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Futures Flat Ahead Of Key PCE Report, Nvidia Earnings
26.08.2026, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat Ahead Of Key PCE Report, Nvidia Earnings Stock futures are are flat and Treasuries slipped while oil stumbled heading into today's PCE report and NVDA earnings. As of 8:00am ET, S&P Futures are unchanged and Nasdaq futures drop 0.2% as NVDA and MRVL both rise 0.2% with Semis flat, Memory down 80bp, Korea down 46bp, Software down 1.3%,...
Oil Dumps As Iran, Oman Push To Reopen Hormuz; Satellite Image Shows Gulf Producers Ramping Up
26.08.2026, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Dumps As Iran, Oman Push To Reopen Hormuz; Satellite Image Shows Gulf Producers Ramping Up Brent crude futures dropped for a third session as Iran and Oman advanced plans for a temporary maritime corridor through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent tumbled to $85 a barrel early Wednesday, down more than 9% for the week, while West Texas Intermediate traded...
Scandal-Plagued KPMG To Cut Australian Workforce Following Government Contract Suspension
26.08.2026, 03:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scandal-Plagued KPMG To Cut Australian Workforce Following Government Contract Suspension A major consultancy firm under fire for misconduct in its audit business is cutting its local workforce following a suspension from applying for new government contracts. KPMG’s U.S. headquarters at Two Manhattan West. Photo via Emily Louick Photography and Entropy...
Macroeconomic Data Is Really A Tool For Government Intervention
26.08.2026, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Macroeconomic Data Is Really A Tool For Government Intervention Authored by Frank Shostak via Mises Institute, It is common for commentators and economists to refer to something called the "economy," which sometimes performs well and, at other times, poorly. The "economy" is presented as an entity apart from individuals. Within this framework, the "economy"...
'I Thought It Would Rise Forever'; World's 'Craziest' Stock Market Suddenly Faces Billion-Dollar Outflows
25.08.2026, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'I Thought It Would Rise Forever'; World's 'Craziest' Stock Market Suddenly Faces Billion-Dollar Outflows Over the past few months, we have been closely following the chaos (rise and fall) in a once only marginally-monitored market on the other side of the world. Namely, the AI/chip-driven KOSPI rally and subsequent sharp unwind concentrated in Samsung...
DEI Refuses To Die
24.08.2026, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DEI Refuses To Die Authored by Kenin M. Spivak via RealClearPolitics, Although the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws dating back to 1866 prohibit nearly all racial preferences, most Americans oppose these preferences, and Donald Trump was elected vowing to eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) - progressives won't...
Iryna Zarutska's Family Sues City Of Charlotte Over Fatal Rail Stabbing, Claims Inadequate Security
24.08.2026, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iryna Zarutska's Family Sues City Of Charlotte Over Fatal Rail Stabbing, Claims Inadequate Security The family of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was fatally stabbed on a North Carolina light rail train last year, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Charlotte and a private security firm. A sreenshot from footage...
Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of James O'Keefe Over Undercover Reporting
24.08.2026, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of James O'Keefe Over Undercover Reporting Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A U.S. appeals court has entered a judgment in favor of James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, and a Project Veritas reporter. A split panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judges said on...
Futures Slide Ahead Of "Pivotal Week" With Nvidia Earnings. Warsh Speech On Deck
24.08.2026, 14:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide Ahead Of "Pivotal Week" With Nvidia Earnings. Warsh Speech On Deck Futures are lower with Tech underperforming as the market focuses on NVDA / MRVL earnings this week; while the AI theme is pressured globally and memory stocks slump driven by a slide in the Kospi. Futures got a boost just after 7am when CNBC reported that the...
Israel Creates Fake Think Tank In Likely Attempt To Dupe AI Chatbots
24.08.2026, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Creates Fake Think Tank In Likely Attempt To Dupe AI Chatbots Authored by Nick Cleveland-Stout via Responsible Statecraft, At a glance, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy looks like a new think tank dedicated to Israel/Palestine. The organization churns out think-tank style reports on questions such as "Does AIPAC Use 'Dark Money in Elections...
Clean Energy Spending Tracking Toward Record $180 Billion In 2026
24.08.2026, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Clean Energy Spending Tracking Toward Record $180 Billion In 2026 Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, U.S. utility-scale battery storage has reached 52 GW after three years of 70 percent average annual growth, with 8.3 GW of that added in the first six months of 2026 alone. Clean energy capital spending hit $74 billion in the first half and...
The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty"
24.08.2026, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty" Authored by Almonty Industries CEO Lewis Black [emphasis our own], Plenty to delve into with this edition: a stockpile order nobody can fill, two factory shutdowns that should be on your radar and the awkward truth about how few tungsten projects will ever produce a single...
What Makes A Great Entrepreneur? Lessons From The Greats
23.08.2026, 23:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Makes A Great Entrepreneur? Lessons From The Greats Authored by Rainer Zitelmann via RealClearMarkets, What personality traits distinguish successful entrepreneurs? This question has occupied academic research on entrepreneurship for decades, with scholars examining the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurial success. When we...
"Fibermaxxing" Craze Forces Big Food into Reformulation Cycle
22.08.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Fibermaxxing" Craze Forces Big Food into Reformulation Cycle BNP Paribas analysts say Gen Z's growing awareness of healthy, high-protein, high-fiber diets is accelerating a reformulation cycle across the Big Food industrial complex, as manufacturers race to make products more appealing to the youth and those on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. In a report...
Study Finds 152 Polymarket Wallets Likely Exploited Military Secrets For $8 Million In Gains
22.08.2026, 01:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Study Finds 152 Polymarket Wallets Likely Exploited Military Secrets For $8 Million In Gains A new study has concluded that 152 Polymarket wallets may have profited from access to secret information about military action, with other wallets copying the insiders' bets. The patterns raise red flags about foreign adversaries' potential exploitation of...
Remember The Names
21.08.2026, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Remember The Names Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . . it’s subversion and nothing about it is accidental. it’s a well worn playbook to use the democratic institutions of a high trust state to destroy a civilization.” - El Gato Malo on Substack An eerie quiet masks the panic rising among the many players in the long-running train of crimes...
Situational Flipping: Citadel Has Dumped Almost All Of The Stocks It Acquired From Leopold Aschenbrenner
21.08.2026, 18:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Situational Flipping: Citadel Has Dumped Almost All Of The Stocks It Acquired From Leopold Aschenbrenner After the market learned in late July that Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund had blown up under too much Total Return Swap and option leverage (as we had warned a month earlier would happen), the next big question facing investors...
Samsung Unleashes $80 Billion Shareholder Return After SK Hynix's "Buyback Bazooka" To Revive Memory Trade
21.08.2026, 13:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Samsung Unleashes $80 Billion Shareholder Return After SK Hynix's "Buyback Bazooka" To Revive Memory Trade Days after SK Hynix unveiled a staggering 40 trillion won, or $28.6 billion, "buyback bazooka" aimed at putting a floor under its shares following a sharp six-week selloff, Samsung Electronics joined the capital-return push. The world's largest...
Houthis Claim Fourth Attack On Saudi Aramco Refineries This Month
21.08.2026, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Houthis Claim Fourth Attack On Saudi Aramco Refineries This Month Yemen's Houthis, or the Ansar Allah movement, released a statement Thursday announcing new military operations against Saudi Arabia which targeted an Aramco facility and an airport in Najran province, saying that forces "carried out two military operations using two drones." "The...
Pennsylvania Dangles Permitting Carrot For Data Centers That Bring Their Own Power
21.08.2026, 05:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pennsylvania Dangles Permitting Carrot For Data Centers That Bring Their Own Power Submitted by Ethan Howland of UtilityDive Pennsylvania will give data center projects preferential permitting treatment if they commit to a set of power supply, environmental and cost-responsibility requirements under an executive order issued Tuesday by Gov. Josh Shapiro...
"No Thanks!" Has A Price: Trump Guts Korea War Games, Courts Kim As The Seoul Alliance Buckles
20.08.2026, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "No Thanks!" Has A Price: Trump Guts Korea War Games, Courts Kim As The Seoul Alliance Buckles Hours before 18,000 South Korean troops were due to kick off this year's Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise alongside their American counterparts, President Trump pulled the rug - instructing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to "substantially reduce the Joint Military...
The Great Reversal: Decades-Long Bond Bull Lacy Hunt On His Bearish Pivot, Tonight
20.08.2026, 18:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Reversal: Decades-Long Bond Bull Lacy Hunt On His Bearish Pivot, Tonight For nearly four decades, Dr. Lacy Hunt has been one of Wall Street's most steadfast bond bulls. As chief economist of Hoisington Investment Management, Hunt built his reputation around a simple but powerful thesis: globalization, excessive debt and slowing growth would...
Bitcoin Tops $72k After Largest Single-Day Crypto Short Liquidation In History
20.08.2026, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Tops $72k After Largest Single-Day Crypto Short Liquidation In History Bitcoin surpassed $70,000 for the first time in over two months, propelled by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s 'Operation Twist'-like move pushing US bond yields (and the dollar) lower followed by a high-stakes meeting President Trump held with crypto industry leaders...
Futures Slide As Treasury Yields Surge, Erasing Bessent Intervention, Driven By Oil Spike
20.08.2026, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide As Treasury Yields Surge, Erasing Bessent Intervention, Driven By Oil Spike US futures slide and are trading at session lows, as bond yields surge after yesterday’s Treasury announcement, having now erased the entire post buyback-boost move; yields are 4-5bps higher as the curve bear steepens sharply with the 10Y yield now at 4.69%...
Unitree Founder Sees Humanoids Going "Mass Market" Within Decade As IPO Rally Fades
20.08.2026, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unitree Founder Sees Humanoids Going "Mass Market" Within Decade As IPO Rally Fades Lower US long-end yields, a softer dollar, and SK Hynix's share buyback announcement stabilized sentiment across Asian markets. However, shares of Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree erased some of those massive 460% gains following Wednesday's blockbuster debut. ...
British Liberals Cheer Migrant Camps In Villages... As Long As It's Not Their Villages
20.08.2026, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - British Liberals Cheer Migrant Camps In Villages... As Long As It's Not Their Villages Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The same voices who demand "fairness" and insist every community must share the burden of mass illegal migration suddenly discover local democracy the moment the coaches might stop near their postcode. A Mail on Sunday...
Meet The Pro-Trump Billionaire Who Paid $40 Million For Fugly Ferrari EV
20.08.2026, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meet The Pro-Trump Billionaire Who Paid $40 Million For Fugly Ferrari EV A Florida billionaire was revealed Tuesday as the deep-pocketed buyer who shelled out a jaw-dropping $40 million for Ferrari's one-of-a-kind Luce EV, the Italian supercar that critics mercilessly roasted for looking straight-up fugly. The Ferrari Luce ‘Tailor Made’ on display...
Harvard To Pay $53 Million To Families Of Donors Whose Body Parts Were Sold Off
19.08.2026, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Harvard To Pay $53 Million To Families Of Donors Whose Body Parts Were Sold Off Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Harvard University has agreed to pay $53 million to resolve lawsuits brought by the families of those whose loved ones' body parts were donated to its medical school only to be sold on the black market by its morgue manager...
The $1.5 Million Rich Kid Socialist: NYC-DSA Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo Lives The Revolution From Daddy's Townhouse
19.08.2026, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The $1.5 Million Rich Kid Socialist: NYC-DSA Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo Lives The Revolution From Daddy's Townhouse Gustavo Gordillo wants you to believe the system is broken. He wants landlords punished, private property redistributed "from landowners to the landless," and double-digit returns on investment declared unconstitutional. He wants New York...
200,000 Fake AI 'Victims' Deployed To Scam-Bait Online Fraudsters
19.08.2026, 21:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 200,000 Fake AI 'Victims' Deployed To Scam-Bait Online Fraudsters Authored by Andrew Fenton via CoinTelegraph.com, Australian tech firm Apate deploys a vast array of AI-bot characters worldwide that play the role of gullible scam victims to waste millions of hours of con artists’ time each month. Hilariously, one of the company’s monthly performance...
Texas Hits New Peak Demand Record, Faces 80% Supply Shortfall By 2030
19.08.2026, 20:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Texas Hits New Peak Demand Record, Faces 80% Supply Shortfall By 2030 By Marlene Wilden of UtilityDive Peak demand in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas territory could reach 120 GW by 2030 – incredible growth of more than 30% above the new, unofficial all-time peak reached on July 22, but notably lower than ERCOT’s own forecasts, according...
Futures Flat With All Eyes On Interest Rates And Oil
19.08.2026, 14:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat With All Eyes On Interest Rates And Oil Futures are flat but off their lows as Tech gets a boost from a huge Hynix buyback, which erased ~8% decline to trade up as much as 2% and reversed a 5.8% drop in the Nikkei; the ADRs are +5.6% pre-mkt boosting both Memory and Korea ETFs. As of 8:15am ET, S&P futures are fractionally in the green...
UAE Cuts Ties As Iran Warns Gulf States Against Helping Washington; Kpler Says US Navy Gaining Ground In Hormuz
19.08.2026, 14:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UAE Cuts Ties As Iran Warns Gulf States Against Helping Washington; Kpler Says US Navy Gaining Ground In Hormuz Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is visiting Baghdad while at the same time US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan to discuss the Hormuz situation and...
Forbes Editor Fired Over $6m Payoff Had Threatened Companies Who Dared Hire Outgoing Trump Admin Officials In 2021
19.08.2026, 02:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Forbes Editor Fired Over $6m Payoff Had Threatened Companies Who Dared Hire Outgoing Trump Admin Officials In 2021 Authored by Monica Showalter via American Thinker, Remember how vindictive the political scenario after Joe Biden first took office? It wasn't just the draconian prosecutions of Jan. 6 protestors, most of whom were non-violent and unarmed...
Pentagon Weighing Permanent Smaller US Presence In Gulf (Just Don't Call It Retreat)
18.08.2026, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pentagon Weighing Permanent Smaller US Presence In Gulf (Just Don't Call It Retreat) Already US officials have signaled they may just abandon hard-hit bases in the Middle East altogether, in the wake of Iran's retaliation as a result of Operation Epic Fury, and a conflict that's dragged on for nearly six months. On Tuesday The Washington Post reviews...
Iraq-Syria Pipeline To 'Bypass' Hormuz Likely To Take Four Years, $15BN To Build
18.08.2026, 20:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iraq-Syria Pipeline To 'Bypass' Hormuz Likely To Take Four Years, $15BN To Build Via The Cradle Iraq's plan to build a pipeline to export oil through Syria and partially bypass the Strait of Hormuz will likely take four years to complete and cost $15 billion, Reuters reported on Monday. Iraq urgently seeks new outlets for its oil exports, which...
Mark Walter Probe Puts Wall Street's Insurance-Private Credit Machine Under DoJ Scrutiny
18.08.2026, 18:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mark Walter Probe Puts Wall Street's Insurance-Private Credit Machine Under DoJ Scrutiny An ongoing federal investigation into billionaire Mark Walter's business empire is raising alarm bells about Wall Street's use of insurance capital to finance private credit and other illiquid investments. Bloomberg reported that Walter's TWG Global holding company...
DOJ Seeks Reinstatement Of Criminal Charges Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
18.08.2026, 18:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DOJ Seeks Reinstatement Of Criminal Charges Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an opening brief on Aug. 17 seeking to reinstate human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia after a district court found the prosecution to be vindictive. U.S. District Judge Waverly...
Buy-Now-Pay-Later Klarna Crashes As Outlook Cut Exposes Consumer Growth Cracks
18.08.2026, 14:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Buy-Now-Pay-Later Klarna Crashes As Outlook Cut Exposes Consumer Growth Cracks Klarna, the Swedish fintech firm best known for its buy now, pay later services, crashed in premarket trading in New York after it lowered its full-year revenue and gross merchandise value forecasts following a second-quarter active-user miss, overshadowing stronger-than-expected...
China's YMTC Is Now World's 3rd Biggest Flash-Memory Supplier With 14% Market Share
18.08.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's YMTC Is Now World's 3rd Biggest Flash-Memory Supplier With 14% Market Share Earlier today we reported that China's highly touted DRAM memory maker CXMT recently surpassed Tencent to become China's most valuable company. That may be just the start, because hot on the heels of the biggest Chinese IPO this decade, comes that "other" Chinese memory...
Record Ground Beef Prices May Finally Be Breaking Consumer Demand
18.08.2026, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Record Ground Beef Prices May Finally Be Breaking Consumer Demand Last week's retail sales report provided fresh evidence that the K-shaped economy is buckling, with national average gasoline prices still printing above $4 a gallon and discretionary spending weakening. Consumer stress is now surfacing in the grocery aisle: as beef prices hover near...
Parents Are Paying Thousands For Sorority Rush Coaches
18.08.2026, 00:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Parents Are Paying Thousands For Sorority Rush Coaches SAAS is starting to mean sororities as a service. Parents are spending thousands of dollars on consultants to help their daughters navigate sorority recruitment at major Southern universities, turning rush into a process with its own coaches, preparation packages and, in some cases, five-figure...
Half Of Typical US Family's Paycheck Swallowed By Housing, Childcare
17.08.2026, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Half Of Typical US Family's Paycheck Swallowed By Housing, Childcare Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, Typical families in the United States spend half of their income on housing and childcare, according to a report released on Aug. 17 from the real estate platform Redfin. A man holds a baby outside a coffee shop in Washington on March 11...
Why Are They Getting Free Sh*t?
16.08.2026, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Are They Getting Free Sh*t? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A major British telecoms giant is supplying thousands of free SIM cards loaded with six months of data to a charity that hands them out to illegal migrants arriving in the UK via boats, it has been revealed. The charity Care4Calais has distributed more than 162,000 items to...
Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Judges?
16.08.2026, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Judges? Authored by Matthew Andersson via AmericanThinker.com, There is growing interest in whether an “ai” or, artificial intelligence judge can make better rulings than a human one. This is understandable as many legal decisions are either wrong or flawed in some critical way. Partisan politics...
Patriots Won't Let Communists Take America
15.08.2026, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Patriots Won't Let Communists Take America Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Meet at the Liberty Tree... This chapter in American history could be titled, “The Bad Guys Keep Winning Because They Suffer No Consequences for Their Treachery.” Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party and threaten to take over the...
FBI Seized Mark Walter's Devices Months Before Record $12.5 Billion Lakers Sale
14.08.2026, 20:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FBI Seized Mark Walter's Devices Months Before Record $12.5 Billion Lakers Sale Summary: Thursday: Yahoo Sports reporter Jack Baer said, "Mark Walter is reportedly facing a cash crunch." Thursday: FT reports that the FBI seized devices belonging to Mark Walter last year as part of an investigation. Wednesday: Josh Kushner and Bob Iger stun the sports...
More Than Two-Thirds Of The Power Sought For US Data Centers Will Never Materialize
14.08.2026, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More Than Two-Thirds Of The Power Sought For US Data Centers Will Never Materialize It was almost a year ago, in November 2025, when we first calculated that the AI supercycle was facing a huge problem: namely, a power shortfall of (at least) 44 nuclear power plants, or GW or energy, by 2028. A Huge Problem For The AI Revolution: A Power Shortfall...
Stocks Set To Post Fresh All Time High As Tech Euphoria Returns
14.08.2026, 14:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Set To Post Fresh All Time High As Tech Euphoria Returns Futures are fractionally higher, as they have been much of this supercharged week which pushed stocks to new all tim ehighs, amid quiet news flow this morning. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.1% after the index closed at a record on Thursday. Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 0.2%, with...
"No Rock Left Unturned": Tether Completes Independent Audit Of Reserves With KPMG
13.08.2026, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "No Rock Left Unturned": Tether Completes Independent Audit Of Reserves With KPMG Stablecoin giant Tether has announced that KPMG U.S. completed the first independent audit of its reserves after years of struggling to get a Big Four accounting firm to do so. The San Salvador-based company, which issues the largest stablecoin in existence, USDT, said...