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US Housing Starts/Permits Ugly In April After Huge Revisions
16.05.2024, 14:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Housing Starts/Permits Ugly In April After Huge Revisions Despite a plunge in sentiment and soaring mortgage rates, analysts expected Starts and Permits to increase in April. They were half right, but both missed bigly - as Starts rose 5.7% MoM (below the +7.6% exp), up from a downwardly revised 16.8% plunge in March; Permits dropped 3.0% MoM (well...
Jobless Claims Decline After Last Week's Big Surge Amid New York Chaos
16.05.2024, 14:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jobless Claims Decline After Last Week's Big Surge Amid New York Chaos After the prior week's big surprise jump in jobless claims, analysts expect a decline this week back into the lowest-in-forty-years range once again... and they were right as 222,000 Americans filed for jobless benefits for the first time last week (down from a revised 232k the prior...
Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency
15.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency. We can summarize the changes in our economy over the past two generations with one word: precarity, as life for the bottom 90%...
Soft CPI & Sloppy Sales Spark Run To Record Highs For Stocks; Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Bid
15.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soft CPI & Sloppy Sales Spark Run To Record Highs For Stocks; Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Bid Nothing good - all bad... and new record highs for stocks. SuperCore CPI hotter than expected (but headline and core CPI in-line/small miss), Retail sales way uglier than expected (but gas station spending surged), homebuilder sentiment slumped, and Empire...
Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking
15.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Hal Finney was a pioneering computer scientist, cryptographer, and prominent Cypherpunk who played a crucial role in the early development of Bitcoin. He was one of the first supporters, contributors, and adopters of Bitcoin. In short, Finney...
WTI Rebounds Off Lows After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws
15.05.2024, 16:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rebounds Off Lows After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws Oil prices are tumbling this morning despite lower CPI (juicing rate cut hopes), weak retail sales (but strong gas station spending), and a big draw reported overnight by API. It seems the main downside driver was IEA lowering its 2024 demand forecast. World oil demand is forecast to grow...
"Trifecta Of Dovish News... Consistent With Fed Cutting In September": Wall Street Reacts To Weaker CPI Print
15.05.2024, 15:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Trifecta Of Dovish News... Consistent With Fed Cutting In September": Wall Street Reacts To Weaker CPI Print With the CPI report came in on top of expectations on 3 of the 4 closely watched metrics, with just headline CPI coming in at 0.3%, just shy of the 0.4% expected (with the retail sales print coming in far uglier and missing across the board)...
Despite Surging Gasoline Spending, US Retail Sales Missed Big In April
15.05.2024, 15:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Despite Surging Gasoline Spending, US Retail Sales Missed Big In April For once, BofA's analysts 'missed' as their expectations for a small beat in retail sales was eviscerated by a huge miss across the board. Headline Retail sales were unchanged MoM (versus +0.4% exp) and last month's +0.7% MoM move was revised slightly lower to +0.6% MoM. Source:...
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, & Crypto Soar As Rate-Cut Hopes Rise On Small CPI Miss
15.05.2024, 15:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks, Bonds, Gold, & Crypto Soar As Rate-Cut Hopes Rise On Small CPI Miss A 0.1% MoM miss in Headline CPI and continued slowing in Core CPI was all the algos needed to 'buy all the things'. The initial reaction to this morning's data was a surge in rate-cut expectations - two cuts fully priced back in for 2024 and more than three more cuts priced...
Consumer Prices Have Risen Every Month Since 'Bidenomics' Began, Up 19.5% To Record High
15.05.2024, 14:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Consumer Prices Have Risen Every Month Since 'Bidenomics' Began, Up 19.5% To Record High After a fourth straight month of hotter than expected PPI, analysts' expectations for CPI were tightly ranged around 0.3-0.4% MoM and printed +0.3% MoM (slightly below the 0.4% expected). The YoY headline CPI fell to +3.4% as expected from +3.5% prior Source: Bloomberg...
Eines der grössten Öl- und Gasförderländer der Welt, Norwegen, stellt seine Kampfjets auf Rapsöl um
15.05.2024, 13:23 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - However, the Norwegian initiative is not the original source of this idea. In November 2016, the U.S. was the first to test its F-35s to fly on biofuel. This initiative is part of a broader effort to explore alternative energy sources and reduce the military’s carbon footprint. These trials were intended to evaluate the performance and reliability...
Elections And Devaluations
15.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elections And Devaluations Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com, Yves here. It’s revealing that Serious Economist Jeffrey Frankel limits himself to third-world examples in his case studies below on post-election devaluations. Perhaps it would be unseemly to look at, say, the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, or even Australia (admittedly the latter...
Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons
14.05.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons A top British intelligence official has issued a new alarmist warning concerning the 'Russian threat' to the West. Anne Keast-Butler, who for the last year has headed up the UK's GCHQ, or signals intelligence operations (which is the equivalent of America's...
WTI Rebounds Off Tw0Month Lows After API Reports Crude Draw
14.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rebounds Off Tw0Month Lows After API Reports Crude Draw Oil prices decline today as the last few day's rollercoaster continued after a hotter than expected PPI print, leaving WTI near nine-week lows. Crude has been on a downward path since April, with the geopolitical risk premium from tensions in the Middle East largely evaporating. Refinery run...
Retail Wrecking Crew Hammers Hedgies Again; Stocks/Powell Shrug Off Stagflation Signals
14.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Wrecking Crew Hammers Hedgies Again; Stocks/Powell Shrug Off Stagflation Signals Hot PPI initially spooked markets (yields and dollar up, stocks down) but that faded fast (on lower revisions) - but the stag-flation trend continues this week... Source: Bloomberg Powell did briefly spook stocks around 1030ET with the following comment: "it's a...
Over Half Of Illegal Aliens In US Are Unemployed: Report
14.05.2024, 21:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Over Half Of Illegal Aliens In US Are Unemployed: Report Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, A new report reveals that over half of the population of illegal aliens that have come into the United States under Joe Biden’s watch are unemployed, thus creating an even greater strain on the country. As reported by Breitbart, the report from...
Peter Schiff: All Inflation Has One Source
14.05.2024, 20:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: All Inflation Has One Source Via SchiffGold.com, Last week, Peter appeared on This Week in Mining with Jay Martin. Jay and Peter discuss the state of the economy, the government’s assault on sound money, and why the mining sector constitutes a good investment. Early on in the interview, Peter lays out the dilemma the Federal Reserve...
US Producer Prices Accelerating At Fastest Rate In 12 Months
14.05.2024, 14:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Producer Prices Accelerating At Fastest Rate In 12 Months Ahead of tomorrow's CPI, traders are eyeing this morning's Producer Prices for any hints that the disinflation trend will return...or not. The answer is "not!" April Producer Prices rose 0.5% MoM (vs +0.3% exp), with March's +0.2% MoM revised down to -0.1% MoM. The downward revision did not...
Oil - A Global Tax
14.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil - A Global Tax Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Few commodities wield as much influence in the intricate web of global economics as oil. Oil is pivotal in driving economic growth and development as the primary energy source for transportation, manufacturing, and countless other sectors. However, beneath its surface lies a hidden...
Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid
13.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid The return of 'Roaring Kitty' sent GME soaring higher (up 110% at its highs)... Source: Bloomberg ...and prompted squeezes/panic-covering across the 'most shorted' names and 'retail favorites (memes)' soared... Source: Bloomberg As John Flood noted from Goldman's trading desk:...
Nvidia Rivals Gold As Shield Against Inflation
13.05.2024, 14:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia Rivals Gold As Shield Against Inflation Authored by Edward Harrison via Bloomberg, The biggest US tech stocks are not only a bet on innovation but also a possible hedge against inflation, according to some respondents in the latest Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse survey. Gold, the haven of choice for decades, is still seen as the best safeguard...
US Is Offering Israel A Strange Incentive To Hold Off Rafah Offensive
12.05.2024, 20:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Is Offering Israel A Strange Incentive To Hold Off Rafah Offensive Over the weekend The Washington Post has reported a strange incentive and quid pro quo that the US is offering Israel if it agrees to hold off on the Rafah offensive. The Biden administration is ready to hand over to Israel "sensitive intelligence" on the whereabouts of top Hamas...
Watch: Just Stop Oil Activists Try To Destroy Case Holding Original Magna Carta
12.05.2024, 15:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Just Stop Oil Activists Try To Destroy Case Holding Original Magna Carta The Just Stop Oil and related green "Apocalypse" movements are poster children for modern Cultural Marxists - sharing similarities with the Chinese communist mobs behind the Cultural Revolution of 1966. The general goal of every Marxist movement is to undermine or sabotage...
The Proof Of Censorship Is…Censored
12.05.2024, 03:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Proof Of Censorship Is…Censored Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via the Brownstone Institute, It’s not been a good week for the Censorship Industrial Complex. The machine has been built and put into action over nearly a decade but largely in secret. Its way of doing business has been via surreptitious contacts with media and tech companies,...
Average Credit Card Debt In US Now Soaring Past $6,500
11.05.2024, 21:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Average Credit Card Debt In US Now Soaring Past $6,500 Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), This illustration picture shows debit and credit cards arranged on a desk in Arlington, Va., on April 6, 2020. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images) A just-released report from Scholaroo indicates that the U.S. national average for credit...
First F-16s To Arrive In Ukraine 'Within Weeks' From West, But Will It Matter?
11.05.2024, 21:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First F-16s To Arrive In Ukraine 'Within Weeks' From West, But Will It Matter? A high-ranking UK military source has told London's daily Evening Standard newspaper that F-16 fighters will be delivered by the Western allies to Ukraine "within weeks". The official indicated that the aircraft are due to arrive by June, or at least July at the latest...
McDonald's Admits Consumers Are Broke With Planned Reintroduction Of $5 Meal Deal
11.05.2024, 19:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - McDonald's Admits Consumers Are Broke With Planned Reintroduction Of $5 Meal Deal Gen-Zers, millennials, and baby boomers have something in common: Many of them can no longer afford a Big Mac combo meal at McDonald's following three years of 'McFlation,' which has sent the price of some combo meals as high as $18. This was at a rest stop, but...
Asia Embraces Coal As The U.S. Rejects It
11.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Asia Embraces Coal As The U.S. Rejects It Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via RealClear Wire, Vietnam and other Asian countries are on a coal spree! Given the dynamics of energy use in the rapidly developing industrial sector there, it is no surprise that these nations have backpedaled on big promises made at international climate conferences to reduce emissions...
They Went Woke: Oscars Facing Liquidity Crisis, Launch $500 Million Fundraising Drive As Viewers Flee
10.05.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - They Went Woke: Oscars Facing Liquidity Crisis, Launch $500 Million Fundraising Drive As Viewers Flee Given that Ricky Gervais has been the only good thing about the Oscars in years, if not decades... ...the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has launched a $500 million fundraising initiative in an effort to offset the Oscars dramatic drop in...
Russia Launches Surprise Offensive In Kharkiv, Aims To Extend Border 10km Deep Into Ukraine
10.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Launches Surprise Offensive In Kharkiv, Aims To Extend Border 10km Deep Into Ukraine Following several more cross-border attacks from Ukraine, including direct drone hits on Russian oil facilities over the past 48 hours, Russian forces have launched a surprise ground offensive which seeks to break through front lines in the northeastern Kharkiv...
Bidenomics Implodes: Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Craters In Biggest Miss On Record
10.05.2024, 16:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bidenomics Implodes: Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Craters In Biggest Miss On Record Moments ago the University of Michigan released the latest "report card" on Bidenomics, and to nobody's surprise - except perhaps a certainl senile resident of the White House, it was a total disaster as Sentiment unexpectedly plunged from 77.2 to 67.4, the 9.8 point...
Eurovision Gripped In Controversy Amid Heckling, Calls For Boycott Over Gaza
10.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Eurovision Gripped In Controversy Amid Heckling, Calls For Boycott Over Gaza Via Middle East Eye The Eurovision Song Contest was mired in further controversy on Wednesday when the Israeli contestant's dress rehearsal performance was met with boos and shouts of "Free Palestine" from the audience. Eden Golan's performance of "Hurricane'' ahead of the...
Manhattan Apartment Rents Gain Momentum, Signal Potential Record Highs This Summer
10.05.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Manhattan Apartment Rents Gain Momentum, Signal Potential Record Highs This Summer While the rent component of the consumer price index has shown a strong disinflationary trend since peaking in the summer of 2023, high-frequency data reveals rent prices in key metro areas are moving higher. Several high-frequency rental data points show that the...
Meet The Company Helping Restart The Nuclear Revolution In The U.S.
10.05.2024, 02:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meet The Company Helping Restart The Nuclear Revolution In The U.S. A company called Holtec has become the voice for restarting the nuclear power revolution in the U.S. As it becomes clear that the nation's needs for power are far underserved, and will certainly be in the future with the adoption of AI, one company, currently the "top US manufacturer...
Huawei's New 'Made-In-China' Smartphone Sources More Chips Locally Amid US Tech War
10.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Huawei's New 'Made-In-China' Smartphone Sources More Chips Locally Amid US Tech War With draconian export controls and blacklisting by Washington elites, Chinese tech giant Huawei is still operating and, in fact, producing new high-tech smartphones with components increasingly sourced from domestic suppliers. A new teardown analysis by tech repair...
Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?
10.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back? By Simon Watkins of OilPrice.com Since the mid-1990s, China’s extraordinary economic expansion almost singlehandedly drove a supercycle in key commodities prices it required to power such growth, including oil and gas. In 2013, it became the world’s largest net importer of total petroleum and other...
Money-Market Fund Assets Top $6 Trillion Again, Fed's Bank Bailout Facility Still At $113BN
09.05.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money-Market Fund Assets Top $6 Trillion Again, Fed's Bank Bailout Facility Still At $113BN Money market funds saw inflows for the third straight week (up $31.1BN) pushing the total assets to $6.03TN - the highest level in a month... Source: Bloomberg In a breakdown for the week to May 8, government funds - which invest primarily in securities such...
Gold, Bonds, & Stocks Rip After 'Bad' Data On 'Quietest Day Of The Year'
09.05.2024, 22:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold, Bonds, & Stocks Rip After 'Bad' Data On 'Quietest Day Of The Year' An ugly jobless claims print was the day's early catalyst sending yields significantly lower, stocks, gold, oil, and crypto higher and the dollar down with rate-cut expectations re-ignited... Source: Bloomberg A dovish shift supported stocks - which had a "squeezey feel" amid very...
Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report
09.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report Conservative think tank Center for Renewing America floated the idea a year and a half ago that "It's time to wage war on transnational drug cartels." This comes as the drug death catastrophe in the US eclipses the entire Vietnam War every six months. The vast...
What Frustrates Americans The Most About The Tax System
09.05.2024, 18:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Frustrates Americans The Most About The Tax System In this visualization, Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao shows Pew Research’s findings on what bothers Americans the most about the tax system. This data was collected after surveying more than 5,000 American adults between the period of March 27-April 2, 2023. The survey was weighted to be representative...
Reality Dawns? Initial Jobless Claims Suddenly Spike To Highest In 9 Months
09.05.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Reality Dawns? Initial Jobless Claims Suddenly Spike To Highest In 9 Months With WARNs high, payrolls slowing, JOLTS data tumbling - led by construction jobs collapsing, and Challenger-Grey layoffs remarkably elevated, why would anyone question the government's official data on jobless claims - that continue to languish (in a good way) near record lows...
Why Germany Is Choosing Natural Gas Over Nuclear Power
09.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Germany Is Choosing Natural Gas Over Nuclear Power By Haley Zermba of Oilprice.com The world is experiencing a nuclear renaissance. Uranium prices are soaring as the world snaps up nuclear fuel, public favor for nuclear power is at a 10-year high in the United States, Russia is busily expanding its own nuclear energy empire in emerging economies...
Sport Is The Continuation Of Diplomacy By Other Means
09.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sport Is The Continuation Of Diplomacy By Other Means Authored by René Zittlau via VoiceFromRussia.ch, How the goals of Olympism are being undermined by Western politics – an analysis with a look back at the roots of the Olympic idea. International Olympic Committee established on 23rd June 1894, Paris, Francehttp://Image Source: Olympics.com Introduction...
Republicans Ready Sanctions On World Court If It Issues Arrest Warrants For Israelis
09.05.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Republicans Ready Sanctions On World Court If It Issues Arrest Warrants For Israelis Via The Cradle Republican members of the US House of Representatives are preparing a sanctions package targeting International Criminal Court (ICC) officials as a "precaution" against potential arrest warrants of Israeli officials for war crimes committed in Gaza, according...
Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders
09.05.2024, 00:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders It may seem crazy, but here's some advice for heavily indebted Gen-Zers: Put down the smartphone. Stop spending on DoorDash and Uber Eats. Perhaps cancel a few streaming services. Also, the spending party is over despite calls from the White House to cancel student...
Bond Yields & Black Gold Bounce As Hawkish FedSpeak Slows Stocks
08.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bond Yields & Black Gold Bounce As Hawkish FedSpeak Slows Stocks Mixed bag today: Macro (ugly wholesale sales print, implied gasoline demand at decade-lows ex-COVID, GDPNOW up at 4.18%?), Micro (TRIP exposed as M&A premium evaporates exposing reality of tourism business, UBER hinting at consumer pain, SHOP signaled more consumer pain, AFRM cut revenues...
Ukraine Passes Bill To Recruit Prisoners For Depleted Army Ranks
08.05.2024, 17:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Passes Bill To Recruit Prisoners For Depleted Army Ranks The severe manpower crisis of Ukraine's armed forces continues to be on display, particularly after the recent decision of the government to deny embassy and consular services for Ukrainian men of fighting age who live abroad but refuse to come back home. Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday...
WTI Rises After Crude Draw, Biden Admin Adds Most To SPR Since Dec
08.05.2024, 16:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rises After Crude Draw, Biden Admin Adds Most To SPR Since Dec Oil prices are rebounding off overnight lows - once again testing the technical support of the 100-day moving average - after sliding following API's report of across the board inventory builds last night. Oil has been on a downtrend since early April, posting losses in three of the...
Apple iPhone Shipments In China Jump 12% After Discounts
08.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple iPhone Shipments In China Jump 12% After Discounts New data shows iPhone shipments in China surged in March, reversing a previous multi-month decline. This increase comes after Apple discounted handset prices throughout the first quarter, mostly in response to waning demand due to unofficial bans on the device by government agencies and competition...
The Stablecoin Debate That Isn't
08.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Stablecoin Debate That Isn't Authored by Omid Malekan, Stablecoins have been in the news lately, thanks to another round of failed legislation, a well-intentioned but poorly-designed analytics dashboard compliments of Visa, and false equivocation by a columnist at the FT. Meet the wire transfer Nic Carter just published an epic review of the...