‘ retained earnings are in Bitcoin – and that the...
Ukrainian Special Recon Commander Confirmed That Kharkov's Border Was Undefended
21.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukrainian Special Recon Commander Confirmed That Kharkov's Border Was Undefended Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, BBC published a report over the weekend about how “The Russians simply walked in, Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv tell BBC”, citing special reconnaissance commander Denis Yaroslavsky. According to him, “There was no first line...
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...
Zelensky Rejects Macron's Proposal For An Olympic Truce With Russia
20.05.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Rejects Macron's Proposal For An Olympic Truce With Russia Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the idea of a truce with Russia during the upcoming Paris Olympics, which will be held from July 26 to August 11. French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a truce in a recent call...
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...
The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where's The Hydrogen?
20.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where's The Hydrogen? Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, I’m all in favor of hydrogen-powered plants to produce electricity if only we had cheap hydrogen. But we don’t and likely won’t. A Bad Bet on Hydrogen Hype Bloomberg cautions Europe’s Spending Billions on Green Hydrogen. It’s...
These Are The 10 US States With The Lowest Real GDP Growth
20.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The 10 US States With The Lowest Real GDP Growth While the U.S. economy defied expectations in 2023, posting 2.5% in real GDP growth, several states lagged behind. Last year, oil-producing states led the pack in terms of real GDP growth across America, while the lowest growth was seen in states that were more sensitive to the impact of...
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...
The Decay Of Everyday Life
17.05.2024, 23:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Decay Of Everyday Life Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So where does this leave us? We're on our own. This month I've described what can be summarized as The Decay of Everyday Life: the erosion of the fundamental elements of everyday life: work, opportunity, social mobility, security and well-being, which includes civility...
With Momentum In Its Favor, Gold Has Potential To Head Higher
17.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - With Momentum In Its Favor, Gold Has Potential To Head Higher Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, Gold looks well poised to build on this year’s gains, with speculative momentum seeming to entice marginal buying and perpetrating a virtuous circle. Bullion is on track for a fourth successive monthly rally, with its gains so far this...
The U.S. Navy Can’t Build Ships
17.05.2024, 16:39 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Decades of deindustrialization and downsizing have left America without shipyards to build and maintain a fleet....
VW The Latest Automaker To Step Back From All-Electric Plans To Embrace Hybrids
17.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VW The Latest Automaker To Step Back From All-Electric Plans To Embrace Hybrids Not to be left behind by the rest of the industry, Volkswagen is the latest auto manufacturer to walk back its plans to go all-electric. The move should come as no surprise to Zero Hedge readers, as we have been writing non-stop about the industry's shift from BEVs back...
Common Medications For ADHD Linked To Increased Risk Of Glaucoma
17.05.2024, 09:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Common Medications For ADHD Linked To Increased Risk Of Glaucoma Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Common drugs prescribed to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are associated with an increased risk of glaucoma, a recent Canadian study found. (joel bubble ben/Shutterstock) Glaucoma is a progressive eye...
America's Nuclear Zeitenwende
17.05.2024, 00:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Nuclear Zeitenwende Authored by Charles Bell via RealClear Wire, Overshadowed by Hamas’s attack on Israel, the release of the congressionally mandated Strategic Posture Commission (SPC) report heralded the arrival of an American nuclear Zeitenwende – a sea change setting us on a new course. By issuing consensus recommendations for significant...
Cohen Destroyed: Trump Lawyer "Dog Walks" Star Witness Through Lie After Lie, CNN Pundits Aghast
16.05.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cohen Destroyed: Trump Lawyer "Dog Walks" Star Witness Through Lie After Lie, CNN Pundits Aghast President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen had his "knees chopped out" by Donald Trump's defense attorneys in cross-examination during Trump's 'hush money' trial. Cohen was grilled by Trump attorney Todd Blanche about a pivotal phone call that...
Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal
16.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal For much of the past decade, gold bugs religiously tracked the physical gold inventory located in the various gold vaults that make up the Comex system, eagerly awaiting the day when there would be more deliverables (via paper shorting of gold) than...
Florida Condo Owners Dump Units Over Six-Figure Special Assessments
16.05.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Florida Condo Owners Dump Units Over Six-Figure Special Assessments Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Have a Florida condo? Can you afford a $100,000 or higher special assessment for new safety standards? After the collapse of a Surfside Building on June 24, 2021that killed 98 people, the state passed a structural safety law that is now...
Under Armour Approves Restructuring, Warns Of Collapse In Clothing Demand Collapse As Buyback Authorized To Save Plunging Stock
16.05.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Under Armour Approves Restructuring, Warns Of Collapse In Clothing Demand Collapse As Buyback Authorized To Save Plunging Stock Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank needs to spend long weekends at his thoroughbred horse breeding farm in steeplechase country in upper Baltimore County to reflect on what has happened to the sportswear company over the past decade...