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KPMG Ends U.S. Gov't Audit Business After Losing Army Contract
30.04.2026, 00:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - KPMG Ends U.S. Gov't Audit Business After Losing Army Contract KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms, is winding down its federal government audit business after losing a $64 million-a-year U.S. Army audit contract, a major setback as the Department of War under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to bring in another accounting firm. According...
The Day The Memecoin Dies
29.04.2026, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Day The Memecoin Dies Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance I opened Twitter this morning and saw a photo of a group of guys, lanyards swinging, hoodies zipped, shuffling off to a “memecoin conference.” Which is to say we have reached the point in the batshit insanity cycle where people are boarding planes and booking hotels to celebrate coins that...
Meta Plunges After Boosting Capex Outlook Again On "Higher Component Pricing"
29.04.2026, 23:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meta Plunges After Boosting Capex Outlook Again On "Higher Component Pricing" The last of the giga-caps to report today, the increasingly more misnamed Meta Platforms, had some good news to report for the just completed Q1. It also had bad news, and judging by the plunge in the stock price, the market is focusing on the latter. First, the good news:...
Iranian Currency Hits All-Time Low As Tehran Threatens 'Unprecedented' Response To US 'Maritime Piracy'
29.04.2026, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iranian Currency Hits All-Time Low As Tehran Threatens 'Unprecedented' Response To US 'Maritime Piracy' Via The Cradle Iran’s currency plummeted to a record low on Wednesday, dropping to 1.8 million against the dollar following the brutal US-Israeli war, coinciding with uncertainty over the fragile truce and rising energy prices worldwide. The...
Amazon Drops After AWS Growth Misses Whisper Estimates As Capex Soars
29.04.2026, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amazon Drops After AWS Growth Misses Whisper Estimates As Capex Soars In our preview of Amazon's earnings, we summarized sentiment as "Bullish, But Concerns Remain" with JPM noting that client "conversations were heavily AWS-skewed with investor focus on degree of acceleration and cloud $ re-capture driven by core workloads, AI, & new partnerships...
Alphabet Surges After-Hours On Record Search Queries, Backlog Builds
29.04.2026, 22:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alphabet Surges After-Hours On Record Search Queries, Backlog Builds Google shares are rallying after hours as parent Alphabet's first-quarter earnings report showed strong revenue growth in cloud computing and internet search ads, helping investors look past slowing profits amid huge AI spend. Earnings per share were $5.11, well ahead of Wall Street's...
MSFT Dumps As CapEx Disappoints, Despite Top- & Bottom-Line Beat
29.04.2026, 22:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - MSFT Dumps As CapEx Disappoints, Despite Top- & Bottom-Line Beat Heading into the "biggest earnings day ever", MSFT was near the bottom of the Mag7 group, down 22% from its 52-week high, with capacity constraints hampering growth and CapEx concerns weighing down the stock. Microsoft has guided to roughly $80 billion in AI data center spending this fiscal...
Water-Based Method Recovers 65% Of EV Battery Metals In One Minute At Room Temperature
29.04.2026, 20:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Water-Based Method Recovers 65% Of EV Battery Metals In One Minute At Room Temperature Authored by Neetika Walter via Interesting Engineering, Researchers at Rice University have developed a water-based method that recovers valuable metals from spent lithium-ion batteries in minutes, offering a faster and lower-energy alternative to conventional recycling...
Acting AG Blanche Denies Trump Directed James Comey Prosecution
29.04.2026, 20:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Acting AG Blanche Denies Trump Directed James Comey Prosecution Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on April 29 said that President Donald Trump did not order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file more charges against former FBI Director James Comey over a social media post that he made...
Al Gore Shifts On Global Warming: Time To Watch Out For A New Ice Age?
29.04.2026, 19:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Al Gore Shifts On Global Warming: Time To Watch Out For A New Ice Age? The rhetoric and predictions behind climate change "science" change so haphazardly, it's a sure sign that the entire field of study is fraudulent. If the manufactured hysteria is not enough to clue people in, the failed predictions of Al Gore should do the trick. Former Vice President...
COVID Cover-Up: Hiding Star Researcher Ralph Baric's Ties To Global Pandemic
29.04.2026, 18:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - COVID Cover-Up: Hiding Star Researcher Ralph Baric's Ties To Global Pandemic Authored by Paul D. Thacker via RealClearInvestigations, In March 2020, a couple of months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, editors at the journal Nature Medicine appended a note to a coronavirus...
Key Bridge Nightmare: Contractor Dropped After Costs Spiral
29.04.2026, 17:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Bridge Nightmare: Contractor Dropped After Costs Spiral Left-wing Gov. Wes Moore's claim that the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild is the "fastest-moving large infrastructure project in the United States" just hit a major roadblock. Fox Baltimore's Gary Collins reports that Maryland officials canceled Kiewit Infrastructure Co.'s contract for Phase...
AI Agent Deletes Startup's Database In 9 Seconds, Founder Says
29.04.2026, 17:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI Agent Deletes Startup's Database In 9 Seconds, Founder Says Authored by Jason Nelson via Decrypt.co, PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane claims a Cursor agent running Anthropic’s Claude Opus deleted his company’s production database and backups in nine seconds. Crane said the AI later produced a written explanation admitting it violated multiple safety...
US Sanctions 35 Individuals, Entities To Dismantle Iran's Shadow Banking
29.04.2026, 17:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Sanctions 35 Individuals, Entities To Dismantle Iran's Shadow Banking Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Treasury Department on April 28 imposed sanctions on 35 individuals and entities accused of running Iran’s secret shadow banking network. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a press briefing...
US Oil Exports Soar To New Record High As Inventories Tumble, SPR Drained Most Since October 2022
29.04.2026, 17:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Oil Exports Soar To New Record High As Inventories Tumble, SPR Drained Most Since October 2022 One week ago we lamented that the record oil inventory drawdown, which has seen over 250 million barrels drained from storage since the start of the war, has not led to higher oil prices (for those who missed it, Goldman forecast that global visible oil...
Bloom Energy Erupts On Beat, Guidance Upgrade As On-Site Data Center Power Demand Soars
29.04.2026, 16:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bloom Energy Erupts On Beat, Guidance Upgrade As On-Site Data Center Power Demand Soars Clean-power company Bloom Energy surged early in the U.S. cash session after reporting earnings Tuesday after the close, raising its full-year revenue and margin guidance on rising demand from data centers and other commercial customers. The maker of solid oxide...
Max Pressure: U.S. Prepares For Extended Hormuz Blockade As Treasury Warns Sanction Risks Linked To China's "Teapot" Refineries
29.04.2026, 16:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Max Pressure: U.S. Prepares For Extended Hormuz Blockade As Treasury Warns Sanction Risks Linked To China's "Teapot" Refineries The U.S. is intensifying pressure on Iran and China across two fronts. First, on the military side, The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump told top aides to prepare for an extended U.S. naval blockade of the...
Bank of Canada Keeps Rates On Hold As It "Looks Through War's Immediate Impact On Inflation"
29.04.2026, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bank of Canada Keeps Rates On Hold As It "Looks Through War's Immediate Impact On Inflation" As expected, the Bank of Canada - which was the day's first G5 central bank to hit the tape ahead of the Fed's decision at 2pm ET - held interest rates unchanged at 2.25% as expected, saying adjustments to borrowing costs would likely be small if the economy...
Core Durables Goods Surge For 12th Straight Month, Push Bond Yield Higher
29.04.2026, 15:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Core Durables Goods Surge For 12th Straight Month, Push Bond Yield Higher After a recent string of 'soft' survey data, this morning we get some 'hard' data and it was far stronger than expected. Preliminary headline durable goods orders for March rose 0.8% MoM (better than the 0.5% MoM exp), and the first increase after a three month decline to start...
O-I Glass Plunges As Gulf Energy Shock Hits Earnings Outlook
29.04.2026, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - O-I Glass Plunges As Gulf Energy Shock Hits Earnings Outlook Glass bottle and jar company O-I Glass plunged the most in premarket trading in more than six years after it slashed its full-year adjusted EPS outlook, blaming higher energy costs tied to the Gulf-related energy shock. The major glass-container manufacturer, producing bottles and jars for...
Wingstop Tumbles As Chicken Demand Falters, Guidance Cut
29.04.2026, 15:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wingstop Tumbles As Chicken Demand Falters, Guidance Cut Wingstop shares fell the most in six months in premarket trading after the company cut its full-year outlook and reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter sales, citing a pullback in traffic as management pointed to "continued pressure on consumer spending." The chicken chain, with 2,653 locations...
US Gas Prices Hit Highest Level In 4 Years, Analyst Says
29.04.2026, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Gas Prices Hit Highest Level In 4 Years, Analyst Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The average price for a gallon of gasoline hit its highest level in four years on Tuesday as the cost of a barrel of oil remains elevated amid the conflict with Iran, according to a prominent analyst. Customers pump gas at a gas station...
Futures Flat Ahead Of Fed, Mag 7 Earnings Avalanche
29.04.2026, 14:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat Ahead Of Fed, Mag 7 Earnings Avalanche S&P futures are flat with Nasdaq outperforming ahead of a huge day for tech. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, representing nearly 20% of S&P market cap, report after the close, with traders focused on capex. The group has a combined options implied move of more than $750 billion of market cap...
Brent Nears Iran War Highs After Trump Orders "Extended Blockade", Threatens "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
29.04.2026, 14:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Brent Nears Iran War Highs After Trump Orders "Extended Blockade", Threatens "No More Mr. Nice Guy" Summary Trump warns Iran to "get their act together" and to "get smart" - and for the second time writes "no more Mr. Nice Guy". Brent Crude nears Iran war high of $115 per barrel & highest since June 2022. Trump in 4am Truth...
$43,000 Front-Row Seats: How Soccer Fans Are Being Priced Out Of World Cup
29.04.2026, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - $43,000 Front-Row Seats: How Soccer Fans Are Being Priced Out Of World Cup Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), First-round match ticket: $280 to $43,000. Stadium daily parking pass: $150 to $600. Public transportation to venues: $100 or more in some cities. In-person 2026 FIFA World Cup experience: Priceless, or somewhere...
Germany Scrambles For Polish Oil Route As Russia Halts Druzhba Flows
29.04.2026, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany Scrambles For Polish Oil Route As Russia Halts Druzhba Flows Submitted by Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com Germany is hunting for solutions to reroute crude oil supplies to the PCK Schwedt refinery after Russia said it would halt Kazakh oil deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline starting May 1, with roughly 43,000 barrels per day (bpd) now at...
After Record $19.50 Premium, Saudis Eye Sharp Cut To June Asia Prices
29.04.2026, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Record $19.50 Premium, Saudis Eye Sharp Cut To June Asia Prices Submitted by Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com The world’s top crude exporter, Saudi Arabia, is expected to slash its official selling prices (OSPs) for crude loading for Asia in June from the record-highs for May as the premiums of the Middle Eastern benchmarks eased this month....
NATO Mulls Nixing Annual Summits, Wary Of 'Trump Drama' Overshadowing
29.04.2026, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Mulls Nixing Annual Summits, Wary Of 'Trump Drama' Overshadowing Fresh reporting in Reuters says that NATO leadership is mulling ending its practice of holding annual summits as the Trump presidency has "cast a long shadow" over such meetings and as member states are looking for "less drama". For example, at the 2018 summit Trump threatened to...
Israelis Outraged After Govt Sent Vital Arrow Missiles To Germany Mid-Iran War
29.04.2026, 08:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israelis Outraged After Govt Sent Vital Arrow Missiles To Germany Mid-Iran War There's growing outrage and political division in Israel after news emerged that the government and defense ministry fulfilled a weapons contract with Germany, sending vital Arrow air defense missiles to Berlin during the middle of the Iran war. At the very moment the missiles...
Germany's Anti-immigration AfD Party Soars To New Record High Support; Poll Finds
29.04.2026, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany's Anti-immigration AfD Party Soars To New Record High Support; Poll Finds Via Remix News, The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) has jumped to a new record high in a recent poll conducted by the opinion research institute Insa. In the poll, the AfD increased its lead over the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social...
12 Signs That The Relentless Decline Of Our Society Is Accelerating
29.04.2026, 05:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 12 Signs That The Relentless Decline Of Our Society Is Accelerating Authored by Michael Snyder via End Of The American Dream, I have got some really crazy stuff to share with you in this article. For more than a decade and a half, I have been writing about the decline of our society. Sadly, over that period of time there has been an inexorable deterioration...
Republican Lawmakers Move On Legislation To Build And Fund Trump's $400 Million Ballroom
29.04.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Republican Lawmakers Move On Legislation To Build And Fund Trump's $400 Million Ballroom Two days after a gunman tried to breach security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Hilton hotel, Republican lawmakers got straight to work pushing for President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom. The president and First...
Watch: Small Earthquake Registered After IDF Blows Up Largest-Ever Hezbollah Tunnel
29.04.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Small Earthquake Registered After IDF Blows Up Largest-Ever Hezbollah Tunnel The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday destroyed a major Hezbollah tunnel in southern Lebanon on Tuesday evening, minutes after issuing an unusual warning that the blast would be heard across wide areas. The tunnel is being described in regional media as the largest...
DOJ Sues Cloudera For Deliberately Excluding American Workers From High-Paying Tech Jobs
29.04.2026, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DOJ Sues Cloudera For Deliberately Excluding American Workers From High-Paying Tech Jobs The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Cloudera Inc., accusing the enterprise data and artificial intelligence company of deliberately engineering a hiring process that excluded American workers from at least seven lucrative technology positions while the firm pursued...
The US Grid Wasn't Built For This
29.04.2026, 01:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Grid Wasn't Built For This Authored by Tejasri Gururaj via Interesting Engineering, Global data center power demand is projected to hit 84 GW by 2027—a 50 percent jump from 2023 levels—with AI workloads accounting for 27 percent of that total, according to Goldman Sachs Research. The grid is strained by increasing demand from electricity-hungry...
Joby Kicks Off Weeklong Campaign After Successful JFK–Manhattan Test Flights
29.04.2026, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Joby Kicks Off Weeklong Campaign After Successful JFK–Manhattan Test Flights Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Electric air taxi developer Joby Aviation stated on April 27 that it will begin a weeklong testing campaign in New York City, having successfully completed three days of test flights across the city’s heliport network...
Jim Quinn: Kill Switch Of Freedom
28.04.2026, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jim Quinn: Kill Switch Of Freedom Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn’t be afraid of the government.” ― Edward Snowden “The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights...
Citadel's Griffin To Meet With NY Gov. Hochul After Mamdani's Socialist Games
28.04.2026, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Citadel's Griffin To Meet With NY Gov. Hochul After Mamdani's Socialist Games Citadel's Ken Griffin told the audience at the Norges Bank 2026 Investment Conference in Oslo earlier on Tuesday that he is planning to meet with left-wing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday to discuss the "future direction" of the state after far-left NYC Mayor Zohran...
Trump Belatedly Blasts Merz Over Pointed Iran War 'Humiliation' Remarks
28.04.2026, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Belatedly Blasts Merz Over Pointed Iran War 'Humiliation' Remarks President Trump on Tuesday belatedly hit back at Chancellor Friedrich Merz after on Monday the German leader told students in a talk that the United States is being “humiliated” by Iranian leaders, amid struggling on-and-off negotiations, and as a crisis in the Strait of...
US Farmers Are Facing Two Historic Catastrophes At The Same Time In 2026
28.04.2026, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Farmers Are Facing Two Historic Catastrophes At The Same Time In 2026 Authored by Michael Snyder via End Of The American Dream, This is the worst of times for U.S. farmers. Coming into 2026, we were already in the midst of the worst farming crisis in at least 50 years. Now the war in the Middle East has caused fertilizer prices to go absolutely haywire...
Comey Indicted As Trump DOJ Takes Second Bite At The Apple
28.04.2026, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Comey Indicted As Trump DOJ Takes Second Bite At The Apple The U.S. Department of Justice has secured a new federal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, marking the second criminal case brought against him by the Trump administration in under a year. The charges center on a controversial May 2025 Instagram post in which Comey shared a...
Four Nuclear Companies Selected For High-Speed Project Development
28.04.2026, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Four Nuclear Companies Selected For High-Speed Project Development After the wild success experienced by multiple companies under the Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program (RPP) and Fuel Line Pilot Program (FLPP), four new fuel chain and reactor development companies have been selected under the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad (NELP). JUST IN: Energy’s...
More Than 1,000 TSA Officers Have Quit Amid Shutdown
28.04.2026, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More Than 1,000 TSA Officers Have Quit Amid Shutdown Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday that more than 1,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers have left the agency since the partial shutdown began on Feb. 14. An employee with the Transportation Security...
Top Fauci Advisor David Morens Charged In COVID Records Cover-Up: DOJ
28.04.2026, 18:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Top Fauci Advisor David Morens Charged In COVID Records Cover-Up: DOJ With Pam Bondi out (related?), the U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has indicted Dr. David M. Morens, a longtime senior advisor to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci. The 78-year-old Morens faces charges including...
BOJ Keeps Rates On Hold In Rare 6-3 Vote Split As It Warns Of Looming Stagflation
28.04.2026, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BOJ Keeps Rates On Hold In Rare 6-3 Vote Split As It Warns Of Looming Stagflation In the first G5 central bank announcement of the week, overnight the Bank of Japan held its benchmark interest rate in a 6-3 vote, despite forecasting a sharp rise in inflation as the war in the Middle East sends commodity prices higher and clouds the global economic outlook...
US Energy Chief Says Hormuz Can Reopen Without Clearing All Mines, Warns Iran Shut-ins Could Be Devastating
28.04.2026, 17:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Energy Chief Says Hormuz Can Reopen Without Clearing All Mines, Warns Iran Shut-ins Could Be Devastating US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that not all mines placed by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz need to removed for ships to resume transiting the vital passageway: “You just need a pathway for ships to be moved in and out,” Wright said in...
Collateral Damage
28.04.2026, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Collateral Damage By Molly Schwartz, Cross-ASset Macro Strategist at Rabobank Negotiations between the US and Iran are going nowhere. In fact, they’re not really even happening at all. Over the weekend, Axios reported that Iran gave the US a proposal to reopen the Strait — not to end the war. The proposal includes extending the ceasefire and an...
Conference Board Confidence Unexpectedly Jumps To Highest In 2026
28.04.2026, 16:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Conference Board Confidence Unexpectedly Jumps To Highest In 2026 Despite war (and rising gas prices) now fully embedded in respondents' minds, it is perhaps surprising that The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence rose considerably more than expected to 92.8 in April (89.0 exp) from an upwardly revised 92.2. Present Situation dipped very modestly...
'Quality Learing Center' And 20 Other Somali-Linked Businesses Raided By FBI, Homeland Security In Minnesota
28.04.2026, 15:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Quality Learing Center' And 20 Other Somali-Linked Businesses Raided By FBI, Homeland Security In Minnesota Federal agents from the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed court-authorized search warrants at more than 20 locations across the Minneapolis area early Tuesday morning, targeting businesses primarily linked to the Somali-American...
US Home Prices Dipped In February For First Time Since June 2025
28.04.2026, 15:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Home Prices Dipped In February For First Time Since June 2025 For the first time since June 2025, US home prices (in the largest 20 cities) fell in February (by 0.05% MoM) according to the latest (admittedly lagging and smoothed) Case-Shiller data. The decline comes after prices surged into the turn of year and has now dragged the YoY gain in prices...