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EU Actively Monitoring 'Fake News' On Slovak Prime Minister Assassination Attempt
17.05.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Actively Monitoring 'Fake News' On Slovak Prime Minister Assassination Attempt Before Slovakia national authorities could even come out with a confirmed motive for Wednesday's assassination attempt against its prime minister Robert Fico, the following disturbing quote from EU leadership was reported via Bloomberg: The European Commission said...
France Blames Deadly New Caledonia Uprising On TikTok, Russia, & Azerbaijan
17.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France Blames Deadly New Caledonia Uprising On TikTok, Russia, & Azerbaijan More shocking images have come out of the ongoing unrest and riots which have gripped the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, as additional French troops, including reports of elite security forces, are en route to help authorities restore order. Determined to suppress...
Whistling Past The National Train Wreck
17.05.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistling Past The National Train Wreck Authored by Donald Jeffries via I Protest, There are only so many ways one can say that America is collapsing. That the Fat Lady is nearing the end of her song. That we’re running on fumes. If Yogi Berra were around, he’d say it’s over. We had a good run, as far as civilizations go. We were the light of...
Russia Orders UK Defense Attaché Out Of The Country In Tit-For-Tat
17.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Orders UK Defense Attaché Out Of The Country In Tit-For-Tat Russia has hit back at the UK's latest diplomatic moves against Moscow, on Thursday ordering the expulsion of the British defense attache from the country. "The defense attaché at the British Embassy in Moscow, A. T. Coghill, has been declared persona non grata. He must leave the territory...
Electric Vehicle Subsidies As Complex And Costly As Ever
17.05.2024, 01:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Electric Vehicle Subsidies As Complex And Costly As Ever Authored by David Williams via RealClearEnergy, Electric vehicles (EVs) may be the most subsidized product in America. Federal taxpayers shell out $7,500 every time a new eligible electric vehicle is purchased (usually by wealthy buyers). State and local taxpayers chip in an additional $1...
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...
"We've Had A Hell Of A Run": Stanley Druckenmiller Sells 441,000 Shares Of Nvidia
16.05.2024, 21:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We've Had A Hell Of A Run": Stanley Druckenmiller Sells 441,000 Shares Of Nvidia Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, head of the Duquesne Family Office, sees the artificial intelligence bubble as overextended. He has slashed some of his holdings in "Magnificent Seven" technology stocks, including Nvidia. He's not alone. Other notable fund...
Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal
16.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal For much of the past decade, gold bugs religiously tracked the physical gold inventory located in the various gold vaults that make up the Comex system, eagerly awaiting the day when there would be more deliverables (via paper shorting of gold) than...
$27,000 Gold
16.05.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - $27,000 Gold Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, I’ve previously said that gold could reach $15,000 by 2026. Today, I’m updating that forecast. My latest forecast is that gold may actually exceed $27,000. I don’t say that to get attention or to shock people. It’s not a guess; it’s the result of rigorous analysis. Of course,...
Peru Classifies Transgender Individuals As 'Mentally Ill'
16.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peru Classifies Transgender Individuals As 'Mentally Ill' The Peruvian government has officially categorized transgender and intersex people as "mentally ill," which the health ministry says is the only way that Peru's public health services could guarantee "guarantee full coverage of medical attention for mental health," The Telegraph reports. Conditions...
America Is No Longer A Hyperpower, And Others Keep On Rocketing The Free World
16.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America Is No Longer A Hyperpower, And Others Keep On Rocketing The Free World By Michael Every of Rabobank Stocks up, Stonks up, bonds up, gold up, crypto up, and copper up to a new record high. Almost everything rocketed after US CPI came a slither lower than expected --and 30 minutes earlier than scheduled on the BLS website, which markets looking...
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...
Walmart Soars To Record High After Beating Estimates, Guiding Higher As Consumers "Trade Down"
16.05.2024, 15:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Walmart Soars To Record High After Beating Estimates, Guiding Higher As Consumers "Trade Down" WMT stock surged in premarket trading after the company not only reported Q1 earnings that blew away expectations, but guided even higher than consensus, and now expects the full year to be slightly better than planned as the big-box retailer attracts price-conscious...
There Isn't Much That Can Stop This Market For Now
16.05.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Isn't Much That Can Stop This Market For Now By Michael Miska, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist With US inflation and retail sales both cooling, bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates are back, and there isn’t much left that could stop stocks from hitting new highs. After most equity markets fully erased April losses...
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,...
Israel Will 'Set Sights' On Turkey If Hamas Defeated, Erdogan Claims
16.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Will 'Set Sights' On Turkey If Hamas Defeated, Erdogan Claims Via The Cradle Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on 15 May that Israel would "target" Turkey if victorious against the Hamas and other Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. "Israel will not stop in Gaza, and if not stopped, this rogue state will eventually target Anatolia...
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...
Toxic Atmosphere At FDIC Spurs Calls For Chair's Resignation
16.05.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Toxic Atmosphere At FDIC Spurs Calls For Chair's Resignation Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, The White House did not offer their full faith and credit to the FDIC chairman when asked by RealClearPolitics about a bombshell 234-page investigation that detailed a toxic environment within the agency. Other than noting that Martin Gruenberg...
Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency
15.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency. We can summarize the changes in our economy over the past two generations with one word: precarity, as life for the bottom 90%...
China Builds World’s First Dedicated Drone Carrier
15.05.2024, 22:25 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to J. Michael Dahm, Senior Resident Fellow at the Mitchell Institute and Naval News, China has built the world’s first dedicated drone carrier. A new aircraft carrier is tucked away far upriver from the big yards at Shanghai, in a shipyard on the Yangtze. It’s the fourth ship built in China, and no one […] The post China...
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...
Netanyahu Says Rafah Op To Take 'Weeks, Not Months' As EU Warns Of Damaged Ties
15.05.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Says Rafah Op To Take 'Weeks, Not Months' As EU Warns Of Damaged Ties On Wednesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the controversial Rafah offensive, which has been criticized by a number of Western allies including Washington, is expected to "last weeks" and not not months or years. The Israeli leader appears to be...
"Make My Day, Pal": Biden Wants June, September Debates; Trump Accepts: "I'm Ready To Go"
15.05.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Make My Day, Pal": Biden Wants June, September Debates; Trump Accepts: "I'm Ready To Go" President Biden on Wedensday says he won't participate in the decades-old tradition of three fall debates by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, and has proposed two televised debates in June and September - with no audience, RFK Jr. can't participate...
"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)...
Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations?
15.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, There are two classic propaganda narratives used by governments when it comes to keeping the public invested in any war campaign that does nothing to advance their national interests: First, there’s the “commitment”...
Mass Starvation: Here's Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared
15.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mass Starvation: Here's Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, The concept of mass starvation has not been in the forefront of American society for a very long time. Even during the Great Depression the US was majority agrarian and most people knew how to live off the land. In fact, the US has never...
Samsung Tops Apple In Q1 Global Smartphone Shipments
15.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Samsung Tops Apple In Q1 Global Smartphone Shipments While not quite a duopoly, Apple and Samsung have long been known to produce the most popular smartphones from a global perspective. Over the past years, however, Chinese tech companies have started catching up and, at times, even overtaking Apple's iPhone product lines. In the following chart...
Over $13 Million Paid Out In Vaccine Injury Claims In Australia
15.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Over $13 Million Paid Out In Vaccine Injury Claims In Australia Authored by Monica O'Shea via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Australian government has paid out $20.5 million (US$13.2 million) in COVID-19 vaccine injury claims to people who experienced harm from the jab. (Karn Buppunhasamai/Shutterstock) Services Australia data provided to The...
Elections And Devaluations
15.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elections And Devaluations Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com, Yves here. It’s revealing that Serious Economist Jeffrey Frankel limits himself to third-world examples in his case studies below on post-election devaluations. Perhaps it would be unseemly to look at, say, the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, or even Australia (admittedly the latter...
FDA Preparing For Possible Bird Flu Spread Among Humans: Commissioner
15.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FDA Preparing For Possible Bird Flu Spread Among Humans: Commissioner Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing for a scenario in which the highly pathogenic avian influenza starts spreading among humans, the agency’s commissioner said on May 8. “This virus, like all viruses, is mutating...
"We Need To Deal With The Debt" - Goldman CEO Warns Interest Costs On America's Ballooning Borrowings Means "Issues Down The Road"
15.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Need To Deal With The Debt" - Goldman CEO Warns Interest Costs On America's Ballooning Borrowings Means "Issues Down The Road" Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Goldman Sachs CEO David M. Solomon is the latest business leader to sound the alarm on the Biden administration’s deficit spending, which comes as the cost of...
Record Household Debt, Jump In Delinquencies Signal "Worsening Financial Distress", Fed Warns
15.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Record Household Debt, Jump In Delinquencies Signal "Worsening Financial Distress", Fed Warns While the market remains focused on tomorrow's CPI print, and to a lesser extent the April retail sales reports due at the same time, which will both be released at 8:30am on May 15. we should to flag another important report that doesn’t typically get a...
Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons
14.05.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons A top British intelligence official has issued a new alarmist warning concerning the 'Russian threat' to the West. Anne Keast-Butler, who for the last year has headed up the UK's GCHQ, or signals intelligence operations (which is the equivalent of America's...
Will Tariffs Outweigh CPI?
14.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will Tariffs Outweigh CPI? Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Markets shrugged off high headlines on PPI, for a variety of valid reasons. Now we can move on to CPI (where I see the “whisper number” as a lower than expectations print). I’m more focused on tariffs. My recollection of tariffs was that far more economists reacted negatively...
VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden?
14.05.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Joe Biden’s personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what...
Tesla Re-Hires Some Of The 500 Workers It Laid Off Its Supercharging Team
14.05.2024, 21:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Re-Hires Some Of The 500 Workers It Laid Off Its Supercharging Team It looks as though Elon Musk may have slightly overshot the mark with cost cutting at Tesla. The company, which saw layoffs number in the tens of thousands so far this year, is now hiring back some of the 500 workers from its Supercharger team it let go, according to Autoblog/Bloomberg...
Another "Behemoth Solar Flare" Sparks Radio Blackout Across North America
14.05.2024, 21:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another "Behemoth Solar Flare" Sparks Radio Blackout Across North America After a weekend of the strongest solar storms to rock the planet in years, producing aurora across Europe, the United States, and as far as New Zealand, there is news the sun just burped its largest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25, according to space weather website Solarham...
Clearing Demand
14.05.2024, 20:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Clearing Demand By Ahmed Bin Sulayem Since its establishment in 2005, the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) has been the central counterparty for clearing and settlement services to the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX). Emerging as the largest clearing house in the MENA region by volume, DCCC is now poised to play a far more multinational...
Moving Average Crossovers Suggest The Bull Is Back
14.05.2024, 19:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Moving Average Crossovers Suggest The Bull Is Back Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While there is much debate over whether another bear market is imminent, weekly moving average crossovers suggest a different outcome for now. There are many current concerns, from geopolitical risk to still inverted yield curves, slowing economic...
I've Got A Bad Feeling About This
14.05.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - I've Got A Bad Feeling About This By Michael Every of Rabobank Ideally, I would have written this on May 4th not 14th, but I am going to talk Star Wars. I was a fan in 1977, kept the flame alive when only battered VHS cassettes of the original trilogy existed, and was delighted to get prequels. Until the opening crawl announced, “The taxation of trade...
Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces Reckoning Of Biblical Proportions On Cross Examination
14.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces Reckoning Of Biblical Proportions On Cross Examination Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of the examination of Michael Cohen. He is expected to start his cross examination today. How bad will it be? After lying to Congress, courts, banks, and most everyone else, it will...
US Army Major Quits Intel Agency Over 'Unqualified' US Support Of Israeli 'Ethnic Cleansing'
14.05.2024, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Army Major Quits Intel Agency Over 'Unqualified' US Support Of Israeli 'Ethnic Cleansing' A US Army officer has resigned from his post at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to protest Washington's "nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel" -- support that's facilitated "the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent...
Markets Now Face Make Or Break Inflation Data
14.05.2024, 14:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Now Face Make Or Break Inflation Data By Michael Msika, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist European stocks are hovering around record highs on conviction that interest rates will come down and revive the economy, making this week’s inflation data a key to extending the rally. Monetary policies in the US and in Europe are expected...
The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance
14.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance Authored by Peter Reagan via Birch Gold Group, The total debt owed by the United States federal government has reached incredible levels. Today, the total is $34,541,727,970,599.17 – but by the time you read this article, it’ll probably be higher. I say “probably” because the debt is growing...
Wanted: The Most In-Demand Jobs Of The Next Decade
14.05.2024, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wanted: The Most In-Demand Jobs Of The Next Decade Ever since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022 and other AI tools that have followed in its wake, people have been pondering the potential of artificial intelligence to replace certain occupations, trying to figure out if and how the nascent technology will change the way people work. And while the...
Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns
14.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Transitioning conventional truck fleets to electric vehicles (EVs) pushes up annual operational costs, which subsequently increases economic inflation, according to a recent report from transportation...
WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote
14.05.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The World Health Organization (WHO) has watered down some provisions of its pandemic agreements ahead of the upcoming World Health Assembly on May 27. Critics in the United States, however, say the changes don’t do enough to address...
Oil - A Global Tax
14.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil - A Global Tax Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Few commodities wield as much influence in the intricate web of global economics as oil. Oil is pivotal in driving economic growth and development as the primary energy source for transportation, manufacturing, and countless other sectors. However, beneath its surface lies a hidden...
Pressure On China Heightens As Capital Outflow Chokes Liquidity
14.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pressure On China Heightens As Capital Outflow Chokes Liquidity Authored by Simon Black, Bloomberg macro strategist, The latest money data from China shows its capital-outflow problem is worsening, pressuring policymakers to allow a further weakening in the currency. China released money and inflation data over the weekend. CPI and PPI were not great...
UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over 'Revised' Gaza Casualty Data
14.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over 'Revised' Gaza Casualty Data Since the start of the brutal Gaza conflict in the wake of Oct.7, a public 'info-war' has raged over the numbers of wartime casualties, especially on the Palestinian side. Something similar happened in the Syrian war, as well as in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war:...