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SEC Expected To Deny Spot Ether ETFs In May, Consensys Sues Over 'Security' Status
26.04.2024, 02:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SEC Expected To Deny Spot Ether ETFs In May, Consensys Sues Over 'Security' Status There are increasing doubts among industry insiders that the SEC will approved Spot Ether ETFs in May, according to a report from Reuters. According to four people who participated, recent meetings between issuers and the SEC have been one-sided and agency staff have...
Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy
26.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Having used up all of the rest of the batshit, insane, counterintuitive economic dirty tricks left in the "we'll literally do anything but cut spending" bag, the Biden administration is pushing what could be the most destructive idea for our country since prohibition:...
Judge Shoots Down Effort To Identify FBI, Undercover Police On Jan. 6
26.04.2024, 01:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Judge Shoots Down Effort To Identify FBI, Undercover Police On Jan. 6 Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge in Washington D.C. has denied seven motions from a defendant seeking to identify FBI agents in Jan. 6 crowds and gain access to undercover videos shot by Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers...
As Tax-Season Ebbs, Money-Market Funds See Return Of Inflows; Fed's Bank Bailout Fund Remains At $126BN
25.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As Tax-Season Ebbs, Money-Market Funds See Return Of Inflows; Fed's Bank Bailout Fund Remains At $126BN After the prior week's almost unprecedented outflows, total money market fund assets rose last week (admittedly by a modest $9.1BN), but remain below the $6TN level ($5.97TN) as tax-season draws roll off... Source: Bloomberg The flows into money-market...
Lawmakers Ask IRS To Investigate Chinese Funding Of Anti-Israel Protests
25.04.2024, 22:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lawmakers Ask IRS To Investigate Chinese Funding Of Anti-Israel Protests Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, On Wednesday, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives called for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to begin investigating the financial links between China and anti-Israel groups that have been protesting throughout the United...
Google Soars To Record After Smashing Estimates, Launches $70 Billion Buyback And Starts Paying Dividend
25.04.2024, 22:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Soars To Record After Smashing Estimates, Launches $70 Billion Buyback And Starts Paying Dividend After the first two Mag7 companies were a study in market paradoxes, when TSLA missed across the board and soared (after guiding much better than expected) and META beat across the board but plunged (after guiding weaker than expected while boosting...
Why Is A Sensible Immigration Policy Discussion So Hard
25.04.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Is A Sensible Immigration Policy Discussion So Hard By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Why is the choice between shutting down the border and no controls at all? And what about demographics? Fertility rates? Immigration Talks We Should Be Having Eurointelligence discusses the Immigration Talks We Should Be Having. The ideas also apply to the US. Last...
Fauci To Testify In Public Hearing On COVID-19 Response, Origins
25.04.2024, 21:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fauci To Testify In Public Hearing On COVID-19 Response, Origins Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times, Dr. Anthony Fauci is locked in to testify before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on June 3, his first public hearing since retiring as the president’s chief medical advisor in 2022. Subcommittee Chair Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio)...
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...
Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency
25.04.2024, 19:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency Authored by Peter C. Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, Zimbabwe’s historical relationship with money has been inundated with mistakes, recklessness, and hardship. During the peak of its 2008 hyperinflation, the nation experienced a catastrophic economic...
Soggy 7Y Auction Prices On The Screws; Foreign Demand Sags Amid Surge In Directs
25.04.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soggy 7Y Auction Prices On The Screws; Foreign Demand Sags Amid Surge In Directs Following two solid, record-large coupon auctions this week, when first the 2Y auction stopped through and then the 5Y auction tailed, we just got the third possible outcome moments ago, when in the sale of $44 billion in 7Y paper (which was not a record large auction unlike...
The Infamous 'Buy Bitcoin' Pad Just Sold For More Than $1 Million At Auction
25.04.2024, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Infamous 'Buy Bitcoin' Pad Just Sold For More Than $1 Million At Auction $1.027 million...or about 16 bitcoin. That's what the infamous 'Buy Bitcoin' scribble drawing on a yellow legal pad, once held up at a televised Congressional testimony behind Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, just sold for at auction, according to Bloomberg. The report...
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...
Falling Bond Yields Show It's Crunch Time In China
25.04.2024, 16:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Falling Bond Yields Show It's Crunch Time In China Authored by Simon Black, Bloomberg macro strategist, Sovereign yields in China have been falling in recent months, in marked contrast to almost every other major country. This is a key macro variable to watch for signs China is ready to ease policy more comprehensively as its tolerance is tested for...
This "Emperor" Has No Clothes
25.04.2024, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This "Emperor" Has No Clothes Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Does the Fed even matter that much to the real economy and investor portfolios? That’s an important question that doesn’t get nearly enough scrutiny. It’s possible that neither the Fed nor the reporters who cover the Fed want to ask hard questions about what the Fed...
Initial & Continuing Jobless Claims Continue To Ignore Reality
25.04.2024, 14:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Initial & Continuing Jobless Claims Continue To Ignore Reality 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:...
US Futures Tumble After Facebook Implodes; GDP Data On Deck
25.04.2024, 14:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Tumble After Facebook Implodes; GDP Data On Deck The three-day rebound from last week's rout ended with a thud after the close yesterday when Meta imploded, plunging as much as 17% and losing $200 billion in market cap, after the company revealed disappointing revenue guidance coupled with higher capex projections. The report sent US futures...
US Births Alarmingly Slide To Lowest Level Since 1979, Failing To Exceed Replacement Rate Since Before GFC
25.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Births Alarmingly Slide To Lowest Level Since 1979, Failing To Exceed Replacement Rate Since Before GFC "There are certainly some big risks that humanity faces. Population collapse is a really big deal, but I wish more people would think about...the birth rate is far below what's needed to sustain civilization at its current level," Elon Musk...
Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal
25.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times, When your cell phone gets hot, that means its processors are computing faster or you have a lot of apps open. The same is true for “server farms,” which Gigabyte.com explains are “a large number—up to thousands—of servers grouped...
Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs
25.04.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs Whatever happened to the WEF? One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public discourse. After the pandemic agenda was defeated and the plan to exploit public fear to create a perpetual medical autocracy was exposed, Klaus Schwab...
Will The Anglo-American Axis Really Deploy Nukes To Poland?
25.04.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The Anglo-American Axis Really Deploy Nukes To Poland? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish President Andrzej Duda confirmed in an interview during his latest trip to the US that “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons as part of nuclear sharing also on our territory to strengthen the security of NATO's eastern flank, we...
UK Government-Funded Trans-Lobbyist Group Calls Puberty Blockers "Wonderful"
25.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UK Government-Funded Trans-Lobbyist Group Calls Puberty Blockers "Wonderful" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A government funded LGBT activist group that is active in more than half of Scotland’s schools has called puberty blocking drugs, which effectively sterilise children, “wonderful.” LGBT Youth Scotland, which is registered as...
These Countries Saw The Largest 'Happiness' Gains Since 2010
25.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Countries Saw The Largest 'Happiness' Gains Since 2010 In 2011, Bhutan sponsored a UN resolution that invited governments to prioritize happiness and well-being as a way to measure social and economic development. And thus, the World Happiness Report was born. In 2012, the first report released, examining Gallup poll data from 2006–2010...
ATF Rule-Change Creates A Trap For The Unwary
25.04.2024, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ATF Rule-Change Creates A Trap For The Unwary Authored by Christopher Roach via American Greatness, On Friday, the 31st anniversary of the massacre of Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, the ATF issued new regulations that make it more difficult to comply with federal laws regulating gun dealing and background checks. Since the 1930s, federal law has required gun...
Meta Craters 13% After Revenue Forecast Disappoints
24.04.2024, 22:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meta Craters 13% After Revenue Forecast Disappoints After yesterday's eruption by the first Mag7 member Tesla, which missed across the board but gave an extremely cheerful outlook where Musk vowed he would release a lower-priced EV as soon as this year, moments ago the second, and far bigger, Mag7 member - and who really cares about Mag7 any more, it's...
Yen Dumped, Yield-Curve Pumped, Bonds & Bitcoin Slump
24.04.2024, 22:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Dumped, Yield-Curve Pumped, Bonds & Bitcoin Slump Quiet macro day with Durable Goods Orders looking like a beat - but only because of sizable downward revisions - as orders and shipments are actually down on a YoY basis. Source: Bloomberg But stocks were messy with an opening bid immediately squelched and post-EU-close ramp faded into the US close...
Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime
24.04.2024, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. The curious aspect of the case is that the prosecutors are...
Watch: Migrants Gone Wild On Streets of Midtown Manhattan
24.04.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Migrants Gone Wild On Streets of Midtown Manhattan A pack of illegal aliens viciously fought each other with sticks, belts, and whatever they could get their hands on outside a migrant hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Footage of the fight was uploaded on X on Sunday. The scenes show parts of Manhattan transformed into what appears to be third-world-esque...
Market Is Splendidly Indifferent To Rising Inflation Risks
24.04.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Market Is Splendidly Indifferent To Rising Inflation Risks Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, There continues to be scant evidence of inflation hedging in markets despite clear signs price-growth risks are rising. Inflation remains in focus this week as we get the first quarter’s update for US PCE on Friday. Regardless of one data...
Subpar 5Y Auction Tails, Pushes Yields To Session Highs
24.04.2024, 19:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Subpar 5Y Auction Tails, Pushes Yields To Session Highs One day after the US sold a record amount of 2 Year paper in a very strong auction, the Treasury has followed that up with a record amount of 5 year paper, this time in a less than impressive sale. The $70BN in 5Y paper was up $3BN from $67BN last month and was the highest amount on record offered...
Cocoa Drops Most Since April 2009, Some Losses Recovered In Muti-Day Volatility Rollercoaster
24.04.2024, 19:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Drops Most Since April 2009, Some Losses Recovered In Muti-Day Volatility Rollercoaster Cocoa futures in London on Tuesday plunged the most since April 2009, tumbling as much as 8.1%, while prices slid as much as 7.7% in New York. Prices recovered some losses on Wednesday morning. It appears the downdraft was caused by fast-money traders taking...
Cities' "Doom Loops" Are Even Worse Than You Imagined
24.04.2024, 18:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cities' "Doom Loops" Are Even Worse Than You Imagined Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, This is why those who understand these dynamics are getting out, even though the city was their home. A correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous sent me this account of the "doom loop" that is playing out in many American cities. The correspondent...
Chinese Have "Grabbed Gold By The Throat" As Capital Flight Accelerates
24.04.2024, 17:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese Have "Grabbed Gold By The Throat" As Capital Flight Accelerates “Chinese speculators have really grabbed gold by the throat...” That is how John Reade, chief market strategist at the World Gold Council, describes the scramble in the communist nation among investors looking to move money anywhere but in the yuan or Chinese assets. As evidenced...
Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors
24.04.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Most NFL general managers (GMs) are optimistic and displaying overconfidence today as they prepare for tomorrow’s NFL draft. The draft is a once-a-year opportunity for GMs to acquire talent. Like investors, GMs often think they are smarter...
WTI Jumps After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude InventoryBuild
24.04.2024, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Jumps After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude InventoryBuild Oil prices are drifting lower this morning, despite API reporting a surprise crude inventory draw last night, as hopes that geopolitical tensions are easing (hope is not a strategy) combined with a reduced expectation of economy-juicing rate-cuts are weighing on crude prices. Supporting the upside...
Germany Arrests Unprecedented Six Spies In Less Than A Week
24.04.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany Arrests Unprecedented Six Spies In Less Than A Week German security services say they've arrested an unprecedented six suspected spies in only the past week, and four of these are believed to have been working for the government of China, while the other two are suspected Russian agents. As we reported earlier, the latest case unveiled Tuesday...
Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles
24.04.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles Gucci owner Kering SA's problems in mainland China are only mounting as the French luxury giant issued a profit warning. As a result, shares of the company in Paris plunged to a six-year low. Lackluster Chinese demand for the luxury goods maker, which includes the Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega...
Durables Goods Orders Suffers Biggest YoY Decline Since COVID Lockdowns
24.04.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Durables Goods Orders Suffers Biggest YoY Decline Since COVID Lockdowns The roller-coaster ride that is 'Durable Goods New Orders' continues this morning after the last six months of so have seen monthly swings higher and lower with no trend discernible whatsoever (especially noteworthy given yesterday's slump into contraction for the Manufacturing...
Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks
24.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks Equity futures rose for the third day in a row - last week's brutal drubbing a distant memory - with tech outperforming as Tesla soars premarket after Elon Musk vowed to launch less-expensive vehicles as soon as late this year while Texas Instruments jumped 7% after...
AI Chatbots Refuse To Produce 'Controversial' Output - Why That's A Free Speech Problem
24.04.2024, 11:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI Chatbots Refuse To Produce 'Controversial' Output - Why That's A Free Speech Problem Authored by Jordi Calvet-Bademunt and Jacob Mchangama via TheConversation.com, Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of color instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe...
"Let's Debunk The Myth That Mass-Migration Brings An Economic Benefit", Says Former UK Immigration Minister
24.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Let's Debunk The Myth That Mass-Migration Brings An Economic Benefit", Says Former UK Immigration Minister Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The notion that mass immigration brings a net economic benefit to a developed nation is a myth that needs to be debunked, a former U.K. government minister who resigned over the spiraling numbers arriving...
Senates Passes $95 Billion Aid Bill For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan, Forces Sale Of TikTok
24.04.2024, 05:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senates Passes $95 Billion Aid Bill For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan, Forces Sale Of TikTok The republicans do what they always do best: fold like cheap lawn chairs. Moments ago, in a 79-18 vote, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a long-delayed $95.3 billion foreign-aid package sending $60.8 billion in ammunition and military equipment to Ukrainian...
Chinese FX Outflows Soar, Priming The Next Bitcoin Surge
24.04.2024, 05:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese FX Outflows Soar, Priming The Next Bitcoin Surge Last October, when we pointed out that China's FX outflows had just hit a whopping $75BN - the single biggest monthly outflow since the 2015 currency devaluation - we concluded that the "unfavorable interest rate spread between China and the US will "likely imply persistent depreciation and outflow...
"That's Concerning": US Indo-Pacific Commander Warns China Becoming More Aggressive As Economic Recovery "Failing"
24.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "That's Concerning": US Indo-Pacific Commander Warns China Becoming More Aggressive As Economic Recovery "Failing" One of the biggest questions of our time is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides's Trap. It seems that, in the short term, the US will likely avoid direct conflict with China, but in the long term, there will be...
Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes
24.04.2024, 03:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Scientific American has published a piece claiming that “misinformation,” such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is “being used against transgender people” and in order to target “gender-affirming medical...
What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good)
24.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good) Authored by Antonius Aquinas, The recent run-up in the gold price has not garnered the attention among the mainstream financial media outlets as it should. Gold has, in part, been overshadowed by the rise in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Naturally, the financial...
Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination
24.04.2024, 02:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination Former Rep. Justin Amash on Monday announced that his Senate campaign had submitted the requisite signatures to appear on Michigan's Aug. 6 primary ballot. The GOP field for a shot at a Democrat-vacated seat includes an archetypal Deep Stater in former Rep. Mike Rogers, who...
Cannabis Use Greatest Among Lower-Income And Less Educated
24.04.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cannabis Use Greatest Among Lower-Income And Less Educated By Dan Witters of Gallup Nine percent of U.S. adults report that they use cannabis regularly, defined as at least 10 days of consumption per month. Regular usage differs by education and income, with the highest rates seen among those with a high school education or less (13%) and those living...
Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since War's Start, On Passover
24.04.2024, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since War's Start, On Passover Hezbollah on Tuesday conducted its deepest strikes into Israeli territory since the start of the war, launching drones at Israeli military bases on the outskirts of the Israeli city of Acre. Israel's military said none of its facilities were hit, and videos circulating online...
Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion
23.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion By Tim Martin at BreakingDefense Global military expenditure surged to a record $2.44 trillion in 2023, the largest year-on-year rise on weapons spending since 2009, according to a new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report. The report, published today, said that the...