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'Retaliation Risk' - What Wall Street Thinks Ahead Of Market Open
14.04.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Retaliation Risk' - What Wall Street Thinks Ahead Of Market Open The first actual 'market' response we have seen to Iran's attack on Israel is in crypto, which saw - rather intriguingly - a huge puke as the drones/missiles flew, and then some comeback as the impact of the attack seemed marginal at worst (and for now retaliation remains muted)... Source:...
Southeast Asia's Preferred Ally Switches In Favor Of China
12.04.2024, 08:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Southeast Asia's Preferred Ally Switches In Favor Of China If Southeast Asian countries had to choose a strategic partner, slightly more would now prefer to align with China than the United States. Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports that a poll conducted by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies found that 50.5 percent of respondents in the...
Russia Bombards Ukraine With Hypersonic Missiles & Drones, Damaging Power Plants, NatGas Facilities
11.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Bombards Ukraine With Hypersonic Missiles & Drones, Damaging Power Plants, NatGas Facilities Russia launched a major missile and suicide drone offensive on Thursday, bombarding Ukraine's power grid and underground natural gas storage sites. Bloomberg reports Russia air-launched six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles that hit critical infrastructure...
Lab-Grown Meat Isn't For Everyone
06.04.2024, 02:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lab-Grown Meat Isn't For Everyone Would you eat laboratory-grown meat? This question, as Statista's Anna Fleck reports was posed recently to respondents of their Consumer Insights survey, seems to divide opinions. Laboratory-grown meat, also known as cultivated or cultured meat, is produced from animal cells, often taken by biopsy. These are then...
These Are The World's Most-Populated Islands?
04.04.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The World's Most-Populated Islands? The word “island” tends to bring up images of remote paradise - a brisk sea breeze, waving palms, and inviting beaches, all ingredients for an idyllic life. However, they can also be hubs for human activity, home to 730 million people, or about 9% of the world’s population. This chart, by creator Perrin...
Eating The Rich Won't Feed The Beast
02.04.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Eating The Rich Won't Feed The Beast Authored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, Wealth in a free society is a rough tallying score of how much economic value someone has provided to the rest of us. A rich person’s wealth — bar inheritance and cronyism — is a testament to how much they enriched us... As Johan...
Futures Slide As Yields Jump And Oil Surges
02.04.2024, 14:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide As Yields Jump And Oil Surges US equity futures are sliding as bond yields spike to 4.36%, the highest level since November, and the price of Brent crude rises to a new five-month high above $89 driven mostly by supply/demand dynamics but a geopolitical fear premium over the brewing Israel-Iran conflict begins to build, and as fears that...
Futures Rise In First Day Of New Quarter As Gold Explodes To Record Highs
01.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise In First Day Of New Quarter As Gold Explodes To Record Highs US futures extend their record-breaking meltup following the long weekend (which was to be expected with hedge funds piling into shorts last week, hoping for a reversal), with most European markets still closed and Asian stocks closing lower. As of 7:30am, S&P futures were 0.3%...
"Huge Problem": Pentagon's Rapid Wartime Response Cargo Ships Trapped In Baltimore After Bridge Collapse
29.03.2024, 17:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Huge Problem": Pentagon's Rapid Wartime Response Cargo Ships Trapped In Baltimore After Bridge Collapse Two high-speed military cargo ships are stuck in the Port of Baltimore following Tuesday morning's collapse of the 1.6-mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge. The major US East Coast port has been paralyzed for several days as the bridge collapse prevents...
Asian Stocks Gain With US and Europe Closed Ahead Of Core PCE Print, Powell Speech
29.03.2024, 13:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Asian Stocks Gain With US and Europe Closed Ahead Of Core PCE Print, Powell Speech With US futures and European markets closed for Good Friday, the only markets trading overnight were in Asia where stocks gained following another record close on Wall Street, with focus turning to key PCE data due later Friday as well as a speech by Fed chair Powell...
The Road To A New McCarthyism
29.03.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Road To A New McCarthyism Authored by Bert Olivier via The Brownstone Institute, I wonder how many people have recoiled with horror at what happened in the House of Representatives recently. I am referring to the decision, effectively, to ban the social media platform, TikTok, in the United States (to ‘protect Americans from foreign adversaries’)...
The Evolving Battlefield: How AI And Drones Redefine Modern Warfare
28.03.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Evolving Battlefield: How AI And Drones Redefine Modern Warfare Authored by Jon Sun and Sean Tseng via The Epoch Times, As the Russia-Ukraine conflict unfolds, drones have transcended traditional weaponry, emerging as pivotal agents of change in modern combat. Their deployment has not only diversified tactics on the battlefield but also heightened...
18 Killed In Gaza Trying To Reach Aid As Pentagon Vows More Airdrops
27.03.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 18 Killed In Gaza Trying To Reach Aid As Pentagon Vows More Airdrops The Biden administration announced this week that it plans to resume humanitarian aid drops into Gaza amid reports that large-scale famine is looming. However, critics have said that the airdropped crates from large military transport planes are dangerous given the cramped and desperate...
US Futures Rebound Ahead Of Busy Data Calendar As New Record High Looms
26.03.2024, 13:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Rebound Ahead Of Busy Data Calendar As New Record High Looms It's as if Monday's modest dip never happened: S&P futures are trading are higher, surpassing Monday's highs, with both Tech and small-caps outperforming, as investors keep a close eye on any potential market impact from the collapse of a major commuter bridge in Baltimore after...
Japan's Top FX Official Threatens "Appropriate Action" Against 'Short Speculators' As Yen Craters After Rate-Hike
25.03.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan's Top FX Official Threatens "Appropriate Action" Against 'Short Speculators' As Yen Craters After Rate-Hike A quick glimpse at the the Japanese Yen's price action (against the USD) since the BoJ 's decision to hike rates for the first time in 17 years and one could be forgiven for being confused as the 'hawkish' move has prompted aggressive 'dovish'...
Visualizing Asia's Massive Population Patterns By Density
25.03.2024, 07:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing Asia's Massive Population Patterns By Density Nearly 60% of the world’s 8 billion population lives in Asia: a vast continent sprawling over 44 million km², home to sprawling megacities, high-altitude deserts, the world’s biggest plateau, and impenetrable rainforests. Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao visualizes Asia’s population patterns...
Is China Prepping For Yuan Devaluation: Renminbi Tumbles After PBOC Pushes It Below Key Support Level
22.03.2024, 15:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China Prepping For Yuan Devaluation: Renminbi Tumbles After PBOC Pushes It Below Key Support Level While everyone continues to watch the slow-motion trainwreck that is the Japanese yen, where the BOJ epically fucked up its latest monetary policy intervention, sending the yen plunging to a 34 year low despite its first rate hike in 17 years, the real...
Where Do The Wealthiest People In The World Live?
22.03.2024, 07:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Do The Wealthiest People In The World Live? Investors didn’t expect 2023 to be the bumper year for returns it ended up being. Despite tightening monetary policies and surging bond yields, equities continued their strong performance (helped hugely by enthusiasm around the potential of artificial intelligence). This has boosted wealth creation...
BlackRock Seeds Ethereum-Backed Digital Liquidity Fund With $100 Million
20.03.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BlackRock Seeds Ethereum-Backed Digital Liquidity Fund With $100 Million Having surpassed Microstrategy in the size of its holdings amid the furious success of spot bitcoin ETFs... ...the world’s largest asset manager has taken “the next step forward” toward a single ledger, instantaneous settlement and ending illicit activities, in the view of...
Oil Hits New Cycle High After China Data, Russian Refinery Attacks, Iraq Supply Cuts
18.03.2024, 13:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Hits New Cycle High After China Data, Russian Refinery Attacks, Iraq Supply Cuts Oil prices hit a fresh four-month high as macro-economic data from China came in ahead of expectations, Iraq says it has reduced its oil exports for the coming months to absorb the oversupply from Jan. and Feb, and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries heightened...
Futures Surge Led By Tech Meltup Ahead Of Fed, BOJ Decisions
18.03.2024, 13:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Surge Led By Tech Meltup Ahead Of Fed, BOJ Decisions US stock futures and global markets are higher led by Tech with the Mag7 and semis higher pre-mkt while small-caps underperform ahead of two key central bank decisions - by the Fed, BOJ and BOE - while Nvidia has two key events this week which may be even more market-moving. As of 8:00am,...
Four-Star Sellouts
16.03.2024, 22:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Four-Star Sellouts Authored by Citizen Soldier via RealClear Wire, “The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. One must go in to fetch a diamond out.” I’ve been thinking about that line from Arthur Miller’s masterpiece, Death of a Salesman, as I watch prominent men risk prison or disgrace to enrich themselves. Look at the news. Sen. Bob...
Futures Flat At All-Time High As Bitcoin Surges To Record, Oil Rises
13.03.2024, 13:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat At All-Time High As Bitcoin Surges To Record, Oil Rises US futures are trading modestly in positive territory and just shy of all time highs, after swinging between gains and losses as Europe trades higher and Asia closed weaker after US markets shrugged of a higher core CPI print and focused on the more constructive disinflation components...
Iron Ore's Steep Decline Intensifies
12.03.2024, 10:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iron Ore's Steep Decline Intensifies To start the week, Ehsan Khoman, the Head of Commodities at MUFG Bank, points out that iron ore ended the session in Asia as one of the weakest major commodities. This downturn was primarily due to the lack of enthusiasm from China's National People's Congress event on Monday amid mounting concerns about worsening...
Confidence In The Global Economy, By Country
09.03.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Confidence In The Global Economy, By Country Measuring consumer confidence in the economy is crucial for understanding both current economic strength, as well as how consumers may be expected to act in the future. So how do people around the world feel about the global economy? This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, uses survey data...
Wealth Needed To Join the Top 1%, By Country
08.03.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wealth Needed To Join the Top 1%, By Country The last decade has witnessed a remarkable surge in the global number of millionaires. By 2022, 1.1% of the world’s adults were millionaires, up from 0.6% in 2012. So, how to know if you belong to the top 1% in your country? In this infographic, Visual Capitalist's Omrio Wallach illustrates the net wealth...
Singapore Inadvertently Reveals More About Direct US Involvement in Ukraine
07.03.2024, 15:00 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post Singapore Inadvertently Reveals More About Direct US Involvement...
Mapping How Much Netflix Costs In Every Country
07.03.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping How Much Netflix Costs In Every Country Netflix, the renowned streaming giant, has transformed the way we consume entertainment, providing a vast library of movies, TV shows, and documentaries at the touch of a button. However, the cost of accessing this digital haven varies significantly from country to country, reflecting economic disparities...
Houthi Missile Hits Swiss-Owned Container Ship Near Aden
05.03.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Houthi Missile Hits Swiss-Owned Container Ship Near Aden The Red Sea has transformed from one of the world's most important maritime trade routes into a warzone. Iran-backed Houthi rebels have withstood dozens of bombing raids by US and UK fighter jets. The Biden administration's Operation Prosperity Guardian continues to fail as yet another container...
China Sets Economic Growth Target At Around 5% This Year, Will Boost Defense Spending By 7.2%
05.03.2024, 04:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Sets Economic Growth Target At Around 5% This Year, Will Boost Defense Spending By 7.2% China will target economic growth of "around 5%" this year as it works to transform its development model (read magically grow while aggressively deleveraging), curb industrial overcapacity (read build less ghost cities while trying to contain the fallout from...
China Panics As Bitcoin Nears Record High, Tops Meta's Market-Cap; ETH ETF "Potential Isn't Priced In"
04.03.2024, 18:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Panics As Bitcoin Nears Record High, Tops Meta's Market-Cap; ETH ETF "Potential Isn't Priced In" Bitcoin has reached a new record high in over 30 currencies this week, including India and Japan (and the euro this morning), but the cryptocurrency's nearing record highs in China has sparked renewed warnings from Chinese state media about the risks...
We Are Supposed To Be In A "Restrictive Phase Of Monetary Policy" So What The Hell Is Going On
29.02.2024, 19:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - We Are Supposed To Be In A "Restrictive Phase Of Monetary Policy" So What The Hell Is Going On By Michael Every of Rabobank Enjoy your cup of digital cocoa For many in markets, today is all about US weekly initial jobless claims and the core personal consumption expenditure deflator, neither of which are likely to reassure that inflation is on track...
Market's Bullishness On Euro Against Dollar Looks Misplaced
19.02.2024, 14:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Market's Bullishness On Euro Against Dollar Looks Misplaced Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Speculators long the euro versus the dollar look out of step with real-rate differentials. However, the short positioning in the euro versus sterling looks more in tune with the interest rate outlook. Overall, speculators are flat the dollar...
Mapping The World's Top 50 Science And Technology Hubs
19.02.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping The World's Top 50 Science And Technology Hubs In 2023, the world experienced another wave of science and technology (S&T) innovation, from the introduction of the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S. to the stunning growth of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, explores...
The US Housing Market: Rent-Serfs & Artificial Scarcity
17.02.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Housing Market: Rent-Serfs & Artificial Scarcity Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Unleash the powers of unlimited credit and excess capital on a limited, essential resource such as shelter and this is what we end up with: artificial scarcity, rent-serfs and half-vacant neighborhoods owned by absentee landlords. Ideologies sound...
The #1 Warning Sign Capital Controls Are Coming Soon & 4 Ways To Beat Them
17.02.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The #1 Warning Sign Capital Controls Are Coming Soon & 4 Ways To Beat Them Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Weekends and holidays are the perfect time to catch people off guard… Like a street thug committing a mugging, capital controls blindside most people—otherwise, they wouldn’t be effective. The government declares a surprise...
The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded By The American Taxpayer
15.02.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded By The American Taxpayer Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The madmen are in power.” - Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries...
Another Variant, Another Desperate Cry For Masks
13.02.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Variant, Another Desperate Cry For Masks Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, For those of us on the side of sanity, reason, and data-driven evidence, the refusal of Covid extremist “experts” to admit mistakes has been a constant, oppressive source of frustration. The names of those involved in creating a false consensus...
Mapping Global GDP Growth Forecasts By Country In 2024
12.02.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping Global GDP Growth Forecasts By Country In 2024 Resilient GDP growth and falling inflation are spurring a brighter outlook for 2024, although cautions remain across global economies. While investors are hopeful that U.S. rate cuts could happen as early as May, the Fed has signaled that it won’t “declare victory” too soon. As countries around...
Futures Flat As Tech Stocks Extend Gains
12.02.2024, 14:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Tech Stocks Extend Gains After a record-matching 14 weeks of gains in the past 15 pushed the S&P to a new all-time high above 5000 last week on unbridled optimism about eventual Fed rate cuts and easing inflation pushed, S&P futures traded flat and near the top of Friday’s range, as traders paused their relentless buying after That...
Escobar: Why Medvedev Is Free To Go Full 'Born To Be Wild'
10.02.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: Why Medvedev Is Free To Go Full 'Born To Be Wild' Authored by Pepe Escobar, Washington is actively splitting the EU in favor of a rabidly Russophobic Vilnius-Warsaw-Kiev axis. Yeah, darlin’ gonna make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild, 1967 The world...
Where The World Celebrates Chinese New Year
10.02.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where The World Celebrates Chinese New Year For around 1.4 billion Chinese, the new year begins on February 10 - unlike in the Gregorian calendar, China calculates its traditional new year's date according to the lunar cycle. While various Asian nations also celebrate their own Lunar New Year festivals, the Chinese New Year is in fact a public holiday...
Diesel Prices Primed To Rise Sharply In 2024
08.02.2024, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Diesel Prices Primed To Rise Sharply In 2024 By John Kemp, senior market analyst Global stocks of diesel and other middle distillates are below normal and prices could start to rise quickly if the industrial economies of North America and Western Europe emerge from their lingering recession in 2024. Inventories of diesel, heating oil and gas oil were...
These Are The World's Richest Countries, Across 3 Metrics
08.02.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The World's Richest Countries, Across 3 Metrics How do you measure the economic success of a country? By one classic measure, GDP per capita shows individual economic prosperity. But comparing countries simply by this metric doesn’t tell the whole story. To get a better idea of living standards, it helps to look at how far your money will...
Futures Rebound To Session High After NY Community Bank Reverses Overnight Rout; Record 10Y Auction Looms
07.02.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound To Session High After NY Community Bank Reverses Overnight Rout; Record 10Y Auction Looms US equity futures and global markets were mixed, while bond yields rose as the Treasury prepared to auction a record $42 billion in 10-year bonds that may indicate if a recent selloff was overdone. As of 7:50am ET, S&P futures rose 0.2%, reversing...
Futures Drop As Yields, Dollar Jump After Powell Repeats Rate Cuts To Come Later
05.02.2024, 14:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop As Yields, Dollar Jump After Powell Repeats Rate Cuts To Come Later US equity futures and bonds fell while the dollar rose after Fed Chair Jerome Powell again pushed back against any hopes of lower interest rates during his 60 Minutes interview, saying it's "not likely" the Fed would cut in March (which was to be expected after Friday's...
How Much Do Countries Trust The United Nations?
05.02.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Much Do Countries Trust The United Nations? Do you trust the United Nations (UN) in carrying out its objectives of maintaining peace and security, protecting human rights, and upholding international law? Survey results from Edelman’s 2024 Trust Barometer Global Report show that some countries’ citizens believe strongly in the UN to “do...
Where Corruption Is Rampant
01.02.2024, 05:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Corruption Is Rampant Transparency International has released its 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index which gauges levels of perceived public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The index scores them on a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (clean) with the average score just 43 out of 100. As Statista's Martin...
British Oil Tanker Carrying Russian Naphta On Fire In The Red Sea After Houthi Missile Strike
26.01.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - British Oil Tanker Carrying Russian Naphta On Fire In The Red Sea After Houthi Missile Strike The British fuel tanker operated on behalf of trading giant Trafigura, was on fire after it was struck by a missile as it transited the Red Sea, in the most significant attack yet by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on an oil-carrying vessel. Yemen's Houthis said on...