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"What Is The Sound Of One Hand Clapping" Asks BOJ Head Ueda As The Yen Collapses
29.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "What Is The Sound Of One Hand Clapping" Asks BOJ Head Ueda As The Yen Collapses By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management "What is the sound of one hand clapping," asked Kazuo Ueda, sitting alone in seiza. The dollar had just crossed above 158 to the yen, a level not seen in 34-years, back when he joined the University of Tokyo as professor...
Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since War's Start, On Passover
24.04.2024, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since War's Start, On Passover Hezbollah on Tuesday conducted its deepest strikes into Israeli territory since the start of the war, launching drones at Israeli military bases on the outskirts of the Israeli city of Acre. Israel's military said none of its facilities were hit, and videos circulating online...
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...
Gold Hammered As Short-Squeeze Saves Stocks Ahead Of Micro/Macro Storm This Week
22.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Hammered As Short-Squeeze Saves Stocks Ahead Of Micro/Macro Storm This Week The "calm before the storm" of earnings and big macro this week (and no WW3 this weekend) was all the algos needed to ramp stocks during the US cash session after being reminded that the buyback-blackout period is almost over... And S&P HOD as algos start frontrunning the...
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
21.04.2024, 19:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Should I Stay or Should I Go? Coming up for air after what was an intense week on the geopolitical and market side of things, I’m really being forced to reconsider my current recommendations (bearish bonds, stocks, and credit). I keep thinking: If I go, there will be trouble And if...
The Haven-Volatility Dog Has Not Yet Barked
19.04.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Haven-Volatility Dog Has Not Yet Barked Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Implied volatility of traditional havens such as the Swiss franc and US Treasuries remains remarkably subdued despite the situation in the Middle East, even as the former has outperformed most other havens, including the dollar. However, vol is beginning...
Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won't Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine
19.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won't Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This is credible enough of a reason to justify a conventional NATO intervention in defense of Israel without giving Ukraine grounds to claim that there are double standards at play. Ukraine became jealous like never...
AI, Gold, & Nuclear War
17.04.2024, 22:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI, Gold, & Nuclear War Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. Meanwhile, gold has shot up like a rocket over the past couple of months. In mid-February, gold was trading at $1,990. Two months later, gold is trading above $2,400 — a $410 gain in just two months. So here’s...
"Do Not Touch Me... I Am A Faculty Member": Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech
17.04.2024, 21:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Do Not Touch Me... I Am A Faculty Member": Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech Authored by Jonathan Turley, Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. She is only the latest faculty member...
US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR
17.04.2024, 18:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR For much of the past year, we had joked that behind the facade of western Democratic ideals, was a cold hard truth: the price of oil must not be allowed to go up in an election year. This was obvious in Biden's "kid gloves" treatment of Iran's regime, it was obvious...
Why Oil Markets Are Calm Despite Iran-Israel Tensions
15.04.2024, 21:56 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - And why that could change....
'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:...
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...
Markets Suffer Conniptions Ahead Of Crucial Consumer Price Print
09.04.2024, 22:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Suffer Conniptions Ahead Of Crucial Consumer Price Print Weird day... no macro, no FedSpeak, no notable geopolitical malarkey and yet, markets had a conniption (early on)... VIX spiked up, modestly reminiscent of last Thursday's manic episode (but we note that the market is implying just a +/-0.8/0.9% implied move in the S&P 500 to tomorrow's...
Bitcoin Vs Gold: The Debate Continues
05.04.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Vs Gold: The Debate Continues Authored by Douglas French via The Mises Institute, In a few short weeks since SEC approval Inflows into Bitcoin ETF funds had reached just over $59 billion on Good Friday, according to btcetffundflow.com. Meanwhile the unloved and disrespected GLD [gold] ETF holds $54 billion, despite its thousand year pedigree...
MSM Trots Out 'Bird Flu-Pocalypse' After Texas Dairy Worker Falls Ill
04.04.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - MSM Trots Out 'Bird Flu-Pocalypse' After Texas Dairy Worker Falls Ill Bird flu is back in the news after a Texas dairy worker tested positive for the virus in the first documented case of bird-cow-human transmission. So of course, a cacophony of 'experts' are now warning that a bird flu pandemic could be '100 times worse' than COVID.' Mentions of "Avian...
Bond Market's Eerie Calm Belies Bigger Move On Way
04.04.2024, 15:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bond Market's Eerie Calm Belies Bigger Move On Way Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Volatility in US interest rate and bond markets is poised to move much higher as it re-attaches to underlying fundamentals. That means higher rates and greater stock volatility, leaving especially high-duration sectors such as tech exposed to underperformance...
Hungary Vows To Thwart NATO's Proposed $100BN, 5-Year Fund For Ukraine
04.04.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hungary Vows To Thwart NATO's Proposed $100BN, 5-Year Fund For Ukraine NATO members have agreed to begin planning military support for Ukraine on a long-terms basis, in but the latest indicator assuring both escalation with Russia and that the war will drag on for possibly years more to come. On Wednesday NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced...
Office Tower Vacancy Rate Hits Record High As Zombie Buildings Litter Skylines of Cities
03.04.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Office Tower Vacancy Rate Hits Record High As Zombie Buildings Litter Skylines of Cities There are more dormant office towers in the United States than at any point since 1979, according to a new report from Moody's Analytics, which began tracking office leasing vacancies that year. The rising supply of office space is due to a combination of surging...
Tackling The Difficult But Urgent Task Of Depolarizing America
02.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tackling The Difficult But Urgent Task Of Depolarizing America Authored by Adeline Von Drehle via RealClear Politics, The North Hall of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Ridgefield, Connecticut, acts in 2024 much like the town of Gettysburg acted in 1863: as a space to handle our differences as citizens of the United States. Braver Angels is one of...
New Details Emerge In Death Of Sen. McConnell's Sister-In-Law
27.03.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Details Emerge In Death Of Sen. McConnell's Sister-In-Law Authored by Steve Ispas and Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Angela Chao, the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), died on Feb. 11 after backing her vehicle into a pond. Angela Chao, CEO and chair of her family's shipping business, the Foremost Group...
Goldman: Office Mortgages Are Living On Borrowed Time
21.03.2024, 10:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman: Office Mortgages Are Living On Borrowed Time At the start of the week, a lawyer specializing in advisory services for lenders and servicers of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) in the United States told us that the office segment of the commercial real estate market has been surprisingly quiet in the first quarter, despite the countless...
Why Asia Should Sound the Trump Alarm
20.03.2024, 19:04 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The calm in Asian capitals reflects a dangerous misjudgment....
Bolsonaro Indicted By Brazilian Police For Falsifying Covid-19 Vaccine Records
19.03.2024, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bolsonaro Indicted By Brazilian Police For Falsifying Covid-19 Vaccine Records Federal police in Brazil have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for falsifying his Covid-19 vaccine card in order to travel to the United States and elsewhere during the pandemic. Federal prosecutors will review the indictment and decide whether to pursue the case...
Mistakes Were Made
17.03.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mistakes Were Made Authored by C.J.Hopkins via The Consent Factory, Make fun of the Germans all you want, and I’ve certainly done that a bit during these past few years, but, if there’s one thing they’re exceptionally good at, it’s taking responsibility for their mistakes. Seriously, when it comes to acknowledging one’s mistakes, and not rationalizing...
Biden Embraces Schumer’s "Good Speech" Which Blasted Netanyahu
17.03.2024, 02:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Embraces Schumer’s "Good Speech" Which Blasted Netanyahu President Biden has endorsed Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer's blistering Thursday speech that targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wherein he said Israel under Netanyahu could become a "pariah". Biden said Friday that Schumer had made a "good speech". The president was asked...
BoJ Mouthpiece Confirms Historic End Of Negative Rates Next Week, 1st Hike In 17 Years
15.03.2024, 19:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BoJ Mouthpiece Confirms Historic End Of Negative Rates Next Week, 1st Hike In 17 Years For the past few weeks we have diligently reported on the fact that The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has been foaming the runway for a dramatic shift in its monetary policy, and today we get the final confirmation from notorious establishment 'mouthpiece' Nikkei news, stating...
Netanyahu Greenlights Rafah Offensive, Rejects 'Still Absurd' Hamas Ceasefire Plan
15.03.2024, 17:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Greenlights Rafah Offensive, Rejects 'Still Absurd' Hamas Ceasefire Plan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued formal approval for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to go into Rafah while announcing the rejection of the "still absurd" Hamas demands which were presented this week in ceasefire talks. "The IDF is prepared for the...
The Fragile State
13.03.2024, 21:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fragile State Authored by T.L.Davis via Substack, The election elixir provides for the soothing of anger, the time needed to quell hostile attitudes, time that can round off of sharp edges and provide for a more thoughtful, considered path forward. Political victories dissipate the vitriol. When a republic is functioning well, this a blessing to...
Haiti Prime Minister Resigns Amid Ascent Civil War, Cannibalism
12.03.2024, 12:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Haiti Prime Minister Resigns Amid Ascent Civil War, Cannibalism Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced Tuesday morning that he will resign after several weeks of chaos and what could be an unfolding low-scale civil war as gangs fight for control. Henry said in a statement that he would step down as prime minister immediately after a transitional...
The Grinch Who Stole Freedom
11.03.2024, 17:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Grinch Who Stole Freedom Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, the pundit class was predicting that he would deliver a message of unity and calm, if only to attract undecided voters to his side. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address in the...
"Sabotage, Shoddy Maintenance?": Questions Swirl As Aviation Incidents Spike This Week
09.03.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Sabotage, Shoddy Maintenance?": Questions Swirl As Aviation Incidents Spike This Week A mid-air engine fire, a tire separating from the landing gear, several emergency landings—what the hell is happening in the aviation industry this week? Here are the latest headlines: ZeroHedge (Tuesday): "Plane Was Nosediving": United Airlines Boeing 737 Engine...
Victor Davis Hanson: One Angry Biden Lie After Another
09.03.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Victor Davis Hanson: One Angry Biden Lie After Another Victor Davis Hanson's calm and reasoned response with Tucker Carlson to President Biden's SOTU address is worth every second: Victor Davis Hanson discusses with Tucker Carlson, Joe Biden’s SOTU address. Never has he seen a more angry speech to our country. Credit: these two awesome Americans....
WTI Crude Finds Technical Support After API Reports Smaller-Than-Expected Crude Build
05.03.2024, 22:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Crude Finds Technical Support After API Reports Smaller-Than-Expected Crude Build Amid chaos across markets today, oil was relatively calm, ending lower on broad risk-off sentiment, finding technical support intraday ahead of Powell's Humphrey Hawkins testimony tomorrow. “The anticipation of the Fed chairman holding interest rates steady into...
Let Bitcoin Cook
02.03.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Let Bitcoin Cook Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance “Let him cook” has been the expression that all of the young whippersnappers are using lately when describing somebody or something that shouldn’t be interrupted, because they are on a roll. I know this piece will come across as annoying to some, especially because I have only been bullish on...
Low Volatility In Gold Is Calm Before Inflation Storm
01.03.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Low Volatility In Gold Is Calm Before Inflation Storm Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Inflation is back on the radar this week after yesterday's release of PCE in the US. It showed a modest fall from the prior month in the headline print (but under the surface the picture was more worrying), lending credence to the bigger picture...
Positioning Is Worrying And Nobody Seems To Care
22.02.2024, 17:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Positioning Is Worrying And Nobody Seems To Care By Jan-Patrick Barnert and Michael Msika, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists The market was braced for Nvidia’s earnings and they lived up to expectations, while the Fed minutes were pretty much a non-event. But the big picture is worrying: positioning is stretched and most investors...
Israel Sets Timeline To Start Of Rafah Offensive, Issues Hamas An Ultimatum
21.02.2024, 08:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Sets Timeline To Start Of Rafah Offensive, Issues Hamas An Ultimatum After ceasefire negotiations have faltered, Israel has given Hamas a new ultimatum, with top Israeli war cabinet official Benny Gantz saying that Israel will launch a full assault on the southern city of Rafah if all remaining hostages aren't released by Ramadan. The Muslim...
German Govt's Witch-Hunt Against AfD Paves Way To Dictatorship
20.02.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - German Govt's Witch-Hunt Against AfD Paves Way To Dictatorship Authored by Magyar Hírlap columnist Péter G. Fehér via ReMix News, In Germany, the liberal government is in a relentless pursuit of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The government is working hand-in-hand with the media, which always prefixes the right-wing label with...
Euractiv: Keep calm and invest: Die europäischen NATO-Mitglieder planen für den Trump-Ernstfall
15.02.2024, 09:18 Uhr. Transition News - https: - - Was andere Medien melden...
What Everyone Is Missing About The Putin/Carlson Talk
15.02.2024, 06:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Everyone Is Missing About The Putin/Carlson Talk Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, “The Vorlons say, understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth” — John Sheridan, Babylon 5 The biggest media story of 2024 so far has come and gone. Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Cases Of Debilitating POTS Condition Rise After COVID-19, But New Research Points To Possible Treatment
15.02.2024, 02:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cases Of Debilitating POTS Condition Rise After COVID-19, But New Research Points To Possible Treatment Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For the estimated 1 to 3 million Americans living with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), standing up can trigger a racing heartbeat, lightheadedness, and fainting that’s...
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...
Hezbollah Chief Threatens More Displacement Of Northern Israel Residents As France Delivers Peace Plan
14.02.2024, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hezbollah Chief Threatens More Displacement Of Northern Israel Residents As France Delivers Peace Plan France has issued a written proposal to Lebanon which seeks to de-escalate the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon's south, which stands on the precipice of becoming a broader and deadlier war. The French plan calls for Hezbollah to remove...
Problem Of Rafah Is 'Over A Million Civilians & 10,000 Hamas Operatives'; IDF Says
14.02.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Problem Of Rafah Is 'Over A Million Civilians & 10,000 Hamas Operatives'; IDF Says China has continued showing its disapproval of Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip, which has also been consistent with Russian denunciations, and of course Iran's position too. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Tuesday issued a scathing condemnation...
Israel Demands Lebanon Remove Hezbollah 20 Miles From Border, Beirut Refuses
06.02.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Demands Lebanon Remove Hezbollah 20 Miles From Border, Beirut Refuses Israel's military has issued a new assessment which estimates it has launched attacks on some 3,000 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon in Syria since war started after Oct.7. Military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says that while Israel is nothing seeking a bigger war in Lebanon...
Hong Kong Set To Pass Article 23, Further Tightening Beijing’s Control
06.02.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hong Kong Set To Pass Article 23, Further Tightening Beijing’s Control Authored by Julia Ye and Angela Bright via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The prospect of Basic Law Article 23, which rocked Hong Kong in 2003, is now becoming a reality under Beijing-controlled Hong Kong authorities. A riot police officer stands guard as Hong Kong police conduct...
China Joins Russia In Condemning US Strikes In Middle East
06.02.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Joins Russia In Condemning US Strikes In Middle East After the Friday large-scale US strikes on Iranian proxy positions in Iraq and Syria, and following the Saturday and Sunday Western coalition attacks on Houthi positions in Yemen, China on Monday issued a blistering condemnation of what is sees as aggression against sovereign countries China’s...
VDH: Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, Or Conniving?
05.02.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, Or Conniving? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, What Excites Biden? Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness...