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American & Foreigners Reportedly In Custody After Deadly Coup Attempt, Shootout In Congo
19.05.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - American & Foreigners Reportedly In Custody After Deadly Coup Attempt, Shootout In Congo Military leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) said they have put down an attempted coup in a dramatic Sunday incident which included a large shootout erupting in the capital of Kinshasa. At least three men have been reported killed, with...
Boeing Whistleblower Autopsy Report Released As Police Wrap Up Probe
19.05.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing Whistleblower Autopsy Report Released As Police Wrap Up Probe Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Police Department of Charleston, South Carolina, has finished its investigation into the death of former Boeing employee John Barnett, who could have played a prominent role in a lawsuit related to the jetliner maker’s...
Fierce Fighting Gets Closer To US-Built Gaza Pier Just As Initial Aid Rolls Off
19.05.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fierce Fighting Gets Closer To US-Built Gaza Pier Just As Initial Aid Rolls Off While global coverage of the Gaza crisis has focused on the Israeli offensive in the southern city of Raffah of late, fierce battles have erupted in the north of the Strip over the last several days, especially in Jabalia, where the IDF military is in a fierce anti-insurgent...
Sternlicht's Starwood REIT Running Low On Cash As Redemptions Soar Amid CRE Storm
19.05.2024, 00:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sternlicht's Starwood REIT Running Low On Cash As Redemptions Soar Amid CRE Storm Starwood Real Estate Income Trust (SREIT), a $10 billion non-traded REIT ranked second-largest behind Blackstone's struggling BREIT, faces a severe liquidity crunch as investor redemptions soar amid concerns 'higher for longer' interest rates will worsen the commercial...
US Focused On Hunting Down Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar, In Bid To End War
18.05.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Focused On Hunting Down Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar, In Bid To End War Via Middle East Eye The United States is focused on tracking down Hamas's Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, amid a new push by the White House to help Israel declare "total victory" so it can bring an end to the war in Gaza, US officials have told Middle East Eye. Current and former...
China Starts Housing Market Bailout
18.05.2024, 20:47 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - China has initiated a housing market bailout amid significant economic challenges, including the collapse of major real estate developers, deflationary pressures, and social unrest, prompting increased easing efforts and policy solutions to stabilize the sector. We and many others said that this experiment was doomed and that all China was doing was...
Watch: Zelensky Says 'It's The World’s Fault' That Russia Is Gaining
18.05.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Zelensky Says 'It's The World’s Fault' That Russia Is Gaining In a rare personal visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the battlefield, particularly to the war-ravaged country's northeastern Kharkiv oblast, he blamed Russia's rapid advance on "the world" for not sending enough weapons. Ukraine's front lines in the region have...
US Sending Nuclear-Powered Carrier For 'Higher Stakes' Red Sea Mission
18.05.2024, 13:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Sending Nuclear-Powered Carrier For 'Higher Stakes' Red Sea Mission Since the start of the Gaza war at least 20 ships have been damaged in the Red Sea amid the ongoing Houthi campaign to punish Israel and its international backers. The US-led Operation Prosperity Guardian is something which has retreated from headlines as it has by and large proved...
China Unveils A Housing Market Bailout: Here's What's In It, And Why It Is Still Not Enough
18.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Unveils A Housing Market Bailout: Here's What's In It, And Why It Is Still Not Enough More than four years ago, when China first launched its latest "deleveraging" campaign targeted at bursting the country's housing bubble in a controlled fashion, which coincidentally was the single largest asset for China's massive middle class, we - and many...
America's Dairy Cow Replacement Inventory Collapses To Two-Decade Low
18.05.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Dairy Cow Replacement Inventory Collapses To Two-Decade Low The nation's food supply chain remains under stress. We've been sounding the alarm on America's beef cattle supply dwindling to the lowest levels in over half a century. Now, Bloomberg reports that dairy farms are pivoting breeding programs toward beef-on-dairy hybrids, capitalizing...
DTCC, Chainlink Complete Fund Tokenization Pilot With JPMorgan, Templeton And Other Financial Giants Participating
17.05.2024, 21:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DTCC, Chainlink Complete Fund Tokenization Pilot With JPMorgan, Templeton And Other Financial Giants Participating By Tom Mitchelhill of CoinTelegraph The world’s largest settlement system, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and blockchain oracle Chainlink have wrapped up a pilot program with several major banking firms in the United...
IDF Recovers Three Deceased Hostages, Including 22-year Old Shani Louk
17.05.2024, 21:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IDF Recovers Three Deceased Hostages, Including 22-year Old Shani Louk The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) made a major, and tragic, announcement on Friday. IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the military has recovered the bodies of three hostages from the Gaza Strip. The deceased include the body of Shani Louk, the 22-year old girl filmed on...
Platinum Enters Its Second Year Of "Substantial" Deficit
17.05.2024, 19:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Platinum Enters Its Second Year Of "Substantial" Deficit Via SchiffGold.com, Platinum is entering its second year of substantial deficit, according to the Platinum Quarterly report from the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC). Report authors labeled the Q1 deficit of 369k oz “significant” and predicted that the deficit will continue...
Out Of Control Inflation: It Now Takes At Least $177,798 For A Family Of 4 To Live Comfortably In The US
17.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Out Of Control Inflation: It Now Takes At Least $177,798 For A Family Of 4 To Live Comfortably In The US Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, I never imagined that we would ever see a time when it takes $177,798 for a family of four to live comfortably in the United States. Unfortunately, that day has arrived. Our leaders have...
France Blames Deadly New Caledonia Uprising On TikTok, Russia, & Azerbaijan
17.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France Blames Deadly New Caledonia Uprising On TikTok, Russia, & Azerbaijan More shocking images have come out of the ongoing unrest and riots which have gripped the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, as additional French troops, including reports of elite security forces, are en route to help authorities restore order. Determined to suppress...
Cocoa Bull Pierre Andurand Warns Of 'Price Explosion' If Stock-To-Grinding Ratio Collapses
17.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Bull Pierre Andurand Warns Of 'Price Explosion' If Stock-To-Grinding Ratio Collapses Commodity trader Pierre Andurand appeared on Bloomberg's Odd Lots to discuss his bullish bet on cocoa markets and the future direction of physical markets amid severe droughts plaguing vast farmlands in West Africa. He's still bullish on cocoa prices, with an...
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...
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...
Jobless Claims Decline After Last Week's Big Surge Amid New York Chaos
16.05.2024, 14:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jobless Claims Decline After Last Week's Big Surge Amid New York Chaos After the prior week's big surprise jump in jobless claims, analysts expect a decline this week back into the lowest-in-forty-years range once again... and they were right as 222,000 Americans filed for jobless benefits for the first time last week (down from a revised 232k the prior...
CME Plans To Launch Spot Bitcoin Trading
16.05.2024, 14:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CME Plans To Launch Spot Bitcoin Trading The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the world's largest futures exchange, is planning to offer spot bitcoin trading on its platform, according to a Financial Times report. This move would provide major hedge funds and institutional traders with a regulated venue to trade Bitcoin. As Vivek Sun reports via...
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,...
Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed
16.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed About a month ago, HSBC Global Research noted a forecast for a "weak" bull market in commodities. New data shows that the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April rose by .3% from the previous month and by 3.4% year-over-year. Although inflation is still increasing,...
'Guns & Butter': Putin Explains Reason Behind Major Cabinet Shake-Up
16.05.2024, 00:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Guns & Butter': Putin Explains Reason Behind Major Cabinet Shake-Up Russian President Vladimir Putin has for the first time explained the rationale behind this week's major cabinet reshuffling, which for the first time of the Ukraine operation saw Sergey Shoigu removed as defense minister (and 'promoted' to head of the national security council),...
Pakistan Seeks More IMF Funding Amid Protests
15.05.2024, 23:01 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The country has achieved a measure of economic stability, but it needs structural reforms—not just a bailout....
Venezuela Moves "Substantial Quantities" Of Troops To Guyana Border
15.05.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Venezuela Moves "Substantial Quantities" Of Troops To Guyana Border By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Venezuela has moved “substantial quantities of [military] personnel and equipment to the border with Guyana amid its territorial dispute over the Essequibo region. The update comes from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington...
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...
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...
Why 1960 Alternate Electors Succeeded Where 2020 Ones Failed
15.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why 1960 Alternate Electors Succeeded Where 2020 Ones Failed Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A November election decades ago produced a clear winner in a hotly contested presidential race. Yet the popular vote immediately came under scrutiny in several states. In one, auditors discovered clear errors in tabulating vote...
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...
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...
Israeli Tanks Plunge Deeper Into Rafah As 500,000 Palestinians Flee
14.05.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Tanks Plunge Deeper Into Rafah As 500,000 Palestinians Flee Israeli tanks have been seen plunging deeper into the southern Gaza city of Rafah amid reports that some 500,000 people have fled amid the escalating ground offensive. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have initially focused their operation on the eastern section of the city, having seized...
Zelensky Thanks Americans For Billions In Aid, But Pleads For More Patriot Systems
14.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Thanks Americans For Billions In Aid, But Pleads For More Patriot Systems Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made another trip to Ukraine, appearing in Kiev alongside Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, and the US top diplomat vowed that some of the US aid from Biden's recently approved $60 billion for Ukraine is "now on...
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...
Anglo Goes Bold: Unveils Breakup Plan To Transform Into Copper Giant Amid BHP Takeover Battle
14.05.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Anglo Goes Bold: Unveils Breakup Plan To Transform Into Copper Giant Amid BHP Takeover Battle London-listed Anglo-American has unveiled a "clear, compelling, and decisive plan to unlock significant value from its portfolio." This strategy involves selling its platinum and diamond business units while concentrating on copper, positioning itself to...
"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...
1000s Of Islamists Protest Against 'Censorship' After Calls For A Caliphate In Germenay Are Banned
14.05.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 1000s Of Islamists Protest Against 'Censorship' After Calls For A Caliphate In Germenay Are Banned Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The Salafist group organizers claimed unfair censorship after strict conditions were imposed on Muslims calling for a caliphate in Germany and against anti-Semitic rhetoric... Thousands of Islamists took to the...
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...
UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over 'Revised' Gaza Casualty Data
14.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over 'Revised' Gaza Casualty Data Since the start of the brutal Gaza conflict in the wake of Oct.7, a public 'info-war' has raged over the numbers of wartime casualties, especially on the Palestinian side. Something similar happened in the Syrian war, as well as in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war:...
At Least 360,000 Flee Rafah As Israel Touts 'Precision Operation' Against Biden Criticism
13.05.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - At Least 360,000 Flee Rafah As Israel Touts 'Precision Operation' Against Biden Criticism An estimated 360,000 Gazans have fled the southern city of Rafah as the Israel Defense Forces concentrate a ground operation on the eastern half of the city, the main UN aid agency UNRWA says. This figure is likely to grow higher by the day as IDF tanks and ground...
Biden Calls Illegals Crossing The Border "Hispanic Voters"
13.05.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls Illegals Crossing The Border "Hispanic Voters" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a telling slip of the tongue earlier this week, Joe Biden referred to the unprecedented rise in illegal immigrants entering the US as an “influx” of “Hispanic voters.” During an interview with a Spanish radio show, Biden was talking about...
Ukraine Admits Frontlines In Kharkiv Are Collapsing
13.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Admits Frontlines In Kharkiv Are Collapsing For the first time since Russia launched its major cross-border offensive into Ukraine's Kharkiv region (it began last Friday), Ukraine's government has acknowledged that Moscow forces have made rapid gains. Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the military administration of the Kharkov Region, has said Russia...
Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms
13.05.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms US equity futures extended last week's solid gains when they traded just about 1% below all time highs, as investors awaited key CPI later this week that will shape the Fed's actions in coming months. As of 7:30am, contracts on the S&P 500 rose about 0.2% (but still below Friday's highs)...
Newsom Forced To Slash California Budget, Blames Crippling Deficit On "Rain Bombs" And Tax Shortfalls
13.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Newsom Forced To Slash California Budget, Blames Crippling Deficit On "Rain Bombs" And Tax Shortfalls In the course of two years, California has turned a $100 billion surplus into a $73 billion deficit, forcing governor Gavin Newson (D) to propose painful (token) spending cuts on Friday while announcing his revised state budget. California Governor...
Ukraine Warns Against Questioning Zelensky's Legitimacy Due To Wartime Suspension Of Elections
13.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Warns Against Questioning Zelensky's Legitimacy Due To Wartime Suspension Of Elections The end of Volodymyr Zelensky's five year term as president of Ukraine is set to end by the close of May, at least according to what was stipulated upon his getting elected, however, the government has made it clear there will be no new election. Officials...
U.S. Military Orders Total Withdrawal From Niger
11.05.2024, 23:48 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - The Pentagon has formally ordered the total withdrawal of 1,000 US combat soldiers from Niger, impacting counterterrorism efforts and Russian influence in West Africa, amid ongoing discussions with Nigerien authorities. This week, the Pentagon formally ordered the withdrawal of all 1,000 US combat soldiers from Niger, a blow to the Biden administration’s...
Over 124 Pounds Of Cocaine And Fentanyl Seized In El Paso In 1 Week
11.05.2024, 19:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Over 124 Pounds Of Cocaine And Fentanyl Seized In El Paso In 1 Week Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in the El Paso region seized more than 124 pounds of fentanyl and cocaine last week in four separate incidents, amid criticism of lax border policies. On April 30,...
The Resilience of Ukraine’s War Widows
11.05.2024, 12:00 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Perhaps tens of thousands of Ukrainian women have lost their partners in the conflict with Russia. They look to rebuild amid precarity and uncertainty....
Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx
11.05.2024, 10:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx Via Middle East Eye In a grand procession last week, Sinai militia leader Ibrahim al-Organi arrived at a ceremony to inaugurate the Arab Tribes Union, a new paramilitary entity that brings together five tribal groups from across Egypt. The celebration named President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi...
Netanyahu Vows To 'Stand Alone' & 'Fight With Fingernails' After Biden's Arms Supply Warning
11.05.2024, 01:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Vows To 'Stand Alone' & 'Fight With Fingernails' After Biden's Arms Supply Warning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest reaction to President Biden earlier in the week threatening that the US could withhold offensive weapons from Israel if its military escalates a ground offensive against Rafah has been to vow that his country is ready...