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World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies
11.05.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies Authored by Nick Corbishley via naked capitalism, At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale. In October last year...
Bidenomics At Work: Ford Slashing Battery Orders As Losses Per EV Approach $100,000
11.05.2024, 02:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bidenomics At Work: Ford Slashing Battery Orders As Losses Per EV Approach $100,000 Ford is cutting battery orders in yet another sign that the EV market, despite a constant tailwind from the U.S. taxpayer, is starting to slow. The company is cutting the orders to curb electric-vehicle losses as it scales back its EV strategy in a slowing plug-in...
Biden Unveils Latest $400M Package For Ukraine, But US Artillery Shells Already Depleted
11.05.2024, 00:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Unveils Latest $400M Package For Ukraine, But US Artillery Shells Already Depleted The Biden administration on Friday announced its third tranche of new aid for Ukraine since President Biden signed into effect Congress' $95 billion foreign aid package, which includes $60 billion total funding for Ukraine. This newest authorized package is for $400...
Stocks End Week On Muted Note As Stagflation Fears Mount
10.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks End Week On Muted Note As Stagflation Fears Mount Late Friday afternoon, US main equity indexes showed little change, with the S&P 500 on track for a 2% weekly gain after investors digested new concerns about a slowing economy and elevated inflation, rekindling fears of stagflation. During the session, Treasury yields increased due to...
Senate Bill Seeks To Place Campus Protesters On No-Fly List
10.05.2024, 17:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Bill Seeks To Place Campus Protesters On No-Fly List Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, A bill introduced in the Senate by two Republicans seeks to place campus protesters on a no-fly list. Across the country, pro-Palestinian students are gathering on campuses and demanding their universities cut ties with the Israeli government...
"The US Economic Picture Appears To Be Softening"
10.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The US Economic Picture Appears To Be Softening" By Rabobank The Bank of England left the Bank Rate unchanged at 5.25% yesterday, but the clear signal from the record of votes, and Governor Bailey, is that cuts aren’t far away. This time around the vote split 7-2 in favour of holding (previously 8-1), with arch-dove Dhingra being joined by former...
Dog Gone: Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing 'Bad Weather'
10.05.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dog Gone: Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing 'Bad Weather' Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has cut short a disastrous book tour after receiving withering criticism for her story of shooting an ill-behaved puppy and unverified claims of meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, RealClearPolitics is first...
US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs
10.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs US equity futures pointed to even more gains on the last day of trading, leaving the S&P 500 set for a third weekly rise — the longest run since February. The rally was given fresh legs yesterday by more earnings optimism coupled with disappointing economic data - this time the highest initial...
Democrats Attack Judge For Delaying Trump Florida Trial
10.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democrats Attack Judge For Delaying Trump Florida Trial Authored by Jonathan Turley, While pundits, politicians and the press have long expressed outrage over attacks on judges by former President Donald Trump, many are now attacking any judge who delays any trial of Trump before the election. Democrats have accused Judge Aileen Cannon of being politically...
Peter Schiff: Rate Hikes On The Horizon?
09.05.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: Rate Hikes On The Horizon? Via SchiffGold.com, Peter’s back to recap the last week in markets and economic news. This episode starts with April’s dismal stock performance and also discusses Jerome Powell’s most recent appearance. Peter wraps up the episode by recounting the Bitcoin debate he participated in on Friday. Peter notes...
Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption"
09.05.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption" By Michael Every of Rabobank Yesterday saw the Riksbank in Sweden cut rates by 25bp to 3.75% for the first time since 2016 (as Brazil cut 25bp to 10.50% as expected, yet the BoJ opened the door to another tiny June hike). Rate cuts, and a month before the ECB is...
We Need To Talk About Recession Risk Again
09.05.2024, 18:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - We Need To Talk About Recession Risk Again Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, It’s time once more to increase vigilance for a US recession. Soft, survey data is starting to deteriorate, while hard data is already fragile. Expectations of a downturn are currently low, but they could quickly swing higher. Stocks – which experience...
Watch: Billionaire Real Estate Investor Expects 'One Or Two' Bank Failures A Week, UK Economist Says "Entering A New Dark Age"
09.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Billionaire Real Estate Investor Expects 'One Or Two' Bank Failures A Week, UK Economist Says "Entering A New Dark Age" Billionaire Barry Sternlicht, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group has issued an ominous warning about America's regional banks, which he says will fail at a rate of 'one or two' per week. Speaking with CNBC on...
To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But...
09.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But... Via SchiffGold.com, In 2009, 140 banks failed, and a recent report from financial consulting firm Klaros Group says that hundreds of banks are at risk of going under this year. It’s being billed mostly as a danger for individuals and communities than for the broader economy, but for stressed...
Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains
09.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains US equity futures are weaker as yields resume their rise and the USD strengthens after the BOE signaled it was ready to cut rates. As of 7:45am, S&P futures were down 0.2% and Nasdaq futures dipped 0.3% as all Mag7 names and most semis were red in the premarket. Most European markets are lower, tracking US...
BOE Keeps Rates Unchanged But Edges Closer To Cutting As Deputy Governor Calls For Easing
09.05.2024, 13:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BOE Keeps Rates Unchanged But Edges Closer To Cutting As Deputy Governor Calls For Easing With both the Swiss SNB and Swedish Riksbank starting to cut rates, many were wondering if the BOE would join the easing cycle next. And while it did not, instead keeping rates unchanged at 5.25% for the sixth straight meeting of its policymakers, in line with...
Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank?
09.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs...
A Deep Dive Into The Opioid Crisis
09.05.2024, 05:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Deep Dive Into The Opioid Crisis Authored by Matt Bivens, M.D. via Racket News, Editor’s note: the following is the first essay in a series, written by former Moscow Times co-worker and current E.R. doctor Matt Bivens. The remaining features will be published serially on his Substack site, The 100 Days. None of the articles in the series will be...
The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway
08.05.2024, 23:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts...
Bond Yields & Black Gold Bounce As Hawkish FedSpeak Slows Stocks
08.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bond Yields & Black Gold Bounce As Hawkish FedSpeak Slows Stocks Mixed bag today: Macro (ugly wholesale sales print, implied gasoline demand at decade-lows ex-COVID, GDPNOW up at 4.18%?), Micro (TRIP exposed as M&A premium evaporates exposing reality of tourism business, UBER hinting at consumer pain, SHOP signaled more consumer pain, AFRM cut revenues...
Japan Is Now Caught In A Doom Loop
08.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan Is Now Caught In A Doom Loop By Russell Clark, author of the Capital Flows and Asset Market substack Japan and Treasuries My interest in Japan dates from 1991 when I was fresh faced high school exchange student in Kobe. There are no prizes for finding me in the above photo. I was the only “foreigner” in the school, and would go days without...
Finding The Next Apple Using Buffett's Logic
08.05.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Finding The Next Apple Using Buffett's Logic Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On the heels of Apple’s latest earnings report, the Wall Street Journal shared an article discussing how Apple became such an oversized investment of Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway. Given their success with Apple shares we think...
Forward Guidance: The Fed Sounds Like A Wizard Reading Chicken Bones
08.05.2024, 16:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Forward Guidance: The Fed Sounds Like A Wizard Reading Chicken Bones Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Stanley Druckenmiller says the Fed should get rid of forward guidance and just do their job. I totally endorse a view by Stan Druckenmiller, the Fed Should Stop Forward Guidance. Partial Video Transcript Squawk Box: I’ve been perplexed...
US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise
08.05.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise US equity futures flipped between gains and losses on Wednesday while European stocks hit an all time high as May’s rally in equities continued amid a clutch of solid earnings reports. As of 7:45am, S&P 500 futures traded down 0.2%, and was near session lows reversing...
China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024
08.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. 28...
Kashkari & Consumer Credit Curtail Stock & Bond Gains
07.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kashkari & Consumer Credit Curtail Stock & Bond Gains Another quiet macro day (although an ugly picture was painted late on by the unexpectedly weak revolving credit increase - potentially signaling a US consumer who really has hit their limit). Some FedSpeak wiped a little lipstick off the early pig's squeeze higher as Kashkari seemed to offer both...
Shocking Collapse In Credit Card Debt Growth Just As Card APRs Hit All Time High
07.05.2024, 21:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shocking Collapse In Credit Card Debt Growth Just As Card APRs Hit All Time High After several months of wild swings in US consumer debt, culminating with last month's jump in credit card debt to a new all time high despite record high credit card rates, in March households finally hit a brick wall because according to the latest consumer credit data...
Billionaire, Harvard Donor Ken Griffin Says Protesters Are Byproduct Of "Failed Education System"
07.05.2024, 17:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Billionaire, Harvard Donor Ken Griffin Says Protesters Are Byproduct Of "Failed Education System" Ken Griffin, the founder of Citadel and a Harvard University alumnus, was interviewed Monday evening at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. During the interview, Griffin blasted protesters at woke elite colleges and universities...
Russia Ready To Alter OPEC+ Production if Necessary
07.05.2024, 16:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Ready To Alter OPEC+ Production if Necessary By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The OPEC+ group is still studying whether to raise oil production but it would act on supply if necessary, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Tuesday. The possibility to raise supply is still being reviewed, Russia’s top oilman said,...
Peloton Shares Surge On Private Equity Firm Buyout Report
07.05.2024, 15:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peloton Shares Surge On Private Equity Firm Buyout Report Just one week after Barry McCarthy, CEO of Peloton Interactive, announced his departure following a disastrous tenure that saw shares plummet by 92%, CNBC reports private equity firms are circling the struggling company, known for strapping iPads on fancy exercise bikes and charging wealthy...
Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather
07.05.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather US stock futures are flat after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both closed 1% higher on Monday, helped by growing optimism among investors that the economy is finally slowing greenlighting earlier rate cuts by the Fed. As of 8:00am ET S&P futures were unchanged at 5,206, trading about 1% above its 50DMA,...
Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show
07.05.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Poor America. Poor Jerome Powell… A Real Cliff, Fake Smile It is no fun to be openly trapped, and even less fun to be in open decline while meekly declaring all is fine. I have the image of Uncle Sam (or Aunt Yellen) hanging off a cliff with a forced (i.e.,...
China Bulls Beware: Credit Markets Flash A Warning
07.05.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Bulls Beware: Credit Markets Flash A Warning By Ye Xie, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Chinese stocks have been on a stealth bull run, but the renewed market optimism may be built a shaky foundation — especially when it comes to credit. The MSCI China Index has climbed 24% from its lows in January. The Hang Seng Index has also recovered...
Toronto-Dominion Bank Risks Entering "Lost Decade"
06.05.2024, 20:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Toronto-Dominion Bank Risks Entering "Lost Decade" Shares of the Toronto-Dominion Bank have fallen nearly 8% since last Thursday's Wall Street Journal report that revealed the bank's involvement in a $653 million drug money-laundering scheme. The WSJ said a Justice Department investigation was opened into TD Bank's anti-money-laundering controls...
Confidence Boost For The Fed
06.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Confidence Boost For The Fed By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Last Wednesday, Powell said that there had been a lack of further progress toward the Fed’s 2% inflation objective. Indeed, both the latest CPI and PCE prints had already dashed hopes that the Fed would cut rates by summer. It would, therefore, take more time for the...
Boeing Faces 10 More Whistleblowers After Mysterious Deaths
06.05.2024, 18:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing Faces 10 More Whistleblowers After Mysterious Deaths In the span of two months, two Boeing whistleblowers have died under mysterious circumstances. John Barnett (L), Joshua Dean The first, 62-year-old John Barnett, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 9. He was found dead in his Dodge Ram truck holding a silver pistol in...
Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down
06.05.2024, 16:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down After a whirlwind two weeks which saw both the latest FOMC decision and the April jobs report, not to mention the peak of earnings season when all of the top tech companies reported, the calendar takes a quieter turn after the deluge of macro events last week, and the focus shifts on whether markets can...
Berkshire's Growing Cash Pile Has A Hidden Message On Stocks
06.05.2024, 15:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Berkshire's Growing Cash Pile Has A Hidden Message On Stocks Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, US stocks are seeing no evil and certainly hearing none, but Berkshire Hathaway’s ever-growing cash pile should hold a tacit warning for those who are overexuberant. Berkshire’s war chest surged to a record $189 billion at the end...
Futures, Global Markets Rise On Rising Fed Cut Bets
06.05.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Global Markets Rise On Rising Fed Cut Bets Global stocks and US equity futures jumped to start the new week, with the S&P 500 poised to extend last week’s rally as traders grew increasingly confident in the likelihood that the Fed will cut interest rates this year. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.3%, tracking gains in...
Yen's First Intervention Rally Owed Very Little to Short Squeeze
06.05.2024, 06:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen's First Intervention Rally Owed Very Little to Short Squeeze By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist The first of Japan’s apparent twin interventions last week may have capped USD/JPY for some time to keep the pair under 160. But that had very little to do with flushing out yen short positioning at least with the initial...
Marine Vet With PTSD Given More Than 5 Years In Prison, Fined $200,000 Over Jan. 6
06.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Marine Vet With PTSD Given More Than 5 Years In Prison, Fined $200,000 Over Jan. 6 Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Ryan Taylor Nichols, a Marine Corps veteran and disaster-rescue specialist who argued that post-traumatic stress drove his behavior at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced on May 2 to more than five...
US Demands Qatar Expel Hamas If Group Rejects Israeli Truce Deal
04.05.2024, 23:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Demands Qatar Expel Hamas If Group Rejects Israeli Truce Deal Via The Cradle US officials have told Qatar to expel Hamas’ political leadership if the Palestinian militant group rejects the latest proposal for a ceasefire with Israel, The Washington Post reports Saturday. A US official speaking on the condition of anonymity with The Post said...
Governments Cause Inflation And Hurt Bond Investors
04.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governments Cause Inflation And Hurt Bond Investors Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The Fed’s preferred inflation measure rose 2.8% in March from a year ago. This is the core personal consumption expenditures price index, excluding food and energy, which should be less volatile than the consumer price index and a better indicator of the real process of...
Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls US stock futures pointed to further strength on Wall Street ahead of the April jobs report after solid earnings and a record buyback announcement from Apple As of 8:00am, S&P futures rise 0.3% while Nasdaq 100 contracts add 0.6% thanks to a 6% surge in Apple in premarket...
'Buy All The Things' - Poor Payrolls Sends Rate-Cut Hopes Soaring
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Buy All The Things' - Poor Payrolls Sends Rate-Cut Hopes Soaring 'Bad' news is back to being good news for markets as a disappointing rise in payrolls pushed rate-cut expectations higher. 2024 is now fully pricing in two rate cuts and 2025 an additional three rate-cuts... Source: Bloomberg As Academy Securities' Peter Tchir writes, this report should...
A Question To Challenge The Deflationary Mindset
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Question To Challenge The Deflationary Mindset Authored by Louis-Vincent Gave via Gavekal Research blog, The rise in US treasury yields this year initially caused the usual casualties: the yen, won, euro, and British pound. From exchange rates, it seems that the US interest rate wrecking ball is now wreaking destruction among richly-valued technology...
These Are The Best US Companies To Work For (According To LinkedIn)
03.05.2024, 13:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Best US Companies To Work For (According To LinkedIn) In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti lists the 15 best U.S. companies to work for in 2024, according to LinkedIn data. LinkedIn ranked companies based on eight pillars: ability to advance, skills growth, company stability, external opportunity, company affinity, gender...
Every Conservative Party In Europe Needs To Prepare For Mass Censorship, Warns Flemish MEP
03.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Every Conservative Party In Europe Needs To Prepare For Mass Censorship, Warns Flemish MEP By Thomas Brooke of RMXnews.com In an exclusive interview with Remix News, Gerolf Annemans, the Vlaams Belang MEP and president of the European Identity and Democracy group, warns that even greater censorship of conservatives is just around the corner, and tells...
Hamas Praises Colombia's Breaking Relations With Israel, Urges All Of Latin America To Follow
03.05.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hamas Praises Colombia's Breaking Relations With Israel, Urges All Of Latin America To Follow Hamas is praising the government of Colombia and its leftist president Gustavo Petro for on Thursday formally cutting diplomatic ties with Israel after accusing its military of genocide against the Palestinian people. A Hamas statement the same day hailed...
COVID-19 Linked To 'Alarming Rise' Of Rare And Highly Lethal Fungal Infection
02.05.2024, 19:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - COVID-19 Linked To 'Alarming Rise' Of Rare And Highly Lethal Fungal Infection Authored by Megan Redshaw, J.D. via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Freepik/Shutterstock) The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an alarming rise of an aggressive and highly fatal secondary fungal infection among those with active or recovered COVID-19. Research suggests that...