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Weak EV Market Dragged Down European Car Sales In March
19.04.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Weak EV Market Dragged Down European Car Sales In March By Tsvetana Paraskova of Oilprice.com Europe’s new car sales fell in March for the first time this year, dragged down by a decline in electric vehicle (EV) registrations and the timing of the Easter holidays, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, ACEA, said on Thursday. All...
The Top 10 Most Cost-Effective Countries To Get A High-Priced Higher Education
18.04.2024, 05:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Top 10 Most Cost-Effective Countries To Get A High-Priced Higher Education A new study by Online Gaming Groups has evaluated over 30 countries to determine the most cost-effective higher education systems, focusing on the percentage of average annual income spent on educational expenses. This analysis included countries with the highest university...
IMF Warns Biden's Fiscal Profligacy Poses "Significant Risks" To Global Economy 'In Great Election Year'
17.04.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IMF Warns Biden's Fiscal Profligacy Poses "Significant Risks" To Global Economy 'In Great Election Year' The IMF said the the quiet part out loud today (admittedly wrapped in 100s of pages of PhD-ese) in their benchmark Fiscal Monitor this morning: pointing out that America's recent economic performance is partially the result of the country's unsustainable...
Less Than One Third Of US Men Enjoy Reading
17.04.2024, 02:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Less Than One Third Of US Men Enjoy Reading It’s National Libraries Week in the United States and to mark it we’re looking at readership patterns around the world. As Anna Fleck shows, based on data from Statista’s Consumer Insights survey shows, women were more likely to say that reading is one of their personal hobbies than men in all of the...
Central Banks Are Wrong About Rate-Cuts
16.04.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Central Banks Are Wrong About Rate-Cuts Authored by Daniel Lacalle, When we talk about monetary policy, people do not understand the importance of interest rates reflecting the reality of inflation and risk. Interest rates are the price of risk and manipulating them down leads to bubbles that end in financial crises, while imposing too high rates can...
Zum Gedenken an diejenigen, die in den Vereinigten Staaten und weltweit vom 2. bis 8. April 2024 “plötzlich und unerwartet” gestorben sind
16.04.2024, 11:17 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - Musicians: US (3), Brazil, Argentina, UK, Germany, Norway, Finland, Czechia, Slovakia, Russia; actors: US (2), UK, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran, India, Russia; nurses: US, Canada, Brazil, Italy, Turkey; moreMusiker: USA (3), Brasilien, Argentinien, Vereinigtes Königreich, Deutschland, Norwegen, Finnland, Tschechische Republik, Slowakei, Russland; Schauspieler:...
It's Not Just The Middle East: Here Are The Main Events This Busy Week
15.04.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not Just The Middle East: Here Are The Main Events This Busy Week While back on Friday the market's attention was mostly on the start of earnings season, this weekend's events have quickly shift focus and looking forward, the important question now is how Israel might respond to the (scripted) war between Iran and Israel, and whether it could lead...
Swiss-Hosted Ukraine Peace Summit To Include 100 Countries, But Not Russia
10.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swiss-Hosted Ukraine Peace Summit To Include 100 Countries, But Not Russia The much anticipated Switzerland-hosted international Ukraine peace conference is finally coming together, the Swiss government announced Wednesday; however, it will not include Russian representation. "Switzerland’s government said Wednesday it will host a high-level international...
Pfizer And A Corruption Too Deep To Fix
09.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pfizer And A Corruption Too Deep To Fix Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Old movies and new ones often turn on the theme of corruption. For generations, viewers have enjoyed discovering the ins and outs of a gang of people who are up to no good, financially and otherwise. It’s always a shock to see the way the insiders treat each other...
Decline Of The EU Center, Pro-Russia Candidate Elected President Of Slovakia
09.04.2024, 12:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Decline Of The EU Center, Pro-Russia Candidate Elected President Of Slovakia Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Peter Pellegrini, a pro-Russia candidate is elected President of Slovakia. Prime Minister Robert Fico is also pro-Russia. The EU further splinters. Pellegrini Wins Slovak Presidential Election Reuters reports Pellegrini Wins Slovak...
Key Events This Week: CPI, FOMC Minutes, Q1 Earnings Kick Off And Fed Speakers Galore
08.04.2024, 15:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: CPI, FOMC Minutes, Q1 Earnings Kick Off And Fed Speakers Galore As DB's Henry Allen writes, markets had a rough start to Q2 last week, with the S&P 500 (-0.95%) posting its worst weekly performance in 3 months, whilst the US 30yr yield (+21.0bps) saw its biggest weekly rise since October, with yields extending gains again this...
What Is Driving Gold To All-Time Highs?
08.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Is Driving Gold To All-Time Highs? Submitted by BullionStar/Jesse Colombo After more than three years of stagnation, gold has awakened with a vengeance since early-March and has promptly surged by nearly $300 an ounce or 14% to an all-time high $2,330 — a sharp move for a safe-haven asset that has a reputation for its slow and steady trends....
Mapping Average Wages Across Europe
08.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping Average Wages Across Europe Much has been written about the best countries in Europe to visit, sight-see at, or vacation in. But the economic powerhouse of a continent also has eight of the top 20 largest economies, the biggest single-market area, and some of the richest countries in the world. How does all of that translate into how much people...
Europe's South Takes The Lead
06.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe's South Takes The Lead By Maartje Wijffelaars, Senior Economist at Rabobank Brent crude oil extended its gains and broke through the 90 dollars a barrel threshold yesterday, for the first time since end-October last year. The commodity continues its ascend this morning and at the time of writing it’ll cost you 91.2 dollars to buy a barrel....
Beer Beats Wine In Regular Consumption
06.04.2024, 02:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beer Beats Wine In Regular Consumption Alcohol has long been portrayed as a "social lubricant", an effect possibly explained by the alcohol myopia theory. It suggests that intoxication can result in "hyperfocus directed to emotional situations when they are sufficiently relevant to grab attention, or a reduced attentional focus to emotional events in...
America’s Controversial Stealth Fighter Jet Can Now Carry Nukes
02.04.2024, 05:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America’s Controversial Stealth Fighter Jet Can Now Carry Nukes Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It was a routine Pentagon announcement during a regular briefing the Friday before the president typically submits his annual defense budget request to Congress on the second Monday in March. As of October, a spokesman for...
Concern Over Food & Water Supply Grows Among Europeans
31.03.2024, 13:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Concern Over Food & Water Supply Grows Among Europeans Spain’s northeast Catalonia region is currently suffering its worst drought on record. And, as Statista's Anna Fleck reports, it’s not just Spain afflicted with this problem: The EU Commission’s Joint Research Center sounded the alarm earlier this year over how prolonged drought events have...
Visualizing The Major Product Exported By Each US State
30.03.2024, 03:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing The Major Product Exported By Each US State The U.S. is the second biggest exporter in the world, accounting for over 8% of global exports. In this graphic by NeoMam Studios, Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti analyzes the primary product exported by each state, as well as its main destination, utilizing data from the U.S. International...
America's Minsky Moment Approaches
29.03.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Minsky Moment Approaches Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Named after American economist Hyman Minsky, the idea behind a Minsky moment is that a financial markets crisis (especially in credit markets) is caused by a sudden and systemic collapse in asset prices, usually after a sustained period of speculative investment, excessive...
Over 20% Of The World's Oil Refining Capacity Is At Risk Of Closure
28.03.2024, 19:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Over 20% Of The World's Oil Refining Capacity Is At Risk Of Closure Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Weakening refining margins and carbon taxes put a fifth of global refining capacity at risk. Europe and China face the highest closure risk due to declining demand and environmental regulations. The rise of electric vehicles and biofuels...
Russian Warships Enter Red Sea As Rival US-Led Coalition Patrols
28.03.2024, 18:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russian Warships Enter Red Sea As Rival US-Led Coalition Patrols The Russian navy’s Pacific Fleet has confirmed that it sent several of its warships through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and into the Red Sea, at a moment Houthi attacks against international shipping is ongoing, and as the waters are still being patrolled by the US-led military coalition...
Gold: The Everything Hedge
28.03.2024, 17:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold: The Everything Hedge Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Gold is trading at $2,211 per ounce this afternoon. Since its interim low of $1,832 per ounce on Oct. 5, 2023, gold has posted a 21% gain. That’s in less than six months. Almost half of that gain occurred in the one-month period from Feb. 11 to March 11. That overall gain...
Expect A Financial Crisis In Europe With France At The Epicenter
28.03.2024, 10:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Expect A Financial Crisis In Europe With France At The Epicenter Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The EU never enforced its Growth and Stability Pact or Maastricht Treaty rules. The crisis is coming to a head with France and Italy in the spotlight. The first casualty will be Green policy. Image composite by Mish from the European Commission...
France Raises Security Risk To Highest Level After Moscow Terror Attack
26.03.2024, 07:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France Raises Security Risk To Highest Level After Moscow Terror Attack Starting Sunday night, France raised the nation's threat level awareness to its highest level of "emergency attack" - which comes two days after the Crocus City Hall attack which took the lives of at least 139 people, and has been claimed by the Islamic State. President Emmanuel...
Key Events This Week: Core PCE Released When Markets Are Closed
25.03.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Core PCE Released When Markets Are Closed After last week's central bank fireworks, the most exciting event of the otherwise quiet and holiday-shortened week will happen once markets are actually closed for the month and Q1 is done and dusted in performance terms: as DB's Jim Reid reminds us, the monthly US personal income and...
The World's Top 50 Largest Banks By Consolidated Assets
24.03.2024, 23:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The World's Top 50 Largest Banks By Consolidated Assets Banks are often among the biggest companies in the world. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu lists the top 50 banks in the world by consolidated assets, based on a 2023 report from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The data represents each bank’s total assets for the most recent...
Where Water Stress Will Be Highest by 2050
23.03.2024, 23:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Water Stress Will Be Highest by 2050 Water is not only the basis of life for animals and plants, but is also likely to become a contested resource in parts of the world in the coming decades. According to UN figures, global water stress, i.e. the proportion of water withdrawn for use in industry, agriculture or private households in relation...
European Council President Calls On Europe To Switch To A War Economy
22.03.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European Council President Calls On Europe To Switch To A War Economy Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, As a way to create jobs, EC President Charles Michel promotes a war economy. Where that would lead is obvious. I suggest putting Michel on the front line with Senator Lindsey Graham. Michel’s Rosy War Economy Eurointelligence discusses Michel’s...
Where Do The Wealthiest People In The World Live?
22.03.2024, 07:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Do The Wealthiest People In The World Live? Investors didn’t expect 2023 to be the bumper year for returns it ended up being. Despite tightening monetary policies and surging bond yields, equities continued their strong performance (helped hugely by enthusiasm around the potential of artificial intelligence). This has boosted wealth creation...
Key Events This Week: Central Banks Galore Including A Historic Rate Hike By The BOJ
18.03.2024, 14:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Central Banks Galore Including A Historic Rate Hike By The BOJ According to DB's Jim Reid, "this could be a landmark week in markets as the last global holdout on negative rates looks set to be removed as the BoJ likely hikes rates from -0.1% tomorrow." That will likely overshadow the FOMC that concludes on Wednesday that will...
The Portuguese Continue European Trend Of Veering Right Ahead Of EU Elections
18.03.2024, 08:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Portuguese Continue European Trend Of Veering Right Ahead Of EU Elections By Gregorz Adamczyk of Remix news In Portugal, the election results led to several conclusions. First, they demonstrated how Europeans are reacting to the EU-enforced Green Deal: Two environmental parties did not even make it into the parliament, which aligns with disastrous...
Europe To Arm Ukraine Using Profits From Seized Russian Funds
17.03.2024, 12:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe To Arm Ukraine Using Profits From Seized Russian Funds In a significant shift from prior policy, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday endorsed a plan to buy weapons for Ukraine using profits generated from seized Russian assets. He made the announcement in Berlin at a press conference alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime...
Zum Gedenken an diejenigen, die in den Vereinigten Staaten und weltweit vom 5. bis 11. März 2024 “plötzlich und unerwartet verstorben” sind
15.03.2024, 08:40 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - Athletes: US (2), CA, Brazil, Uruguay, Germany, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Spain, Italy (2), S. Africa, Russia, Japan; musicians: US (3), CA, UK (3), Germany, Croatia, Italy, Morocco, Cameroon; & moreAthleten: US (2), CA, Brasilien, Uruguay, Deutschland, Belgien, Kroatien, Finnland, Spanien, Italien (2), Südafrika, Russland, Japan; Musiker: US...
'Excess Mortality Skyrocketed': Tucker Carlson and Dr. Pierre Kory Unpack 'Criminal' COVID Response
14.03.2024, 21:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Excess Mortality Skyrocketed': Tucker Carlson and Dr. Pierre Kory Unpack 'Criminal' COVID Response As the global pandemic unfolded, government-funded experimental vaccines were hastily developed for a virus which primarily killed the old and fat (and those with other obvious comorbidities), and an aggressive, global campaign to coerce billions into...
A Matter Of Faith
14.03.2024, 09:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Matter Of Faith For many people around the world, religion plays a prominent role in their everyday lives, while others embrace secular ideas. As Katharina Buchholz reports, according to a Statista Consumer Insights survey, carried out between April 2022 and March 2023, many of the most religious countries in the world can be found in Africa and...
Young French Voters Are Flocking To The Right Ahead Of EU Elections
14.03.2024, 08:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Young French Voters Are Flocking To The Right Ahead Of EU Elections By Thomas Brooke of Remix News An increasing number of young French voters are preparing to vote for right-wing parties in the upcoming European Parliament elections in June, the latest polling has revealed. According to an Ipsos survey published on Tuesday, 31 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds...
The Countries That Are Safe & Unsafe For Women
13.03.2024, 12:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Countries That Are Safe & Unsafe For Women Eight men were arrested in India's Northeastern Jharkhand state for allegedly raping a foreign tourist while holding her and her husband at knifepoint. The case has been tied to a video by a Spanish-Brazilian travel blogger couple identifying themselves as the victims in the attack. The pair had been traveling...
Trump Says No More 'Free Milk' For NATO Free Loaders
12.03.2024, 10:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Says No More 'Free Milk' For NATO Free Loaders Authored by Mark Serrano via RealClear Wire, The mainstream media and political establishment are outraged over Donald Trump’s latest comments about NATO. Instead of all the dramatic pearl-clutching, they should be embracing his position. Trump recently issued a stern warning to America’s NATO...
Key Events This Week: CPI, PPI And Retail Sales As Fed Enters Blackout Period
11.03.2024, 15:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: CPI, PPI And Retail Sales As Fed Enters Blackout Period With 10yr US yields around -10bps lower, and the S&P 500 around +2% higher than where they were just before last month’s higher-than-expected CPI, DB's Jim Reid concludes that "it’s fair to say that markets have shrugged off this upside print alongside the high PPI and...
Italy Blasts France and Poland for Wanting to Send Troops to Ukraine
11.03.2024, 14:51 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post Italy Blasts France and Poland for Wanting to Send Troops to Ukraine...
Futures Drop As Nvidia Extends Slide, Japan Stocks Tumble, Bitcoin Hits $72,000
11.03.2024, 13:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop As Nvidia Extends Slide, Japan Stocks Tumble, Bitcoin Hits $72,000 US equity futures are poised to open lower on Monday, extending Friday's slide into this data-heavy week after pulling back from all-time highs at the end of last week, with technology shares leading declines in the wake of data giving mixed signals about the strength of...
Confidence In The Global Economy, By Country
09.03.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Confidence In The Global Economy, By Country Measuring consumer confidence in the economy is crucial for understanding both current economic strength, as well as how consumers may be expected to act in the future. So how do people around the world feel about the global economy? This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, uses survey data...
Scientists Discover Toxic Microplastics In Every Human Placenta Tested In Study
09.03.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientists Discover Toxic Microplastics In Every Human Placenta Tested In Study Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Harmful microplastics have been found in human placenta, with some of them known to trigger asthma, damage the liver, cause cancer, and impair reproductive function. Director of the Marine Institute of Plymouth...
The Most-Used Energy Sources In Europe
08.03.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Most-Used Energy Sources In Europe Much of Europe has set itself the goal of switching away from heavily polluting fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources. In the chart below, Statista's Anna Fleck shows a snapshot of the energy landscape in Europe right now, using data from the Statistical Review of World Energy 2023. It reveals that...
COVID-19 Lockdowns Had High Health, Economic Costs: Swedish Study
08.03.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - COVID-19 Lockdowns Had High Health, Economic Costs: Swedish Study Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Imposing restrictive lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic led to higher excess mortality in such nations while also damaging their economies, according to a recent Swedish study. A worker waits on a bench in...
Mapping How Much Netflix Costs In Every Country
07.03.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping How Much Netflix Costs In Every Country Netflix, the renowned streaming giant, has transformed the way we consume entertainment, providing a vast library of movies, TV shows, and documentaries at the touch of a button. However, the cost of accessing this digital haven varies significantly from country to country, reflecting economic disparities...
Key Events This Busy Week: Payrolls, Powell, China People's Congress And Much More
04.03.2024, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Busy Week: Payrolls, Powell, China People's Congress And Much More As DB's Jim Reid writes this morning, we're currently on a run that you may not see again in your lifetimes. He is referring to the fact that the S&P 500 just completed a historic run of 16 positive weeks out of the last 18 for first time since 1971. If this carries on...
Biden Wants G7 To Give Russian Central Bank Funds To Ukraine, But France Resists
02.03.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Wants G7 To Give Russian Central Bank Funds To Ukraine, But France Resists President Biden wants the G7 countries to develop a plan to eventually have Russia's frozen sovereign assets handed over Ukraine in order to support the war effort, Bloomberg has reported. Bloomberg's source have also said the US president has privately warned allies that...
We Are Supposed To Be In A "Restrictive Phase Of Monetary Policy" So What The Hell Is Going On
29.02.2024, 19:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - We Are Supposed To Be In A "Restrictive Phase Of Monetary Policy" So What The Hell Is Going On By Michael Every of Rabobank Enjoy your cup of digital cocoa For many in markets, today is all about US weekly initial jobless claims and the core personal consumption expenditure deflator, neither of which are likely to reassure that inflation is on track...