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No, Corporate Greed Is Not The Cause Of Inflation
28.05.2024, 21:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No, Corporate Greed Is Not The Cause Of Inflation Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Corporate greed is not causing inflation, despite the claims of many on the political left who failed to understand the very basics of economic supply and demand. “If you take a look at what people have, they have the money to spend. It angers...
Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: PCE, GDP And More Fed Speakers
28.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: PCE, GDP And More Fed Speakers All roads this week point towards the April US core PCE print on Friday which in MoM terms is expected to edge down from +0.32% to +0.26%, which would be the lowest monthly increase of 2024. As DB's Jim Reid notes, you don't need an economist to tell you how well scrutinized this...
Futures Rise On Apple China Sales Rebound As Attention Turns Back To Inflation
28.05.2024, 14:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise On Apple China Sales Rebound As Attention Turns Back To Inflation Stocks traded in a narrow range as markets reopened in the US and Europe with investors putting (a stronger than expected) Q1 earnings season in the history books, and looking to Friday's core PCE print prints and central bank speakers for hints on the timing of interest-rate...
Wall Street Now Sees Ethereum Hitting $14,000 In 2025: Here's Why
28.05.2024, 02:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wall Street Now Sees Ethereum Hitting $14,000 In 2025: Here's Why Back in late March, when prevailing consensus was that the SEC would not approve an ethereum ETF, and when its price had dramatically diverged from that of bitcoin, we took the other side. Why was that? For several reasons: first of all, recall that in recent years, Wall Street had traditionally...
The Massive Immigration Wave Hits America's Schools And Shelters
27.05.2024, 12:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Massive Immigration Wave Hits America's Schools And Shelters Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, School systems complain about the rising costs of handling illegal immigrants. Here’s a spotlight on two cities, one in Massachusetts, the other Colorado. In Stoughton, Mass., students arrive with traumatic pasts and little English. The same...
The US Is Playing A Dangerous Game Of Nuclear Chicken With Russia
27.05.2024, 11:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Is Playing A Dangerous Game Of Nuclear Chicken With Russia Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski revealed in his latest interview with The Guardian that “The Americans have told the Russians that if you explode a nuke, even if it doesn’t kill anybody, we will hit all your targets [positions] in...
Obnoxious Weeds Team Up To Fight Cancer–New Review
27.05.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Obnoxious Weeds Team Up To Fight Cancer–New Review Authored by Alexandra Roach via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Recently, I gave a presentation about edible plants at my local library. Kitchen herbs, in fact, that double as medicinals, which people can easily grow in their gardens or on window sills. While preparing my presentation, I was reminded...
Cocaine, Meth Found In Tractor-Trailers During California Border Searches
26.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocaine, Meth Found In Tractor-Trailers During California Border Searches By Trucker News U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at a California commercial facility made two major drug seizures recently. The interceptions of illegal drugs found in tractor-trailers included: 400 pounds of cocaine 11,469 pounds of methamphetamine Cocaine found...
Vivek Ramaswamy Calls For 'Libertarian-Nationalist Alliance'
26.05.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Vivek Ramaswamy Calls For 'Libertarian-Nationalist Alliance' Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In remarks at the Libertarian National Convention, Trump surrogate and former Libertarian Party voter Vivek Ramaswamy called for the men and women in attendance to ally with the “America First” wing of the Republican Party...
Hidden Food Threat: Experts Warn Of Dangers Of RNAi Crops
26.05.2024, 04:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hidden Food Threat: Experts Warn Of Dangers Of RNAi Crops Authored by Sayer Ji via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Imagine a technology that could genetically rewire organisms in real-time, silencing critical genes across entire ecosystems with unknown effects. Sounds like science fiction? It’s not. It’s the reality of a new class of pesticides...
Special Counsel Requests (Another) Gag Order For Trump In Classified Docs Case
26.05.2024, 00:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Special Counsel Requests (Another) Gag Order For Trump In Classified Docs Case Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times, Special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors asked the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Florida on Friday to issue a gag order following remarks he made about the FBI raid on his...
Republicans Are Winning The Voter Registration Battle In Battleground States
25.05.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Republicans Are Winning The Voter Registration Battle In Battleground States Authored by Austin Alonzo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republicans are closing the gap on voter registrations in key swing states. Political observers say it could be a sign the party will perform well in November. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock) The...
Political Consultant Faces $6 Million Fine For Fake Biden Robocalls
25.05.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Political Consultant Faces $6 Million Fine For Fake Biden Robocalls Authored by Jana Pruet via The Epoch Times, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced on Thursday that Steven Kramer had been indicted on more than two dozen charges for allegedly sending artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice...
House Republicans Take Aim At Biden Energy Policies, Vow To Install "Different Vision" In 2025
25.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Republicans Take Aim At Biden Energy Policies, Vow To Install "Different Vision" In 2025 Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, The Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee staged its 15th review in the last 15 months of the Biden administration’s energy policies during a two-hour May 23 hearing that Democrats say was...
Goldman Again Changes Forecast For First Fed Cut, Pushes Back To September From July
24.05.2024, 17:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Again Changes Forecast For First Fed Cut, Pushes Back To September From July At the start of 2024, with the Fed reportedly "winning the fight against inflation", Goldman triumphantly announced it expects the Fed to cut rates no less than five times with the first rate cut expected to take place in March as the US was set for a "soft landing...
Houthis Claim Israeli-Linked Ship Attacked In Mediterranean Sea, Two Others In Red & Arabian Seas
24.05.2024, 16:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Houthis Claim Israeli-Linked Ship Attacked In Mediterranean Sea, Two Others In Red & Arabian Seas Yahya Saree, the military spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, associated with the Iran-backed Houthis, announced a broad military operation targeting three vessels linked to either the US and/or Israel: one in the Red Sea, one in the Arabian Sea...
Competing Forces On Rent, Where Do We Put 8 Million Illegal Immigrants?
24.05.2024, 14:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Competing Forces On Rent, Where Do We Put 8 Million Illegal Immigrants? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MIshTalk.com, Millions of immigrants keep pouring in. New residential construction has stalled and multi-family construction is in decline. Completions are rising, but is that enough housing? More Than 8M Migrants Will Soon Be Living in the US Axios...
Futures Rebound After Thursday Rout As Rate Cut Expectations Fade
24.05.2024, 13:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound After Thursday Rout As Rate Cut Expectations Fade After Thursday's rout, which saw the overbought S&P first hit an all time high before traders suddenly dumped everything (following hotter than expected PMI and Initial claims reports has further delayed expectations for the Fed's first rate hike ostensibly to December) to buy Nvidia...
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 Threatens 25% Car Tariff Against US, EU Moves - Trade Ties To Worsen In Coming Weeks
24.05.2024, 01:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Threatens 25% Car Tariff Against US, EU Moves - Trade Ties To Worsen In Coming Weeks Beijing is still mulling its expected retaliation in the wake of last week's Biden administration rollout of steep tariff increases on a series of Chinese tech imports, importantly including computer chips, EV batteries and medical technology products. Wednesday...
CNN Sees Lowest Primetime Ratings In Three Decades
23.05.2024, 19:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CNN Sees Lowest Primetime Ratings In Three Decades Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, The cable news channel CNN has suffered its lowest primetime ratings since 1991, in yet another indication that traditional television news coverage, as well as increasingly left-wing media, has taken a massive hit to its viewership in recent years. As...
S&P Global Says US Business Activity Is At Its Strongest In Two Years, But...
23.05.2024, 15:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P Global Says US Business Activity Is At Its Strongest In Two Years, But... With both 'hard' and 'soft' data declining rapidly recently, why should we be surprised that S&P Global's preliminary PMI prints for May would suddenly surge, with manufacturing back into expansion? Flash US Services Business Activity Index at 54.8 (April: 51.3). 12-month...
Walmart, Target Unleash Price-Cut Tsunami As Working-Poor Hit Brick-Wall
23.05.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Walmart, Target Unleash Price-Cut Tsunami As Working-Poor Hit Brick-Wall Some of the nation's largest retailers are rolling back prices in response to low-income consumers hitting a proverbial brick wall. These consumers have maxed out credit card debt and drained personal savings to dangerously low levels in the era of failed Bidenomics. This...
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)...
Charges Dropped Against New Jersey Gym Owner Who Defied Strict COVID Lockdown Rules
23.05.2024, 01:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Charges Dropped Against New Jersey Gym Owner Who Defied Strict COVID Lockdown Rules Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Ian Smith, co-owner of Atilis Gym in New Jersey, at a Freedom Plaza rally in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020. (The Epoch Times) The owner of a gym in New Jersey who shot to national attention after defying...
Japanese 10Y Yield Rises Above 1% For The First Time Since 2013
22.05.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japanese 10Y Yield Rises Above 1% For The First Time Since 2013 Slowly but surely, Japan's bond market is approaching its inevitable disintegration. With the BOJ caught in an impossible dilemma, where on one hand it is facing soaring inflation and is forced to tighten monetary policy to prop up and push the imploding yen higher in order to avoid social...
Hawkish Fed Minutes Hammer Stocks, Bonds, Gold, & Oil
22.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hawkish Fed Minutes Hammer Stocks, Bonds, Gold, & Oil An ugly home sales print (but record April home prices) combined with declining traffic and smaller spend data from Target threw some shade on the market early on but it was the FOMC Minutes that sparked the waterfall with their more hawkish comments. For any and all that say "yeah but they're stale...
Hawkish Fed Minutes Hammer Stocks, Bonds, Gold, & Oil
22.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hawkish Fed Minutes Hammer Stocks, Bonds, Gold, & Oil An ugly home sales print (but record April home prices) combined with declining traffic and smaller spend data from Target threw some shade on the market early on but it was the FOMC Minutes that sparked the waterfall with their more hawkish comments. For any and all that say "yeah but they're stale...
FOMC Minutes Preview: No Hike But When To Cut?
22.05.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FOMC Minutes Preview: No Hike But When To Cut? As Newsquawk writes in its Fed minutes preview, at its May meeting, the FOMC left rates unchanged at 5.25-5.50%, as expected, and announced a higher-than-expected tapering of its QT program, where the monthly cap on Treasury runoffs will be reduced from USD 60bln to USD 25bln (exp. 30bln), while the monthly...
DHS Admits Border Has Been Open To Criminals And Terrorists
22.05.2024, 18:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DHS Admits Border Has Been Open To Criminals And Terrorists Authored by James Breslo via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration’s experiment with a relatively open southern border has been shocking in the sheer number of people who have come across in just over three years, estimated to be about ten million. But the most shocking thing about the...
Target Shares Tumble After Retailer Reports 'Caution' About Weak Consumer
22.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Target Shares Tumble After Retailer Reports 'Caution' About Weak Consumer Target's shares slumped in premarket trading in New York after the retailer's comparable sales missed Wall Street's consensus estimates for the quarter that ended May 4. This comes as Goldman analysts have warned about faltering low-income consumers in the era of failed Bidenomics...
Futures Drop, Yields Jump On Red-Hot UK Inflation, Nvidia Earnings On Deck
22.05.2024, 13:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop, Yields Jump On Red-Hot UK Inflation, Nvidia Earnings On Deck US futures are lower on Nvidia day; with the stock down 56bps in premarket trading, while Mag7 and semis are also all lower pre-mkt. As of 7:20am, S&P futures are down 0.1%, just off session lows amid signs of sticky inflation that dampened bets on early interest-rate cuts; Nasdaq...
China Slaps Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon With Sanctions Over Arms Sales To Taiwan
22.05.2024, 13:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Slaps Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon With Sanctions Over Arms Sales To Taiwan It has been a turbulent week for Sino-US relations. Beijing criticized US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over his support for Taiwan's new president, and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) imposed sanctions on US defense firms over Taiwan support. President...
Russia Confiscates €800 Million From Deutsche Bank, Unicredit And Commerzbank
21.05.2024, 21:40 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - The Financial Times reported that a Russian court confiscated €800 million from Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, and Commerzbank. Moscow has had enough after two years of being the target of a weaponized global reserve currency, being kicked out of SWIFT, countless (toothless) sanctions, and witnessing the freezing and eventual confiscation of about $350...
Behind Rosy Economic Data, Americans Struggle To Make Ends Meet
21.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Behind Rosy Economic Data, Americans Struggle To Make Ends Meet Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Monica Lomax, a 59-year-old resident of Elkridge, Maryland, has been feeling the pinch of rising costs. She’s had to tighten her budget, especially for groceries and clothing. Now, her shopping trips are primarily for essentials...
Wall Street's Biggest Bear, Mike Wilson, Finally Capitulates
21.05.2024, 05:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wall Street's Biggest Bear, Mike Wilson, Finally Capitulates Almost one thousand points higher and almost a year after he said to short the S&P at 3,900 in December 2022, Mike Wilson - who along with JPM's Marko Kolanovic was the most steadfast bear on Wall Street - has finally capitulated. Recall that last October, just around the time we and a handful...
Hatch Act Enforcement Tightens With New Guidelines Targeting Political Activities Of Federal Employees
21.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hatch Act Enforcement Tightens With New Guidelines Targeting Political Activities Of Federal Employees Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In an update to enforcement of the Hatch Act, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) on May 20 issued new guidelines aimed at clarifying and tightening the rules governing political activities...
How Lawfare Turned Trump Into A Superhero
21.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Lawfare Turned Trump Into A Superhero Authored by Frank Miele via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Last week, President Biden raised the white flag of surrender to Donald Trump when he offered to debate the presumptive GOP nominee in June and September. No one saw this coming. Trump had been taunting Biden with his offer to debate “anytime, anywhere...
Strategists See Best of 2024 in Rearview Mirror
20.05.2024, 16:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Strategists See Best of 2024 in Rearview Mirror By Michael Msika, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and startegist The outlook for the economy and corporate profits may be improving, but that’s not enough to make strategists significantly more bullish for the rest of the year. That’s the takeaway from our monthly survey, which show European stocks...
Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers
20.05.2024, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers After last week's non-stop rollercoaster, it will be a quieter week ahead for global macro with perhaps the most interesting event of the week being Nvidia's earnings on Wednesday. The company always reports a couple of weeks after the main stretch of US earnings season...
Futures Rise, Commodities Soar After Iran's President Dies In Helicopter Crash
20.05.2024, 13:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Commodities Soar After Iran's President Dies In Helicopter Crash Futures are higher across the board as investors shift their focus from macro to micro, following a rollercoaster week that saw stocks slide then reverse higher after a soggy CPI and retail sales print, to close at an all time high and the Dow above 40,000. AI is in focus...
Visualizing America's Average Retirement Savings, By Age
20.05.2024, 05:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing America's Average Retirement Savings, By Age Painting a concerning picture, the median retirement savings for Americans stands at a mere $87,000, a figure far lower than what is needed for a comfortable nest egg. This savings gap—the amount people have actually saved versus what they believe is needed for retirement—is significantly...
Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome
20.05.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome By Seth Carpenter, Managing Director and Chief Global Economist at Morgan Stanley, and Matthew Hornbach, Global Head of Macro Strategy at Morgan Stanley Japan in Rome Last month at our annual Fixed Income CIO conference, one of the liveliest sessions was on Japan’s reflation. The BoJ ending negative rates and normalizing...
Michael Saylor On Bitcoin's Biggest Risk, Price Target, GameStop, ETFs And Inflation
19.05.2024, 18:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Michael Saylor On Bitcoin's Biggest Risk, Price Target, GameStop, ETFs And Inflation Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance I was extraordinarily appreciative when executive chairman and co-founder of MicroStrategy Michael Saylor sat down with me this weekend for an exclusive interview. What’s inside this exclusive Fringe Finance interview with Michael...
US State Department Issues 'Worldwide Caution' Alert For Americans
19.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US State Department Issues 'Worldwide Caution' Alert For Americans Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of State on Friday issued a “worldwide caution” alert for U.S. citizens to remain alert for possible terrorist attacks or other violent actions against Americans. A flag waves in the wind at a U.S...
Why Did The US Spend $320 Million On A Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza?
19.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Did The US Spend $320 Million On A Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza? Authored by Ann Wright via CommonDreams.org, Instead of U.S. President Joe Biden marking a red line in the sand demanding that Israel allow aid into Gaza via ground transportation, his inept diplomatic team sent out a plea for help to the U.S. military. While in the U.S. Army and Army...
Hezbollah Launches First-Ever Lebanese Airstrike On Israeli Base
18.05.2024, 20:52 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - In a statement released by Hezbollah, they announced that they had launched their first-ever Lebanese airstrike on an Israeli base and also released videos. On May 17, Hezbollah carried out the first-ever Lebanese attack against an Israeli target, utilizing a drone that had never been seen before. Hezbollah released a statement on Thursday afternoon...
Oil Tanker Struck By Missile Off Yemen Coast
18.05.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Tanker Struck By Missile Off Yemen Coast As Ukrainian drones relentlessly target Russia's energy complex, tensions in the Middle East are once again rising. Early Saturday, Agence France-Presse reported that a crude oil tanker was hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen. These mounting geopolitical risks underscore the possible need for a higher...
Warsaw's Left-Wing Mayor Bans Display Of Christian Crosses In Public Buildings
18.05.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Warsaw's Left-Wing Mayor Bans Display Of Christian Crosses In Public Buildings Authored by Grzegorz Adamczyk via ReMix News, Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski has signed an order banning the display of religious symbols such as the Christian cross in public buildings. The move is said to be driven by a desire to combat discrimination. “Warsaw is...