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Judge Shoots Down Effort To Identify FBI, Undercover Police On Jan. 6
26.04.2024, 01:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Judge Shoots Down Effort To Identify FBI, Undercover Police On Jan. 6 Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge in Washington D.C. has denied seven motions from a defendant seeking to identify FBI agents in Jan. 6 crowds and gain access to undercover videos shot by Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers...
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...
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...
US-Led Gaza Pier Project Comes Under Mortar Fire As UN Officials Tour Site
25.04.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US-Led Gaza Pier Project Comes Under Mortar Fire As UN Officials Tour Site The US military's ambitious project to erect a large pier off Gaza's coast (all within a war zone) to allow maritime shipments of humanitarian aid to Palestinians is off to a rocky start, after new reports that the construction site has come under fire. UN officials were reportedly...
Soggy 7Y Auction Prices On The Screws; Foreign Demand Sags Amid Surge In Directs
25.04.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soggy 7Y Auction Prices On The Screws; Foreign Demand Sags Amid Surge In Directs Following two solid, record-large coupon auctions this week, when first the 2Y auction stopped through and then the 5Y auction tailed, we just got the third possible outcome moments ago, when in the sale of $44 billion in 7Y paper (which was not a record large auction unlike...
"None Of This Should've Happened": Baltimore Takes Container Ship Owner & Manager To Court Over Bridge Collapse
25.04.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "None Of This Should've Happened": Baltimore Takes Container Ship Owner & Manager To Court Over Bridge Collapse Baltimore City filed a lawsuit against the owner and operator of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, causing it to collapse. Attorneys for Baltimore's mayor and City Council claim the bridge...
The Infamous 'Buy Bitcoin' Pad Just Sold For More Than $1 Million At Auction
25.04.2024, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Infamous 'Buy Bitcoin' Pad Just Sold For More Than $1 Million At Auction $1.027 million...or about 16 bitcoin. That's what the infamous 'Buy Bitcoin' scribble drawing on a yellow legal pad, once held up at a televised Congressional testimony behind Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, just sold for at auction, according to Bloomberg. The report...
US Pending Home Sales Rise In March, But...
25.04.2024, 16:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Pending Home Sales Rise In March, But... After new home sales soared (thanks to prior downward revisions) and existing home sales plunged in March (along with the collapse in housing starts and permits in March), this morning's pending home sales data was expected to rise very modestly MoM (less than in February) but remain lower on a YoY basis...
This "Emperor" Has No Clothes
25.04.2024, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This "Emperor" Has No Clothes Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Does the Fed even matter that much to the real economy and investor portfolios? That’s an important question that doesn’t get nearly enough scrutiny. It’s possible that neither the Fed nor the reporters who cover the Fed want to ask hard questions about what the Fed...
Stagflation Shock: GDP Stuns With Lowest Print In 2 Years, Below Lowest Estimates, As PCE Comes In Red Hot
25.04.2024, 14:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stagflation Shock: GDP Stuns With Lowest Print In 2 Years, Below Lowest Estimates, As PCE Comes In Red Hot If the Biden admin was to have any hopes of the Fed cutting rates and monetary easing ahead of the election, the tires would need to start falling off the US economy right... about... now... Which is why we didn't find it at all surprising that...
Initial & Continuing Jobless Claims Continue To Ignore Reality
25.04.2024, 14:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Initial & Continuing Jobless Claims Continue To Ignore Reality In the real world labor market, 2024 has been a shitshow of layoffs... 1. Everybuddy: 100% of workforce 2. Wisense: 100% of workforce 3. CodeSee: 100% of workforce 4. Twig: 100% of workforce 5. Twitch: 35% of workforce 6. Roomba: 31% of workforce 7. Bumble: 30% of workforce 8. Farfetch:...
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...
Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News
25.04.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political...
"We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k"
24.04.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k" Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, The UniParty's Day Of Infamy, Part 1 The clusterf*ck in the US House of Representatives this past weekend is surely the final straw. The dreadful grip of the UniParty on national security...
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)...
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...
Primary Protest Vote: 17% Of Republicans Vote Nikki Haley In Biggest Battleground State
24.04.2024, 15:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Primary Protest Vote: 17% Of Republicans Vote Nikki Haley In Biggest Battleground State On more than one occasion this primary season, the Biden-Harris campaign has been found itself on the wrong side of significant protest votes -- for example, when 13.3% of Michigan Democrats voted "uncommitted" to register their deep dissatisfaction with his handling...
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...
Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks
24.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks Equity futures rose for the third day in a row - last week's brutal drubbing a distant memory - with tech outperforming as Tesla soars premarket after Elon Musk vowed to launch less-expensive vehicles as soon as late this year while Texas Instruments jumped 7% after...
Wind Overtakes Fossil Fuels As The UK's Largest Power Generation Source
24.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wind Overtakes Fossil Fuels As The UK's Largest Power Generation Source Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The UK saw two consecutive quarters of wind power overtaking fossil fuels as the single-largest source of electricity generation for the first time, per data from think tank Ember quoted by Reuters columnist Gavin Maguire. In the first...
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...
"That's Concerning": US Indo-Pacific Commander Warns China Becoming More Aggressive As Economic Recovery "Failing"
24.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "That's Concerning": US Indo-Pacific Commander Warns China Becoming More Aggressive As Economic Recovery "Failing" One of the biggest questions of our time is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides's Trap. It seems that, in the short term, the US will likely avoid direct conflict with China, but in the long term, there will be...
'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions
24.04.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions Authored by Wenyuan Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Harvard, following in the footsteps of its Ivy League peers (Dartmouth and Yale) has reinstated standardized testing in its undergraduate admissions. America’s oldest private university, after popularizing...
Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination
24.04.2024, 02:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination Former Rep. Justin Amash on Monday announced that his Senate campaign had submitted the requisite signatures to appear on Michigan's Aug. 6 primary ballot. The GOP field for a shot at a Democrat-vacated seat includes an archetypal Deep Stater in former Rep. Mike Rogers, who...
2nd Democrat Congressman Sued For Defamation By Ex-Biden Associate Tony Bobulinski
23.04.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 2nd Democrat Congressman Sued For Defamation By Ex-Biden Associate Tony Bobulinski Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A U.S. congressman is being sued for allegedly defaming a former associate of the Bidens who claims to have personally met with President Joe Biden. The lawsuit was filed on April 22. Ranking member of the...
Federal Judge Appears Ready To Reimpose Jan. 6 'Disinformation' Monitoring
23.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Judge Appears Ready To Reimpose Jan. 6 'Disinformation' Monitoring Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Despite being slapped down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for ordering a Jan. 6 probationer’s computer use be monitored for so-called “disinformation,” a senior federal judge in Washington D.C. appears ready...
Record Large 2Y Auction Sees Stellar Demand, First Stop Through Of 2024
23.04.2024, 19:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Record Large 2Y Auction Sees Stellar Demand, First Stop Through Of 2024 Bond traders were paying close attention to today's 2Y auction not only because at $69 billion in size, it would once again break the record for biggest 2Y auction issuance on record, but also because it comes at a time when yields are trading just shy of 2024 highs. The results...
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...
Migrant Child Rapist Won't Be Deported Because It Would 'Harm His Mental Health'
23.04.2024, 18:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Migrant Child Rapist Won't Be Deported Because It Would 'Harm His Mental Health' Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A migrant from Eritrea who is a convicted child rapist has won an appeal not to be deported from the UK after arguing that it would harm his mental health. Yes, really. The migrant has been in prison for TEN YEARS after attacking...
Bernie Sanders To Lead Progressive Fight Against Israel Aid In Senate With New Amendment
23.04.2024, 16:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bernie Sanders To Lead Progressive Fight Against Israel Aid In Senate With New Amendment Authored by Jake Johnson via Common Dreams, US Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he would put forth an amendment to remove offensive military funding for Israel from a House-passed aid package that the Senate is set to consider this week. The amendment would...
After Big Downward Revision, New Home Sales Jumped In March Along With Prices
23.04.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Big Downward Revision, New Home Sales Jumped In March Along With Prices Following the plunge in Existing Home Sales (and Start and Permits), March New Home Sales (unexpectedly) soared - rising 8.8% Mom (+0.9% exp). This big jump (largest MoM since Dec 2022) is made to look a lot better after February's 0.3% MoM decline was revised dramatically...
US PMIs Scream Stagflation As Manufacturing 'Contracts', Prices Rise, Heaviest Job Cuts Since GFC
23.04.2024, 16:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US PMIs Scream Stagflation As Manufacturing 'Contracts', Prices Rise, Heaviest Job Cuts Since GFC After a mixed bag from preliminary April European PMIs (Services strong-er, Manufacturing weaker-er, surging prices)... “Accelerated increases in input costs, likely driven not only by higher oil prices but also, more concerningly, by higher wages, are...
Euro Area PMI Activity Hits 11 Month High On Service Expansion As Manufacturing Recession Gets Worse
23.04.2024, 15:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Euro Area PMI Activity Hits 11 Month High On Service Expansion As Manufacturing Recession Gets Worse Europe's study in paradoxical contrasts continues. On the same day, ECB's de Guindos said a June rate cut looks like a set deal (unless there are surprises) with the end of inflation fight is in sight, the Euro-area's private-sector activity advanced to...
'Its The Economy, Stupid!' Black And Hispanic Voters Embrace Trump On Economics And Well-Being
23.04.2024, 14:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Its The Economy, Stupid!' Black And Hispanic Voters Embrace Trump On Economics And Well-Being Authored by J.G. Collins via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Epoch Times reporter Tom Ozimek recently wrote in these pages of former President Donald Trump’s encounter with Kayla Montgomery, a young Republican political consultant whose business is to “engage...
Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields
23.04.2024, 14:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields US equity futures are higher for the second day, even as small-caps underperform after bond yields rise about +4bps and trade near session highs. As of 7:40am S&P and Nasdaq futures were 0.3% higher after Wall Street’s rebound from a $2 trillion selloff; European...
Homebuyer Payment Hits Record High As Mortgage Rates Climb Back Above 7% For The First Time In 2024
23.04.2024, 12:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Homebuyer Payment Hits Record High As Mortgage Rates Climb Back Above 7% For The First Time In 2024 Mortgage rates in the United States climbed to the highest level since November 2023 last week, as higher-than-expected inflation readings have dashed hopes of the Fed starting to cut rates soon. As Statista's Felix Richter reports, according to Freddie...
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...
Supreme Court Denies Bid To Expand No-Excuse Mail-In Ballots In Texas
23.04.2024, 05:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supreme Court Denies Bid To Expand No-Excuse Mail-In Ballots In Texas Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a legal challenge to a Texas law that requires voters under the age of 65 to provide justification to vote by mail, meaning that the Democrat-aligned attempt to sharply expand “no-excuse”...
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...
'The Most Secure Election In American History': John Eastman
23.04.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'The Most Secure Election In American History': John Eastman Authored by John Eastman via The Gatestone Institute, I would like to discuss some of the illegalities that occurred in the 2020 election and the proposed constitutional remedies that we thought we could advance. I would also like to discuss the lawfare that is sweeping across the country...
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...
Stocks Surge In Massive Squeeze As Traders Frontrun End of Buyback Blackout Period
22.04.2024, 20:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Surge In Massive Squeeze As Traders Frontrun End of Buyback Blackout Period After the worst week for stocks since the March 2023 bank crisis, and after 6 consecutive weeks of Nasdaq declines, not to mention dealer gamma collapsing and CTAs still facing billions in forced selling, market sentiment was near-apocalyptic... at least until we reminded...
US Poised To Send 60 Additional 'Military Advisers' To Ukraine
22.04.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Poised To Send 60 Additional 'Military Advisers' To Ukraine Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US is considering increasing its small military presence in Ukraine by sending up to 60 additional military advisers, POLITICO reported on Saturday, the same day the House approved $61 billion in spending for the proxy war. Four unnamed US officials...
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...
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...
When Will The Yen Carry Trade End?
22.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Will The Yen Carry Trade End? Via SchiffGold.com, Decades of negative interest rate policy in Japan have ended. That could mean the end of the $20 trillion “yen carry trade,” once one of the most popular trades on foreign exchange markets, and a chain reaction in the global economy. The yen carry trade is when investors borrow yen to buy assets...
Americans Struggle The Most In Cities Controlled By Radical Democrats
22.04.2024, 12:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Struggle The Most In Cities Controlled By Radical Democrats A new Census Bureau survey highlights the 15 largest US metro areas where residents face the most financial difficulties, almost all of which are under Democratic leadership. This comes as no surprise as issues of elevated inflation, high taxes, soaring violent crime, and a migrant...
The Three Oil And Gas Stocks Most Sensitive To Oil Price Swings
22.04.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Three Oil And Gas Stocks Most Sensitive To Oil Price Swings By Alex Kimani of OilPrice Following a strong rally amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, oil prices have pulled back sharply in the current week as demand worries outweigh geopolitical concerns. WTI crude for May delivery has declined 5.1% from the Friday close to trade at $83...
Commercial Real Estate Foreclosures Soar To Levels Not Seen In Nearly A Decade
22.04.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Commercial Real Estate Foreclosures Soar To Levels Not Seen In Nearly A Decade Larger cracks are appearing in the US commercial real estate market at a time when uncertainty around the regional bank industry flashes red. The latest report from real estate data provider ATTOM shows CRE foreclosures topped 625 in March, up 6% from February and 117%...