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Watch Live: Countdown To The Most Important 'Halving' In Bitcoin History
19.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: Countdown To The Most Important 'Halving' In Bitcoin History We've previewed the shit out of this 'halving' (here, here, here, and here most recently) and now it's here. As Bitcoin Magazine notes, this halving event – projected to occur within the next few hours – will occur as Bitcoin reaches block 840,000, marking the point at which...
Nike "Permanently" Laying Off 740 Employees At World Headquarters
19.04.2024, 21:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nike "Permanently" Laying Off 740 Employees At World Headquarters US athletic footwear and apparel company Nike announced late in the cash session on Friday that it is undergoing a restructuring effort to trim costs at its World Headquarters (WHQ) located in Beaverton, Oregon. Michele Adams, VP of People Solutions at Nike, might be the most hated...
The Great Firewall: China Orders Apple To Remove WhatsApp, Threads From App Store
19.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Firewall: China Orders Apple To Remove WhatsApp, Threads From App Store The Cyberspace Administration of China asked Apple on Friday to remove Meta Platforms' WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China due to national security concerns. Signal and Telegram—two foreign messaging apps—were also removed from the Chinese App Store...
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...
Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election
19.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Florida Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling on April 1, upholding a 15-week abortion ban that was signed into law in 2022. The ruling paved the way for a six-week abortion ban to take effect on...
Columbia University Gives NYPD Cops Greenlight To Arrest Anti-Israel Protesters Occupying Campus
18.04.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Columbia University Gives NYPD Cops Greenlight To Arrest Anti-Israel Protesters Occupying Campus Americans should wake up to fiery anti-Israel protests erupting across the nation this week, from attempting to close critical infrastructure such as bridges and airports; we must ask who exactly is funding this social unrest. And whoever is funding...
Plaza Accord Lite? Japan, Korea Get Green Light From Yellen For FX Intervention
18.04.2024, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Plaza Accord Lite? Japan, Korea Get Green Light From Yellen For FX Intervention One week ago, when Japan's PM Kishida visited the White House and unwittingly sparked the latest Beltway fashion scandal, when Jeff Bezos' current wife appeared dressed as a middle-aged stripper to the dinner honoring the Japanese delegation, sparking online outrage among...
Iran Says It Could Pursue Nuclear Weapons If Israel Threatens Atomic Sites
18.04.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Says It Could Pursue Nuclear Weapons If Israel Threatens Atomic Sites Iran's leadership has always strongly asserted that it is not pursuing the development of nuclear weapons, but instead has long sought a peaceful nuclear energy program. Various Ayatollahs over the decades have even declared the atomic bomb to be 'unIslamic' and against the teachings...
Existing Home Sales Plunged (Again) In March... But Prices Continue To Rise
18.04.2024, 16:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Existing Home Sales Plunged (Again) In March... But Prices Continue To Rise After the collapse in housing starts and permits in March, it is no surprise that existing home sales disappointed in the same month, dropping 4.3% MoM (-4.1% exp) after surging 9.5% in February. That is the biggest drop since Nov 2022. Sales were down almost 10% from a year...
It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again
18.04.2024, 14:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The risk of a squeeze in US funding markets is increasing as the yield curve bear steepens, i.e. longer-term yields rise more than short-term ones. More attractive bill yields and climbing interest-payment costs on government debt are depleting reserves...
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...
Alleged Illegal Immigrant Who Couldn't Speak English Caught Trying To Rob Bank Using A Translator App
18.04.2024, 04:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alleged Illegal Immigrant Who Couldn't Speak English Caught Trying To Rob Bank Using A Translator App You'd figure if you're in the country illegally, you'd at least have the courtesy to learn the language before trying to hold up a bank... But basic human decency is dead these days, as was exemplified by a Venezuelan-born man named Yeixon Brito-Gonzalez...
IMF Warns Biden's Fiscal Profligacy Poses "Significant Risks" To Global Economy 'In Great Election Year'
17.04.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IMF Warns Biden's Fiscal Profligacy Poses "Significant Risks" To Global Economy 'In Great Election Year' The IMF said the the quiet part out loud today (admittedly wrapped in 100s of pages of PhD-ese) in their benchmark Fiscal Monitor this morning: pointing out that America's recent economic performance is partially the result of the country's unsustainable...
Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered
17.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered A volatile day for markets (relatively speaking) with crude and crypto the high- low-lights. Goldman's trading desk (Lee Coppersmith) noted that for the first time all year, it feels like the market is starting to question the strong growth narrative on the back of weaker earnings...
"War In The Middle East": Opinions Clash In Today's ZeroHedge Debate
17.04.2024, 19:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "War In The Middle East": Opinions Clash In Today's ZeroHedge Debate This weekend marked a major escalation in the long-running conflict between Israel and Iran, with the latter launching what some called a "performative" barrage of missiles at Israel amid the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Iran says the matter is "concluded" (for now) but remains...
Ex-Mossad Chief Says Hitting Iran's Nuclear Facilities 'On The Table'
17.04.2024, 17:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ex-Mossad Chief Says Hitting Iran's Nuclear Facilities 'On The Table' Several statements were issued by Iranian leaders on Wednesday as they attended a military parade at a base north of Tehran which featured displays of attack drones and ballistic missiles, just days after Iran's unprecedented Saturday night attack on Israel. The head of Iran's military...
Semi Shock: ASML Craters As Orderbook Plummets After China Frontrunning Ends With A Bang
17.04.2024, 16:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Semi Shock: ASML Craters As Orderbook Plummets After China Frontrunning Ends With A Bang Exactly three months ago, AI stocks were soaring, semiconductor names were flying and the tech sector was euphoric after Dutch chip giant ASML - the world’s sole producer of equipment needed to make the most advanced chips and Europe’s most valuable technology...
After Judicial Tyranny, Tesla Asks Shareholders To Approve Musk's $56 Billion Comp... Again
17.04.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Judicial Tyranny, Tesla Asks Shareholders To Approve Musk's $56 Billion Comp... Again At his peak, Elon Musk was worth $340BN (Nov 2021) and stood alone as the world's richest man/women/other. According to Bloomberg's billionaires list, he is now worth mere $175BN... sliding to just the fourth-richest in the world as Tesla's share price has declined...
'They Must Be Destroyed': How Cuban Americans Face Assassination Threats, Terror List
17.04.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'They Must Be Destroyed': How Cuban Americans Face Assassination Threats, Terror List Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Several of Cuba’s latest “terrorists” live in Miami. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images) Luis Zuniga, a former diplomat and political prisoner of the Castro regime, is one of 61 people...
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...
What If The Fed's Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom?
16.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What If The Fed's Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom? Authored by Ye Xie via Bloomberg, As the US economy hums along month after month, minting hundreds of thousands of new jobs and confounding experts who had warned of an imminent downturn, some on Wall Street are starting to entertain a fringe economic theory. What if, they ask, all those...
'Oral Argument Favored Defendants' - Supreme Court Just Ended Hearing Obstruction Case Affecting J6 Defendants
16.04.2024, 19:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Oral Argument Favored Defendants' - Supreme Court Just Ended Hearing Obstruction Case Affecting J6 Defendants Authored by Jonathan Turley, Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Fischer v. United States, a case that could fundamentally change many cases of January 6th defendants, including the prosecution of former president Donald Trump. The...
Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell To Explain Why Cuts Are Still On Table Despite Soaring Inflation & Strong Growth
16.04.2024, 19:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell To Explain Why Cuts Are Still On Table Despite Soaring Inflation & Strong Growth Fed Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak this afternoon and the big question is how many times will he said the word "patience", "confidence", and/or "we must get Biden re-elected." Powell has been less hawkish than many of his peers...
House Managers To Deliver Mayorkas Impeachment Articles To Senate
16.04.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Managers To Deliver Mayorkas Impeachment Articles To Senate Authored by Mark Tapscott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas at the U.S. Capitol, on April 10, 2024. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Two counts of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, approved on Feb...
Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis
16.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis Submitted by David Asher, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and former senior advisor to the State Department on China, At 0800 ET, the China Subcommittee in the House of Representatives will convene a critically important hearing on the Chinese government's...
Tepco Loads Fuel Rods In World's Largest Nuclear Power Plant As Atomic Era Reignites
16.04.2024, 00:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tepco Loads Fuel Rods In World's Largest Nuclear Power Plant As Atomic Era Reignites The world is finally realizing, after trying to rid itself of nuclear power following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, that the power of the atom will be the heart of clean, reliable electricity generation - not unreliable solar and wind. The latest sign that a...
More Than A Dozen Major Media Outlets Call On Biden, Trump To Commit To Presidential Debate
15.04.2024, 23:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More Than A Dozen Major Media Outlets Call On Biden, Trump To Commit To Presidential Debate Authored by Alice Giordano via The Epoch Times, More than a dozen major media outlets released a statement this morning asking President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to commit to a presidential debate. “If there’s one thing Americans can agree...
Americans Pour Into Pawnshops, Selling Gold Jewelry As Price Surges
15.04.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Pour Into Pawnshops, Selling Gold Jewelry As Price Surges With gold trading at record highs, cash-strapped Americans are heading to pawnshops to sell their jewelry. “People are using gold as an ATM they never had,” King Gold & Pawn and Empire Gold Buyers owner Gene Furman tells Bloomberg. He says gold-selling traffic at his 5th Avenue...
Crib-Notes For The 'Trial Of The Century'
15.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crib-Notes For The 'Trial Of The Century' Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject’s politics.” - Matt Taibbi What fascinates us about sex, I suppose, is that most everyone wants it and seeks it...
Zelensky Condemns Iran, Uses Attack On Israel To Ask For More Money
15.04.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Condemns Iran, Uses Attack On Israel To Ask For More Money Once again the specter of a major Middle East war has overshadowed the much bloodier and fiercer Russia-Ukraine war, and coming at a moment the Zelensky government is deeply struggling to attract more weapons and funding from Western capitals, most notably Washington. President Zelensky...
Tesla To Slash Global Headcount By More Than 10%, Electrek Reports
15.04.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla To Slash Global Headcount By More Than 10%, Electrek Reports Shares of Tesla Motors are muted in the early premarket trading hours in New York after a report from the EV blog Electrek cited an "internal company-wide email" detailing layoffs at the EV company amounting to more than 10% of its global workforce. Electrek alleges that Elon Musk...
Airbus Beats Boeing For Deliveries In 2024
15.04.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Airbus Beats Boeing For Deliveries In 2024 Boeing’s deliveries of commercial aircraft have faltered in the first three months of the year, according to the company’s reports, published this week. The U.S. aircraft manufacturer delivered just 83 planes in Q3, down from 130 in the same three-month period of last year. In the meantime, its sole major...
Whistleblowers To Further Dismantle Jan. 6 National Guard Narrative About Trump
15.04.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistleblowers To Further Dismantle Jan. 6 National Guard Narrative About Trump On Wednesday, whistleblowers from the Washington DC National Guard are expected to tell Congressional investigators that former President Donald Trump wanted them deployed, but an Army Secretary, Ryan McCarthy, delayed relaying this to DC National Guard Commander William...
WHO Official Admits Vaccine Passports May Have Been A Scam
14.04.2024, 21:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WHO Official Admits Vaccine Passports May Have Been A Scam Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle (subscribe here), The World Health Organization’s Dr. Hanna Nohynek testified in court that she advised her government that vaccine passports were not needed but was ignored, despite explaining that the COVID vaccines did not stop...
A Reliable Voting Bloc For Decades, Minorities Now Look For Alternatives To Democrats
14.04.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Reliable Voting Bloc For Decades, Minorities Now Look For Alternatives To Democrats Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Democrats gathered at the state fairgrounds in Columbia, South Carolina, to await the results of their party’s primary election. President Joe Biden, the only candidate to campaign in the state, won...
'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:...
Iran Threatens America's Military Bases Across Middle East If US Supports Israeli Counterattack
14.04.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Threatens America's Military Bases Across Middle East If US Supports Israeli Counterattack The Saturday evening fireworks show in the Middle East marked Tehran's first full-scale military attack on Israel. Although largely unsuccessful, concerns mount that US military bases in the region might be targeted with ballistic missiles and suicide drones...
"China Is About To Start Bidding" - Will Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs Spark The 'Halving' Rally?
14.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "China Is About To Start Bidding" - Will Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs Spark The 'Halving' Rally? Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The potential approval of the first batch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Hong Kong could be a big catalyst for Bitcoin’s halving rally, commentators say. Hong Kong could approve 4 Bitcoin ETFs...
Watch: Non-English Speaking Military-Aged Venezuelan Male Attempts To Rob Bank In Ohio Using Translator App
14.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Non-English Speaking Military-Aged Venezuelan Male Attempts To Rob Bank In Ohio Using Translator App President Biden's disastrous open southern border policies have sparked a migrant crime wave. This comes amid the ten million plus illegal aliens that have invaded the nation through the collapsed southern border, alongside recent calls from...
The Exodus Continues: Blue Regions Still Bleeding As Residents Escape Democrat Policies
14.04.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Exodus Continues: Blue Regions Still Bleeding As Residents Escape Democrat Policies Can Democrats take a hint? The answer is obviously no, but with millions of people flooding out of Democrat controlled places and relocating to more conservative regions one might think they would finally get the message. Blue cities and states across the US have...
Biden Admin Tells Congress Famine Is Underway In Gaza For First Time
12.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Admin Tells Congress Famine Is Underway In Gaza For First Time A top Biden administration official has for the first time declared that famine now exists in parts of the Gaza Strip, more than five months after the Israel-Hamas war began. USAID Director Samantha Power said it is "credible" to assess that famine is already occurring. Her testimony...
EU Parliament Refuses Decision On Budget Until Ukraine Gets More Patriots From Member States
12.04.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Parliament Refuses Decision On Budget Until Ukraine Gets More Patriots From Member States The latest intense Russian bombardment of Ukraine has resulted in the European Parliament taking the unprecedented decision to delay approval of the council budget until EU leaders get fully on board with approving additional Patriot air defense systems for...
German Defense Chief Compares Putin To Hitler
12.04.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - German Defense Chief Compares Putin To Hitler Amid the recent days of stepped-up major Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which the Kremlin on Thursday said is necessary in response to Ukrainian forces' own cross-border attacks on Russian oil refineries, the rhetoric out of Europe is becoming unhinged. In but the latest example of this...
Ford Lightning Price Cut "Sends Shockwaves Through EV Market"
12.04.2024, 02:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ford Lightning Price Cut "Sends Shockwaves Through EV Market" Shares of Rivian Automotive, Lucid Group, and Tesla Motors moved lower during the cash session in the US after Ford Motor announced price cuts for its electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck amid concerns about sliding demand across the EV industry. Meanwhile, an EV price war between the...
Montana Supreme Court Tries To Move The State Left
12.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Montana Supreme Court Tries To Move The State Left Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Montana State Supreme Court. (Screenshot via GoogleMaps) Commentary The Epoch Times reported on March 28 that the Montana Supreme Court struck down four state “election integrity” laws. The court’s decision appears to be part of...
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...
Berkeley Prosecutors Cut Probation Deal For Scientist Who Tried To Kill Colleague
11.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Berkeley Prosecutors Cut Probation Deal For Scientist Who Tried To Kill Colleague Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have been a criminal defense attorney for my entire career, but there is a case out of Berkeley, California that is a real head scratcher... David Xu was the chief metallurgist for a company called Berkeley Engineering and Research (BEAR)...
Ukraine Passes Divisive Conscription Law Which Aims To Bolster Forces by 500,000
11.04.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Passes Divisive Conscription Law Which Aims To Bolster Forces by 500,000 Ukraine's parliament on Thursday passed an ultra-controversial military mobilization law aimed at drastically boosting the number of its troops at a moment forces are facing severe manpower shortages amid the unrelenting Russian onslaught. It passed with a clear majority...
Stamp Prices Rise By 8%, For The Second Time In 4 Months
11.04.2024, 19:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stamp Prices Rise By 8%, For The Second Time In 4 Months It's only appropriate that on the day the BLS reported that prices are once again galloping away from the Fed's 2% inflation target - and hit fresh monthly record highs - that the Post Office announced stamp prices would also rise to a record high... for the second time this year. According to...