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WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build
30.04.2024, 22:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build WTI ended April on a down-note (closing lower on the month, as opposed to Brent which saw its fourth straight monthly gain) as hopes for cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas dampened fears of a wider conflict that could threaten crude supplies. The recent declines come as a "relief to...
Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed
30.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed The final day of April was really ugly: ECI way hotter than expected (spooked markets), Case-Shiller home prices soared far more than expected (spooked markets more), Chicago PMI puked (while prices paid increased), Consumer Confidence crashed, and Dallas Fed Services slumped...
What To Look For When Amazon Reports
30.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What To Look For When Amazon Reports After the solid results from Microsoft - the world's largest company whose market cap is now flirting with $3 trillion - investors have been incrementally more positive on the Amazon's AWS cloud setup into today's earnings, with the investment thesis driven by ecommerce share, margin expansion and the potential for...
Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This
30.04.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This One can listen to, and believe, the government's lies about the miraculous growth of the economy and the stellar job that Bidenomics is doing... or one can listen to the truth straight from the countless small companies that make up the economy. We prefer the latter, which is why we...
China Threatens To Retaliate Against US Over Taiwan Aid And TikTok Ban
30.04.2024, 20:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Threatens To Retaliate Against US Over Taiwan Aid And TikTok Ban Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, On Monday, the Chinese government threatened to retaliate against the United States after a $95 billion foreign aid package was signed into law, which included aid for Taiwan and a provision to ban the Chinese social media app TikTok...
Bullish Sentiment Index Reverses With Buybacks Resuming
30.04.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bullish Sentiment Index Reverses With Buybacks Resuming Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the last two weeks, the bullish sentiment index has reversed from extreme greed to fear. The composite net bullish sentiment index, comprised of professional and retail investors, fell from 38.15 to 9.9 in two weeks. The previous drop...
"On The Verge Of Panic" - Dallas Fed Services Survey Suffers Longest Slump Since 'Lehman'
30.04.2024, 17:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "On The Verge Of Panic" - Dallas Fed Services Survey Suffers Longest Slump Since 'Lehman' It has been a terrible day for 'soft' survey data... Source: Bloomberg And it was just capped off by a big drop in Dallas Fed's Services survey (which compliments yesterday's Dallas Fed Manufacturing meltdown). The headline print dropped from -5.5 to -10.6. That...
We Have Reached The Geo-Populist Tipping Points: Here Are Four Examples
30.04.2024, 16:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - We Have Reached The Geo-Populist Tipping Points: Here Are Four Examples By Michael Every of Rabobank Beg, Borrow, or Steel Yesterday’s JPY slump from 158 to 160, surge to 155 on BOJ intervention, and stop over 156 underlines how volatile markets are as long-run fundamentals finally reach tipping points. Tomorrow’s FOMC decision should make that...
'Expectations' Plunge To 11-Year-Lows As Conference Board Confidence Craters
30.04.2024, 16:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Expectations' Plunge To 11-Year-Lows As Conference Board Confidence Craters For the third straight month, The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell in April, tumbling to 97.0 from a downwardly revised 103.1 (dramatically below the 104.0 median expectation and in fact below the lowest of all 56 analysts' estimates). Both current conditions...
Don't Buy Rate-Hike Hype, Next Fed Move Is A Cut
30.04.2024, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Don't Buy Rate-Hike Hype, Next Fed Move Is A Cut Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The Federal Reserve’s next move this year is likely to be a rate cut - despite the re-emergence of inflation - leaving markets at risk of a dovish repricing. When it comes to the Fed, it’s easy to get hung up on what they should do, and neglect...
Stocks & Bonds Slammed After Q1 Employment Costs Rise More Than Highest Forecast
30.04.2024, 14:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks & Bonds Slammed After Q1 Employment Costs Rise More Than Highest Forecast Highlighting just how sensitive the market is to any 'inflation/deflation' narrative questions, the Q1 Employment Cost Index (ECI) - a data point that is typically of secondary import - printed hotter than expected this morning and sent markets reeling. The ECI rose from...
Disappointing Volume For Hong Kong Crypto ETFs Launch, Issuers Unfazed By SEC's 'ETH-Security' Debacle
30.04.2024, 14:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Disappointing Volume For Hong Kong Crypto ETFs Launch, Issuers Unfazed By SEC's 'ETH-Security' Debacle The recently approved Hong Kong Bitcoin spot ETFs began trading today, but saw relatively low volume on their first day. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) approved 6 total spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs last week. Bitcoin Magazine's...
US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024
30.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024 US equity futures dropped, and European markets were mixed on the last day of the month amid concerns the Fed may stick to its hawkish messaging at its meeting on Wednesday. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were down 0.1% while Europe’s Stoxx 600 index retreated 0.4%, while Asian...
Big Government's Crackdown On Hedge Fund Home-Buying Looms
30.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Big Government's Crackdown On Hedge Fund Home-Buying Looms "I strongly support free markets," but this "corporate large-scale buying of residential homes seems to be distorting the market and making it harder for the average Texan to purchase a home," Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote on X in March. He added, "This must be added to the legislative...
How EU Law Has Made The Internet Less Free For Everyone Else
30.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How EU Law Has Made The Internet Less Free For Everyone Else Authored by Mustafa Ekin Turan via The Mises Institute, If you have been using the internet for longer than a couple of years, you might have noticed that it used to be much “freer.” What freer means in this context is that there was less censorship and less stringent rules regarding copyright...
Von Greyerz: The Real Move In Gold & Silver Is Yet To Start
30.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Von Greyerz: The Real Move In Gold & Silver Is Yet To Start Authored by Egon von Greyerz via VonGreyerz.gold, Since the October 2023 gold low of just over $1,600 gold is up but is anyone buying? Well no, certainly none of the normal players. Gold Depositories, Gold Funds and Gold ETFs have lost just under 1,400 tonnes of their gold holdings in the last...
Cocoa Crash Unfolds As "Liquidity Evaporates"
30.04.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Crash Unfolds As "Liquidity Evaporates" Cocoa futures in New York crashed Monday in their biggest daily drawdown on record, driven mostly by improved weather forecasts and sliding liquidity. "Cocoa prices are melting down. New York and London cocoa futures are down ~15% today (that's, by far, the largest one-day % drop in data going back...
"The Only Safe Asset" - Chinese Consumers Overtake India In Gold-Buying Frenzy
30.04.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Only Safe Asset" - Chinese Consumers Overtake India In Gold-Buying Frenzy Who could have seen this coming? ICYMI from Nov 2023, when gold was still 1900 Behind The Mysterious Explosion In Gold Prices: China's "Massive Accumulation Of Gold"https://t.co/6Yg2HPmMwf — zerohedge ( zerohedge) April 28, 2024 In November 2023, with gold trading around...
The Fed's Game Of "Make Believe" Comes To An End
29.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fed's Game Of "Make Believe" Comes To An End Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereignMan.com, It’s barely been a year since the 2023 bank crisis in which several large banks, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, failed. At the time, I wrote that the bank failures weren’t over, and that there would be more. But it’s been quiet...
Yen & Yellen Yank Stocks, Bonds, & The Dollar On Otherwise Quiet Day
29.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen & Yellen Yank Stocks, Bonds, & The Dollar On Otherwise Quiet Day A quiet micro and macro day was dominated by Treasury's QRA news (which spoiled all the fun by coming in less than some hyperbolic expectations), and Japanese intervention the FX markets. Before the QRA headlines, Goldman's trading desk noted that overall activity levels were down...
"He's Back": Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas Say Musk's China Trip Is "Gesture Of Tesla Commitment"
29.04.2024, 20:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "He's Back": Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas Say Musk's China Trip Is "Gesture Of Tesla Commitment" Tesla bears are getting their nuts squeezed in the US cash session Monday after Elon Musk's surprise weekend trip to Beijing landed the EV carmaker a deal with tech giant Baidu to roll out its driver-assistance system, known as "Full Self-Driving...
Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today
29.04.2024, 20:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today Ahead of Wednesday's full Treasury refunding announcement and FOMC announcement, as well as today's Treasury Borrowing Estimate, a nerdy clash has broken out within the rates market between those who expect the Treasury to surprise to the downside with its upcoming Sources...
Global Metals Markets Face Uncertainty As Russian Ban Takes Effect
29.04.2024, 20:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Metals Markets Face Uncertainty As Russian Ban Takes Effect Authored by Metal Miner's Stuart Barnes via OilPrice.com, The ban could lead to a split between the LME and CME markets, with the CME at a premium and the LME at a discount. Traders are buying up Russian warrants and taking them off the market, making the metal ineligible for Western...
"I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month
29.04.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Outlook survey has now been in contraction (below zero) every month since May 2022, falling modestly to -14.5 in April (worse than the -11.2 expected). New Orders also remain negative (but did improve) and prices continue...
Rabobank: Biden's Dire Rating On His Handling Of The Economy Is Remarkable
29.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rabobank: Biden's Dire Rating On His Handling Of The Economy Is Remarkable By Benjamin Picton, senior strategist at Rabobank The S Word Last week the data caught up with the public mood. Annualized US GDP for Q1 was +1.6%, well below the 2.5% consensus estimate and even below the most pessimistic estimate of +1.7% in the Bloomberg survey. Meanwhile...
Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, Treasury Refunding, Jobs, JOLTS, ISM And Tons Of Earnings
29.04.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, Treasury Refunding, Jobs, JOLTS, ISM And Tons Of Earnings As DB's Jim Reid notes, with just two days left in a rollercoaster April for markets - and FX - last week actually saw the best week for the S&P 500 (+2.67%) and NASDAQ (+4.23%) since November, following several weeks of declines, as earnings gave markets...
Intervention Or Not, Yen Bears Will Stay Confident
29.04.2024, 15:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Intervention Or Not, Yen Bears Will Stay Confident By Vassilis Karamanis, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and FX strategist Unless Japanese authorities show their hand with conviction when it comes to intervening in the spot market, the yen is bound to stay under pressure over the medium-term. The currency’s sharp rally this morning certainly looks...
"Much Milder Than Feared": Philips Shares Soar 43% After US Sleep Apnea Settlement
29.04.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Much Milder Than Feared": Philips Shares Soar 43% After US Sleep Apnea Settlement Shares of Royal Philips on Euronext Amersterdam surged as much as 43% Monday, the most on record after a lower-than-expected settlement in the US linked to faulty Respironics ventilators for sleep apnea. The Dutch medical equipment manufacturer recalled the therapy...
Weaker Growth And Higher Inflation... Why Consensus Was Wrong
29.04.2024, 15:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Weaker Growth And Higher Inflation... Why Consensus Was Wrong Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The weak GDP figure for the first quarter came with a double negative. Poor consumer spending and exports, plus a rise in core inflation, The US administration’s enormous fiscal stimulus, underscores the importance of considering the weaker-than-expected data...
Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session
29.04.2024, 14:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session US equity futures swung between gains and losses and traded near session highs as US traders walked to their desks on Monday morning after a rollercoaster day for the Japanese yen, which increasingly looks like some 3rd world banana republic currency instead...
Tesla Jumps After China Greenlights Full-Self Driving With Baidu
29.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Jumps After China Greenlights Full-Self Driving With Baidu Tesla shares jumped in premarket trading in New York after Bloomberg reported that Beijing had given Tesla the 'greenlight' to roll out its driver-assistance system, known as "Full Self-Driving," or FSD, in the world's largest car market. Sources say Tesla will partner with Chinese...
EU Begins 'Tank Of Future' Development After Russia Annihilates Leopard 2 Tanks In Ukraine
29.04.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Begins 'Tank Of Future' Development After Russia Annihilates Leopard 2 Tanks In Ukraine German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and his French counterpart, Sebastien Lecornu, announced Friday the two countries will produce the next-generation battle tank to replace Germany's Leopard 2 tank that will land on modern battlefields in the late 2030s...
Relentless Chinese Bond Rally Hints at Yuan Challenge Ahead
29.04.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Relentless Chinese Bond Rally Hints at Yuan Challenge Ahead By Charlie Zhu and Helen Sun, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists Three things we learned last week: 1. China’s bond rally seems unstoppable amid a shortage of quality assets for investments. From government bonds to corporate debentures, traders keep hunting for yields in all...
'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...
Stablecoin Volumes Are Tracking A Record $15 Trillion On Ethereum Alone
29.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stablecoin Volumes Are Tracking A Record $15 Trillion On Ethereum Alone By Marcel Kasumovich, Deputy CIO of Coinbase Asset Management Crypto sparked a renaissance in real-time payments. Sleepy you say? Time for a wake-up call – payment solutions are at the cutting edge of crypto’s integration into the mainstream, and it has plenty of competition...
"What Is The Sound Of One Hand Clapping" Asks BOJ Head Ueda As The Yen Collapses
29.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "What Is The Sound Of One Hand Clapping" Asks BOJ Head Ueda As The Yen Collapses By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management "What is the sound of one hand clapping," asked Kazuo Ueda, sitting alone in seiza. The dollar had just crossed above 158 to the yen, a level not seen in 34-years, back when he joined the University of Tokyo as professor...
Is 10% The New 1%
29.04.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is 10% The New 1% By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities I’ve been thinking a lot about one of the first lessons I was taught as a junior trader. We were warned that when something happens, say a piece of economic data comes out, and the market doesn’t respond as you expected, to cut positions and be very careful. It is a sign that “something”...
Elon Musk Makes Surprise Beijing Visit As Tesla Seeks Full Self-Driving Rollout
28.04.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk Makes Surprise Beijing Visit As Tesla Seeks Full Self-Driving Rollout Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday and met with Premier Li Qiang, one week after postponing a trip to India. A source familiar with the visit told Reuters that Musk was expected to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving software and permission to transfer...
Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks
28.04.2024, 01:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks Via Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin is one of the most robust distributed systems in the history of mankind. For fifteen years it has ticked along block by block with only two disruptions in its first few years that were very quickly handled by responsive developers the minute they manifested...
Office Market Availability Rate Hits Record High In San Francisco
27.04.2024, 23:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Office Market Availability Rate Hits Record High In San Francisco Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, A confluence of factors continues to impact San Francisco’s office market, with vacancy and availability rates reaching record highs in the first quarter of 2024, according to commercial real estate analysts at global companies Avison...
From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes
27.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes Authored by Breeauna Sagdal via The Brownstone Institute, Seasoned veterinarians and livestock producers alike have been scratching their heads trying to understand the media’s response to the avian flu. Headlines across every major news outlet warn of humans becoming infected with the “deadly” bird flu after...
US Should Adopt UK's 'Rwanda Plan' To Address Illegal Immigration
27.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Should Adopt UK's 'Rwanda Plan' To Address Illegal Immigration Authored by Simon Hankinson via The Epoch Times, After nearly two years of legal and political challenges, Britain’s parliament has finally passed a law confirming that Rwanda is a safe place to send people who arrive in the UK illegally by sea. This is a major policy win for the Conservative...
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"...
If 10-Year Yields Surpass 5%, Say Hello To QE (And Massive Inflation)
27.04.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - If 10-Year Yields Surpass 5%, Say Hello To QE (And Massive Inflation) Via SchiffGold.com, The wizards at the Fed and US Treasury have been forced to acknowledge that their “transitory,” inflation is, in fact, quite “sticky.” And with the inflation elephant now acknowledged by the circus of high finance, Treasury yields keep inching up...
Washington's Fiscal Mess Is Irresponsible, Unethical, Immoral: Former US Comptroller General
27.04.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Washington's Fiscal Mess Is Irresponsible, Unethical, Immoral: Former US Comptroller General Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, In 2007, the U.S. national debt was below $10 trillion, and the budget deficit was about $160 billion. Federal spending was about $3 trillion, and interest payments were approximately $400 billion. Then the numbers...
"Bye Bye, Babies... Bye Bye, Workers": Can Europe Slow The Impact Of Its Aging Society
27.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Bye Bye, Babies... Bye Bye, Workers": Can Europe Slow The Impact Of Its Aging Society By Erik-Jan van Harn and Maartje Wijffelaars of Rabobank Summary Europe’s population is aging and this will stunt economic growth in the coming decades. Challenges are arising for social welfare, debt sustainability, and even strategic autonomy. Potential remedies...
Competition, The American Way
27.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Competition, The American Way Authored by Jack Miller via RealClearEducation, Our K-12 educational system is designed to serve much less than 50% of American students. For decades the cry has been that “all kids must go to college.” Yet, only a minority do so and fewer graduate. Our high schools have been turned into college prep schools. Shop classes...
California's New Minimum Wage: A Cure That Exacerbates The Sickness
27.04.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's New Minimum Wage: A Cure That Exacerbates The Sickness Via SchiffGold.com, The solution to a problem shouldn’t make the problem worse. But apparently, California’s policy makers missed that memo. On April 1st, the state instituted a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, the highest in the US. With California’s absurdly high...
Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City
27.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City Authored by Fred Roeder via RealClearMarkets, On a Friday night in March 2011, I stayed at an upscale W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City for $124. That hotel later became The Maxwell, but sadly it didn’t survive the pandemic and is now permanently closed. Today the average hotel stay in...
"The Yen Collapse Has Become Disorderly": Look For A Final, Sharp Decline Before It Hits A Floor
26.04.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Yen Collapse Has Become Disorderly": Look For A Final, Sharp Decline Before It Hits A Floor The BOJ came, issued the shortest statement in the history of central banks... ... and left, leaving traders stunned and speechless at the sheer idiocy of the world's most clownish central bank, which has decided to invite currency collapse the same abandon...