Neueste Heute 19.04.2024 18.04.2024
Major War Just Narrowly Averted & Biden Already Mulls $1BN+ In New Arms For Israel
20.04.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Major War Just Narrowly Averted & Biden Already Mulls $1BN+ In New Arms For Israel President Biden is mulling his first new major arms sales to Israel since the unprecedented Iranian missile and drone attack which targeted the country last Saturday. Though the world just narrowly avoided witnessing a major regional war explode with Thursday night's...
Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal
20.04.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal Authored by David Stockman via David Stockman's Contra Corner, Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually...
Is There More To This Current Bird Flu Panic Than Meets The Eye?
20.04.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is There More To This Current Bird Flu Panic Than Meets The Eye? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Why are global health officials issuing such ominous warnings about the bird flu? Do they know something that the rest of us do not? H5N1 has been circulating all over the planet for several years now, and it has been the worst...
Living On Uneasy Street
19.04.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Living On Uneasy Street Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, It's nice to anticipate sunny weather, but it's a good idea to carry an umbrella just in case the forecasts prove overly optimistic. Yes, the market will rally if World War III didn't start last night. The market will also rally if World War III does start, because the Federal...
Watch Live: Countdown To The Most Important 'Halving' In Bitcoin History
19.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: Countdown To The Most Important 'Halving' In Bitcoin History We've previewed the shit out of this 'halving' (here, here, here, and here most recently) and now it's here. As Bitcoin Magazine notes, this halving event – projected to occur within the next few hours – will occur as Bitcoin reaches block 840,000, marking the point at which...
Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High
19.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High Well, that escalated quickly... In a week characterized by data supporting 'no landing' from a growth perspective and disappointment from a disinflation perspective... Source: Bloomberg This was reinforced by FedSpeak that was without exception - hawkish! As they suddenly realized...
Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction
19.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction Cocoa hyperinflation is insane. The latest data from the futures market shows that cocoa prices in New York surged above the $12,000 per ton level today as the pace of processing in factories remains robust. This indicates that demand destruction has yet to emerge despite...
A Chart To Think About
19.04.2024, 20:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Chart To Think About Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, For all the “big tech”, momentum, hype; for all the “all-time highs”; this has not been a great year for tech... Based on closing prices, the only day since January 19th, that you could have bought the Nasdaq 100 index and be profitable, is January 31st (and unless I type...
Freedom Caucus Posts Rotating Guard To Block Sneaky Leadership Moves
19.04.2024, 19:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Freedom Caucus Posts Rotating Guard To Block Sneaky Leadership Moves In a sign of growing discord among House Republicans, members of the Freedom Caucus are taking turns monitoring the House floor to prevent the GOP leadership from using sneaky procedural tactics to sap the power of increasingly rebellious conservatives. Specifically, they're wary...
5 Things You Didn't Know About Bitcoin Halvings & BTC Price
19.04.2024, 18:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 5 Things You Didn't Know About Bitcoin Halvings & BTC Price Every four years, the Bitcoin community celebrates the Bitcoin halving. Many BTC market analysts view this as a quadrennial milestone event due to its historically bullish impact on the cryptocurrency market as a whole. A key component of Bitcoin’s design is its periodic halving, which ensures...
Tesla Voluntarily Recalls Cybertruck To Fix "Trapped Pedal"
19.04.2024, 18:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Voluntarily Recalls Cybertruck To Fix "Trapped Pedal" Tesla announced a voluntary recall of nearly all 4,000 Cybertrucks produced between November 15 and April 4 due to faulty accelerator pedals that can dislodge, stick, and unintentionally accelerate, increasing the risk of a crash. "On affected vehicles, when high force is applied to...
A Very Ugly Week For The Nasdaq, A Terrible Week For Semiconductors
19.04.2024, 17:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Very Ugly Week For The Nasdaq, A Terrible Week For Semiconductors It's been a very ugly week for momentum names, but since these days that really means AI and/or mega tech, we can just saw this has been a very ugly week for the Nasdaq. And sure enough, with the QQQs down 0.4%, the Nasdaq is now pacing for its worst week in over a year - and is down...
Mysterious Iranian 'Spy' Ship Returns Home As Israel-Iran Conflict Worsens
19.04.2024, 17:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mysterious Iranian 'Spy' Ship Returns Home As Israel-Iran Conflict Worsens A suspected Iranian spy ship that its own government calls an "intelligence and logistics" vessel returned home this week after a three-year mis, as well as more recently lingering near Yemen for months. The Iranian 'spy ship' BEHSHAD (9167289), which had a hand in the Red...
"Eye For An Eye, A Tooth For A Tooth": Only Hamas Wants Bigger War As Iran, Israel Signal Strikes 'Done'
19.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Eye For An Eye, A Tooth For A Tooth": Only Hamas Wants Bigger War As Iran, Israel Signal Strikes 'Done' There has been no Iranian response against Israel for the overnight Israeli retaliation attack on the Islamic Republic. US officials have since confirmed that it was in fact an Israeli attack, yet all the while Iran's leaders are trying desperately...
Police Surround Iran Consulate In Paris Where Man Threatens To Blow Himself Up
19.04.2024, 14:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Police Surround Iran Consulate In Paris Where Man Threatens To Blow Himself Up A major police and emergency response is ongoing outside the Iranian consulate in Paris on Friday, where a man is reportedly threatening to blow himself up in what's possibly some kind of hostage standoff. Police are asking the public to avoid the area and say that security...
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...
Futures Reverse All Losses, Oil Slides After Iran Plays Down Israeli Attacks, Signals No Retaliation
19.04.2024, 14:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Reverse All Losses, Oil Slides After Iran Plays Down Israeli Attacks, Signals No Retaliation While US futures are still modestly in the red, they are not only well off the worst overnight levels, but they are almost unchanged since yesterday's close following a performative Israeli retaliation. which followed a performative Iranian attack, which...
Hard Money Heat Check
19.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hard Money Heat Check Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There are few things I like more about NBA basketball than when a player gets so hot that it seems as though they can't miss a shot, no matter where they are shooting from. The legendary video game NBA Jam captured this beautifully, for those that remember. A “heat check” is when a hot player...
23andMe Saved From Collapse After CEO Floats Private Takeover
19.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 23andMe Saved From Collapse After CEO Floats Private Takeover DNA-testing company 23andMe soared in the early cash session in New York on news that Anne Wojcicki, the CEO, plans to take the struggling company private after three years on the public markets. The company once sported a $6 billion valuation and has since collapsed to $235 million. ...
Weak EV Market Dragged Down European Car Sales In March
19.04.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Weak EV Market Dragged Down European Car Sales In March By Tsvetana Paraskova of Oilprice.com Europe’s new car sales fell in March for the first time this year, dragged down by a decline in electric vehicle (EV) registrations and the timing of the Easter holidays, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, ACEA, said on Thursday. All...
Swiss Watch Exports Crash In China & Hong Kong
19.04.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swiss Watch Exports Crash In China & Hong Kong Fears of a luxury slowdown are materializing. New data from the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry shows that exports of luxury timepieces tumbled the most since 2020 as demand crashed in Asia. Swiss watch exports dropped in March. Their value fell by 16.1% compared with the same month in 2023 to...
Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won't Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine
19.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won't Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This is credible enough of a reason to justify a conventional NATO intervention in defense of Israel without giving Ukraine grounds to claim that there are double standards at play. Ukraine became jealous like never...
Illegal UK Immigrant Who Protested With Sign Saying "Migrants Are Not Criminals" Pleads Guilty To Rape Of 15-Year-Old Girl
19.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Illegal UK Immigrant Who Protested With Sign Saying "Migrants Are Not Criminals" Pleads Guilty To Rape Of 15-Year-Old Girl Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, A Congolese migrant who had his deportation from the U.K. blocked by an airline’s cabin crew and previously campaigned outside a detention center with a sign that read, “Migrants are...
BRICS - The Project Of The Century
19.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BRICS - The Project Of The Century Authored by Peter Hanseler via VoiceOfRussia.com, The Western media are prioritizing the Ukraine conflict, the green revolution and the woke revolution. In the shadow of this media coverage, BRICS is changing the world. We bring you the latest figures and place them in the current geopolitical environment. – An analysis...
N.Y. Gives Trump The Anne Boleyn Treatment
19.04.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - N.Y. Gives Trump The Anne Boleyn Treatment Authored by Richard Porter via RealClear Politics, Jury selection is underway now complete in the case of The People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump, which alleges that the defendant lied to his own check register, and lied to the general ledger of his own company, when the invoice given to him...
"This Is Too Stupid For It Not To Be The Plan" Holter Hammers Globalist Agenda 'Driving America Into A Brick Wall'
19.04.2024, 04:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "This Is Too Stupid For It Not To Be The Plan" Holter Hammers Globalist Agenda 'Driving America Into A Brick Wall' Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Back in February, when everyone was predicting a Fed rate cut, precious metals expert and financial writer Bill Holter said rates would be going up and not down. Since that call, the 10-Year Treasury...
Moar Power: White House Considers Invoking "Unprecedented" Climate Emergency
19.04.2024, 04:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Moar Power: White House Considers Invoking "Unprecedented" Climate Emergency How best to grab power when there's no convenient emergency to use as excuse? Invent one! That's right: if you had 'climate emergency' on your 'list of disasters to prompt mail-in balloting' bingo card, you may soon be able to cross that square off. That's because the Biden...
Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election
19.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Florida Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling on April 1, upholding a 15-week abortion ban that was signed into law in 2022. The ruling paved the way for a six-week abortion ban to take effect on...
Russia, Russia, Russia!: Watch As Democrats Go Full Russia-Tard During Hearing Over China's "Political Warfare"
19.04.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia, Russia, Russia!: Watch As Democrats Go Full Russia-Tard During Hearing Over China's "Political Warfare" While China has spent decades conducting deep espionage throughout US institutions - mostly in the form of plucky PhD candidates handling sensitive projects at American universities, and places like Los Alamos National Laboratory, Congressional...
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...
Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment
18.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment Since acquiring the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk has been on a 'free speech' crusade against leftist corporate media, dark money propping up progressive fact-checkers, taxpayer-funded non-governmental organizations working under the guise of defending free speech...
The Great Freight Recession Has Now Lasted Longer Than The COVID Bull Market
18.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Freight Recession Has Now Lasted Longer Than The COVID Bull Market By Greg Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves On March 31, 2022, FreightWaves declared that a freight recession was imminent. More than two years later, the freight market remains in one of its deepest and longest recessions in history. The trucking industry is asking, “How much longer...
Money-Market Fund Assets See Largest Outflows Since 'Lehman'
18.04.2024, 22:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money-Market Fund Assets See Largest Outflows Since 'Lehman' Total money-market fund assets plunged by $112BN in the last week as Tax-Day demands took the total assets below $6 Trillion for the first time sine January (to $5.97 Trillion)... Source: Bloomberg Corporate taxes collected from April 11 through April 17 totaled $100.7 billion, Treasury data...
Bitcoin & Bullion Bid As Hawkish FedSpeak Hammers Stocks & Bonds
18.04.2024, 22:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin & Bullion Bid As Hawkish FedSpeak Hammers Stocks & Bonds Stocks had limped higher all night after four straight days lower but into the cash open, Fed's Williams ruined the party by admitting that while rate-hikes are not 'his baseline' they are possible if the data warrants. But that dip was bought aggressively after the open. Stocks were spooked...
Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns
18.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns Who could have seen this coming? btw this is where the next really big crash will start https://t.co/XcK2RezYEk — zerohedge ( zerohedge) February 1, 2024 Bloomberg's Ye Xie reports that a small group of funds has accumulated such large short wagers in the Treasury market that they could...
'Israel Propped Up Hamas': Fireworks Ensue During ZeroHedge Debate, Dennis Prager Says Atrocity Claims 'Libel'
18.04.2024, 20:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Israel Propped Up Hamas': Fireworks Ensue During ZeroHedge Debate, Dennis Prager Says Atrocity Claims 'Libel' On Wednesday night, against the backdrop of the war in Gaza expanding to Lebanon and Syria, ZeroHedge held a debate to discuss the war in the Middle East. Debating that question and more at last night’s ZeroHedge debate were talk show host...
Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak
18.04.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The impulse from central-bank reserves in the US, or the change in their change on a monthly basis, points to further short-term resistance for stocks. The Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening program is ongoing, but bank reserves...
Plaza Accord Lite? Japan, Korea Get Green Light From Yellen For FX Intervention
18.04.2024, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Plaza Accord Lite? Japan, Korea Get Green Light From Yellen For FX Intervention One week ago, when Japan's PM Kishida visited the White House and unwittingly sparked the latest Beltway fashion scandal, when Jeff Bezos' current wife appeared dressed as a middle-aged stripper to the dinner honoring the Japanese delegation, sparking online outrage among...
Existing Home Sales Plunged (Again) In March... But Prices Continue To Rise
18.04.2024, 16:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Existing Home Sales Plunged (Again) In March... But Prices Continue To Rise After the collapse in housing starts and permits in March, it is no surprise that existing home sales disappointed in the same month, dropping 4.3% MoM (-4.1% exp) after surging 9.5% in February. That is the biggest drop since Nov 2022. Sales were down almost 10% from a year...
It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again
18.04.2024, 14:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The risk of a squeeze in US funding markets is increasing as the yield curve bear steepens, i.e. longer-term yields rise more than short-term ones. More attractive bill yields and climbing interest-payment costs on government debt are depleting reserves...
Jobless Claims Remains Deader Than Joe Biden's 'Uncle Bosey'
18.04.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jobless Claims Remains Deader Than Joe Biden's 'Uncle Bosey' In the real world labor market, 2024 has been a shitshow of layoffs... 1. Everybuddy: 100% of workforce 2. Wisense: 100% of workforce 3. CodeSee: 100% of workforce 4. Twig: 100% of workforce 5. Twitch: 35% of workforce 6. Roomba: 31% of workforce 7. Bumble: 30% of workforce 8. Farfetch: 25%...
Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses
18.04.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses US equity futures are higher after four consecutive days of selling, although that is the same pattern we have seen all week as futures initially rise only to dump later in the day. As of 7:40am, S&P futures are up 0.3% while tech stocks were set to outperform, pushing the Nasdaq 0.4% higher after TSMC delivered...
Is China's 'Dumping' Driving US Treasury Yields Higher?
18.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China's 'Dumping' Driving US Treasury Yields Higher? Tonight's TIC data held few surprises and nothing of significant note, but it got us thinking... For the 9th month of the last 11, China's Treasury holdings declined in February (the latest TIC data), dropping by $22.7BN. Additionally, it has now been 24 of the last 28 months that China's Treasury...
The Spear In AI's Back
18.04.2024, 13:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Spear In AI's Back Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, That real harm will result from the use of AI tools is a given. AI is like the powerful character in an action movie who looks invincible until they turn around, revealing a fatal spear embedded in their back. The spear in AI's back is the American legal system, which has been...
Gold Vs. S&P 500: Which Has Grown More Over Five Years?
18.04.2024, 11:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Vs. S&P 500: Which Has Grown More Over Five Years? Gold is considered a unique asset due to its enduring value, historical significance, and application in various technologies like computers, spacecraft, and communications equipment. Commonly regarded as a “safe haven asset”, gold is something investors typically buy to protect themselves...
Desperation Behind European Politicians' Latest Russiagate Hoax
18.04.2024, 09:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Desperation Behind European Politicians' Latest Russiagate Hoax Authored by Peter Sourek, Cecile Jilkova, and Michael Shellenberg via Public Substack, The success of right-wing German political party AfD led European politicians to abuse their powers, perhaps illegally... European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová (left) Prime Minister of the...
The Polish President Revealed That Foreign Companies Own Most Of Ukraine's Industrial Agriculture
18.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Polish President Revealed That Foreign Companies Own Most Of Ukraine's Industrial Agriculture Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Oakland Institute published a detailed report in February 2023 titled “War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land”, which exposed how foreign firms have clandestinely taken control of a...
Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon
18.04.2024, 06:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, One of the more difficult aspects of working in economic analysis is the problem of rampant disinformation that you have to dig through in order to get to the truth of any particular issue. In this regard, economics is very...
The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever
18.04.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, In the past, teachers’ unions concentrated on fighting to keep all teachers employed—competent or otherwise—laying off teachers by seniority when necessary and soaking taxpayers every chance they could. While those activities are still part of their...
It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus
18.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus By Michael Every of Rabobank The Polybius Crisis Take a step back (in time), and see that our neoliberal, debt-addled, was-lower-for-longer global system is not just in a Polycrisis but a Polybius Crisis - referring to the ancient Greek historian. Polybius Methodology:...