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US Bans Kaspersky Antivirus Software, Citing Russian Influence
23.06.2024, 21:46 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - The US Department of Commerce has implemented a ban on Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus software, citing concerns over Russian influence and national security risks. Effective immediately, the ban impacts Kaspersky’s US subsidiary from selling or updating software in the country until September 29, 2024. You can read the original article here....
Fragility In A One Stock, Stock "Market"
23.06.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fragility In A One Stock, Stock "Market" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Ok, calling this a “one stock” stock “market” seems a bit extreme, but is it? On Thursday when stocks rolled over (the Nasdaq 100 started higher at the open and then dropped almost 300 points from there), virtually everyone I spoke to pointed to NVDA shares reversing...
Kamikaze Drone Attack Causes Damage To Commercial Ship In Red Sea
23.06.2024, 15:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kamikaze Drone Attack Causes Damage To Commercial Ship In Red Sea Suspected Iranian-backed Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden continue ramping up, with two more incident reports in under 12 hours (as of 0800 ET) on Sunday morning. In oil markets, traders ignore broader conflict risks in the Middle East as the Gaza war may soon spill...
Gaps In Electoral College Tiebreaker Rules Could Bring Constitutional Crisis
23.06.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gaps In Electoral College Tiebreaker Rules Could Bring Constitutional Crisis By Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities While many Americans know that an Electoral College tie sends presidential and vice presidential elections into the House of Representatives and Senate, few realize there’s a constitutional crisis lurking in the incomplete rules for...
You Will Be Tagged... And You Will Love It
22.06.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - You Will Be Tagged... And You Will Love It Authored by Riley Waggaman via Off-Guardian.org, As expected, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum was the hottest anti-globalist multipolar traditional RETVRN values conference of 2024 - possibly of all-time. The unipolar world suffered non-stop humiliations during this mind-blowing freedom event...
The Anxiety Economy
21.06.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Anxiety Economy Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We're told to stop being so darn negative even as the tsunami of inequality washes away the beach chairs of the bottom 90%. The disconnect between the happy story of the economy is growing healthily, so all is well and the insecurity and stagnation experienced by the bottom 90%...
Color The Dot Plot
21.06.2024, 17:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Color The Dot Plot By Philip Marey, Senior US Strategist at Rabobank Color the Dot Plot EUR/USD dropped below 1.070 this morning and GBP/USD below 1.265 as the Fed still looks relatively hawkish compared to central banks across the Atlantic. The Bank of England’s MPC maintained the policy rate at 5.25%, a decision that was ‘finely balanced’ for...
Deadly Heatwave Claims Over 1,000 Lives At This Year’s Hajj
21.06.2024, 14:50 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Over 1,000 lives were lost in a deadly heatwave during this year’s Hajj, with a significant number being unregistered pilgrims, including 630 Egyptians. The pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia’s scorching Mecca saw temperatures peak at 51.8°C (125°F) this week, highlighting severe health risks. Over a thousand people have died during this year’s...
Ukrainian Drone Swarms Target Four Russian Refineries In Major Attack
21.06.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukrainian Drone Swarms Target Four Russian Refineries In Major Attack Brent crude futures were flat on Friday amid rising geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe, which seems counterintuitive as escalating war risks could result in supply disruptions. In the overnight hours, four refineries in southern Russia were targeted, with one facility...
"Deal's Off", Canadian Officials Tell China
21.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Deal's Off", Canadian Officials Tell China Via SchiffGold.com, China’s recent attempt to secure a rare earth minerals stockpile ended in failure when a competitor stepped in to snag the deal... Vital Metals, a mining firm based in Australia, announced Monday that minerals collected from its Saskatchewan-based Nechalacho Project will remain within...
Escalating Red Sea Attacks Drive Up Vessel Insurance Costs
21.06.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escalating Red Sea Attacks Drive Up Vessel Insurance Costs Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been intensifying missile and drone attacks, targeting commercial vessels in the southern Red Sea, critical Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint, and the Gulf of Aden. The rebels have even threatened to extend their reach to the Mediterranean Sea. The recent sinking of the...
Thailand Joins China In Driving Gold Bull Market
20.06.2024, 16:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thailand Joins China In Driving Gold Bull Market By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesville Coins Shedding its long-standing price sensitivity to the price of gold, Thailand is currently a gold buyer driving the price up, just like China. Present changes in the global gold market, in which pricing power is shifting East, could be a precursor to a transformation...
Bank of England Keeps Rates Unchanged In "Dovish Hold", August Rate Cut On Deck
20.06.2024, 14:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bank of England Keeps Rates Unchanged In "Dovish Hold", August Rate Cut On Deck Unlike the SNB, which unexpectedly cut rates earlier this morning (full breakdown coming shortly), the Bank of England did not surprise markets and kept rates on hold at a 16 year high of 5.25%, even as it hinted that more policymakers may be close to backing interest rate...
US Stocks At All-Time High, Nasdaq Futures Gains For 8th Day After SNB Unexpectedly Cuts Rate
20.06.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Stocks At All-Time High, Nasdaq Futures Gains For 8th Day After SNB Unexpectedly Cuts Rate After hitting the beach during yesterday's blistering Juneteenth holiday, the "buy everything" algos are back and bigger than ever, pushing futures to a fresh all time high with tech leading - as always - and small-caps lagging after the Swiss National Bank...
Japan To Issue Bonds With Shorter Maturities As BOJ Begins Tapering QE
19.06.2024, 23:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan To Issue Bonds With Shorter Maturities As BOJ Begins Tapering QE With the constant implosion in the yen threatening to spark both runaway inflation and a currency crisis in Japan, especially after the latest toothless decision by the Bank of Japan, it finally appears that the BOJ is set to either hike rates, or trim its massive bond buying program...
US Markets May Be Closed But Tech Stocks Continue To Melt Up
19.06.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Markets May Be Closed But Tech Stocks Continue To Melt Up The cash market may be closed for the woke, virtue-signaling Juneteenth holiday, but that won't stop algos from gorging on the latest tech bubble, and sure enough, Nasdaq 100 futures extended their gains to an 8th consecutive day, following a strong run for technology shares that saw Nvidia...
Poland Was Just As Much To Blame As Britain For Sabotaging Spring 2022's Peace Talks
19.06.2024, 10:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Poland Was Just As Much To Blame As Britain For Sabotaging Spring 2022's Peace Talks Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The New York Times published the full version of the spring 2022 draft peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine over the weekend, which confirmed a lot of what was previously reported but also included some interesting details...
The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses
19.06.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses Last October, when the wounds from the March 2023 bank failures - which surpassed the global financial crisis in total assets and which sparked the latest Fed intervention, setting the market's nadir over...
On The Edge Of The Programmable Ledger: CBDCs
19.06.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - On The Edge Of The Programmable Ledger: CBDCs Authored by J.R. Bruning via The Brownstone Institute, New Zealand’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), has opened a consultation on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This is the second of four stages. RBNZ considers that Stage Three will involve the development of prototypes...
'Magnificent 7' Stocks Fade As NVDA Becomes World's Largest Company... Ever
18.06.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Magnificent 7' Stocks Fade As NVDA Becomes World's Largest Company... Ever In an attempt to not bury the lead, NVDA continued its irrepressible charge higher (up $375 BN in the last week, up $1.44 TN in the last two months, and up $2.2 TN YTD)... Source: Bloomberg ... topping MSFT and AAPL as the world's largest market cap company... ever... Source:...
AI: "Existential Crisis" Or Excuse For Cronyism?
18.06.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI: "Existential Crisis" Or Excuse For Cronyism? Authored by Joshua Mawhorter via The Mises Institute, Several months ago, I was on a long car trip with my dad, and we listened to a podcast that gave some commentary on the following headlines from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal: “AI Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry...
Futures Flat As Tech Stocks Rise For 7th Consecutive Day
18.06.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Tech Stocks Rise For 7th Consecutive Day Futures are flat with gigatech naturally outperforming into today’s retail sales print where the expectations are for beats to resume after last month's sharp miss. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures were completely flat, while Nasdaq futures were up for the 7th day in a row as it nudges toward the...
Apple 'Pay Later' Discontinued As New BNPL Scheme Shifts Consumer Debt Risk To Affirm
18.06.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple 'Pay Later' Discontinued As New BNPL Scheme Shifts Consumer Debt Risk To Affirm Apple has ended 'Apple Pay Later,' the buy now, pay later (BNPL) service launched in the US early last year. The change went into effect today, according to 9to5Mac. Users with outstanding BNPL debt can still manage payments in the app. This comes ahead of Apple's...
Former CDC Director Predicts Bird Flu Virus Will Cause Next Pandemic
18.06.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former CDC Director Predicts Bird Flu Virus Will Cause Next Pandemic Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has issued a grim prediction that the next major pandemic will be caused by the bird flu. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers...
Trade War 2.0? China Launches Anti-Dumping Probe On Pork Imports From EU After EV Tariffs
17.06.2024, 17:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trade War 2.0? China Launches Anti-Dumping Probe On Pork Imports From EU After EV Tariffs China appears to be developing a limited and targeted retaliation against Europe after the bloc unveiled expanded tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles last week. A tit-for-tat retaliation between Brussels and Beijing risks triggering another trade war. On...
Vietnam Hit By Widespread Internet Disruption After Undersea Cables Fail
17.06.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Vietnam Hit By Widespread Internet Disruption After Undersea Cables Fail Vietnam News Agency reports three of Vietnam's five international undersea internet cables are down to start the week, sparking major internet outages. This is the country's second major outage in just over a year. The Intra Asia (IA) cable had an incident on its S1 branch...
How Does Crypto Perform In An Inflationary Recession
17.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Does Crypto Perform In An Inflationary Recession By Sebastian Bea of Coinbase Asset Management A pinch of paranoia is an essential ingredient in the risk management toolkit as markets hunt to humiliate hubris. Investors are tasked with monetizing megatrends. Macro risks are seen as a nuisance for growth-focused investment styles. But macro risks...
Musk Says "Eliminate Electronic Voting Machines" After Dominion's Puerto Rican Imbroglio
16.06.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Musk Says "Eliminate Electronic Voting Machines" After Dominion's Puerto Rican Imbroglio Elon Musk on Saturday suggested that electronic voting machines should not be used in elections, as "The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high." Musk was responding to the recent news that Puerto Rico is 'reviewing' their contract...
Prepare For The Repricing Of Risk Globally
16.06.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Prepare For The Repricing Of Risk Globally Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, There are no more "saves" available for the next market meltdown. The past 24 years can be viewed as an era in which risk declined due to the dynamics of globalization and financialization. The ascent of China as "workshop of the world" generated a deflationary...
Beyond Bad: Fake Meat And Other 'Ultra Processed' Vegan Food Linked To Heart Disease, Early Death
15.06.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beyond Bad: Fake Meat And Other 'Ultra Processed' Vegan Food Linked To Heart Disease, Early Death New research suggests that ultra-processed vegan food can increase the risk of heart disease and early death, the NY Post reports, citing a new study published in The Lancet from the University of São Paulo and Imperial College London. Ultra-processed...
Austrian Right-Wing Party Wants To Appoint A 'Remigration Commissioner'
15.06.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Austrian Right-Wing Party Wants To Appoint A 'Remigration Commissioner' Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via modernity.news, Right-wing Austrian political party FPÖ wants to appoint a ‘Remigration Commissioner’ who will oversee the deportation of illegal immigrants. The Freedom Party of Austria won the EU elections after obtaining 25.4 per cent of...
Tattoos Associated With Increased Lymphoma Risk, And Size Doesn’t Matter: Study
14.06.2024, 19:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tattoos Associated With Increased Lymphoma Risk, And Size Doesn’t Matter: Study Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Nikolai Kazakov/Shutterstock) That tattoo you’ve been dreaming of to express your individuality? It could come with a price. A new study finds the ink used in creating popular body art contains toxic ingredients...
Europe's Gas Supply Risks Remain Despite Record Storage Levels
14.06.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe's Gas Supply Risks Remain Despite Record Storage Levels Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Europe’s natural gas prices have jumped by 40% over the past three months. The stronger pull of LNG to Asia has left Europe with fewer imports in the spring. The EU’s gas storage sites were 72.3% full as of June 11. Europe’s natural...
Millions In Drug Money Has Made Its Way Into The South Florida Commercial Real Estate Market
14.06.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Millions In Drug Money Has Made Its Way Into The South Florida Commercial Real Estate Market A new report is revealing how illegal drug funds have made their way through the commercial real estate market in South Florida "and beyond", according to Bisnow. Among examples was Miami's Sefira Capital, who agreed to forfeit over $29M in 2021 to settle...
China Blasts US For Using Ukraine Crisis As Pretext For Sanctions
14.06.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Blasts US For Using Ukraine Crisis As Pretext For Sanctions Just ahead of the upcoming Ukraine peace summit set to be held in Switzerland on June 15–16, China's foreign ministry has blasted Washington's "extremely hypocritical" stance on the war. Spokesman Lin Jian said in a daily briefing that the West is feigning that it's "striving for peace"...
G7 Leaders To Use Frozen Russian Assets To Back Next Tranche Of Ukraine Aid
14.06.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - G7 Leaders To Use Frozen Russian Assets To Back Next Tranche Of Ukraine Aid Group of Seven (G7) leaders on Thursday reached an agreement in Italy to provide Ukraine with a loan backed by frozen Russian assets. And while the total amount is unclear at this time, the Biden administration has committed $50 billion alone. Biden salutes Zelensky at the G7...
Staying Up Late Tied To Higher Risks Of Depression And Anxiety
13.06.2024, 14:44 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - A recent large-scale study from Stanford Medicine, led by Jamie Zeitzer and Renske Lok, found that regardless of chronotype, staying up late significantly increases the risks of depression, anxiety, and other behavioral disorders. You can read the original article here. You enjoy spending those late evenings working through the night as a mark of pride...
Why Nearly Half Of US Online Job Postings Are Fake
13.06.2024, 04:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Nearly Half Of US Online Job Postings Are Fake Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Amid complex hiring processes, a shadow is spreading in the American business world. Companies are using fake online job openings to project an image of growth, keep existing employees motivated, and cultivate a pool of possible future...
HHS Sued Over Rule Requiring Health Care Providers To Perform 'Gender Transition' Procedures
13.06.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - HHS Sued Over Rule Requiring Health Care Providers To Perform 'Gender Transition' Procedures Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The attorneys general of Montana and Texas on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), over a rule that says states must pay for...
Late Bedtime Linked To Higher Rates Of Depression And Anxiety, Large-Scale Study Finds
13.06.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Late Bedtime Linked To Higher Rates Of Depression And Anxiety, Large-Scale Study Finds Authored by Zena le Roux via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), You relish those late nights, burning the midnight oil as a badge of honor. But that exhilarating lifestyle of staying up into the wee hours may be silently sabotaging your mental health. (Stephen Bridger/Shutterstock)...
Markets Flip-Flop As Buybacks & 'Bad' Data Battle Hawkish Dots & Pensive Powell
12.06.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Flip-Flop As Buybacks & 'Bad' Data Battle Hawkish Dots & Pensive Powell Soft CPI (bad data?) sparked a melt-up in stocks, bonds (prices), gold, and crypto which held in place until The Fed statement (more specifically the dotplot) which sent a more hawkish message to markets than was expected. The initial reversal shock of the hawkish statement...
Golf And Investing: Mastering Long And Short Games For Success
12.06.2024, 18:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Golf And Investing: Mastering Long And Short Games For Success Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Let’s play a hole of golf to appreciate how two distinct aspects of golf provide valuable lessons for investors. You tee off with a driver on a 450-yard par four hole. Your drive is perfect. Not only does the ball land in the middle...
Are The Jobs Drying Up?
12.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are The Jobs Drying Up? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Part of the difficulty in reading economic statistics to discern where we are in the cycle is the huge crater of 2020. A full shutdown like this had never happened before. All data just went nuts, seesawing one way down and then the other way up. Everyone is looking...
FOMC Preview: From Three Rate Cuts To Two
12.06.2024, 04:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FOMC Preview: From Three Rate Cuts To Two Coming just hours after the May CPI print, tomorrow's - and the month's - main event is the FOMC decision due at 2pm ET, when the Fed is widely expected to leave rates on hold at 5.25-5.50%, and the statement will likely also largely be reiterated after slight tweaks in the May statement. Attention will fall...
Global Food Prices Rise For Third Straight Month, Fueling Instability Risks In Developing World
11.06.2024, 19:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Food Prices Rise For Third Straight Month, Fueling Instability Risks In Developing World The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported that global food prices increased for the third consecutive month in May. This rise was driven by higher prices for cereals and dairy products, which outweighed declines in sugar...
French Bonds Plunge Amid Macron Resignation Rumors
11.06.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - French Bonds Plunge Amid Macron Resignation Rumors The blowout in European bond yields extended for a second day as French bonds tumbled, driving the biggest two-day jump in yields since the pandemic, amid rumors that Macron was preparing to announce his resignation, which has been swiftly denied by a person close to him. The French president is set...
Futures Slide Ahead Of Wednesday's Main Event, As European Political Turmoil Sparks Bond Rout
11.06.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide Ahead Of Wednesday's Main Event, As European Political Turmoil Sparks Bond Rout US equity futures are lower with small-caps lagging, while Treasuries and the dollar rose as traders braced for a landmark day tomorrow that sees the release of both CPI data in the morning and then the Fed's latest decision at 2pm ET. The crowded schedule...
Doctors, Medical Groups Call For Focus On Mental Health In Gender-Confused Children
11.06.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Doctors, Medical Groups Call For Focus On Mental Health In Gender-Confused Children Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than 100 medical professionals and groups have signed onto a declaration that calls for a shift in focus toward addressing underlying psychological problems in children who experience discomfort with their...
Key Events This Week: Fed, CPI and PPI
10.06.2024, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Fed, CPI and PPI With the (ridiculously manipulated propaganda) jobs report now in the history books, this week the whole financial world will be focused on Wednesday with two big events occurring: the latest FOMC and CPI (with PPI to follow on day later). Below, DB's Jim Reid previews the first two below but other events this...