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Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News
29.04.2024, 09:05 Uhr. OffGuardian - https: - “It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s the way to soften up a democracy.” J. Edgar Hoover, Masters...
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”...
PM Orbán At CPAC: The 5 Methods Of Oppression Liberals Use To Silence Conservatives
28.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PM Orbán At CPAC: The 5 Methods Of Oppression Liberals Use To Silence Conservatives Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, In the run-up to major elections across the West, including the U.S. presidential election and the EU parliament elections in June, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned that conservatives face unprecedented pressure from...
Tesla Attorneys Target Shareholder Trying To Stop Moving Musk's Pay Fight To Texas
27.04.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Attorneys Target Shareholder Trying To Stop Moving Musk's Pay Fight To Texas Richard Tornetta, who was at the center of Tesla shareholders' claim that Elon Musk was taking an excessive pay package, is now at the center of claims that Tesla should not be reincorporating to Texas to approve Musk's voided pay plan. But Tesla is firing back at Tornetta...
Another Russian Oil Refinery Hit By Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones
27.04.2024, 17:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Russian Oil Refinery Hit By Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones Ukrainian military planners have been ramping up Kamikaze drone strikes against the Russian energy industrial complex this week, including an overnight attack damaging an oil refinery as Western sanctions fail to crush Putin's oil-rich economy that funds the "special military operation"...
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries Again Despite White House Pleas
26.04.2024, 14:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries Again Despite White House Pleas Just days after the Biden administration signed a new military aid package worth billions of dollars to Ukraine, Kyiv launched a series of suicide drone attacks on Russian oil refineries. Biden's top officials have pleaded with Kyiv to stop attacks on Russia's...
UK Government-Funded Trans-Lobbyist Group Calls Puberty Blockers "Wonderful"
25.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UK Government-Funded Trans-Lobbyist Group Calls Puberty Blockers "Wonderful" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A government funded LGBT activist group that is active in more than half of Scotland’s schools has called puberty blocking drugs, which effectively sterilise children, “wonderful.” LGBT Youth Scotland, which is registered as...
Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News
25.04.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political...
Chinese Have "Grabbed Gold By The Throat" As Capital Flight Accelerates
24.04.2024, 17:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese Have "Grabbed Gold By The Throat" As Capital Flight Accelerates “Chinese speculators have really grabbed gold by the throat...” That is how John Reade, chief market strategist at the World Gold Council, describes the scramble in the communist nation among investors looking to move money anywhere but in the yuan or Chinese assets. As evidenced...
Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles
24.04.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles Gucci owner Kering SA's problems in mainland China are only mounting as the French luxury giant issued a profit warning. As a result, shares of the company in Paris plunged to a six-year low. Lackluster Chinese demand for the luxury goods maker, which includes the Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega...
Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes
24.04.2024, 03:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Scientific American has published a piece claiming that “misinformation,” such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is “being used against transgender people” and in order to target “gender-affirming medical...
Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion
23.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion By Tim Martin at BreakingDefense Global military expenditure surged to a record $2.44 trillion in 2023, the largest year-on-year rise on weapons spending since 2009, according to a new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report. The report, published today, said that the...
Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields
23.04.2024, 14:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields US equity futures are higher for the second day, even as small-caps underperform after bond yields rise about +4bps and trade near session highs. As of 7:40am S&P and Nasdaq futures were 0.3% higher after Wall Street’s rebound from a $2 trillion selloff; European...
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...
How Trust (Or The Lack Of It) Affects America's Trajectory
22.04.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Trust (Or The Lack Of It) Affects America's Trajectory Via SchiffGold.com, America’s trust in its institutions has rapidly eroded over the past 20 years. We have a lower level of trust in our judicial system and elections than most European countries. Some of this is natural, as Americans are uniquely individualistic, but much of it arises...
Congressmen Are "Terrified Of The Intel Agencies"; Tucker Carlson Warns They'll Frame Them With "Kiddie Porn"
22.04.2024, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Congressmen Are "Terrified Of The Intel Agencies"; Tucker Carlson Warns They'll Frame Them With "Kiddie Porn" Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson sat down for a wide-ranging three-hours-plus discussion last week, touching on everything from UFOs, spirituality, and religion; from artificial intelligence costs and benefits to questioning 'science' consensus;...
Shipping Industry Pleads With UN For "Enhanced Military Presence" As Maritime Choke-Point Chaos Spreads
20.04.2024, 23:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shipping Industry Pleads With UN For "Enhanced Military Presence" As Maritime Choke-Point Chaos Spreads Exactly one week ago, Iranian commandos seized a container ship affiliated with Israel as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz. This action sparked new fears of another maritime chokepoint becoming disrupted as the crisis in the Middle East escalated...
Goofy Greens And Regulators Threaten Nuclear Revival
20.04.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goofy Greens And Regulators Threaten Nuclear Revival Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClear Wire, Despite its commitment to “no more gas, oil, or coal,” Friends of the Earth has launched a campaign against one of the nation’s “greenest” governors, California’s Gavin Newsom. Their goal? To stop the U.S. Department of Energy from doling...
Futures Reverse All Losses, Oil Slides After Iran Plays Down Israeli Attacks, Signals No Retaliation
19.04.2024, 14:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Reverse All Losses, Oil Slides After Iran Plays Down Israeli Attacks, Signals No Retaliation While US futures are still modestly in the red, they are not only well off the worst overnight levels, but they are almost unchanged since yesterday's close following a performative Israeli retaliation. which followed a performative Iranian attack, which...
23andMe Saved From Collapse After CEO Floats Private Takeover
19.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 23andMe Saved From Collapse After CEO Floats Private Takeover DNA-testing company 23andMe soared in the early cash session in New York on news that Anne Wojcicki, the CEO, plans to take the struggling company private after three years on the public markets. The company once sported a $6 billion valuation and has since collapsed to $235 million. ...
Swiss Watch Exports Crash In China & Hong Kong
19.04.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swiss Watch Exports Crash In China & Hong Kong Fears of a luxury slowdown are materializing. New data from the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry shows that exports of luxury timepieces tumbled the most since 2020 as demand crashed in Asia. Swiss watch exports dropped in March. Their value fell by 16.1% compared with the same month in 2023 to...
U.S. and Israel Meet to Discuss Rafah Operation
18.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The Biden administration fears an offensive would result in a high civilian death toll....
It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again
18.04.2024, 14:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The risk of a squeeze in US funding markets is increasing as the yield curve bear steepens, i.e. longer-term yields rise more than short-term ones. More attractive bill yields and climbing interest-payment costs on government debt are depleting reserves...
"No Clear Trend What Happens Next": Stocks Are Displaying Bearish Features Last Seen In 2022
17.04.2024, 14:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "No Clear Trend What Happens Next": Stocks Are Displaying Bearish Features Last Seen In 2022 By Tatiana Darie, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist The stocks selloff is displaying features that were often seen back when shares plunged in 2022, which is a warning for equities now. The S&P 500 has fallen for seven of the past 11 trading sessions...
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...
Security Ramped-Up In Germany After Jihadists Threaten Drone Strikes At Euro 2024
16.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Security Ramped-Up In Germany After Jihadists Threaten Drone Strikes At Euro 2024 Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, An offshoot terror cell affiliated with Islamic State has published propaganda encouraging jihadists to target German football stadiums during this summer’s European Championships. In the latest issue of the “Voice of Khorasan”...
Dollar, Oil, & Gold Jump; Stocks & Bonds Dump As 'WW3-On'-Risk Reignites
15.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dollar, Oil, & Gold Jump; Stocks & Bonds Dump As 'WW3-On'-Risk Reignites It was all looking so shiny and BTFD-y - Iran had sent some missiles towards Israeli folks; 'allies' blocked 99% of them; and Israel appeared unlikely top respond 'imminently'. Stocks were up, crypto was up, oil was down as 'WW3-off' meant risk-on. But, then the headlines just...
Javier Blas Outlines Ten Takeaways For Crude Market Following Iran's Direct Attack On Israel
14.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Javier Blas Outlines Ten Takeaways For Crude Market Following Iran's Direct Attack On Israel Iran's direct attack on Israel on Saturday evening is viewed certainly as an escalation in the Middle East conflict. Tehran's missile and drone attack (widely unsuccessful) has been well-telegraphed (read: here & here) for the last two weeks, pushing up...
'Retaliation Risk' - What Wall Street Thinks Ahead Of Market Open
14.04.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Retaliation Risk' - What Wall Street Thinks Ahead Of Market Open The first actual 'market' response we have seen to Iran's attack on Israel is in crypto, which saw - rather intriguingly - a huge puke as the drones/missiles flew, and then some comeback as the impact of the attack seemed marginal at worst (and for now retaliation remains muted)... Source:...
Who’s Afraid of the Global South?
14.04.2024, 12:01 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Revisiting two 50-year-old U.N. resolutions should help dispel fears about a shifting economic world order....
The Exodus Continues: Blue Regions Still Bleeding As Residents Escape Democrat Policies
14.04.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Exodus Continues: Blue Regions Still Bleeding As Residents Escape Democrat Policies Can Democrats take a hint? The answer is obviously no, but with millions of people flooding out of Democrat controlled places and relocating to more conservative regions one might think they would finally get the message. Blue cities and states across the US have...
It’s Official: Reflation Is Here
13.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It’s Official: Reflation Is Here Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For months and even years, the mainstream news has sought to spin terrible inflation news. It’s not so bad, it’s just transitional, it’s getting better, it’s not really a problem, and all your gloom about the value of the dollar is in your head...
China Exports Collapse, Prompting Yuan Devaluation Fears
12.04.2024, 19:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Exports Collapse, Prompting Yuan Devaluation Fears China’s export growth tumbled in March compared to last year, sparking questions about a possible yuan devaluation at a time when China's biggest mercantilist competitor in Asia - Japan - has intentionally cratered its currency. Chinese Exports declined by 7.5% from a year earlier in March...
Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks
12.04.2024, 15:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks Futures are tumbling this morning, hit by disappointing earnings and outllook from the largest US bank, JPMorgan whose stock is down around 3% in a soggy launch to Q1 earnings season, while growing fears of an imminent conflict between Israel and Iran have sent oil surging and...
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...
Futures On Edge Ahead Of Critical CPI Report
10.04.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures On Edge Ahead Of Critical CPI Report Futures are up small before the March CPI data was expected to show further moderation in price pressures following stronger readings at the start of the year, with Mag7 mixed and Semis lower, tracking bigger gains in Europe. Bond yields are uniformly 1bps lower, USD is off a touch, and commodities are mostly...
Markets Suffer Conniptions Ahead Of Crucial Consumer Price Print
09.04.2024, 22:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Suffer Conniptions Ahead Of Crucial Consumer Price Print Weird day... no macro, no FedSpeak, no notable geopolitical malarkey and yet, markets had a conniption (early on)... VIX spiked up, modestly reminiscent of last Thursday's manic episode (but we note that the market is implying just a +/-0.8/0.9% implied move in the S&P 500 to tomorrow's...
PAMP It: Costco Selling Up To $200 Million In Gold Bars Per Month, Wells Fargo Estimates
09.04.2024, 21:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PAMP It: Costco Selling Up To $200 Million In Gold Bars Per Month, Wells Fargo Estimates Last December, wholesale retailer Costco announced that they had sold over $100 million worth of gold in Q3 2023. "You've probably read about the fact that we're selling one-ounce gold bars. We sold over $100 million of gold during the quarter," sad CFO Richard...
Norfolk Southern To Pay $600 Million To East Palestine Over Toxic Train Derailment
09.04.2024, 18:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Norfolk Southern To Pay $600 Million To East Palestine Over Toxic Train Derailment Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the toxic train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio, causing nearly half of the town's population to evacuate. The agreement, which is pending court approval, would resolve all...
Bitcoin & Bullion Back Near Record Highs As Rate-Cut Bets Battered
08.04.2024, 22:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin & Bullion Back Near Record Highs As Rate-Cut Bets Battered Ahead of the event risk of CPI, PPI, and FOMC Minutes this week, stocks ambled along while the STIRs market eviscerated more rate-cut hope, sending Treasury yields higher and gold and crypto also soared amid 'policy error' fears and geopolitical tensions. VIX is certainly primed for...
Here's What Will Push Oil Above $100/Bbl
08.04.2024, 21:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's What Will Push Oil Above $100/Bbl Back in early December, just after Powell's dovish pivot shocked everyone, many closet oil bulls like BofA's energy strategist Francisco Blanch, predicted that a dovish Fed would send oil back to $100. Unfortunately for him, oil did nothing and just one month later, as no oil buying had materialized, Blanch threw...
Key Events This Week: CPI, FOMC Minutes, Q1 Earnings Kick Off And Fed Speakers Galore
08.04.2024, 15:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: CPI, FOMC Minutes, Q1 Earnings Kick Off And Fed Speakers Galore As DB's Henry Allen writes, markets had a rough start to Q2 last week, with the S&P 500 (-0.95%) posting its worst weekly performance in 3 months, whilst the US 30yr yield (+21.0bps) saw its biggest weekly rise since October, with yields extending gains again this...
A Market Chart Or A Rorschach Test
07.04.2024, 22:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Market Chart Or A Rorschach Test By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities A Market Chart or a Rorschach Test? In one way, the week was quite simple. The S&P and Nasdaq dropped around 1% while 10-year yields popped 20 bps. Rate cut projections were slightly reduced and the likely start time was pushed back a touch. All seemingly “normal.” Then why...
Iran Threatens Israel's Embassies: "No Longer Safe"
07.04.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Threatens Israel's Embassies: "No Longer Safe" The Iranian government is apparently seeking to capitalize on the Israeli public and leadership being on edge due to continuing fears that an Iranian retaliation attack is imminent after last week's Israeli airstrike on Iran's embassy complex in Damascus. An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday...
NATO Seeking To 'Trump Proof' Future Ukraine Funds
06.04.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Seeking To 'Trump Proof' Future Ukraine Funds When NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg this week unveiled a $100 billion, five-year fund for Ukraine which he pitched to alliance foreign ministers in preparation for the July annual summit, a number of pundits and publications immediately saw through it... NATO leadership is ultimately seeking...
Europe's South Takes The Lead
06.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe's South Takes The Lead By Maartje Wijffelaars, Senior Economist at Rabobank Brent crude oil extended its gains and broke through the 90 dollars a barrel threshold yesterday, for the first time since end-October last year. The commodity continues its ascend this morning and at the time of writing it’ll cost you 91.2 dollars to buy a barrel....
Crude, Food Prices Jump As Looming Israel-Iran Conflict Spark 1970s Oil Shock Fears
05.04.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crude, Food Prices Jump As Looming Israel-Iran Conflict Spark 1970s Oil Shock Fears Larry MacDonald of The Bear Traps Report penned a very informative note last month that outlined, "2023-2024 look a lot like 1973-1974." He said, "We're one event away from a 1970s-style stagflation explosion..." History books remind us that the 1973 oil embargo...
Global 'Game Of Chicken' Continues - MOAB >> NFP
05.04.2024, 16:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global 'Game Of Chicken' Continues - MOAB >> NFP Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Today we will hit two topics, NPF and MOAB. Let’s Start with NFP About as good as it gets for the economy, not so good for Fed cuts. Not only were the headline jobs better than the top estimates on Bloomberg (303k jobs). We also revised prior job reports...
Futures Rebound As Oil Remains Above $90; All Eyes On Payrolls
05.04.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound As Oil Remains Above $90; All Eyes On Payrolls US futures rebounded from yesterday's late day rout even as European stocks slumped the most in almost two months and Asian markets tumbled the most in a month, tracking Thursday's broad market retreat as oil prices held near five-month highs above $90 and investors braced for today's...
Trump 2.0 Fears Hang Over NATO Birthday Bash
05.04.2024, 01:05 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The alliance’s 75th anniversary was clouded by concern for the future....