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'So Much For Democracy'? Blinken Justifies Ukraine Canceling Elections
16.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'So Much For Democracy'? Blinken Justifies Ukraine Canceling Elections Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Tuesday and delivered a speech where he justified President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to postpone elections. Presidential elections were due to be held in March...
Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid
13.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid The return of 'Roaring Kitty' sent GME soaring higher (up 110% at its highs)... Source: Bloomberg ...and prompted squeezes/panic-covering across the 'most shorted' names and 'retail favorites (memes)' soared... Source: Bloomberg As John Flood noted from Goldman's trading desk:...
Kansas Democrat Governor Vetoes Bill Restricting Foreign Ownership Of Land Near Military Bases
13.05.2024, 01:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kansas Democrat Governor Vetoes Bill Restricting Foreign Ownership Of Land Near Military Bases Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill on Friday that aimed to prevent companies of China and other “foreign adversaries” from acquiring real property near military installations in the state...
Citadel Ken Griffin Rises Up Against Left's "Cultural Revolution," Says Time To Embrace "Western Values"
12.05.2024, 21:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Citadel Ken Griffin Rises Up Against Left's "Cultural Revolution," Says Time To Embrace "Western Values" The woke takeover of America's higher education system, transforming classrooms into woke indoctrination camps, has been on full display over the last several years. More recently, the pro-Palestinian protests on campuses have been a shocking eye-opener...
Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report
09.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report Conservative think tank Center for Renewing America floated the idea a year and a half ago that "It's time to wage war on transnational drug cartels." This comes as the drug death catastrophe in the US eclipses the entire Vietnam War every six months. The vast...
Revenge Travel Peaked? Airbnb Pukes On Travel Spending Slowdown Forecast
09.05.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Revenge Travel Peaked? Airbnb Pukes On Travel Spending Slowdown Forecast Shares of Airbnb stumbled in premarket trading in New York on Thursday after the home rental company beat earnings expectations for the first quarter but provided weaker-than-expected guidance. This comes after Bank of America analysts identified other travel companies missing...
Lawmakers Urge U.S. Action To Halt China's Organ Trade
09.05.2024, 04:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lawmakers Urge U.S. Action To Halt China's Organ Trade Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, A group of leading China critics in Congress is urging the State Department to step up its efforts to curb Beijing’s gruesome $1 billion forced organ harvesting trade, which targets ethnic and religious minorities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans,...
AstraZeneca Pulls Covid Vaccine After Admitting Rare Side Effect
08.05.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AstraZeneca Pulls Covid Vaccine After Admitting Rare Side Effect In yet another damning development for the 'safe and effective' crowd, AstraZeneca has announced the worldwide withdrawal of its Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, branded as Vaxzevria, due to a rare but serious side effect. This decision marks the end of the vaccine once hailed as a "triumph...
More People Watch Video Of Fireplace Than Don Lemon's Live-Stream
07.05.2024, 17:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More People Watch Video Of Fireplace Than Don Lemon's Live-Stream Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Former CNN host Don Lemon’s new show isn’t going too well since his fall out with Elon Musk, with X users noting that more people watched a video of a fireplace than his live stream. Lemon signed an agreement to have his show featured...
Disney Shares Plunge Most In Year On Subscriber Miss, Disappointing Guidance
07.05.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Disney Shares Plunge Most In Year On Subscriber Miss, Disappointing Guidance Disney reported fiscal second-quarter profits that exceeded estimates of the average analysts tracked by Bloomberg and raised its full-year earnings guidance. However, shares tumbled in early trading in New York as investors focused more on the Disney+ streaming service, missing...
Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather
07.05.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather US stock futures are flat after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both closed 1% higher on Monday, helped by growing optimism among investors that the economy is finally slowing greenlighting earlier rate cuts by the Fed. As of 8:00am ET S&P futures were unchanged at 5,206, trading about 1% above its 50DMA,...
House Panel Calls To Defund Federal Agencies That Stonewall Congressional Probes
06.05.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Panel Calls To Defund Federal Agencies That Stonewall Congressional Probes Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are calling for budget cuts to federal agencies that refuse to cooperate with lawmakers’ investigations, warning that failure to discipline agencies that deny oversight-related...
Six Reasons Why Tulsi Gabbard Is Donald Trump's Best Choice As A Running Mate
06.05.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Six Reasons Why Tulsi Gabbard Is Donald Trump's Best Choice As A Running Mate Authored by Richard Truesdell via American Greatness, Despite the unprecedented and coordinated lawfare deployed against him, Donald Trump has emerged as the Republican presidential front-runner. Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat who is both a centrist and moderate (by today’s...
Civilians Ordered Out Of Rafah As IDF Ground Attack To Proceed
06.05.2024, 14:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Civilians Ordered Out Of Rafah As IDF Ground Attack To Proceed The last several hours have seen a significant escalation of the situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, sending Western diplomats scrambling and resulting in new threats and counterthreats between Hamas and Israeli leaders. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have urged many thousands...
Elon Musk Warns Over Biden's Massive Deficit Spending
06.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk Warns Over Biden's Massive Deficit Spending Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sounded the alarm on the Biden administration’s massive deficit spending, warning that unless steps are taken to slow down the growth of America’s national debt, the U.S. dollar will become worthless. President...
The Ideological Roots Of The Open Borders Push
06.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Ideological Roots Of The Open Borders Push Authored by Simon Hankinson via The Epoch Times, Why does the Biden administration want open borders? As a researcher and writer on immigration, that’s the question I often get asked. Here are the three reasons I think are behind President Joe Biden’s deliberate border chaos: electoral politics, extortion...
US Demands Qatar Expel Hamas If Group Rejects Israeli Truce Deal
04.05.2024, 23:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Demands Qatar Expel Hamas If Group Rejects Israeli Truce Deal Via The Cradle US officials have told Qatar to expel Hamas’ political leadership if the Palestinian militant group rejects the latest proposal for a ceasefire with Israel, The Washington Post reports Saturday. A US official speaking on the condition of anonymity with The Post said...
Sony And Apollo Make $26 Billion All Cash Offer For Paramount
03.05.2024, 13:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sony And Apollo Make $26 Billion All Cash Offer For Paramount It looks as thought the every-day Paramount buyout saga could finally be coming to a close, with a all-cash, $26 billion offer made by Sony and Apollo, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apollo and Sony, led by Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra and Apollo partner Aaron Sobel, presented...
White South Africans Face Crime And Torture But Still Believe US And Europe Face Darker Future: Ernst Roets
03.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White South Africans Face Crime And Torture But Still Believe US And Europe Face Darker Future: Ernst Roets By John Cody of Remix.news In an exclusive interview with Remix News, Ernst Roets, the head of policy for the Solidarity Movement in South Africa, spoke with Remix News about the future of White Boers in South Africa, how they're building their...
Hurt / The Downward Spiral
02.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hurt / The Downward Spiral By Michael Every of Rabobank Hurt / The Downward Spiral “I hurt myself today; To see if I still feel; I focus on the pain; The only thing that's real” Post-Fed, equities closed slightly lower yesterday (S&P -0.3%), 2-year Treasury bond yields dropped 10bps before rising slightly from that floor, and 10-years were down...
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...
Burberry Crashes Most Since 2012 As Luxury Downturn Accelerates
12.01.2024, 16:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Burberry Crashes Most Since 2012 As Luxury Downturn Accelerates Shares in Burberry Group Plc crashed as much as 15% in UK trading, hitting lows not seen since the early days of the Covid pandemic as the trenchcoat maker slashed its profit forecast. This is more evidence that the global luxury downturn will accelerate in the first half of 2024. Burberry...
Manhattan Apartment Hunters Get No Relief Ahead Of Spring Season
12.01.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Manhattan Apartment Hunters Get No Relief Ahead Of Spring Season Manhattan's rental market showed no signs of easing, with prices climbing higher in December. This indicates that apartment hunters will face near-record-high rents into the spring season. The median rent on new leases signed last month was $4,050, unchanged from a year before and up 1...
Hot-flation Hammers Hope: Crypto Rips As Yield-Curve Bull-Steepens
11.01.2024, 22:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hot-flation Hammers Hope: Crypto Rips As Yield-Curve Bull-Steepens Bitcoin (spot) ETFs dominated the overnight headlines as they started trading after the begrudging SEC approval last night. That sparked a large wave of buying in both the ETFs (when cash markets opened) and the underlying with both ETH and BTC soaring to cycle highs (before some profit-taking...