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Watch: Boeing's Crewed Starliner Attempts Much-Delayed Launch
01.06.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Boeing's Crewed Starliner Attempts Much-Delayed Launch NASA and Boeing are preparing to launch the much-delayed crewed flight of CST-100 Starliner at 1225 ET from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, atop an Atlas V rocket from the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture United Launch Alliance. Weather conditions are 90% favorable for...
"Lower Supply Expectations" Drive EU NatGas To Largest Monthly Gain Since August
01.06.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Lower Supply Expectations" Drive EU NatGas To Largest Monthly Gain Since August Lower supply expectations are driving European natural gas prices to their highest levels since December, with May set to record the largest monthly increase since last August. Benchmark futures jumped 20% in May, the largest monthly increase since last August. From a...
Assembly Passes Measure Allowing Illegal Immigrant Students To Work At California Colleges And Universities
30.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Assembly Passes Measure Allowing Illegal Immigrant Students To Work At California Colleges And Universities Authored by Sophie Li via The Epoch Times, A bill that would allow students who are illegal immigrants to work at California colleges and universities passed the state Assembly on May 22. Currently, students must obtain a work permit to hold jobs...
OPEC+ Could Jolt Oil Higher, Confounding Bearish Speculators
30.05.2024, 14:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OPEC+ Could Jolt Oil Higher, Confounding Bearish Speculators Authored by Grant Smith via Bloomberg, Bearish oil speculators have been out in force this month, building up their biggest short position in Brent since the depths of the pandemic in late 2020. But with a busy agenda of OPEC+ news scheduled for this weekend, history suggests that they should...
Scientific Misconduct Has Eroded Public Trust And Accountability
30.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientific Misconduct Has Eroded Public Trust And Accountability Authored by Tony Nikolic via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scientific misconduct has cast a long shadow over the fields of medicine and public health, significantly impacting public trust and posing serious ethical and legal challenges. (Zadorozhnyi Viktor/Shutterstock) Cases from the...
US 'Looking Closely' At Vaccinating Workers Exposed To Bird Flu: Official
29.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US 'Looking Closely' At Vaccinating Workers Exposed To Bird Flu: Official Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Officials in the United States, Canada, and Europe are considering the vaccination of workers and others against the highly pathogenic avian influenza. A dairy farmer herding cows in Carrying Place, Ontario, Canada...
Putin's Purge? Another Top Russian General Arrested On Bribery Charges
24.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin's Purge? Another Top Russian General Arrested On Bribery Charges Is this the continuation of what appers an ongoing purge by President Vladimir Putin of his top defense ranks? The Kremlin escalated its crackdown on Russia’s top military ranks, with a new corruption arrest this week. Russian authorities detained Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin...
"Absurd!" - DOJ Sues Ticketmaster's Owner, Alleging Monopoly Over Live Events Industry
23.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Absurd!" - DOJ Sues Ticketmaster's Owner, Alleging Monopoly Over Live Events Industry Authored by Alice Giordano via The Epoch Times, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced at a press conference Thursday morning that the federal government has filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against Ticketmaster’s parent company to break up its monopoly...
EcoHealth Funding Suspension Is Pure Theater
23.05.2024, 02:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EcoHealth Funding Suspension Is Pure Theater Authored by Debbie Lerman via the Brownstone Institute, Peter Daszak is the President of EcoHealth Alliance, the organization most closely associated with the potential lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that may have started the Covid crisis. The US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability...
Aluminum Jumps To 23-Month High Amid Ongoing Aussie Production Issues
22.05.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aluminum Jumps To 23-Month High Amid Ongoing Aussie Production Issues From coffee to cocoa, orange juice to gold, and silver to copper, commodity prices are spiking across the board (we outlined this on Monday). The latest surge occurred Tuesday when aluminum tagged 23-month highs due to ongoing production issues emerging from Australia. The broad-based...
GOP Bill Would Give Israeli Soldiers US Job And Financial Protections
22.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GOP Bill Would Give Israeli Soldiers US Job And Financial Protections Leaping headlong into 2024's frenzy of Israel-catering legislative activity, two House Republicans have introduced a bill that would extend credit and employment privileges enjoyed by US military service members to American citizens serving in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). This...
Several States Take Steps To Block A Central Bank Digital Currency
21.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Several States Take Steps To Block A Central Bank Digital Currency Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Several states have taken action over the last two years in an effort to block the implementation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States. Indiana was the first state to pass legislation relating to central bank digital...
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein Steps Down Amid Relentless ETF Outflows
20.05.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein Steps Down Amid Relentless ETF Outflows Michael Sonnenshein has stepped down from his role as the CEO of Grayscale Investments, the WSJ reported. “I would like to thank Barry Silbert for his vision and partnership and for entrusting me to lead Grayscale’s business. The crypto asset class is at an important inflection...
DTCC, Chainlink Complete Fund Tokenization Pilot With JPMorgan, Templeton And Other Financial Giants Participating
17.05.2024, 21:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DTCC, Chainlink Complete Fund Tokenization Pilot With JPMorgan, Templeton And Other Financial Giants Participating By Tom Mitchelhill of CoinTelegraph The world’s largest settlement system, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and blockchain oracle Chainlink have wrapped up a pilot program with several major banking firms in the United...
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...
Traders Ditch Bullish Bets On Oil
16.05.2024, 16:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Traders Ditch Bullish Bets On Oil By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com A continuously fading war risk premium and signs that regional oil markets look well supplied prompted traders to slash last week their bullish bets on crude oil at the fastest pace in over a year. The net long position—the difference between bullish and bearish bets—dropped...
Industrial Production Disappoints, Manufacturing Contracts As Downward Revisions Continue
16.05.2024, 15:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Industrial Production Disappoints, Manufacturing Contracts As Downward Revisions Continue US industrial production was unchanged MoM in April (weaker than the modest 0.1% increase expected) and following a downward revision in March from +0.4% to +0.1% MoM. The downward revision and weak print left IP down 0.4% YoY... Source: Bloomberg 11 of the last...
Welcome To LaLa Land As Market Jettisons Tail Risks
16.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Welcome To LaLa Land As Market Jettisons Tail Risks By Simon White, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and analyst The economy is signaling a more volatile, potentially recessionary period. Markets, however, aren’t paying attention. Not only are the twin tail risks of a downturn or resurgent inflation being ignored, but a near-impossible “immaculate...
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,...
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)...
House Oversight Cmte Probing Biden Voter Mobilization Order
15.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Oversight Cmte Probing Biden Voter Mobilization Order Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClearPolitics, The House Oversight Committee is probing a controversial Biden administration executive order tasking the federal government with mobilizing voting groups it says are underrepresented. In a letter obtained by RealClearPolitics, Chairman James...
Clearing Demand
14.05.2024, 20:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Clearing Demand By Ahmed Bin Sulayem Since its establishment in 2005, the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) has been the central counterparty for clearing and settlement services to the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX). Emerging as the largest clearing house in the MENA region by volume, DCCC is now poised to play a far more multinational...
Cocoa Market Hit With Second Crash In Weeks As Liquidity Evaporates
14.05.2024, 19:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Market Hit With Second Crash In Weeks As Liquidity Evaporates Cocoa futures in New York crashed for the second time in just days as liquidity evaporated, and a new weather forecast points to improved weather conditions for top producers of the bean in West Africa. The most active cocoa contract in New York plunged 19% on Monday, recovering...
Entrepreneurs Face Major Headwinds Due To Big Government Policies
14.05.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Entrepreneurs Face Major Headwinds Due To Big Government Policies Authored by Alfredo Ortiz via RealClearPolicy, The specter of stagflation has returned. On April 25th, The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that GDP only grew by 1.6% in the first quarter of this year, well below expectations. Consumer spending on goods actually declined in...
Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms
13.05.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms US equity futures extended last week's solid gains when they traded just about 1% below all time highs, as investors awaited key CPI later this week that will shape the Fed's actions in coming months. As of 7:30am, contracts on the S&P 500 rose about 0.2% (but still below Friday's highs)...
CFTC Aims To Ban Derivatives Based On Elections, Athletic Competitions And Awards Contests
13.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CFTC Aims To Ban Derivatives Based On Elections, Athletic Competitions And Awards Contests Previously enjoyed betting on the outcome of an event, like a Presidential election? The CFTC wants to make sure that doesn't happen again. According to the Wall Street Journal, the regulator is now targeting "derivatives contracts based on political elections...
Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations
12.05.2024, 03:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations When people gripe about paying taxes and the government being a poor the absolute worst possible capital allocation, this is what they are talking about: $7.5 billion in investments for electric vehicles has - in two years - produced just 7 charging stations...
After Cocoa Crash, Rabobank Says Bull Rally Likely Peaked
10.05.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Cocoa Crash, Rabobank Says Bull Rally Likely Peaked Rabobank analyst Paul Joules wrote in a note to clients that cocoa prices have likely peaked after crashing in the last several weeks. "A combination of weakening global demand and production responses, particularly from countries without a fixed farmgate price, will help alleviate the...
Panama Elects New President Who Vows To Shut Migrant Trail, Restore Economy
07.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Panama Elects New President Who Vows To Shut Migrant Trail, Restore Economy Voters in the Republic of Panama on Sunday elected a new president who has vowed to sever a key segment of the Latina American migrant trail that leads to the United States while restoring the country's reputation as an investment destination. “We’ll promote a government...
Robusta Coffee Bean Prices Near Half-Century High As Vietnam Supply Woes Spark World Crunch
06.05.2024, 19:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Robusta Coffee Bean Prices Near Half-Century High As Vietnam Supply Woes Spark World Crunch A new report from the International Coffee Organization reveals an alarming situation in the coffee market. Robusta coffee prices have skyrocketed to a 45-year high, a clear indication of the severity of the supply crunch and the rampant bean hoarding that...
Yen's First Intervention Rally Owed Very Little to Short Squeeze
06.05.2024, 06:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen's First Intervention Rally Owed Very Little to Short Squeeze By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist The first of Japan’s apparent twin interventions last week may have capped USD/JPY for some time to keep the pair under 160. But that had very little to do with flushing out yen short positioning at least with the initial...
Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose?
05.05.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose? Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance In one of the most fascinating discussions I’ve had in a while, I spoke last weekend with my friend Andy Schectman about the state of the world, markets, geopolitics and the economy. What started as a friendly catch-up quickly turned into delving into angles on the state of...
Ukraine Struggles To Build New Defensive Lines As Its Forces Retreat
04.05.2024, 18:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Struggles To Build New Defensive Lines As Its Forces Retreat Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, Russian forces are advancing in several places across the 600-mile frontline in Ukraine, straining Kiev’s ability to build rear fortifications. Some in the Ukrainian military fault the country’s leadership for not building...
Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls US stock futures pointed to further strength on Wall Street ahead of the April jobs report after solid earnings and a record buyback announcement from Apple As of 8:00am, S&P futures rise 0.3% while Nasdaq 100 contracts add 0.6% thanks to a 6% surge in Apple in premarket...
"Islamic Resistance In Bahrain" Claims First Ever Attack On Israel
03.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Islamic Resistance In Bahrain" Claims First Ever Attack On Israel Previously we detailed the ongoing Saudi crackdown on the potential for an 'Islamist uprising' in response to Arab Gulf countries normalizing relations with Israel. So far, the UAE has normalized, and Bahrain too, and now Saudi Arabia is said to be on the cusp. On Thursday...
US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners
02.05.2024, 15:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Most of the hawkish tilt in yields and rise in Federal Reserve interest rate expectations this year has come in non-US trading hours. A dovish repricing would therefore require (other things equal) a change of trading direction only in...
Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide
02.05.2024, 14:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide After a bizarre reversal when US stocks first slumped and then dumped after Powell's very dovish FOMC statement and press conference, US equity futures have regained their footing this morning and advanced as traders took comfort from the Fed’s signal that there’s no...
Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran?
02.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran? Author3ed by Con Coughlin via the Gatestone Institute, (Image source: iStock/Getty Images) If attempts by Western leaders to impose further sanctions against Iran in retaliation for its direct attack against Israel are to have any validity, they will need to be a great deal more effective than...
House Approves 'Antisemitism Awareness Act' Aimed At Cracking Down On Campus Protests
02.05.2024, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Approves 'Antisemitism Awareness Act' Aimed At Cracking Down On Campus Protests Late in the afternoon Wednesday the House approved a bill which seeks to crackdown on antisemitism on college and university campuses following days of protests and unrest driven by pro-Palestinian activists. The Antisemitism Awareness Act has been approved in a 320-91...
Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms
01.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms US equities were set for a second day of losses, as investors weighed disappointing tech earnings and braced for today's Quarterly Refunding Announcement and Fed rate decision and Powell press conference where the Fed chair is expected to signal a delay to rate cuts. S&P 500 futures slid 0...
The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector
01.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, LNG has become the most important swing energy source in an increasingly insecure world. Energy exports remain the foundation stone of Russia’s essentially petro-economy. Russia's LNG industry is closely associated in Russia with...
Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This
30.04.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This One can listen to, and believe, the government's lies about the miraculous growth of the economy and the stellar job that Bidenomics is doing... or one can listen to the truth straight from the countless small companies that make up the economy. We prefer the latter, which is why we...
US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024
30.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024 US equity futures dropped, and European markets were mixed on the last day of the month amid concerns the Fed may stick to its hawkish messaging at its meeting on Wednesday. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were down 0.1% while Europe’s Stoxx 600 index retreated 0.4%, while Asian...
"I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month
29.04.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Outlook survey has now been in contraction (below zero) every month since May 2022, falling modestly to -14.5 in April (worse than the -11.2 expected). New Orders also remain negative (but did improve) and prices continue...
California Homeowners: Insured No More Amid Fire Danger
28.04.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California Homeowners: Insured No More Amid Fire Danger America's largest and, for some owners, only option for a home insurer is pulling back its operations in the state of California, leaving many with no more options to secure their property's value amid wildfire danger in the state reaching new heights. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports...
Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City
27.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City Authored by Fred Roeder via RealClearMarkets, On a Friday night in March 2011, I stayed at an upscale W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City for $124. That hotel later became The Maxwell, but sadly it didn’t survive the pandemic and is now permanently closed. Today the average hotel stay in...
The Great Game Returns To Central Asia
26.04.2024, 05:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Game Returns To Central Asia Via EurasiaNet.org, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reanimated US and EU interest in Central Asia. China has eclipsed Russia as the region's largest trade partner. Central Asian trade is diversifying away from Russia and towards the West. The Great Game is playing out once again in Central Asia, but it is getting...
Palmer Luckey's Anduril & General Atomics Selected By USAF For Next Round Of AI Drone Program
26.04.2024, 04:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Palmer Luckey's Anduril & General Atomics Selected By USAF For Next Round Of AI Drone Program The US Air Force's hot pursuit of drone wingmen, known as collaborative combat aircraft, flying alongside piloted stealth fighter jets such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, is a major effort to modernize its...
Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs
25.04.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs Whatever happened to the WEF? One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public discourse. After the pandemic agenda was defeated and the plan to exploit public fear to create a perpetual medical autocracy was exposed, Klaus Schwab...