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Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking
15.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Hal Finney was a pioneering computer scientist, cryptographer, and prominent Cypherpunk who played a crucial role in the early development of Bitcoin. He was one of the first supporters, contributors, and adopters of Bitcoin. In short, Finney...
Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations?
15.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, There are two classic propaganda narratives used by governments when it comes to keeping the public invested in any war campaign that does nothing to advance their national interests: First, there’s the “commitment”...
Record Household Debt, Jump In Delinquencies Signal "Worsening Financial Distress", Fed Warns
15.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Record Household Debt, Jump In Delinquencies Signal "Worsening Financial Distress", Fed Warns While the market remains focused on tomorrow's CPI print, and to a lesser extent the April retail sales reports due at the same time, which will both be released at 8:30am on May 15. we should to flag another important report that doesn’t typically get a...
VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden?
14.05.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Joe Biden’s personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what...
Moving Average Crossovers Suggest The Bull Is Back
14.05.2024, 19:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Moving Average Crossovers Suggest The Bull Is Back Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While there is much debate over whether another bear market is imminent, weekly moving average crossovers suggest a different outcome for now. There are many current concerns, from geopolitical risk to still inverted yield curves, slowing economic...
"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...
US Says Putin's Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of 'Desperation'
14.05.2024, 08:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Says Putin's Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of 'Desperation' The Biden administration has reacted to Russian President Vladimir Putin's significant cabinet shake-up announced Sunday, wherein Putin tapped Andrey Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specializes in economics, to move into the position of defense minister. Sergei Shoigu...
The Masked And The Super Masked
14.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Masked And The Super Masked Authored by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We live in an era of masks, only not the fun kind you might find at Carnivale in Venice, Italy. A pro-Palestinian protestor wears a keffiyeh on the West Lawn of Columbia University, in New York, on April 29, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images) Something...
Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can
13.05.2024, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Bumps and Potholes UK Q1 GDP surprised to the upside at the end of last week to print at +0.6%, rather than the more modest 0.4% that market economists had been expecting. That means that Britain is officially out of recession...
Nvidia Rivals Gold As Shield Against Inflation
13.05.2024, 14:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia Rivals Gold As Shield Against Inflation Authored by Edward Harrison via Bloomberg, The biggest US tech stocks are not only a bet on innovation but also a possible hedge against inflation, according to some respondents in the latest Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse survey. Gold, the haven of choice for decades, is still seen as the best safeguard...
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...
The Investment "Holy Grail" Doesn’t Exist
12.05.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Investment "Holy Grail" Doesn’t Exist Authored by Lance Roberts via realinvestmentadvice.com, When it comes to the financial markets, investors have a litany of investment vehicles to choose from. The choices are nearly unlimited, from brokered certificates of deposit to complex derivative instruments. Of course, investment vehicles’ proliferation...
McDonald's Admits Consumers Are Broke With Planned Reintroduction Of $5 Meal Deal
11.05.2024, 19:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - McDonald's Admits Consumers Are Broke With Planned Reintroduction Of $5 Meal Deal Gen-Zers, millennials, and baby boomers have something in common: Many of them can no longer afford a Big Mac combo meal at McDonald's following three years of 'McFlation,' which has sent the price of some combo meals as high as $18. This was at a rest stop, but...
IPO Nearing? Elon Musk's Starlink In Hyper-Growth, Surprises Analysts With $6.6 Billion Revenue Projection
11.05.2024, 12:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IPO Nearing? Elon Musk's Starlink In Hyper-Growth, Surprises Analysts With $6.6 Billion Revenue Projection We've asked the question: Ready For IPO? Starlink Achieves Cash-Flow Breakeven Followed by: SpaceX Prepares For Starlink IPO In 2024, Report Says A new report from Quilty Space, first reported by SpaceNews, shows SpaceX's Starlink could...
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...
They Went Woke: Oscars Facing Liquidity Crisis, Launch $500 Million Fundraising Drive As Viewers Flee
10.05.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - They Went Woke: Oscars Facing Liquidity Crisis, Launch $500 Million Fundraising Drive As Viewers Flee Given that Ricky Gervais has been the only good thing about the Oscars in years, if not decades... ...the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has launched a $500 million fundraising initiative in an effort to offset the Oscars dramatic drop in...
"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...
Six Reasons To Own Bitcoin In Retirement
10.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Six Reasons To Own Bitcoin In Retirement Via BitcoinMagazine.com, For newcomers, especially those in and around retirement age, the idea of investing in or owning bitcoin can evoke reactions from skepticism to disbelief. If you look beyond the popular narratives, however, you might find there is more to the story than first impressions suggest. Here...
New York Flight Attendants Accused Of Smuggling Millions In Drug Money To Dominican Republic
10.05.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New York Flight Attendants Accused Of Smuggling Millions In Drug Money To Dominican Republic Four flight attendants from the New York City area have been accused of participating in a multimillion-dollar drug money smuggling operation which saw $8 million make its way to the Dominican Republic, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern...
The Catalyst For A Banking Renaissance
09.05.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Catalyst For A Banking Renaissance Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Every day, there are over 2,000,000,000 consumer transactions around the world. Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and other large companies process many of these payments. Bitcoin, on the other hand, does not have anywhere near the capacity to handle this kind...
Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report
09.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report Conservative think tank Center for Renewing America floated the idea a year and a half ago that "It's time to wage war on transnational drug cartels." This comes as the drug death catastrophe in the US eclipses the entire Vietnam War every six months. The vast...
Revenge Travel Peaked? Airbnb Pukes On Travel Spending Slowdown Forecast
09.05.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Revenge Travel Peaked? Airbnb Pukes On Travel Spending Slowdown Forecast Shares of Airbnb stumbled in premarket trading in New York on Thursday after the home rental company beat earnings expectations for the first quarter but provided weaker-than-expected guidance. This comes after Bank of America analysts identified other travel companies missing...
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...
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 Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt"
09.05.2024, 04:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt" Yesterday we discussed the latest consumer credit data, which revealed that the amount of credit card debt across the US has hit a new record high of $1.337 trillion (even though it appears to have finally hit a brick wall, barely rising...
Creditors Of Bankrupt FTX To Receive As Much As 142% Of What They Are Owed
08.05.2024, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Creditors Of Bankrupt FTX To Receive As Much As 142% Of What They Are Owed Back in March, when eyeing the tremendous rebound in the crypto space, we joked that creditors in Sam Bankman-Fried's bankrupt exchange, FTX, would recover 200% of their claims. FTX bankruptcy will be the first Chapter 11 where creditors recover 200% of their claims — zerohedge...
NYC Mayor, NYPD Offer $15K Cash Reward For Info On World War I Memorial Vandals
08.05.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NYC Mayor, NYPD Offer $15K Cash Reward For Info On World War I Memorial Vandals Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has contributed $5,000 of his own money to a reward offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for vandalizing a World War I memorial. The 107th United States...
Another Trump Trial Derailed: Fani-Donating Judge's Decision To Keep Her On RICO Trial Under Scrutiny By Appeals Court
08.05.2024, 16:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Trump Trial Derailed: Fani-Donating Judge's Decision To Keep Her On RICO Trial Under Scrutiny By Appeals Court One day after former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial was postponed indefinitely after we learned that the DOJ mishandled evidence in the case (with Judge Aileen M. Cannon citing a mountain of 'outstanding' pre-trial...
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...
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...
Disney Shares Plunge Most In Year On Subscriber Miss, Disappointing Guidance
07.05.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Disney Shares Plunge Most In Year On Subscriber Miss, Disappointing Guidance Disney reported fiscal second-quarter profits that exceeded estimates of the average analysts tracked by Bloomberg and raised its full-year earnings guidance. However, shares tumbled in early trading in New York as investors focused more on the Disney+ streaming service, missing...
What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold?
07.05.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, With the eventual introduction of central bank digital currency (CBDCs) now seemingly inevitable, there are a lot of directions central banks could take with their digital currency projects that would have dramatic implications for the price of gold. Touted for their “convenience” and “efficiency...
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,...
Surging Distress In CRE CLO Loans Spurs Lender Rush To Repurchase Delinquent Multifamily Mortgages
07.05.2024, 12:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Surging Distress In CRE CLO Loans Spurs Lender Rush To Repurchase Delinquent Multifamily Mortgages The commercial real estate sector continues to experience elevated stress (see the state of the industry in charts). The latest crack to emerge is the increasing number of delinquencies on multifamily mortgages. In April, about 8.6% of commercial...
Millionenverlust statt Milliardengewinn – BioNTech verkauft nicht mehr genug Genspritzen
07.05.2024, 11:01 Uhr. Report24 - https: - BioNTech, welches zusammen mit Pfizer die experimentellen Genspritzen gegen Covid-19 entwickelte, kämpft mit massiven Umsatzrückgängen und Millionenverlusten. Die Cash Cow "Corminaty" verkauft sich nämlich nicht mehr gut. Das Unternehmen versucht die Aktionäre zu beschwichtigen, doch der Aktienkurs bricht weiter ein....
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...
"Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted?
06.05.2024, 01:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted? By Teeuwe Mevissen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Is the wealth effect being substituted? Summary China’s real estate market suffered heavy losses early this year while stock market investors continue to face huge uncertainty. This will add to the deterioration...
Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian
05.05.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, At $1.5 million per job, this new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs. Gov...
US Pushing G-7 To Accept Long-Term $50 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine
05.05.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Pushing G-7 To Accept Long-Term $50 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine As part of the latest in the Western allies' (some of them at least) controversial push to confiscate Russian sovereign assets and give them to Ukraine, the Biden administration is leading talks among G7 nations to commit to a new military aid package for Kiev worth up to $50 billion...
Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose?
05.05.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose? Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance In one of the most fascinating discussions I’ve had in a while, I spoke last weekend with my friend Andy Schectman about the state of the world, markets, geopolitics and the economy. What started as a friendly catch-up quickly turned into delving into angles on the state of...
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...
Here Comes Obesity Drug Competition: Amgen Shares Soar On "Very Encouraging" Clinical Trial Update
03.05.2024, 17:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here Comes Obesity Drug Competition: Amgen Shares Soar On "Very Encouraging" Clinical Trial Update Amgen's shares soared in premarket trading in New York following the drug maker's announcement of "very encouraging" clinical trial results for its new injectable weight-loss drug, "MariTide." Amgen's MariTide is poised to compete with Eli Lilly &...
Norway’s Cash Flow From Offshore Fields Crashes Due to Low Natural Gas Prices
03.05.2024, 13:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Norway’s Cash Flow From Offshore Fields Crashes Due to Low Natural Gas Prices By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Norway saw cash flow from its stakes in oil and gas fields nearly halve in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period of 2023, as natural gas prices slumped and gas consumption in Europe was below expectations, said state...
Sony And Apollo Make $26 Billion All Cash Offer For Paramount
03.05.2024, 13:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sony And Apollo Make $26 Billion All Cash Offer For Paramount It looks as thought the every-day Paramount buyout saga could finally be coming to a close, with a all-cash, $26 billion offer made by Sony and Apollo, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apollo and Sony, led by Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra and Apollo partner Aaron Sobel, presented...
White South Africans Face Crime And Torture But Still Believe US And Europe Face Darker Future: Ernst Roets
03.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White South Africans Face Crime And Torture But Still Believe US And Europe Face Darker Future: Ernst Roets By John Cody of Remix.news In an exclusive interview with Remix News, Ernst Roets, the head of policy for the Solidarity Movement in South Africa, spoke with Remix News about the future of White Boers in South Africa, how they're building their...
Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable?
03.05.2024, 06:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The largest firms in the US are unsurpassably pulling ahead of their smaller rivals by earning more, investing more, holding more cash and buying back more of their stock. The bull market is thus likely to remain historically lackluster and less...