Neueste Heute 03.05.2024 02.05.2024
The State Of World Press Freedom
04.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The State Of World Press Freedom The 2024 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), was released today. This year, the agency highlights a “worrying decline in support and respect for media autonomy and an increase in pressure from the state or other political actors.” This is based on the fact that, of the five indicators...
26 States File Lawsuits In Federal Courts Over ATF Redefinition Of Gun Dealers
04.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 26 States File Lawsuits In Federal Courts Over ATF Redefinition Of Gun Dealers Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Attorneys general representing half of the country on May 1 sued President Joe Biden’s administration over a new rule requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, including private sales. Democratic...
April Payrolls Debacle: Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - April Payrolls Debacle: Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises Ahead of today's payrolls report, in our preview we said that while we knew we would get a slowdown, the question was how big it would be (and before that we also asked if Yellen had leaked the weaker number to Japan ahead of their multiple interventions this week to prevent...
US Factory Orders Rise In March... But February Saw Yet Another Downward Revision
02.05.2024, 16:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Factory Orders Rise In March... But February Saw Yet Another Downward Revision The roller-coaster ride of US durable goods and factory orders continued in March (final data just released) as the flip-flopping data series Having plunged by the most since COVID lockdowns in January, US factory orders continued to accelerate in March, +1.6% MoM (as...
Title IX Rules: 6 More States Sue Biden Admin Over "Radical And Illegal" Changes
02.05.2024, 00:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Title IX Rules: 6 More States Sue Biden Admin Over "Radical And Illegal" Changes Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, A group of six Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Department of Education on Tuesday over what they said were “radical and illegal” changes to Title IX rules. The...
The Path Of Least Resistance: Northwestern Reaches Controversial Settlement With Pro-Palestinian Protesters
01.05.2024, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Path Of Least Resistance: Northwestern Reaches Controversial Settlement With Pro-Palestinian Protesters Authored by Jonathan Turley, Northwestern University has agreed to a controversial settlement with pro-Palestinian protesters encamped on its campus this week, including a commitment for scholarships for Palestinians, Palestinian faculty appointments...
Job Openings Tumble, Quits Plunge, Hires Unexpectedly Crater To January 2018 Levels
01.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Job Openings Tumble, Quits Plunge, Hires Unexpectedly Crater To January 2018 Levels After several months of relatively boring JOLTS prints, this morning Janet Yellen's favorite labor market indicator once again got exciting, and not in a good way. Starting at the top, according to the March JOLTS reported, job openings unexpectedly tumbled by 325K -...
More Stagflation Signals As Manufacturing Surveys Show Soaring Prices, Orders Tumble
01.05.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More Stagflation Signals As Manufacturing Surveys Show Soaring Prices, Orders Tumble While 'hard' data has been improving recently (albeit then downwardly revised a month later), it is the 'soft' survey data that has collapsed amid Bidenomics. Source: Bloomberg And this morning continued that trend as S&P Global's US Manufacturing PMI (survey) fell...
The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector
01.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, LNG has become the most important swing energy source in an increasingly insecure world. Energy exports remain the foundation stone of Russia’s essentially petro-economy. Russia's LNG industry is closely associated in Russia with...
Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed
30.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed The final day of April was really ugly: ECI way hotter than expected (spooked markets), Case-Shiller home prices soared far more than expected (spooked markets more), Chicago PMI puked (while prices paid increased), Consumer Confidence crashed, and Dallas Fed Services slumped...
Cannabis Bears Squeezed On Report DEA Is Preparing To Reclassify Marijuana
30.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cannabis Bears Squeezed On Report DEA Is Preparing To Reclassify Marijuana The Associated Press has learned the US Drug Enforcement Administration is moving to reclassify marijuana to a less dangerous drug category. Shares of cannabis-related companies erupted on the news. Here's more from AP news: The DEA's proposal, which still must be reviewed...
How EU Law Has Made The Internet Less Free For Everyone Else
30.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How EU Law Has Made The Internet Less Free For Everyone Else Authored by Mustafa Ekin Turan via The Mises Institute, If you have been using the internet for longer than a couple of years, you might have noticed that it used to be much “freer.” What freer means in this context is that there was less censorship and less stringent rules regarding copyright...
Von Greyerz: The Real Move In Gold & Silver Is Yet To Start
30.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Von Greyerz: The Real Move In Gold & Silver Is Yet To Start Authored by Egon von Greyerz via VonGreyerz.gold, Since the October 2023 gold low of just over $1,600 gold is up but is anyone buying? Well no, certainly none of the normal players. Gold Depositories, Gold Funds and Gold ETFs have lost just under 1,400 tonnes of their gold holdings in the last...
Falling From Grace
30.04.2024, 03:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Falling From Grace Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those...
California's Tax Revenue Projections Weakening As Newsom's Budget Revision Deadline Looms
30.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Tax Revenue Projections Weakening As Newsom's Budget Revision Deadline Looms Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), With the state facing a record-high budget deficit, tax collections are failing to meet California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal projections, which could put further pressure on the state’s...
The Travesties Of The Trump Trials
30.04.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Travesties Of The Trump Trials Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Do not believe the White House/mainstream media-concocted narrative that the four criminal court cases - prosecuted by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis - were not in part coordinated, synchronized, and timed to reach their courtroom psychodramatic...
Uranium Stocks Rise After White House Mulls Russian Import Ban
29.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Uranium Stocks Rise After White House Mulls Russian Import Ban Uranium stocks moved higher late in the US cash session after a report from Bloomberg, citing "people familiar with the matter," revealed that the Biden administration is considering an executive order to ban Russian imports of enriched uranium after congressional efforts stall. Officials...
Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today
29.04.2024, 20:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today Ahead of Wednesday's full Treasury refunding announcement and FOMC announcement, as well as today's Treasury Borrowing Estimate, a nerdy clash has broken out within the rates market between those who expect the Treasury to surprise to the downside with its upcoming Sources...
Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, Treasury Refunding, Jobs, JOLTS, ISM And Tons Of Earnings
29.04.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, Treasury Refunding, Jobs, JOLTS, ISM And Tons Of Earnings As DB's Jim Reid notes, with just two days left in a rollercoaster April for markets - and FX - last week actually saw the best week for the S&P 500 (+2.67%) and NASDAQ (+4.23%) since November, following several weeks of declines, as earnings gave markets...
'FX Vigilantes' Strike - Yen Suddenly Crashes To April 1990 Lows Against The Dollar
29.04.2024, 05:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'FX Vigilantes' Strike - Yen Suddenly Crashes To April 1990 Lows Against The Dollar The yen crashed in early Asia trading, tumbling to match is exact lows from April 1990 in what is being blamed on a 'fat finger' trade or multiple barrier-option trades being triggered, by sources that have literally no idea. The plunge extended Friday's big drop which...
Stablecoin Volumes Are Tracking A Record $15 Trillion On Ethereum Alone
29.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stablecoin Volumes Are Tracking A Record $15 Trillion On Ethereum Alone By Marcel Kasumovich, Deputy CIO of Coinbase Asset Management Crypto sparked a renaissance in real-time payments. Sleepy you say? Time for a wake-up call – payment solutions are at the cutting edge of crypto’s integration into the mainstream, and it has plenty of competition...
The Gloves Will Come Off In A Second Biden Term
28.04.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Gloves Will Come Off In A Second Biden Term Authored by David Keltz via American Greatness, If you believe, correctly, that the entirety of Joe Biden’s presidency has been one unmitigated disaster after another - not only for the American citizenry, but for the United States’ standing on the world stage and for our allies around the globe who...
From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes
27.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes Authored by Breeauna Sagdal via The Brownstone Institute, Seasoned veterinarians and livestock producers alike have been scratching their heads trying to understand the media’s response to the avian flu. Headlines across every major news outlet warn of humans becoming infected with the “deadly” bird flu after...
US Should Adopt UK's 'Rwanda Plan' To Address Illegal Immigration
27.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Should Adopt UK's 'Rwanda Plan' To Address Illegal Immigration Authored by Simon Hankinson via The Epoch Times, After nearly two years of legal and political challenges, Britain’s parliament has finally passed a law confirming that Rwanda is a safe place to send people who arrive in the UK illegally by sea. This is a major policy win for the Conservative...
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...
Florida Developer Seeks $100 Million For Penthouse Atop 66 Story Building In Brickell Key
27.04.2024, 15:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Florida Developer Seeks $100 Million For Penthouse Atop 66 Story Building In Brickell Key It looks as though the flight to Florida, specifically Miami, by Wall Street firms and New Yorkers during the height of Covid is starting to pay dividends for the state. And if commercial real estate is dead, someone forgot to tell Swire Properties Inc., who is...
"The Yen Collapse Has Become Disorderly": Look For A Final, Sharp Decline Before It Hits A Floor
26.04.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Yen Collapse Has Become Disorderly": Look For A Final, Sharp Decline Before It Hits A Floor The BOJ came, issued the shortest statement in the history of central banks... ... and left, leaving traders stunned and speechless at the sheer idiocy of the world's most clownish central bank, which has decided to invite currency collapse the same abandon...
Exxon Tumbles On One-Time EPS Charges Despite Surge In Cash Flow, Buyback Boost
26.04.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Exxon Tumbles On One-Time EPS Charges Despite Surge In Cash Flow, Buyback Boost With oil prices enjoying a powerful renaissance in recent months amid mounting supply concerns, declining inventory and the growing possibility that China's economy may finally kickstart, energy giants such as Exxon and Chevron had enjoyed a similar rebound in their stock...
UMich Inflation Expectations Accelerated In April To 2024 Highs
26.04.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UMich Inflation Expectations Accelerated In April To 2024 Highs Short-term inflation expectations rose... again... according to the latest UMich sentiment survey with 1-year expectations at 3.2% final, up from preliminary 3.1% for April, and 2.9% for March. This is the highest level since Nov 2023... Source: Bloomberg The headline sentiment also declined...
European ESG Funds Witness Heavy Decline In Inflows
26.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European ESG Funds Witness Heavy Decline In Inflows Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, European exchange-traded funds with a focus on ESG investing saw a substantial decline in inflows in the first quarter amid what Morningstar called “an existential crisis”. According to the Financial Times, net inflows into these funds totaled 7.1 billion...
Tennessee Is First State To Criminalize Adults Who Help Minors Receive "Gender-Affirming" Care Without Parental Consent
26.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tennessee Is First State To Criminalize Adults Who Help Minors Receive "Gender-Affirming" Care Without Parental Consent Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Statehouse on Thursday approved approval criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent, clearing the way for the first-in-the-nation proposal to be sent to...
Biden Campaign To Remain On TikTok Even After Signing Bill To Ban App
25.04.2024, 22:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Campaign To Remain On TikTok Even After Signing Bill To Ban App Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, Despite the fact that Joe Biden signed into law a bill that will ban the Chinese social media app TikTok if its parent company does not sell it, his campaign will continue to use the app in the meantime. As Fox News reports, campaign...
Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing
25.04.2024, 20:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing Via Middle East Eye Iranian military commanders and high-ranking officials have warned they could change their approach in developing the country’s nuclear program after increasing tensions with Israel, implicitly announcing their readiness to take it into a military phase. Before the recent...
BHP Proposes $39 Billion Takeover Over Anglo To Form Copper Mining Giant
25.04.2024, 16:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BHP Proposes $39 Billion Takeover Over Anglo To Form Copper Mining Giant The world's largest global diversified miner, BHP Group, is making a monster bet on surging future copper demand with the proposed takeover of Anglo American Plc. The bet is based on the thesis that the world's power grids need a major overhaul and that the electrification of...
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...
"We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k"
24.04.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k" Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, The UniParty's Day Of Infamy, Part 1 The clusterf*ck in the US House of Representatives this past weekend is surely the final straw. The dreadful grip of the UniParty on national security...
Boeing Jumps After Beating Apocalyptic Estimates Despite Biggest Cash Burn In 4 Years
24.04.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing Jumps After Beating Apocalyptic Estimates Despite Biggest Cash Burn In 4 Years Having been hammered like a nail for much of 2024 as a result of incident after incident involving its flying paperweights (most recently this morning), Boeing stock enjoyed a modest rebound this morning when the airplane maker reported revenues, EPS and cash flow...
Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination
24.04.2024, 02:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination Former Rep. Justin Amash on Monday announced that his Senate campaign had submitted the requisite signatures to appear on Michigan's Aug. 6 primary ballot. The GOP field for a shot at a Democrat-vacated seat includes an archetypal Deep Stater in former Rep. Mike Rogers, who...
Next Ukraine Package 'Larger Than Normal' As Biden Tells Zelensky Aid Coming "Quickly"
24.04.2024, 01:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Next Ukraine Package 'Larger Than Normal' As Biden Tells Zelensky Aid Coming "Quickly" US officials have been quoted in Politico as saying the Biden White House is preparing a "larger than normal" weapons package for Ukraine to be sent quickly once Biden signs the bill into law authorizing $61 billion in spending, following the historic weekend House...
Israel Prepares Rafah Evacuation With Help From US, Egypt - New Tent City Erected
23.04.2024, 17:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Prepares Rafah Evacuation With Help From US, Egypt - New Tent City Erected Via The Cradle The Israeli army is closing in on completing its plans for an assault on the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday. WSJ cites Egyptian officials as saying that Israel’s plan to evacuate civilians from...
Bernie Sanders To Lead Progressive Fight Against Israel Aid In Senate With New Amendment
23.04.2024, 16:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bernie Sanders To Lead Progressive Fight Against Israel Aid In Senate With New Amendment Authored by Jake Johnson via Common Dreams, US Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he would put forth an amendment to remove offensive military funding for Israel from a House-passed aid package that the Senate is set to consider this week. The amendment would...
Euro Area PMI Activity Hits 11 Month High On Service Expansion As Manufacturing Recession Gets Worse
23.04.2024, 15:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Euro Area PMI Activity Hits 11 Month High On Service Expansion As Manufacturing Recession Gets Worse Europe's study in paradoxical contrasts continues. On the same day, ECB's de Guindos said a June rate cut looks like a set deal (unless there are surprises) with the end of inflation fight is in sight, the Euro-area's private-sector activity advanced to...
The Bad Faith Olympics
22.04.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Bad Faith Olympics Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a coherent thought. Institutions lie in smoldering ruins. Poisons handed out like candy. We are Neanderthals with iPhones.”...
Key Events This Week: PCE, GDP, Fed Blackout And Earnings Gallore
22.04.2024, 16:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: PCE, GDP, Fed Blackout And Earnings Gallore Hot on the heels of last week's tech and momentum rout, shaken traders will have to wait until Friday for the main macro event namely the US core PCE print within the income and spending report. Economists expect the core PCE deflator to come in at +0.30% vs. +0.26% last month. This would...
Recent IRA Inheritors Get Another Year With No Distribution Requirement
21.04.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Recent IRA Inheritors Get Another Year With No Distribution Requirement In what's becoming an annual ritual, the IRS has once again waived required minimum distributions for the current year for people who inherited an IRA from someone who died in 2020 or after. That's welcome news, but some uncertainty still hangs over a growing number of people whose...
Biden's Title IX Trans-formation Puts Women's Progress & Protections "On The Chopping Block"
21.04.2024, 21:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Title IX Trans-formation Puts Women's Progress & Protections "On The Chopping Block" Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration’s overhaul of Title IX met with pushback today from lawmakers in favor of preserving female-only spaces. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) speaks during a House Committee on Oversight...
Gold Miners Will Trade At "Multiples" Of Current Prices
21.04.2024, 16:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Miners Will Trade At "Multiples" Of Current Prices Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. He gets little coverage in the mainstream media, which, in my opinion, makes him someone worth listening to twice as closely. Larry was kind enough to allow me to share...
5 Things You Didn't Know About Bitcoin Halvings & BTC Price
19.04.2024, 18:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 5 Things You Didn't Know About Bitcoin Halvings & BTC Price Every four years, the Bitcoin community celebrates the Bitcoin halving. Many BTC market analysts view this as a quadrennial milestone event due to its historically bullish impact on the cryptocurrency market as a whole. A key component of Bitcoin’s design is its periodic halving, which ensures...
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...