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  • Wall Street Tears Up The Reflationary Playbook, “Capitulates Into Deflationary Assets” As Growth Optimism Fades

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 7:10pm EST

    Wall Street Tears Up The Reflationary Playbook, “Capitulates Into Deflationary Assets” As Growth Optimism Fades So much can change in one month. Back in January, when following a brief burst of reflationary euphoria Bank of America conducted its first Fund Manager Survey for the decade, it found a burst in optimism and investor euphoria, with […]

  • 10 ‘Plagues’ That Are Hitting Our Planet Simultaneously

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 6:50pm EST

    10 ‘Plagues’ That Are Hitting Our Planet Simultaneously Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, All of a sudden, really crazy things are starting to happen all over the world.  Giant swarms of locusts are absolutely devastating entire regions, extremely unusual storms are confounding meteorologists, earthquake and volcanic activity are both […]

  • Libyan Pro-Haftar Forces Attack Turkish Ship “Loaded With Arms” At Tripoli Port

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 6:30pm EST

    Libyan Pro-Haftar Forces Attack Turkish Ship “Loaded With Arms” At Tripoli Port Pro-Haftar forces in Libya say they’ve destroyed a Turkish ship loaded with weapons and ammunition that was docked in the Port of Tripoli on Tuesday.  United Nations Libya envoy Ghassan Salame also confirmed the attack amid months-long fighting between Haftar’s Libyan National Army […]

  • Illinoisans Are Overwhelmed By “Shadow Mortgage” Of Pension Debts

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 6:10pm EST

    Illinoisans Are Overwhelmed By “Shadow Mortgage” Of Pension Debts Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via WirePoints.org, Illinois’ combined state and local pensioner debts have reached absurd levels. When divvied up between Illinois’ households, the “shadow mortgage” each one is on the hook for now totals hundreds of thousands of dollars per household, if […]

  • ECB Buys LVMH Bonds To Finance Tiffany’s Acqusition, Making France’s Richest Man Even Richer

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 6:05pm EST

    ECB Buys LVMH Bonds To Finance Tiffany’s Acqusition, Making France’s Richest Man Even Richer When France’s richest man, LVMH boss Bernard Arnault, shocked the market last November with his $16 billion purchase of jewelry icon Tiffany, he knew he would have to issue about $10 billion in bonds to fund the deal. He also knew […]

  • No One Gets Out Of Here Alive, Part 2

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 5:30pm EST

    No One Gets Out Of Here Alive, Part 2 Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, In Part One of this article I exposed the numerous false narratives being peddled to the masses, as this Fourth Turning is entering the intense phase headed towards an unknown climax. I’ve been expecting the next shoe to fall […]

  • China Claims 95% Of SOEs Have Restarted Production. There’s Just One Problem…

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 5:10pm EST

    China Claims 95% Of SOEs Have Restarted Production. There’s Just One Problem… According to Ren Hongbin, China’s vice director of state-asset regulator Sasac, more than 95% of SOEs in oil, petrochemical, communication, power grid and transport sectors have restarted production despite coronavirus outbreak, with the most severe virus impact in civil aviation and tourism sectors. […]

  • The World Is Awash In Oil, False Assurances, Magical Thinking, & Complacency…

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 4:50pm EST

    The World Is Awash In Oil, False Assurances, Magical Thinking, & Complacency… Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, This collapse of price will manifest in all sorts of markets that are based on debt-funded purchases of desires rather than a warily prudent priority on needs. Since markets are supposed to discover the price of excesses and […]

  • “I Am So Angry My Mind’s Gone Blank”: China Outrage Explodes After Beijing Propaganda Backfires

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 4:30pm EST

    “I Am So Angry My Mind’s Gone Blank”: China Outrage Explodes After Beijing Propaganda Backfires As readers can probably imagine, it takes a lot to set off a genuine public furor in China, especially when the subject is critical of the government, or challenges its authority in any way. Yet a video depicting nurses in […]

  • Bitcoin Price “Golden Cross” Hints At 170% Rally To $26K By Halving

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 11:45am EST

    Bitcoin Price “Golden Cross” Hints At 170% Rally To $26K By Halving Authored by William Suberg via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin can hit $26,000 in just two months thanks to a bullish event that previously triggered 170% price gains. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph As noted by Cointelegraph Markets analyst, Keith Wareing, on Feb. 18, this week saw Bitcoin’s ascending 50-day […]

  •  “This Is The Wake Up Call” – Apple Virus Shock To Hit Semiconductor Suppliers 

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 11:25am EST

     “This Is The Wake Up Call” – Apple Virus Shock To Hit Semiconductor Suppliers  What a shocker – Apple cut guidance on a market holiday in the US. The company issued a press release on Monday evening, admitting it does “not expect to meet the revenue guidance we provided for the March quarter” due to Covid-19 related […]

  • Mike Bloomberg: Trojan Horse For Clintonista Revival

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 11:05am EST

    Mike Bloomberg: Trojan Horse For Clintonista Revival Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, It’s been obvious to me since he declared that Mike Bloomberg is not a serious candidate for the Democratic nomination. He is everything the Democratic base doesn’t want — white, billionaire, oligarch, Wall St. 0.000001%’er. Oh, and until […]

  • Japan Will Use HIV Drugs To Treat Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 10:50am EST

    Japan Will Use HIV Drugs To Treat Coronavirus At the end of January, Indian scientists sparked a heated debate within virologist circles when they published a pre-print paper claiming they had discovered insertions in the coronavirus which bore an “uncanny similarity” to fragments such as gp120 and Gag found in the HIV virus, which they […]

  • Trump Sanctions Rosneft, Russia’s Largest Oil Company, For Helping Maduro In Venezuela

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 10:43am EST

    Trump Sanctions Rosneft, Russia’s Largest Oil Company, For Helping Maduro In Venezuela The Trump administration announced significant new sanctions on Tuesday targeting Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company, for helping Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro circumvent U.S. sanctions. Specifically, the sanction targets Rosneft Trading SA, a unit of Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft, as well as company’s […]

  • FBI Raids Business Tied To James Biden Influence-Peddling

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 10:15am EST

    FBI Raids Business Tied To James Biden Influence-Peddling The FBI raided the home of a CEO of a bankrupt hospital chain last month along with one of its Pennsylvania hospitals central to influence-peddling accusations against Joe Biden’s brother, James, according to RealClearInvestigations. The CEO, Grant White, was accused in a Kentucky bankruptcy court filing by […]

  • The Real ‘Tragicomedy’ – Who’s Ready To Buy The ‘Dip’ Again Now?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 9:55am EST

    The Real ‘Tragicomedy’ – Who’s Ready To Buy The ‘Dip’ Again Now? Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, We’re all frogs getting our perception of reality boiled in the pot of price perversion central banks have unleashed on the world. A tragicomedy of epic proportions continues to unfold in front of our own eyes. On […]

  • George Soros: “Remove Zuckerberg From Facebook Now… He’ll Get Trump Re-elected”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 9:25am EST

    George Soros: “Remove Zuckerberg From Facebook Now… He’ll Get Trump Re-elected” In a brief but scathing letter to The Financial Times, billionaire George Soros demands that both Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg should be removed from their leadership roles at Facebook or else President Trump will get re-elected. The two Facebook leaders are, according to the […]

  • Apple’s Downgrade Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg When It Comes To Earnings Downgrades

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 9:10am EST

    Apple’s Downgrade Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg When It Comes To Earnings Downgrades Submitted by Eleanor Creagh of Saxo Bank, Risk aversion is dialing up today and Asian stocks are falling along with US futures and bond yields across the curve with 30-year Treasury yields have dropping below 2% again. Anxieties are being […]

  • Tesla Pops After Morgan Stanley Doubles Bull Case Target To $1200 One Month After Setting It At $650

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 8:56am EST

    Tesla Pops After Morgan Stanley Doubles Bull Case Target To $1200 One Month After Setting It At $650 Morgan Stanley is looking more and more like a dog chasing its tail in its “analysis” of Tesla. Recall, about one month ago, Tesla was downgraded to “Sell” by Morgan Stanley after the stock’s run up to […]

  • Covid-19 Pandemic: The Complacent Are Clueless

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 8:40am EST

    Covid-19 Pandemic: The Complacent Are Clueless Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The eventual price of substituting magical thinking and survivorship bias for actual evidence will be far higher than the complacent realize. Here’s a sampling of complacent assertions being made about the COVID-19 virus as if they were certitudes: It’s no worse […]

  • Walmart Misses Across The Board As Guidance Disappoints, Online Sales Slow

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 8:28am EST

    Walmart Misses Across The Board As Guidance Disappoints, Online Sales Slow One quarter after after Walmart shares jumped when the company reported a solid beat in its Q3 earnings report and boosted the full year outlook, it’s a complete mirror image, as Walmart not only couldn’t deliver on its guidance boost from just three months […]

  • Bloomberg Qualifies For Nevada Democratic Debate, Releases ‘AOC-Lite’ Tax Plan

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 8:06am EST

    Bloomberg Qualifies For Nevada Democratic Debate, Releases ‘AOC-Lite’ Tax Plan Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg qualified on Tuesday to participate in this week’s Democratic presidential debate in Nevada, which will take place in Las Vegas Wednesday night.  Bloomberg has vowed to leverage his fortune to defeat President Donald Trump, who has already raised a campaign war […]

  • Global Stocks Slide After Apple Guidance Cut Is “Wake Up Call” To Zombified Investors

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 7:51am EST

    Global Stocks Slide After Apple Guidance Cut Is “Wake Up Call” To Zombified Investors Two weeks ago, when looking at the supply-chain crippling consequences of the Coronavirus epidemic, we asked “Is Tech About To Suffer A “Dot Com” Bubble Collapse?” and concluded that “It’s now all in China’s hands” noting that “…while the market leaders […]

  • Franklin Resources To Purchase Legg Mason, Forming $1.5 Trillion AUM Giant

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 7:46am EST

    Franklin Resources To Purchase Legg Mason, Forming $1.5 Trillion AUM Giant Franklin Resources Inc. announced Tuesday that it plans to buy rival asset manager Legg Mason in a deal for $50 per share, according to Bloomberg. *FRANKLIN TEMPLETON TO BUY LEGG MASON FOR $50.00/SHR – Bloomberg Over $2T into passive funds in recent years, starting […]

  • HSBC To Cut 35,000 Jobs, Shed $100 Billion In Assets As Profits Plunge

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 7:04am EST

    HSBC To Cut 35,000 Jobs, Shed $100 Billion In Assets As Profits Plunge Banks around the world are supposed to benefit the most from central banks inflating assets, and hyperinflating stock markets, but over the past few years, central banks have instead caused some of the biggest bank job cuts in half a decade.  HSBC, Europe’s […]