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The Great Game Returns To Central Asia
26.04.2024, 05:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Game Returns To Central Asia Via EurasiaNet.org, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reanimated US and EU interest in Central Asia. China has eclipsed Russia as the region's largest trade partner. Central Asian trade is diversifying away from Russia and towards the West. The Great Game is playing out once again in Central Asia, but it is getting...
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...
China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs
25.04.2024, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs Smaller is better...at least in the world of building EVs for the Asian market. And while less scrupulous publications might take this opportunity to make stereotypical jokes about height, we'll do no such thing and instead will simply report that according to the IEA's Global Electric Vehicle Outlook 2024, released...
The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US
24.04.2024, 22:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US By Michael Every of Rabobank "Where it will end is very much up for grabs." Yesterday’s manufacturing PMIs shouted “stagflation”, even if some heard “rate cuts”. German manufacturing was 42.2, French 44.9, and Eurozone 45.6, as services were 53.3, 50.5, and 52.9 - but Europe must now...
Cocoa Drops Most Since April 2009, Some Losses Recovered In Muti-Day Volatility Rollercoaster
24.04.2024, 19:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Drops Most Since April 2009, Some Losses Recovered In Muti-Day Volatility Rollercoaster Cocoa futures in London on Tuesday plunged the most since April 2009, tumbling as much as 8.1%, while prices slid as much as 7.7% in New York. Prices recovered some losses on Wednesday morning. It appears the downdraft was caused by fast-money traders taking...
Yields Will Trigger "Serious Earthquakes" Across The Economy, Former Floor Trader Says
24.04.2024, 18:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Will Trigger "Serious Earthquakes" Across The Economy, Former Floor Trader Says Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Jack Boroudjian is a legendary former floor trader and now Chairman of SmartXData. Aside from over 30 years of industry experience, Jack is a published author "Secrets of the Trading", Wiley 2007 and has countless articles published...
Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles
24.04.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles Gucci owner Kering SA's problems in mainland China are only mounting as the French luxury giant issued a profit warning. As a result, shares of the company in Paris plunged to a six-year low. Lackluster Chinese demand for the luxury goods maker, which includes the Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega...
Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks
24.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks Equity futures rose for the third day in a row - last week's brutal drubbing a distant memory - with tech outperforming as Tesla soars premarket after Elon Musk vowed to launch less-expensive vehicles as soon as late this year while Texas Instruments jumped 7% after...
There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now
23.04.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now By Michael Every of Rabobank "Pass"/"Over" There is so much for markets to try to pass over right over: and they are certainly doing so. Niall Ferguson warns us again about an escalating global Cold War 2 using Tolkien as an analogy – real Tolkien, not the insult that was The Rings of Power...
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...
Futures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period
22.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period US equity futures rose, putting the S&P on pace for its first gain after 6 straight days of losses, as focus shifted from Middle East tensions to a raft of company earnings this week, including four of the Mag7 tech megacaps which got hammered last week. At 7:40am, S&P emini futures...
How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing And Gaining Prosperity
21.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing And Gaining Prosperity Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Under a blazing Kenyan sun, elderly women toil on their hands and knees in the reddish-brown clay, separating the choking weeds from the small, green shoots of a finger millet crop. The women are barehanded...
"First Real Image" Of Chinese Supersonic Drone Attached To Bomber
21.04.2024, 01:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "First Real Image" Of Chinese Supersonic Drone Attached To Bomber Aviation observers have spotted a supersonic unmanned aerial vehicle under the fuselage of a People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) bomber, Defense Blog reports. The new drone can conduct strategic aerial reconnaissance across southeast Asia. Images of the WZ-8 reconnaissance...
US Fentanyl Crisis Is A 'CCP-Run Operation', Says Peter Schweizer
20.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Fentanyl Crisis Is A 'CCP-Run Operation', Says Peter Schweizer Authored by Terri Wu and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Three months after the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned a Chinese mafia leader for fentanyl trafficking, he received an award in Beijing. Peter Schweizer in March 2022. (NTD) In March 2021, the Chinese...
Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction
19.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction Cocoa hyperinflation is insane. The latest data from the futures market shows that cocoa prices in New York surged above the $12,000 per ton level today as the pace of processing in factories remains robust. This indicates that demand destruction has yet to emerge despite...
National Security Implications Of Baltimore Bridge Catastrophe
19.04.2024, 16:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - National Security Implications Of Baltimore Bridge Catastrophe Authored by Rob Maness via RealClearDefense, The Port of Baltimore is “closed until further notice” following the Francis Scott Key Bridge tragedy, sending several industries into disarray and jeopardizing national security. In 2023, the port handled a record amount of international...
Futures Reverse All Losses, Oil Slides After Iran Plays Down Israeli Attacks, Signals No Retaliation
19.04.2024, 14:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Reverse All Losses, Oil Slides After Iran Plays Down Israeli Attacks, Signals No Retaliation While US futures are still modestly in the red, they are not only well off the worst overnight levels, but they are almost unchanged since yesterday's close following a performative Israeli retaliation. which followed a performative Iranian attack, which...
Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses
18.04.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses US equity futures are higher after four consecutive days of selling, although that is the same pattern we have seen all week as futures initially rise only to dump later in the day. As of 7:40am, S&P futures are up 0.3% while tech stocks were set to outperform, pushing the Nasdaq 0.4% higher after TSMC delivered...
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...
These Are The Most-Polluted Countries In The World
17.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Most-Polluted Countries In The World Almost the entire global population breathes air that exceeds the air quality limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO). In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu maps the world’s most polluted countries according to IQAir, ranked by their annual average PM2.5 concentration (μg/m³)...
Blackstone CEO Jumps On 'The Next AI Trade'
16.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blackstone CEO Jumps On 'The Next AI Trade' US power grid regulators and utilities are warning about energy shortfalls. Projections for US electricity demand growth over the next five years have doubled from about one year ago, primarily because of the expected explosion of artificial intelligence data centers, federally subsidized manufacturing plants...
This Unhappy Global Dynamic Will Lead Markets And Market Analysis For Years To Come
16.04.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Unhappy Global Dynamic Will Lead Markets And Market Analysis For Years To Come By Michael Every of Rabobank Non Ducor, Duco Who/what leads and who/what is led? That’s the question you should be asking yourself again today - even as most in markets think what they are paid to look at leads all rather than accept that life has (changeable) hierarchies...
Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal
16.04.2024, 15:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal S&P futures traded modestly in the green, erasing earlier losses and signaling a recovery after the S&P 500 fell more than 1% in the past two sessions, following stronger than expected earnings from index heavyweight UnitedHealth Group which soared 6% after reporting first-quarter...
"Operation Praying Man Tis" Shows The US In Geopolitical Retreat
15.04.2024, 18:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Operation Praying Man Tis" Shows The US In Geopolitical Retreat By Michael Every of Rabobank If all you focus on is Brent oil, 10-year US Treasury yields, and the US dollar, relax: they are roughly where they were at the close on Friday before Iran unleashed over 300 suicide drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles at Israel: the geopolitical...
Aluminum, Nickel Soar Then Slide After Western Sanctions On Russian Metals
15.04.2024, 15:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aluminum, Nickel Soar Then Slide After Western Sanctions On Russian Metals Over the weekend we reported that, in a surprise move, the US and UK imposed new restrictions on trading Russian aluminum, copper and nickel in the latest bid to curb President Vladimir Putin’s ability to fund his war machine (as discussed previously, Russian oil is now trading...
Futures, Bitcoin Jump, Oil Drops As Markets Move Beyond This Weekend's Scripted Military Exchange Between Iran And Israel
15.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Bitcoin Jump, Oil Drops As Markets Move Beyond This Weekend's Scripted Military Exchange Between Iran And Israel Following the emotional rollercoaster of this weekend geopolitical "straight to DVD" soap opera, in which Iran pretended to retaliate to Israel's embassy bombing with an attack that was meant to be a dud (and succeeded), which in...
These Are Asia's Richest Billionaires
14.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are Asia's Richest Billionaires As of the start of April, Mukesh Ambani (66) is the richest man in Asia, with a net worth of $116.1 billion, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, Ambani is the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, a conglomerate that focuses not only on petrochemicals, but also textiles and telecommunications...
Can The US And Iraq Move Beyond Military Ties?
13.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can The US And Iraq Move Beyond Military Ties? Authored by James Durso via ResponsibleStatecraft.org, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani is in Washington next week with both sides hoping to expand their economic relationship... Twenty-one years ago, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq in the erroneous belief that the country possessed weapons...
Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress
12.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered an address to Congress on Thursday and declared China the "greatest strategic challenge" facing the world. "Close coordination between Japan and the US is required more than ever to ensure that deterrence that...
China Exports Collapse, Prompting Yuan Devaluation Fears
12.04.2024, 19:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Exports Collapse, Prompting Yuan Devaluation Fears China’s export growth tumbled in March compared to last year, sparking questions about a possible yuan devaluation at a time when China's biggest mercantilist competitor in Asia - Japan - has intentionally cratered its currency. Chinese Exports declined by 7.5% from a year earlier in March...
Vietnam Real Estate Tycoon Sentenced to Death Over Massive Fraud Amounting To 3% Of GDP
12.04.2024, 00:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Vietnam Real Estate Tycoon Sentenced to Death Over Massive Fraud Amounting To 3% Of GDP Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in the country’s largest financial fraud case ever, state media Vietnam Net said. The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was formally charged...
Futures Slide As "Punched In The Face" Market Eyes Surging Yields Ahead Of ECB, PPI
11.04.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide As "Punched In The Face" Market Eyes Surging Yields Ahead Of ECB, PPI Futures are weaker signaling further losses on Wall Street as stubborn inflation forces investors to reduce their expectations for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts; tech stocks are underperforming following the significant surge in Treasuries yields which has continued...
Tyranny By The Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
11.04.2024, 05:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tyranny By The Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the...
China's Xi Meets With Russian Foreign Minister In Show Of Solidarity Against West
10.04.2024, 17:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Xi Meets With Russian Foreign Minister In Show Of Solidarity Against West Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times, Chinese communist regime leader Xi Jinping met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Beijing on Tuesday, reaffirming solidarity amid growing pressure from the West. Mr. Lavrov arrived in China on April 8 for a two-day...
China Ditches US Farmers For Brazilian Ones In Protest Of Land Ownership Rules
10.04.2024, 13:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Ditches US Farmers For Brazilian Ones In Protest Of Land Ownership Rules In September 2023, we highlighted that Brazil, one of the BRICS nations, had overtaken the United States in becoming the world's top corn exporter. The sudden shift of China buying Brazilian corn over the US lacked a clear motive at the time. However, now, a new Bloomberg report...
Iron Ore's Two-Day Rally Biggest In Years On China Bottoming Hopes
10.04.2024, 04:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iron Ore's Two-Day Rally Biggest In Years On China Bottoming Hopes Over the past year, there has been a surge in doom-and-gloom headlines about China's economy. The country's mercantilist policymakers have spent months attempting to stimulate a fragile economy through monetary easing while keeping the real estate crisis at bay. However, a more...
Futures Flat In Cautious Trade Ahead Of CPI As Gold Roars To New Record High
09.04.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat In Cautious Trade Ahead Of CPI As Gold Roars To New Record High US equity futures are trading in a narrow range, swinging between gains and losses as bonds climbed, clawing back some of Monday’s slump which sent yields to the highest since last November in the buildup to US CPI print tomorrow that is crucial to the Fed's decision when...
More Russian LNG Being Exported To Europe Than Asia
09.04.2024, 09:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More Russian LNG Being Exported To Europe Than Asia By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com, Russia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports gained over 4% in the first quarter of this year as it increased output to replace sanctioned pipeline gas exports to Europe, Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday. Citing a 4.3% (8.7 million metric ton)...
Taiwanese Chip-Making Giant TSMC Gets Billions In US Grants, Loans For Third Arizona Chip Factory
09.04.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taiwanese Chip-Making Giant TSMC Gets Billions In US Grants, Loans For Third Arizona Chip Factory Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, plans to build a third chip factory in Arizona after receiving $6.6 billion in grants and $5 billion in loans through US government subsidies. This is part of...
Raketenstarts und KI-Desinformation stehen auf der Tagesordnung des bevorstehenden USA-Japan-Gipfels
09.04.2024, 00:03 Uhr. Transition News - https: - Ein japanischer Weltraumbahnhof für den Start US-amerikanischer Raketen sowie die Bekämpfung von «Desinformation» durch künstliche Intelligenz gehören zu den Themen, die im Rahmen des bilateralen Gipfeltreffens zwischen Premierminister Fumio Kishida und Präsident Joe Biden am Mittwoch in Washington erörtert werden sollen. Dies meldet das Wirtschaftsportal...
Escobar: How The "Order" Based On Made-Up Rules Is Descending Into Savagery
08.04.2024, 09:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: How The "Order" Based On Made-Up Rules Is Descending Into Savagery Authored by Pepe Escobar, The Europeans will never be able to replicate the time-tested Hegemon money laundering machine... The awful shadow of some unseen PowerFloats tho’ unseen amongst us, -visitingThis various world with as inconstant wingAs summer winds that creep from...
Russia Finally Says 'Nyet' To Continued North Korea Sanctions Enforcement
08.04.2024, 00:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Finally Says 'Nyet' To Continued North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Authored by Joseph D. Terwilliger via AntiWar.com, Last week, a United Nations Security Council resolution to extend the mandate for the UN Panel of Experts on DPRK sanctions was vetoed by the Russian Federation, effectively disbanding the primary enforcement mechanism for the nine...
"West Point Mafia" Has "Systematically Destroyed The Nation's Maritime Strength"
07.04.2024, 01:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "West Point Mafia" Has "Systematically Destroyed The Nation's Maritime Strength" Captain John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, a website specializing in tracking the shipping industry, blames the "West Point Mafia" and decades of land wars in the Middle East for a hollowed-out US Navy that was entirely "unprepared" for the salvage operation of the collapsed...
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...
Extremism On The Ballot
06.04.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Extremism On The Ballot Authored by Peachy Keenan via AmericanMind.org, The 2024 election is between a dangerous madman and Donald Trump... I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful day with family and friends on the holiest day of America’s liturgical year, the Transgender Day of Visibility. I had never heard of this blessed Federal holiday until a few...
Futures Rebound As Oil Remains Above $90; All Eyes On Payrolls
05.04.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound As Oil Remains Above $90; All Eyes On Payrolls US futures rebounded from yesterday's late day rout even as European stocks slumped the most in almost two months and Asian markets tumbled the most in a month, tracking Thursday's broad market retreat as oil prices held near five-month highs above $90 and investors braced for today's...
«Wie CIA und MI6 ISIS erschufen»
05.04.2024, 09:49 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - Leaked documents indicate the risk of equipment and personnel from these efforts being lost to Al-Nusra, ISIS, and other extremist groups in West Asia was judged unavoidably “high” by British intelligence. Yet, there was no concomitant strategy for countering this hazard at all, and the operations continued apace. Almost as if training and arming...
Futures Rebound After Powell Reassures On Rate Cuts
04.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound After Powell Reassures On Rate Cuts US equity futures are higher with both Tech and small-caps outperforming, while the dollar is lower even as yields are higher from Wednesday's close. As of 7:50am, S&P futures were 0.3% higher and Nasdaq futs rose 0.4%, boosted by Powell’s comments that recent inflation figures did not “materially...
These Are The World's Most-Populated Islands?
04.04.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The World's Most-Populated Islands? The word “island” tends to bring up images of remote paradise - a brisk sea breeze, waving palms, and inviting beaches, all ingredients for an idyllic life. However, they can also be hubs for human activity, home to 730 million people, or about 9% of the world’s population. This chart, by creator Perrin...
New Report Details Horrifying Cost Of Fauci's Failures
03.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Report Details Horrifying Cost Of Fauci's Failures Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, In the post-pandemic period of Covid, there’s now a concerted effort to comprehend and explain the damage that was caused by our capitulating to the hysterical overreaction and overreach of the ‘experts.’ There’s a long list of policy...