Neueste Heute 06.05.2024 05.05.2024
Panama Elects New President Who Vows To Shut Migrant Trail, Restore Economy
07.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Panama Elects New President Who Vows To Shut Migrant Trail, Restore Economy Voters in the Republic of Panama on Sunday elected a new president who has vowed to sever a key segment of the Latina American migrant trail that leads to the United States while restoring the country's reputation as an investment destination. “We’ll promote a government...
Robusta Coffee Bean Prices Near Half-Century High As Vietnam Supply Woes Spark World Crunch
06.05.2024, 19:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Robusta Coffee Bean Prices Near Half-Century High As Vietnam Supply Woes Spark World Crunch A new report from the International Coffee Organization reveals an alarming situation in the coffee market. Robusta coffee prices have skyrocketed to a 45-year high, a clear indication of the severity of the supply crunch and the rampant bean hoarding that...
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...
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...
Ukraine Struggles To Build New Defensive Lines As Its Forces Retreat
04.05.2024, 18:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Struggles To Build New Defensive Lines As Its Forces Retreat Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, Russian forces are advancing in several places across the 600-mile frontline in Ukraine, straining Kiev’s ability to build rear fortifications. Some in the Ukrainian military fault the country’s leadership for not building...
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...
"Islamic Resistance In Bahrain" Claims First Ever Attack On Israel
03.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Islamic Resistance In Bahrain" Claims First Ever Attack On Israel Previously we detailed the ongoing Saudi crackdown on the potential for an 'Islamist uprising' in response to Arab Gulf countries normalizing relations with Israel. So far, the UAE has normalized, and Bahrain too, and now Saudi Arabia is said to be on the cusp. On Thursday...
US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners
02.05.2024, 15:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Most of the hawkish tilt in yields and rise in Federal Reserve interest rate expectations this year has come in non-US trading hours. A dovish repricing would therefore require (other things equal) a change of trading direction only in...
Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide
02.05.2024, 14:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide After a bizarre reversal when US stocks first slumped and then dumped after Powell's very dovish FOMC statement and press conference, US equity futures have regained their footing this morning and advanced as traders took comfort from the Fed’s signal that there’s no...
Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran?
02.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran? Author3ed by Con Coughlin via the Gatestone Institute, (Image source: iStock/Getty Images) If attempts by Western leaders to impose further sanctions against Iran in retaliation for its direct attack against Israel are to have any validity, they will need to be a great deal more effective than...
House Approves 'Antisemitism Awareness Act' Aimed At Cracking Down On Campus Protests
02.05.2024, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Approves 'Antisemitism Awareness Act' Aimed At Cracking Down On Campus Protests Late in the afternoon Wednesday the House approved a bill which seeks to crackdown on antisemitism on college and university campuses following days of protests and unrest driven by pro-Palestinian activists. The Antisemitism Awareness Act has been approved in a 320-91...
Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms
01.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms US equities were set for a second day of losses, as investors weighed disappointing tech earnings and braced for today's Quarterly Refunding Announcement and Fed rate decision and Powell press conference where the Fed chair is expected to signal a delay to rate cuts. S&P 500 futures slid 0...
The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector
01.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, LNG has become the most important swing energy source in an increasingly insecure world. Energy exports remain the foundation stone of Russia’s essentially petro-economy. Russia's LNG industry is closely associated in Russia with...
Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This
30.04.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This One can listen to, and believe, the government's lies about the miraculous growth of the economy and the stellar job that Bidenomics is doing... or one can listen to the truth straight from the countless small companies that make up the economy. We prefer the latter, which is why we...
US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024
30.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024 US equity futures dropped, and European markets were mixed on the last day of the month amid concerns the Fed may stick to its hawkish messaging at its meeting on Wednesday. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were down 0.1% while Europe’s Stoxx 600 index retreated 0.4%, while Asian...
"I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month
29.04.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Outlook survey has now been in contraction (below zero) every month since May 2022, falling modestly to -14.5 in April (worse than the -11.2 expected). New Orders also remain negative (but did improve) and prices continue...
California Homeowners: Insured No More Amid Fire Danger
28.04.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California Homeowners: Insured No More Amid Fire Danger America's largest and, for some owners, only option for a home insurer is pulling back its operations in the state of California, leaving many with no more options to secure their property's value amid wildfire danger in the state reaching new heights. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports...
Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City
27.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City Authored by Fred Roeder via RealClearMarkets, On a Friday night in March 2011, I stayed at an upscale W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City for $124. That hotel later became The Maxwell, but sadly it didn’t survive the pandemic and is now permanently closed. Today the average hotel stay in...
The Great Game Returns To Central Asia
26.04.2024, 05:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Game Returns To Central Asia Via EurasiaNet.org, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reanimated US and EU interest in Central Asia. China has eclipsed Russia as the region's largest trade partner. Central Asian trade is diversifying away from Russia and towards the West. The Great Game is playing out once again in Central Asia, but it is getting...
Palmer Luckey's Anduril & General Atomics Selected By USAF For Next Round Of AI Drone Program
26.04.2024, 04:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Palmer Luckey's Anduril & General Atomics Selected By USAF For Next Round Of AI Drone Program The US Air Force's hot pursuit of drone wingmen, known as collaborative combat aircraft, flying alongside piloted stealth fighter jets such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, is a major effort to modernize its...
Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs
25.04.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs Whatever happened to the WEF? One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public discourse. After the pandemic agenda was defeated and the plan to exploit public fear to create a perpetual medical autocracy was exposed, Klaus Schwab...
Chinese Have "Grabbed Gold By The Throat" As Capital Flight Accelerates
24.04.2024, 17:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese Have "Grabbed Gold By The Throat" As Capital Flight Accelerates “Chinese speculators have really grabbed gold by the throat...” That is how John Reade, chief market strategist at the World Gold Council, describes the scramble in the communist nation among investors looking to move money anywhere but in the yuan or Chinese assets. As evidenced...
Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors
24.04.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Most NFL general managers (GMs) are optimistic and displaying overconfidence today as they prepare for tomorrow’s NFL draft. The draft is a once-a-year opportunity for GMs to acquire talent. Like investors, GMs often think they are smarter...
Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks
24.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks Equity futures rose for the third day in a row - last week's brutal drubbing a distant memory - with tech outperforming as Tesla soars premarket after Elon Musk vowed to launch less-expensive vehicles as soon as late this year while Texas Instruments jumped 7% after...
US PMIs Scream Stagflation As Manufacturing 'Contracts', Prices Rise, Heaviest Job Cuts Since GFC
23.04.2024, 16:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US PMIs Scream Stagflation As Manufacturing 'Contracts', Prices Rise, Heaviest Job Cuts Since GFC After a mixed bag from preliminary April European PMIs (Services strong-er, Manufacturing weaker-er, surging prices)... “Accelerated increases in input costs, likely driven not only by higher oil prices but also, more concerningly, by higher wages, are...
Contracts Between US Universities, China Total More Than $2 Billion: Investigation
21.04.2024, 02:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Contracts Between US Universities, China Total More Than $2 Billion: Investigation By Micaiah Bilger of The College Fix Report comes amid concerns about CCP’s influence, human rights violations... American universities have entered more than $2.3 billion in contracts with China in the past decade amid on-going concerns about the influence of its communist...
Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns
18.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns Who could have seen this coming? btw this is where the next really big crash will start https://t.co/XcK2RezYEk — zerohedge ( zerohedge) February 1, 2024 Bloomberg's Ye Xie reports that a small group of funds has accumulated such large short wagers in the Treasury market that they could...
Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak
18.04.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The impulse from central-bank reserves in the US, or the change in their change on a monthly basis, points to further short-term resistance for stocks. The Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening program is ongoing, but bank reserves...
Why Does A Woke Maryland Private School Want To Know The Gender Identity Of Young Students, And If They Had "Oral Sex"?
18.04.2024, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Does A Woke Maryland Private School Want To Know The Gender Identity Of Young Students, And If They Had "Oral Sex"? The parents of an elite Baltimore County, Maryland, private school, where tuition ranges from $32,000 for lower school to as high as $38,000 for upper school per year, are beyond frustrated. Many can't voice their concerns about the...
Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation?
17.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We recently wrote Japan’s Lost Decades to appreciate better why Japan’s GDP is smaller than it was in 1995 and why it took 35 years for its stock market to set its recent record high. Many pundits claim the U.S. is following Japan’s path. The path...
Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs
17.04.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs US equity futures and European markets are higher, reversing several days of losses after positive earnings from some of Europe’s biggest companies lifted the mood as markets were roiled by a more hawkish outlook for interest rates. Futures on the S&P 500 rose by 0.4% reversing three days...
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...
20 Years Later, Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Get Their Day In Court
16.04.2024, 02:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 20 Years Later, Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Get Their Day In Court Authored by Brett Wilkins via Common Dreams, Two decades after they were tortured by U.S. military contractors at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, three Iraqi victims are finally getting their day in court Monday as a federal court in Virginia takes up a case they brought...
CHD Wins in Los Angeles ‘Smart City’ Public Records Case, Gaining Access to Thousands of Withheld Documents Regarding Rollout of Artificial Intelligence
15.04.2024, 22:29 Uhr. Children's Health Defense - https: - Washington, D.C. – On April 2, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) won its “Smart City” lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, receiving access to thousands of withheld records regarding the rollout of advanced video camera technologies that use artificial intelligence with sophisticated surveillance capabilities. Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff...
Javier Blas Outlines Ten Takeaways For Crude Market Following Iran's Direct Attack On Israel
14.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Javier Blas Outlines Ten Takeaways For Crude Market Following Iran's Direct Attack On Israel Iran's direct attack on Israel on Saturday evening is viewed certainly as an escalation in the Middle East conflict. Tehran's missile and drone attack (widely unsuccessful) has been well-telegraphed (read: here & here) for the last two weeks, pushing up...
US, UK Ban Deliveries Of Russian Copper, Nickel And Aluminum To Western Metals Exchanges: Here's What This Means
14.04.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US, UK Ban Deliveries Of Russian Copper, Nickel And Aluminum To Western Metals Exchanges: Here's What This Means On Friday, the US and UK imposed new restrictions on trading Russian aluminum, copper and nickel in the latest hollow bid to curb President Vladimir Putin’s ability to fund his war machine (as discussed previously, Russian oil is now trading...
This Next Bean Is Hyperinflating, And It's Not Cocoa
13.04.2024, 15:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Next Bean Is Hyperinflating, And It's Not Cocoa The next bean hyperinflating is Robusta coffee futures in London, hitting fresh record highs on Friday. This comes as poor harvests in Vietnam, the world's second-largest producer of robusta beans, fuels concerns about global shortages. Also, arabica futures are erupting. Futures for robusta, the...
Macron First Threatens Russia With Troops, Then Buys €600 Million Of Gas From Moscow In Q1 2024
13.04.2024, 13:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Macron First Threatens Russia With Troops, Then Buys €600 Million Of Gas From Moscow In Q1 2024 Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, At the same time that French President Emmanuel Macron is threatening to send troops to Ukraine to fight against Russia, his country is fueling the Russian war effort by purchasing €600 million worth of natural gas...
The Case For Oil Gains Into A Weekend Wins Again Amid $100 Brent Call Frenzy
12.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Case For Oil Gains Into A Weekend Wins Again Amid $100 Brent Call Frenzy A few weeks ago, Bloomberg commodity expert Alex Longley,wrote - correctly - that given the geopolitical risk in the world, there’s hardly any reason for traders to brace for oil declines on a Friday. Fast forward to today, when that statement is even more true now than...
Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks
12.04.2024, 15:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks Futures are tumbling this morning, hit by disappointing earnings and outllook from the largest US bank, JPMorgan whose stock is down around 3% in a soggy launch to Q1 earnings season, while growing fears of an imminent conflict between Israel and Iran have sent oil surging and...
Cocoa Prices Hit New Record High As Talks In Ghana Suggest Delayed Deliveries Of Bean
11.04.2024, 21:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Prices Hit New Record High As Talks In Ghana Suggest Delayed Deliveries Of Bean Cocoa futures jumped to a record high in New York on Thursday morning as traders confronted new supply problems in Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa producer. Bloomberg reports that the Ghana Cocoa Board, the regulator, is speaking with major commodity traders...
Alex Jones To Sue CIA After Undercover Report Claims Agency "Went After Him Hardcore"
10.04.2024, 16:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alex Jones To Sue CIA After Undercover Report Claims Agency "Went After Him Hardcore" Infowars founder and host Alex Jones says he plans to sue the CIA following the release of an undercover sting in which an alleged CIA officer claims that the US intelligence community "took his [Jones's] money away" to "chop his legs off." The employee, a CIA contracts...
Musk Says Starlink Will Be Free For Brazil Schools If Government Cancels Contract
09.04.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Musk Says Starlink Will Be Free For Brazil Schools If Government Cancels Contract Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said he will provide Starlink services free of charge for schools in Brazil if the government chooses to follow through and cancel a contract for the service in the country. Many schools...
Jordan Subpoenas Biden's Ghostwriter In Continuing Classified Records Probe
25.03.2024, 14:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jordan Subpoenas Biden's Ghostwriter In Continuing Classified Records Probe Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) subpoenaed President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, on Friday, pressing for details about the president’s handling of classified documents. Chairman...
Japan's Top FX Official Threatens "Appropriate Action" Against 'Short Speculators' As Yen Craters After Rate-Hike
25.03.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan's Top FX Official Threatens "Appropriate Action" Against 'Short Speculators' As Yen Craters After Rate-Hike A quick glimpse at the the Japanese Yen's price action (against the USD) since the BoJ 's decision to hike rates for the first time in 17 years and one could be forgiven for being confused as the 'hawkish' move has prompted aggressive 'dovish'...
European Council President Calls On Europe To Switch To A War Economy
22.03.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European Council President Calls On Europe To Switch To A War Economy Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, As a way to create jobs, EC President Charles Michel promotes a war economy. Where that would lead is obvious. I suggest putting Michel on the front line with Senator Lindsey Graham. Michel’s Rosy War Economy Eurointelligence discusses Michel’s...
Israel Furious After Canada Votes To Halt Arms Exports To Tel Aviv
20.03.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Furious After Canada Votes To Halt Arms Exports To Tel Aviv Via The Cradle Canada will impose a ban on arms sales to Israel, the country’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on Tuesday. "It’s a real thing," Joly told Canadian newspaper The Toronto Star on Tuesday. The decision follows a vote of 204-117 in the Canadian parliament...
From Capitalism To Corporatism
20.03.2024, 11:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Capitalism To Corporatism Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, In the 1990s, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backward. We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including the web, apps, search tools and social media. But governments at all levels were stuck in the past using IBM mainframes and...
Bitcoin Flash-Crashes Below $9,000 On BitMEX Amid Tether Turbulence
19.03.2024, 14:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Flash-Crashes Below $9,000 On BitMEX Amid Tether Turbulence Crypto exchange BitMEX is currently investigating “unusual activity” involving large sell orders on its BTC-USDT spot market overnight that sparked a flash-crash dragging the price of BTC (in USDT) down below $9,000 (while the price remained above $66,000 on other exchanges)......