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  • Americans’ Fear Of Catching COVID-19 Drops To Record Low: Gallup

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 9:32am EDT

    Americans’ Fear Of Catching COVID-19 Drops To Record Low: Gallup By RJ Reinhart of Gallup.com, Highlights 35% of Americans are worried about catching COVID-19, down from 49% 77% say the COVID-19 situation in the U.S. is improving, up from 60% 64% report at least a fair amount of disruption to their lives, down from 70% […]

  • Semi Chip Prices Expected To Rise Through All Of 2021

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 9:12am EDT

    Semi Chip Prices Expected To Rise Through All Of 2021 It shouldn’t be any surprise that given the current shortage in semiconductors, prices could continue to rise for the better part of 2021.  This month alone, suppliers like Japan’s top silicone producer, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. marked up prices between 10% and 20%, according to […]

  • Markets Rally… But What About COVID?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 8:55am EDT

    Markets Rally… But What About COVID? Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “Mas que nada, sai da minha frente, eu quero passer” Markets look set to rally strongly into Q2, but are they over-exuberant? The rise in deaths and new strains in Brazil hints the Covid war isn’t won yet, there are rising political risks […]

  • Housing Market Euphoria Craziest In Years As Inventory Sinks To New Low 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 8:35am EDT

    Housing Market Euphoria Craziest In Years As Inventory Sinks To New Low  The housing boom sparked by the Federal Reserve during the virus pandemic was built on historically low mortgage rates (thanks to Powell), and accelerated by a combination of record low inventory as city-dwellers moved to rural areas amid remote-work phenomenon.  According to Zillow […]

  • MLB Moves All-Star Game From Atlanta To One Of The Whitest Cities In America

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 8:17am EDT

    MLB Moves All-Star Game From Atlanta To One Of The Whitest Cities In America Authored by Bryan Preston via PJMedia.com, Major League Baseball has announced that it is playing the 2021 All-Star Game in Denver, Colo. instead of Atlanta, Georgia. The Colorado Rockies will host the 2021 MLB All-Star Game after the decision to move the event from Atlanta […]

  • Biden Moving Deadline To Have All Americans Eligible For Vaccine To April 19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 8:02am EDT

    Biden Moving Deadline To Have All Americans Eligible For Vaccine To April 19 Joe Biden will announce on Tuesday that he is moving up his target for all American adults to become eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by almost two weeks to April 19, CNN reported citing a White House official said. Biden is […]

  • Archegos Fallout: Credit Suisse Cuts Dividend, Slashes Buybacks; Headed For 2nd Straight Quarterly Loss

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 8:02am EDT

    Archegos Fallout: Credit Suisse Cuts Dividend, Slashes Buybacks; Headed For 2nd Straight Quarterly Loss Embattled Swiss bank Credit Suisse finally dumped its last remaining blocks of stocks tied to the implosion of hedge fund (excuse us, “family office”) Archegos Capital Management on Tuesday following the close of markets in New York. As investors waited to […]

  • US Futures Dip As European Stocks Finally Erase All Pandemic Losses, Hit Record High

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 7:48am EDT

    US Futures Dip As European Stocks Finally Erase All Pandemic Losses, Hit Record High Global stocks hit record highs on Tuesday, supported by strong economic data from China and the United States, although US equity futures slipped as concern China is curtailing loan growth tempered optimism stoked by the U.S. economic rebound.  Nasdaq underperformed as […]

  • Ship Blocks Traffic In Suez Canal Due To Engine Trouble

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 6:39am EDT

    Ship Blocks Traffic In Suez Canal Due To Engine Trouble As Yogi Berra might say, this sounds like “de ja vu all over again.” Little more than a week has passed since the Ever Given was successfully refloated and freed from a particularly narrow passage in Egypt’s Suez Canal, yet the canal is already struggling […]

  • Siestanomics? Spain’s Ruling Socialists Launch Nationwide Test Of 4-Day Work Week

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 5:45am EDT

    Siestanomics? Spain’s Ruling Socialists Launch Nationwide Test Of 4-Day Work Week As corporations ponder the future of work in the post-pandemic era, labor economists have been bandying about the possibility that the four-day work week might be one legacy of the pandemic. In the US, data on job postings advertising a four-day work week have […]

  • Global Net Zero Climate Change Targets Are “Pie In The Sky”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 5:00am EDT

    Global Net Zero Climate Change Targets Are “Pie In The Sky” Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, India lambasted the richer world’s carbon cutting plans, calling long term net zero targets, “pie in the sky.” The 2050 Net Neutral Challenge The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in […]

  • Putin Signs Law Allowing Possibility He Could Rule Until 2036

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 4:15am EDT

    Putin Signs Law Allowing Possibility He Could Rule Until 2036 On Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation which formalizes the possibility that he could run for two more six-year presidential terms if he chose.  It’s part of a long-in-process overhaul of the Russian Constitution which the population approved overwhelmingly in a nationwide vote last year. Despite his […]

  • Erdogan Warns Of New Coup As He Arrests Ten Admirals

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 2:45am EDT

    Erdogan Warns Of New Coup As He Arrests Ten Admirals Two weeks ago, in the immediate aftermath of the latest financial crisis in Turkey following the shocking termination of the hawkish Turkish central bank head at the hands of Erdogan, we said that it was almost time for another diversionary “coup” to take place. Almost […]

  • Is War Between Russia And Ukraine Now Inevitable?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 2:00am EDT

    Is War Between Russia And Ukraine Now Inevitable? Via Southfront.org, The situation in Eastern Ukraine is critical. Russia and Ukraine are on the brink of an open armed conflict. In this context, many military experts suggest their opinions and forecasts on the military developments in the region. The position of famous warlord Igor Strelkov is definitely one […]

  • Escobar: How Eurasia Will Be Interconnected

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 11:40pm EDT

    Escobar: How Eurasia Will Be Interconnected Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The extraordinary confluence between the signing of the Iran-China strategic partnership deal and the Ever Given saga in the Suez Canal is bound to spawn a renewed drive to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and all interconnected corridors of Eurasia integration. This […]

  • Chicago Shootings In March Top Four Year High As Mayor Lightfoot’s Plan To Combat Crime Fails  

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 11:20pm EDT

    Chicago Shootings In March Top Four Year High As Mayor Lightfoot’s Plan To Combat Crime Fails   Two years since Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot won that runoff election, her multi-year plan to combat violent crime across the Democratic-run city is in shambles.  The Chicago Police’s Monthly Crime Newsletter shows the number of shootings in the metro area […]

  • 88 Years Ago Today, FDR Banned Gold. Will A Bitcoin Ban Be Next?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 11:00pm EDT

    88 Years Ago Today, FDR Banned Gold. Will A Bitcoin Ban Be Next? Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Today is the 88th anniversary of Executive Order 6102, signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States.” The order was one of the […]

  • “We Are Struggling” – Capitol Police Union Head Warns Of Officer Exodus 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 10:40pm EDT

    “We Are Struggling” – Capitol Police Union Head Warns Of Officer Exodus  The US Capitol Police (USCP) union commander warned of a possible officer exodus and the need to bolster security following the latest attacks.  “We are struggling to meet existing mission requirements even with the officers working massive amounts of forced overtime,” Gus Papathanasiou, chairman […]

  • Rebound In Full Swing As Capacity Crowd Expected For Rangers Home Opener

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 10:20pm EDT

    Rebound In Full Swing As Capacity Crowd Expected For Rangers Home Opener One month after Texas Governor Greg Abbott lifted the mask mandate and all other anti-pandemic restrictions amid declining hospitalizations and infection rates, the Texas Rangers held their first full-capacity sports game on Monday.  For now, the lockdown nightmare is over, for millions of Texans, with […]

  • Senate Parliamentarian Sets Dangerous Precedent, Grants Schumer Permission For Second Reconciliation Vote

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 10:00pm EDT

    Senate Parliamentarian Sets Dangerous Precedent, Grants Schumer Permission For Second Reconciliation Vote Congressional Democrats are resorting to desperate and undemocratic measures to bulldoze new legislation into law, which – as Politico warns – “could set a significant new precedent by empowering any party in full control of Washington to stretch the limits of its power.” […]

  • Blue States Lead US COVID Resurgence As “Double Mutant” Strains Discovered In California

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 9:40pm EDT

    Blue States Lead US COVID Resurgence As “Double Mutant” Strains Discovered In California COVID cases continued to climb in the US over the holiday weekend, as the 7-day average of new cases nationwide topped 64K yesterday, its highest level since March 1. The US reported just under 68K new cases yesterday, along with 804 deaths […]

  • Mea Culpa: Oregon’s Largest Newspaper Admits Defunding Police Was A Terrible Idea As Homicides Skyrocket

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 9:20pm EDT

    Mea Culpa: Oregon’s Largest Newspaper Admits Defunding Police Was A Terrible Idea As Homicides Skyrocket Oregon’s largest newspaper, The Oregonian, has published a mea culpa over their previous endorsement of defunding the police, after 266 shootings and 25 homicides in the first quarter of 2021. In fact, in a Monday article from the paper’s editorial […]

  • Credit Suisse Fires Risk Chief, Others As Archegos Losses Climb To $5 Billion

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 9:00pm EDT

    Credit Suisse Fires Risk Chief, Others As Archegos Losses Climb To $5 Billion Shortly after Credit Suisse dumped its last blocks of the so-called Archegos stocks Monday evening in the US (and in the middle of the night in Switzerland), the Financial Times confirmed rumors from earlier in the day by reporting that Lara Warner, […]

  • One Bank Spoils The Party, Reminds Traders We Are This Close To The “Breaking Point”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 8:40pm EDT

    One Bank Spoils The Party, Reminds Traders We Are This Close To The “Breaking Point” One look at the S&P500, which closed today at a fresh all time high well above 4,000, suggests that after a period of rangebound trading and some modest quarter-end market jitters, traders once again don’t have a worry on their […]

  • Supreme Court Justice Thomas Suggests Facebook, Twitter Could Be Regulated Like Utilities

    ZeroHedge - Apr 5th 2021 8:20pm EDT

    Supreme Court Justice Thomas Suggests Facebook, Twitter Could Be Regulated Like Utilities Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appeared to signal that Big Tech firms could be regulated after Facebook and Twitter suspended President Donald Trump earlier this year. Thomas, considered a conservative on the high court, made the point […]