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Is The Federal Reserve Just Winging It?
29.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The Federal Reserve Just Winging It? Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Are the central bankers at the Federal Reserve just winging it? It sure seems that way if you step back and take a long view of their decision-making. Fed officials project this aura of authority. You might imagine them as hyper-intelligent experts in the field of...
Bond Traders' Angst Around Election Time Higher Than For Stocks
28.05.2024, 21:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bond Traders' Angst Around Election Time Higher Than For Stocks Authored by Garfield Reynolds via Bloomberg, Even in an environment where implied volatility readings are grinding lower, there’s some noticeable angst appearing around the November US elections. Bond traders look much more uncertain about the outlook for six months ahead than they...
David Stockman On The Continual Rise In The Cost Of Living... And Why The Fed Has No Shame
27.05.2024, 19:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - David Stockman On The Continual Rise In The Cost Of Living... And Why The Fed Has No Shame Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com, Jay Powell did it again assuring the 1% that he has their back. Markets recovered their poise over the last 24 hours, as investors were relieved after Fed Chair Powell stuck to his recent views on the economic...
Janet Yellen Acknowledges: "Cost Of Living Is A Problem" For Consumers
24.05.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Janet Yellen Acknowledges: "Cost Of Living Is A Problem" For Consumers Americans are quickly realizing, by their empty wallets, that the leftists in the Biden administration are fueling the inflation storm with reckless government spending, amounting to $1 trillion every 100 days. No more blaming 'Putin Price Hikes' - Bidenomics has been one of the...
Competing Forces On Rent, Where Do We Put 8 Million Illegal Immigrants?
24.05.2024, 14:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Competing Forces On Rent, Where Do We Put 8 Million Illegal Immigrants? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MIshTalk.com, Millions of immigrants keep pouring in. New residential construction has stalled and multi-family construction is in decline. Completions are rising, but is that enough housing? More Than 8M Migrants Will Soon Be Living in the US Axios...
Ukraine: You Break It, We Take It
24.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine: You Break It, We Take It Authored by Citizen Soldier via RealClearDefense, All Aboard! Here comes the latest Postwar Gravy Train, laden with massive government spending, lax oversight and other goodies for cunning contractors and economic opportunists seeking to benefit from the near-destruction of Ukraine. Last week, the State Department announced...
Bean Used In Instant Coffee Soars The Most Since 2011
23.05.2024, 02:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bean Used In Instant Coffee Soars The Most Since 2011 Futures for robusta, the cheaper coffee bean grown at lower altitudes and requiring less care than more expensive arabica, jumped the most in London on Tuesday since 2011 as concerns increased over shrinking supplies from top grower Vietnam. Robusta bean prices in London closed up 6.72% on Tuesday...
FOMC Minutes Preview: No Hike But When To Cut?
22.05.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FOMC Minutes Preview: No Hike But When To Cut? As Newsquawk writes in its Fed minutes preview, at its May meeting, the FOMC left rates unchanged at 5.25-5.50%, as expected, and announced a higher-than-expected tapering of its QT program, where the monthly cap on Treasury runoffs will be reduced from USD 60bln to USD 25bln (exp. 30bln), while the monthly...
"Inflation Creates An Illusion Of Wealth" - Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Brags About Raising Taxes
22.05.2024, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Inflation Creates An Illusion Of Wealth" - Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Brags About Raising Taxes Via SchiffGold.com, This week Peter’s back to discuss new economic data, Powell’s recent remarks in the Netherlands, and the Biden administration’s new tariffs. More and more signs point to economic stagflation, but Biden, Powell, and their cronies...
Aluminum Jumps To 23-Month High Amid Ongoing Aussie Production Issues
22.05.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aluminum Jumps To 23-Month High Amid Ongoing Aussie Production Issues From coffee to cocoa, orange juice to gold, and silver to copper, commodity prices are spiking across the board (we outlined this on Monday). The latest surge occurred Tuesday when aluminum tagged 23-month highs due to ongoing production issues emerging from Australia. The broad-based...
Global Bankers Are Suddenly Worried About The Soaring US National Debt
21.05.2024, 19:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Bankers Are Suddenly Worried About The Soaring US National Debt In January of this year JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon argued in an interview with Fortune Magazine that the record US debt 'Is a cliff...and we're going 60MPH towards it." He claimed that the situation was a global market rebellion waiting to happen. His comments preceded reports...
Rate Hawk Down
20.05.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rate Hawk Down By Benjamin Picton, senior macro strategist at Rabobank Bonds sold off on Friday and the NASDAQ closed a smidgen lower. Both the S&P500 and the Dow Jones managed minor gains, with the Dow’s outperformance again suggesting that equities continue to trade on sensitivity to discount rates. Two-year yields rose 3bps on Friday while 10-year...
Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers
20.05.2024, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers After last week's non-stop rollercoaster, it will be a quieter week ahead for global macro with perhaps the most interesting event of the week being Nvidia's earnings on Wednesday. The company always reports a couple of weeks after the main stretch of US earnings season...
Futures Rise, Commodities Soar After Iran's President Dies In Helicopter Crash
20.05.2024, 13:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Commodities Soar After Iran's President Dies In Helicopter Crash Futures are higher across the board as investors shift their focus from macro to micro, following a rollercoaster week that saw stocks slide then reverse higher after a soggy CPI and retail sales print, to close at an all time high and the Dow above 40,000. AI is in focus...
Too Narrowly Focused?
20.05.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Too Narrowly Focused? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Too Narrowly Focused? The Citi Economic Surprise Index continues to deteriorate (worst levels in a year). Bond yields have declined (the 10-year Treasury got to 4.31% on Thursday, basically the bottom of our 4.3% to 4.5% range, and crept higher the rest of the week). Bonds in part moved on economic...
Sternlicht's Starwood REIT Running Low On Cash As Redemptions Soar Amid CRE Storm
19.05.2024, 00:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sternlicht's Starwood REIT Running Low On Cash As Redemptions Soar Amid CRE Storm Starwood Real Estate Income Trust (SREIT), a $10 billion non-traded REIT ranked second-largest behind Blackstone's struggling BREIT, faces a severe liquidity crunch as investor redemptions soar amid concerns 'higher for longer' interest rates will worsen the commercial...
Expect More Inflation No Matter Who Wins The Election
18.05.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Expect More Inflation No Matter Who Wins The Election Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, For many reasons, the Fed will struggle to contain inflation. This is part one on the Fed’s struggle. It covers deficit spending and interest on the debt. Key Points The government is running a cumulative deficit of $1.1 trillion so far in FY2024 ($46...
Out Of Control Inflation: It Now Takes At Least $177,798 For A Family Of 4 To Live Comfortably In The US
17.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Out Of Control Inflation: It Now Takes At Least $177,798 For A Family Of 4 To Live Comfortably In The US Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, I never imagined that we would ever see a time when it takes $177,798 for a family of four to live comfortably in the United States. Unfortunately, that day has arrived. Our leaders have...
US Housing Starts/Permits Ugly In April After Huge Revisions
16.05.2024, 14:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Housing Starts/Permits Ugly In April After Huge Revisions Despite a plunge in sentiment and soaring mortgage rates, analysts expected Starts and Permits to increase in April. They were half right, but both missed bigly - as Starts rose 5.7% MoM (below the +7.6% exp), up from a downwardly revised 16.8% plunge in March; Permits dropped 3.0% MoM (well...
Peter Schiff: Biden Lies Again On Inflation
15.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: Biden Lies Again On Inflation Via SchiffGold.com, This week on the Peter Schiff Show, Peter covers a week of dismal economic reports. Both jobless claims and consumer sentiment came in worse than expected last week, with both figures missing predictions by a wide margin. Peter also discusses public statements made by both Joe Biden...
Yields Tumble, Set For Bigger Plunge If CPI Comes In Cool
15.05.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Tumble, Set For Bigger Plunge If CPI Comes In Cool Perhaps taking a cue from our CPI commentary last week in which we explained why today's inflation print will likely come in on the dovish side after beating estimates for 5 months in a row... ... moments ago 10Y yields plumbed fresh multi-week lows, sliding to just above 4.40% (from a high of...
Retail Wrecking Crew Hammers Hedgies Again; Stocks/Powell Shrug Off Stagflation Signals
14.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Wrecking Crew Hammers Hedgies Again; Stocks/Powell Shrug Off Stagflation Signals Hot PPI initially spooked markets (yields and dollar up, stocks down) but that faded fast (on lower revisions) - but the stag-flation trend continues this week... Source: Bloomberg Powell did briefly spook stocks around 1030ET with the following comment: "it's a...
Watch Live: Will Fed Chair Powell Admit He Can Now See The 'Flation'?
14.05.2024, 15:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: Will Fed Chair Powell Admit He Can Now See The 'Flation'? Squeezed in between today's (hotter than expected) PPI and tomorrow's CPI, Fed Chair Jay Powell will join The ECB's Dutch Central Banker Klaus Knot at the annual general meeting of the Foreign Bankers' Association. After PPI - and a wave of higher prices across various indicators...
"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...
Why The Establishment Fears A Trump-Led Fed
13.05.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why The Establishment Fears A Trump-Led Fed Via SchiffGold.com, While in office, Trump blamed the Fed for tightening monetary policy. Now members of Trump’s team allegedly plan to give a re-elected Trump more power over the Fed, igniting panic from mainstream economists about a politicized Fed. Our guest commentator explains why the real risk,...
Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can
13.05.2024, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Bumps and Potholes UK Q1 GDP surprised to the upside at the end of last week to print at +0.6%, rather than the more modest 0.4% that market economists had been expecting. That means that Britain is officially out of recession...
Household Finance Fears Worst Since COVID As Inflation Expectations Surged In April, NY Fed Survey Finds
13.05.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Household Finance Fears Worst Since COVID As Inflation Expectations Surged In April, NY Fed Survey Finds Well if Fed Chair Powell couldn't see the 'flation' before, perhaps he can now... After flatlining around 3.,0% for the last four months the median one-year-ahead inflation expectations increased to 3.3%, according to The New York Fed's April Survey...
Key Events This Week: All Eyes On CPI As Fed Speakers Galore
13.05.2024, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: All Eyes On CPI As Fed Speakers Galore After a very slow week, the key event for markets this week will be US inflation data with April’s PPI (Tuesday) and CPI (Wednesday) the highlights. We’ll see if the higher-than-expected US inflation seen in Q1 extends into Q2 or not. Markets will also hear from Powell (tomorrow) and Vice...
Orange Juice Prices Primed For Breakout After Forecast Warns Brazil Set For Worst Harvest In Decades
13.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Orange Juice Prices Primed For Breakout After Forecast Warns Brazil Set For Worst Harvest In Decades Breakfast lovers are in for another jolt as orange juice prices surge to near-record levels. A new report released on Friday indicates that Brazil, the leading global exporter of OJ, is facing its worst harvest in over three decades. This alarming...
Every Four Years, Overeager Young Journalists Attempt To Trap Powell In A Jack Nicholson Moment
12.05.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Every Four Years, Overeager Young Journalists Attempt To Trap Powell In A Jack Nicholson Moment By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “We’re always going to do what we think is the right thing for the economy,” said Jerome Powell, annoyed, but classy as always. “It’s hard enough to get the economics right here,” he explained...
McDonald's Admits Consumers Are Broke With Planned Reintroduction Of $5 Meal Deal
11.05.2024, 19:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - McDonald's Admits Consumers Are Broke With Planned Reintroduction Of $5 Meal Deal Gen-Zers, millennials, and baby boomers have something in common: Many of them can no longer afford a Big Mac combo meal at McDonald's following three years of 'McFlation,' which has sent the price of some combo meals as high as $18. This was at a rest stop, but...
"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...
Peter Schiff: Rate Hikes On The Horizon?
09.05.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: Rate Hikes On The Horizon? Via SchiffGold.com, Peter’s back to recap the last week in markets and economic news. This episode starts with April’s dismal stock performance and also discusses Jerome Powell’s most recent appearance. Peter wraps up the episode by recounting the Bitcoin debate he participated in on Friday. Peter notes...
To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But...
09.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But... Via SchiffGold.com, In 2009, 140 banks failed, and a recent report from financial consulting firm Klaros Group says that hundreds of banks are at risk of going under this year. It’s being billed mostly as a danger for individuals and communities than for the broader economy, but for stressed...
Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders
09.05.2024, 00:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders It may seem crazy, but here's some advice for heavily indebted Gen-Zers: Put down the smartphone. Stop spending on DoorDash and Uber Eats. Perhaps cancel a few streaming services. Also, the spending party is over despite calls from the White House to cancel student...
Forward Guidance: The Fed Sounds Like A Wizard Reading Chicken Bones
08.05.2024, 16:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Forward Guidance: The Fed Sounds Like A Wizard Reading Chicken Bones Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Stanley Druckenmiller says the Fed should get rid of forward guidance and just do their job. I totally endorse a view by Stan Druckenmiller, the Fed Should Stop Forward Guidance. Partial Video Transcript Squawk Box: I’ve been perplexed...
Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F"
08.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F" Billionaire investor and Duquesne Family Office Chairman & CEO Stan Druckenmiller slammed Bidenomics and warned the Federal Reserve and federal government "misdiagnosed Covid and thought it was -- we were going into a depression." Druckenmiller has been irritated by the massive fiscal spending by the...
Billionaire, Harvard Donor Ken Griffin Says Protesters Are Byproduct Of "Failed Education System"
07.05.2024, 17:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Billionaire, Harvard Donor Ken Griffin Says Protesters Are Byproduct Of "Failed Education System" Ken Griffin, the founder of Citadel and a Harvard University alumnus, was interviewed Monday evening at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. During the interview, Griffin blasted protesters at woke elite colleges and universities...
Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show
07.05.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Poor America. Poor Jerome Powell… A Real Cliff, Fake Smile It is no fun to be openly trapped, and even less fun to be in open decline while meekly declaring all is fine. I have the image of Uncle Sam (or Aunt Yellen) hanging off a cliff with a forced (i.e.,...
Confidence In Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low
07.05.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Confidence In Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low By Megan Brenan of Gallup With Americans less optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy than they have been in recent months and concern about inflation persisting, their confidence in President Joe Biden to recommend or do the right thing for the economy is among the lowest Gallup has measured...
'Squeezey' Stock Market Extends Gains; Bonds & Bullion Bid
06.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Squeezey' Stock Market Extends Gains; Bonds & Bullion Bid More of the same today after last week's tepid payrolls and dovish Powell with gold, stocks, and bonds bid as rate-cut hopes inched higher. The market is now pricing in two rate-cuts in 2024 and three more cuts in 2025... Source: Bloomberg For now the market appears to prefer the 'bad news'...
Confidence Boost For The Fed
06.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Confidence Boost For The Fed By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Last Wednesday, Powell said that there had been a lack of further progress toward the Fed’s 2% inflation objective. Indeed, both the latest CPI and PCE prints had already dashed hopes that the Fed would cut rates by summer. It would, therefore, take more time for the...
Despite Powell's QTeasing, The Correction May Not Be Over Yet
06.05.2024, 17:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Despite Powell's QTeasing, The Correction May Not Be Over Yet Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The latest FOMC meeting caused a stock rally as Jerome Powell turned more “dovish” than expected. While Powell did note that progress on inflation has been lackluster, the announcement of the reversal of “Quantitative Tightening” (QT)...
Biden Boosts Student Dem Leader Warning Of "Dictator Trump" On PBS
05.05.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Boosts Student Dem Leader Warning Of "Dictator Trump" On PBS Days after OnlyFans & TikTok star Farha Khalidi revealed the Biden administration paid her to push "full-on political propaganda" while asking her not to disclose that she was part of a covert propaganda strategy, the Biden-Harris campaign reposted on X a video of Gen-Zers regurgitating...
Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose?
05.05.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose? Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance In one of the most fascinating discussions I’ve had in a while, I spoke last weekend with my friend Andy Schectman about the state of the world, markets, geopolitics and the economy. What started as a friendly catch-up quickly turned into delving into angles on the state of...
Governments Cause Inflation And Hurt Bond Investors
04.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governments Cause Inflation And Hurt Bond Investors Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The Fed’s preferred inflation measure rose 2.8% in March from a year ago. This is the core personal consumption expenditures price index, excluding food and energy, which should be less volatile than the consumer price index and a better indicator of the real process of...
Big Taper, Bad Data, & Buyback Bonanza Sparks Buying Frenzy In Bonds & Stocks
03.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Big Taper, Bad Data, & Buyback Bonanza Sparks Buying Frenzy In Bonds & Stocks The markets took on a Dickensian dimension this week as while "it was the worst of times (for economic data), it was the best of times (for stocks)"... The US Macro Surprise Index continued its serial disappointment plunge into the red - the weakest since Feb 2023 (not helped...
Watch: LAPD Unmasks UCLA Agitators
03.05.2024, 20:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: LAPD Unmasks UCLA Agitators Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, As the LAPD stormed onto the campus of UCLA Thursday night to end illegal encampments by agitators, they unmasked some of those they arrested and exposed their faces to the cameras. The COVID face mask has been adopted wholesale by the rabid wannabe Marxists, purely as a...
Yields More Exposed To A Downside Miss In Payrolls
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields More Exposed To A Downside Miss In Payrolls Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, US yields are at the margin more exposed to a lower-than-expected payrolls release today after Powell’s pushback on a rate hike this week. Nonetheless, leading indicators are pointing to an inflection higher in payrolls growth in the coming months...