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Over 80,000 Crypto Shorts Liquidated For Over $290 Million In 24 Hours As Ethereum Erupts
21.05.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Over 80,000 Crypto Shorts Liquidated For Over $290 Million In 24 Hours As Ethereum Erupts As the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices exploded toward new all-time highs, the recently piled-on shorts have suffered the brunt of the liquidations. In the last day alone, over $360 million was liquidated from the crypto market with the majority hitting short traders...
Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy
21.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy Almost two months ago, we highlighted what we called at the time 'The Next AI Trade' - that in fact it is not the tech itself, but the electrical power required to run the tech that is the limiting factor on the growth of AI (and Data Center) expansion. These pages have been...
The Argument Against Michael Saylor
21.05.2024, 14:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Argument Against Michael Saylor Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Today, with his permission, I’m happy to offer up the latest thoughts from my friend Anton Wahlman, whose takes I don’t always agree with — but are always worth considering. Anton is a brilliant analyst and has, many times in the past, help me see “blind spots” in analysis...
Welcome To 'Fugazy Land'
20.05.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Welcome To 'Fugazy Land' Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “The crisis of meaning only becomes a problem when society becomes resigned to it, accepts a condition of meaninglessness, and seeks to dispossess humanity from the insights and truths it learned through the ages.” - Frank Furedi Really, you must agree: just about anything...
Bill Maher Scolds Pearl-Clutching Lefties Over Harrison Butker Tradwife Speech
19.05.2024, 01:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bill Maher Scolds Pearl-Clutching Lefties Over Harrison Butker Tradwife Speech 90s Democrat Bill Maher has come to the defense of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker over a recent graduation speech in which he said that one of the "most important" jobs a woman can have is being a homemaker. "How many of you are sitting here now, about to cross...
Watch: Houthis Shoot Down A 4th US Reaper Drone
18.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Houthis Shoot Down A 4th US Reaper Drone Yemen's Iran-linked Houthis have announced that they have shot down yet another $30 million American military drone. Footage is widely circulating of what appears to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Reaper drone in Yemen, but the Pentagon has not yet confirmed. Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya...
Platinum Enters Its Second Year Of "Substantial" Deficit
17.05.2024, 19:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Platinum Enters Its Second Year Of "Substantial" Deficit Via SchiffGold.com, Platinum is entering its second year of substantial deficit, according to the Platinum Quarterly report from the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC). Report authors labeled the Q1 deficit of 369k oz “significant” and predicted that the deficit will continue...
Desperate Ukraine Launches Massive Kamikaze Drone Attack Against Russian Black Sea Coast, Sparking Fire At Major Refinery
17.05.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Desperate Ukraine Launches Massive Kamikaze Drone Attack Against Russian Black Sea Coast, Sparking Fire At Major Refinery In defiance of repeated warnings from the Biden administration, the Ukrainian military continues ramping up kamikaze drone attacks on the Russian energy complex, a move to crush the nation's crude oil and...
Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal
16.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal For much of the past decade, gold bugs religiously tracked the physical gold inventory located in the various gold vaults that make up the Comex system, eagerly awaiting the day when there would be more deliverables (via paper shorting of gold) than...
Walmart Soars To Record High After Beating Estimates, Guiding Higher As Consumers "Trade Down"
16.05.2024, 15:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Walmart Soars To Record High After Beating Estimates, Guiding Higher As Consumers "Trade Down" WMT stock surged in premarket trading after the company not only reported Q1 earnings that blew away expectations, but guided even higher than consensus, and now expects the full year to be slightly better than planned as the big-box retailer attracts price-conscious...
There Isn't Much That Can Stop This Market For Now
16.05.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Isn't Much That Can Stop This Market For Now By Michael Miska, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist With US inflation and retail sales both cooling, bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates are back, and there isn’t much left that could stop stocks from hitting new highs. After most equity markets fully erased April losses...
Large Barge Slams Into Galveston Bridge, Stranding Thousands On Pelican Island
15.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Large Barge Slams Into Galveston Bridge, Stranding Thousands On Pelican Island As the Biden administration continues funneling billions of dollars to Ukraine and with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg nowhere to be found, America's infrastructure continues deteriorating. Earlier today, a large barge crashed into a bridge in Galveston,...
Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons
14.05.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons A top British intelligence official has issued a new alarmist warning concerning the 'Russian threat' to the West. Anne Keast-Butler, who for the last year has headed up the UK's GCHQ, or signals intelligence operations (which is the equivalent of America's...
Entrepreneurs Face Major Headwinds Due To Big Government Policies
14.05.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Entrepreneurs Face Major Headwinds Due To Big Government Policies Authored by Alfredo Ortiz via RealClearPolicy, The specter of stagflation has returned. On April 25th, The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that GDP only grew by 1.6% in the first quarter of this year, well below expectations. Consumer spending on goods actually declined in...
"Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech
14.05.2024, 12:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech US equity futures are flat into tomorrow's CPI/Retail Sales print with PPI the major macro data point today, while Fed Chair Powell also speaks. Futures are flat after also closing unchanged yesterday when the return of the meme stonk mania sent GME and AMC soaring, and hammered L/S hedge funds...
"There's A Lag In The Real Economy... And It's Hitting Now" - Ed Dowd Warns Of "Huge Credit Crisis Coming"
13.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "There's A Lag In The Real Economy... And It's Hitting Now" - Ed Dowd Warns Of "Huge Credit Crisis Coming" Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Former Wall Street money manager Ed Dowd is a skillful financial analyst. Even though he has a wildly popular book on CV19 vax deaths and injuries called “Cause Unknown,” he is now turning his attention...
Apple Reportedly Near Deal To Infuse ChatGPT Into iPhones
13.05.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Reportedly Near Deal To Infuse ChatGPT Into iPhones Apple is nearing a deal with Microsoft-backed OpenAI to infuse its large language model, known as ChatGPT, into the future iPhone operating system, according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the discussions. The two sides have been finalizing terms for a pact to use ChatGPT...
Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations
12.05.2024, 03:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations When people gripe about paying taxes and the government being a poor the absolute worst possible capital allocation, this is what they are talking about: $7.5 billion in investments for electric vehicles has - in two years - produced just 7 charging stations...
What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis?
10.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis? Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock) Securing an appointment to see a doctor in the United States is exacerbated by soaring health care demand and fewer doctors. Many specializations are increasingly affected by this...
"The US Economic Picture Appears To Be Softening"
10.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The US Economic Picture Appears To Be Softening" By Rabobank The Bank of England left the Bank Rate unchanged at 5.25% yesterday, but the clear signal from the record of votes, and Governor Bailey, is that cuts aren’t far away. This time around the vote split 7-2 in favour of holding (previously 8-1), with arch-dove Dhingra being joined by former...
Manhattan Apartment Rents Gain Momentum, Signal Potential Record Highs This Summer
10.05.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Manhattan Apartment Rents Gain Momentum, Signal Potential Record Highs This Summer While the rent component of the consumer price index has shown a strong disinflationary trend since peaking in the summer of 2023, high-frequency data reveals rent prices in key metro areas are moving higher. Several high-frequency rental data points show that the...
Revenge Travel Peaked? Airbnb Pukes On Travel Spending Slowdown Forecast
09.05.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Revenge Travel Peaked? Airbnb Pukes On Travel Spending Slowdown Forecast Shares of Airbnb stumbled in premarket trading in New York on Thursday after the home rental company beat earnings expectations for the first quarter but provided weaker-than-expected guidance. This comes after Bank of America analysts identified other travel companies missing...
"Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings
09.05.2024, 03:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings One theme we've spotted this earnings season has been an increasing number of companies warning about low-income consumers. From McDonald's to Starbucks to Tyson Foods, executives on earnings calls have warned about mounting headwinds hitting the...
Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever
08.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever A bear market in the used car market was confirmed in November and has since worsened through April. At the same time, negative equity values are hitting new record highs while auto insurance rates have soared the most since the mid-1970s. While gas prices at the pump are...
Russia Stepping Up 'Decapitation Strikes' - Belatedly Adds Zelensky to Criminal 'Wanted' List
05.05.2024, 03:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Stepping Up 'Decapitation Strikes' - Belatedly Adds Zelensky to Criminal 'Wanted' List Days ago, for the first time Russian forces mounted a major air attack on the Ukrainian command's southern headquarters in the port city of Odessa. This suggests Moscow is increasingly targeting Ukraine's top command and control centers. There's been another...
Jim Jordan Drops "Smoking Gun" Over White House 'Lab Leak' Suppression At Facebook
03.05.2024, 02:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jim Jordan Drops "Smoking Gun" Over White House 'Lab Leak' Suppression At Facebook Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) has released several new pieces of previously unseen information revealing what Elon Musk called a "smoking gun" in regards White House pressure on Facebook to censor the lab leak theory of Covid-19. First, Jordan shares a text message from Mark...
Hurt / The Downward Spiral
02.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hurt / The Downward Spiral By Michael Every of Rabobank Hurt / The Downward Spiral “I hurt myself today; To see if I still feel; I focus on the pain; The only thing that's real” Post-Fed, equities closed slightly lower yesterday (S&P -0.3%), 2-year Treasury bond yields dropped 10bps before rising slightly from that floor, and 10-years were down...
South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term
01.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term Back in 2011, around the time gold hits its previous cycle high, South Korea surprised the fiat world when it revealed that it had spent more than a billion dollars in its first gold purchase in more than a decade, as uncertainty about global growth and sovereign debt push central...
Walmart Targets Gen-Z With Cheap Private Label Food As Youngsters Struggle In Era Of Failed Bidenomics
30.04.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Walmart Targets Gen-Z With Cheap Private Label Food As Youngsters Struggle In Era Of Failed Bidenomics Walmart executives must be paying attention to Gen Z consumers bitching on TikTok and X about the failures of Bidenomics, as many of them have to work multiple jobs and still can't afford to put food on the table, pay shelter costs, and buy gasoline...
'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...
Iran's Nightmares
28.04.2024, 05:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran's Nightmares Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Details of the recent limited Israeli retaliatory strike against Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed...
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"...
UK Navy Reports Two Vessels Attacked In Red Sea, One Damaged
27.04.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UK Navy Reports Two Vessels Attacked In Red Sea, One Damaged Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels may have launched attacks on two vessels transiting southwest of Mukha, a port city on the highly contested southern Red Sea. Bloomberg says the UK Navy has confirmed two attacks on vessels in a series of headlines hitting the Terminal around 1400...
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...
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...
How Hard Is It To Get Into An Ivy League School?
26.04.2024, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Hard Is It To Get Into An Ivy League School? Ivy League institutions are renowned worldwide for their academic excellence and long-standing traditions. But how hard is it to get into one of the top universities in the U.S.? In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu details the admission rates and average annual cost for Ivy League schools...
Houthis Launch Attack On US Cargo & Navy Ships Following Two Weeks Of Quiet
26.04.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Houthis Launch Attack On US Cargo & Navy Ships Following Two Weeks Of Quiet Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthis have announced new aggressive actions in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea regions, saying late Wednesday that projectiles were launched against more US and Israeli-owned commercial vessels, and that a US warship was also targeted. This follows a period...
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...
Market Is Splendidly Indifferent To Rising Inflation Risks
24.04.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Market Is Splendidly Indifferent To Rising Inflation Risks Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, There continues to be scant evidence of inflation hedging in markets despite clear signs price-growth risks are rising. Inflation remains in focus this week as we get the first quarter’s update for US PCE on Friday. Regardless of one data...
Yields Will Trigger "Serious Earthquakes" Across The Economy, Former Floor Trader Says
24.04.2024, 18:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Will Trigger "Serious Earthquakes" Across The Economy, Former Floor Trader Says Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Jack Boroudjian is a legendary former floor trader and now Chairman of SmartXData. Aside from over 30 years of industry experience, Jack is a published author "Secrets of the Trading", Wiley 2007 and has countless articles published...
Kim Jong Un Oversees "Nuclear Counterattack" Drill
24.04.2024, 03:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kim Jong Un Oversees "Nuclear Counterattack" Drill North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw salvo launches of the country’s "super-large" multiple rocket launchers in what state media presented as simulation drills of a nuclear counterattack against enemy targets, state media revealed Tuesday. The day prior, the South Korean and Japanese militaries...
Tesla Soars Despite Missing Across The Board, After Announcing Earlier Rollout Of "More Affordable Models"
23.04.2024, 22:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Soars Despite Missing Across The Board, After Announcing Earlier Rollout Of "More Affordable Models" As previewed earlier, today's TSLA print is likely to be ugly: the company is the only Mag7 member expected to reported negative earnings growth... ... as a result of anemic Q1 sales, where the (growing) delta between production and deliveries...
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...
Here Comes The Cavalry?
22.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here Comes The Cavalry? By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank Here Comes The Cavalry? The risk of imminent hot war between Israel and Iran seems to have dissipated for the time being. Israel on Friday delivered its promised response to the Iranian strike of the weekend before by hitting targets in Syria and the Iranian city of Isfahan. Reporting of the strikes...
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...
"Southwest Stop!": Near Runway Disaster At Washington-Reagan Recorded On Shocking Audio
20.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Southwest Stop!": Near Runway Disaster At Washington-Reagan Recorded On Shocking Audio Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is caught in one of the worst aviation crises in American history, as Boeing jets fall apart in mid-air and while on the runway. The latest near-disaster happened when a JetBlue flight nearly collided with a Southwest...
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...
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...
How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water
19.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As federal net-zero policies attempt to shift transportation, heating, and other essentials onto the electric grid, one of the hottest growth sectors of America’s economy is poised to increase electricity demand exponentially,...