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SNB Unexpectedly Cuts Rates Again As Swiss Inflation Continues To Ease
20.06.2024, 15:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SNB Unexpectedly Cuts Rates Again As Swiss Inflation Continues To Ease The Swiss National Bank unexpectedly cut interest rates on Thursday for the second time this year, pointing to easing price pressures that allowed it to maintain its position as the front-runner in the global policy easing cycle now underway. The Swiss franc, which had soared in...
Continuing Jobless Claims Keep Rising, California Initial Claims Crash
20.06.2024, 14:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Continuing Jobless Claims Keep Rising, California Initial Claims Crash After the prior week's surge to 10-month highs (on the back of California claims suddenly soaring after Newsom introduced his brilliant $20 min wage fast food gambit), analysts expected a small dip in claims last week... and they were right with initial claims falling from 243k (revised...
China's Copper Exports Jump To Record On 'Export Arbitrage'
20.06.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Copper Exports Jump To Record On 'Export Arbitrage' Until the Chinese government introduces more robust stimulus packages to counter soft economic data and exporters in the world's second-largest economy ease up on flooding global markets with copper, prices of the base metal—crucial for power lines and AI data centers—are expected...
MSM Very Belatedly Reports On Ukraine's Brutal Military Recruitment Methods
20.06.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - MSM Very Belatedly Reports On Ukraine's Brutal Military Recruitment Methods A mere year ago, there was already ample evidence that Ukrainian recruitment officers were using brutal and desperate tactics to ensure a steady supply of young soldiers for the front lines in the fight against Russia. This is a trend which has only grown, as the tragic situation...
Life Of O'Brien
20.06.2024, 03:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Life Of O'Brien By Teeuwe Mevissen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Yesterday, news came out that Trump’s last national security advisor Robert O’Brien has written an article that will be published in the next edition of the renowned foreign policy magazine Foreign Affairs. While it is of course not sure that Trump will win the upcoming election...
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...
Snitches Give Stitches: Oregon Moves To Make Reporting Microaggressions Mandatory For Doctors
19.06.2024, 19:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Snitches Give Stitches: Oregon Moves To Make Reporting Microaggressions Mandatory For Doctors Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is a controversy in Oregon over a proposed change in the ethics rule from the Oregon Medical Board. At issue is the use of “microaggressions” to discipline doctors and to make reporting such transgressions mandatory...
Germany Moves Closer To AfD Ban, Green Claims Party Is "Security Risk For People & Democracy"
19.06.2024, 12:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany Moves Closer To AfD Ban, Green Claims Party Is "Security Risk For People & Democracy" Authored by Denes Albert via ReMix News, The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which is now the second most popular party in the country, is moving closer to being banned. Christian Democrat (CDU) MP Marco Wanderwitz says he has enough MPs in his corner...
Ozempic Fuels 'Downsize Me' Trend As Slimmed Down Americans Hunt For New Clothes
19.06.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ozempic Fuels 'Downsize Me' Trend As Slimmed Down Americans Hunt For New Clothes If Ozempic and or Mounjaro users can avoid processed foods and get some exercise, they'll likely maintain their weight loss. The good news is that some of these individuals, who have ditched greasy burgers and donuts, are possibly already on the hunt for smaller clothes...
Only 28% Of The Public Has "High Confidence" In Higher Education; New Poll Finds
18.06.2024, 14:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Only 28% Of The Public Has "High Confidence" In Higher Education; New Poll Finds Authored by Jonathan Turley, A new poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago (commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) shows that only 28% of Americans have a lot of trust in higher education. Academia has continued to alienate much...
Retail Sales To Beat Estimates According To Latest Card Spending Data
18.06.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Sales To Beat Estimates According To Latest Card Spending Data Last month was the first time in about a year, when the Bank of America retail sales forecast - one derived from real-time debit and credit card spending and which is usually spot on and unerringly correct - was wrong, predicting a small beat when in fact the final number was a big...
Sense And Nonsense On Petrodollars
17.06.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sense And Nonsense On Petrodollars Authored by Peter Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, Last week several reports suggested the termination of a US-Saudi petrodollar agreement, and speculated a Saudi Arabian move to sell oil on world markets in various currencies, including the Chinese yuan. The accounts were rife with inaccuracies:...
French Markets Stabilize After Le Pen Says She'll Work With Macron In Appeal To French Moderates
17.06.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - French Markets Stabilize After Le Pen Says She'll Work With Macron In Appeal To French Moderates In a bid to shore up political support from the centrists, over the weekend France's surprise political leader Marine Le Pen - who blew president Macron away in the European Parliament elections - assured that she would work with Macron should she prevail...
Futures Flat As European Stocks Stabilize
17.06.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As European Stocks Stabilize Futures are flat to start the holiday-shortened week (markets are closed Wednesday for Juneteenth). As of 8:00am, S&P futures are unchanged just above 5500, while Nasdaq futures rose 0.2%; France’s CAC 40 benchmark erased most of its opening 1% advance and global stocks ceded most of their early gains sparked...
"There Seems To Be A Sense Of Incredulousness Around What Is Going On In The Markets"
16.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "There Seems To Be A Sense Of Incredulousness Around What Is Going On In The Markets" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Same but different A few topics that we have touched on over the past few months continue to be relevant. What is interesting is that a few of those topics now seem to have garnered far more attention than in the past. Discrepancies...
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...
Education Nightmare: Baltimore & Chicago Public Schools Spend, Spend, Spend As Test Scores Drop
16.06.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Education Nightmare: Baltimore & Chicago Public Schools Spend, Spend, Spend As Test Scores Drop Baltimore City and Chicago Public Schools are spending taxpayer monies like there's no tomorrow, yet math and reading test scores are shockingly low. Radical leftists, who are embedded in these school systems, along with the officials in City Halls...
NAACP Sues After School Goes Back To Confederate Name
16.06.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NAACP Sues After School Goes Back To Confederate Name The Virginia NAACP has sued a school board in Shenandoah Country after the district restored Confederate military names for two buildings - reversing what became a watershed moment in virtue signaling after dozens of schools changed their names following the 2020 death of George Floyd. Stonewall...
"Freaking Brilliant New Trend": Write "Vote Trump, End Taxes On Tips!" On Server Checks
16.06.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Freaking Brilliant New Trend": Write "Vote Trump, End Taxes On Tips!" On Server Checks About a week ago, former President Trump floated the idea of canceling taxes on tips at a campaign rally in Las Vegas. By Thursday of last week, Republican lawmakers were delighted by the idea and how it could generate new Trump voters ahead of the November elections...
Gruppenbilder mit Einbeinigen
15.06.2024, 16:52 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - Ein neuer Trend erobert Berlin: Das Kriegsversehrtenselfie. Wer gesehen werden will, lässt sich neben einen Ukrainer mit fehlenden Gliedmaßen ablichten.Den Bericht gibt's hier. “Mama, ich will auch ein abgeschossenes Bein!”...
Tech Insider Explains Why Some In Silicon Valley Are Turning To Trump
15.06.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tech Insider Explains Why Some In Silicon Valley Are Turning To Trump Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock, Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO—Jacob Helberg didn’t start out as a big fan of former President Donald Trump. In his 2021 book, “The Wires of War,” Mr. Helberg detailed...
"Bitcoin is Exponential Gold", Says Fidelity's Director Of Global Macro
14.06.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Bitcoin is Exponential Gold", Says Fidelity's Director Of Global Macro Authored by Nik Hoffman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Jurrien Timmer, Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro, recently made a notable statement about Bitcoin, describing it as "exponential gold" and an emerging player on the "store of value" team. Timmer's comments were shared through...
Grant: Rates Are Going Much Higher. Is He Right?
14.06.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Grant: Rates Are Going Much Higher. Is He Right? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Recently, James Grant, editor of the Interest Rate Observer, was asked about his outlook for interest rates. He sees interest rates moving in a cyclical pattern, potentially rising for another multi-decade period. Grant bases his view on historical...
What Is The Median Pay Of 'Magnificent Seven' Companies?
14.06.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Is The Median Pay Of 'Magnificent Seven' Companies? The Magnificent Seven are lifting the stock market to new highs, led by Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, and Alphabet in particular. In May alone, these tech giants added $1.4 trillion in market capitalization to the S&P 500 - surpassing the combined gains of 296 other stocks during the same period....
Visualizing America's Shift To A Cashless Society
14.06.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing America's Shift To A Cashless Society A cashless society is one in which financial transactions are conducted primarily through digital means rather than physical cash, relying on technologies like credit cards and mobile payments. While no country today has fully reached this concept, there are some (like China and South Korea) that have...
Canada's Uranium Mining Boom Positions It To Overtake Kazakhstan As Top Producer
14.06.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Canada's Uranium Mining Boom Positions It To Overtake Kazakhstan As Top Producer Canada was the world's top uranium producer for years until Kazakhstan dethroned it in 2009. Fast forward to 2022, and Canada held the second spot, pumping out 15% of the global supply. By 2023, Canada became the top uranium supplier to the US, delivering 27% of total...
Doug Casey On How The Climate Hysteria Is Lowering Your Standard Of Living
14.06.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Doug Casey On How The Climate Hysteria Is Lowering Your Standard Of Living Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, International Man: The carbon hysteria extends far beyond oil and gas companies. One overlooked area is household appliances. Politicians are implementing increasingly stringent regulations for dishwashers, washing machines, and...
S&P Set For 29th Record High Of 2024 As Futures Continue Relentless Grind Higher
13.06.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P Set For 29th Record High Of 2024 As Futures Continue Relentless Grind Higher Futures are higher, again, with Tech leading, again, and small-caps lagging, the same trend that we saw after the Powell press conference despite small-caps leading the way most of the session. As of 8:00am, S&P futures were up 0.1% and set for the 29th all time high print...
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...
Fed Chair Powell Admits The Biden Admin Is "Overstating" Jobs
13.06.2024, 01:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed Chair Powell Admits The Biden Admin Is "Overstating" Jobs Every first Friday of this year (here, here and here) we have spent hours deconstructing the glaring propaganda peddled by Biden's Labor Department, meant to show just one thing - how "strong" the economy is under the current administration - and exposing just how ugly the underlying labor...
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...
"Unequivocally A Good Report": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Dovish CPI Shocker
12.06.2024, 16:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Unequivocally A Good Report": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Dovish CPI Shocker As we expected in our preview calling for "optimism for a low print", today's CPI delivered the kind of downside surprise that bond bulls and the Fed have been waiting for, as both headline and core came in a tenth lower than expected, largely driven by a 3.6% drop in gasoline...
Futures Set For New Record High Ahead Of CPI, Fed Double Header
12.06.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Set For New Record High Ahead Of CPI, Fed Double Header Futures are up modestly after another record close on Wall Street heading into today's double whammy of CPI, and FOMC Dot Plot update, with Nasdaq leading and small-caps lagging. As of 8:00am, S&P futures are up 0.1% to 5,390 and set to extend the stretch of record highs as traders position...
Brewing Storm: World's Top Robusta Coffee Producer Reports Smallest Export Since 2009
12.06.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Brewing Storm: World's Top Robusta Coffee Producer Reports Smallest Export Since 2009 More troubling news is brewing for coffee lovers from the world's top-producing country in Southeast Asia. New export data reveals a sharp decline in robusta beans, commonly used in instant coffee and espresso and as a filler in various ground coffee blends. This development...
Biden Campaign (Again) Claims Trump "Has Praised The Third Reich"
12.06.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Campaign (Again) Claims Trump "Has Praised The Third Reich" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Biden campaign senior adviser Adrienne Elrod claimed Monday that Donald Trump has “praised the Third Reich” and intends to rule as a racist dictator. During an interview with CNN, Elrod was asked to comment on Republicans who “worship”...
The Five Stages Of Denial When Skeptics Are Faced With Economic Collapse
11.06.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Five Stages Of Denial When Skeptics Are Faced With Economic Collapse Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, In light of the recent resurgence of inflation on top of increasingly rigged employments stats, declining manufacturing and stagnant wages I think it’s important to revisit a fundamental question: What does an economic collapse look...
Buy Now, Pay Later Craze Coming To Apple Pay
11.06.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Buy Now, Pay Later Craze Coming To Apple Pay Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off on Monday and was widely disappointing. What wasn't disappointing was Elon Musk's threat to ban Apple devices from his companies following Apple's announcement of a partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. In other Apple news, iPhones and iPads will soon...
Financial Nihilism And The Collapsing American Dream
11.06.2024, 19:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Financial Nihilism And The Collapsing American Dream Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Following the conventional path is a dead-end. It isn't easy to carve a path outside the well-worn pathways of debt servitude, but it is possible. America has become a nation bifurcated into haves and have-nots, and this is generating large-scale...
It's Not 2000... But There Are Similarities
11.06.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not 2000... But There Are Similarities Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, More than a few individuals were active in the markets in 1999-2000, but many participants today were not. I remember looking at charts and writing about the craziness in markets as the fears of “Y2K” and the boom of “internet” filled media headlines...
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...
Ein Billionengeschäft mit Milliardenschmiergeld: Neuer Bericht enthüllt massives Ausmaß der Finanzierung der „Klimanotfall“-Berichterstattung in den Mainstream-Medien durch grüne Milliardäre
11.06.2024, 08:22 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - A massive global grooming programme aimed at mostly mainstream media involving climate catastrophism and Net Zero promotion is detailed in a recently published report from the green billionaire-funded Internews’s Earth Journalism Network (EJN). The work is a shocking insight into the corruption of independent, investigative journalism. At one point...
'Just The Tip?'
11.06.2024, 05:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Just The Tip?' The term “guilt tipping” is making the rounds in light of a rising trend in tipping culture. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, according to a survey of six countries by Statista Consumer Insights in 2021, this feeling of resistance to the expectation that consumers need to tip was highest in Sweden. There, more than four in ten...
A Nationwide Teacher Shortage Is Costing Schools $4 Billion Per Year
11.06.2024, 03:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Nationwide Teacher Shortage Is Costing Schools $4 Billion Per Year Statewide teacher attendance in Nevada has fallen to the lowest in a decade, echoing a similar problem seen at school districts all over the United States, in places like New York and Connecticut to Chicago, Bloomberg wrote this past week. According to staffing firm Kelly Services...
Office Building In Philadelphia's Popular Old City Section Sells For 38% Discount To Assessed Value
10.06.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Office Building In Philadelphia's Popular Old City Section Sells For 38% Discount To Assessed Value As the commercial real estate market continues to crumble before the eyes of market participants who have been employing every trick in the book to put a rosier polish on their marks for one more quarter, obvious examples of a disappearing bid for office...
Graduating McGill Student Seen Spitting At Dean As Crowd Cheers
10.06.2024, 19:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Graduating McGill Student Seen Spitting At Dean As Crowd Cheers Authored by Jonathan Turley, Various posters on social media have featured a video of a graduating McGill University student appearing to spit on the Dean and another faculty member. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Susan Collins...
Why Young Voters And Blacks Have Abandoned Biden In Two Pictures
10.06.2024, 19:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Young Voters And Blacks Have Abandoned Biden In Two Pictures Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, As Democratic strategist James Carville explained in 1972: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Data from the BLS, chart by Mish Two new pictures tell the 2024 story. Age Group Synopsis Overall: 4.1 up from 3.4 16-19: 12.3 up from 9.3 20-24: 7...
How Tight Can Credit Spreads Go?
10.06.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Tight Can Credit Spreads Go? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities This is a piece that we’ve been meaning to get to for the past few weeks, but this weekend seemed like an ideal time: We completed our updated Rate Outlook this week, so it is natural to progress to credit. While Friday’s NFP data (where we are not the only ones pounding the table...
Gold ETFs Globally Report Inflows For First Time In A Year
10.06.2024, 12:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold ETFs Globally Report Inflows For First Time In A Year Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reported net inflows of gold for the first time in 12 months in May. Funds based in Europe and Asia led the way as total gold holdings by ETFs globally rose by 8.2 tons. ETFs globally now hold 3,087.9 tons of...