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Samsung Tops Apple In Q1 Global Smartphone Shipments
15.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Samsung Tops Apple In Q1 Global Smartphone Shipments While not quite a duopoly, Apple and Samsung have long been known to produce the most popular smartphones from a global perspective. Over the past years, however, Chinese tech companies have started catching up and, at times, even overtaking Apple's iPhone product lines. In the following chart...
Elections And Devaluations
15.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elections And Devaluations Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com, Yves here. It’s revealing that Serious Economist Jeffrey Frankel limits himself to third-world examples in his case studies below on post-election devaluations. Perhaps it would be unseemly to look at, say, the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, or even Australia (admittedly the latter...
"We Need To Deal With The Debt" - Goldman CEO Warns Interest Costs On America's Ballooning Borrowings Means "Issues Down The Road"
15.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Need To Deal With The Debt" - Goldman CEO Warns Interest Costs On America's Ballooning Borrowings Means "Issues Down The Road" Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Goldman Sachs CEO David M. Solomon is the latest business leader to sound the alarm on the Biden administration’s deficit spending, which comes as the cost of...
Moving Average Crossovers Suggest The Bull Is Back
14.05.2024, 19:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Moving Average Crossovers Suggest The Bull Is Back Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While there is much debate over whether another bear market is imminent, weekly moving average crossovers suggest a different outcome for now. There are many current concerns, from geopolitical risk to still inverted yield curves, slowing economic...
Zelensky Thanks Americans For Billions In Aid, But Pleads For More Patriot Systems
14.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Thanks Americans For Billions In Aid, But Pleads For More Patriot Systems Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made another trip to Ukraine, appearing in Kiev alongside Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, and the US top diplomat vowed that some of the US aid from Biden's recently approved $60 billion for Ukraine is "now on...
Anglo Goes Bold: Unveils Breakup Plan To Transform Into Copper Giant Amid BHP Takeover Battle
14.05.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Anglo Goes Bold: Unveils Breakup Plan To Transform Into Copper Giant Amid BHP Takeover Battle London-listed Anglo-American has unveiled a "clear, compelling, and decisive plan to unlock significant value from its portfolio." This strategy involves selling its platinum and diamond business units while concentrating on copper, positioning itself to...
"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...
Pressure On China Heightens As Capital Outflow Chokes Liquidity
14.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pressure On China Heightens As Capital Outflow Chokes Liquidity Authored by Simon Black, Bloomberg macro strategist, The latest money data from China shows its capital-outflow problem is worsening, pressuring policymakers to allow a further weakening in the currency. China released money and inflation data over the weekend. CPI and PPI were not great...
"Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior" - Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices
14.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior" - Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices Greedflation is a myth, and Democrats are well aware of this. However, they will never acknowledge that corporate greed isn't the root cause of inflation, as greed tends to be constant in the economy. What changed is the overstimulation...
Pro-Israel PAC Guns For Massie - Did Speaker Johnson Encourage Attack?
14.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pro-Israel PAC Guns For Massie - Did Speaker Johnson Encourage Attack? A prominent pro-Israel super PAC is gunning for Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, in retribution for his many recent votes against bills that advance Israel's agenda in Washington. The group may have had some high-placed encouragement: Massie says House Speaker Mike Johnson recently...
"Sand Volcano" Emerges In Central Florida
14.05.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Sand Volcano" Emerges In Central Florida Devo Seereeram, a Consulting Geotechnical Engineer and the owner of Devo Engineering has deemed the anomaly that has emerged in Central Florida to be a "sand volcano". The issue surfaced at a 300-million-gallon wastewater reservoir located west of State Road 429 in Apopka, near Golden Gem Road. This facility...
Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid
13.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid The return of 'Roaring Kitty' sent GME soaring higher (up 110% at its highs)... Source: Bloomberg ...and prompted squeezes/panic-covering across the 'most shorted' names and 'retail favorites (memes)' soared... Source: Bloomberg As John Flood noted from Goldman's trading desk:...
At Least 360,000 Flee Rafah As Israel Touts 'Precision Operation' Against Biden Criticism
13.05.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - At Least 360,000 Flee Rafah As Israel Touts 'Precision Operation' Against Biden Criticism An estimated 360,000 Gazans have fled the southern city of Rafah as the Israel Defense Forces concentrate a ground operation on the eastern half of the city, the main UN aid agency UNRWA says. This figure is likely to grow higher by the day as IDF tanks and ground...
"I See Dead People": Bragg's Case Against Trump Goes Paranormal
13.05.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I See Dead People": Bragg's Case Against Trump Goes Paranormal Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column on the completion of the testimony of Stormy Daniels and the start of the testimony of Michael Cohen. With a dubious legal theory, the testimony has only magnified the criticism of the prosecution as parading sensational rather than material...
Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms
13.05.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms US equity futures extended last week's solid gains when they traded just about 1% below all time highs, as investors awaited key CPI later this week that will shape the Fed's actions in coming months. As of 7:30am, contracts on the S&P 500 rose about 0.2% (but still below Friday's highs)...
Mass Immigration Has "Utterly Failed" Britain As New Report Debunks Myths Of Economic Growth & Fiscal Benefits
13.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mass Immigration Has "Utterly Failed" Britain As New Report Debunks Myths Of Economic Growth & Fiscal Benefits Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The U.K.'s cumulative net migration in the 25 years up to 1997 was just 68,000. In the 25 years to follow, cumulative net migration was at least 5.8 million," a damning new report co-authored by Britain's...
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...
The Proof Of Censorship Is…Censored
12.05.2024, 03:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Proof Of Censorship Is…Censored Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via the Brownstone Institute, It’s not been a good week for the Censorship Industrial Complex. The machine has been built and put into action over nearly a decade but largely in secret. Its way of doing business has been via surreptitious contacts with media and tech companies,...
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...
US Power Grid & Communication Networks Survive Extreme Geomagnetic Storm
11.05.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Power Grid & Communication Networks Survive Extreme Geomagnetic Storm The Space Weather Prediction Center of NOAA warned on Friday night about an "extreme" G5 geomagnetic storm impacting Earth, which lasted into the early morning hours. While there have been disruptions in communications, no significant failures in the US power grid have been reported...
Long-Awaited State Dept Review 'Absolves' Israel Of War Crimes
11.05.2024, 13:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Long-Awaited State Dept Review 'Absolves' Israel Of War Crimes Via The Cradle A US State Department report on Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip will be submitted to Congress on Friday and stop short of concluding Tel Aviv has "violated terms for the use of US weapons," according to US officials who spoke with Axios. The report, based on a months-long...
Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx
11.05.2024, 10:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx Via Middle East Eye In a grand procession last week, Sinai militia leader Ibrahim al-Organi arrived at a ceremony to inaugurate the Arab Tribes Union, a new paramilitary entity that brings together five tribal groups from across Egypt. The celebration named President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi...
Common Laxatives Linked To Serious Behavioral Issues In Children, Warn Experts
11.05.2024, 05:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Common Laxatives Linked To Serious Behavioral Issues In Children, Warn Experts Authored by Sheramy Tsai via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock, Getty Images) Bradley Koehler resembled any four-year-old, always on the move and eager to explore the world around him. Healthy and well-adjusted, he began having...
Netanyahu Vows To 'Stand Alone' & 'Fight With Fingernails' After Biden's Arms Supply Warning
11.05.2024, 01:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Vows To 'Stand Alone' & 'Fight With Fingernails' After Biden's Arms Supply Warning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest reaction to President Biden earlier in the week threatening that the US could withhold offensive weapons from Israel if its military escalates a ground offensive against Rafah has been to vow that his country is ready...
Stocks End Week On Muted Note As Stagflation Fears Mount
10.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks End Week On Muted Note As Stagflation Fears Mount Late Friday afternoon, US main equity indexes showed little change, with the S&P 500 on track for a 2% weekly gain after investors digested new concerns about a slowing economy and elevated inflation, rekindling fears of stagflation. During the session, Treasury yields increased due to...
US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs
10.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs US equity futures pointed to even more gains on the last day of trading, leaving the S&P 500 set for a third weekly rise — the longest run since February. The rally was given fresh legs yesterday by more earnings optimism coupled with disappointing economic data - this time the highest initial...
Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?
10.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back? By Simon Watkins of OilPrice.com Since the mid-1990s, China’s extraordinary economic expansion almost singlehandedly drove a supercycle in key commodities prices it required to power such growth, including oil and gas. In 2013, it became the world’s largest net importer of total petroleum and other...
How The Campus Protests Could Impact The 2024 Election
09.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How The Campus Protests Could Impact The 2024 Election Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Some Democrats are concerned that the ongoing college protests may jeopardize President Joe Biden’s chances of winning a second term. And there is an ongoing division within the Democratic Party over how to handle these demonstrations...
Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption"
09.05.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption" By Michael Every of Rabobank Yesterday saw the Riksbank in Sweden cut rates by 25bp to 3.75% for the first time since 2016 (as Brazil cut 25bp to 10.50% as expected, yet the BoJ opened the door to another tiny June hike). Rate cuts, and a month before the ECB is...
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...
Biden's Partial Arms Embargo On Israel Is Aimed At Pressuring It Into A Regional Peace Deal
09.05.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Partial Arms Embargo On Israel Is Aimed At Pressuring It Into A Regional Peace Deal Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Many observers from the Mainstream Media and the Alt-Media Community alike were shocked when Defense Secretary Austin confirmed on Wednesday during a congressional testimony that the US had withheld “one shipment...
This Is What Happened After Several Schools Banned Cellphones
09.05.2024, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Is What Happened After Several Schools Banned Cellphones Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Banning cellphones in schools improved academics, reduced bullying, and reduced students’ need for counseling, a 73-page Norwegian paper found. (nimito/Shutterstock) Girls benefited the most from the policies. “Banning smartphones...
Sport Is The Continuation Of Diplomacy By Other Means
09.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sport Is The Continuation Of Diplomacy By Other Means Authored by René Zittlau via VoiceFromRussia.ch, How the goals of Olympism are being undermined by Western politics – an analysis with a look back at the roots of the Olympic idea. International Olympic Committee established on 23rd June 1894, Paris, Francehttp://Image Source: Olympics.com Introduction...
UK Moves Against Russian Diplomatic Personnel & Sites 'Used For Intel Purposes'
09.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UK Moves Against Russian Diplomatic Personnel & Sites 'Used For Intel Purposes' The British government announced Wednesday it has expelled an official of the Russian embassy for being "an undeclared military intelligence officer." The action comes amid an apparent broader pressure and essentially a war on Russian diplomatic facilities and personnel...
"Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings
09.05.2024, 03:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings One theme we've spotted this earnings season has been an increasing number of companies warning about low-income consumers. From McDonald's to Starbucks to Tyson Foods, executives on earnings calls have warned about mounting headwinds hitting the...
Office Tower Turmoil In NYC Worsens Ahead Of Trillion Dollar Maturity Wall
09.05.2024, 00:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Office Tower Turmoil In NYC Worsens Ahead Of Trillion Dollar Maturity Wall A combination of factors, including remote work, an exodus of progressive cities, higher interest rates for longer, and diminished credit availability, continues to pressure the office tower market nationwide. The latest example of challenges facing the $20 trillion commercial...
Be Careful What You Wish For: Weaker Yen A Blessing And A Curse For Japan
08.05.2024, 23:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Be Careful What You Wish For: Weaker Yen A Blessing And A Curse For Japan By Simon White, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist A weaker yen will boost inflation in Japan, but it may do so to an undesirable extent, especially as there are growing signs price growth is becoming embedded. Be careful what you wish for. For years, Japan has yearned...
When "Making It" Becomes Hopeless
08.05.2024, 22:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When "Making It" Becomes Hopeless Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, No wonder so many people devote themselves to curating an artificial digital representation of themselves that they reckon is worthy of recognition and status. What does it take to "make it" in today's economy? As described in Withdrawing from the Rat Race Is Going...
Someone Is Lying: Atlanta Fed Claims US GDP Is 4.2% While DOE Reports Lowest Gasoline, Diesel Demand Since Covid
08.05.2024, 21:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Someone Is Lying: Atlanta Fed Claims US GDP Is 4.2% While DOE Reports Lowest Gasoline, Diesel Demand Since Covid On one hand, the Atlanta Fed triumphantly blasted earlier today that Bidenomics is the greatest thing since sliced bread, helping push its Q2 GDP Nowcast to a whopping 4.2%, up from its latest estimate of 3.3%. On the other hand, Biden's...
Intel Shares Fall After Cutting Q2 Revenue Estimates Over Pulled China Licenses
08.05.2024, 15:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Intel Shares Fall After Cutting Q2 Revenue Estimates Over Pulled China Licenses Intel provided an update on its second-quarter earnings forecast following the Biden administration's decision to revoke its export license to supply semiconductors to Huawei. The new estimates reveal earnings will be below the midpoint of the $12.5 billion to $13...
China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024
08.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. 28...
Kashkari & Consumer Credit Curtail Stock & Bond Gains
07.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kashkari & Consumer Credit Curtail Stock & Bond Gains Another quiet macro day (although an ugly picture was painted late on by the unexpectedly weak revolving credit increase - potentially signaling a US consumer who really has hit their limit). Some FedSpeak wiped a little lipstick off the early pig's squeeze higher as Kashkari seemed to offer both...
Florida Becomes First State To Ban 'Fake Meat'
07.05.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Florida Becomes First State To Ban 'Fake Meat' Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida’s governor has signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law to officially ban lab-grown meat, in a bid to protect the Sunshine State’s cattle industry and its residents. Lab-grown meat is presented in the Disgusting Food Museum in...
"Oooh! Rate Cuts!" vs. "Oh! Not Rate Cuts"
07.05.2024, 17:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Oooh! Rate Cuts!" vs. "Oh! Not Rate Cuts" By Michael Every of Rabobank "Oooh! Rate Cuts!" vs. "Oh! Not Rate Cuts" Markets are their own happy story this morning as “Oooh! Rate cuts!” is again the meme du jour. But back in the real world it’s “Oh! Not rate cuts.” Yemen’s Houthis say they can now hit the Eastern Mediterranean as well as the...
Israeli Ground Forces Enter Rafah, Tank Unit Shuts Down Vital Border Crossing
07.05.2024, 16:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Ground Forces Enter Rafah, Tank Unit Shuts Down Vital Border Crossing Overnight it's been confirmed that Israeli ground forces have begun moving into Rafah, with IDF tanks having seized Gaza's vital Rafah border crossing in the last hours. The IDF plans to monitor all aid going into the Gaza Strip, but international aid organizations warn this...
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.,...
Surging Distress In CRE CLO Loans Spurs Lender Rush To Repurchase Delinquent Multifamily Mortgages
07.05.2024, 12:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Surging Distress In CRE CLO Loans Spurs Lender Rush To Repurchase Delinquent Multifamily Mortgages The commercial real estate sector continues to experience elevated stress (see the state of the industry in charts). The latest crack to emerge is the increasing number of delinquencies on multifamily mortgages. In April, about 8.6% of commercial...
Tyson Foods Warns Low-Income Consumers Are Cracking Under Inflation Storm
06.05.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tyson Foods Warns Low-Income Consumers Are Cracking Under Inflation Storm Tyson Foods, the second-largest producer of animal protein globally, plunged the most in one year after cautioning that heightened inflation is severely impacting its working poor customers, leading them to reduce their purchases of ready-to-eat products from its brands. This...
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)...
Civilians Ordered Out Of Rafah As IDF Ground Attack To Proceed
06.05.2024, 14:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Civilians Ordered Out Of Rafah As IDF Ground Attack To Proceed The last several hours have seen a significant escalation of the situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, sending Western diplomats scrambling and resulting in new threats and counterthreats between Hamas and Israeli leaders. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have urged many thousands...