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Dismal Data Sparks Dollar Dump - Everything Else Rips On Record Week
17.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dismal Data Sparks Dollar Dump - Everything Else Rips On Record Week US Macro Surprise data declined for the sixth straight week... to its weakest since January 2023... Source: Bloomberg But that 'bad news' prompted a run to record highs for risky stocks... Source: Bloomberg As the market seems to be completely discounting the collapse in soft survey...
Biden Agrees To A Debate Between Kamala Harris And Trump's VP Pick
17.05.2024, 17:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Agrees To A Debate Between Kamala Harris And Trump's VP Pick Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, This VP debate will be widely watched and a lot of fun too. I have a suggestion for Trump. Stage Set for VP Debate Politico reports Biden Campaign Agrees to VP Debate on CBS The Biden campaign has accepted an invitation from CBS News for Vice...
GameStop Crashes On Plan To Dump 45 Million Shares On Market
17.05.2024, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GameStop Crashes On Plan To Dump 45 Million Shares On Market Sunday: pic.twitter.com/YgjVqtgcNS — Roaring Kitty ( TheRoaringKitty) May 13, 2024 Roaring Kitty's post on X unleashed a mega short squeeze in heavily shorted Gamestop and AMC Entertainment Holdings between Monday and Wednesday. On the first day of the mania, we pointed out, "You...
Is US Copper Sowing The Seeds Of Its Own Return To Earth?
17.05.2024, 14:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is US Copper Sowing The Seeds Of Its Own Return To Earth? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Copper’s recent rally has been most pronounced in the US, taking the futures curve there into extreme backwardation. That typically precedes a supply response and lower prices. Nonetheless, the long-term bullish case for copper is intact...
Former Greenlight Employee Offers To Debate David Einhorn Over Merits Of Tesla Short
17.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former Greenlight Employee Offers To Debate David Einhorn Over Merits Of Tesla Short A former Greenlight Capital employee, who is embroiled in a lawsuit against his former employer for defamation, claims the firm "fundamentally misunderestimates" Tesla and is seeking to debate Greenlight President David Einhorn on the topic. On a post on X, the employee...
Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week
17.05.2024, 12:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week US equity futures are flat to end a torrid week which saw all indexes hit a fresh all-time high while the terminally anachronistic Dow Jones briefly topped 40,000. Pre-market, MegaCap Tech are mixed: AMZN +20bp, MSFT +20bp, META -22bp, GOOGL -18bp. WMT is down 27bps pre-mkt, after its +7.0% rally post-earnings...
Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000
16.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000 The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged above the historic 40,000 mark in late morning and early afternoon trading. Euphoria was high as bulls celebrated Dow 40,000. This week's gains across broad equity indexes were primarily driven by a cooler April CPI print and dismal retail data on Wednesday...
Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal
16.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal For much of the past decade, gold bugs religiously tracked the physical gold inventory located in the various gold vaults that make up the Comex system, eagerly awaiting the day when there would be more deliverables (via paper shorting of gold) than...
America Is No Longer A Hyperpower, And Others Keep On Rocketing The Free World
16.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America Is No Longer A Hyperpower, And Others Keep On Rocketing The Free World By Michael Every of Rabobank Stocks up, Stonks up, bonds up, gold up, crypto up, and copper up to a new record high. Almost everything rocketed after US CPI came a slither lower than expected --and 30 minutes earlier than scheduled on the BLS website, which markets looking...
Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move
16.05.2024, 13:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move US index futures are flat after notching new record highs on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, spurred on by a miss in the US CPI print and retail sales data on Wednesday, which also boosted bets the Federal Reserve will ease policy. That inflation data, which the market was feverishly anticipating,...
What About The Non-Superstar Companies That Account For 85% Of US Jobs
16.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What About The Non-Superstar Companies That Account For 85% Of US Jobs By Dhaval Joshi of BCA Research The Superstar Economy The stellar performance of the S&P 500 superstars is not representative of the profits of wider corporate America. For the direction of the US jobs market, we should closely monitor the profits of the 6.4 million non-superstar...
Toxic Atmosphere At FDIC Spurs Calls For Chair's Resignation
16.05.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Toxic Atmosphere At FDIC Spurs Calls For Chair's Resignation Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, The White House did not offer their full faith and credit to the FDIC chairman when asked by RealClearPolitics about a bombshell 234-page investigation that detailed a toxic environment within the agency. Other than noting that Martin Gruenberg...
Mississippi Passes Law Banning Trans-Friendly Bathroom Policies In Public Schools
16.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mississippi Passes Law Banning Trans-Friendly Bathroom Policies In Public Schools A lot of Americans are asking how we so quickly got to a point where a man could simply declare he is the opposite sex, throw on a wig and a leotard, and then walk into a women's restroom while being protected by government officials? In some Democrat controlled states...
Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency
15.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency. We can summarize the changes in our economy over the past two generations with one word: precarity, as life for the bottom 90%...
Biden Readies $1BN In Bombs For Israel Despite Progressive & Swing State Voter Revolt
15.05.2024, 21:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Readies $1BN In Bombs For Israel Despite Progressive & Swing State Voter Revolt The Biden administration continues to speak out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to Israel and Gaza policy as Progressive Democratic voters continue peeling off in droves, declaring that they can't in good conscience vote for Biden in November. On Tuesday,...
Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment"
15.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment" In a Goldman Materials note this morning covering China and copper, analyst James McGeoch pointed out that the base metal is "having a Cocoa moment." Comex copper futures for July delivery jumped nearly 5% to $5.12 a pound, exceeding an earlier record for the most active contract set in March...
Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking
15.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Hal Finney was a pioneering computer scientist, cryptographer, and prominent Cypherpunk who played a crucial role in the early development of Bitcoin. He was one of the first supporters, contributors, and adopters of Bitcoin. In short, Finney...
VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden?
14.05.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Joe Biden’s personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what...
Clearing Demand
14.05.2024, 20:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Clearing Demand By Ahmed Bin Sulayem Since its establishment in 2005, the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) has been the central counterparty for clearing and settlement services to the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX). Emerging as the largest clearing house in the MENA region by volume, DCCC is now poised to play a far more multinational...
I've Got A Bad Feeling About This
14.05.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - I've Got A Bad Feeling About This By Michael Every of Rabobank Ideally, I would have written this on May 4th not 14th, but I am going to talk Star Wars. I was a fan in 1977, kept the flame alive when only battered VHS cassettes of the original trilogy existed, and was delighted to get prequels. Until the opening crawl announced, “The taxation of trade...
AMC Raised $250 Million In ATM Offering As 'Meme' Stocks Rocket Higher
14.05.2024, 14:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AMC Raised $250 Million In ATM Offering As 'Meme' Stocks Rocket Higher With AMC Entertainment and GameStop's short squeezes causing significant losses for short sellers on Monday, we noted the growing likelihood that "bankers are burning the phones at GME and AMC pitching ATM equity offerings for after the close." You know jefferies bankers are burning...
"Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech
14.05.2024, 12:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech US equity futures are flat into tomorrow's CPI/Retail Sales print with PPI the major macro data point today, while Fed Chair Powell also speaks. Futures are flat after also closing unchanged yesterday when the return of the meme stonk mania sent GME and AMC soaring, and hammered L/S hedge funds...
South Korea Still Dominates The World With The Highest Density Of Robot Workers
14.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - South Korea Still Dominates The World With The Highest Density Of Robot Workers China's huge investment in industrial robotics has made it one of the most automated nations on the planet in the space of just a few short years. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, according to the latest study by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), the number...
Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid
13.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid The return of 'Roaring Kitty' sent GME soaring higher (up 110% at its highs)... Source: Bloomberg ...and prompted squeezes/panic-covering across the 'most shorted' names and 'retail favorites (memes)' soared... Source: Bloomberg As John Flood noted from Goldman's trading desk:...
GameStop's 'Roaring Kitty' Returns, Sends Shares Skyrocketing As 'Million Apes Go Insomniac'
13.05.2024, 14:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GameStop's 'Roaring Kitty' Returns, Sends Shares Skyrocketing As 'Million Apes Go Insomniac' "My god it's him, he's really back. To give a hedgefund bitch a heart attack. To make a million apes insomniac. It's the guy... who's not a cat ;-)," wrote one user on Reddit's GameStop message board on Sunday evening following an X post from 'Roaring...
Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms
13.05.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms US equity futures extended last week's solid gains when they traded just about 1% below all time highs, as investors awaited key CPI later this week that will shape the Fed's actions in coming months. As of 7:30am, contracts on the S&P 500 rose about 0.2% (but still below Friday's highs)...
Trump Vows To Undo Biden's Pro-Transgender Rules On 'Day One' Of His Administration
13.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Vows To Undo Biden's Pro-Transgender Rules On 'Day One' Of His Administration Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump has vowed to reverse the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX protections for transgender students on “day one” of his administration—if he wins the election in...
Shocking Headline Of The Day: Germany To Re-Introduce Slavery
13.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shocking Headline Of The Day: Germany To Re-Introduce Slavery Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Young Germans will have to choose between the Bundeswehr (military service) and unpaid social service work. Libertarians to a person, will call this slavery, because that is what it is. Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery Please consider the Eurointelligence...
Long-Awaited State Dept Review 'Absolves' Israel Of War Crimes
11.05.2024, 13:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Long-Awaited State Dept Review 'Absolves' Israel Of War Crimes Via The Cradle A US State Department report on Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip will be submitted to Congress on Friday and stop short of concluding Tel Aviv has "violated terms for the use of US weapons," according to US officials who spoke with Axios. The report, based on a months-long...
Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx
11.05.2024, 10:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx Via Middle East Eye In a grand procession last week, Sinai militia leader Ibrahim al-Organi arrived at a ceremony to inaugurate the Arab Tribes Union, a new paramilitary entity that brings together five tribal groups from across Egypt. The celebration named President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi...
Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation
11.05.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation Authored by Rob Bluey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Victor Davis Hanson tackles a topic related to military history in his new book, “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation.” (Courtesy of The Heritage Foundation) Victor Davis Hanson is well known for his...
Sheriff’s Deputy Fired Over Jan. 6 Secures Nearly $400,000 In Settlement
11.05.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sheriff’s Deputy Fired Over Jan. 6 Secures Nearly $400,000 In Settlement Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Roxanne Mathai in a file photograph. (Courtesy of Roxanne Mathai) A sheriff’s deputy fired for protesting in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, has secured a large settlement from Bexar County in Texas. Roxanne Mathai...
Hedge Funds That Sold In May Might Now Push Stocks To New Highs
10.05.2024, 23:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedge Funds That Sold In May Might Now Push Stocks To New Highs Authored by Simon White. Bloomberg macro strategist, Hedge funds seem to have taken the old adage about selling in May to heart. From being very long for most of this year, aggregate positioning now looks to have gone short – right as the stock market bounces. Hedge funds that are offside...
WATCH: How To Save The World!
10.05.2024, 20:07 Uhr. OffGuardian - https: - You know what the most powerful weapon in the world is, don’t you? And you know how to use that weapon to change the course of human history, right? If not, don’t fret! James is here to tell you all about it. Don’t miss this short, simple, to-the-point presentation on How To Save The World …...
"Worst Case Scenario": MacroGenics Crashes After Five Patient Deaths In Experimental Drug Trial
10.05.2024, 18:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Worst Case Scenario": MacroGenics Crashes After Five Patient Deaths In Experimental Drug Trial A Rockville, Maryland-based biotech company called MacroGenics crashed in premarket trading in New York after it revealed five deaths in a clinical trial of its investigative therapy for prostate cancer, according to Bloomberg. MacroGenics finished...
Bidenomics Implodes: Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Craters In Biggest Miss On Record
10.05.2024, 16:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bidenomics Implodes: Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Craters In Biggest Miss On Record Moments ago the University of Michigan released the latest "report card" on Bidenomics, and to nobody's surprise - except perhaps a certainl senile resident of the White House, it was a total disaster as Sentiment unexpectedly plunged from 77.2 to 67.4, the 9.8 point...
Dog Gone: Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing 'Bad Weather'
10.05.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dog Gone: Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing 'Bad Weather' Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has cut short a disastrous book tour after receiving withering criticism for her story of shooting an ill-behaved puppy and unverified claims of meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, RealClearPolitics is first...
US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs
10.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs US equity futures pointed to even more gains on the last day of trading, leaving the S&P 500 set for a third weekly rise — the longest run since February. The rally was given fresh legs yesterday by more earnings optimism coupled with disappointing economic data - this time the highest initial...
New "Guide" Teaches UK MPs To Spot "Conspiracy Theories"
10.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New "Guide" Teaches UK MPs To Spot "Conspiracy Theories" Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, The British government has issued a new guidebook to all sitting MPs to help them spot “conspiracy theories”. Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt MP, who commissioned the guide, has warned that: The proliferation of conspiracy theories across...
Decline Of Senior Officer Integrity And Civilian Control Of The Military
10.05.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Decline Of Senior Officer Integrity And Civilian Control Of The Military Authored by Keith T. Holcomb via RealClearDefense, Public confidence in the military has slipped. One major reason is the politicization of senior military officers, who show an increasing propensity to compromise their integrity to gain influence and achieve both budgetary and...
The Catalyst For A Banking Renaissance
09.05.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Catalyst For A Banking Renaissance Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Every day, there are over 2,000,000,000 consumer transactions around the world. Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and other large companies process many of these payments. Bitcoin, on the other hand, does not have anywhere near the capacity to handle this kind...
Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report
09.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report Conservative think tank Center for Renewing America floated the idea a year and a half ago that "It's time to wage war on transnational drug cartels." This comes as the drug death catastrophe in the US eclipses the entire Vietnam War every six months. The vast...
Revenge Travel Peaked? Airbnb Pukes On Travel Spending Slowdown Forecast
09.05.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Revenge Travel Peaked? Airbnb Pukes On Travel Spending Slowdown Forecast Shares of Airbnb stumbled in premarket trading in New York on Thursday after the home rental company beat earnings expectations for the first quarter but provided weaker-than-expected guidance. This comes after Bank of America analysts identified other travel companies missing...
Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains
09.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains US equity futures are weaker as yields resume their rise and the USD strengthens after the BOE signaled it was ready to cut rates. As of 7:45am, S&P futures were down 0.2% and Nasdaq futures dipped 0.3% as all Mag7 names and most semis were red in the premarket. Most European markets are lower, tracking US...
"The Polling Data Has Been Wrong All Along": Watch Biden Deny Economic Reality In Train-Wreck CNN Interview
09.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Polling Data Has Been Wrong All Along": Watch Biden Deny Economic Reality In Train-Wreck CNN Interview Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During a brutal CNN interview aired Wednesday, Joe Biden looked shocked when host Erin Burnett reeled off a list of stats detailing how bad the economy is. Instead of suggesting how he is going to improve...
Why Germany Is Choosing Natural Gas Over Nuclear Power
09.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Germany Is Choosing Natural Gas Over Nuclear Power By Haley Zermba of Oilprice.com The world is experiencing a nuclear renaissance. Uranium prices are soaring as the world snaps up nuclear fuel, public favor for nuclear power is at a 10-year high in the United States, Russia is busily expanding its own nuclear energy empire in emerging economies...
The Machinery Of Fascism Revisited
09.05.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Machinery Of Fascism Revisited Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Fascism became a swear word in the US and UK during the Second World War. It has been ever since, to the point that the content of the term has been drained away completely. It is not a system of political economy but an insult. If we go back a decade before...
Strengthening Our Beleaguered Military Starts With A Maritime Overhaul
09.05.2024, 05:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Strengthening Our Beleaguered Military Starts With A Maritime Overhaul Authored by Brent D. Sadler via RealClear Wire, America’s security and prosperity is at high risk today, largely because of bad policies backed up by too weak armed forces. Consider our U.S. maritime complex. Decades of neglect and inadequate investment have left our shipping,...
Putin Doesn't Bluff
09.05.2024, 01:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Doesn't Bluff Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Two weeks ago, the Congress passed (and President Biden signed) four key pieces of legislation related to national security. Three of the bills provided assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. They received the most attention. The one that got the least attention was a mixed bag...