Neueste Heute 01.05.2024 30.04.2024
Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy
01.05.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy Authored by Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group, President Biden’s decision to participate in the Ukraine-Russia conflict back in February 2022 has taken a new and dangerous turn this year. The U.S. dollar could suffer dramatically as a result. Before we explore that new development...
Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser?
01.05.2024, 19:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser? The Fed meeting later today has had the market feeling (and positioned for) “HAWKISHNESS,” especially after the ECI pile-on yesterday, which didn’t simply “upside surprise,” but re-accelerated to 1.2% after ending 2023 at 0.9%, and showing that persistent wage pressures further...
Israel Won't End War On Hamas As Part Of Hostage Deal, Bibi Tells Blinken
01.05.2024, 18:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Won't End War On Hamas As Part Of Hostage Deal, Bibi Tells Blinken It seems like once again that the Biden White House has almost zero sway, and that Israel is going to do whatever it is going to do, despite continued Washington pressure to halt and avoid the planned Rafah ground assault, with over a million refugees in harm's way. A deal is...
It's The End Of The Foreign Exchange Reserves As We Know It... Don't Feel Fine About It
01.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's The End Of The Foreign Exchange Reserves As We Know It... Don't Feel Fine About It Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, “Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, Boom!” — R.E.M. The world we’ve known is over. The US Congress finally pushed the big red button. When the West froze around $300 billion of Russia’s foreign...
Yen & Yellen Yank Stocks, Bonds, & The Dollar On Otherwise Quiet Day
29.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen & Yellen Yank Stocks, Bonds, & The Dollar On Otherwise Quiet Day A quiet micro and macro day was dominated by Treasury's QRA news (which spoiled all the fun by coming in less than some hyperbolic expectations), and Japanese intervention the FX markets. Before the QRA headlines, Goldman's trading desk noted that overall activity levels were down...
Biden Looks To Prevent Future President From Ending Ukraine War With 10-Year Agreement
29.04.2024, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Looks To Prevent Future President From Ending Ukraine War With 10-Year Agreement Soon on the heels of President Biden last week signing into law a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine's defense, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday indicated that he's working with Washington on a bilateral security agreement which would last ten years. "We...
Is 10% The New 1%
29.04.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is 10% The New 1% By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities I’ve been thinking a lot about one of the first lessons I was taught as a junior trader. We were warned that when something happens, say a piece of economic data comes out, and the market doesn’t respond as you expected, to cut positions and be very careful. It is a sign that “something”...
"Wasted Protest Vote": Trump Says He'd Take Biden Over RFK Jr.
28.04.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Wasted Protest Vote": Trump Says He'd Take Biden Over RFK Jr. Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid for presidency in the 2024 elections, pointing out his progressive stances on climate, guns, border, and energy. “RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left...
Anglo American Rejects BHP's Takeover Deal, Calls It "Highly Unattractive"
26.04.2024, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Anglo American Rejects BHP's Takeover Deal, Calls It "Highly Unattractive" The world's largest global diversified miner, BHP, is being forced to significantly raise its buyout offer of Anglo American or walk away from the proposed all-share deal valued at £31.1 billion ($38.9 billion). "The BHP proposal is opportunistic and fails to value Anglo...
Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal
25.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times, When your cell phone gets hot, that means its processors are computing faster or you have a lot of apps open. The same is true for “server farms,” which Gigabyte.com explains are “a large number—up to thousands—of servers grouped...
"Situation Is Unraveling": Pro-Palestinian Protests Erupt Across America's Woke Colleges
24.04.2024, 21:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Situation Is Unraveling": Pro-Palestinian Protests Erupt Across America's Woke Colleges Colleges and universities across the country are struggling this week to keep pro-Palestinian protesters off school grounds. Students, and or perhaps a mix of professional protesters funded by radical leftist groups and dirty Gulf money, are storming campuses and...
Wind Overtakes Fossil Fuels As The UK's Largest Power Generation Source
24.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wind Overtakes Fossil Fuels As The UK's Largest Power Generation Source Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The UK saw two consecutive quarters of wind power overtaking fossil fuels as the single-largest source of electricity generation for the first time, per data from think tank Ember quoted by Reuters columnist Gavin Maguire. In the first...
What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good)
24.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good) Authored by Antonius Aquinas, The recent run-up in the gold price has not garnered the attention among the mainstream financial media outlets as it should. Gold has, in part, been overshadowed by the rise in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Naturally, the financial...
Blackrock Bitcoin ETF Enters Top 10 All-Time For Longest Sequential Inflows
23.04.2024, 19:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blackrock Bitcoin ETF Enters Top 10 All-Time For Longest Sequential Inflows Authored by Vivek Sen via BitcoinMagazine.com, BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, is now one of the top 10 ETFs of all-time, at least when it comes to maintaining its streak of daily investment inflows. As of Tuesday, April 23, IBIT has seen 70 days of inflows, meaning that the...
Just A Correction, Or Is The Bull Market Over?
23.04.2024, 19:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Just A Correction, Or Is The Bull Market Over? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Is this just a correction after a strong bullish advance from November, or is the bull market ending? If you read some of the headlines, you would suspect the latter. As noted by MarketWatch last week: “For the first time since early November 2023...
World's Biggest M&A Deal Is Terrible For Bonds
23.04.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Biggest M&A Deal Is Terrible For Bonds Four years ago, we wrote an article, mocking the unspeakable reality that it appeared "The Fed and The Treasury had now merged"... Last week, that reality dawned on one of Wall Street's best and brightest as BofA Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett headlined his latest note with a 'zeitgeist' quote...
Homebuyer Payment Hits Record High As Mortgage Rates Climb Back Above 7% For The First Time In 2024
23.04.2024, 12:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Homebuyer Payment Hits Record High As Mortgage Rates Climb Back Above 7% For The First Time In 2024 Mortgage rates in the United States climbed to the highest level since November 2023 last week, as higher-than-expected inflation readings have dashed hopes of the Fed starting to cut rates soon. As Statista's Felix Richter reports, according to Freddie...
Supreme Court Denies Bid To Expand No-Excuse Mail-In Ballots In Texas
23.04.2024, 05:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supreme Court Denies Bid To Expand No-Excuse Mail-In Ballots In Texas Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a legal challenge to a Texas law that requires voters under the age of 65 to provide justification to vote by mail, meaning that the Democrat-aligned attempt to sharply expand “no-excuse”...
U.S. Weighs Ending Aid to Israeli Military Unit for Alleged Human Rights Abuses
23.04.2024, 01:01 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The potential move has sparked alarm among top Israeli officials....
Planned Parenthood Abortions Among 'Top Four Leading Causes Of Death' In America
23.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Planned Parenthood Abortions Among 'Top Four Leading Causes Of Death' In America Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Abortions conducted by Planned Parenthood are a leading cause of death in the United States, with the organization recommending the procedure to pregnant clients 97 percent of the time, according to Susan...
Hedge Fund CIO: "That's Why I See Us Headed Into A 1970s-style Inflation"
22.04.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedge Fund CIO: "That's Why I See Us Headed Into A 1970s-style Inflation" By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “I tried to jump into the Potomac when I was young and my mother nearly killed me,” said the CIO. “Now you could drink from our rivers if you had to, which is great, but the cleanup has meant everything is more expensive...
Futures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period
22.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period US equity futures rose, putting the S&P on pace for its first gain after 6 straight days of losses, as focus shifted from Middle East tensions to a raft of company earnings this week, including four of the Mag7 tech megacaps which got hammered last week. At 7:40am, S&P emini futures...
Biden To Withdraw Troops From Niger As Region Increasingly Turns To Russia
21.04.2024, 13:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden To Withdraw Troops From Niger As Region Increasingly Turns To Russia In what is simultaneously a humiliating setback for the Deep State and a welcome victory for noninterventionist American taxpayers, the White House on Friday announced that US military forces will be withdrawn from Niger over the coming months. The move comes after Niger's mid-March...
From Fringe To Mainstream: The Rise Of The BJP In India
21.04.2024, 04:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Fringe To Mainstream: The Rise Of The BJP In India Voters in India are getting set to head to the polls in what has been dubbed the world’s biggest election. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to vote and to determine whether 73-year-old Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will rule the nation for a third consecutive...
Calif. Dems Tout Ties To Criminal Leniency Group
21.04.2024, 03:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Calif. Dems Tout Ties To Criminal Leniency Group Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, The mayors of California's three biggest cities have rankled some progressive activists in recent months by joining a wave of fellow Democrats renouncing once popular initiatives to defund the police, reduce sentencing, and undertake other criminal justice...
US Domestic Bank Deposits Drop For Second Straight Week
19.04.2024, 22:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Domestic Bank Deposits Drop For Second Straight Week On the heels of a major deposit outflow the week before, and a huge (record) money-market fund outflow last week, all eyes are back on the banks again on Friday evening to see if this 'flight' continues as Tax-Day drags cash away from its comfy-5%-earnings-spots. On a seasonally-adjusted basis...
The Great Freight Recession Has Now Lasted Longer Than The COVID Bull Market
18.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Freight Recession Has Now Lasted Longer Than The COVID Bull Market By Greg Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves On March 31, 2022, FreightWaves declared that a freight recession was imminent. More than two years later, the freight market remains in one of its deepest and longest recessions in history. The trucking industry is asking, “How much longer...
Los Angeles Mayor Urges 'More Fortunate' Residents To Help Fund Housing For Homeless
18.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Los Angeles Mayor Urges 'More Fortunate' Residents To Help Fund Housing For Homeless Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has suggested that “more fortunate” residents help fund housing for the homeless as part of a new campaign to tackle the city’s ongoing homelessness crisis. Los Angeles...
US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR
17.04.2024, 18:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR For much of the past year, we had joked that behind the facade of western Democratic ideals, was a cold hard truth: the price of oil must not be allowed to go up in an election year. This was obvious in Biden's "kid gloves" treatment of Iran's regime, it was obvious...
Dollar & Yields Soar As Fed-Fears Trump WW3-Worries
16.04.2024, 22:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dollar & Yields Soar As Fed-Fears Trump WW3-Worries Mixed data overnight out of China (GDP beat, Retail sales & Industrial production miss) was matched by an equally divergent day of macro in the US with ugly housing data but strong industrial production, but once again the markets were ping-ponged by Fed fears (rate-cuts-off - Fed Vice-Chair Jefferson...
Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive
16.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Rather than attempt to evade Caesar's reach, a better strategy might be to 'go gray': blend in, appear average. Let's start by stipulating that I don't "like" this forecast. I'm not "talking my book" (for example, promoting nuclear power because...
California Auditor Finds Homeless Council Can't Account For Money Spent
16.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California Auditor Finds Homeless Council Can't Account For Money Spent Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times, Responsible businesses do regular audits of their finances to see which areas are making money and which not. Families also do audits, if only at tax time to see how much they owe. Contrast that with government. California State Auditor...
After Illegal Veto, Kentucky Becomes 45th State To End Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver
15.04.2024, 16:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Illegal Veto, Kentucky Becomes 45th State To End Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver Via Money Metals, In a high-stakes showdown with Gov. Andy Beshear over a gold and silver sales tax exemption, the Kentucky legislature today deemed his attempted line-item veto as an illegal act -- and directed the Secretary of State to enroll the exemption into law...
Zelensky Is Lying About An Upcoming Counteroffensive Out Of Desperation To Receive More Aid
13.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Is Lying About An Upcoming Counteroffensive Out Of Desperation To Receive More Aid Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Zelensky told German media in an interview earlier this week that Ukraine is planning another counteroffensive against Russia, which is why it requires production licenses from its partners in order to build up its domestic...
Where Does One US Tax Dollar Go?
13.04.2024, 13:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Does One US Tax Dollar Go? Come tax season, a common refrain is: “what do my taxes even pay for?” To answer that question, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu visualized U.S. federal government spending by function, referencing expenditure to a single federal tax dollar. Data is for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023 from the U.S. Bureau...
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...
Ukraine's Drone Strikes Against Russian Oil Refineries Complicate Biden's Re-Election Bid
12.04.2024, 05:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine's Drone Strikes Against Russian Oil Refineries Complicate Biden's Re-Election Bid Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, CNN published a detailed piece on Tuesday about how “Ukraine’s AI-enabled drones are trying to disrupt Russia’s energy industry. So far, it’s working”. Although an unnamed source close to the program told them...
Nearly 20% Of Recent San Francisco Home Sales Were Underwater
12.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nearly 20% Of Recent San Francisco Home Sales Were Underwater Nearly 20% of homes sold in San Francisco during the three months ending Feb. 29 sold at a loss. What's more, the typical SF homeowner took $155,500 less than they bought it for, which is 400% more in dollar terms than the nationwide median loss of $39,912 over the same period, Redfin reports...
More Cold War Era Treaties Collapse As Turkey Suspends EU Arms Limitation Deal
07.04.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More Cold War Era Treaties Collapse As Turkey Suspends EU Arms Limitation Deal Via The Cradle Turkey has followed suit with its NATO allies and Russia in suspending an arms treaty that imposed limitations on conventional military equipment in Europe. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a decree on April 4 to suspend Ankara's duties under...
New York Judge 'Mistakenly' Describes Trump Jan. 6 Case As "Federal Insurrection Matter"
04.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New York Judge 'Mistakenly' Describes Trump Jan. 6 Case As "Federal Insurrection Matter" Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, On April 3, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan denied a defense motion to adjourn the upcoming trial scheduled for April 15, and in his order, referred to former President Donald Trump’s case before the...
“Dangers of the Moment” Have Arrived. The Never Ending War in Ukraine is on the Docket.
04.04.2024, 09:11 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 (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post “Dangers of the Moment” Have Arrived. The Never Ending War...
Wobble... Then Soar?
21.01.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wobble... Then Soar? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Wobble, Then Soar? Last weekend we went with “Weebles Wobble” and the week started with more “wobbling” for stocks. Stocks seemed poised to break much lower on Wednesday but managed to claw back much of the early losses, and then took off on Thursday and Friday (the Nasdaq 100 gained...
Zelensky Lashes Out At Trump Over 'Very Dangerous' Plan To End War
21.01.2024, 21:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Lashes Out At Trump Over 'Very Dangerous' Plan To End War Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lashed out at former President Trump over his Ukraine stance and recent rhetoric, particularly the GOP presidential front-runner's claim that he can negotiate peace between Kiev and Moscow within 24 hours. Trump's persistent statements saying...
National Security Experts Raise Alarm Over Biden’s EV Push
20.01.2024, 22:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - National Security Experts Raise Alarm Over Biden’s EV Push Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A coalition of 17 retired military officials led by retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. James Marks have warned that President Joe Biden’s push for mass electric vehicle (EV) adoption is a threat to national security. An electric vehicle...
Israeli Airstrike Kills Several High-Ranking IRGC Officers In Damascus
20.01.2024, 19:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Airstrike Kills Several High-Ranking IRGC Officers In Damascus Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, Four members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) serving in an advisory capacity were killed Saturday in the Syrian capital of Damascus when Israeli warplanes struck a residential building they were staying in. Iran confirmed the deaths...
Futures Rebound Amid Whispers Of Relief Rally As China Plunge Protection Team Steps In
18.01.2024, 14:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound Amid Whispers Of Relief Rally As China Plunge Protection Team Steps In Global stocks and US futures rebounded from three days of losses, and climbed on Thursday as JPM suggests a relief rally may be starting as traders turn their attention to corporate news after conceding that rate cuts may be delayed beyond the first quarter. As of...
Retail Sales Surged In 2023 Led By Autos & Food Services, Gas Station Sales Slumped
17.01.2024, 14:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Sales Surged In 2023 Led By Autos & Food Services, Gas Station Sales Slumped If BofA is right - and they usually have been - this morning's Retail Sales print will be a huge beat and provide more questions for those thinking about rate-cuts and soft landings... After an unexpectedly large rise in November, December saw a 0.6% MoM rise (hotter...
Stocks, Bonds, Oil, & Gold All Down As Waller Wrecks Rate-Cut Party
16.01.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks, Bonds, Oil, & Gold All Down As Waller Wrecks Rate-Cut Party Comments by Governor Waller in a speech and discussion today raised the risk that the first cut could come slightly later than the market's expectation of March and that the pace of cuts could be quarterly from the outset, rather than the market's more aggressive forecast of three initial...
Why The Market Is Gunning For An Early Fed Rate-Cut
16.01.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why The Market Is Gunning For An Early Fed Rate-Cut Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The high degree of certainty the Federal Reserve will deliver an early rate cut - which is a fait accompli historically when pricing is as skewed as it is today - is a sign the market perceives financial-instability risks are rising, and that a...