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What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold?
07.05.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, With the eventual introduction of central bank digital currency (CBDCs) now seemingly inevitable, there are a lot of directions central banks could take with their digital currency projects that would have dramatic implications for the price of gold. Touted for their “convenience” and “efficiency...
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)...
Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down
06.05.2024, 16:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down After a whirlwind two weeks which saw both the latest FOMC decision and the April jobs report, not to mention the peak of earnings season when all of the top tech companies reported, the calendar takes a quieter turn after the deluge of macro events last week, and the focus shifts on whether markets can...
Where Unsold EVs Go To Die: Belgium's Ports Drowning Under Glut Of Chinese Imports
06.05.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Unsold EVs Go To Die: Belgium's Ports Drowning Under Glut Of Chinese Imports Ten years ago this week, we posted one of out most viral stories, highlighting the over-capacity in the auto industry: "Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die," which highlighted the 'endgame' of automakers' 'channel stuffing' efforts to disguise the sudden lack of...
Futures, Global Markets Rise On Rising Fed Cut Bets
06.05.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Global Markets Rise On Rising Fed Cut Bets Global stocks and US equity futures jumped to start the new week, with the S&P 500 poised to extend last week’s rally as traders grew increasingly confident in the likelihood that the Fed will cut interest rates this year. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.3%, tracking gains in...
Biden's New Carbon Capture Mandates Will Cause Blackouts, Increases Prices
06.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's New Carbon Capture Mandates Will Cause Blackouts, Increases Prices By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk The lie of the day is from the EPA: Carbon capture will pay for itself (thanks to IRA subsidies). No, it won’t even with subsidies. Expect blackouts and a higher price for electricity. Suite of Standards to Raise Costs, Reduce Output Let’s take...
Watch: Senator Eviscerates Biden Official Over "Dark Money Meetings"
05.05.2024, 18:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Senator Eviscerates Biden Official Over "Dark Money Meetings" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During a Senate Energy and National Resources Committee hearing this week, Republican Senator Josh Hawley exposed a Biden official as having no clue what is going on in her own department. Hawley grilled Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland...
Fraudulent Logic Guides The UK Smoking Ban
05.05.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fraudulent Logic Guides The UK Smoking Ban Authored by Owen Ashworth via The Mises Institute, It is the waning days of the Sunak premiership, and the Conservative party still has a stonking majority despite its cataclysmic capitulation in the polls. The government is effectively a lame duck; everyone knows it has no support, yet it will still be around...
Watch: NY Anti-Trump Prosecutor Pleads The 5th As House GOP Probes Links To Biden DOJ
03.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: NY Anti-Trump Prosecutor Pleads The 5th As House GOP Probes Links To Biden DOJ House GOP investigators are investigating several individuals related to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's case against former President Trump, including one top prosecutor who was previously a senior DOJ official during the Biden administration, and a 2023 video of another...
Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise
03.05.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via bombthrower.com, Nor will it change anything over the long haul… We’ve always said that the rise of Bitcoin and non-state fintech was a monetary regime change, and that it would be naive to expect the entrenched “powers that be” and incumbent establishment...
Peloton CEO Stepping Down Following 92% Stock Plunge In Two Years
02.05.2024, 17:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peloton CEO Stepping Down Following 92% Stock Plunge In Two Years Barry McCarthy, CEO of Peloton Interactive, is stepping down after the company's stock plummeted 92% since he took over in a bid to revitalize the connected fitness company known for slapping iPads on stationary bikes and charging high markups. In February 2022, McCarthy—a former...
Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin
01.05.2024, 15:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin Having already revealed its borrowing estimates for Q2 and Q3 on Monday, where we learned that the Treasury expects to sell $41BN more debt than previously expected in Q2, but offset by a...
CVS Shares Dump On Earnings Miss, Outlook Slashed On Rising Medical Costs
01.05.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CVS Shares Dump On Earnings Miss, Outlook Slashed On Rising Medical Costs CVS Health shares plunged in the premarket trading session in New York after first-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings missed Wall Street's average expectations. The drugstore chain also slashed its full-year profit outlook, citing rising medical costs in its Medicare insurance...
Bullish Sentiment Index Reverses With Buybacks Resuming
30.04.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bullish Sentiment Index Reverses With Buybacks Resuming Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the last two weeks, the bullish sentiment index has reversed from extreme greed to fear. The composite net bullish sentiment index, comprised of professional and retail investors, fell from 38.15 to 9.9 in two weeks. The previous drop...
Falling From Grace
30.04.2024, 03:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Falling From Grace Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those...
"What Is The Sound Of One Hand Clapping" Asks BOJ Head Ueda As The Yen Collapses
29.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "What Is The Sound Of One Hand Clapping" Asks BOJ Head Ueda As The Yen Collapses By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management "What is the sound of one hand clapping," asked Kazuo Ueda, sitting alone in seiza. The dollar had just crossed above 158 to the yen, a level not seen in 34-years, back when he joined the University of Tokyo as professor...
The Gloves Will Come Off In A Second Biden Term
28.04.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Gloves Will Come Off In A Second Biden Term Authored by David Keltz via American Greatness, If you believe, correctly, that the entirety of Joe Biden’s presidency has been one unmitigated disaster after another - not only for the American citizenry, but for the United States’ standing on the world stage and for our allies around the globe who...
What's Really Behind Poland's Interest In Deporting Ukrainian Draft-Dodgers?
28.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What's Really Behind Poland's Interest In Deporting Ukrainian Draft-Dodgers? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz expressed support in an interview for Ukraine’s latest conscription-related policy of refusing consular services for draft-aged men aged 18-60. The form of assistance that Warsaw...
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...
Polish President Admits That Major Infrastructure Project Has Dual Military Purposes
26.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Polish President Admits That Major Infrastructure Project Has Dual Military Purposes Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish President Andrzej Duda revealed in an interview that the Central Communication Port (CPK by its Polish abbreviation) transportation megaproject outside of Warsaw has dual military purposes. He represents Poland’s prior...
President With Crackhead Son Frees 5 Crack Dealers, Ditches Promise To Release All Pot Criminals
26.04.2024, 03:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - President With Crackhead Son Frees 5 Crack Dealers, Ditches Promise To Release All Pot Criminals President Biden has granted clemency to five crack dealers, ordering their early release for dealing the drug in recognition of Second Chance Month. Yes, this guy... In honor of the new government crack pipe program, here's Joe & Hunter on crack pic.twitter...
Is Dune A Copy Of Our Real World
25.04.2024, 17:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Dune A Copy Of Our Real World By Michael Every of Rabobank The Golden Path USD/JPY is at 155, a fresh 34-year high, with the Yen slumping 10.2% year-to-date and suggestion that intervention may not come until we get to 160, a level last seen in 1986. USD/CAD is off recent lows at 1.37 but under pressure (as noted by Christian Lawrence): some suggest...
WTI Down For 3rd Day After Crude Inventory Build (Thanks To Surge In 'Adjustment Factor')
17.04.2024, 16:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Down For 3rd Day After Crude Inventory Build (Thanks To Surge In 'Adjustment Factor') Oil prices are extending their decline (third day in a row) this morning as, after a tumultuous period of geopolitics, traders are returning their focus to market fundamentals. A lack (so far) of response from Israel to Iran's retaliatory attack combined with The...
These Inflation Trades Have Most Catching Up To Do
16.04.2024, 15:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Inflation Trades Have Most Catching Up To Do Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Markets are unprepared for price growth that is becoming entrenched. But even though the risk-reward in shorting Treasuries or buying gold or Bitcoin is diminishing, we can instead pinpoint the assets that have the most potential to catch up to persistent...
"Returning To Petrol": Volkswagen EV Sales Plunge 25% In Europe
16.04.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Returning To Petrol": Volkswagen EV Sales Plunge 25% In Europe Europe is "returning to petrol", according to a new article from Yahoo Finance which highlighted Volkswagen's EV sales as the canary in the coalmine. Sales of Volkswagen's electric vehicles have declined by nearly 25% in Europe, with a noticeable shift back to gasoline-powered cars amid...
Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90%
15.04.2024, 15:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90% Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Demand for rooftop solar systems dries up in California after subsidies drop. 100 contractors go out of business. Fancy that... California Home-Solar Boom Collapses The Wall Street Journal reports The Home-Solar Boom Gets a ‘Gut Punch’ The...
JPMorgan Slides After Dimon Warns On Net Interest Income, Outlook Disappoints
12.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPMorgan Slides After Dimon Warns On Net Interest Income, Outlook Disappoints Q1 earnings season officially opened moments ago when JPM became the first mega bank to reports results, and even though JPM beat on across the board - and even unexpectedly released reserves instead of setting money aside for yet another quarter - the stock is lower by more...
German Defense Chief Compares Putin To Hitler
12.04.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - German Defense Chief Compares Putin To Hitler Amid the recent days of stepped-up major Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which the Kremlin on Thursday said is necessary in response to Ukrainian forces' own cross-border attacks on Russian oil refineries, the rhetoric out of Europe is becoming unhinged. In but the latest example of this...
Ukraine's Drone Strikes Against Russian Oil Refineries Complicate Biden's Re-Election Bid
12.04.2024, 05:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine's Drone Strikes Against Russian Oil Refineries Complicate Biden's Re-Election Bid Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, CNN published a detailed piece on Tuesday about how “Ukraine’s AI-enabled drones are trying to disrupt Russia’s energy industry. So far, it’s working”. Although an unnamed source close to the program told them...
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...
Democrats Cry Foul As Anti-Free Speech Allies Turn Against Them
08.04.2024, 23:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democrats Cry Foul As Anti-Free Speech Allies Turn Against Them Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the recent disruptions of events featuring leading Democrats from President Joe Biden to Rep. Jamie Raskin. After years of supporting the censoring and blacklisting of others, these politicians are now being targeted by the...
Millions Of New Illegal Immigrants Mask True State Of US Economy
07.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Millions Of New Illegal Immigrants Mask True State Of US Economy Authored by Emel Akan and Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Economists are expressing concern over the increasing number of illegal immigrants in the United States, who they believe are obscuring the actual condition of the jobs market and the U.S. economy. (Illustration...
World War II Didn't End The Great Depression
06.04.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World War II Didn't End The Great Depression By Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities A principal goal of Stark Realities is to “expose fundamental myths across the political spectrum” — and few myths are as universally embraced as the notion that US participation in World War II lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression. This...
Nebraska State Senator Switching From Democrat To Republican Over Abortion
06.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nebraska State Senator Switching From Democrat To Republican Over Abortion Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nebraska state Sen. Mike McDonnell has announced that he’s switching party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, citing his Christian faith and views on abortion. Ballots for the primary elections are arranged by...
US Bank Deposits Soar Back To Pre-SVB Levels, Reserves Decouple From Stocks
05.04.2024, 22:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Bank Deposits Soar Back To Pre-SVB Levels, Reserves Decouple From Stocks Money-market fund total assets jumped over $70BN last week to a new record high above $6.11TN... Source: Bloomberg And, as the chart above shows, the broad trend for bank deposits has been positive (slow, but positive), slowly returning to pre-SVB levels. And talking of SVB...
Behind Today's Stellar Jobs Print: It Was Literally ALL Part-Time Jobs (And Illegals)
05.04.2024, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Behind Today's Stellar Jobs Print: It Was Literally ALL Part-Time Jobs (And Illegals) First things first: unlike the last two months when both the January and February jobs prints were beyond ridiculously manipulated and goalseeked to pass a terrible number as a strong one, the March print was not a complete disaster. To be sure, superficially the March...
Futures Rebound As Oil Remains Above $90; All Eyes On Payrolls
05.04.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound As Oil Remains Above $90; All Eyes On Payrolls US futures rebounded from yesterday's late day rout even as European stocks slumped the most in almost two months and Asian markets tumbled the most in a month, tracking Thursday's broad market retreat as oil prices held near five-month highs above $90 and investors braced for today's...
Former CNN CEO Walter Isaacson Accused Of Assaulting Student Protester
04.04.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former CNN CEO Walter Isaacson Accused Of Assaulting Student Protester Authored by Jonathan Turley, Various groups are demanding the resignation or firing of Walter Isaacson, former CEO of CNN and the Aspen Institute, after allegedly assaulting a Tulane student protester, Rory MacDonald during an event to foster diversity of ideas and entrepreneurship...
Trump Throws Support Behind Push To Switch Nebraska To Winner-Take-All Elector System
04.04.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Throws Support Behind Push To Switch Nebraska To Winner-Take-All Elector System Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump is cheering an effort, led by Republicans in Nebraska, to switch the state’s electoral college system to a purely winner-take-all contest. Nebraska is currently one of two U.S. states that...
In Easter Ruling, Judge Orders Release Of 'Border Riot' Migrants Who Overwhelmed National Guard
01.04.2024, 04:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Easter Ruling, Judge Orders Release Of 'Border Riot' Migrants Who Overwhelmed National Guard A group of migrants involved in a riot at the southern US border have been ordered to be released by an El Paso magistrate judge. The swarm of migrants overwhelmed Texas National Guard soldiers who were trying to organize them into groups to be taken into...
Gen-Z American YouTuber Kidnapped In Haiti
31.03.2024, 00:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gen-Z American YouTuber Kidnapped In Haiti A YouTube and Twitch star known as "YourFellowArab" was reportedly kidnapped by a ruthless Haitian gang. The Gen-Zer attempted to interview gang leader Jimmy 'Barbecue' Cherizier earlier this month amid the Caribbean nation's descent into civil war. Local media outlet Haiti24 reports Addison Pierre...
It Would Be The Ultimate Irony - A Gold Standard Returning Through The Backdoor Of Crypto Markets
18.12.2023, 12:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It Would Be The Ultimate Irony - A Gold Standard Returning Through The Backdoor Of Crypto Markets By Marcel Kasumovich, Deputy CIO, Coinbase Asset Management Markets forced crypto to clean up, inviting institutional participation. Stablecoin is making its way to the main stage for the most ironic of reasons – its inherent stability. 1. Be clear. Your...
Elon Musk Tells Italy: "Please Don't Import Woke Mind Virus From America"
16.12.2023, 19:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk Tells Italy: "Please Don't Import Woke Mind Virus From America" Elon Musk spoke at a political event in Rome organized by supporters of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. During the discussion, Musk discussed various hot topics, including sliding birth rates across Western countries, his views on the exaggeration of climate change by alarmists...
Luongo: Running On Empty, The US Leaves Zelenskyy Hanging
16.12.2023, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Luongo: Running On Empty, The US Leaves Zelenskyy Hanging Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, n' Guns blog, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made one last ditch effort to plead for US monetary and military support for the war against Russia. President “Biden” all but blackmailed the American people last week over this issue, threatening...
GM's Cruise To Slash 24% Of Its Workforce As Part Of Restructuring
16.12.2023, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GM's Cruise To Slash 24% Of Its Workforce As Part Of Restructuring After GM announced it was cutting back its investment in its Cruise subsidiary following a pedestrian accident earlier this year, the division now says it is cutting 24% of its workforce as part of its restructuring. The autonomous driving unit says it will lay off 900 of its 3,800...
Israeli Troops Mistakenly Kill 3 Hostages Who Were Trying To Escape
15.12.2023, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Troops Mistakenly Kill 3 Hostages Who Were Trying To Escape In an incredibly rare and surprise admission, the Israeli army has owned up to killing its own citizens who had been held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The incident happened Friday in the densely populated northern Gaza town of Shejaiye, and resulted in three Israeli hostages...
Schiff: The Fed Surrenders To Inflation!
14.12.2023, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Schiff: The Fed Surrenders To Inflation! Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, The Federal Reserve just surrendered to inflation. Fed officials won’t call it a surrender. They’re claiming victory. But surrender is the effect of the policy trajectory laid out by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) at its December meeting. As expected...
ECB Preview: Will Lagarde Follow Powell Into Early Dovish Capitulation
14.12.2023, 14:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ECB Preview: Will Lagarde Follow Powell Into Early Dovish Capitulation Expectations are for the ECB to keep rates unchanged for a second consecutive meeting after halting its hiking campaign in October. As Newsquawk notes, In terms of recent economic developments, November’s flash CPI fell to 2.4% Y/Y from 2.9%, whilst the super-core metric declined...
Peter Schiff: Joe Biden Doesn't Have Anything To Take Credit For
14.12.2023, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: Joe Biden Doesn't Have Anything To Take Credit For Via SchiffGold.com, Most mainstream pundits characterized the November jobs report as a “Goldilocks” report. Job growth was strong enough to support the “soft landing” narrative but not so strong it might scare the Fed into raising interest rates again. President Joe Biden used...