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Drug Overdose Deaths Drop For First Time Since 2018
18.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Drug Overdose Deaths Drop For First Time Since 2018 Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times, The rate of death by overdose declined in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years. Data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics show the decline mainly attributed to a drop in...
"The Economics Just Don't Work": Demand For Electric Semis Plunges Due To High Costs
18.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Economics Just Don't Work": Demand For Electric Semis Plunges Due To High Costs For the last year, we've been writing extensively about how high costs and low demand have made EVs uneconomical - and, as a result, unpopular to produce - for the auto industry. It turns out unionized employees extorting you on labor costs while the government mandates...
America's Dairy Cow Replacement Inventory Collapses To Two-Decade Low
18.05.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Dairy Cow Replacement Inventory Collapses To Two-Decade Low The nation's food supply chain remains under stress. We've been sounding the alarm on America's beef cattle supply dwindling to the lowest levels in over half a century. Now, Bloomberg reports that dairy farms are pivoting breeding programs toward beef-on-dairy hybrids, capitalizing...
Jeff Currie, The Copper Bull: "Most Compelling Trade I've Seen In My 30-Year Trading Career"
18.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jeff Currie, The Copper Bull: "Most Compelling Trade I've Seen In My 30-Year Trading Career" Jeff Currie, who led commodities research at Goldman Sachs for nearly three decades and now serves as the chief strategy officer of the energy pathways team at Carlyle Group, appeared on Bloomberg's Odd Lots to discuss why copper is the best trade he has...
Dismal Data Sparks Dollar Dump - Everything Else Rips On Record Week
17.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dismal Data Sparks Dollar Dump - Everything Else Rips On Record Week US Macro Surprise data declined for the sixth straight week... to its weakest since January 2023... Source: Bloomberg But that 'bad news' prompted a run to record highs for risky stocks... Source: Bloomberg As the market seems to be completely discounting the collapse in soft survey...
Jetzt wie bei MasterCard: Wer mit VISA zahlt, dessen Einkaufsverhalten wird verhökert
17.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - Visa, one of the world’s two largest payment card services, is launching new, proprietary technology that will allow it to give retailers even more data collected from its customers.The move is seen as Visa working hard to keep up competing with the other giant – Mastercard – but also, fintech firms like Plaid.Visa, einer der beiden größten...
DTCC, Chainlink Complete Fund Tokenization Pilot With JPMorgan, Templeton And Other Financial Giants Participating
17.05.2024, 21:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DTCC, Chainlink Complete Fund Tokenization Pilot With JPMorgan, Templeton And Other Financial Giants Participating By Tom Mitchelhill of CoinTelegraph The world’s largest settlement system, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and blockchain oracle Chainlink have wrapped up a pilot program with several major banking firms in the United...
Chinese FX Outflows Soar To Highest Since 2015 Devaluation, Priming Next Bitcoin Surge
17.05.2024, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese FX Outflows Soar To Highest Since 2015 Devaluation, Priming Next Bitcoin Surge Last October, when we pointed out that China's FX outflows had just hit a whopping $75BN - the single biggest monthly outflow since the 2015 currency devaluation - we concluded that the "unfavorable interest rate spread between China and the US will "likely imply...
Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning?
17.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Every year, investors anxiously await the release of Warren Buffett’s annual letter to see what the “Oracle of Omaha” says about the markets, the economy, and where he is placing his money. “One of the longest-running traditions in modern finance...
Watch: Chief Economic Adviser Refuses To Admit Biden Is Lying About Inflation
17.05.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Chief Economic Adviser Refuses To Admit Biden Is Lying About Inflation Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Joe Biden’s chief economic advisor refused to admit Thursday that the president keeps telling a huge lie by claiming that inflation was at 9 percent when he took office when it was really at 1.4 percent and shot up to 9 percent...
PBOC Unveils $42 Billion Monetary Cannon To Boost Debt-Stricken Housing Market
17.05.2024, 13:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PBOC Unveils $42 Billion Monetary Cannon To Boost Debt-Stricken Housing Market China's struggling housing market is set to receive a boost from a new nationwide program funded by the People's Bank of China to address oversupplied conditions. As a critical driver of the domestic economy, the nation's housing market has been in a multi-year slump....
Out Of Control Inflation: It Now Takes At Least $177,798 For A Family Of 4 To Live Comfortably In The US
17.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Out Of Control Inflation: It Now Takes At Least $177,798 For A Family Of 4 To Live Comfortably In The US Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, I never imagined that we would ever see a time when it takes $177,798 for a family of four to live comfortably in the United States. Unfortunately, that day has arrived. Our leaders have...
Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week
17.05.2024, 12:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week US equity futures are flat to end a torrid week which saw all indexes hit a fresh all-time high while the terminally anachronistic Dow Jones briefly topped 40,000. Pre-market, MegaCap Tech are mixed: AMZN +20bp, MSFT +20bp, META -22bp, GOOGL -18bp. WMT is down 27bps pre-mkt, after its +7.0% rally post-earnings...
10 Countries Most In Debt To The IMF
17.05.2024, 10:22 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Using data from the International Monetary Fund on Total IMF Credit Outstanding, the 10 countries most in debt to the IMF are listed here, with Argentina and Egypt topping the list. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which was founded in 1944, offers financial assistance and policy recommendations to nations to promote stability, productivity, and...
These Are The 10 Countries Most In Debt To The IMF
17.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The 10 Countries Most In Debt To The IMF Established in 1944, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) supports countries’ economic growth by providing financial aid and guidance on policies to enhance stability, productivity, and job opportunities. Countries seek loans from the IMF to address economic crises, stabilize their currencies, implement...
Container Ship Lacked Backup System To Avoid Baltimore Bridge Strike
17.05.2024, 02:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Container Ship Lacked Backup System To Avoid Baltimore Bridge Strike By John Gallagher of FreightWaves Cargo vessels are not equipped with backup power sufficient to avoid situations such as the one in March when the container ship Dali struck and collapsed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the country’s top transportation safety investigator...
IDF Tanks Open Fire On Own Gaza HQ, Killing 5 Troops In Disastrous Friendly Fire Incident
17.05.2024, 00:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IDF Tanks Open Fire On Own Gaza HQ, Killing 5 Troops In Disastrous Friendly Fire Incident The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have just suffered their biggest 'friendly fire' disaster to date during military operations in northern Gaza. In a Wednesday incident, a pair of Israeli tanks targeted a building which was serving as a forward operating HQ for their...
Goldman Finds 'Big City Flight' Intact Boosting Housing Prices In Suburbia
16.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Finds 'Big City Flight' Intact Boosting Housing Prices In Suburbia A team of Goldman analysts led by Jan Hatzius found that domestic migration trends from big cities continued through mid-2023. This trend, initially sparked by virus fears and remote working, was further fueled by rising violent crime in urban areas. People sought peace and...
Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000
16.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000 The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged above the historic 40,000 mark in late morning and early afternoon trading. Euphoria was high as bulls celebrated Dow 40,000. This week's gains across broad equity indexes were primarily driven by a cooler April CPI print and dismal retail data on Wednesday...
Florida Condo Owners Dump Units Over Six-Figure Special Assessments
16.05.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Florida Condo Owners Dump Units Over Six-Figure Special Assessments Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Have a Florida condo? Can you afford a $100,000 or higher special assessment for new safety standards? After the collapse of a Surfside Building on June 24, 2021that killed 98 people, the state passed a structural safety law that is now...
Traders Ditch Bullish Bets On Oil
16.05.2024, 16:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Traders Ditch Bullish Bets On Oil By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com A continuously fading war risk premium and signs that regional oil markets look well supplied prompted traders to slash last week their bullish bets on crude oil at the fastest pace in over a year. The net long position—the difference between bullish and bearish bets—dropped...
List Of Most Polluted Cities In The US
16.05.2024, 15:56 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to data from the American Lung Association’s State of the Air report for 2024, a list of the most polluted cities in the US is provided below, with Bakersfield, CA, and Visalia, CA, topping the list. The World Health Organization estimates that air pollution causes seven million deaths per year and might cost the […] The post List...
Industrial Production Disappoints, Manufacturing Contracts As Downward Revisions Continue
16.05.2024, 15:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Industrial Production Disappoints, Manufacturing Contracts As Downward Revisions Continue US industrial production was unchanged MoM in April (weaker than the modest 0.1% increase expected) and following a downward revision in March from +0.4% to +0.1% MoM. The downward revision and weak print left IP down 0.4% YoY... Source: Bloomberg 11 of the last...
Google’s Smartphone Loyalty Problem
16.05.2024, 14:57 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to data from the Statista Consumer Insights survey, Google faces a smartphone loyalty problem. Current owners indicated that it is very likely they would switch to a different smartphone brand given the chance. This week saw the release of Google’s newest smartphone, the Pixel 8a. It is a less expensive model of the Pixel […] The...
Jobless Claims Decline After Last Week's Big Surge Amid New York Chaos
16.05.2024, 14:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jobless Claims Decline After Last Week's Big Surge Amid New York Chaos After the prior week's big surprise jump in jobless claims, analysts expect a decline this week back into the lowest-in-forty-years range once again... and they were right as 222,000 Americans filed for jobless benefits for the first time last week (down from a revised 232k the prior...
Welcome To LaLa Land As Market Jettisons Tail Risks
16.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Welcome To LaLa Land As Market Jettisons Tail Risks By Simon White, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and analyst The economy is signaling a more volatile, potentially recessionary period. Markets, however, aren’t paying attention. Not only are the twin tail risks of a downturn or resurgent inflation being ignored, but a near-impossible “immaculate...
Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move
16.05.2024, 13:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move US index futures are flat after notching new record highs on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, spurred on by a miss in the US CPI print and retail sales data on Wednesday, which also boosted bets the Federal Reserve will ease policy. That inflation data, which the market was feverishly anticipating,...
What About The Non-Superstar Companies That Account For 85% Of US Jobs
16.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What About The Non-Superstar Companies That Account For 85% Of US Jobs By Dhaval Joshi of BCA Research The Superstar Economy The stellar performance of the S&P 500 superstars is not representative of the profits of wider corporate America. For the direction of the US jobs market, we should closely monitor the profits of the 6.4 million non-superstar...
Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed
16.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed About a month ago, HSBC Global Research noted a forecast for a "weak" bull market in commodities. New data shows that the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April rose by .3% from the previous month and by 3.4% year-over-year. Although inflation is still increasing,...
Fear and Panic Resulting from Totally Invalid Covid-19 “Confirmed Cases”, Erroneous SARS-CoV-2 Mortality Data, Falsification of Death Certificates
16.05.2024, 12:26 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name. To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button above to email/forward this article … The post Fear and Panic Resulting from Totally Invalid Covid-19 “Confirmed...
"West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable"
16.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable" Interview with Martin Armstrong by Piero Messina for SouthFront Martin Armstrong is one of the most influential economists of our times. Someone called him the “Forecaster”, because that was the title of the biopic film that helped make his...
Google's Smartphone Loyalty Problem
16.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google's Smartphone Loyalty Problem Google's latest smartphone, the Pixel 8a went on sale this week - a more affordable version of October's Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, with which the tech giant aims to wrestle more of the market out of Apple's and Samsung's hands. While the devices and their AI-driven software may well win over new customers, Statista's...
A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale Of Too Many Laws And Too Little Freedom
16.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale Of Too Many Laws And Too Little Freedom Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.” - Simone Weil, French philosopher We...
Al Gore Said The Ice-Caps Would Be Gone By 2014... Yes 2014!
16.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Al Gore Said The Ice-Caps Would Be Gone By 2014... Yes 2014! Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, The Press refuses to hold all of these failed Climate Change forecasts to task... All they do is keep moving the date for our doom, all due to CO2. In fact, the real crisis is the continued weakening of the magnetic field, which leads...
Thousands Of Children Prescribed Ivermectin Or Hydroxychloroquine For COVID: Study
16.05.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thousands Of Children Prescribed Ivermectin Or Hydroxychloroquine For COVID: Study Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Doctors prescribed ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine more than 4,400 times to children with COVID-19 during periods of time when the drugs were not recommended against the illness by authorities, according to a new study...
These Are The Most Polluted Cities In The US
16.05.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Most Polluted Cities In The US According to the World Health Organization, air pollution is responsible for 7 million deaths annually, and could cost the global economy between $18–25 trillion by 2060 in annual welfare costs, or roughly 4–6% of world GDP. And with predictions that 7 in 10 people will make their homes in urban...
Tyson Foods CEO Unsure When Nation's Collapsing Beef Herd Will Reverse
16.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tyson Foods CEO Unsure When Nation's Collapsing Beef Herd Will Reverse Tyson Foods CEO Donnie King spoke at the BMO Global Farm to Market Conference in Toronto on Wednesday, expressing much uncertainty about when US ranchers will rebuild tight cattle herds meaningfully. Reuters was the first to report King's comments at BMO's farm conference. He...
Diesel Takes Another Hit And May Be Driving Down Broader Oil Market
16.05.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Diesel Takes Another Hit And May Be Driving Down Broader Oil Market By John Kingston of FreightWaves With the benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges down for the fifth week in a row, diesel consumers should be reveling in the fact that market trends appear to have completely thrown out concerns about the Middle East conflict and are focused...
Crypto-Libertarian Erik Voorhees Warns Your Chatbot Queries Are Not Safe
15.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crypto-Libertarian Erik Voorhees Warns Your Chatbot Queries Are Not Safe Crypto-libertarian Erik Voorhees, fresh off his passionate defense of crypto in the 'Gold vs. Bitcoin' debate recently hosted by ZeroHedge, spoke with crypto news site Unchained's Laura Shin and Venice's COO Teana Baker-Taylor about the alarming honeypots of user search...
Soft CPI & Sloppy Sales Spark Run To Record Highs For Stocks; Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Bid
15.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soft CPI & Sloppy Sales Spark Run To Record Highs For Stocks; Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Bid Nothing good - all bad... and new record highs for stocks. SuperCore CPI hotter than expected (but headline and core CPI in-line/small miss), Retail sales way uglier than expected (but gas station spending surged), homebuilder sentiment slumped, and Empire...
Raw Milk Enthusiasts Are Demanding Milk Infected With Bird Flu
15.05.2024, 21:46 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - The founder of the Raw Milk Institute and Fresno’s Raw Farm, Mark McAfee, claimed that raw milk enthusiasts are demanding milk infected with bird flu. Citing data indicating a “high viral load” of avian influenza in samples taken from diseased cows and a startling cluster of dead barn cats who had drank tainted raw milk, […]...
April Cass Data Shows No Improvement In Freight Demand
15.05.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - April Cass Data Shows No Improvement In Freight Demand By Todd Maiden of FreightWaves Another month passed without signs a recovery in the freight cycle was on the horizon. “Still waiting for it,” Cass’ April update on volumes and pricing stated. The shipments component of the Cass Freight Index fell again in the month, down 1.6% seasonally adjusted...
Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment"
15.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment" In a Goldman Materials note this morning covering China and copper, analyst James McGeoch pointed out that the base metal is "having a Cocoa moment." Comex copper futures for July delivery jumped nearly 5% to $5.12 a pound, exceeding an earlier record for the most active contract set in March...
The Grain That Feeds The World Is At Risk Of An Upside Breakout
15.05.2024, 19:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Grain That Feeds The World Is At Risk Of An Upside Breakout Rice is a staple food for over 3.5 billion people worldwide, especially in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. It's grown in over 100 countries, with 90% of the world's rice produced in Asia. We have been tracking the prices of Thai white rice, which surged to 15-year highs in 2023 and...
CPI Does Not Signal Re-Emergence Of Disinflationary Trend
15.05.2024, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CPI Does Not Signal Re-Emergence Of Disinflationary Trend Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Today’s CPI data shows the gap between CPI and PPI continues to rise, a proxy for profit margins. After a rise and fall through the pandemic, they are persistently rising again. Profits are positioned to be one of the main vectors of persistent...
Putin To Visit China To Discuss Energy Ties
15.05.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin To Visit China To Discuss Energy Ties By Julianna Geiger of OilPrice.com Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit China on May 16-17 for discussions with President Xi Jinping, in part to discuss expanding energy and trade partnerships. The state visit, initiated by Xi, will cover topics such as China's Belt and Road Initiative as well...
WTI Rebounds Off Lows After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws
15.05.2024, 16:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rebounds Off Lows After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws Oil prices are tumbling this morning despite lower CPI (juicing rate cut hopes), weak retail sales (but strong gas station spending), and a big draw reported overnight by API. It seems the main downside driver was IEA lowering its 2024 demand forecast. World oil demand is forecast to grow...
"Trifecta Of Dovish News... Consistent With Fed Cutting In September": Wall Street Reacts To Weaker CPI Print
15.05.2024, 15:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Trifecta Of Dovish News... Consistent With Fed Cutting In September": Wall Street Reacts To Weaker CPI Print With the CPI report came in on top of expectations on 3 of the 4 closely watched metrics, with just headline CPI coming in at 0.3%, just shy of the 0.4% expected (with the retail sales print coming in far uglier and missing across the board)...
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, & Crypto Soar As Rate-Cut Hopes Rise On Small CPI Miss
15.05.2024, 15:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks, Bonds, Gold, & Crypto Soar As Rate-Cut Hopes Rise On Small CPI Miss A 0.1% MoM miss in Headline CPI and continued slowing in Core CPI was all the algos needed to 'buy all the things'. The initial reaction to this morning's data was a surge in rate-cut expectations - two cuts fully priced back in for 2024 and more than three more cuts priced...