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Chinese State Bankers Face Bonus Cuts Of At Least 30%
19.03.2026, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese State Bankers Face Bonus Cuts Of At Least 30% Senior bankers at China’s state-backed financial institutions are preparing for bonus cuts of at least 30% as Beijing presses ahead with sweeping pay reforms across its $69 trillion financial sector, according to Bloomberg. At two major state-owned banks, senior managers — including department...
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
18.03.2026, 23:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Everything, Everywhere, All At Once Authored by No1 at Gold & Geopolitics substack, Let me start with a number. In 1980, when the Iran-Iraq war disrupted global oil supply, the volume lost was around 4 million barrels per day. Painful. The world went into recession. Volcker raised rates to 20% to kill inflation. It nearly killed the economy in the process...
US Crude Stockpile Hits Highest Since June 2024, Exports Surge
18.03.2026, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Crude Stockpile Hits Highest Since June 2024, Exports Surge Oil prices are ripping higher this morning (rebounding aggressively of overnight lows) after US and Israel attacked upstream Iranian energy assets for the first time since the war (While the US struck oil export hub Kharg Island late last week, it limited that attack to military targets...
Futures Slump, Erasing Overnight Gains After Iran's Giant Pars Field Attacked; FOMC Looms
18.03.2026, 13:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slump, Erasing Overnight Gains After Iran's Giant Pars Field Attacked; FOMC Looms Stocks were set to extend gains into a third day as Iraq’s deal to reroute crude via Turkey, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, eased some supply concerns as Iranian strikes target Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, but it all unwound shortly after 7am ET, following...
Will Republicans Fight For The SAVE Act - Or Fold Again?
18.03.2026, 13:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will Republicans Fight For The SAVE Act - Or Fold Again? Authored by Heather Higgins via RealClearPolitics, Republicans didn’t win the Senate so their leaders could manage expectations. They won it to deliver results. Will Republicans leaders actually deliver? We are about to find out with the SAVE America Act. The legislation requires proof of citizenship...
From Economic Engine To Military Machine: Berlin's Quiet Pivot To War Economy A Challenge To EU
18.03.2026, 07:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Economic Engine To Military Machine: Berlin's Quiet Pivot To War Economy A Challenge To EU Authored by Mateusz Morawiecki A year after Friedrich Merz's narrow victory and the formation of a new grand coalition between the CDU-CSU and the SPD in May 2025, Nicolas Baverez writes about the existential crisis Germany is experiencing. A crisis on several...
Details Of Fire On US Navy's Largest Carrier Much Worse Than Previously Known
18.03.2026, 02:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Details Of Fire On US Navy's Largest Carrier Much Worse Than Previously Known There was chaos aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford after a major onboard fire knocked out a big swathe of living quarters, leaving hundreds of US sailors without beds in the middle of a live war deployment, in what marks a much bigger incident than what the Pentagon previously...
Greenwald: 9/11-Like Mass Casualty Attacks Could Trigger Permanent Emergency Measures
17.03.2026, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Greenwald: 9/11-Like Mass Casualty Attacks Could Trigger Permanent Emergency Measures Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Tucker Carlson sat down with independent journalist Glenn Greenwald for a pointed exchange that cut straight to concerns over free speech limits and the risk of domestic fallout from the ongoing Iran conflict. Greenwald...
Stellar 20Y Auction Stops Through Amid Surge In Foreign Demand
17.03.2026, 18:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stellar 20Y Auction Stops Through Amid Surge In Foreign Demand Moments ago the week's lone coupon auction priced in what was a stellar sale of 20Y Treasury paper. At 1pm ET, the US Treasury auctioned off $13BN in 20Y paper, with very solid metrics and even more solid buyside demand. The auction priced at a high yield of 4.817%, up from 4.664%, but...
Judge Orders DHS To Submit Internal Documents Over Concerns About ICE Detainees' Due Process
17.03.2026, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Judge Orders DHS To Submit Internal Documents Over Concerns About ICE Detainees' Due Process Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ordered the Trump administration Monday to turn over data in response to claims that it corrupted bond hearings for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees. While U.S. District Judge Clay...
US Pending Home Sales Barely Bounce Off Record Lows Despite Tumbling Rates In Feb
17.03.2026, 15:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Pending Home Sales Barely Bounce Off Record Lows Despite Tumbling Rates In Feb After reaching a record low last month - with the decline blamed on weather - pending home sales bounced modestly in February (up 1.8% MoM vs -0.6% MoM exp and -10.% MoM prior). Year-over-year home sales continue to decline (down 0.6% YoY)... Source: Bloomberg ...just...
Iran "Starts New Phase Of Oil War" After Energy Production Hit
17.03.2026, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran "Starts New Phase Of Oil War" After Energy Production Hit Crude oil futures rose in overnight trading, with Brent nearly reaching $105 per barrel and WTI climbing as high as $98.42 per barrel, as Iran intensified drone strikes on energy infrastructure across the Gulf. "Further ominous developments today. For the first time, Iran successfully targeted...
Goldman Says Food Companies Struck An "Overall Cautious Tone" On The Consumer
17.03.2026, 11:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Says Food Companies Struck An "Overall Cautious Tone" On The Consumer The latest read on the American consumer comes from Goldman analysts led by Leah Jordan, who compiled the most important commentary from food companies on consumer behavior trends in the fourth quarter. It's worth noting, however, that this snapshot predates the energy shock...
AAA National Average Gas Price Soars Most On Record
17.03.2026, 01:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AAA National Average Gas Price Soars Most On Record AAA (American Automobile Association) reports that the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline has surged nearly 25% so far this month, putting it on track for the largest monthly increase on record, even surpassing the May 2009 spike, unless the Middle East conflict is resolved quickly...
Boasberg's Law: Why The Quashing Of The Powell Subpoenas Leaves More Questions Than Answers
16.03.2026, 16:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boasberg's Law: Why The Quashing Of The Powell Subpoenas Leaves More Questions Than Answers Authored by Jonathan Turley, Last week, Chief Judge James Boasberg delivered a blow to the criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell by tossing out grand jury subpoenas. Boasberg declared the investigation overtly political and coercive, without any...
Mexico Truck Production Plunges 50% In February As US Exports Slow
16.03.2026, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mexico Truck Production Plunges 50% In February As US Exports Slow By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves Mexico’s heavy-vehicle industry posted sharp year-over-year declines in production, exports and sales in February, signaling continued weakness across the country’s truck manufacturing sector. Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography...
Futures Jump, Oil Slides On Fresh Hormuz Hopes
16.03.2026, 13:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Jump, Oil Slides On Fresh Hormuz Hopes Stock futures are higher AS energy prices dip modestly even as the war in the Middle East enters a third week, with Trump’s endgame unclear amid requests for international help to reopen the SoH. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.8% and and Nasdaq futures gain 1.0% with all Mag 7 names higher in...
"Entirely Demonic": Catherine Austin Fitts Warns Financial Tsunami Coming Because Of Programmable Money
16.03.2026, 10:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Entirely Demonic": Catherine Austin Fitts Warns Financial Tsunami Coming Because Of Programmable Money Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), publisher of “The Solari Report,” has been pushing gold (and silver) as an investment for the past few years. The record high price, even though both have come down in price...
What COVID Policy Did To Doctors Who Refused To Stay Silent
16.03.2026, 02:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What COVID Policy Did To Doctors Who Refused To Stay Silent Authored by Joseph Varon via the Brownstone Institute, The sound I remember most from the early days of Covid-19 is not the alarms. It was the silence between them. Intensive care units became Covid wards. Monitors glowed in dark rooms while ventilators pushed air into failing lungs. Nurses...
Sen. Mike Lee: We've 'Turned Kind Of A Corner’ On The Save Act
15.03.2026, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sen. Mike Lee: We've 'Turned Kind Of A Corner’ On The Save Act Last week, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he will not sign any new legislation until the Senate passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, calling it his top priority ahead of the midterms. The SAVE Act, introduced in January by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)...
Singularity Update: You Have No Idea How Crazy Humanoid Robots Have Gotten
15.03.2026, 13:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Singularity Update: You Have No Idea How Crazy Humanoid Robots Have Gotten Authored by Peter H. Diamandis via Metatrends, I just spent the afternoon at Figure headquarters in San Jose with Brett Adcock and David Blundin, and I’m still processing what I saw. We’re not talking about concept robots. We’re talking about fully autonomous humanoid robots...
War, Oil And Debt: Which Threats To The US Economy Are Legit?
15.03.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - War, Oil And Debt: Which Threats To The US Economy Are Legit? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us It’s the magic number, the line that’s not supposed to be crossed; when a nation’s public debt finally exceeds its GDP. Historically speaking, it’s not a sign of doom like many economists suggest. Numerous countries have sustained for decades...
Gun Control's Endgame: No Guns For Anyone
14.03.2026, 19:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gun Control's Endgame: No Guns For Anyone Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics, Gun control advocates do not just oppose civilian gun ownership; they also argue that guns in the hands of police make people less safe. Gabby Giffords In January, a Border Patrol agent in Portland shot and wounded two Venezuelan nationals who belonged to the...
When Do Protest Observers Become Lawbreaking Participants?
14.03.2026, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Do Protest Observers Become Lawbreaking Participants? Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClearInvestigations, When an ICE agent shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good after she allegedly obstructed immigration authorities with her vehicle, disobeyed their commands, and attempted to flee – drawing fatal fire from an officer nearly struck...
China Owns Canada's Only Antimony Mine And Shuttered It In Critical Minerals Power Play
14.03.2026, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Owns Canada's Only Antimony Mine And Shuttered It In Critical Minerals Power Play Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper (emphasis our own), In the rugged interior of Newfoundland, an hour's drive west from the Canadian Forces Base in Gander, sits a dormant mine with profound implications for the nation's security and prosperity. Beaver Brook...
401(k) Hardship Withdrawals Hit Record High
13.03.2026, 21:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 401(k) Hardship Withdrawals Hit Record High The AI bubble and data center buildout have helped catapult equity markets to new highs (pre-Middle East conflict), minting a record number of 401(k) millionaires. However, beneath the surface, hardship withdrawals from 401(k) plans have also climbed to a record, reinforcing the view that the K-shaped economy...
'President Boasberg' Protects Powell, Quashes DOJ 'Pressure Campaign' Subpoena Over Fed Renovation
13.03.2026, 20:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'President Boasberg' Protects Powell, Quashes DOJ 'Pressure Campaign' Subpoena Over Fed Renovation Another day, another activist judge deciding they're the president... On Friday, chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has blocked subpoenas issued by the Trump Justice Department to Federal Reserve Chair...
"Massive Culling" Imminent For Alt Managers, Soros Fund CEO Warns
13.03.2026, 15:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Massive Culling" Imminent For Alt Managers, Soros Fund CEO Warns Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Dawn Fitzpatrick says overallocated LPs, frozen distributions, and mounting margin-call risk are converging into a sector-wide shakeout. Such will eventually separate survivors from the casualties. I used Claude to source data...
US Q4 GDP Growth Cut In Half To Just 0,7% After Revision
13.03.2026, 14:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Q4 GDP Growth Cut In Half To Just 0,7% After Revision While it's useless most of the time, and especially so when the US has just entered war throwing a wrench into the entire economic calculus, moments ago the BEA reported that Q4 GDP in the US was slashed by half after the 1st revision of data: instead of 1.4%, the US grew just 0.7% in the last...
Futures At Session Highs After Oil Drops Below $100 On India Hormuz Transit Hopes
13.03.2026, 13:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures At Session Highs After Oil Drops Below $100 On India Hormuz Transit Hopes US stock futures rebounded from their overnight selloff, and were trading near session highs after three days of losses on Wall Street as Brent slipped below $100 a barrel and investors waited to see if the war in the Middle East would escalate further. The catalyst for...
Bessent Greenlights Sale Of Russian Oil At Sea To "Promote Stability In Global Energy Markets"
13.03.2026, 11:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bessent Greenlights Sale Of Russian Oil At Sea To "Promote Stability In Global Energy Markets" In a statement late Thursday on X, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the U.S. will allow countries to purchase Russian crude oil already at sea. The move aims to temporarily boost global supply availability, as the IEA warned earlier that...
UK Govt Urges Schools To Snitch On 'Anti-Muslim Hostility' In Orwellian Crackdown
13.03.2026, 10:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UK Govt Urges Schools To Snitch On 'Anti-Muslim Hostility' In Orwellian Crackdown Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The UK government is ramping up its assault on free expression, now urging schools, councils, and workplaces to monitor and report “anti-Muslim hostility” as part of a broader strategy that critics slam as a tool to silence...
Charts Show Middle East Shockwave Rippling Through Energy, Air Travel, And Freight Networks
12.03.2026, 21:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Charts Show Middle East Shockwave Rippling Through Energy, Air Travel, And Freight Networks The Middle East conflict has triggered what the International Energy Agency earlier described as the largest oil supply disruption in global oil market history, as Iran continues to strike energy infrastructure across the Gulf. Against that deteriorating backdrop...
Solid 30Y Auction Stops Through Despite Drop In Foreign Demand
12.03.2026, 18:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Solid 30Y Auction Stops Through Despite Drop In Foreign Demand After two mixed coupon auctions this week, including a subpar 3Y and a strong 10Y, moments ago the Treasury concluded the week's coupon issuance when it sold $22BN in 30Y bonds in another solid auction. The paper priced at a high yield of 4.871%, above the 4.750% in February and the highest...
"Please, Please, Please": Denmark's Energy Minister Begs Citizens To Stop Driving As Global Energy Shock Spreads
12.03.2026, 15:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Please, Please, Please": Denmark's Energy Minister Begs Citizens To Stop Driving As Global Energy Shock Spreads Iran launched another round of overnight strikes on tankers and Gulf energy infrastructure, sending Brent crude back above $101/bbl and sparking fears that chaos in the Middle East has triggered what the IEA warned could be the largest-ever...
Epstein Guard Called To Testify As Oversight Committee Explores Potential Murder
12.03.2026, 13:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Epstein Guard Called To Testify As Oversight Committee Explores Potential Murder Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, House Oversight Chairman James Comer is ramping up the heat on the botched handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s custody, announcing a subpoena for prison guard Tova Noel amid bombshell revelations of suspicious cash deposits and online...
Futures Tumble As Oil Jumps Above $100 On Iran War Chaos
12.03.2026, 13:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Tumble As Oil Jumps Above $100 On Iran War Chaos US futures are sharply lower, as oil briefly surges back over $100 while markets start to accept the view that the Iran war will not end this week, and possibly any time soon. As of 8:15am ET, S&P and Nasdaq futures are down 0.7% and R2K futures slide more than 1%. Futures dropped more than 1%...
Carson Block Turns Bearish, Says AI Threatens 15% Of US Knowledge Jobs
12.03.2026, 12:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Carson Block Turns Bearish, Says AI Threatens 15% Of US Knowledge Jobs Carson Block says artificial intelligence has completely changed how he views markets over the past several weeks, according to Bloomberg. In a conversation with Barry Ritholtz at the Future Proof Wealth Management conference in Miami Beach, the founder and chief investment officer...
Sixth Ship Struck: Oil Tops $100 As Tanker Attacks Escalate Hours After Trump's "We Won"
12.03.2026, 12:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sixth Ship Struck: Oil Tops $100 As Tanker Attacks Escalate Hours After Trump's "We Won" Brent crude futures in Asian trading jumped above $101/bbl overnight, despite news of a planned record emergency SPR release by the International Energy Agency's 32 member countries, in an effort aimed at capping triple-digit oil prices. Today's focus is on reports...
Moody's Cuts New York City's Rating Outlook Despite Mamdani Protests
12.03.2026, 02:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Moody's Cuts New York City's Rating Outlook Despite Mamdani Protests The only surprise is that the move came so late. With New York City facing a historic fiscal crisis courtesy of its new mayor, late on Wednesday Moody’s lowered its outlook on New York City to negative, citing the “sizable and persistent” budget shortfalls it’s facing. The...
No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn't Driving Inflation
12.03.2026, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn't Driving Inflation Authored by Anthony Watts via ClimateRealism.com, In The New York Times (NYT) article “Is Climate Change Making Inflation Worse?,” writer Lydia DePillis suggests that extreme weather linked to global warming is quietly raising the price of everyday goods like food, electricity, and insurance...
Trump–Xi Summit Preview: What's At Stake
12.03.2026, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump–Xi Summit Preview: What's At Stake Authored by Sean Tseng via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit China from March 31 to April 2 for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. What was already shaping up to be a high-stakes meeting on tariffs, trade rules, tech controls, and Taiwan has become more complicated...
Energy Shock Threatens Fertilizer Supplies As Echoes Of 2022 Food Price Spike Return
11.03.2026, 19:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Energy Shock Threatens Fertilizer Supplies As Echoes Of 2022 Food Price Spike Return The speed of the energy shock is already feeding into agricultural markets, with food inflation risks likely to build as secondary effects ripple through commodity markets following chaos in the Middle East. Soaring input costs, including diesel fuel for tractors and...
Trump Expands Ban On Foreigners Receiving Small Business Loans
11.03.2026, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Expands Ban On Foreigners Receiving Small Business Loans Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, President Donald Trump’s Small Business Administration announced this week that foreign nationals are now prohibited from accessing all federal small business loan programs, extending restrictions put in place last month, according to Breitbart...
True Value: Looking Through The Value Rotation Illusion
11.03.2026, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - True Value: Looking Through The Value Rotation Illusion Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In our recent article, The Value Rotation Illusion, we explained that in the recent rotation from growth to “value”, passive investors, in actuality, are selling value stocks to buy expensive stocks. Confused? In this follow-up, we...
Stocks Drop As Oil Rebounds Over $90 On Escalating War, Ignoring Looming SPR Release
11.03.2026, 13:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Drop As Oil Rebounds Over $90 On Escalating War, Ignoring Looming SPR Release US equity futures remain extremely illiquid, jittery and volatile, and are down 10bps near the morning lows, erasing a 0.5% gain after earlier rebounding on hopes the upcoming SPR release will keep oil lower (it has so far failed to do that). Global equities saw a leg...
Hegseth Warns "Most Intense Day" Of Operation Epic Fury Imminent As IEA Plans Largest-Ever SPR Dump
11.03.2026, 12:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hegseth Warns "Most Intense Day" Of Operation Epic Fury Imminent As IEA Plans Largest-Ever SPR Dump America-Israel's Operation Epic Fury entered its 12th day, with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicating that the most intense phase of U.S. strikes is expected on Wednesday. Tehran responded with retaliatory strikes against Gulf neighbors, as Goldman's...
Insurance As A Weapon: How The Strait Of Hormuz Shapes Global Power And Energy Markets
11.03.2026, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Insurance As A Weapon: How The Strait Of Hormuz Shapes Global Power And Energy Markets Submitted by Thomas Kolbe War is raging in Iran. Amid the fog of propaganda, it is increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, to distinguish AI-generated material from actual bomb strikes, and to see behind the carefully woven veil of media spin and national...
European Taxpayers Warn Against Eurobonds: A Looming Fiscal Trap
11.03.2026, 07:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European Taxpayers Warn Against Eurobonds: A Looming Fiscal Trap Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In public debate, the introduction of joint European bonds, Eurobonds, has so far often been dismissed as a fantasy. That the European Taxpayers’ Association has now issued a clear warning against joint debt issuance should give critics of the Commission pause...
Oracle Jumps On Solid Earnings And Guidance Boost Despite Soaring CapEx And Cash Burn
10.03.2026, 21:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oracle Jumps On Solid Earnings And Guidance Boost Despite Soaring CapEx And Cash Burn There was much anxiety ahead of Oracle's Q3 earnings release: yes, revenue growth would be solid but would it come at the expense of even more capex, which has sent the stock price tumbling more than 50% since its record high on Sept 10. In the end, it turned out the...