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Joe Biden's Brother Embroiled In High-Ranking Qatari Scheme To "Provide Wealth Of Introductions" Through "My Family": Politico
29.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Joe Biden's Brother Embroiled In High-Ranking Qatari Scheme To "Provide Wealth Of Introductions" Through "My Family": Politico Qatar has had a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. While we knew about the EU's 'Qatargate,' investments with the Kushner family, and of course Sen. Bob Menendez advancing Qatar's interests, Politico reports that the Biden family's...
Iran's Nightmares
28.04.2024, 05:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran's Nightmares Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Details of the recent limited Israeli retaliatory strike against Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed...
Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War
26.04.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War Authored by Giorgio Cafiero via The Cradle Launched in 2017, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, a sprawling high-tech development on the northwestern Red Sea coast, was introduced as the crown jewel of Vision 2030. This futuristic desert megaproject, extending over some Jordanian and Egyptian...
Popular Iranian Rapper Sentenced To Death For Supporting 'Anti-Hijab Protests'
25.04.2024, 00:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Popular Iranian Rapper Sentenced To Death For Supporting 'Anti-Hijab Protests' A 33-year old Iranian activist and rapper who has recently been involved in anti-government demonstrations has been handed a shockingly draconian sentence by an Iranian court. Toomaj Salehi was first arrested in Oct. 2022 for publicly backing the so-called 'anti-hijab' protests...
Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion
23.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion By Tim Martin at BreakingDefense Global military expenditure surged to a record $2.44 trillion in 2023, the largest year-on-year rise on weapons spending since 2009, according to a new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report. The report, published today, said that the...
A Tale of Two Megalopolises
20.04.2024, 12:00 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - What new cities in Saudi Arabia and Egypt tell us about their autocrats....
BRICS - The Project Of The Century
19.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BRICS - The Project Of The Century Authored by Peter Hanseler via VoiceOfRussia.com, The Western media are prioritizing the Ukraine conflict, the green revolution and the woke revolution. In the shadow of this media coverage, BRICS is changing the world. We bring you the latest figures and place them in the current geopolitical environment. – An analysis...
Biden Pushing Pipe-Dream Of Israel-Saudi Mega Deal Based On Palestinian State Recognition
19.04.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Pushing Pipe-Dream Of Israel-Saudi Mega Deal Based On Palestinian State Recognition The Biden administration is keeping its dream of seeing Saudi-Israeli diplomatic normalization achieved (or rather, what is in fact originally Trump's dream set in motion via the Abraham Accords). But Biden is dangling something before Netanyahu that the Israeli...
Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs
17.04.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs US equity futures and European markets are higher, reversing several days of losses after positive earnings from some of Europe’s biggest companies lifted the mood as markets were roiled by a more hawkish outlook for interest rates. Futures on the S&P 500 rose by 0.4% reversing three days...
US Push For A 'Middle East NATO' Failed To Emerge During Iran Strikes
17.04.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Push For A 'Middle East NATO' Failed To Emerge During Iran Strikes Via Middle East Eye The Islamic Republic’s Saturday attack on Israel was a made-for social media moment. It was also the ultimate test of US efforts to cobble together a coalition of Arab states and Israel in a so-called Middle East NATO, to jointly defend an attack from Tehran...
China's Crude Oil Imports Hit A Record High In 2023
17.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Crude Oil Imports Hit A Record High In 2023 By Tom Kool of OilPrice.com China’s crude oil imports hit a record high in 2023, rising by 10% year-over-year and breaking the previous record from 2020 when the world’s top crude oil importer took advantage of the price crash to gorge on cheap crude. Last year, China’s crude oil imports averaged...
King Abdullah Warns Israel He Won't Let Jordan Become "The Theater Of A Regional War"
16.04.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - King Abdullah Warns Israel He Won't Let Jordan Become "The Theater Of A Regional War" The threat of a broader Middle East-wide war looms as Israel mulls retaliation for the massive weekend Iran drone and missile attack, but so far on Tuesday regional actors are strongly signaling they want to see a return to the status quo. Saudi Arabia has rejected...
Biden Admin Says "Limited Scope" Israeli Attack On Iran Still Coming
16.04.2024, 16:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Admin Says "Limited Scope" Israeli Attack On Iran Still Coming Israel's war cabinet reportedly met for several hours on Tuesday, and widespread speculation persists over a possible Israeli military response to Iran, but with few clear answers or indicators as yet revealed concerning what's coming next. What is clear is that the Netanyahu government...
The Best And Worst Countries For LGBTQ+ Travelers
16.04.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Best And Worst Countries For LGBTQ+ Travelers In order to help LGBTQ+ tourists travel safely, the German portal Spartacus started publishing the Gay Travel Index in 2012. In the 2024 edition, the ranking compared 213 countries and territories based on the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people in each location...
Javier Blas Outlines Ten Takeaways For Crude Market Following Iran's Direct Attack On Israel
14.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Javier Blas Outlines Ten Takeaways For Crude Market Following Iran's Direct Attack On Israel Iran's direct attack on Israel on Saturday evening is viewed certainly as an escalation in the Middle East conflict. Tehran's missile and drone attack (widely unsuccessful) has been well-telegraphed (read: here & here) for the last two weeks, pushing up...
'Retaliation Risk' - What Wall Street Thinks Ahead Of Market Open
14.04.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Retaliation Risk' - What Wall Street Thinks Ahead Of Market Open The first actual 'market' response we have seen to Iran's attack on Israel is in crypto, which saw - rather intriguingly - a huge puke as the drones/missiles flew, and then some comeback as the impact of the attack seemed marginal at worst (and for now retaliation remains muted)... Source:...
'Surprising' Intensity Of Houthi Attacks Push French Warship To Exit Red Sea
13.04.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Surprising' Intensity Of Houthi Attacks Push French Warship To Exit Red Sea Via The Cradle France's Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate Alsace has turned tail from the Red Sea after running out of missiles and munitions repelling attacks from the Yemeni armed forces, according to its commander, Jerome Henry. "We didn’t necessarily expect this level of...
US Pressuring China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia To Halt Attack Plans On Israel
13.04.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Pressuring China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia To Halt Attack Plans On Israel The past days have seen American diplomats in a global push to get countries to hold back Iran from launching a retaliatory attack on Israel for its April 1st embassy attack in Damascus. Washington is especially leaning on China, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia in hopes that a united...
Middle East Crisis: Container Ship Hijacked Near Strait Of Hormuz Amid Soaring Iran Tensions
13.04.2024, 13:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Middle East Crisis: Container Ship Hijacked Near Strait Of Hormuz Amid Soaring Iran Tensions While Israel on Friday braced for cruise missile and suicide drone attacks, there are new reports on Saturday morning that Iranian commandos hijacked an Israeli-affiliated container ship heading towards the Strait of Hormuz. AP News says the British military's...
Gulf Allies Warn US Not To Launch Strikes On Iran From Their Territory
12.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gulf Allies Warn US Not To Launch Strikes On Iran From Their Territory America's Gulf allies say they don't want to get caught in the crossfire of any potential US/Israel and Iran shooting war. The United States has made it clear that it is ready to assist Israel in any potential response to Iranian attack. Tehran is poised to imminently retaliate for...
How Will Tehran Respond To Israel? Could Iranian Stealth Drones Target Critical Oil Infrastructure?
10.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Will Tehran Respond To Israel? Could Iranian Stealth Drones Target Critical Oil Infrastructure? Iran's foreign minister said on Monday that Washington military leaders gave Israel the "green light" to conduct a missile strike on its consulate building complex in Damascus last week that killed several of its top military officials, including two...
Saudi Arabia 'Scales Back' Goals Of Neom Megacity Project
09.04.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia 'Scales Back' Goals Of Neom Megacity Project Via Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia has scaled back some of its ambitions for its desert megacity Neom, according to a report by Bloomberg. The $1.5 trillion megacity project, which organizers claim will be 33 times the size of New York City, is due to include a 170km straight-line city. When...
NATO: It's Time To Cull The Snake In America's Garden
08.04.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO: It's Time To Cull The Snake In America's Garden Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, This week’s brouhaha in Brussels saw the Foreign Ministers of NATO emerge from their holes in the ground looking for food now that things are finally warming up for Spring. And they had a message for us: more for them and less for us. They were...
Saudi Arabia Hikes Oil Prices In Increasingly Tight Market
06.04.2024, 15:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia Hikes Oil Prices In Increasingly Tight Market Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Saudi oil giant Aramco, the world’s top crude oil exporter, hiked on Friday the prices of most of its crude grades for May, as Middle Eastern benchmarks are strengthening in a market that looks increasingly tight. For a second consecutive...
McDonald's Buys Up All Israeli Franchise Restaurants After Boycott Hits Sales
05.04.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - McDonald's Buys Up All Israeli Franchise Restaurants After Boycott Hits Sales Via Middle East Eye McDonald's has bought out all the franchise restaurants in Israel after seeing a sales hit due to boycotts. The locations have become a flashpoint in the Israel-Hamas war, receiving global media attention. Bloomberg reported that McDonald's Corp has...
"Central Banks Are Obviously Determined To Cut... Or Make You Think They Are Going To Cut"
04.04.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Central Banks Are Obviously Determined To Cut... Or Make You Think They Are Going To Cut" By Michael Every of Rabobank The bigger 'Bigger Picture' Fed Chair Powell noted the FOMC will wait for a clearer signal from the data before starting rate cuts, which he continues to expect to begin “at some point this year.” In particular, he said that recent...
Spain To Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Calls On Western Allies To Follow Suit
04.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spain To Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Calls On Western Allies To Follow Suit Spain has been foremost among European countries which have repeatedly condemned Israel's ongoing military operation in Gaza and the resultant soaring Palestinian death toll. The EU country is also among those demanding answers for the drone strikes that killed a group...
"Consolidate Or Get Eaten": Wall Street Finally Embracing Shale After $250 Billion In Oil Deals Last Year
22.02.2024, 03:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Consolidate Or Get Eaten": Wall Street Finally Embracing Shale After $250 Billion In Oil Deals Last Year It's no sooner than we've been documenting the collapse of ESG and 'clean green investing' on Wall Street, than the world of finance seems ready to give a big warm embrace to shale drillers. It's almost as if money managers wind up chasing wherever...
How Progressive Policies Are Designed For Civilizational Suicide
17.02.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Progressive Policies Are Designed For Civilizational Suicide Authored by John D. O'Connor via American Greatness, We all understand, in the timeless words of the poet Robert Burns, that the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Most Americans are accustomed to assessing the various failed initiatives of our country’s leaders as well-intended...
Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn't Work?
14.02.2024, 22:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn't Work? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, It is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations. Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive...
Mapping Global GDP Growth Forecasts By Country In 2024
12.02.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping Global GDP Growth Forecasts By Country In 2024 Resilient GDP growth and falling inflation are spurring a brighter outlook for 2024, although cautions remain across global economies. While investors are hopeful that U.S. rate cuts could happen as early as May, the Fed has signaled that it won’t “declare victory” too soon. As countries around...
In Latest Oil Megadeal, Diamondback Buys Endeavor For $26BN Creating Permian Giant
12.02.2024, 15:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Latest Oil Megadeal, Diamondback Buys Endeavor For $26BN Creating Permian Giant Last year, when the full extent of the unprecedented consolidation wave in the shale sector gradually became apparent, we speculated that when it's all said and done, US energy companies would have more production discipline than the OPEC+ cartel, and sure enough, today...
Futures Flat As Tech Stocks Extend Gains
12.02.2024, 14:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Tech Stocks Extend Gains After a record-matching 14 weeks of gains in the past 15 pushed the S&P to a new all-time high above 5000 last week on unbridled optimism about eventual Fed rate cuts and easing inflation pushed, S&P futures traded flat and near the top of Friday’s range, as traders paused their relentless buying after That...
Visualizing The Rise Of The US As Top Global Crude Oil Producer
12.02.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing The Rise Of The US As Top Global Crude Oil Producer Over the last decade, the United States has established itself as the world’s top producer of crude oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. This infographic, via Visual Capitalist's Omri Wallach, illustrates the rise of the U.S. as the biggest oil producer, based on data from the U...
Gold Wars: The US Versus Europe During The Demise Of Bretton Woods
12.02.2024, 01:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Wars: The US Versus Europe During The Demise Of Bretton Woods By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainvesville Coins The story on the emergence of the US dollar hegemony. * * * After the collapse of Bretton Woods in 1971 several European central banks tried setting up a new gold pool to stabilize the price and move to a quasi gold standard. The US wanted to...
A New Year Every Two Months? 'Year-End' Celebrations Around The World
11.02.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A New Year Every Two Months? 'Year-End' Celebrations Around The World Lunar New Year festivities, celebrated in China, Vietnam and South Korea among others, are ringing in a new year today, February 10. In China, the event will start the year of the dragon. While January 1 is a also public holiday in the country, it is rather insignificant compared...
Israel Prepares For Rafah Assault That Could Lead To "Tens Of Thousands" Of Casualties As Saudis Warn Of Imminent "Humanitarian Catastrophe"
10.02.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Prepares For Rafah Assault That Could Lead To "Tens Of Thousands" Of Casualties As Saudis Warn Of Imminent "Humanitarian Catastrophe" With any hopes for a Israel-Hamas ceasefire now dead, overnight Israeli air strikes killed 17 people in Rafah on the Gaza border medics said on Saturday, as over a million Palestinians crammed into the city await...
US Asset Or US Adversary? Why Qatar Looks Worryingly Like Both
09.02.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Asset Or US Adversary? Why Qatar Looks Worryingly Like Both Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClear Wire, After Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, one of the terrorist organization’s chief financial sponsors, hosts of its leaders, and backers of its propaganda found itself singled out by America’s leaders – not for condemnation, but praise...
Diesel Prices Primed To Rise Sharply In 2024
08.02.2024, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Diesel Prices Primed To Rise Sharply In 2024 By John Kemp, senior market analyst Global stocks of diesel and other middle distillates are below normal and prices could start to rise quickly if the industrial economies of North America and Western Europe emerge from their lingering recession in 2024. Inventories of diesel, heating oil and gas oil were...
Diesel Prices Primed To Rise Sharply In 2024
08.02.2024, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Diesel Prices Primed To Rise Sharply In 2024 By John Kemp, senior market analyst Global stocks of diesel and other middle distillates are below normal and prices could start to rise quickly if the industrial economies of North America and Western Europe emerge from their lingering recession in 2024. Inventories of diesel, heating oil and gas oil were...
25,000 Artifacts Unearthed In Historic Saudi Arabia City
08.02.2024, 23:39 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to the Jeddah Historic District Program, over 25,000 artifacts were unearthed in the historic Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. In the second-biggest Saudi city, archaeologists have found some 25,000 antiquities. According to the Jeddah Historic District Program (JHD), the discoveries include more than 11,400 ceramic fragments, more than 11,300...
Blistering Saudi Statement Slams Door On Normalization With Israel
07.02.2024, 21:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blistering Saudi Statement Slams Door On Normalization With Israel A hoped-for 'deal of the century' involving a permanent Saudi Arabia-Israel detente diplomatic recognition based on Trump's Abraham Accords looks to be effectively dead, at a moment that a hoped-for Hamas-Israel truce also looks dead. Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry has issued a new...
How Much Do Countries Trust The United Nations?
05.02.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Much Do Countries Trust The United Nations? Do you trust the United Nations (UN) in carrying out its objectives of maintaining peace and security, protecting human rights, and upholding international law? Survey results from Edelman’s 2024 Trust Barometer Global Report show that some countries’ citizens believe strongly in the UN to “do...
Ukraine Drone Reaches Deep Into Russian Territory, Damaging One Of Its Largest Refineries
04.02.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Drone Reaches Deep Into Russian Territory, Damaging One Of Its Largest Refineries There's been yet another major attack against a Russian oil refinery. In this fresh Saturday incident, a drone launched by Ukraine's SBU security service slammed into Lukoil refinery in Volgograd, which is among the country's largest refineries. Regional reports...
Exxon, Chevron Beat Estimates, Report Second-Biggest Annual Profits In Past Decade
02.02.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Exxon, Chevron Beat Estimates, Report Second-Biggest Annual Profits In Past Decade One wouldn't know it from their stock price today, which has been slammed by tech bros shorting anything that does not mention AI at least 100 times in its press release/conference so they can fund their purchase of META 20% higher on the day, but in a time when two-thirds...
Expecting The Expected Unexpected
02.02.2024, 15:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Expecting The Expected Unexpected Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance “Freddo, you handle the pitch. But on the translation controllers, all backwards. So if the Earth starts drifting down you need to thrust aft, not forwards.” — Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 I watched Apollo 13 on Netflix this weekend and was having recollections of this...
After Fresh Israeli Strikes On Damascus, Whole Region Braces For US Attack, Possibly 'Hours' Away
02.02.2024, 15:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Fresh Israeli Strikes On Damascus, Whole Region Braces For US Attack, Possibly 'Hours' Away Sky News Arabia is reporting Friday morning that major US strikes against Iran-aligned targets may begin within hours, while NBC is once again reporting that Biden's counterattack plan in response to the killing of three Americans last weekend is expected...
OPEC+ Members Will Review Extending Production Cuts In Early March
02.02.2024, 14:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OPEC+ Members Will Review Extending Production Cuts In Early March Last November, OPEC+ agreed to voluntary oil production cuts totaling about 2.2 million barrels per day. These cuts begin in the first quarter of this year, with Saudi Arabia rolling over a 1 million bpd voluntary reduction. Now, sources within OPEC+ have informed Reuters that...
WTI Holds Gains After Another Big Inventory Draw At Cushing
30.01.2024, 22:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Holds Gains After Another Big Inventory Draw At Cushing Oil prices ended higher after WTI bounced off $76, up to $78, reversing the prior day's losses from concerns about China's economy as Middle East tensions were top of mind for the day. "The spreading conflict in the Middle East remains the most visible and growing risk for energy markets,"...