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Turkey Sends Anti-Assad Syrian Mercenaries To Africa To Guard Mines
09.06.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Turkey Sends Anti-Assad Syrian Mercenaries To Africa To Guard Mines Via Middle East Eye Syrian "rebels" have been hired to fight and provide security at gold mines and factories in African countries, several rebel sources told Middle East Eye this week. Syrian fighters, who are mostly affiliated with the Syrian National Army (SNA), a coalition of armed...
Betting Big That Bitcoin Mining Won't Exist In Five Years...?
09.06.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Betting Big That Bitcoin Mining Won't Exist In Five Years...? Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Long Bitcoin / Short Miners Is The Mid-Curve Trade of the Year I’ve never understood the hedgies’ penchant for pair trades: long this / short that is supposed to be some kind of big brain move that either outperforms something or hedges...
Visualizing The Real GDP Growth Of US Regions In 2023
08.06.2024, 18:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing The Real GDP Growth Of US Regions In 2023 Distinct variations in regional economic growth were evident throughout America in 2023, driven by differences in industry composition and population dynamics. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows real GDP growth across U.S. regions in 2023, based on data from the Bureau...
A Substantial Chance Of A Major Financial Collapse & The End Of Offshored Industrialization
08.06.2024, 03:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Substantial Chance Of A Major Financial Collapse & The End Of Offshored Industrialization Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World, Moving industrialization offshore can look like a good idea at first. But as fossil fuel energy supplies deplete, this strategy works less well. Countries doing the mining and manufacturing may be less interested...
Is The Electric Vehicle Panacea Crashing In California And America?
08.06.2024, 00:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The Electric Vehicle Panacea Crashing In California And America? Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A station for charging electric vehicles in Irvine, Calif., on March 25, 2022. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times) Commentary The idea that the panacea of electric vehicles will end “climate change” may have finally crashed...
Biden's Top Antitrust Enforcer To 'Urgently' Scrutinize AI Sector For Monopoly Risks
07.06.2024, 16:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Top Antitrust Enforcer To 'Urgently' Scrutinize AI Sector For Monopoly Risks The top US anti-trust enforcer warned in an interview with the Financial Times about the "monopoly choke points and the competitive landscape" in the artificial intelligence space. He pointed out critical areas of concern, ranging from computing power and the data...
Payrolls Instant Reaction: A Schizophrenic Report
07.06.2024, 15:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Payrolls Instant Reaction: A Schizophrenic Report By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times Why do we both having both an establishment survey and household survey if we cherry pick the data to look at? The headline number was simply awesome. 272k jobs, 229k in the private sector, both beating expectations...
Our Crisis Of Competence
07.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Our Crisis Of Competence Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If this is what passes for competence while we cheerlead "the Roaring 20s", then our delusion has reached "what looks like a permanently high plateau." That America is mired in a crisis of competence appears to be yet another issue that can't be addressed directly as it might...
The Power Grid Expansion, Part 3: Investments
07.06.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Power Grid Expansion, Part 3: Investments Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We continue with our discussion of investment ideas that could benefit from upgrading and expanding the power grid to accommodate surging demand from AI data centers and EVs. This third and final part of this series focuses on alternative energy...
Futures Flat As Tech Storms Higher, ECB Rate Cut Looms
06.06.2024, 14:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Tech Storms Higher, ECB Rate Cut Looms US equity futures were flat after the S&P 500 notched its 25th closing record on Wednesday, even as global tech shares plowed higher with expectations of more rate cuts adding to the ongoing frenzy around artificial intelligence; With the ECB set to cut rates for the first time since 2019, Nvidia...
ECB Preview And Scenario Analysis: The First Rate Cut Since 2019
06.06.2024, 04:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ECB Preview And Scenario Analysis: The First Rate Cut Since 2019 Hot on the heels of the first G7 central bank rate cut this cycle, when the BOC cut rates by 25bps this morning, tomorrow the ECB is widely expected to follow suit and lower the deposit rate from 4.00% to 3.75% for the first time since September 2019, with markets assigning a 94% chance...
Saudi Aramco's $12 Billion Share Sale Quickly Sells Out, But Who Is Buying?
05.06.2024, 20:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Aramco's $12 Billion Share Sale Quickly Sells Out, But Who Is Buying? By Alex Kimani of OilPrice.com Last week, Saudi Arabia’s energy giant Saudi Aramco (ARMCO) confirmed in a filing with the Saudi Exchange plans to sell shares in the state-owned oil company to help the kingdom fund plans to diversify the economy. Well, the sale took place...
House Democrats Accuse Big Oil Of Price Gouging
05.06.2024, 19:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Democrats Accuse Big Oil Of Price Gouging By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com A group of House Democrats have called on the Department of Justice to launch a probe into the oil industry, accusing the two largest U.S. energy companies of a conspiracy to keep fuel prices high. In a letter sent to the Department of Justice by Rep. Jerrold Nadler and signed...
Number Of 'Problem Banks' Climbs In 1st Quarter, New FDIC Report Finds
05.06.2024, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Number Of 'Problem Banks' Climbs In 1st Quarter, New FDIC Report Finds Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, It has been more than a year since the regional banking crisis exposed vulnerabilities in the financial system. A new Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) report discovered that the banking sector is still grappling with ballooning...
Services ISM Unexpectedly Surges Out Of Contraction, Prints At 53.8, Above All Estimates
05.06.2024, 16:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Services ISM Unexpectedly Surges Out Of Contraction, Prints At 53.8, Above All Estimates After the Manufacturing ISM unexpectedly tumbled to the lowest level since February (led by a collapse in New Orders which tumbled at the fastest rate since Dec 2023), markets were expecting today's Services ISM to come in well below estimates and to be generally...
Futures Gain With Fresh S&P All-Time High Less Than 1% Away
05.06.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain With Fresh S&P All-Time High Less Than 1% Away US equity futures edged higher and were again on pace to reclaim all time highs (which again is less than 1% away away) on expectations that a slew of labor-market readings this week may support the Federal Reserve’s policy easing. As of 7:40am ET, S&P futures rose 0.25% and were at session...
During The Great Depression They Were Called "Hoovervilles", But Today America's Shantytowns Are Called...
05.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - During The Great Depression They Were Called "Hoovervilles", But Today America's Shantytowns Are Called... Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, To those at the bottom of America’s economic pyramid, it feels like the economy has already collapsed. When you can’t afford to put a roof over your head and you barely have enough...
OPEC+ Switches Strategy To Defend Market Share
05.06.2024, 03:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OPEC+ Switches Strategy To Defend Market Share By John Kemp, senior energy analyst Oil futures prices have fallen to the lowest level for four months and calendar spreads have slumped after OPEC⁺ ministers signalled their intention to start increasing production from the fourth quarter of 2024. Front-month Brent futures closed at $78 per barrel on...
Europe's Net-Zero Ambitions Face Reality Check
04.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe's Net-Zero Ambitions Face Reality Check Authored by Rystad Energy via oilprice.com, EU's clean tech spending lags behind China and the US, with China investing $390 billion in 2023 compared to the EU's $125 billion The US' Inflation Reduction Act is expected to boost clean energy investments, while the EU's spending is plateauing The upcoming...
Bonds & Bitcoin Bid (But Not Stocks) As 'Bad' News Jolts Rate-Cut Hopes Back To Life
04.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bonds & Bitcoin Bid (But Not Stocks) As 'Bad' News Jolts Rate-Cut Hopes Back To Life Weak labor market data (JOLTS big miss) and mixed Orders (Manufacturing beat, Durables miss) sent 'hard' data' to its weakest since the start of the year.. Source: Bloomberg ...and that 'bad' news was enough to spark another dovish leg higher in rate-cut expectations...
Italy Defies NATO Escalation As Court Ruling Could Cut Off Russian Gas Sooner Than Expected
04.06.2024, 21:21 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Italy defies NATO escalation as a European court ruling threatens to cut off Russian gas sooner than expected, affecting Austria’s OMV and potentially devastating Italy’s industrial sector. In a roundabout sense, all pipeline supplies of Russian gas to Austria and consequently Italy could soon come to an end due to an unclear legal decision. When...
Big Pharma Paid $690 Million To Fauci's Agency During Pandemic
04.06.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Big Pharma Paid $690 Million To Fauci's Agency During Pandemic By Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com, the largest private database of public spending. During the pandemic, the American people started to feel that Big Government was very cozy with Big Pharma. Now we know just how close they were. New data from the National Institutes...
High-Flying Commodity Sectors Set to Keep Climbing
04.06.2024, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - High-Flying Commodity Sectors Set to Keep Climbing By Farah Elbahrawy, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist Outperforming mining and energy stocks are set for further gains as a constructive backdrop for commodity prices and demand is set to support earnings. Basic resources and energy shares have outpaced the benchmark over the past three...
Massive Australian Truck Convoy Protests Live Sheep Export Ban
04.06.2024, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Massive Australian Truck Convoy Protests Live Sheep Export Ban Authored by Monica O'Shea via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A truck drives on a road in Albany, Western Australia, on April 19, 2024. (Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times) A huge truck convoy has descended on Western Australian (WA) roads to protest the Labor government’s ban on live sheep...
Having Too Much Money Leads To Catastrophe
03.06.2024, 21:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Having Too Much Money Leads To Catastrophe Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The best thing that could happen to America would be the destruction of its credit card and a deep, prolonged recession that emptied the punch bowl of phantom bubble wealth and the illusion of endless credit. Money being scarce saves us from many pernicious...
Nvidia & Goldman See Common Theme: Next AI Trade Will Be In 'PC Upgrade Cycle'
03.06.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia & Goldman See Common Theme: Next AI Trade Will Be In 'PC Upgrade Cycle' The decline in personal computer sales may end as soon as next year as consumers will be enticed to upgrade their legacy Covid-era PCs. The introduction of PCs equipped with fancy new AI chips, capable of running as digital assistants in the background and faster computing...
"Geopolitical Risk Is Everywhere"
03.06.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Geopolitical Risk Is Everywhere" By Michael Every of Rabobank Two kinds of Stag Do/No-Bucks Night We are all invited to two different kinds of ‘Stag Do’ (for those in the US, Bachelor Party), which (for those in Australia) are also a ‘No-Bucks Night’. April US personal consumption income and spending data on Friday saw the former up 0.3% m-o-m...
India's Modi Set To Win Third Consecutive Term: Exit Poll Implications
03.06.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - India's Modi Set To Win Third Consecutive Term: Exit Poll Implications India completed its seven-phase election process for the Lower House (Lok Sabha) of parliament on June 1, with results likely to be officially announced on June 4, but it appears likely is that India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to win a third consecutive term in...
Under Oath, Fauci Must Answer These Questions
03.06.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Under Oath, Fauci Must Answer These Questions Authored by Roger Marshall via The Epoch Times, A million Americans died from COVID-19, marking one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history. Four years later, more than 10 million Americans are still suffering from long COVID. We continue to fight for accountability. Dr. Anthony Fauci, in his role...
China Ramps Up Warning On Bond-Buying Frenzy With PBOC Selling in Focus
03.06.2024, 04:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Ramps Up Warning On Bond-Buying Frenzy With PBOC Selling in Focus By John Liu and Zheng Wu, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists Three things we learned last week: 1. China’s central bank gave its strongest warning yet against overheating in the government bond market. A paper backed by the People’s Bank of China said the monetary...
Good Thing Markets Don't Close At 2:30 pm
03.06.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Good Thing Markets Don't Close At 2:30 pm By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Good Thing Markets Don’t Close at 2:30 pm Sometimes weeks shortened by holidays are painful to follow. It somehow seems difficult to get a good sense of flows and momentum. In addition, last week had a dearth of economic data, at least until Friday. Let’s be honest, when...
The Ideological Battle Behind The US Debt Crisis
02.06.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Ideological Battle Behind The US Debt Crisis Via SchiffGold.com, The U.S. national debt is at 34.7 trillion dollars. If you laid that many dollar bills end-to-end, it would wrap around the Earth 134,599 times. That’s enough to travel to the sun and back 17 times. Suffice it to say, we’re in a pickle. America is slowly approaching the precipice...
Time To Pay Satan: Canadian Asset Manager Blocks Cash Distributions On Private Credit Funds
31.05.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Time To Pay Satan: Canadian Asset Manager Blocks Cash Distributions On Private Credit Funds Just one day after JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said private credit could spark turmoil if when the opaque sector of financial markets weakens, warning that "there could be hell to pay," and adding that he has "seen a couple of these deals that were rated by a rating...
How A US Retail Giant Conquered Inflation
31.05.2024, 19:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How A US Retail Giant Conquered Inflation Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock, Getty Images) In an economic climate of high inflation, Walmart has emerged as the retail victor, offering cheap goods to cost-conscious consumers. As millions of shoppers grapple with rising prices...
Why China Does Not Dare To Solve Its Problems By Printing Large Amounts Of Money
31.05.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why China Does Not Dare To Solve Its Problems By Printing Large Amounts Of Money Authored by Law Ka-Chung via The Epoch Times, China’s proposal of a 300 billion Yuan bank loan to rescue the housing sector is obviously a tiny amount compared to the amount outstanding; I discussed this in last week’s piece here. At first glance, it looks odd that...
Numbers At Giant Truck Lender BMO Show Worsening Credit Conditions
31.05.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Numbers At Giant Truck Lender BMO Show Worsening Credit Conditions By John Kingston of FreightWaves Further credit deterioration in trucking is evident in the quarterly earnings report of Canada’s BMO bank. BMO, the former Bank of Montreal, is one of the largest lenders to the trucking industry. Its transportation unit, purchased from GE Capital in...
The 3 Layers Of The Technocratic State
31.05.2024, 05:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The 3 Layers Of The Technocratic State Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, There are three layers to the U.S. state that lord it over the American people and the world: deep, middle, and shallow. It’s a typology of how technocracy works in practice. Let’s talk about how it works and how the layers interact. Donald Trump popularized the...
Russian Firms Adopt Stablecoins In Cross-Border Transactions With Chinese
31.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russian Firms Adopt Stablecoins In Cross-Border Transactions With Chinese The stablecoin sector is gaining momentum after a new Bloomberg report revealed that Russian commodities firms have adopted fiat-pegged digital currencies to execute cross-border transactions with Chinese counterparts. Russian commodities firms, trading anything from base...
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...
Canada's Oil Resurgence Is Doomed Without Younger Workers
30.05.2024, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Canada's Oil Resurgence Is Doomed Without Younger Workers By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Canada's oil industry is booming, but companies in its top oil-producing province, Alberta, are struggling to hire and retain skilled talent to seize the opportunity of greater market access that the expanded Trans Mountain oil pipeline provides. Canadian...
It Won't Be A Shock To See Another Bank Fail Soon
30.05.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It Won't Be A Shock To See Another Bank Fail Soon Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, US regional banks’ deposits recently made new highs, exceeding the level prior to SVB’s collapse. But that’s far from an all clear. Exposure to commercial real estate continues to rise and delinquencies on the underlying loans is mounting. Hold-to-maturity...
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...
Goldman Says Buy China Stock Dip After Rally Stalls
29.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Says Buy China Stock Dip After Rally Stalls By Ye Xie, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist China’s stock rally has lost a bit of momentum. But Goldman Sachs, one of the most vocal bulls, says the pullback creates buying opportunities. The CSI 300 benchmark has retreated about 3% since reaching a seven-month high on May 20, while...
Quantitative Brainwashing
29.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Quantitative Brainwashing Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, We’re all familiar with the term, “quantitative easing.” It’s described as meaning, “A monetary policy in which a central bank purchases government securities or other securities from the market in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply.” Well...
Ugly Beige Book: "Negligible Job Gains", "Lower Discretionary Spending", "More Pessimistic Outlook"
29.05.2024, 20:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ugly Beige Book: "Negligible Job Gains", "Lower Discretionary Spending", "More Pessimistic Outlook" Extending the dismal pace of US economy growth (if not outright contraction) observed in last month's Beige Book, which was validated by the sharp drop in Q1 GDP growth which tumbled to just 1.6% from more than 3% in Q4 and is expected to slide further...
'Worst Since The Great Recession' - Dallas Fed Services Survey Slumps In May As Respondents Fear "Inflation Is Getting Pretty Scary"
29.05.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Worst Since The Great Recession' - Dallas Fed Services Survey Slumps In May As Respondents Fear "Inflation Is Getting Pretty Scary" Despite Bernstein and Biden demanding the great unwashed realize just how great they have it in America, this morning's Dallas Fed Services Sector survey offers some insights from actual real people in the actual real...
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...
The US Fiscal Nightmare - Yellen Can't Expect A Strong Ecoonomy With Higher Spending & Taxes
29.05.2024, 18:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Fiscal Nightmare - Yellen Can't Expect A Strong Ecoonomy With Higher Spending & Taxes Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The long-term forecast for higher interest rates, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, makes it more difficult to control US borrowing needs, which emphasizes the significance of raising revenue in the forthcoming budget...
The Power Grid Expansion, Part 2: A Longer-Term View
29.05.2024, 15:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Power Grid Expansion, Part 2: A Longer-Term View Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, This article follows Part One, which discusses the massive investment dollars that will be spent expanding and modernizing the power grid to facilitate demand from AI data centers and EV users. With the macro investment theory laid out, we...
Zero-Percent-Down Mortgages Return, What Can Go Wrong?
29.05.2024, 14:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zero-Percent-Down Mortgages Return, What Can Go Wrong? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, It’s a perfect time to do something really stupid, like offering zero percent down payments on mortgages. Case-Shiller national and 10-city indexes via St. Louis Fed, OER, CPI, and Rent from the BLS Perfectly Stupid Timing Morningstar reports One of...