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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...
"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...
Exxon Tumbles On One-Time EPS Charges Despite Surge In Cash Flow, Buyback Boost
26.04.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Exxon Tumbles On One-Time EPS Charges Despite Surge In Cash Flow, Buyback Boost With oil prices enjoying a powerful renaissance in recent months amid mounting supply concerns, declining inventory and the growing possibility that China's economy may finally kickstart, energy giants such as Exxon and Chevron had enjoyed a similar rebound in their stock...
JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again
26.04.2024, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again Having already lost more than 10% of its value versus the US dollar this year, the yen plunged further overnight after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda indicated monetary policy will stay easy as he kept rates unchanged and showed little to no support for the embattled currency during...
Watch: Drag Queen Makes Tiny Kids Chant "Free Palestine"
26.04.2024, 15:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Drag Queen Makes Tiny Kids Chant "Free Palestine" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Video has emerged of a drag queen leading children barely older than toddler age in chanting “Free Palestine” during a so called “Queer Storytime for Palestine” event in Massachusetts. The event, featuring a drag queen going by the name of...
Cocoa Drops Most Since April 2009, Some Losses Recovered In Muti-Day Volatility Rollercoaster
24.04.2024, 19:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Drops Most Since April 2009, Some Losses Recovered In Muti-Day Volatility Rollercoaster Cocoa futures in London on Tuesday plunged the most since April 2009, tumbling as much as 8.1%, while prices slid as much as 7.7% in New York. Prices recovered some losses on Wednesday morning. It appears the downdraft was caused by fast-money traders taking...
Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors
24.04.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Most NFL general managers (GMs) are optimistic and displaying overconfidence today as they prepare for tomorrow’s NFL draft. The draft is a once-a-year opportunity for GMs to acquire talent. Like investors, GMs often think they are smarter...
Tesla Soars Despite Missing Across The Board, After Announcing Earlier Rollout Of "More Affordable Models"
23.04.2024, 22:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Soars Despite Missing Across The Board, After Announcing Earlier Rollout Of "More Affordable Models" As previewed earlier, today's TSLA print is likely to be ugly: the company is the only Mag7 member expected to reported negative earnings growth... ... as a result of anemic Q1 sales, where the (growing) delta between production and deliveries...
It's All About Mag 7 Earnings: Without Them S&P Profit Growth Is Negative
23.04.2024, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's All About Mag 7 Earnings: Without Them S&P Profit Growth Is Negative After what has been a boring start to the week, where the biggest event so far was yesterday's start of corporate buyback frontrunning (as we first detailed and bottom ticked the market, which is now 100 points higher since our comment), investors are bracing for some serious...
GM Shifts Into Higher Gear As It Beats Quarterly Results, Raises 2024 Guidance
23.04.2024, 18:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GM Shifts Into Higher Gear As It Beats Quarterly Results, Raises 2024 Guidance General Motors shares are higher in premarket trading after raising its 2024 guidance and beating Wall Street analysts' top- and bottom-line expectations for the first quarter. The automaker cited stable pricing and increasing demand for its petrol-powered vehicles. ...
World's Biggest M&A Deal Is Terrible For Bonds
23.04.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Biggest M&A Deal Is Terrible For Bonds Four years ago, we wrote an article, mocking the unspeakable reality that it appeared "The Fed and The Treasury had now merged"... Last week, that reality dawned on one of Wall Street's best and brightest as BofA Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett headlined his latest note with a 'zeitgeist' quote...
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...
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...
What Are Mises' Six Lessons?
20.04.2024, 22:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Are Mises' Six Lessons? Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute, Ludwig von Mises’s Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow has become quite popular recently. The Mises Book Store has sold out of its physical copies, and the PDF, which is available online for free, has seen over 50,000 downloads in the past few days...
Wars Are Causing Massive Distress, But for a Few These Mean High Profits
19.04.2024, 15:07 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post Wars Are Causing Massive Distress, But for a Few These Mean High...
New Study Calls Into Question Whether DEI Programs Really Boost Corporate Earnings
18.04.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Study Calls Into Question Whether DEI Programs Really Boost Corporate Earnings Authored by Jonathan Miltmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s safe to say that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is one of the more controversial ideas of our time (and a multibillion-dollar industry). (Benjamin Child/Unsplash.com) Some, such as Elon...
Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses
18.04.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses US equity futures are higher after four consecutive days of selling, although that is the same pattern we have seen all week as futures initially rise only to dump later in the day. As of 7:40am, S&P futures are up 0.3% while tech stocks were set to outperform, pushing the Nasdaq 0.4% higher after TSMC delivered...
The Polish President Revealed That Foreign Companies Own Most Of Ukraine's Industrial Agriculture
18.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Polish President Revealed That Foreign Companies Own Most Of Ukraine's Industrial Agriculture Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Oakland Institute published a detailed report in February 2023 titled “War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land”, which exposed how foreign firms have clandestinely taken control of a...
Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs
17.04.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs US equity futures and European markets are higher, reversing several days of losses after positive earnings from some of Europe’s biggest companies lifted the mood as markets were roiled by a more hawkish outlook for interest rates. Futures on the S&P 500 rose by 0.4% reversing three days...
What If The Fed's Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom?
16.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What If The Fed's Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom? Authored by Ye Xie via Bloomberg, As the US economy hums along month after month, minting hundreds of thousands of new jobs and confounding experts who had warned of an imminent downturn, some on Wall Street are starting to entertain a fringe economic theory. What if, they ask, all those...
Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis
16.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis Submitted by David Asher, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and former senior advisor to the State Department on China, At 0800 ET, the China Subcommittee in the House of Representatives will convene a critically important hearing on the Chinese government's...
Is Paxlovid A Dud?
16.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Paxlovid A Dud? Authored by Maryanne Demasi via The Brownstone Institute, Of all the antiviral drugs for Covid-19, Pfizer’s Paxlovid has been the most successful. Not for its safety and efficacy, but for its ability to earn the company billions in profits despite being largely ineffective for most people. In November 2021, before any data had emerged...
CNN Is Wrong... Deflation Is A Good Thing
15.04.2024, 12:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CNN Is Wrong... Deflation Is A Good Thing Authored by Soham Patil via The Mises Institute, A recent video by CNN states that lower prices are bad for the United States economy and that consumers must get used to the newer, higher prices. The video goes so far as to say, “We’re never going to pay 2019 prices again.” The video claims that deflation...
Google Begins Blocking News From California Outlets Over State Bill
13.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Begins Blocking News From California Outlets Over State Bill Google has temporarily blocked access to California-based news outlets for some state residents, as the search giant escalates its battle with the state over a landmark bill which would force tech giants to pay online publishers for their content. In doing so, the company has revived...
Line-Dancing Troupe Ejected From Contest After Audience "Triggered" By US Flag Outfits
12.04.2024, 18:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Line-Dancing Troupe Ejected From Contest After Audience "Triggered" By US Flag Outfits Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A troupe of line dancing women were effectively booted out of a contest in Seattle after some members of the audience complained that they had been “triggered” by the stars and stripes outfits of the performers. The...
Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks
12.04.2024, 15:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks Futures are tumbling this morning, hit by disappointing earnings and outllook from the largest US bank, JPMorgan whose stock is down around 3% in a soggy launch to Q1 earnings season, while growing fears of an imminent conflict between Israel and Iran have sent oil surging and...
Euro Extends Decline After ECB Holds Rates At Highs, Hints At Cuts To Come
11.04.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Euro Extends Decline After ECB Holds Rates At Highs, Hints At Cuts To Come After yesterday's US CPI print - and the dramatic adjustment to market expectations of Fed policy action (timing and extent) - this morning's ECB was expected to be a nothing-burger with all eyes out for any confirmation that June is 'go-time' for Lagarde to cut (albeit a rare...
The Passive Investor Problem
11.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Passive Investor Problem Via SchiffGold.com, When John Bogle died in 2019, people around the world mourned. Bogle created the Vanguard Group and made the index fund mainstream. Index funds are investment vehicles that invest in a class of investments as a whole, rather than trying to predict what specific stocks or securities will do best. So...
Goldman Is "Taking Profits On Tech & Moving To Other Sectors"
10.04.2024, 21:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Is "Taking Profits On Tech & Moving To Other Sectors" 'Sell Mortimer, Sell!' That is the message (our translation) from Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), who told Bloomberg today that they are taking profits from high-flying technology shares and putting the money into cheaper companies. “We like taking profits on technology and moving...
Futures On Edge Ahead Of Critical CPI Report
10.04.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures On Edge Ahead Of Critical CPI Report Futures are up small before the March CPI data was expected to show further moderation in price pressures following stronger readings at the start of the year, with Mag7 mixed and Semis lower, tracking bigger gains in Europe. Bond yields are uniformly 1bps lower, USD is off a touch, and commodities are mostly...
Pfizer And A Corruption Too Deep To Fix
09.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pfizer And A Corruption Too Deep To Fix Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Old movies and new ones often turn on the theme of corruption. For generations, viewers have enjoyed discovering the ins and outs of a gang of people who are up to no good, financially and otherwise. It’s always a shock to see the way the insiders treat each other...
These Are The Countries With The Highest Corporate Tax Rates
06.04.2024, 03:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Countries With The Highest Corporate Tax Rates In 1980, the global average corporate tax rate stood at 40.2% - a level notably higher than today... Over the last several decades, corporate tax rates have declined across every region, with the average now falling at 23.5% as of 2023. As tax rates have sunk lower, U.S. Treasury Secretary...
Something Broke In Markets On Thursday
05.04.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Something Broke In Markets On Thursday Authored by Mark Cudmore via Bloomberg, This Friday is going to be a session for active short-term traders, and it will likely be unpleasant for investors. Something broke in markets on Thursday. There are a few things that worry me about the latest bout of risk aversion. This is in context that I’ve been an...
'Cocoa Could Double From Here' - Oil-Bull Andurand Gets Greedy On Chocolate
05.04.2024, 04:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Cocoa Could Double From Here' - Oil-Bull Andurand Gets Greedy On Chocolate Oil trader Pierre Andurand suffered record losses last year in the commodities world, though the money manager has so far crushed it on the cocoa trade. Bloomberg reports Andurand opened a "small, long position" in cocoa futures in early March. Since then, prices have soared...
FedEx, UPS Adding Delivery Fees In Parts Of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago
05.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FedEx, UPS Adding Delivery Fees In Parts Of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago By Max Garland of Supply Chain Dive FedEx and UPS will add surcharges for deliveries in 82 ZIP codes this month, many of which cover parts of major urban areas, according to updates from both companies. The delivery area surcharge, or DAS, for the new ZIP codes will take effect...
What Orwell And Huxley Got Wrong And Kafka Got Right
04.04.2024, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Orwell And Huxley Got Wrong And Kafka Got Right Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What Kafka got right is how societies can become busily dysfunctional. For self-evident reasons, the fictional visions of Orwell and Huxley resonate as maps to the present distemper. Orwell's account of full-spectrum technological totalitarianism maps...
From The Recycling Bin To The Landfill: The Major Flaw In Plastic Recycling
04.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From The Recycling Bin To The Landfill: The Major Flaw In Plastic Recycling Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), People may be putting plastic into recycling bins, but most of it generally ends up in landfills or incinerated. (Avigator Fortuner/Shutterstock) Yet the demand for more plastic production continues—at a...
Deep State Goes After Trump And Musk's Financial Assets... Who's Next?
04.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Deep State Goes After Trump And Musk's Financial Assets... Who's Next? Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, Is America as we know it over? Are we in the middle - or perhaps the end - of the transition from a national republic to a single-party regime that rules by fiat instead of law? If we look at what’s happening to two, high-profile cases...
These Are The Countries With The Lowest Corporate Tax Rates
03.04.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Countries With The Lowest Corporate Tax Rates The lowest corporate tax rates are known to be found in smaller countries to attract investment from multinational corporations and foreign firms. In fact, multinationals sheltered $1 trillion in profits in tax havens in 2022 alone. Many of these countries have corporate taxation rates of...
Tether Adds 8,888 BTC Worth $600 Million To Bitcoin Treasury, On-Chain Data Shows
01.04.2024, 18:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tether Adds 8,888 BTC Worth $600 Million To Bitcoin Treasury, On-Chain Data Shows Authored by Vivek Sen via BitcoinMagazine.com, Stablecoin issuer Tether has significantly expanded its Bitcoin holdings, acquiring 8,888 BTC worth around $600 million. This latest purchase was revealed through on-chain data rather than an official announcement. Tether...
Gross Domestic Income Shows America Is In Stagnation
01.04.2024, 15:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gross Domestic Income Shows America Is In Stagnation Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In a recent CNN poll, 48% of respondents stated that they believe the economy remains in a downturn, and only 35% said that things in the country today are going well. The disparity between somber economic sentiment and a surprisingly strong headline unemployment rate and...
Futures Rise In First Day Of New Quarter As Gold Explodes To Record Highs
01.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise In First Day Of New Quarter As Gold Explodes To Record Highs US futures extend their record-breaking meltup following the long weekend (which was to be expected with hedge funds piling into shorts last week, hoping for a reversal), with most European markets still closed and Asian stocks closing lower. As of 7:30am, S&P futures were 0.3%...
No Fooling: Gov. Newsom's $20 Minimum Wage Hits April 1
01.04.2024, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Fooling: Gov. Newsom's $20 Minimum Wage Hits April 1 Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A sign is posted on the exterior of a Round Table pizza restaurant in Albany, Calif., on March 25, 2024. California fast food restaurants are laying off some staff and reducing hours for other workers as they look to cut costs ahead of...
27.6 Million People Are Currently In Forced Labor
01.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 27.6 Million People Are Currently In Forced Labor 27.6 million people were living under the conditions of forced labor around the world on any given day in 2021, according to data published in a report on Tuesday by the International Labor Organization (ILO). As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, this equates to roughly 3.5 people for every 1,000 people...
"The US Economy Is Inverted": How The Flood Of Illegal Immigration Is Delaying The Official US Recession
01.04.2024, 00:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The US Economy Is Inverted": How The Flood Of Illegal Immigration Is Delaying The Official US Recession By Dhaval Joshi, Chief Strategist at BCA Research Summary The US economy is highly unusually ‘inverted’. The constraint on the economy is not labor demand, it is labor supply. Hence, the US economy has highly unusually entered a labor demand...
Ahead Of 2024 Election, Abortion Battles Heat Up Across Nation
29.03.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ahead Of 2024 Election, Abortion Battles Heat Up Across Nation Authored by Beth Brelje via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock) Parents could be charged with child abuse if they prevent their minor daughter from getting an abortion, according to an Illinois law proposed by Democrat state Rep...
If Americans Just Ate Healthy & Exercised, Then Politicians Wouldn't Be Clamoring About $1,000 Weight Loss Drugs "Bankrupting" Medicare
29.03.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - If Americans Just Ate Healthy & Exercised, Then Politicians Wouldn't Be Clamoring About $1,000 Weight Loss Drugs "Bankrupting" Medicare If the food-industrial complex had not flooded the nation's food supply with junk, if the government actively encouraged healthy lifestyles, and if efforts to address the obesity crisis didn't rely solely on 'miracle...
Disney Faces Accusations Of Misleading Shareholders With Left-Wing Agenda
28.03.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Disney Faces Accusations Of Misleading Shareholders With Left-Wing Agenda Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, The Walt Disney Company is facing backlash after critics say it has misled its shareholders by prioritizing a “woke political and social agenda” over profits, thus violating its fiduciary duty. As Fox News reports, a letter...
Stars Are Aligning For An Energy Sector Catch-Up
28.03.2024, 15:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stars Are Aligning For An Energy Sector Catch-Up By Michael Msika, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist For investors worried about frothy stock valuations, recently out-of-favor European energy stocks might be the answer. After five months of losses, the sector is up more than 6% in March and it’s heading for the best month since late...