Neueste Heute 02.06.2024 01.06.2024
Hedge Fund CIO On The Next Leg: "It'll Be Parabolic. The Talking Heads Will Go Nuts. VIX Will Hit 10"
03.06.2024, 01:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedge Fund CIO On The Next Leg: "It'll Be Parabolic. The Talking Heads Will Go Nuts. VIX Will Hit 10" By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “Still nosebleed long,” grunted Bulldog, selling a few S&P puts for sport. “Bought more stocks, and now I’m buying bonds. Not as a hedge, they’re both going up,” growled Dawg. “The Baby...
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...
Beware The Embrace Of TradFi Firms Now Entering Crypto
31.05.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beware The Embrace Of TradFi Firms Now Entering Crypto Authored by Omid Malekan, News that a bank or payment provider is doing something in crypto used to be a big deal. When I first entered crypto a decade ago, it was often the biggest deal. One of the first major spikes in the price of ETH was triggered by the launch of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance...
Is Hyper-Inflation That Destroys A Currency A "Solution"?
29.05.2024, 20:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Hyper-Inflation That Destroys A Currency A "Solution"? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, When predicting the future, we're best served by following "what benefits the wealthy and powerful," as that is the likeliest outcome. This contrarian sees a strong consensus around the notion that hyper-inflation is the inevitable end-game...
Is The Federal Reserve Just Winging It?
29.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The Federal Reserve Just Winging It? Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Are the central bankers at the Federal Reserve just winging it? It sure seems that way if you step back and take a long view of their decision-making. Fed officials project this aura of authority. You might imagine them as hyper-intelligent experts in the field of...
Is The World Lurching Back Toward A Gold Standard?
28.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The World Lurching Back Toward A Gold Standard? Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Could the world be creeping closer to a monetary gold standard? Steve Forbes sees signs that it is. In a recent article published by Forbes Magazine, Steve Forbes wrote that it may seem hard to believe, but the world is “beginning to lurch toward a gold-based...
First Time Since GFC: Holders Of AAA 'CRE-Backed' Debt Hit With Losses
24.05.2024, 21:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First Time Since GFC: Holders Of AAA 'CRE-Backed' Debt Hit With Losses Investors holding a tranche of top-rated debt backed by commercial real estate have suffered losses for the first time since the housing meltdown collapsed the economy 16 years ago. This alarming development signals a worsening multi-year downturn in the CRE space, fueled by the...
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...
Global Bankers Are Suddenly Worried About The Soaring US National Debt
21.05.2024, 19:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Bankers Are Suddenly Worried About The Soaring US National Debt In January of this year JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon argued in an interview with Fortune Magazine that the record US debt 'Is a cliff...and we're going 60MPH towards it." He claimed that the situation was a global market rebellion waiting to happen. His comments preceded reports...
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...
Inflation Is A Policy. Gold Does Not Reflect Monetary Destruction, Yet
19.05.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Inflation Is A Policy. Gold Does Not Reflect Monetary Destruction, Yet Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The money supply is rising again, and persistent inflation is not a surprise. Inflation occurs when the amount of currency increases significantly above private sector demand. For investors, the worst decision in this environment of monetary destruction...
Nickel Prices Log Best Week In Over A Year As Riots In New Caledonia Spark Supply Concerns
18.05.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nickel Prices Log Best Week In Over A Year As Riots In New Caledonia Spark Supply Concerns Nickel prices on the London Metal Exchange just had their best week in nearly a year and a half. The surge comes as social unrest rocks New Caledonia. A new report highlighted last week about surging demand for base metals driven by the clean energy push, as...
GameStop Crashes On Plan To Dump 45 Million Shares On Market
17.05.2024, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GameStop Crashes On Plan To Dump 45 Million Shares On Market Sunday: pic.twitter.com/YgjVqtgcNS — Roaring Kitty ( TheRoaringKitty) May 13, 2024 Roaring Kitty's post on X unleashed a mega short squeeze in heavily shorted Gamestop and AMC Entertainment Holdings between Monday and Wednesday. On the first day of the mania, we pointed out, "You...
Out Of Control Inflation: It Now Takes At Least $177,798 For A Family Of 4 To Live Comfortably In The US
17.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Out Of Control Inflation: It Now Takes At Least $177,798 For A Family Of 4 To Live Comfortably In The US Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, I never imagined that we would ever see a time when it takes $177,798 for a family of four to live comfortably in the United States. Unfortunately, that day has arrived. Our leaders have...
$27,000 Gold
16.05.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - $27,000 Gold Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, I’ve previously said that gold could reach $15,000 by 2026. Today, I’m updating that forecast. My latest forecast is that gold may actually exceed $27,000. I don’t say that to get attention or to shock people. It’s not a guess; it’s the result of rigorous analysis. Of course,...
Watch Live: Will Fed Chair Powell Admit He Can Now See The 'Flation'?
14.05.2024, 15:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: Will Fed Chair Powell Admit He Can Now See The 'Flation'? Squeezed in between today's (hotter than expected) PPI and tomorrow's CPI, Fed Chair Jay Powell will join The ECB's Dutch Central Banker Klaus Knot at the annual general meeting of the Foreign Bankers' Association. After PPI - and a wave of higher prices across various indicators...
AMC Raised $250 Million In ATM Offering As 'Meme' Stocks Rocket Higher
14.05.2024, 14:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AMC Raised $250 Million In ATM Offering As 'Meme' Stocks Rocket Higher With AMC Entertainment and GameStop's short squeezes causing significant losses for short sellers on Monday, we noted the growing likelihood that "bankers are burning the phones at GME and AMC pitching ATM equity offerings for after the close." You know jefferies bankers are burning...
World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies
11.05.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies Authored by Nick Corbishley via naked capitalism, At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale. In October last year...
"The US Economic Picture Appears To Be Softening"
10.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The US Economic Picture Appears To Be Softening" By Rabobank The Bank of England left the Bank Rate unchanged at 5.25% yesterday, but the clear signal from the record of votes, and Governor Bailey, is that cuts aren’t far away. This time around the vote split 7-2 in favour of holding (previously 8-1), with arch-dove Dhingra being joined by former...
Malta's Central Bank Governor Charged With Fraud And Misappropriation Of Funds
10.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Malta's Central Bank Governor Charged With Fraud And Misappropriation Of Funds They say central bankers can always print money out thin air: in this one case, however, the head of Malta's central bank could desperately do with a bigger money printer, or at least a much better attorney. Malta's attorney general filed charges of fraud and misappropriation...
The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt"
09.05.2024, 04:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt" Yesterday we discussed the latest consumer credit data, which revealed that the amount of credit card debt across the US has hit a new record high of $1.337 trillion (even though it appears to have finally hit a brick wall, barely rising...
Office Tower Turmoil In NYC Worsens Ahead Of Trillion Dollar Maturity Wall
09.05.2024, 00:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Office Tower Turmoil In NYC Worsens Ahead Of Trillion Dollar Maturity Wall A combination of factors, including remote work, an exodus of progressive cities, higher interest rates for longer, and diminished credit availability, continues to pressure the office tower market nationwide. The latest example of challenges facing the $20 trillion commercial...
The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway
08.05.2024, 23:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts...
What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold?
07.05.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, With the eventual introduction of central bank digital currency (CBDCs) now seemingly inevitable, there are a lot of directions central banks could take with their digital currency projects that would have dramatic implications for the price of gold. Touted for their “convenience” and “efficiency...
Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down
06.05.2024, 16:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down After a whirlwind two weeks which saw both the latest FOMC decision and the April jobs report, not to mention the peak of earnings season when all of the top tech companies reported, the calendar takes a quieter turn after the deluge of macro events last week, and the focus shifts on whether markets can...
Money Is A Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender
04.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money Is A Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, A major intellectual revelation from my youth came from reading Murray Rothbard’s “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” (1963). He includes a passing opinion that private markets are perfectly capable of producing money with no help from government...
Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise
03.05.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via bombthrower.com, Nor will it change anything over the long haul… We’ve always said that the rise of Bitcoin and non-state fintech was a monetary regime change, and that it would be naive to expect the entrenched “powers that be” and incumbent establishment...
Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near
30.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, World reserve status allows for amazing latitude in terms of monetary policy. The Federal Reserve understands that there is constant demand for dollars overseas as a means to more easily import and export goods. The dollar’s...
WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build
30.04.2024, 22:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build WTI ended April on a down-note (closing lower on the month, as opposed to Brent which saw its fourth straight monthly gain) as hopes for cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas dampened fears of a wider conflict that could threaten crude supplies. The recent declines come as a "relief to...
'Stagflationary' GDP Data Sparks Market Turmoil, Rate-Cut Hopes Crushed
25.04.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Stagflationary' GDP Data Sparks Market Turmoil, Rate-Cut Hopes Crushed Weaker than expected growth and hotter than expected prices... the perfect example of a central banker's nemesis: Stagflation... and the market is very unhappy about it. Rate-cut expectations have dropped back near cycle lows (for 2024 and 2025)... Source: Bloomberg Treasury yields...
Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate
25.04.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate By John Kartch of Americans For Tax Reform President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years. Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified...
What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good)
24.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good) Authored by Antonius Aquinas, The recent run-up in the gold price has not garnered the attention among the mainstream financial media outlets as it should. Gold has, in part, been overshadowed by the rise in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Naturally, the financial...
BlackRock Triples Larry Fink's Home Security As Anti-Woke Backlash Accelerates
23.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BlackRock Triples Larry Fink's Home Security As Anti-Woke Backlash Accelerates BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink's efforts to push 'wokesim' or environmental, social, and governance policies across corporate America have been in reverse in recent years amid the backlash from Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill and 19 state attorneys general...
Here Comes The Cavalry?
22.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here Comes The Cavalry? By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank Here Comes The Cavalry? The risk of imminent hot war between Israel and Iran seems to have dissipated for the time being. Israel on Friday delivered its promised response to the Iranian strike of the weekend before by hitting targets in Syria and the Iranian city of Isfahan. Reporting of the strikes...
Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon
18.04.2024, 06:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, One of the more difficult aspects of working in economic analysis is the problem of rampant disinformation that you have to dig through in order to get to the truth of any particular issue. In this regard, economics is very...
Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis
16.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis Submitted by David Asher, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and former senior advisor to the State Department on China, At 0800 ET, the China Subcommittee in the House of Representatives will convene a critically important hearing on the Chinese government's...
Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive
16.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Rather than attempt to evade Caesar's reach, a better strategy might be to 'go gray': blend in, appear average. Let's start by stipulating that I don't "like" this forecast. I'm not "talking my book" (for example, promoting nuclear power because...
Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future
31.03.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTWoMinds blog, Lest you weep for those whose phantom wealth will be drained away, recall that few win when a reserve currency dies. Labor can start earning the day after the reset, but the capital lost is gone for good. Outside the "everything's always fine" echo-chamber, the...
From Enlightenment To Ignorance: Society's Dangerous Embrace Of Stupidity
31.03.2024, 15:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Enlightenment To Ignorance: Society's Dangerous Embrace Of Stupidity Authored by Anthony Esolen via American Greatness, What would be the state of a society in which a will to stupidity were united with a will to power? When I first decided to study and teach literature as my life’s vocation, I foresaw the work ahead of me—to learn as much...
Sick Of It All
29.03.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sick Of It All Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Every week, usually once or twice, I sit down to put onto paper my thoughts about the market. And every week, my disgust not only for the rigged system that encompasses our equity markets, but also for the sound of my own whining, grows exponentially. When I sit down to perfunctorily prattle on about...
America's Minsky Moment Approaches
29.03.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Minsky Moment Approaches Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Named after American economist Hyman Minsky, the idea behind a Minsky moment is that a financial markets crisis (especially in credit markets) is caused by a sudden and systemic collapse in asset prices, usually after a sustained period of speculative investment, excessive...
Home-Flipping Plummets As Profits Slump
27.03.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Home-Flipping Plummets As Profits Slump By Michael Tucker of the Mortgage Bankers Association Home flipping fell nearly 30% in 2023 compared to the year before, according to ATTOM. The ATTOM year-end 2023 U.S. Home Flipping Report said 308,922 single-family homes and condos in the United States were flipped last year, down 29.3% from 436,807 in 2022...
Swissy Tumbles After SNB Surprises With Rate-Cut
21.03.2024, 12:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swissy Tumbles After SNB Surprises With Rate-Cut The Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced a surprise cut to interest rates on Thursday in a sign of policymakers’ confidence over falling inflation. The SNB cut its key interest rate by 25bps to 1.50%, acting months before global peers may follow suit as policymakers try to prevent gains in the franc...
Junk Bond Default Surge Continues In 2024
19.03.2024, 17:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Junk Bond Default Surge Continues In 2024 Via SchiffGold.com, Consumers aren’t the only ones defaulting on their debts: Corporate bond defaults were up massively in 2023, especially for high-risk junk debt, and the trend is continuing this year at a pace not seen since the 2008 global financial crisis. Unsurprisingly, companies selling low-rated...
Angry Citizens Are Losing Patience With Monetary Frameworks That Enrich Those Closest To The Money Printer
30.11.2023, 17:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Angry Citizens Are Losing Patience With Monetary Frameworks That Enrich Those Closest To The Money Printer By Benjamin Picton, senior strategist at Rabobank Gift Wrapped Today is the big day. I’m not talking about the release of the US PCE deflator or the OPEC+ meeting (though both are on the calendar and will be a big deal), but the annual event...
NY Prosecutor Scrambles To Salvage Anti-Trump Case, Argues Deutsche Bank Being Happy Is 'Irrelevant'
29.11.2023, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NY Prosecutor Scrambles To Salvage Anti-Trump Case, Argues Deutsche Bank Being Happy Is 'Irrelevant' Donald Trump, NY Attorney General Letitia James (D) Yesterday we noted that Deutsche Bank executive David Williams may have nuked New York's case against former President Donald Trump - testifying on Tuesday that the bank has no problem with clients...
Downbeat Beige Book Finds Economic Activity "Slowing", Brings Fed One Step Closer To Rate Cuts
29.11.2023, 20:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Downbeat Beige Book Finds Economic Activity "Slowing", Brings Fed One Step Closer To Rate Cuts One month after the October Beige book found "little change" in the US economy even as the outlook turned decidedly gloomier, moments ago the Fed released the latest, November, Beige Book in which we find just why the outlook darkened: according to the Fed...
Waller Whacks The Dollar: Dovish Fed-Hawk Sparks Bid For Bullion, Bonds, & Bitcoin
28.11.2023, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Waller Whacks The Dollar: Dovish Fed-Hawk Sparks Bid For Bullion, Bonds, & Bitcoin Another day, another set of weaker data with Case-Shiller home-prices rising at their slowest rate since March, ugly downward revisions in the Conference Board consumer confidence data (and labor market weakness), and Richmond Fed Manufacturing and Dallas Fed Services...
Futures Slide To Session Lows Amid Growing Concerns Rally Is Over
28.11.2023, 14:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide To Session Lows Amid Growing Concerns Rally Is Over US equity futures and European stocks both fell for a second day amid signs the November rally in equities is overstretched with even such bullish Goldman luminaries (and flow gurus) as Scott Rubner calling an end to the meltup this week. As of 8:15am ET, S&P and Nasdaq futures are...