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Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War
26.04.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War Authored by Giorgio Cafiero via The Cradle Launched in 2017, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, a sprawling high-tech development on the northwestern Red Sea coast, was introduced as the crown jewel of Vision 2030. This futuristic desert megaproject, extending over some Jordanian and Egyptian...
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...
Gold Prices: Beyond Inflation And Real Yields
25.04.2024, 18:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Prices: Beyond Inflation And Real Yields Authored Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Renowned for its role as a hedge against economic uncertainty and inflation, gold has long captivated investors. One key factor influencing gold’s price is the relationship between real yields and inflation. Over the long term, gold has protected one against...
Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan
25.04.2024, 16:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan Seizing assets? Two can play at that game... Just days after Washington voted to authorize the REPO Act - paving the way for the Biden administration confiscate billions in Russian sovereign assets which sit in US banks - it appears Moscow has a plan of its own (let's call it the REVERSE REPO Act) as a Russian...
Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate
25.04.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate By John Kartch of Americans For Tax Reform President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years. Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified...
Biden Takes Swipe At "MAGA Republicans" While Signing 'Vital' Ukraine, Israel Aid Bill
24.04.2024, 23:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Takes Swipe At "MAGA Republicans" While Signing 'Vital' Ukraine, Israel Aid Bill During Wednesday's signing ceremony authorizing the House and Senate-approved 95$ billion emergency foreign aid package, President Biden in his remarks took a swipe at "MAGA Republicans" for causing the holdup. "It’s a good day for America, it’s a good day...
"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...
The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US
24.04.2024, 22:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US By Michael Every of Rabobank "Where it will end is very much up for grabs." Yesterday’s manufacturing PMIs shouted “stagflation”, even if some heard “rate cuts”. German manufacturing was 42.2, French 44.9, and Eurozone 45.6, as services were 53.3, 50.5, and 52.9 - but Europe must now...
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...
Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime
24.04.2024, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. The curious aspect of the case is that the prosecutors are...
Hong Kong Bitcoin And Ether ETFs Officially Approved To Start Trading On April 30
24.04.2024, 17:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hong Kong Bitcoin And Ether ETFs Officially Approved To Start Trading On April 30 Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The first wave of spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been officially approved to start trading in Hong Kong on April 30. Hong Kong’s financial regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)...
Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors
24.04.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Most NFL general managers (GMs) are optimistic and displaying overconfidence today as they prepare for tomorrow’s NFL draft. The draft is a once-a-year opportunity for GMs to acquire talent. Like investors, GMs often think they are smarter...
Meet The New ETFs That Are Offering '100% Downside Protection'
24.04.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meet The New ETFs That Are Offering '100% Downside Protection' If 100% downside protection is the norm for banks that are too big to fail on Wall Street, why shouldn't it be for everyday investors? This is the question that a number of ETF innovators are apparently asking, as a wave of new ETFs offering '100% downside protection' are getting ready to...
Biden's FTC Blocks $8.5 Billion Deal Between Michael Kors & Coach As Central Planners Target Fashion
23.04.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's FTC Blocks $8.5 Billion Deal Between Michael Kors & Coach As Central Planners Target Fashion President Joe Biden's antitrust enforcement has been on a deal-blocking crusade ahead of the presidential elections in November. On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission targeted the fashion industry for the first time. It sued to block Tapestry's $8...
Just A Correction, Or Is The Bull Market Over?
23.04.2024, 19:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Just A Correction, Or Is The Bull Market Over? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Is this just a correction after a strong bullish advance from November, or is the bull market ending? If you read some of the headlines, you would suspect the latter. As noted by MarketWatch last week: “For the first time since early November 2023...
Swiss Bitcoiners Renew Efforts To Orange-Pill The Country's Central Bank
23.04.2024, 11:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swiss Bitcoiners Renew Efforts To Orange-Pill The Country's Central Bank Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, Several Swiss-based Bitcoiners are renewing attempts to get the Swiss National Bank to hold Bitcoin in its reserves by holding a referendum to change the country’s constitution — but they will need to convince more than 100...
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...
Planned Parenthood Abortions Among 'Top Four Leading Causes Of Death' In America
23.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Planned Parenthood Abortions Among 'Top Four Leading Causes Of Death' In America Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Abortions conducted by Planned Parenthood are a leading cause of death in the United States, with the organization recommending the procedure to pregnant clients 97 percent of the time, according to Susan...
Markets Can Absorb Geopolitic Risks, To A Point
22.04.2024, 23:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Can Absorb Geopolitic Risks, To A Point By Michael Msika and Jan-Patrick Barnert, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists Geopolitics is having an impact on investment decisions again, and risks are rising as well as equity volatility. Yet under the hood, the stock market is absorbing the shock relatively well so far. Stress levels...
While Congress Abandons Border, $3.5 Billion Slipped Into Israel Bill For 'Migrants And Refugees'
22.04.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - While Congress Abandons Border, $3.5 Billion Slipped Into Israel Bill For 'Migrants And Refugees' While Congress failed to pass a border security bill over the weekend amid a flurry of billions in international aid to Ukraine and Israel, they did set aside $3.5 billion for "Migration and Refugee Assistance" for the State Department to "address humanitarian...
Trump Lawyer Rages At "Waste Of Taxpayers' Dollars" As Judge Approves Trump's $175 Million Bond In New York Civil Case
22.04.2024, 21:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Lawyer Rages At "Waste Of Taxpayers' Dollars" As Judge Approves Trump's $175 Million Bond In New York Civil Case Authored by Sam Dorman, Catherine Yang, and Juliette Fairley via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James reached an agreement on April 22 regarding his $175 million bond in his New...
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...
REPO Act Passage Has Authorized Biden To Confiscate Russian Assets & Transfer To Ukraine
22.04.2024, 16:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - REPO Act Passage Has Authorized Biden To Confiscate Russian Assets & Transfer To Ukraine When the House voted to pass Biden's long sought after foreign aid package Saturday, which will deliver over $60 billion to Ukraine, included in this was passage of the REPO Act, which paves the way for the Biden administration confiscate billions in Russian sovereign...
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 Debt-to-GDP Ratios Have Changed Around The World Since 2000
22.04.2024, 10:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Debt-to-GDP Ratios Have Changed Around The World Since 2000 Government debt levels have grown in most parts of the world since the 2008 financial crisis, and even more so after the COVID-19 pandemic. To gain perspective on this long-term trend, Visual Capitalist's Marcu Lu visualized the debt-to-GDP ratios of advanced economies, as of 2000 and 2024...
US-Funded Experiments In China Could Secretly Manipulate Viruses: Email
22.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US-Funded Experiments In China Could Secretly Manipulate Viruses: Email Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Experiments in China funded by the U.S. government could manipulate coronaviruses and leave no trace, according to newly disclosed emails. An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in...
Ukraine Gets Their Billions Despite CIA Director Reportedly Warning Zelenksy To Stop Stealing So Much Money
22.04.2024, 04:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Gets Their Billions Despite CIA Director Reportedly Warning Zelenksy To Stop Stealing So Much Money Democrats cheered and waved Ukrainian flags, chanting "Ukraine, Ukraine!" in some pavlovian response to Congress passing a bill that will send (another) $61 billion to Ukraine with no questions asked Rand Paul, among many others, was incensed:...
Northern California City Relaxes Homeless Rules Amid Federal Lawsuit
22.04.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Northern California City Relaxes Homeless Rules Amid Federal Lawsuit Authored by Brian Back via The Epoch Times, The city council of San Rafael in Marin County, California, voted unanimously in a public hearing last week, to approve a more relaxed version of its ordinance dealing with homeless camps and where they are allowed. The ordinance was originally...
15 State Officials Warn Bank Of America About 'De-Banking' Of Christians
22.04.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 15 State Officials Warn Bank Of America About 'De-Banking' Of Christians Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A group of 15 financial officials from 13 states sent a notice to Bank of America, raising concerns about the institution’s “de-banking” of Christians. “We write to express our concerns over Bank of America’s troubling...
Debt Matters: Why It's Time To Position Into Countries With Low Outstanding Debt
21.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Debt Matters: Why It's Time To Position Into Countries With Low Outstanding Debt Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, In an era of economic uncertainty and volatility, the importance of managing national debt has never been more evident. Investors seek stability and long-term growth opportunities, so the spotlight turns towards countries...
Charter School Founders Accused Of Massive Fraud
21.04.2024, 05:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Charter School Founders Accused Of Massive Fraud Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Prosecutors are accusing three men of bilking Oklahoma out of millions of dollars in public school funds through a charter school plan that one of the defendants told a state district court prioritized income. Former owners of Epic Youth...
"Defund NPR Act" Introduced In House Over Bias, "Radical, Left-Wing Activist" CEO
20.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Defund NPR Act" Introduced In House Over Bias, "Radical, Left-Wing Activist" CEO Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) has introduced the "Defund NPR Act" to pull federal funds from National Public Radio, after veteran journalist Uri Berliner - who resigned this week following a suspension for penning a scathing article which exposed the network's far-left bias, including...
Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election
19.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Florida Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling on April 1, upholding a 15-week abortion ban that was signed into law in 2022. The ruling paved the way for a six-week abortion ban to take effect on...
Soros Nonprofit Gives 8-Figure Sum To Far-Left Super PAC
19.04.2024, 01:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soros Nonprofit Gives 8-Figure Sum To Far-Left Super PAC Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, One of the many nonprofits run by far-left billionaire George Soros donated tens of millions of dollars to a major super PAC that funds multiple left-wing groups. According to Fox News, Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records posted Monday reveal...
Inside The Disinformation Industry
18.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Inside The Disinformation Industry Authored by Freddie Sayers via UnHerd.com, “Our team re-reviewed the domain, the rating will not change as it continues to have anti-LGBTQI+ narratives… The site authors have been called out for being anti-trans. Kathleen Stock is acknowledged as a ‘prominent gender-critical’ feminist.” This was part of an...
Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment
18.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment Since acquiring the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk has been on a 'free speech' crusade against leftist corporate media, dark money propping up progressive fact-checkers, taxpayer-funded non-governmental organizations working under the guise of defending free speech...
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...
This Is The Uniparty 'Reveal': Speaker Johnson To Pass $95.3 Billion Foreign Aid Package Using Democrats
18.04.2024, 21:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Is The Uniparty 'Reveal': Speaker Johnson To Pass $95.3 Billion Foreign Aid Package Using Democrats House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is scrambling - both to keep his job, and to pass several bills to devote billions in US taxpayer funds to foreign entanglements that Johnson's conservative base has little-to-no appetite for. The bills would provide...
Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns
18.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns Who could have seen this coming? btw this is where the next really big crash will start https://t.co/XcK2RezYEk — zerohedge ( zerohedge) February 1, 2024 Bloomberg's Ye Xie reports that a small group of funds has accumulated such large short wagers in the Treasury market that they could...
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...
Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak
18.04.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The impulse from central-bank reserves in the US, or the change in their change on a monthly basis, points to further short-term resistance for stocks. The Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening program is ongoing, but bank reserves...
"The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped"
18.04.2024, 16:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped" 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 his thoughts...
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...
Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses
18.04.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses US equity futures are higher after four consecutive days of selling, although that is the same pattern we have seen all week as futures initially rise only to dump later in the day. As of 7:40am, S&P futures are up 0.3% while tech stocks were set to outperform, pushing the Nasdaq 0.4% higher after TSMC delivered...
Forget Cocoa, Coffee. There's A "Squeeze Risk" Building In The Tin Market
18.04.2024, 04:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Forget Cocoa, Coffee. There's A "Squeeze Risk" Building In The Tin Market Tin prices on the London Metal Exchange have surged 27% this year, landing on the radars of some institutional desks. Other commodities closely monitored by hedge funds include cocoa, coffee, Brent crude, copper, and gold. Bloomberg notes that LME data for the tin market shows the...
"We Have 15,000 Samples In Wuhan ... Could Do Full Genomes Of 700 CoVs": Rand Paul Drops COVID Bombshell
17.04.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Have 15,000 Samples In Wuhan ... Could Do Full Genomes Of 700 CoVs": Rand Paul Drops COVID Bombshell Last week Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote in a Tuesday op-ed that officials from 15 federal agencies "knew in 2018 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19." These officials knew that the Chinese lab was...
Peter Schiff: The Data Looks Grim For The Dollar
17.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: The Data Looks Grim For The Dollar Via SchiffGold.com, Peter’s back in Puerto Rico this week for his podcast after another week of record gold prices. In this episode, he discusses media coverage of inflation, this week’s CPI report, and Bitcoin’s weakening price relative to gold. Peter starts by recapping this week’s price action...
Watch: Reporter Asks If Biden Should "Beef Up Iran Posture To Be More Than One Word"
17.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Reporter Asks If Biden Should "Beef Up Iran Posture To Be More Than One Word" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy again exposed the failings of the Biden Administration Monday when he asked White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby to explain how Biden can lead effectively when he’s...
Red States Fight Growing Efforts To Give "Basic Income" Cash To Residents
17.04.2024, 04:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Red States Fight Growing Efforts To Give "Basic Income" Cash To Residents By Kevin Hardy of Stateline South Dakota state Sen. John Wiik likes to think of himself as a lookout of sorts — keeping an eye on new laws, programs and ideas brewing across the states. “I don’t bring a ton of legislation,” said Wiik, a Republican. “The main thing I...
A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety
17.04.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety Authored by David Zaruk via RealClear Politics, In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible...