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CIA Engaged In "Infinite Race" With China For AI, Other Tech
05.05.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CIA Engaged In "Infinite Race" With China For AI, Other Tech The CIA is engaged in an "infinite race" with China when it comes to AI and other top technologies, according to the agency's Chief Technology Officer, Nand Mulchandani, who outlined a strategy that prioritizes technological prowess as crucial to national security. Speaking at the Hill & Valley...
Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable?
03.05.2024, 06:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The largest firms in the US are unsurpassably pulling ahead of their smaller rivals by earning more, investing more, holding more cash and buying back more of their stock. The bull market is thus likely to remain historically lackluster and less...
Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran?
02.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran? Author3ed by Con Coughlin via the Gatestone Institute, (Image source: iStock/Getty Images) If attempts by Western leaders to impose further sanctions against Iran in retaliation for its direct attack against Israel are to have any validity, they will need to be a great deal more effective than...
Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm
01.05.2024, 17:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In an op-ed for the Washington Post on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how QE and other Fed policies eased financial conditions, bolstering...
Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms
01.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms US equities were set for a second day of losses, as investors weighed disappointing tech earnings and braced for today's Quarterly Refunding Announcement and Fed rate decision and Powell press conference where the Fed chair is expected to signal a delay to rate cuts. S&P 500 futures slid 0...
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...
Columbia Student Protesters Break Into, Barricade Themselves Into Building After Deadline To Disperse Passes
30.04.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Columbia Student Protesters Break Into, Barricade Themselves Into Building After Deadline To Disperse Passes Dozens of Columbia University students broke into Hamilton Hall on the New York campus early Tuesday and barricaded themselves inside, hours after the school began suspending students who violated a deadline to disperse from a pro-Palestinian...
"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...
How The Supreme Court's Immunity Decision Could Limit The Cases Against Trump
28.04.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How The Supreme Court's Immunity Decision Could Limit The Cases Against Trump Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court indicated on April 25 that it would issue a narrow ruling refining the scope of presidential immunity while leaving the details of former President Donald Trump’s other legal battles up to lower courts. The most...
Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks
28.04.2024, 01:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks Via Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin is one of the most robust distributed systems in the history of mankind. For fifteen years it has ticked along block by block with only two disruptions in its first few years that were very quickly handled by responsive developers the minute they manifested...
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...
Retail Sales Data Suggests A Strong Consumer Or Does It
26.04.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Sales Data Suggests A Strong Consumer Or Does It Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The latest retail sales data suggests a robust consumer, leading economists to become even more optimistic about more robust economic growth this year. To wit: “It has been two years since forecasters felt this good about the economic outlook...
Anglo American Rejects BHP's Takeover Deal, Calls It "Highly Unattractive"
26.04.2024, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Anglo American Rejects BHP's Takeover Deal, Calls It "Highly Unattractive" The world's largest global diversified miner, BHP, is being forced to significantly raise its buyout offer of Anglo American or walk away from the proposed all-share deal valued at £31.1 billion ($38.9 billion). "The BHP proposal is opportunistic and fails to value Anglo...
China Is Pivotal For US Inflation's Path
26.04.2024, 14:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is Pivotal For US Inflation's Path Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, A more forthright response from China to its deflationary predicament would further support US inflation that is already proving sticky, adding to longer-term upwards pressure on term premium and thus yields. There are upside risks to the US PCE release today...
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...
Largest Oil ETF Hit With Record Outflow On Subsiding Geopolitical Risk Premium
25.04.2024, 20:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Largest Oil ETF Hit With Record Outflow On Subsiding Geopolitical Risk Premium A reduced geopolitical risk premium for Brent crude this week is likely one of the main drivers resulting in the largest daily outflows for the US Oil Fund ETF. Tensions between Iran and Israel have subsided in recent days, and it's entirely possible the White House is...
Wall Street Reacts To Today's Stagflationary Data Dump
25.04.2024, 16:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wall Street Reacts To Today's Stagflationary Data Dump After today's stagflationary GDP print, which came below the lowest Wall Street estimate even as core PCE came in above the highest estimate... ... there has been an outcry of horror from Wall Street's traders, analysts and strategists as the BEA once again steamrolled all over Wall Street's benevolent...
To Appease Environmentalists, The FTC Will Cripple U.S. Energy
25.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - To Appease Environmentalists, The FTC Will Cripple U.S. Energy Authored by Justin Bis via RealClear Markets, In the movie The Perfect Storm, George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg are among the crew of a boat off the Northeast coast that is caught in the convergence of multiple powerful storms. The combination of tempests ultimately takes down the craft...
Hong Kong Bitcoin And Ether ETFs Officially Approved To Start Trading On April 30
24.04.2024, 17:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hong Kong Bitcoin And Ether ETFs Officially Approved To Start Trading On April 30 Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The first wave of spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been officially approved to start trading in Hong Kong on April 30. Hong Kong’s financial regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)...
iPhone Sales In China Tumble 19% In Worst Quarter Since 2020
23.04.2024, 13:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - iPhone Sales In China Tumble 19% In Worst Quarter Since 2020 Apple shares are marginally lower in premarket trading in New York following a report that first-quarter iPhone sales in China had been the worst since early Covid. This comes ahead of an earnings report from the world's most valuable company next week and other souring reports from independent...
On Earth Day, Biden Administration Backs Rooftop Solar With $7 Billion Grant
23.04.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - On Earth Day, Biden Administration Backs Rooftop Solar With $7 Billion Grant By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com U.S. President Joe Biden is announcing on Monday $7 billion in grants to help more than 900,000 low-income households install residential solar power, the White House said. President Biden will mark today’s Earth Day by traveling to...
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...
Finternet: das Finanzsystem der Zukunft, wie es sich die Faschisten vorstellen
20.04.2024, 19:06 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - This paper lays out a vision for the Finternet: multiple financial ecosystems interconnected with each other, much like the internet, designed to empower individuals and businesses by placing them at the centre of their financial lives. It advocates for a user-centric approach that lowers barriers between financial services and systems, thus promoting...
Economic Warning From The NFIB
19.04.2024, 14:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Economic Warning From The NFIB Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The latest National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) survey was an economic warning that departed widely from more robust governmental reports. In a recent analysis of small businesses, we discussed the importance those business owners play in the economy...
Inside The Disinformation Industry
18.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Inside The Disinformation Industry Authored by Freddie Sayers via UnHerd.com, “Our team re-reviewed the domain, the rating will not change as it continues to have anti-LGBTQI+ narratives… The site authors have been called out for being anti-trans. Kathleen Stock is acknowledged as a ‘prominent gender-critical’ feminist.” This was part of an...
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...
Beige Book Reveals Economy In Far Worse Shape Than White House Claims
17.04.2024, 21:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beige Book Reveals Economy In Far Worse Shape Than White House Claims There was something odd about the latest Beige book (which was prepared based on information collected on or before April 8, 2024, so before the latest CPI print): if accurate, it would suggest that the rosy economic picture painted by the White House is woefully incorrect, whether...
These Are The Top 10 States By Real GDP Growth
17.04.2024, 04:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Top 10 States By Real GDP Growth Fueled by strong consumer spending and a resilient job market, the U.S. economy expanded faster than expected in 2023, with a real GDP growth rate of 2.5%. Oil-rich states were among the strongest performers in the country as production boomed. Much of this was due to the war in Ukraine driving up the...
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...
Reflation Trade Is The New Bullish Narrative
16.04.2024, 17:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Reflation Trade Is The New Bullish Narrative Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Economic “reflation” is becoming the next bullish narrative as equity valuation increases continue to outpace earnings gains, at least according to Gold Sachs and Tony Pasquariello. “If GS is correct on the big calls, the macro backdrop is set...
Earnings Season Has Started: Here Is The Emerging Picture
16.04.2024, 04:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Earnings Season Has Started: Here Is The Emerging Picture Banks kicked off Q1 earnings last Friday with a painful start: XLF fell 1.3% on Friday alone led by a 6% plunge in JPM stock, and dropped even more on Monday despite strong results from Goldman. While JPM earnings beat (most) expectations, and left 2024 Net Interest Income guidance unchanged...
Bread And Circuses: What It Means For Once-Great Nations
15.04.2024, 04:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bread And Circuses: What It Means For Once-Great Nations Authored by Nicole James via The Epoch Times, Democracy, that ever-so-fleeting fancy, has a tendency to tumble into a bit of a tizz before it topples over, panting and gasping like a winded walrus. John Adams, ever the prophet of doom, once quipped, “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes...
Javier Blas Outlines Ten Takeaways For Crude Market Following Iran's Direct Attack On Israel
14.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Javier Blas Outlines Ten Takeaways For Crude Market Following Iran's Direct Attack On Israel Iran's direct attack on Israel on Saturday evening is viewed certainly as an escalation in the Middle East conflict. Tehran's missile and drone attack (widely unsuccessful) has been well-telegraphed (read: here & here) for the last two weeks, pushing up...
How Did Satoshi Think Of Bitcoin?
13.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Did Satoshi Think Of Bitcoin? Authored by Unchained CSO Dhruv Bansal via BitcoinMagazine.com, Bitcoin is often compared to the internet in the 1990s, but I believe the better analogy is to the telegraph in the 1840s. The telegraph was the first technology to transmit encoded data at near-light speed over long distances. It marked the birth of the...
China Exports Collapse, Prompting Yuan Devaluation Fears
12.04.2024, 19:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Exports Collapse, Prompting Yuan Devaluation Fears China’s export growth tumbled in March compared to last year, sparking questions about a possible yuan devaluation at a time when China's biggest mercantilist competitor in Asia - Japan - has intentionally cratered its currency. Chinese Exports declined by 7.5% from a year earlier in March...
US Restricts Diplomats' Travel In Israel, Bracing For Iran Attack By Week's End
12.04.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Restricts Diplomats' Travel In Israel, Bracing For Iran Attack By Week's End Iran is expected to attack Israel by week's end, or at least within the coming days. However, the degree of telegraphing has almost taken the teeth out of the threat and what Iran hopes to accomplish in its retaliation. "Iran is calibrating its plans for a major retaliatory...
Stuck On Failure At The WHO
12.04.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stuck On Failure At The WHO Authored by Kevin Roberts and Robert Redfield via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Four years have passed since the onset of COVID-19 and the global mishandling of its spread. Now, the same governments and international organizations that lied about the last pandemic are negotiating a new pandemic agreement and amendments...
The Case For Owning Treasuries Is Evaporating
11.04.2024, 15:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Case For Owning Treasuries Is Evaporating Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Contrarians will love this column as it will show there is still no smoking gun for a recession in the US. They might see that as proof then that one must be imminent and yields are going much lower. But contrarianism for its own sake is rarely a good...
PAMP It: Costco Selling Up To $200 Million In Gold Bars Per Month, Wells Fargo Estimates
09.04.2024, 21:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PAMP It: Costco Selling Up To $200 Million In Gold Bars Per Month, Wells Fargo Estimates Last December, wholesale retailer Costco announced that they had sold over $100 million worth of gold in Q3 2023. "You've probably read about the fact that we're selling one-ounce gold bars. We sold over $100 million of gold during the quarter," sad CFO Richard...
Futures Flat As 10Y Yield Jumps To 2024 High, Bitcoin Back At Record
08.04.2024, 14:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As 10Y Yield Jumps To 2024 High, Bitcoin Back At Record US equity futures are flat, trading around 5,252, having rebounded from session lows even as 10Y yields extend their ascent and the USD strengthens as traders further pare expectations for interest-rate cuts in the face of resilient readings on the US economy. As of 8:00am, S&P and...
People Are Not Inflation Idiots
07.04.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - People Are Not Inflation Idiots Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (BearFotos/Shutterstock) Commentary There’s something about employed intellectuals. When they are trashing popular wisdom and perceptions of regular people, they are truly in their element. They love nothing better. It’s a way for them to show off...
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...
NATO Head Denies Alliance Is Party To Ukraine War Despite Military Aid
05.04.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Head Denies Alliance Is Party To Ukraine War Despite Military Aid Via ReMix News, NATO member states have not yet decided on the structure of future assistance to Ukraine, but they have started planning for it, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday at the end of the first day of the meeting of...
Bitcoin Futures Markets Signal 'Prime Buying' Opportunity Soon
04.04.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Futures Markets Signal 'Prime Buying' Opportunity Soon Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin futures funding rates - periodic payments made between short and long traders - may be signaling a potential price correction for Bitcoin in the future, which could present “prime buying opportunities," according to market analysts...
Bitcoin Redundancy Realizations
03.04.2024, 20:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Redundancy Realizations Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance When I think about the key concepts that I’ve learned about Bitcoin over the last month or two, there wasn’t one that pushed me over the line to be a believer more than the function of the network's redundancy. I mean, sure, almost everybody that knows me knows that ideologically...
WTF Is Going On With Services PMI Prices-Paid?
03.04.2024, 16:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTF Is Going On With Services PMI Prices-Paid? Following the mixed picture on Manufacturing PMIs (ISM up, S&P Global down), but strong impulse in prices in both surveys; today's Services PMIs offered no more clarity at all... S&P Global's Services PMI printed 51.7 final for March (flat to the flash print) but down from February's 52.3 - that is the...
Futures Drop As Rates Continue Rising With Brent Back To $90
03.04.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop As Rates Continue Rising With Brent Back To $90 US futures are down small with Tech underperforming and small-caps flat, as rates held at 4 month highs, and Brent is about to rise above $90. As of 8:00am, both S&P and Nasdaq futures are down -0.2%, with yields higher pre-market ahead of Powell’s 12.10pm ET speech; despite his dovish...
Can America's Middle Class Still Afford Homeownership In 2024
03.04.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can America's Middle Class Still Afford Homeownership In 2024 Submitted by Sam Bourgi of CreditNews The middle class today isn’t what it was even as recently as just a few years ago. After the highest inflation breakout in nearly 50 years, many middle-class families have been priced out of the standard of living that most Americans took for granted...
Tackling The Difficult But Urgent Task Of Depolarizing America
02.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tackling The Difficult But Urgent Task Of Depolarizing America Authored by Adeline Von Drehle via RealClear Politics, The North Hall of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Ridgefield, Connecticut, acts in 2024 much like the town of Gettysburg acted in 1863: as a space to handle our differences as citizens of the United States. Braver Angels is one of...