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Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further
06.05.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further The first quarter Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) - the one place where every three months investors go to find information on changes to both loan demand and bank lending tightness - was released and revealed more of the same: despite...
Russia Warns It Can Hit UK's Military "Beyond" Ukraine Amid Nuclear Saber-Rattling
06.05.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Warns It Can Hit UK's Military "Beyond" Ukraine Amid Nuclear Saber-Rattling We reported earlier Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his armed forces to conduct tactical nuclear weapons drills in order for the country to be fully 'ready' to deter threats against it. A specific date for these nuclear drills has yet to be publicized...
A Disbarred, Serial Perjurer Walks Into A Court And Asks To Take An Oath...Seriously, No Joke
06.05.2024, 18:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Disbarred, Serial Perjurer Walks Into A Court And Asks To Take An Oath...Seriously, No Joke Authored by Jonathan Turley, A disbarred, serial perjurer walks into a courtroom and asks to take an oath . . . No, seriously, this is not a joke. Michael Cohen will soon appear in a Manhattan courtroom in what is sure to be one of the most bizarre moments...
Boeing Faces 10 More Whistleblowers After Mysterious Deaths
06.05.2024, 18:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing Faces 10 More Whistleblowers After Mysterious Deaths In the span of two months, two Boeing whistleblowers have died under mysterious circumstances. John Barnett (L), Joshua Dean The first, 62-year-old John Barnett, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 9. He was found dead in his Dodge Ram truck holding a silver pistol in...
Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down
06.05.2024, 16:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down After a whirlwind two weeks which saw both the latest FOMC decision and the April jobs report, not to mention the peak of earnings season when all of the top tech companies reported, the calendar takes a quieter turn after the deluge of macro events last week, and the focus shifts on whether markets can...
Civilians Ordered Out Of Rafah As IDF Ground Attack To Proceed
06.05.2024, 14:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Civilians Ordered Out Of Rafah As IDF Ground Attack To Proceed The last several hours have seen a significant escalation of the situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, sending Western diplomats scrambling and resulting in new threats and counterthreats between Hamas and Israeli leaders. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have urged many thousands...
Biden Administration Finalizes Rule To Allow 'Dreamers' To Enroll In 'Obamacare'
06.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Administration Finalizes Rule To Allow 'Dreamers' To Enroll In 'Obamacare' Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Biden administration announced on Friday that it had finalized a directive to expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” to thousands of immigrants who were brought to the United...
Maryland Officials Release Timeline And Cost Estimate For Rebuilding Baltimore Bridge
06.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maryland Officials Release Timeline And Cost Estimate For Rebuilding Baltimore Bridge In the wake of a catastrophe that claimed the lives of six roadwork crew members and disrupted one of the nation’s busiest ports, Maryland has committed to a monumental task of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The project, set to be completed by the fall...
Starmer Smashed in Blackburn
06.05.2024, 07:40 Uhr. Craig Murray - https: - The leadership of genocide enthusiast Keir Starmer – who is still supporting arms sales to Israel and the “Israeli right to self defence”, who still refuses to acknowledge one single Israeli war crime – cost the Labour Party dear in Blackburn in the local elections. The result means I am very likely to win the […] The post...
Yen's First Intervention Rally Owed Very Little to Short Squeeze
06.05.2024, 06:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen's First Intervention Rally Owed Very Little to Short Squeeze By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist The first of Japan’s apparent twin interventions last week may have capped USD/JPY for some time to keep the pair under 160. But that had very little to do with flushing out yen short positioning at least with the initial...
There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism"
06.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On Friday, after the jobs report, we heard a lot of chatter about “Goldilocks.” While we wrote NFP – Great for Markets, we caveated that with – for now. Normally we would agree that there is a “transition” period from “everything is great,” to...
"Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted?
06.05.2024, 01:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted? By Teeuwe Mevissen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Is the wealth effect being substituted? Summary China’s real estate market suffered heavy losses early this year while stock market investors continue to face huge uncertainty. This will add to the deterioration...
Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian
05.05.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, At $1.5 million per job, this new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs. Gov...
Change Of S&P Leadership Suggests Bottom Is Near
05.05.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Change Of S&P Leadership Suggests Bottom Is Near Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, A change in sector leadership in US stocks suggests the correction might soon be over and a bottom is not too far away. The tech sector has led the recent advance in the US stock-market (i.e. the sector with the highest three-month return on a three-month...
Trump Leads Biden By 10 Points In Latest Election Poll: Rasmussen Reports
05.05.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Leads Biden By 10 Points In Latest Election Poll: Rasmussen Reports Despite the 'betting' odds still favoring President Biden in November (according to PredictIt)... ...Former President Donald Trump has boosted his lead over President Joe Biden to ten percentage points ahead of the upcoming elections, according to a recent poll. In a three-way...
Fraudulent Logic Guides The UK Smoking Ban
05.05.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fraudulent Logic Guides The UK Smoking Ban Authored by Owen Ashworth via The Mises Institute, It is the waning days of the Sunak premiership, and the Conservative party still has a stonking majority despite its cataclysmic capitulation in the polls. The government is effectively a lame duck; everyone knows it has no support, yet it will still be around...
Gaza Pier Delayed Over Rough Seas, Pentagon Calls Project "Extremely Challenging"
04.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gaza Pier Delayed Over Rough Seas, Pentagon Calls Project "Extremely Challenging" This week has seen statements and reports indicating the US military constructed humanitarian pier on Gaza's coast is expected to be complete by some point this weekend. But the $320 million project has hit another snag, as the Pentagon has said its soldiers and engineers...
Biden Spends All Afternoon Awarding Medals To Other Democrats
04.05.2024, 21:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Spends All Afternoon Awarding Medals To Other Democrats Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Despite the fact that the world is teetering on the edge of global conflict, US college campuses being trashed by radical occupiers, and criminal illegals are still overwhelming the border, Joe Biden spent Friday afternoon awarding other Democrats...
Hamas-Israel Truce To Free Hostages Said To Be Closer Than Ever
04.05.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hamas-Israel Truce To Free Hostages Said To Be Closer Than Ever Rumors are flying Saturday that Hamas and Israel are closer than ever to finally reaching a truce deal that would center of the release of more Israeli hostages, and the freeing of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. "Negotiations for a potential hostage deal and truce in Gaza appeared...
Fidelity: Pension Funds Exploring Bitcoin Investments On ETF Approval
04.05.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fidelity: Pension Funds Exploring Bitcoin Investments On ETF Approval Authored by Vivek Sun via Bitcoin Magazine, Fidelity, a major financial services firm, says pension funds are starting to explore investing in Bitcoin, particularly after the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds earlier this year... Fidelity has been bullish on Bitcoin...
Zelensky Tells Commanders Ukraine Must Defeat Russia To Join NATO
04.05.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Tells Commanders Ukraine Must Defeat Russia To Join NATO Ukraine's President Zelensky has reportedly told his top military commanders that Ukraine must win against Russia if it hopes to one day be admitted into NATO. Russian state media has captured and translated key lines of the speech. "I believe that we will be in NATO only if we win. I...
Scientists Backtrack, Admit Proposed Virus Experiments Could Have Been Done In China
04.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientists Backtrack, Admit Proposed Virus Experiments Could Have Been Done In China Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scientists with close ties to China and the U.S. government is now saying that risky experiments he proposed—which some experts believe could have led to the creation of SARS-CoV-2—may have been done...
"An Unlawful Sleight Of Hand": Biden Parole Program Has Flown Illegals To More Than 45 US Cities
04.05.2024, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "An Unlawful Sleight Of Hand": Biden Parole Program Has Flown Illegals To More Than 45 US Cities In a recent development, a House Committee subpoena has forced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reveal details of its parole program designed to allow entry for thousands of individuals from several nations. The program, established in October...
California's Single-Family Zoning Exemplifies The Market-Intervention Problem
04.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Single-Family Zoning Exemplifies The Market-Intervention Problem Via SchiffGold.com, California’s government bet that they knew better than the free market. And now millions are paying the price... The story begins in 1919, when the city of Berkley, California instituted legislation setting aside districts that would only allow the...
Ford's $120,000 Loss Per Vehicle Shows California EV Goals Are Impossible
04.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ford's $120,000 Loss Per Vehicle Shows California EV Goals Are Impossible Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), So much for California’s mandate that “all new passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles by 2035,” according to the California Air Resources Board. It imposed the mandate...
The Golden Age Of Disinformation Has Only Just Begun
03.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Golden Age Of Disinformation Has Only Just Begun Authored by Boyan Radoykov via The Epoch Times, Disinformation is all about power, and because of the harmful and far-reaching influence that disinformation exerts, it cannot achieve much without power. As a tool for shaping public perceptions, disinformation can be used by authoritarian regimes and...
Americans Continue To Name Inflation As Top Financial Problem: Gallup
03.05.2024, 23:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Continue To Name Inflation As Top Financial Problem: Gallup By Jeffrey Jones at Gallup For the third year in a row, the percentage of Americans naming inflation or the high cost of living as the most important financial problem facing their family has reached a new high. The 41% naming the issue this year is up slightly from 35% a year ago...
Fed F**kery Turns $37BN 'Unadjusted' Bank Deposit OUTFLOW Into $126BN INFLOW
03.05.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed F**kery Turns $37BN 'Unadjusted' Bank Deposit OUTFLOW Into $126BN INFLOW Money market funds added $23.6BN in assets last week, pushing the total funds under management back above $6 Trillion - still well off the highs (as some tax-related withdrawals remain lost)... Source: Bloomberg Both retail and institutional funds saw inflows last week... Source:...
Russian Troops Enter Air Base Hosting US Soldiers In Post-Coup Niger
03.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russian Troops Enter Air Base Hosting US Soldiers In Post-Coup Niger US diplomats and the Pentagon have been in retreat from the West African nation of Niger, while also scrambling to maintain some influence there, following the junta seizing power in a coup in July 2023. Niger's military toppled the US-friendly government of President Mohamed Bazoum...
"Irrevocably Shaken": Columbia Law Review Editors Ask For Cancellation Of Exams Due To Protests
03.05.2024, 20:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Irrevocably Shaken": Columbia Law Review Editors Ask For Cancellation Of Exams Due To Protests Authored by Jonathan Turley, In recent years, there has been much discussion of the claims of “trauma” by students caused by court rulings and other events. These developments are often cited as a basis for the cancellation of exam or classes. Conservative...
Watch: LAPD Unmasks UCLA Agitators
03.05.2024, 20:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: LAPD Unmasks UCLA Agitators Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, As the LAPD stormed onto the campus of UCLA Thursday night to end illegal encampments by agitators, they unmasked some of those they arrested and exposed their faces to the cameras. The COVID face mask has been adopted wholesale by the rabid wannabe Marxists, purely as a...
There's 'Widespread' Belief Among US Officials Israel Can't Eradicate Hamas
03.05.2024, 17:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There's 'Widespread' Belief Among US Officials Israel Can't Eradicate Hamas Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, There is a "widespread belief" among US officials that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s goal of "eradicating" Hamas in Gaza is unattainable, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Throughout the past seven months, there...
Yields More Exposed To A Downside Miss In Payrolls
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields More Exposed To A Downside Miss In Payrolls Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, US yields are at the margin more exposed to a lower-than-expected payrolls release today after Powell’s pushback on a rate hike this week. Nonetheless, leading indicators are pointing to an inflection higher in payrolls growth in the coming months...
'Buy All The Things' - Poor Payrolls Sends Rate-Cut Hopes Soaring
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Buy All The Things' - Poor Payrolls Sends Rate-Cut Hopes Soaring 'Bad' news is back to being good news for markets as a disappointing rise in payrolls pushed rate-cut expectations higher. 2024 is now fully pricing in two rate cuts and 2025 an additional three rate-cuts... Source: Bloomberg As Academy Securities' Peter Tchir writes, this report should...
Ukraine's Biggest Problem Isn't Weapons, It's Lack Of Fighting Men
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine's Biggest Problem Isn't Weapons, It's Lack Of Fighting Men Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Now that Congress rammed through a huge weapons package for Ukraine, what will Ukraine do with the weapons and how long will they last? Ukraine’s Real Bottleneck Ukraine touts Russian casualties, no doubt exaggerated, while Russian published...
ICC Threatens Action Over 'Intimidation' Tactics As Netanyahu Arrest Warrant Looms
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ICC Threatens Action Over 'Intimidation' Tactics As Netanyahu Arrest Warrant Looms The government of Israel is now essentially in a full diplomatic war with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the possible impending arrest warrants which could be issued anytime for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top officials, including the defense...
ISM Services Survey Slumps In April - First Contraction Since 2022 But Prices Are Accelerating
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ISM Services Survey Slumps In April - First Contraction Since 2022 But Prices Are Accelerating After the disappointing Manufacturing survey data, the signals from the Services side are not great either - even as 'hard' data has improved. S&P Global's Services PMI dropped to a five month low at 51.3 (better than the expected/flash at 50.9, but still...
A Question To Challenge The Deflationary Mindset
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Question To Challenge The Deflationary Mindset Authored by Louis-Vincent Gave via Gavekal Research blog, The rise in US treasury yields this year initially caused the usual casualties: the yen, won, euro, and British pound. From exchange rates, it seems that the US interest rate wrecking ball is now wreaking destruction among richly-valued technology...
Norway’s Cash Flow From Offshore Fields Crashes Due to Low Natural Gas Prices
03.05.2024, 13:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Norway’s Cash Flow From Offshore Fields Crashes Due to Low Natural Gas Prices By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Norway saw cash flow from its stakes in oil and gas fields nearly halve in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period of 2023, as natural gas prices slumped and gas consumption in Europe was below expectations, said state...
Rebuilding Bombed-Out Gaza Could Take Into Next Century: UN
03.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rebuilding Bombed-Out Gaza Could Take Into Next Century: UN Gaza will need rebuilding on scale not seen since World War 2, the United Nations has said in a new report which seeks to assess the immense scale and scope of damage after almost seven months of war. The report released by the UN Development Program (UNDP) said that Gaza needs "approximately...
White South Africans Face Crime And Torture But Still Believe US And Europe Face Darker Future: Ernst Roets
03.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White South Africans Face Crime And Torture But Still Believe US And Europe Face Darker Future: Ernst Roets By John Cody of Remix.news In an exclusive interview with Remix News, Ernst Roets, the head of policy for the Solidarity Movement in South Africa, spoke with Remix News about the future of White Boers in South Africa, how they're building their...
German Lawmaker Calls For Border Pushbacks As Illegal Immigration Hits 5-Year High In First Quarter
03.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - German Lawmaker Calls For Border Pushbacks As Illegal Immigration Hits 5-Year High In First Quarter By Thomas Brooke of Remix.news Illegal immigration into Germany reached a five-year high in the first quarter of 2024, the latest government figures show. The federal government admitted its failure to combat the ongoing migration crisis in its written...
This Week's Cocoa Price Crash Marks Largest Ever Drop
03.05.2024, 06:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Week's Cocoa Price Crash Marks Largest Ever Drop What goes up, must come down. Cocoa prices turned lower on Thursday, extending a weekly decline that is slated to be the largest on record due to the evaporation of liquidity from large traders. Futures in New York plunged as much as 9.3% to the lowest level since mid-March and have...
Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable?
03.05.2024, 06:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The largest firms in the US are unsurpassably pulling ahead of their smaller rivals by earning more, investing more, holding more cash and buying back more of their stock. The bull market is thus likely to remain historically lackluster and less...
Apple Soars After iPhone, China Sales Drop Less Than Feared; Unveils Record-Breaking $110 Billion Buyback
03.05.2024, 01:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Soars After iPhone, China Sales Drop Less Than Feared; Unveils Record-Breaking $110 Billion Buyback With most of the megatechs having already released earnings, all eyes were on the last Mag7 to report during the heart of earnings season (there is still Nvidia, but due to a calendar quirk that's not for a month) which is also the company which...
Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise
03.05.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via bombthrower.com, Nor will it change anything over the long haul… We’ve always said that the rise of Bitcoin and non-state fintech was a monetary regime change, and that it would be naive to expect the entrenched “powers that be” and incumbent establishment...
Whistleblower Reveals How "New Knowledge" Cybersecurity Firm Created Disinformation In American Election
02.05.2024, 23:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistleblower Reveals How "New Knowledge" Cybersecurity Firm Created Disinformation In American Election Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle, Some of the shine on the disinformation industry has gone dull in recent years, as many misinformation experts having been caught trafficking in misinformation themselves, or exposed for...
Israeli Warplanes Strike Damascus As Iran Tensions Still On Edge
02.05.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Warplanes Strike Damascus As Iran Tensions Still On Edge Israeli aircraft have reportedly attacked a location on the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus late Thursday (local), a security source told Reuters. While there has been no immediate confirmation via Syrian state media, widely circulating images have emerged on social media showing...
Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction
02.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction US equities ended their two-day slide as tech companies surged late in the session. The trading day has been choppy, with Wall Street now turning its attention to Apple's earnings after the bell. Some analysts anticipate Apple will reveal a major buyback...
"This Conversation Didn't Happen": Matt Gaetz Demands Investigation After CIA Program Manager Gets Loose Lips About Trump
02.05.2024, 19:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "This Conversation Didn't Happen": Matt Gaetz Demands Investigation After CIA Program Manager Gets Loose Lips About Trump Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has called for an investigation into claims made by a CIA "senior intelligence officer with a top-secret" during an undercover encounter with a journalist working for James O'Keefe of O'Keefe Media Group...