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Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy
01.05.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy Authored by Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group, President Biden’s decision to participate in the Ukraine-Russia conflict back in February 2022 has taken a new and dangerous turn this year. The U.S. dollar could suffer dramatically as a result. Before we explore that new development...
The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies From A To Z
01.05.2024, 22:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies From A To Z Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.” - Former presidential advisor Bertram Gross The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer towards a pervasive authoritarianism. The American...
Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser?
01.05.2024, 19:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser? The Fed meeting later today has had the market feeling (and positioned for) “HAWKISHNESS,” especially after the ECI pile-on yesterday, which didn’t simply “upside surprise,” but re-accelerated to 1.2% after ending 2023 at 0.9%, and showing that persistent wage pressures further...
Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin
01.05.2024, 15:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin Having already revealed its borrowing estimates for Q2 and Q3 on Monday, where we learned that the Treasury expects to sell $41BN more debt than previously expected in Q2, but offset by a...
ADP Employment Report Strong In April, But Tech Sector Lost Jobs
01.05.2024, 14:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ADP Employment Report Strong In April, But Tech Sector Lost Jobs Thanks to an upward revision in March (from +184k to +208k), April's ADP print was lower at +192k (beating expectations of +183k)... Under the hood, practically everything was solid, with only the Information sector losing jobs... "Hiring was broad-based in April. Only the information...
Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms
01.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms US equities were set for a second day of losses, as investors weighed disappointing tech earnings and braced for today's Quarterly Refunding Announcement and Fed rate decision and Powell press conference where the Fed chair is expected to signal a delay to rate cuts. S&P 500 futures slid 0...
At Least 30 Men Have Died Trying To Flee Ukraine Draft
01.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - At Least 30 Men Have Died Trying To Flee Ukraine Draft Since Russia's February 2022 invasion, some Ukrainian 30 men have died trying to sneak out of the country and avoid being forced into a war that looks increasingly futile -- and increasingly deadly for those on the losing side. That grim tally was shared by Ukraine's State Border Guard Service...
Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed
30.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed The final day of April was really ugly: ECI way hotter than expected (spooked markets), Case-Shiller home prices soared far more than expected (spooked markets more), Chicago PMI puked (while prices paid increased), Consumer Confidence crashed, and Dallas Fed Services slumped...
The Fed's Game Of "Make Believe" Comes To An End
29.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fed's Game Of "Make Believe" Comes To An End Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereignMan.com, It’s barely been a year since the 2023 bank crisis in which several large banks, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, failed. At the time, I wrote that the bank failures weren’t over, and that there would be more. But it’s been quiet...
Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session
29.04.2024, 14:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session US equity futures swung between gains and losses and traded near session highs as US traders walked to their desks on Monday morning after a rollercoaster day for the Japanese yen, which increasingly looks like some 3rd world banana republic currency instead...
When Life Imitates Apocalypse Culture...
29.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Life Imitates Apocalypse Culture... Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Real world “cancer cure” eerily mirrors zombie flick setup If anybody remembers the opening segment from the Will Smith zombie apocalypse flick I Am Legend, it starts with a comically ironic scene wherein a precocious female scientist, endearingly played by...
Iran's Nightmares
28.04.2024, 05:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran's Nightmares Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Details of the recent limited Israeli retaliatory strike against Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed...
Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City
27.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City Authored by Fred Roeder via RealClearMarkets, On a Friday night in March 2011, I stayed at an upscale W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City for $124. That hotel later became The Maxwell, but sadly it didn’t survive the pandemic and is now permanently closed. Today the average hotel stay in...
The Fallacy That Rules The World
26.04.2024, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fallacy That Rules The World Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Smart people know to avoid fallacies. One of them is known as the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc. It’s Latin for “after this, therefore because of this.” The classic example concerns the rooster and the sunrise. Every morning before the sun comes up, the rooster...
Soggy 7Y Auction Prices On The Screws; Foreign Demand Sags Amid Surge In Directs
25.04.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soggy 7Y Auction Prices On The Screws; Foreign Demand Sags Amid Surge In Directs Following two solid, record-large coupon auctions this week, when first the 2Y auction stopped through and then the 5Y auction tailed, we just got the third possible outcome moments ago, when in the sale of $44 billion in 7Y paper (which was not a record large auction unlike...
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...
Gen-Z Finds Anthem On TikTok. And They're Rockin' To This Anti-Work Song
25.04.2024, 01:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gen-Z Finds Anthem On TikTok. And They're Rockin' To This Anti-Work Song An anti-work anthem has gone viral on the Chinese social media platform TikTok in recent days. This comes after youngsters have complained on social media about President Biden's disastrous 'Bidenomics' policies that have sparked elevated inflation and crushed their financial...
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...
First-Time Buyers Must Earn $120,000 To Afford The Average Home
24.04.2024, 20:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First-Time Buyers Must Earn $120,000 To Afford The Average Home Earlier today we reported that for at least 40% of Americans - up from 27% just two years ago - the American Dream is dead and buried and has been replaced with the American nightmare: renting for life. And here's why: according to a new survey from Clever Real Estate, a St. Louis-based...
Boeing Jumps After Beating Apocalyptic Estimates Despite Biggest Cash Burn In 4 Years
24.04.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing Jumps After Beating Apocalyptic Estimates Despite Biggest Cash Burn In 4 Years Having been hammered like a nail for much of 2024 as a result of incident after incident involving its flying paperweights (most recently this morning), Boeing stock enjoyed a modest rebound this morning when the airplane maker reported revenues, EPS and cash flow...
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...
Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination
24.04.2024, 02:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination Former Rep. Justin Amash on Monday announced that his Senate campaign had submitted the requisite signatures to appear on Michigan's Aug. 6 primary ballot. The GOP field for a shot at a Democrat-vacated seat includes an archetypal Deep Stater in former Rep. Mike Rogers, who...
"F**king Clown Show": Unsealed Court Docs Reveal Biden DOJ Colluded With National Archives To Target Trump, Jack Smith Tried To Conceal
23.04.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "F**king Clown Show": Unsealed Court Docs Reveal Biden DOJ Colluded With National Archives To Target Trump, Jack Smith Tried To Conceal Newly unsealed documents in Donald Trump's classified documents case reveal that the Biden White House colluded with the National Archives (NARA) and the FBI to concoct a case against the former president. Journalist...
Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields
23.04.2024, 14:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields US equity futures are higher for the second day, even as small-caps underperform after bond yields rise about +4bps and trade near session highs. As of 7:40am S&P and Nasdaq futures were 0.3% higher after Wall Street’s rebound from a $2 trillion selloff; European...
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...
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...
The Three Oil And Gas Stocks Most Sensitive To Oil Price Swings
22.04.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Three Oil And Gas Stocks Most Sensitive To Oil Price Swings By Alex Kimani of OilPrice Following a strong rally amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, oil prices have pulled back sharply in the current week as demand worries outweigh geopolitical concerns. WTI crude for May delivery has declined 5.1% from the Friday close to trade at $83...
How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing And Gaining Prosperity
21.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing And Gaining Prosperity Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Under a blazing Kenyan sun, elderly women toil on their hands and knees in the reddish-brown clay, separating the choking weeds from the small, green shoots of a finger millet crop. The women are barehanded...
Charter School Founders Accused Of Massive Fraud
21.04.2024, 05:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Charter School Founders Accused Of Massive Fraud Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Prosecutors are accusing three men of bilking Oklahoma out of millions of dollars in public school funds through a charter school plan that one of the defendants told a state district court prioritized income. Former owners of Epic Youth...
Lord Of The Lies: A Pediatrician's Take On The Latest Child Gender-Transition Research
21.04.2024, 00:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lord Of The Lies: A Pediatrician's Take On The Latest Child Gender-Transition Research Authored by J. Edward Les, MD, via The Epoch Times, Last week’s release of the Cass Review brought to memory the old jingle: “Liar, liar, pants on fire; your nose is longer than a telephone wire.” Commissioned four years ago to probe the practices of the Tavistock...
Middle Class Can't Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds
20.04.2024, 16:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Middle Class Can't Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds By Sam Bourgi of CreditNews, Housing is becoming an exclusively upper-class privilege in a growing number of cities. According to a new study by Creditnews Research, in 2024, middle-class households could afford to buy an average home in just 52 of the country’s 100 largest...
Soaring Russian Oil Imports Drag OPEC's Market Share In India To Record Low
20.04.2024, 01:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soaring Russian Oil Imports Drag OPEC's Market Share In India To Record Low Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Russia was India’s single largest oil supplier for a second consecutive fiscal year, as surging imports of Russian crude dragged down the share of OPEC and Middle East supply to India to a record low, Reuters reported on Friday...
5 Things You Didn't Know About Bitcoin Halvings & BTC Price
19.04.2024, 18:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 5 Things You Didn't Know About Bitcoin Halvings & BTC Price Every four years, the Bitcoin community celebrates the Bitcoin halving. Many BTC market analysts view this as a quadrennial milestone event due to its historically bullish impact on the cryptocurrency market as a whole. A key component of Bitcoin’s design is its periodic halving, which ensures...
With 'Halving' Imminent, Peter Schiff Says 'Bitcoin Has No Value'
19.04.2024, 15:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - With 'Halving' Imminent, Peter Schiff Says 'Bitcoin Has No Value' Via SchiffGold.com, Peter recently appeared on Market Overtime with Oliver Renick for an interview. In their wide-ranging discussion, Peter speaks on monetary policy, the reliability of inflation data, and reasons to avoid Bitcoin. Contrary to the popular narrative, gold’s recent rise...
What Happened To Bitcoin?
19.04.2024, 12:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Happened To Bitcoin? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Those who involved themselves in Bitcoin markets after 2017 encountered a different operation and ideal than those who came before. Today, no one much cares about what came before, speaking of 2010-2016. They are only watching the upward price momentum and are thrilled...
Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election
19.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Florida Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling on April 1, upholding a 15-week abortion ban that was signed into law in 2022. The ruling paved the way for a six-week abortion ban to take effect on...
Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment
18.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment Since acquiring the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk has been on a 'free speech' crusade against leftist corporate media, dark money propping up progressive fact-checkers, taxpayer-funded non-governmental organizations working under the guise of defending free speech...
Iran Says It Could Pursue Nuclear Weapons If Israel Threatens Atomic Sites
18.04.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Says It Could Pursue Nuclear Weapons If Israel Threatens Atomic Sites Iran's leadership has always strongly asserted that it is not pursuing the development of nuclear weapons, but instead has long sought a peaceful nuclear energy program. Various Ayatollahs over the decades have even declared the atomic bomb to be 'unIslamic' and against the teachings...
"Yikes": Impeachment 'Whistleblower' Was In The Loop Of Biden-Ukraine Affairs That Trump Wanted Probed
18.04.2024, 15:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Yikes": Impeachment 'Whistleblower' Was In The Loop Of Biden-Ukraine Affairs That Trump Wanted Probed Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClear Wire, The ‘whistleblower’ who sparked Donald Trump’s first impeachment was deeply involved in the political maneuverings behind Biden-family business schemes in Ukraine that Trump wanted probed, newly obtained...
Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses
18.04.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses US equity futures are higher after four consecutive days of selling, although that is the same pattern we have seen all week as futures initially rise only to dump later in the day. As of 7:40am, S&P futures are up 0.3% while tech stocks were set to outperform, pushing the Nasdaq 0.4% higher after TSMC delivered...
Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered
17.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered A volatile day for markets (relatively speaking) with crude and crypto the high- low-lights. Goldman's trading desk (Lee Coppersmith) noted that for the first time all year, it feels like the market is starting to question the strong growth narrative on the back of weaker earnings...
WTI Down For 3rd Day After Crude Inventory Build (Thanks To Surge In 'Adjustment Factor')
17.04.2024, 16:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Down For 3rd Day After Crude Inventory Build (Thanks To Surge In 'Adjustment Factor') Oil prices are extending their decline (third day in a row) this morning as, after a tumultuous period of geopolitics, traders are returning their focus to market fundamentals. A lack (so far) of response from Israel to Iran's retaliatory attack combined with The...
Semi Shock: ASML Craters As Orderbook Plummets After China Frontrunning Ends With A Bang
17.04.2024, 16:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Semi Shock: ASML Craters As Orderbook Plummets After China Frontrunning Ends With A Bang Exactly three months ago, AI stocks were soaring, semiconductor names were flying and the tech sector was euphoric after Dutch chip giant ASML - the world’s sole producer of equipment needed to make the most advanced chips and Europe’s most valuable technology...
China's Crude Oil Imports Hit A Record High In 2023
17.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Crude Oil Imports Hit A Record High In 2023 By Tom Kool of OilPrice.com China’s crude oil imports hit a record high in 2023, rising by 10% year-over-year and breaking the previous record from 2020 when the world’s top crude oil importer took advantage of the price crash to gorge on cheap crude. Last year, China’s crude oil imports averaged...
RFK Jr Won't Pursue Libertarian Nomination, Says Team Trump Asked Him To Be VP
17.04.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr Won't Pursue Libertarian Nomination, Says Team Trump Asked Him To Be VP After seriously considering the possibility, 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has declared he will not seek the Libertarian Party nomination, saying he's confident he'll achieve ballot access across the country on his own. Meanwhile, in a social media skirmish...
Bank of America Reports Solid Earnings But CRE Losses Unexpectedly Surge
16.04.2024, 14:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bank of America Reports Solid Earnings But CRE Losses Unexpectedly Surge With JPM, Citi and Wells already in the books, moments ago the last "big 4" money-center bank, Bank of America reported Q1 earnings which for the most part, were stronger than expected, however there were several troubling footnotes, including a sizable, $700MM FDIC special assessment...
Morgan Stanley Shares Rebound On Strong Revenues
16.04.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Morgan Stanley Shares Rebound On Strong Revenues Morgan Stanley shares are quickly recovering from last week's mauling (after WSJ reported regulatory probes of how the bank handles wealth management clients “who are at risk of laundering money"), this morning after reporting Q1 wealth management and equities trading revenue that beat expectations...
The Best And Worst Countries For LGBTQ+ Travelers
16.04.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Best And Worst Countries For LGBTQ+ Travelers In order to help LGBTQ+ tourists travel safely, the German portal Spartacus started publishing the Gay Travel Index in 2012. In the 2024 edition, the ranking compared 213 countries and territories based on the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people in each location...
Yuan Weakens After 'Unbalanced' Chinese Economy Sees GDP Beat In Q1 But Domestic Consumption, Production Disappoint
16.04.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yuan Weakens After 'Unbalanced' Chinese Economy Sees GDP Beat In Q1 But Domestic Consumption, Production Disappoint China’s economic growth beat expectations in Q1, rising +5.3% YoY - considerably stronger than the +4.8% consensus, and inching ahead of Q4's +5.2% YoY growth. Source: Bloomberg Notably, that this is the first time the market compares...
After Illegal Veto, Kentucky Becomes 45th State To End Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver
15.04.2024, 16:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Illegal Veto, Kentucky Becomes 45th State To End Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver Via Money Metals, In a high-stakes showdown with Gov. Andy Beshear over a gold and silver sales tax exemption, the Kentucky legislature today deemed his attempted line-item veto as an illegal act -- and directed the Secretary of State to enroll the exemption into law...