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PA Voter Allegiances Changing In 2024
16.05.2024, 22:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PA Voter Allegiances Changing In 2024 Authored by Salena Zito via RealClearPolitics, NEWTON SQUARE, PA – In childhood, Tasliym Morales was always interested in civic affairs, so it was no surprise to those who knew her that as soon she turned 18, she registered to vote. What did take her family and friends aback, however, was the political party affiliation...
Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000
16.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000 The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged above the historic 40,000 mark in late morning and early afternoon trading. Euphoria was high as bulls celebrated Dow 40,000. This week's gains across broad equity indexes were primarily driven by a cooler April CPI print and dismal retail data on Wednesday...
Florida Condo Owners Dump Units Over Six-Figure Special Assessments
16.05.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Florida Condo Owners Dump Units Over Six-Figure Special Assessments Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Have a Florida condo? Can you afford a $100,000 or higher special assessment for new safety standards? After the collapse of a Surfside Building on June 24, 2021that killed 98 people, the state passed a structural safety law that is now...
Under Armour Approves Restructuring, Warns Of Collapse In Clothing Demand Collapse As Buyback Authorized To Save Plunging Stock
16.05.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Under Armour Approves Restructuring, Warns Of Collapse In Clothing Demand Collapse As Buyback Authorized To Save Plunging Stock Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank needs to spend long weekends at his thoroughbred horse breeding farm in steeplechase country in upper Baltimore County to reflect on what has happened to the sportswear company over the past decade...
After Baltimore, Now Galveston Bridge Collapses Due To A Large Barge Slamming Into it
16.05.2024, 17:10 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Following Baltimore’s incident, the Galveston Bridge collapsed after a large barge struck it. Concerns over bridge safety intensify amid infrastructure challenges across the US. America’s infrastructure is still failing while the Biden administration keeps sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg...
Unsold Teslas Pile-Up In Mall Parking-Lots, Big Discounts Likely
16.05.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unsold Teslas Pile-Up In Mall Parking-Lots, Big Discounts Likely Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Tesla is renting parking lots to store thousands of vehicles. This helps explain the mass layoffs. Tesla Cranking Out Cars, But to Where? Please consider Tesla’s Storing Unsold Inventory In An Abandoned Mall Parking Lot Parking lots full of...
Traders Ditch Bullish Bets On Oil
16.05.2024, 16:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Traders Ditch Bullish Bets On Oil By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com A continuously fading war risk premium and signs that regional oil markets look well supplied prompted traders to slash last week their bullish bets on crude oil at the fastest pace in over a year. The net long position—the difference between bullish and bearish bets—dropped...
Walmart Soars To Record High After Beating Estimates, Guiding Higher As Consumers "Trade Down"
16.05.2024, 15:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Walmart Soars To Record High After Beating Estimates, Guiding Higher As Consumers "Trade Down" WMT stock surged in premarket trading after the company not only reported Q1 earnings that blew away expectations, but guided even higher than consensus, and now expects the full year to be slightly better than planned as the big-box retailer attracts price-conscious...
Welcome To LaLa Land As Market Jettisons Tail Risks
16.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Welcome To LaLa Land As Market Jettisons Tail Risks By Simon White, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and analyst The economy is signaling a more volatile, potentially recessionary period. Markets, however, aren’t paying attention. Not only are the twin tail risks of a downturn or resurgent inflation being ignored, but a near-impossible “immaculate...
Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move
16.05.2024, 13:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move US index futures are flat after notching new record highs on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, spurred on by a miss in the US CPI print and retail sales data on Wednesday, which also boosted bets the Federal Reserve will ease policy. That inflation data, which the market was feverishly anticipating,...
A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale Of Too Many Laws And Too Little Freedom
16.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale Of Too Many Laws And Too Little Freedom Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.” - Simone Weil, French philosopher We...
FBI And DHS Issue Warning On Foreign Terrorist Groups For June "Pride Month'
16.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FBI And DHS Issue Warning On Foreign Terrorist Groups For June "Pride Month' Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a public service announcement saying that foreign terrorist organizations like ISIS and related terrorist organizations could target certain events across the United...
Soft CPI & Sloppy Sales Spark Run To Record Highs For Stocks; Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Bid
15.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soft CPI & Sloppy Sales Spark Run To Record Highs For Stocks; Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Bid Nothing good - all bad... and new record highs for stocks. SuperCore CPI hotter than expected (but headline and core CPI in-line/small miss), Retail sales way uglier than expected (but gas station spending surged), homebuilder sentiment slumped, and Empire...
Large Barge Slams Into Galveston Bridge, Stranding Thousands On Pelican Island
15.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Large Barge Slams Into Galveston Bridge, Stranding Thousands On Pelican Island As the Biden administration continues funneling billions of dollars to Ukraine and with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg nowhere to be found, America's infrastructure continues deteriorating. Earlier today, a large barge crashed into a bridge in Galveston,...
Coalition Of States Sue Biden Admin, California Over Electric Vehicle Mandates
15.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Coalition Of States Sue Biden Admin, California Over Electric Vehicle Mandates Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, A coalition of Republican-led states is suing the Biden administration and the State of California in an attempt to prevent new electric vehicle mandates on truck owners and operators throughout the country from going into...
America's 'Bunker-Buster' Bomb Production To Triple As World Fractures Into Dangerous Multi-Polar State
15.05.2024, 20:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's 'Bunker-Buster' Bomb Production To Triple As World Fractures Into Dangerous Multi-Polar State Munitions stockpiles are running low across the West, whether in Europe or the United States. Supplying Ukraine with arms in its war against Russia has forced Western militaries and defense firms to either make plans or begin boosting the production...
Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment"
15.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment" In a Goldman Materials note this morning covering China and copper, analyst James McGeoch pointed out that the base metal is "having a Cocoa moment." Comex copper futures for July delivery jumped nearly 5% to $5.12 a pound, exceeding an earlier record for the most active contract set in March...
Does Inflation Lead To Civilizational Collapse? A Look At Rome
15.05.2024, 18:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Does Inflation Lead To Civilizational Collapse? A Look At Rome With the US national debt at $34 trillion and climbing, USD reserve status under pressure, inflation destroying standards of living, and the Biden administration stoking costly war on several fronts, perhaps it's time for more thoughts on the Roman empire. In a Tuesday thread posted to X...
Putin To Visit China To Discuss Energy Ties
15.05.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin To Visit China To Discuss Energy Ties By Julianna Geiger of OilPrice.com Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit China on May 16-17 for discussions with President Xi Jinping, in part to discuss expanding energy and trade partnerships. The state visit, initiated by Xi, will cover topics such as China's Belt and Road Initiative as well...
WTI Rebounds Off Lows After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws
15.05.2024, 16:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rebounds Off Lows After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws Oil prices are tumbling this morning despite lower CPI (juicing rate cut hopes), weak retail sales (but strong gas station spending), and a big draw reported overnight by API. It seems the main downside driver was IEA lowering its 2024 demand forecast. World oil demand is forecast to grow...
"Trifecta Of Dovish News... Consistent With Fed Cutting In September": Wall Street Reacts To Weaker CPI Print
15.05.2024, 15:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Trifecta Of Dovish News... Consistent With Fed Cutting In September": Wall Street Reacts To Weaker CPI Print With the CPI report came in on top of expectations on 3 of the 4 closely watched metrics, with just headline CPI coming in at 0.3%, just shy of the 0.4% expected (with the retail sales print coming in far uglier and missing across the board)...
Despite Surging Gasoline Spending, US Retail Sales Missed Big In April
15.05.2024, 15:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Despite Surging Gasoline Spending, US Retail Sales Missed Big In April For once, BofA's analysts 'missed' as their expectations for a small beat in retail sales was eviscerated by a huge miss across the board. Headline Retail sales were unchanged MoM (versus +0.4% exp) and last month's +0.7% MoM move was revised slightly lower to +0.6% MoM. Source:...
US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print
15.05.2024, 13:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print Equity futures were set to hold yesterday's gains ahead of today's CPI report, but will move violently either higher or lower after today's CPI number is released, which will either validate or reject Jerome Powell’s latest signals that interest rates will be higher for longer (our CPI preview is here)...
Emergency Blackouts Introduced Across Ukraine As Temperatures Dip
15.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Emergency Blackouts Introduced Across Ukraine As Temperatures Dip Following several weeks of stepped-up Russian aerial attacks which have pummeled Ukraine's energy and electrical grid, state power operator Ukrenergo on Tuesday announced that rolling emergency blackouts have gone into effect across the country. It comes amid a drop in temperatures which...
7 In 10 Europeans Say Governments Allowing Too Much Immigration
15.05.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 7 In 10 Europeans Say Governments Allowing Too Much Immigration Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A survey encompassing all 27 countries in the European Union has found that most citizens believe their countries are taking in too many foreign migrants. The poll conducted by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German...
Over $13 Million Paid Out In Vaccine Injury Claims In Australia
15.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Over $13 Million Paid Out In Vaccine Injury Claims In Australia Authored by Monica O'Shea via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Australian government has paid out $20.5 million (US$13.2 million) in COVID-19 vaccine injury claims to people who experienced harm from the jab. (Karn Buppunhasamai/Shutterstock) Services Australia data provided to The...
FDA Preparing For Possible Bird Flu Spread Among Humans: Commissioner
15.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FDA Preparing For Possible Bird Flu Spread Among Humans: Commissioner Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing for a scenario in which the highly pathogenic avian influenza starts spreading among humans, the agency’s commissioner said on May 8. “This virus, like all viruses, is mutating...
House Oversight Cmte Probing Biden Voter Mobilization Order
15.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Oversight Cmte Probing Biden Voter Mobilization Order Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClearPolitics, The House Oversight Committee is probing a controversial Biden administration executive order tasking the federal government with mobilizing voting groups it says are underrepresented. In a letter obtained by RealClearPolitics, Chairman James...
Goldman Finds Commercial Power Demand In Virginia Explodes Higher As 'Next AI Trade' Soars
15.05.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Finds Commercial Power Demand In Virginia Explodes Higher As 'Next AI Trade' Soars All eyes are on the powering-up America theme as the surge in artificial intelligence sparks a nationwide boom in data center building. The urgent need to overhaul the nation's power grid to meet the skyrocketing demand for electricity is now front and center...
Record Household Debt, Jump In Delinquencies Signal "Worsening Financial Distress", Fed Warns
15.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Record Household Debt, Jump In Delinquencies Signal "Worsening Financial Distress", Fed Warns While the market remains focused on tomorrow's CPI print, and to a lesser extent the April retail sales reports due at the same time, which will both be released at 8:30am on May 15. we should to flag another important report that doesn’t typically get a...
Snyder: "Demographic Winter Is Coming" As Fertility Rates Plummet All Over The Globe
14.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Snyder: "Demographic Winter Is Coming" As Fertility Rates Plummet All Over The Globe Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, Fertility rates have fallen way below replacement level throughout the entire industrialized world, and this is starting to cause major problems all over the globe. Aging populations are counting on...
Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons
14.05.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons A top British intelligence official has issued a new alarmist warning concerning the 'Russian threat' to the West. Anne Keast-Butler, who for the last year has headed up the UK's GCHQ, or signals intelligence operations (which is the equivalent of America's...
Another "Behemoth Solar Flare" Sparks Radio Blackout Across North America
14.05.2024, 21:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another "Behemoth Solar Flare" Sparks Radio Blackout Across North America After a weekend of the strongest solar storms to rock the planet in years, producing aurora across Europe, the United States, and as far as New Zealand, there is news the sun just burped its largest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25, according to space weather website Solarham...
Clearing Demand
14.05.2024, 20:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Clearing Demand By Ahmed Bin Sulayem Since its establishment in 2005, the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) has been the central counterparty for clearing and settlement services to the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX). Emerging as the largest clearing house in the MENA region by volume, DCCC is now poised to play a far more multinational...
Cocoa Market Hit With Second Crash In Weeks As Liquidity Evaporates
14.05.2024, 19:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Market Hit With Second Crash In Weeks As Liquidity Evaporates Cocoa futures in New York crashed for the second time in just days as liquidity evaporated, and a new weather forecast points to improved weather conditions for top producers of the bean in West Africa. The most active cocoa contract in New York plunged 19% on Monday, recovering...
Copper Scrappers Target Tesla Superchargers As Metal Prices Soar
14.05.2024, 19:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Copper Scrappers Target Tesla Superchargers As Metal Prices Soar In the early 1950s, a notorious bank robber, one of the first fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, was asked after his capture: Why did you rob banks? William Sutton's response: "Because that's where the money is." Fast-forward to today. Thieves are targeting electric vehicle...
I've Got A Bad Feeling About This
14.05.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - I've Got A Bad Feeling About This By Michael Every of Rabobank Ideally, I would have written this on May 4th not 14th, but I am going to talk Star Wars. I was a fan in 1977, kept the flame alive when only battered VHS cassettes of the original trilogy existed, and was delighted to get prequels. Until the opening crawl announced, “The taxation of trade...
Watch Live: Will Fed Chair Powell Admit He Can Now See The 'Flation'?
14.05.2024, 15:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: Will Fed Chair Powell Admit He Can Now See The 'Flation'? Squeezed in between today's (hotter than expected) PPI and tomorrow's CPI, Fed Chair Jay Powell will join The ECB's Dutch Central Banker Klaus Knot at the annual general meeting of the Foreign Bankers' Association. After PPI - and a wave of higher prices across various indicators...
Red Lobster Abruptly Closes "Dozens" Of Locations, Loses Its Key Supplier And Begins Fire Selling Kitchen Equipment
14.05.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Red Lobster Abruptly Closes "Dozens" Of Locations, Loses Its Key Supplier And Begins Fire Selling Kitchen Equipment Restaurant chain Red Lobster appears to be the latest beneficiary of "Bidenomics", with reports surfacing this week that "dozens" of its locations across the country are unexpectedly closing down. More than 80 locations in at least 27...
Could Ghana Be Jihadists’ Next Target?
14.05.2024, 13:48 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Long seen as an island of stability, the country shares many of the same vulnerabilities that militants have exploited across the Sahel region....
The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance
14.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance Authored by Peter Reagan via Birch Gold Group, The total debt owed by the United States federal government has reached incredible levels. Today, the total is $34,541,727,970,599.17 – but by the time you read this article, it’ll probably be higher. I say “probably” because the debt is growing...
"Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech
14.05.2024, 12:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech US equity futures are flat into tomorrow's CPI/Retail Sales print with PPI the major macro data point today, while Fed Chair Powell also speaks. Futures are flat after also closing unchanged yesterday when the return of the meme stonk mania sent GME and AMC soaring, and hammered L/S hedge funds...
UNC Chapel Hill Trustees Vote To Redirect DEI Money To Campus Safety
14.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UNC Chapel Hill Trustees Vote To Redirect DEI Money To Campus Safety Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The board of trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has unanimously voted to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and instead use the millions of dollars to boost campus safety. A barricade...
Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns
14.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Transitioning conventional truck fleets to electric vehicles (EVs) pushes up annual operational costs, which subsequently increases economic inflation, according to a recent report from transportation...
WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote
14.05.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The World Health Organization (WHO) has watered down some provisions of its pandemic agreements ahead of the upcoming World Health Assembly on May 27. Critics in the United States, however, say the changes don’t do enough to address...
The Masked And The Super Masked
14.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Masked And The Super Masked Authored by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We live in an era of masks, only not the fun kind you might find at Carnivale in Venice, Italy. A pro-Palestinian protestor wears a keffiyeh on the West Lawn of Columbia University, in New York, on April 29, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images) Something...
Fast Casual Dining Foot Traffic "Plummets" Across New York-New Jersey As Consumer Cracks
14.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fast Casual Dining Foot Traffic "Plummets" Across New York-New Jersey As Consumer Cracks The cost-of-living squeeze is crushing low-income consumers, so much that Goldman's top consumer trader, Scott Feiler, recently pointed out that his desk is "getting bearish on consumer and our soft landing basket." Days ago, Goldman analysts led by Bonnie Herzog...
"If Mr. Trump Is Hitler, Think Of Newsom As Godzilla With Hair Gel..."
13.05.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "If Mr. Trump Is Hitler, Think Of Newsom As Godzilla With Hair Gel..." Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Monster Mash-Up “My take is that the US is incredibly unstable right now, and could go in almost any imaginable direction between now and the election, as well as some unimaginable ones.” - John Michael Greer Did you notice...
Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid
13.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid The return of 'Roaring Kitty' sent GME soaring higher (up 110% at its highs)... Source: Bloomberg ...and prompted squeezes/panic-covering across the 'most shorted' names and 'retail favorites (memes)' soared... Source: Bloomberg As John Flood noted from Goldman's trading desk:...
Turkey Treating Over 1,000 Wounded Hamas Members In Hospitals: Erdogan
13.05.2024, 21:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Turkey Treating Over 1,000 Wounded Hamas Members In Hospitals: Erdogan The NATO country with the second largest military in the alliance has just admitted to aiding and abetting a US-designated terror organization. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in surprisingly frank statements acknowledged that Turkey is currently treating over 1,000 Hamas...