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'FX Vigilantes' Strike - Yen Suddenly Crashes To April 1990 Lows Against The Dollar
29.04.2024, 05:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'FX Vigilantes' Strike - Yen Suddenly Crashes To April 1990 Lows Against The Dollar The yen crashed in early Asia trading, tumbling to match is exact lows from April 1990 in what is being blamed on a 'fat finger' trade or multiple barrier-option trades being triggered, by sources that have literally no idea. The plunge extended Friday's big drop which...
Joe Biden's Brother Embroiled In High-Ranking Qatari Scheme To "Provide Wealth Of Introductions" Through "My Family": Politico
29.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Joe Biden's Brother Embroiled In High-Ranking Qatari Scheme To "Provide Wealth Of Introductions" Through "My Family": Politico Qatar has had a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. While we knew about the EU's 'Qatargate,' investments with the Kushner family, and of course Sen. Bob Menendez advancing Qatar's interests, Politico reports that the Biden family's...
Elon Musk Makes Surprise Beijing Visit As Tesla Seeks Full Self-Driving Rollout
28.04.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk Makes Surprise Beijing Visit As Tesla Seeks Full Self-Driving Rollout Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday and met with Premier Li Qiang, one week after postponing a trip to India. A source familiar with the visit told Reuters that Musk was expected to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving software and permission to transfer...
From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes
27.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes Authored by Breeauna Sagdal via The Brownstone Institute, Seasoned veterinarians and livestock producers alike have been scratching their heads trying to understand the media’s response to the avian flu. Headlines across every major news outlet warn of humans becoming infected with the “deadly” bird flu after...
UCLA Students Forced To Take Mandatory 'Fat Positivity' Class
27.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UCLA Students Forced To Take Mandatory 'Fat Positivity' Class Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, UCLA medical school is under fire for forcing students to attend ‘health equity’ classes where ‘fat positivity’ is promoted, and reading material claims that the medical term ‘obesity’ is a slur “used to exact violence on fat people...
Drizzle Drizzle? 'Soft Guy Era' Parody Trend Sheds Light On Feminist Hypocrisy
27.04.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Drizzle Drizzle? 'Soft Guy Era' Parody Trend Sheds Light On Feminist Hypocrisy First, the feminists claimed that they "don't need no man" and promoted a culture of "strong independent women," the idea being that men were holding women back from their true potential. The "patriarchy" conspiracy was an all prevailing issue for woke activists for years...
Biden Holds Off On Sanctioning IDF Unit In Apparent Reversal
27.04.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Holds Off On Sanctioning IDF Unit In Apparent Reversal Via The Cradle The government of US President Joe Biden has decided against imposing sanctions on Israeli army units responsible for human rights violations against Palestinians, despite initial plans to do so. ABC News reported on Friday that a government assessment determined that three...
US Bank Deposits Suffer Biggest Weekly Decline Since 9/11 As Tax Man Cometh
26.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Bank Deposits Suffer Biggest Weekly Decline Since 9/11 As Tax Man Cometh It's that time of year again and US bank deposits sure showed it... While money-market funds' total assets fell over $100BN, on a non-seasonally-adjusted (NSA) basis, total bank deposits crashed by a stunning $258BN as Tax-Day cometh. That is considerably more than the $152BN...
Micro Trumps Macro As Stocks Shrug Off Week Of Higher Inflation, Higher Rates, & Lower Growth
26.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Micro Trumps Macro As Stocks Shrug Off Week Of Higher Inflation, Higher Rates, & Lower Growth It was an ugly macro week... Source: Bloomberg ...and worse still, 'growth' surprises disappointed significantly while 'inflation' surprises surprised to the upside significantly... Source: Bloomberg Soaring inflation expectations sent rate-cut expectations...
IDF Shelling Hammers Rafah As Egypt Sends Top Intel Official To Avert Ground Offensive
26.04.2024, 19:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IDF Shelling Hammers Rafah As Egypt Sends Top Intel Official To Avert Ground Offensive Egypt is attempting a last ditch effort to reach a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel at a moment IDF shelling of Rafah has intensified, in what are seen as 'softening' operations ahead of an imminent ground offensive, despite international calls to cancel the operation...
JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again
26.04.2024, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again Having already lost more than 10% of its value versus the US dollar this year, the yen plunged further overnight after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda indicated monetary policy will stay easy as he kept rates unchanged and showed little to no support for the embattled currency during...
UMich Inflation Expectations Accelerated In April To 2024 Highs
26.04.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UMich Inflation Expectations Accelerated In April To 2024 Highs Short-term inflation expectations rose... again... according to the latest UMich sentiment survey with 1-year expectations at 3.2% final, up from preliminary 3.1% for April, and 2.9% for March. This is the highest level since Nov 2023... Source: Bloomberg The headline sentiment also declined...
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries Again Despite White House Pleas
26.04.2024, 14:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries Again Despite White House Pleas Just days after the Biden administration signed a new military aid package worth billions of dollars to Ukraine, Kyiv launched a series of suicide drone attacks on Russian oil refineries. Biden's top officials have pleaded with Kyiv to stop attacks on Russia's...
Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Prints Hotter-Than-Expected As Savings Rate Plunges
26.04.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Prints Hotter-Than-Expected As Savings Rate Plunges With inflation data surprising to the upside recently... Source: Bloomberg ...the doves' last chance for sooner than later rate-cuts is today's Core PCE Deflator - often described as The Fed's favorite inflation signal. Last month saw an uptick in the headline deflator...
"Taken Out By The FBI, CIA, & Bob Woodward" - Tucker Carlson Says Watergate Was Orchestrated To Remove President Nixon From Office
26.04.2024, 05:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Taken Out By The FBI, CIA, & Bob Woodward" - Tucker Carlson Says Watergate Was Orchestrated To Remove President Nixon From Office Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, I have several times reported the same... Nixon was removed because he was making arms limitation agreements with the Soviets and opening to China. This was normalizing the enemy that the...
Houthis Launch Attack On US Cargo & Navy Ships Following Two Weeks Of Quiet
26.04.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Houthis Launch Attack On US Cargo & Navy Ships Following Two Weeks Of Quiet Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthis have announced new aggressive actions in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea regions, saying late Wednesday that projectiles were launched against more US and Israeli-owned commercial vessels, and that a US warship was also targeted. This follows a period...
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...
Stagflation Signal Slams Stocks & Bonds; Bullion & Black Gold Bid
25.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stagflation Signal Slams Stocks & Bonds; Bullion & Black Gold Bid Overall, US macro data has suddenly started to disappoint (not the least of which was today's ugly GDP print)... Source: Bloomberg But, while 'bad news' for the economy has recently been 'good news' for stocks (enables an easier Fed), today's data 'punched that narrative in the face'...
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...
"None Of This Should've Happened": Baltimore Takes Container Ship Owner & Manager To Court Over Bridge Collapse
25.04.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "None Of This Should've Happened": Baltimore Takes Container Ship Owner & Manager To Court Over Bridge Collapse Baltimore City filed a lawsuit against the owner and operator of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, causing it to collapse. Attorneys for Baltimore's mayor and City Council claim the bridge...
Gold Prices: Beyond Inflation And Real Yields
25.04.2024, 18:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Prices: Beyond Inflation And Real Yields Authored Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Renowned for its role as a hedge against economic uncertainty and inflation, gold has long captivated investors. One key factor influencing gold’s price is the relationship between real yields and inflation. Over the long term, gold has protected one against...
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...
Wall Street Reacts To Today's Stagflationary Data Dump
25.04.2024, 16:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wall Street Reacts To Today's Stagflationary Data Dump After today's stagflationary GDP print, which came below the lowest Wall Street estimate even as core PCE came in above the highest estimate... ... there has been an outcry of horror from Wall Street's traders, analysts and strategists as the BEA once again steamrolled all over Wall Street's benevolent...
US Pending Home Sales Rise In March, But...
25.04.2024, 16:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Pending Home Sales Rise In March, But... After new home sales soared (thanks to prior downward revisions) and existing home sales plunged in March (along with the collapse in housing starts and permits in March), this morning's pending home sales data was expected to rise very modestly MoM (less than in February) but remain lower on a YoY basis...
'Stagflationary' GDP Data Sparks Market Turmoil, Rate-Cut Hopes Crushed
25.04.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Stagflationary' GDP Data Sparks Market Turmoil, Rate-Cut Hopes Crushed Weaker than expected growth and hotter than expected prices... the perfect example of a central banker's nemesis: Stagflation... and the market is very unhappy about it. Rate-cut expectations have dropped back near cycle lows (for 2024 and 2025)... Source: Bloomberg Treasury yields...
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 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...
Biden's $60BN Can't Fix Ukraine's Manpower & Recruitment Crisis
25.04.2024, 03:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's $60BN Can't Fix Ukraine's Manpower & Recruitment Crisis With Biden's $60 billion in funding for Ukraine now fully authorized and implemented, the question is now what? The US President on Wednesday announced just after signing the bill that the Pentagon will start sending equipment to Ukraine "in the next few hours" straight from the US stockpile...
Popular Iranian Rapper Sentenced To Death For Supporting 'Anti-Hijab Protests'
25.04.2024, 00:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Popular Iranian Rapper Sentenced To Death For Supporting 'Anti-Hijab Protests' A 33-year old Iranian activist and rapper who has recently been involved in anti-government demonstrations has been handed a shockingly draconian sentence by an Iranian court. Toomaj Salehi was first arrested in Oct. 2022 for publicly backing the so-called 'anti-hijab' protests...
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...
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...
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...
Wind Overtakes Fossil Fuels As The UK's Largest Power Generation Source
24.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wind Overtakes Fossil Fuels As The UK's Largest Power Generation Source Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The UK saw two consecutive quarters of wind power overtaking fossil fuels as the single-largest source of electricity generation for the first time, per data from think tank Ember quoted by Reuters columnist Gavin Maguire. In the first...
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...
WTI Holds Gains After API Reports Unexpected Crude Inventory Draw
23.04.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Holds Gains After API Reports Unexpected Crude Inventory Draw Oil priced ended notably higher today after recovering strongly from overnight weakness (driven by a Bloomberg report that said fresh U.S. sanctions targeting vessels and refineries handling Iranian oil shipments were having a muted impact on crude supply). If implemented and enforced...
Blackrock Bitcoin ETF Enters Top 10 All-Time For Longest Sequential Inflows
23.04.2024, 19:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blackrock Bitcoin ETF Enters Top 10 All-Time For Longest Sequential Inflows Authored by Vivek Sen via BitcoinMagazine.com, BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, is now one of the top 10 ETFs of all-time, at least when it comes to maintaining its streak of daily investment inflows. As of Tuesday, April 23, IBIT has seen 70 days of inflows, meaning that the...
After Big Downward Revision, New Home Sales Jumped In March Along With Prices
23.04.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Big Downward Revision, New Home Sales Jumped In March Along With Prices Following the plunge in Existing Home Sales (and Start and Permits), March New Home Sales (unexpectedly) soared - rising 8.8% Mom (+0.9% exp). This big jump (largest MoM since Dec 2022) is made to look a lot better after February's 0.3% MoM decline was revised dramatically...
'Buy All The Things' - Dismal Data Lifts Rate-Hike Odds As Markets Ignore Price-Pressures
23.04.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Buy All The Things' - Dismal Data Lifts Rate-Hike Odds As Markets Ignore Price-Pressures Seemingly choosing to ignore soaring new home sales and median home prices (and wage-related and input cost pressures within the PMI data), US equity markets, bond markets. gold, and crypto are all riopping higher on the 'bad news' decline in Manfacturinag Services...
US PMIs Scream Stagflation As Manufacturing 'Contracts', Prices Rise, Heaviest Job Cuts Since GFC
23.04.2024, 16:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US PMIs Scream Stagflation As Manufacturing 'Contracts', Prices Rise, Heaviest Job Cuts Since GFC After a mixed bag from preliminary April European PMIs (Services strong-er, Manufacturing weaker-er, surging prices)... “Accelerated increases in input costs, likely driven not only by higher oil prices but also, more concerningly, by higher wages, are...
Euro Area PMI Activity Hits 11 Month High On Service Expansion As Manufacturing Recession Gets Worse
23.04.2024, 15:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Euro Area PMI Activity Hits 11 Month High On Service Expansion As Manufacturing Recession Gets Worse Europe's study in paradoxical contrasts continues. On the same day, ECB's de Guindos said a June rate cut looks like a set deal (unless there are surprises) with the end of inflation fight is in sight, the Euro-area's private-sector activity advanced to...
Homebuyer Payment Hits Record High As Mortgage Rates Climb Back Above 7% For The First Time In 2024
23.04.2024, 12:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Homebuyer Payment Hits Record High As Mortgage Rates Climb Back Above 7% For The First Time In 2024 Mortgage rates in the United States climbed to the highest level since November 2023 last week, as higher-than-expected inflation readings have dashed hopes of the Fed starting to cut rates soon. As Statista's Felix Richter reports, according to Freddie...
Syria's President Assad Confirms Rare Direct Talks With Washington
23.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Syria's President Assad Confirms Rare Direct Talks With Washington Via The Cradle Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the Foreign Minister of the south Caucasus republic Abkhazia during an interview published on 21 April that Damascus holds dialogue with Washington "from time to time." In response to a question from Abkhazian Foreign Minister Inal...
Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish"
23.04.2024, 02:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish" On one hand, the technical storm appears to have subsided: as we correctly predicted last night, just days after the biggest CTA shake-out in over a year (thanks to the fake Iran-Israel war, which on Thursday shook out all the sell stops thanks to the latest brutal...
No Evidence FBI Used Counterterrorism Tactics on Catholics: Government Watchdog Report
22.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Evidence FBI Used Counterterrorism Tactics on Catholics: Government Watchdog Report Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An independent governmental watchdog investigation concluded that there was no evidence to support that the FBI was targeting Catholics based on a leaked memo. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan...
Gold Hammered As Short-Squeeze Saves Stocks Ahead Of Micro/Macro Storm This Week
22.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Hammered As Short-Squeeze Saves Stocks Ahead Of Micro/Macro Storm This Week The "calm before the storm" of earnings and big macro this week (and no WW3 this weekend) was all the algos needed to ramp stocks during the US cash session after being reminded that the buyback-blackout period is almost over... And S&P HOD as algos start frontrunning the...
Why A Powerful Silver Bull Market May Be Ahead
22.04.2024, 19:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why A Powerful Silver Bull Market May Be Ahead By Jesse Colombo of BullionStar Since early-March, precious metals have launched one of their sharpest rallies in decades. Gold surged by 16% and silver by 26%, which are significant moves for safe-haven assets — especially considering that it played out over such a short time period. During this rally...
Key Events This Week: PCE, GDP, Fed Blackout And Earnings Gallore
22.04.2024, 16:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: PCE, GDP, Fed Blackout And Earnings Gallore Hot on the heels of last week's tech and momentum rout, shaken traders will have to wait until Friday for the main macro event namely the US core PCE print within the income and spending report. Economists expect the core PCE deflator to come in at +0.30% vs. +0.26% last month. This would...
Community Notes For The Win: VP Kamala Harris' Post Gets Instantly Debunked
22.04.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Community Notes For The Win: VP Kamala Harris' Post Gets Instantly Debunked X has depended on Community Notes, a crowdsourced fact-checking feature, to address the rampant spread of misinformation. It's a much better alternative than leftist fact-checking websites that push routine misinformation and disinformation for their corporate sponsors. ...
The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here
22.04.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here Via SchiffGold.com, With the AI boom and green energy push fueling fresh copper demand, and with copper mines aging and not enough projects to match demand with supply, the forecasted copper shortage has finally arrived in earnest. Coupled with persistently high inflation in the US, EU, and elsewhere, I predict...