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"Stunning On Multiple Levels": DOJ Admits To Evidence Tampering In Trump Classified Docs Case
04.05.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Stunning On Multiple Levels": DOJ Admits To Evidence Tampering In Trump Classified Docs Case Special Counsel Jack Smith's team admitted on Friday that key evidence in Trump's classified documents case was altered or manipulated - leaving two different chronologies; one that was digitally scanned vs. what's in the actual boxes. Smith also misled the...
Fidelity: Pension Funds Exploring Bitcoin Investments On ETF Approval
04.05.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fidelity: Pension Funds Exploring Bitcoin Investments On ETF Approval Authored by Vivek Sun via Bitcoin Magazine, Fidelity, a major financial services firm, says pension funds are starting to explore investing in Bitcoin, particularly after the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds earlier this year... Fidelity has been bullish on Bitcoin...
The State Of World Press Freedom
04.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The State Of World Press Freedom The 2024 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), was released today. This year, the agency highlights a “worrying decline in support and respect for media autonomy and an increase in pressure from the state or other political actors.” This is based on the fact that, of the five indicators...
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...
Here Comes Obesity Drug Competition: Amgen Shares Soar On "Very Encouraging" Clinical Trial Update
03.05.2024, 17:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here Comes Obesity Drug Competition: Amgen Shares Soar On "Very Encouraging" Clinical Trial Update Amgen's shares soared in premarket trading in New York following the drug maker's announcement of "very encouraging" clinical trial results for its new injectable weight-loss drug, "MariTide." Amgen's MariTide is poised to compete with Eli Lilly &...
Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls US stock futures pointed to further strength on Wall Street ahead of the April jobs report after solid earnings and a record buyback announcement from Apple As of 8:00am, S&P futures rise 0.3% while Nasdaq 100 contracts add 0.6% thanks to a 6% surge in Apple in premarket...
April Payrolls Debacle: Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - April Payrolls Debacle: Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises Ahead of today's payrolls report, in our preview we said that while we knew we would get a slowdown, the question was how big it would be (and before that we also asked if Yellen had leaked the weaker number to Japan ahead of their multiple interventions this week to prevent...
This Week's Cocoa Price Crash Marks Largest Ever Drop
03.05.2024, 06:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Week's Cocoa Price Crash Marks Largest Ever Drop What goes up, must come down. Cocoa prices turned lower on Thursday, extending a weekly decline that is slated to be the largest on record due to the evaporation of liquidity from large traders. Futures in New York plunged as much as 9.3% to the lowest level since mid-March and have...
Apple Soars After iPhone, China Sales Drop Less Than Feared; Unveils Record-Breaking $110 Billion Buyback
03.05.2024, 01:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Soars After iPhone, China Sales Drop Less Than Feared; Unveils Record-Breaking $110 Billion Buyback With most of the megatechs having already released earnings, all eyes were on the last Mag7 to report during the heart of earnings season (there is still Nvidia, but due to a calendar quirk that's not for a month) which is also the company which...
Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction
02.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction US equities ended their two-day slide as tech companies surged late in the session. The trading day has been choppy, with Wall Street now turning its attention to Apple's earnings after the bell. Some analysts anticipate Apple will reveal a major buyback...
The Permian Shrugs Off Below-Zero Natural Gas Prices In Texas
02.05.2024, 20:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Permian Shrugs Off Below-Zero Natural Gas Prices In Texas By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Permian producers are not shutting in oil wells with associated natural gas despite the fact that the Texas regional gas price has been stuck at below-zero levels since early March. Major pipeline operators in the Permian basin haven't yet seen any effect...
"Sticky Inflation" Mentions On Earnings Calls Hits New High As Big Brands Warn About Buckling Consumers
02.05.2024, 20:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Sticky Inflation" Mentions On Earnings Calls Hits New High As Big Brands Warn About Buckling Consumers On Wednesday, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell dismissed the idea that the economy could slide into "stagflation" despite multiple warning signs of a slowing economy and inflation reaccelerating higher. "I was around for stagflation, and it was 10%...
"We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview
02.05.2024, 18:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump (L) takes the oath of office as his wife Melania Trump (C) holds the bible and his son Barron Trump (R) looks on, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, on January 20, 2017. (Chip...
Thursday Humor: Jobless Claims
02.05.2024, 14:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thursday Humor: Jobless Claims With WARNs high, JOLTS data tumbling - led construction jobs collapsing, and Challenger-Grey layoffs remarkably elevated, why would anyone question the government's official data on jobless claims - that continues to languish (in a good way) near record lows. Last week saw 208,000 Americans file for jobless benefits for...
Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide
02.05.2024, 14:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide After a bizarre reversal when US stocks first slumped and then dumped after Powell's very dovish FOMC statement and press conference, US equity futures have regained their footing this morning and advanced as traders took comfort from the Fed’s signal that there’s no...
Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Proposed Taxes As 'Blatantly Illegal'
02.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Proposed Taxes As 'Blatantly Illegal' Via Schiffgold.com, Peter appeared on OAN’s Real America with Dan Ball to discuss new prospective income taxes, the latest idiotic craze in politics. He starts by explaining why President Biden’s desired policy isn’t even an income tax: “The worst of the capital gains tax is...
China Humiliated Blinken But Blinken Kept Begging
02.05.2024, 05:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Humiliated Blinken But Blinken Kept Begging Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, It is not clear whether a Chinese official was at the Beijing airport to bid farewell to Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he ended his three-day visit to China on Friday, but the send-off was in any event low-key and Chinese leader Xi Jinping...
Japan's Warning For America
02.05.2024, 05:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan's Warning For America Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Last week, Japan saw its currency, the yen, rapidly depreciate against the U.S. dollar and other world currencies to near record low levels. This drew the attention of financial markets and other observers, and—in some quarters—led to panic. There was concern that Japan...
California's Perpetual Drought Is Manmade And Intentional
02.05.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Perpetual Drought Is Manmade And Intentional Authored by Roger Canfield via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) last week released its next five-year plan for the State Water Project—Update 2023. After years of meetings, California’s premier water agency has decided to focus on “three...
Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy
01.05.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy Authored by Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group, President Biden’s decision to participate in the Ukraine-Russia conflict back in February 2022 has taken a new and dangerous turn this year. The U.S. dollar could suffer dramatically as a result. Before we explore that new development...
Yen Soars After Japan Intervenes To Prop It Up For Second Time In 3 Days
01.05.2024, 22:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Soars After Japan Intervenes To Prop It Up For Second Time In 3 Days Two days after the yen soared after crashing to a 34 year low of 160 against the US, when the Japanese Ministry of Finance reportedly spent around 5 trillion yen, or just over $30 billion, to push the imploding Japanese currency to levels not seen in ... about 48 hours, moments...
Robert Mueller's Right Hand Man Warns SCOTUS: You're "One Vote Away From... The End Of Democracy"
01.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Robert Mueller's Right Hand Man Warns SCOTUS: You're "One Vote Away From... The End Of Democracy" Authored by Jonathan Turley, When Robert Mueller appointed Andrew Weissmann as one of his top advisers, many of us warned that it was a poor choice. Weissmann seemed intent to prove those objections correct in increasingly unhinged and partisan statements...
Job Openings Tumble, Quits Plunge, Hires Unexpectedly Crater To January 2018 Levels
01.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Job Openings Tumble, Quits Plunge, Hires Unexpectedly Crater To January 2018 Levels After several months of relatively boring JOLTS prints, this morning Janet Yellen's favorite labor market indicator once again got exciting, and not in a good way. Starting at the top, according to the March JOLTS reported, job openings unexpectedly tumbled by 325K -...
Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy)
01.05.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy) Authored by Aaron Maté via RealClear Investigations, In successfully lobbying Congress for an additional $61 billion in Ukraine war funding, an effort that ended this month with celebratory Democrats waving Ukrainian flags in the House chamber, President Biden...
Senate Passes Ban Of Russian Uranium Imports, Risking "Havoc" And Soaring Prices In Uranium Markets
01.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Passes Ban Of Russian Uranium Imports, Risking "Havoc" And Soaring Prices In Uranium Markets With shares of CCJ tumbling earlier today after the company reported soggy Q1 earnings, despite its recent initiating coverage report by an enthusiastic Goldman Sachs which sees the Uranium company at the forefront of the "Next AI trade" and slapped it...
South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term
01.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term Back in 2011, around the time gold hits its previous cycle high, South Korea surprised the fiat world when it revealed that it had spent more than a billion dollars in its first gold purchase in more than a decade, as uncertainty about global growth and sovereign debt push central...
Amazon Swings Wildly After Reporting Blowout AWS Results But Revenue Guidance Disappoints
30.04.2024, 22:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amazon Swings Wildly After Reporting Blowout AWS Results But Revenue Guidance Disappoints Heading into Amazon's Q1 earnings, we said earlier that the investment thesis is driven by i) ecommerce share, ii) margin expansion and iii) the potential for AWS growth recovery through the year. We also noted that the key bogeys for this extremely popular - among...
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...
Former Binance CEO 'CZ' Sentenced To Only Four Months In Jail For Money Laundering
30.04.2024, 21:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former Binance CEO 'CZ' Sentenced To Only Four Months In Jail For Money Laundering Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao ("CZ") was sentenced to four months in jail on Tuesday in a Seattle federal court, according to The Wall Street Journal. Late last year, CZ pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges and relinquished his position as the head of Binance...
New Biden Energy Rules Will Raise The Cost Of A New Home By $31,000
30.04.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Biden Energy Rules Will Raise The Cost Of A New Home By $31,000 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, New HUD energy rules will raise the cost of home construction by imposing stricter building codes. Payback time is 90 years... Homes To Become Even More Unaffordable The Wall Street Journal comments on Biden’s New Plan for Unaffordable...
'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...
'Affordabiity Crisis' Worsens As US Home Prices Soar Near Record High In Feb
30.04.2024, 15:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Affordabiity Crisis' Worsens As US Home Prices Soar Near Record High In Feb Home prices in America's 20 largest cities rose for the 13th straight month in February (the latest data released by S&P Global Case-Shiller today), up a massive 0.61% MoM (massively more than the 0.1% exp). Source: Bloomberg That pushed the YoY price up a stunning 7.29% (far...
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...
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...
James Carville Has Meltdown Over Young Voters Sitting Out The Election
29.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - James Carville Has Meltdown Over Young Voters Sitting Out The Election Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Trump is ahead in the latest poll. Younger voters leave the Biden camp. James Carville has a meltdown. Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden A CNN poll shows Trump maintains lead over Biden in 2024 matchup as views on their presidencies diverge...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
DOJ Continues To Refuse Handing Over Audio Recording Of Special Counsel's Interview With Biden
27.04.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DOJ Continues To Refuse Handing Over Audio Recording Of Special Counsel's Interview With Biden Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) stands its ground on its refusal to surrender the audio recording of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden to the House Oversight Committee. Reps. Jim...
Xi’s Imperial Ambitions Are Rooted in China’s History
27.04.2024, 19:49 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Myths of peacefulness belie a record as expansionist as any other power....
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...
Worst In 70 Years: Biden Approval Rating Absolutely Dismal
27.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Worst In 70 Years: Biden Approval Rating Absolutely Dismal President Joe Biden has the worst job approval rating since Eisenhower during his recently completed 13th quarter in office, according to a new poll by Gallup. While Biden clocks in at 38.7%, the previous low was set by George H.W. Bush at 41.8% in 1992. Donald Trump and Barack Obama averaged...
"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...
Futures Jump As Tech Giants Soar, Yen Plummets After BOJ Refuses To Prop Up Crashing Currency
26.04.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Jump As Tech Giants Soar, Yen Plummets After BOJ Refuses To Prop Up Crashing Currency In a rollercoaster 48 hours to close the week, yesterday's early market slump (after the disappointing Meta guidance) has been fully reversed and stock futures are now pointing sharply higher after blockbuster earnings from Microsoft and Alphabet with attention...