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"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...
Micro Trumps Macro As Stocks Shrug Off Week Of Higher Inflation, Higher Rates, & Lower Growth
26.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Micro Trumps Macro As Stocks Shrug Off Week Of Higher Inflation, Higher Rates, & Lower Growth It was an ugly macro week... Source: Bloomberg ...and worse still, 'growth' surprises disappointed significantly while 'inflation' surprises surprised to the upside significantly... Source: Bloomberg Soaring inflation expectations sent rate-cut expectations...
The Constitutional Abyss: Justices Signal Desire To Avoid Both Cliffs On Presidential Immunity
26.04.2024, 19:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Constitutional Abyss: Justices Signal Desire To Avoid Both Cliffs On Presidential Immunity Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the New York Post on yesterday’s oral arguments on presidential immunity. As expected, with the exception of the three liberal justices, the Court appears to be struggling to find a more nuanced approach...
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...
JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again
26.04.2024, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again Having already lost more than 10% of its value versus the US dollar this year, the yen plunged further overnight after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda indicated monetary policy will stay easy as he kept rates unchanged and showed little to no support for the embattled currency during...
Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Prints Hotter-Than-Expected As Savings Rate Plunges
26.04.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Prints Hotter-Than-Expected As Savings Rate Plunges With inflation data surprising to the upside recently... Source: Bloomberg ...the doves' last chance for sooner than later rate-cuts is today's Core PCE Deflator - often described as The Fed's favorite inflation signal. Last month saw an uptick in the headline deflator...
Poland Ready To Help Ukraine Round Up Military-Aged Men
26.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Poland Ready To Help Ukraine Round Up Military-Aged Men Poland says it is ready and willing to help Ukraine with its crisis-level manpower and recruitment problems, as it could be poised to round up Ukrainian military-aged males and return them to their home country. Government officials are now strongly signaling just such a controversial plan. Polish...
The Fallacy That Rules The World
26.04.2024, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fallacy That Rules The World Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Smart people know to avoid fallacies. One of them is known as the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc. It’s Latin for “after this, therefore because of this.” The classic example concerns the rooster and the sunrise. Every morning before the sun comes up, the rooster...
As Tax-Season Ebbs, Money-Market Funds See Return Of Inflows; Fed's Bank Bailout Fund Remains At $126BN
25.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As Tax-Season Ebbs, Money-Market Funds See Return Of Inflows; Fed's Bank Bailout Fund Remains At $126BN After the prior week's almost unprecedented outflows, total money market fund assets rose last week (admittedly by a modest $9.1BN), but remain below the $6TN level ($5.97TN) as tax-season draws roll off... Source: Bloomberg The flows into money-market...
Stagflation Signal Slams Stocks & Bonds; Bullion & Black Gold Bid
25.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stagflation Signal Slams Stocks & Bonds; Bullion & Black Gold Bid Overall, US macro data has suddenly started to disappoint (not the least of which was today's ugly GDP print)... Source: Bloomberg But, while 'bad news' for the economy has recently been 'good news' for stocks (enables an easier Fed), today's data 'punched that narrative in the face'...
Why Is A Sensible Immigration Policy Discussion So Hard
25.04.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Is A Sensible Immigration Policy Discussion So Hard By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Why is the choice between shutting down the border and no controls at all? And what about demographics? Fertility rates? Immigration Talks We Should Be Having Eurointelligence discusses the Immigration Talks We Should Be Having. The ideas also apply to the US. Last...
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...
Wall Street Reacts To Today's Stagflationary Data Dump
25.04.2024, 16:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wall Street Reacts To Today's Stagflationary Data Dump After today's stagflationary GDP print, which came below the lowest Wall Street estimate even as core PCE came in above the highest estimate... ... there has been an outcry of horror from Wall Street's traders, analysts and strategists as the BEA once again steamrolled all over Wall Street's benevolent...
US Futures Tumble After Facebook Implodes; GDP Data On Deck
25.04.2024, 14:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Tumble After Facebook Implodes; GDP Data On Deck The three-day rebound from last week's rout ended with a thud after the close yesterday when Meta imploded, plunging as much as 17% and losing $200 billion in market cap, after the company revealed disappointing revenue guidance coupled with higher capex projections. The report sent US futures...
Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs
25.04.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs Whatever happened to the WEF? One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public discourse. After the pandemic agenda was defeated and the plan to exploit public fear to create a perpetual medical autocracy was exposed, Klaus Schwab...
Biden's $60BN Can't Fix Ukraine's Manpower & Recruitment Crisis
25.04.2024, 03:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's $60BN Can't Fix Ukraine's Manpower & Recruitment Crisis With Biden's $60 billion in funding for Ukraine now fully authorized and implemented, the question is now what? The US President on Wednesday announced just after signing the bill that the Pentagon will start sending equipment to Ukraine "in the next few hours" straight from the US stockpile...
"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...
Yen Dumped, Yield-Curve Pumped, Bonds & Bitcoin Slump
24.04.2024, 22:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Dumped, Yield-Curve Pumped, Bonds & Bitcoin Slump Quiet macro day with Durable Goods Orders looking like a beat - but only because of sizable downward revisions - as orders and shipments are actually down on a YoY basis. Source: Bloomberg But stocks were messy with an opening bid immediately squelched and post-EU-close ramp faded into the US close...
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...
WTI Jumps After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude InventoryBuild
24.04.2024, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Jumps After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude InventoryBuild Oil prices are drifting lower this morning, despite API reporting a surprise crude inventory draw last night, as hopes that geopolitical tensions are easing (hope is not a strategy) combined with a reduced expectation of economy-juicing rate-cuts are weighing on crude prices. Supporting the upside...
Germany Arrests Unprecedented Six Spies In Less Than A Week
24.04.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany Arrests Unprecedented Six Spies In Less Than A Week German security services say they've arrested an unprecedented six suspected spies in only the past week, and four of these are believed to have been working for the government of China, while the other two are suspected Russian agents. As we reported earlier, the latest case unveiled Tuesday...
Durables Goods Orders Suffers Biggest YoY Decline Since COVID Lockdowns
24.04.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Durables Goods Orders Suffers Biggest YoY Decline Since COVID Lockdowns The roller-coaster ride that is 'Durable Goods New Orders' continues this morning after the last six months of so have seen monthly swings higher and lower with no trend discernible whatsoever (especially noteworthy given yesterday's slump into contraction for the Manufacturing...
"Let's Debunk The Myth That Mass-Migration Brings An Economic Benefit", Says Former UK Immigration Minister
24.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Let's Debunk The Myth That Mass-Migration Brings An Economic Benefit", Says Former UK Immigration Minister Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The notion that mass immigration brings a net economic benefit to a developed nation is a myth that needs to be debunked, a former U.K. government minister who resigned over the spiraling numbers arriving...
Chinese FX Outflows Soar, Priming The Next Bitcoin Surge
24.04.2024, 05:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese FX Outflows Soar, Priming The Next Bitcoin Surge Last October, when we pointed out that China's FX outflows had just hit a whopping $75BN - the single biggest monthly outflow since the 2015 currency devaluation - we concluded that the "unfavorable interest rate spread between China and the US will "likely imply persistent depreciation and outflow...
Are The Mass Pro-Palestine Protests On College Campuses Just One Big Virtue Signal?
24.04.2024, 04:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are The Mass Pro-Palestine Protests On College Campuses Just One Big Virtue Signal? Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, As a general rule, rebels without a cause will eventually latch onto the nearest cause of opportunity. It really doesn't matter what it is, for activists with ample time on their hands and plenty of trust fund money these...
There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now
23.04.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now By Michael Every of Rabobank "Pass"/"Over" There is so much for markets to try to pass over right over: and they are certainly doing so. Niall Ferguson warns us again about an escalating global Cold War 2 using Tolkien as an analogy – real Tolkien, not the insult that was The Rings of Power...
It's All About Mag 7 Earnings: Without Them S&P Profit Growth Is Negative
23.04.2024, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's All About Mag 7 Earnings: Without Them S&P Profit Growth Is Negative After what has been a boring start to the week, where the biggest event so far was yesterday's start of corporate buyback frontrunning (as we first detailed and bottom ticked the market, which is now 100 points higher since our comment), investors are bracing for some serious...
Poland "Ready" To Host NATO Nuclear Weapons, President Duda Says
23.04.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Poland "Ready" To Host NATO Nuclear Weapons, President Duda Says Poland has upped the nuclear rhetoric with Russia, on Monday suggesting NATO nuclear warheads could soon be positioned on its territory. It comes amid general NATO euphoria in the wake of the US House finally passing Biden's giant aid package for Ukraine, despite widespread acknowledgement...
Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish"
23.04.2024, 02:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish" On one hand, the technical storm appears to have subsided: as we correctly predicted last night, just days after the biggest CTA shake-out in over a year (thanks to the fake Iran-Israel war, which on Thursday shook out all the sell stops thanks to the latest brutal...
Iran-Linked Iraq Militia Says It Is Resuming Attacks On US Forces
23.04.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran-Linked Iraq Militia Says It Is Resuming Attacks On US Forces The prior period of constant attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria which corresponded with the opening first half of Israel's operations in Gaza could soon resume, after a Sunday incident saw at least five rockets fired on an American base in northeastern Syria. The Iraqi militant...
Gold Hammered As Short-Squeeze Saves Stocks Ahead Of Micro/Macro Storm This Week
22.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Hammered As Short-Squeeze Saves Stocks Ahead Of Micro/Macro Storm This Week The "calm before the storm" of earnings and big macro this week (and no WW3 this weekend) was all the algos needed to ramp stocks during the US cash session after being reminded that the buyback-blackout period is almost over... And S&P HOD as algos start frontrunning the...
Tesla Q1 Preview: Investors Brace For "Worst Results In 7 Years", AI Pivot, Cybertruck, Robotaxis In Focus
22.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Q1 Preview: Investors Brace For "Worst Results In 7 Years", AI Pivot, Cybertruck, Robotaxis In Focus Tesla is slated to report earnings tomorrow and, as FT notes, investors are bracing for the "worst results in 7 years" from the EV manufacturer. Analysts predict that Tesla will post revenues of $22.3 billion for Q1, representing a year-over-year...
Why A Powerful Silver Bull Market May Be Ahead
22.04.2024, 19:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why A Powerful Silver Bull Market May Be Ahead By Jesse Colombo of BullionStar Since early-March, precious metals have launched one of their sharpest rallies in decades. Gold surged by 16% and silver by 26%, which are significant moves for safe-haven assets — especially considering that it played out over such a short time period. During this rally...
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...
The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here
22.04.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here Via SchiffGold.com, With the AI boom and green energy push fueling fresh copper demand, and with copper mines aging and not enough projects to match demand with supply, the forecasted copper shortage has finally arrived in earnest. Coupled with persistently high inflation in the US, EU, and elsewhere, I predict...
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;...
How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing And Gaining Prosperity
21.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing And Gaining Prosperity Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Under a blazing Kenyan sun, elderly women toil on their hands and knees in the reddish-brown clay, separating the choking weeds from the small, green shoots of a finger millet crop. The women are barehanded...
Bill Maher Calls Out Hollywood Pedophilia And The Gay Agenda In Schools
20.04.2024, 18:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bill Maher Calls Out Hollywood Pedophilia And The Gay Agenda In Schools It's not the easiest thing for a person to step away from their peer group and question the dogmatic political path the mob has chosen to follow. When it comes to the woke left, stepping out of line is doubly difficult because any deviation from the approved ideology usually means...
Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem?
20.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem? In a new poll conducted by the Financial Times and Michigan's Ross School of Business, data shows there is a rare bipartisan agreement among Republicans and Democrats – Both sides believe that there are no housing advantages for the their political opponents and...
The World's Economic Myths Are Hitting Their Limits
20.04.2024, 00:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The World's Economic Myths Are Hitting Their Limits Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, There are many myths about energy and the economy. In this post I explore the situation surrounding some of these myths. My analysis strongly suggests that the transition to a new Green Economy is not progressing as well as hoped. Green energy planners...
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...
Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High
19.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High Well, that escalated quickly... In a week characterized by data supporting 'no landing' from a growth perspective and disappointment from a disinflation perspective... Source: Bloomberg This was reinforced by FedSpeak that was without exception - hawkish! As they suddenly realized...
A Chart To Think About
19.04.2024, 20:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Chart To Think About Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, For all the “big tech”, momentum, hype; for all the “all-time highs”; this has not been a great year for tech... Based on closing prices, the only day since January 19th, that you could have bought the Nasdaq 100 index and be profitable, is January 31st (and unless I type...
A Very Ugly Week For The Nasdaq, A Terrible Week For Semiconductors
19.04.2024, 17:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Very Ugly Week For The Nasdaq, A Terrible Week For Semiconductors It's been a very ugly week for momentum names, but since these days that really means AI and/or mega tech, we can just saw this has been a very ugly week for the Nasdaq. And sure enough, with the QQQs down 0.4%, the Nasdaq is now pacing for its worst week in over a year - and is down...
What Happened To Bitcoin?
19.04.2024, 12:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Happened To Bitcoin? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Those who involved themselves in Bitcoin markets after 2017 encountered a different operation and ideal than those who came before. Today, no one much cares about what came before, speaking of 2010-2016. They are only watching the upward price momentum and are thrilled...
BRICS - The Project Of The Century
19.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BRICS - The Project Of The Century Authored by Peter Hanseler via VoiceOfRussia.com, The Western media are prioritizing the Ukraine conflict, the green revolution and the woke revolution. In the shadow of this media coverage, BRICS is changing the world. We bring you the latest figures and place them in the current geopolitical environment. – An analysis...
Money-Market Fund Assets See Largest Outflows Since 'Lehman'
18.04.2024, 22:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money-Market Fund Assets See Largest Outflows Since 'Lehman' Total money-market fund assets plunged by $112BN in the last week as Tax-Day demands took the total assets below $6 Trillion for the first time sine January (to $5.97 Trillion)... Source: Bloomberg Corporate taxes collected from April 11 through April 17 totaled $100.7 billion, Treasury data...
Bitcoin & Bullion Bid As Hawkish FedSpeak Hammers Stocks & Bonds
18.04.2024, 22:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin & Bullion Bid As Hawkish FedSpeak Hammers Stocks & Bonds Stocks had limped higher all night after four straight days lower but into the cash open, Fed's Williams ruined the party by admitting that while rate-hikes are not 'his baseline' they are possible if the data warrants. But that dip was bought aggressively after the open. Stocks were spooked...
Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated
18.04.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank An Eye For An Eye Treasury yields fell yesterday for the first time this week. The 2-year was down 5.5bps to 4.93%, while Brent crude gave up 3% to be sitting well below the $90/bbl again. Crude is sending some interesting...
Is China's 'Dumping' Driving US Treasury Yields Higher?
18.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China's 'Dumping' Driving US Treasury Yields Higher? Tonight's TIC data held few surprises and nothing of significant note, but it got us thinking... For the 9th month of the last 11, China's Treasury holdings declined in February (the latest TIC data), dropping by $22.7BN. Additionally, it has now been 24 of the last 28 months that China's Treasury...