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India's Crude Import Bill Surges As Hormuz Shipping Rates Soar
27.08.2026, 01:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - India's Crude Import Bill Surges As Hormuz Shipping Rates Soar Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, India's crude oil import bill has soared since the Iran war choked Middle Eastern oil supply, raised benchmark crude prices, quadrupled freight rates, and boosted insurance on a single Strait of Hormuz voyage to never-before-seen highs. India...
Nvidia Slides Despite Blowout Earnings Amid Concerns About Margin Weakness And Future Spending
26.08.2026, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia Slides Despite Blowout Earnings Amid Concerns About Margin Weakness And Future Spending In our preview of NVDA earnings we warned readers not to expect an earnings beat to serve as a material positive catalyst for the stock - where revenue guidance has beaten Street consensus by an average of 4% over the past four quarters, while the stock has...
Wheat Futs Surge To Three-Year High As JPMorgan, HSBC Warn Global Food Shock Is Brewing
26.08.2026, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wheat Futs Surge To Three-Year High As JPMorgan, HSBC Warn Global Food Shock Is Brewing Wheat futures surged to a three-year high on Wednesday morning as traders repriced a nasty convergence of supply risks across the global agricultural supply chain. Ongoing drone and missile attacks on critical Black Sea shipping and port infrastructure are constraining...
Q2 GDP Grew At Modest 1.5% According To Latest Revision, As Expected
26.08.2026, 15:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Q2 GDP Grew At Modest 1.5% According To Latest Revision, As Expected While far less relevant than the rest of today's data barrage, including the core PCE report and Durable Goods data which showed a mixed real-time picture of the economy as core prices rose more than expected while core CapEx missed expectations, the BEA also reported its second revision...
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%,...
"Going Through Some Pain": Dick's Smashed Most On Record As Foot Locker Bet Goes Limp
25.08.2026, 18:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Going Through Some Pain": Dick's Smashed Most On Record As Foot Locker Bet Goes Limp Dick's Sporting Goods shares crashed by the most on record Tuesday after the sporting goods retailer slashed its annual sales and adjusted operating-income forecasts, as softness at recently acquired Foot Locker deepened concerns about the $2.4 billion takeover. "We're...
Spain's Great Replacement: Half Of Unskilled Construction Workers Are Now Foreign Laborers
25.08.2026, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spain's Great Replacement: Half Of Unskilled Construction Workers Are Now Foreign Laborers Via Remix News, Spain's construction industry is undergoing rapid demographic changes. Foreign-born workers in unskilled construction roles now make up 52.6 percent of all workers, according to data from Randstad from the first quarter The data shows that foreign...
Nvidia Informs Hyperscalers About Incoming Price Hikes As Memory Costs Soar
24.08.2026, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia Informs Hyperscalers About Incoming Price Hikes As Memory Costs Soar The AI infrastructure buildout boom could soon enter another inflationary wave. Nvidia's largest hyperscaler customers face sharply higher costs next year, with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems expected to jump in price as surging memory costs ripple through the chip...
Jet-Fuel Price Shock Hits Airlines As Raymond James Cuts Estimate Across Coverage, Warns Of JetBlue Bankruptcy Risk
24.08.2026, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jet-Fuel Price Shock Hits Airlines As Raymond James Cuts Estimate Across Coverage, Warns Of JetBlue Bankruptcy Risk As we've told readers, and as former Goldman commodities guru Jeff Currie explained last week, the energy crisis is not necessarily in Brent or WTI supplies, but in refined-product markets, given the diesel crack spread's jump above $100...
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...
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...
IRS Announces 7 Percent Interest Rate For Overpayments And Underpayments
23.08.2026, 00:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IRS Announces 7 Percent Interest Rate For Overpayments And Underpayments Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Internal Revenue Service has announced interest rates for tax underpayments and overpayments for the fourth quarter of 2026, keeping them at 7 percent for individual taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service in Washington on...
Intervening Oneself Out Of Quagmire?
21.08.2026, 16:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Intervening Oneself Out Of Quagmire? By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank Intervening Oneself Out Of Quagmire? Yesterday’s market moves again showed that jawboning and temporary interventions are rarely enough when the underlying problem is fundamental. As a “thank you” for Trump’s last-minute intervention to reduce joint US-South...
Services Sector Survey Surge Sparks US Growth Rebound Hopes In August
21.08.2026, 15:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Services Sector Survey Surge Sparks US Growth Rebound Hopes In August After a relatively ugly series of disappointing macro data - and a hectic week of interventions - preliminary August data from S&P Global's PMI survey was expected to signal a slowdown in growth for the US economy (but still growth). But, the respondents had other things on their...
Futures Rise On Opex Day As Yields Stabilize; Bitcoin Almost Tags $80,000
21.08.2026, 14:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise On Opex Day As Yields Stabilize; Bitcoin Almost Tags $80,000 US futures rebound from Thursday's slump, and trade at session highs on. As of 8:15am ET, S&P 500 futures were 0.4% higher with Nasdaq 100 contracts up 0.6%, while Bitcoin headed for its best week in more than three years, rising just shy of $80,000 before reversing. S&P 500...
Walmart Crashes Most Since 2022 After Huge Comp Store Sales Miss
20.08.2026, 16:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Walmart Crashes Most Since 2022 After Huge Comp Store Sales Miss Walmart is tumbling after posting disappointing guidance while quarterly sales fell short of expectations, a rare miss for the world's largest bricks and mortar retailer, that is stoking concerns about the leading big-box retailer decelerating alongside a slow-growing US economy. Comp...
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%...
Argentina's Monetary Policy Reveals Germany's Loss of Control
20.08.2026, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Argentina's Monetary Policy Reveals Germany's Loss of Control Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Javier Milei is a politician who was trained along the lines of the Austrian School of Economics. For him, the maxim coined by Ludwig von Mises applies: inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. In other words: artificial expansion of the money supply...
"Doom Loop" Engaged: US Debt Hits $40 Trillion As Treasury Enters The Endgame
20.08.2026, 02:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Doom Loop" Engaged: US Debt Hits $40 Trillion As Treasury Enters The Endgame It took the US 200 years to reach its first $1 trillion in debt. It took 95 days to add its last. After several weeks of build up, today the Treasury announced that total public debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, after jumping by over $60 billion in one day,...
Your Bank Data Could Become A Profit Center - And You'll Pay the Price
20.08.2026, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Your Bank Data Could Become A Profit Center - And You'll Pay the Price Authored by Morgan Sweeney via The Center Square, A forthcoming federal rule on open banking may allow banks to charge new fees for access to consumer data, a move critics say would harm consumers and runs counter to other parts of President Donald Trump's agenda. Open banking allows...
China's Tungsten Chokehold Turns Almonty Into The West's Critical-Metal Lifeline
19.08.2026, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Tungsten Chokehold Turns Almonty Into The West's Critical-Metal Lifeline Almonty Industries has evolved from a junior miner into an established tungsten producer and a pure play on the China decoupling theme, the incoming defense rearmament supercycle in the West, AI infrastructure, and, of course, critical-mineral scarcity. As Western governments...
La-Z-Boy Crashes Most Since 2022 As Frozen Housing Market Crushes Sofa Demand
19.08.2026, 17:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - La-Z-Boy Crashes Most Since 2022 As Frozen Housing Market Crushes Sofa Demand La-Z-Boy shares suffered their steepest decline in 4.5 years on Wednesday after the furniture maker's second-quarter guidance missed expectations, providing even more evidence that weak housing turnover has suppressed demand for big-ticket discretionary goods such as sofas...
Here Comes QE Lite: Yields, Dollar Tumble, Gold Spikes After Treasury Unespectedly Doubles Size Of Long-End Treasury Buybacks
19.08.2026, 15:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here Comes QE Lite: Yields, Dollar Tumble, Gold Spikes After Treasury Unespectedly Doubles Size Of Long-End Treasury Buybacks Over the past several years, one of the more amusing debates gripping the market's Fed-watchers was whether the Fed's treasury buyback auctions were a form of soft QE, with this website consistently arguing that - contrary to...
Another AI Reacharound? Marvell Shares Rip On Chips-For-Warrants Deal With Google
19.08.2026, 15:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another AI Reacharound? Marvell Shares Rip On Chips-For-Warrants Deal With Google The circular financing circus rolls on... Marvell shares are soaring this morning after fabless chip designer announced an expanded chip-development partnership with Google that includes a warrant from Marvell allowing the search giant to buy as much as $12.2 billion in...
Trump Pauses 50% Canada Tariffs At 11th Hour, Declares "We Have A Deal"
19.08.2026, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Pauses 50% Canada Tariffs At 11th Hour, Declares "We Have A Deal" The Canadian dollar climbed against most of its Group-of-10 peers after President Trump delayed 50% tariffs on billions of dollars of Canadian goods for three days, claiming on Truth Social that a trade deal was pending. The last-minute reprieve will ease trade tensions in North...
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...
Buying Bullsh*t In "4 Easy Payments"
19.08.2026, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Buying Bullsh*t In "4 Easy Payments" Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance I have been gently touching on what a horrible idea one sector has been since the inception of this blog. And just this week, it looks like cracks are starting to form in the space via one of its largest and most well-known publicly traded companies. As savings finally dry up, rates...
"Strain Is Spreading": FT Exposes Private Credit Distress At Decade Highs
18.08.2026, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Strain Is Spreading": FT Exposes Private Credit Distress At Decade Highs Since last fall, we have repeatedly flagged the private credit sector’s growing vulnerabilities. Earlier coverage detailed how the asset class ballooned into a $2-3 trillion opaque market after banks retreated from riskier lending, only to face a wave of high-profile defaults...
Home Depot Earnings Offer Glimmer Of Hope As Small Projects Offset Renovation Downturn
18.08.2026, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Home Depot Earnings Offer Glimmer Of Hope As Small Projects Offset Renovation Downturn Home Depot reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter sales and profit as homeowners spent money on smaller do-it-yourself projects, giving the home-improvement retailer enough confidence to reaffirm its full-year outlook. The frozen housing market, combined with...
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...
"Sea Of Red": Futures Slide As Market Wakes Up To Soaring Bond Yields And Diesel Prices
18.08.2026, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Sea Of Red": Futures Slide As Market Wakes Up To Soaring Bond Yields And Diesel Prices US futures are a "sea of red" (as Bloomberg describes it) in early trading as thin summer volumes persist, with the wrong kind of inflation coming to the fore and Monday’s tech selloff weighing on sentiment despite bullish AI news. The recent stock-bonds disconnect...
As Japanese Bond Yields Soar, Unrealized Losses At Life Insurers Hit $200 Billion
18.08.2026, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As Japanese Bond Yields Soar, Unrealized Losses At Life Insurers Hit $200 Billion With Japanese bonds in freefall every day, pushing yields on 10Y JGBs to a 3 decade high, just shy of 3%... ... the time to pay the piper is fast approaching as unrealized losses on domestic bonds at Japan's major life insurers have soared to 30.86 trillion yen ($194 billion)...
WSJ Catches Up, Discovers AI's Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities Are $3 Trillion And Growing $1.2 Trillion Per Quarter
18.08.2026, 05:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WSJ Catches Up, Discovers AI's Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities Are $3 Trillion And Growing $1.2 Trillion Per Quarter More than two months ago, long before most Wall Street analysts had any clue that the bulk of the AI buildout commitments were diligently hidden in various off-balance sheet SPVs and other (perfectly legal) accounting gimmicks, we wrote...
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...
Peter Thiel Makes $76 Million Bet On Argentina's Top Shale Exporter Amid Milei Reforms
18.08.2026, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Thiel Makes $76 Million Bet On Argentina's Top Shale Exporter Amid Milei Reforms Vista Energy SAB's American depositary receipts are up 5% Monday on news that Peter Thiel's hedge fund disclosed a $76 million stake in Argentina's largest oil exporter. Thiel Macro LLC reported owning almost 1.2 million shares of Vista at the end of the second quarter...
Geopolitical Reality Has Ended The Rush To Renewables
17.08.2026, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Geopolitical Reality Has Ended The Rush To Renewables Authored by Rashid Hudain Syed via The Epoch Times, The world is quietly abandoning the fantasy that renewables alone can guarantee energy security. The U.S.–Israel war on Iran exposed how vulnerable the global economy remains to disruptions in fossil fuel supply chains. Any disruption in the Strait...
Futures Rise On Fresh Push Higher In Tech
17.08.2026, 14:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise On Fresh Push Higher In Tech Futures are higher again, just a few basis points away from a new all time high, led by Tech as the week starts with Semis / Memory / AI themes bid globally, as small-caps are fractionally in the red. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are 0.1% higher, while Nasdaq futures climb 0.5% after strong revenue growth at...
Apple Trains Custom AI Model For China With Alibaba's Help
17.08.2026, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Trains Custom AI Model For China With Alibaba's Help Apple has trained a custom large language model specifically for the Chinese market, utilizing technical support from Alibaba Group, according to Reuters. Chinese flags hang from a lamp post in front of an Apple Inc. store in Shanghai. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg This arrangement...
Where In The World Are The Beer Lovers?
16.08.2026, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where In The World Are The Beer Lovers? While many countries have their own special days to celebrate beer, one of the oldest alcoholic beverages known to humankind, International Beer Day is aimed at beer drinkers everywhere. Every first Friday in August, special events are held in bars and pubs around the world. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz...
Record Highs: Should You Chase The Rally?
15.08.2026, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Record Highs: Should You Chase The Rally? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Pinned and Stretched There is nothing bearish about the tape, and the overall trend could not be much cleaner. The S&P 500 sits above every major moving average and above a rising 200-day line it has not closed beneath since April. That is a healthy, intact...
Where The World Is Burning In 2026
15.08.2026, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where The World Is Burning In 2026 As of August 1, 2026, wildfires and landscape fires have burned 112.3 million hectares of land across the globe, an area roughly the size of South Africa. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Sofie Gilbert, uses data from the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) via Our World in Data to show where that...
Berkshire Adds Google, Delta, Trims BofA, Kroger As Abel Taps Into Record Cash Hoard
15.08.2026, 00:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Berkshire Adds Google, Delta, Trims BofA, Kroger As Abel Taps Into Record Cash Hoard While nowhere near as tumultuous as the transformational first quarter in Berkshire's post-Warren Buffett era which saw over a dozen names rotated in and out, in the second quarter there were a few notable changes under Berkshire's new CEO, Greg Abel. In a quarter...
Farage Crushes Clacton By-Election With 63% As Comedy Candidates Dominate Longest Ballot In British History
14.08.2026, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Farage Crushes Clacton By-Election With 63% As Comedy Candidates Dominate Longest Ballot In British History Nigel Farage has romped to victory in the Clacton by-election with 63.3% of the vote, seeing off 33 rivals including Count Binface, who won a quarter of the votes cast, on the longest ballot paper in British electoral history. The Reform UK leader...
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...
Only 3% Of Americans Trust AI "A Great Deal" With Their Money - But One In Five Are Using It Anyway
14.08.2026, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Only 3% Of Americans Trust AI "A Great Deal" With Their Money - But One In Five Are Using It Anyway A new Gallup survey finds a wide gap between the financial advice Americans say they trust and the advice they actually take. Just 3% of Americans say they have "a great deal" of confidence in artificial intelligence to help manage their money - while...
The University Of Michigan Is Now Hiding Grades From Fragile Freshmen
13.08.2026, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The University Of Michigan Is Now Hiding Grades From Fragile Freshmen Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanTinker.com, In 2017, Macalester College, a pricey Midwestern college, ran an article in its glossy “Macalester Today” magazine titled “The Dog Is In.” Indeed, that was the cover story. In the article, Macalester boasted about having...
Private Credit's Problems Just Got Real
13.08.2026, 17:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Private Credit's Problems Just Got Real Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance For most of this year, the private credit story I’ve written about (and warned about) has been about investors trying to get their money out. Now the loans themselves appear to be cracking. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that defaults across several of the largest...
StubHub Shares Plunge As Weak Outlook Fuels Fears World Cup Pulled Spending Forward
13.08.2026, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - StubHub Shares Plunge As Weak Outlook Fuels Fears World Cup Pulled Spending Forward StubHub shares plunged 20% in premarket trading as uncertainty surrounding its second-half outlook fueled concerns that World Cup demand temporarily pulled forward discretionary spending on entertainment and events. ..back near four month lows... StubHub's second-quarter...
SpaceX Surges Following First Lockup Expiry After Musk Taunts Shorts
13.08.2026, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SpaceX Surges Following First Lockup Expiry After Musk Taunts Shorts SpaceX shares have jumped 35% over five sessions and 22% since Elon Musk responded to our X post on the "massive SPCX shorting," which cited S3 data. He said, "I try to warn them, but they just double down ..." The post-earnings squeeze has pushed SPCX well above its $135 initial public...
Futures Rise, Just Under Record High Ahead Of PPI Report
13.08.2026, 14:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Just Under Record High Ahead Of PPI Report Futures are higher again, although trading in a narrow range for the past week just below all time highs, with Tech flat following disappointing earnings from CSCO. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures add 0.2% while Nasdaq futures are unchanged as Cisco shares dropped 6.4% in premarket trading after...