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  • Rabobank: “There Is Genuine Confusion On How Many People Are Being Tested; How They Are Tested; And How Many Are Actually Dead”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 9:30am EST

    Rabobank: “There Is Genuine Confusion On How Many People Are Being Tested; How They Are Tested; And How Many Are Actually Dead” Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank Happy Valentine’s Day as well as Happy Friday. As markets try to focus in on the latest developments on the Coronavirus they see that events of truly […]

  • US Manufacturing Production Contracts For 7th Straight Month, Capacity Utilization Tumbles

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 9:21am EST

    US Manufacturing Production Contracts For 7th Straight Month, Capacity Utilization Tumbles After falling for 3 of the last 4 months, and following Germany’s disastrous January print, US Industrial Production was expected to drop by 0.2% but yet again it disappointed, falling 0.3% MoM. Source: Bloomberg This means US Industrial Production has contracted year-over-year for 5 […]

  • ‘It’s Coming’: CDC Director Warns Coronavirus To Become Widespread Throughout United States, ‘Probably Beyond 2020’

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 9:05am EST

    ‘It’s Coming’: CDC Director Warns Coronavirus To Become Widespread Throughout United States, ‘Probably Beyond 2020’ The extremely virulent coronavirus which is sweeping through China’s Hubei province like wildfire will eventually gain a foothold in the United States – becoming a ‘community virus’ this year or next, according to CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield. “We don’t […]

  • Can Bloomberg Win Texas? The Presidency? Why Not?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 8:45am EST

    Can Bloomberg Win Texas? The Presidency? Why Not? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Bloomberg’s odds of winning the nomination, then presidency, are high and rising. Let’s investigate why. Spotlight Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders, the radical left-wing Socialist darling is widely thought to be way in the lead. Nate Silver at 538 says Sanders Is The […]

  • Headline Retail Sales Steady In January, Control Group Disappointment Sparks GDP Growth Anxiety

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 8:38am EST

    Headline Retail Sales Steady In January, Control Group Disappointment Sparks GDP Growth Anxiety After December’s massive surge in consumer revolving debt (i.e. credit card spending), one might have expected a retail spending ‘hangover’ of sorts in January but headline data came in up 0.3% MoM, as expected. Source: Bloomberg Core retail sales (es autos/gas) rose […]

  • The Violent Collision Of Market Fantasy And Viral Reality

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 8:20am EST

    The Violent Collision Of Market Fantasy And Viral Reality Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, When the stampede tumbles off the cliff, buyers vanish and markets go bidless. The shock wave unleashed in China on January 23 is about to hit the U.S. economy and shatter everything that is fragile and fantasy, starting […]

  • Tesla Prices Offering At $767 Despite Warning About Coronavirus, SEC Subpoena, & Chinese Model X Recalls

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 8:04am EST

    Tesla Prices Offering At $767 Despite Warning About Coronavirus, SEC Subpoena, & Chinese Model X Recalls Tesla stock is volatile in early trading on Friday morning after the company announced that it priced its recent $2 billion stock offering at an astronomical $767 per share. For the company, it is an impressive valuation to raise […]

  • S&P Futures Hit New All Time High On Coronahope

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 7:48am EST

    S&P Futures Hit New All Time High On Coronahope And just like that, “Coronahope”, i.e., the market’s entirely unfounded and groundless optimism that the coronavirus pandemic is contained, is back, and pushing stocks to fresh record highs. Until two days ago, the roughly 5,000 increase in official new Chinese infected cases would have been the […]

  • China Says Nearly 2,000 Doctors & Nurses Infected As Shortages Of Medical Supplies Persist

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 6:46am EST

    China Says Nearly 2,000 Doctors & Nurses Infected As Shortages Of Medical Supplies Persist Summary: China says 1,716 medical workers have been infected Singapore reports largest daily jump in cases Hubei’s new party boss orders quarantine tightened President Xi touts new “biosecurity law” Hong Kong Disney land offers space for quarantine Chinese company says blood […]

  • Royal Caribbean Cancels 18 Cruises As Thousands Remain Trapped Aboard ‘Diamond Princess’

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 5:47am EST

    Royal Caribbean Cancels 18 Cruises As Thousands Remain Trapped Aboard ‘Diamond Princess’ Cruise ship operators across the world, especially in Asia, are experiencing a crisis with few precedents. The Covid-19 outbreak that started in China has spread across the region, and around the world – it’s currently confirmed to be present in nearly 30 countries […]

  • “ECB Is Worst-Run Central Bank In The World” – Felix Zulauf Sees 30% Plunge In US Stocks “Taking The World With It”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 5:00am EST

    “ECB Is Worst-Run Central Bank In The World” – Felix Zulauf Sees 30% Plunge In US Stocks “Taking The World With It” By Lauren Rublin, via Barrons.com Felix Zulauf was a member of the Barron’s Roundtable for about 30 years, until relinquishing his seat at our annual investment gathering in 2017. While his predictions were more right than wrong, […]

  • Apocalyptic Footage Shows Millions Of Locusts Swarm Motorist In Africa 

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 4:15am EST

    Apocalyptic Footage Shows Millions Of Locusts Swarm Motorist In Africa  As if the COVid-19 breakout across the world wasn’t enough, there’s another rare occurrence of an apocalyptic event unfolding across east African countries as hundreds of millions of locusts descend on farm fields and cities.  These creatures have been reported to travel in swarms of […]

  • UK Government Approves Net Censorship – British Free Speech Dies

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 3:30am EST

    UK Government Approves Net Censorship – British Free Speech Dies Authored by Mark Angelides via LibertyNation.com, The United Kingdom has become the first Western nation to move ahead with large-scale censorship of the internet, effectively creating regulation that will limit freedom on the last frontier of digital liberty. In a move that has the nation reeling, Prime […]

  • Tent Cities, Troop Surge & Tanks Pouring In: Reasons Why The ‘Final War’ For Idlib Has Begun

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 2:45am EST

    Tent Cities, Troop Surge & Tanks Pouring In: Reasons Why The ‘Final War’ For Idlib Has Begun In the next weeks and months, Idlib is set to be front and center once again in world headlines. Not only have the Turkish and Syrian armies engaged in direct clashes since the weekend — with dozens of casualties on […]

  • Hungarian Foreign Minister Warns UN’s Push For Mass Migration Threatens “Whole Of Humanity”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 2:00am EST

    Hungarian Foreign Minister Warns UN’s Push For Mass Migration Threatens “Whole Of Humanity” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjárt warns that the United Nations is spending money on facilitating a program of mass migration that threatens the “whole of humanity.” Instead of spending money on counter-terrorism, the UN […]

  • The Lessons We Have Learned From The Coronavirus So Far…

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 12:05am EST

    The Lessons We Have Learned From The Coronavirus So Far… Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, Every disaster contains a lesson or a message that needs to be examined. Every tragedy, no matter how terrible, should be absorbed into the public consciousness and adopted as a cautionary tale; a part of our mythos. These events […]

  • China Now Openly Fabricating Numbers: Beijing Lowers Coronavirus Deaths By 108 Due To “Double Counting”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 11:47pm EST

    China Now Openly Fabricating Numbers: Beijing Lowers Coronavirus Deaths By 108 Due To “Double Counting” Yesterday, when China shockingly reported a huge jump in new Coronavirus infections due to a “change in definition” of how it counted confirmed cases, resulting in a surge of nearly 15,000 new infections in Hubei alone, it made a mistake: […]

  • China Auto Sales Plunge In January; And February Could Be Much, Much Worse

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 11:45pm EST

    China Auto Sales Plunge In January; And February Could Be Much, Much Worse Auto sales in China were crushed in January, declining 20.2% on a year over year basis, according to the government-backed China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. The country sold 1.94 million vehicles, according to the CAAM.  The decline is attributable, obviously, to the […]

  • Battle Of Idlib And Prospects Of Turkish-Syrian War

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 11:25pm EST

    Battle Of Idlib And Prospects Of Turkish-Syrian War Submitted by SouthFront In February 2020, the Syrian Army reached the vicinity of the main stronghold of anti-government forces in Syria, the city of Idlib. This development plunged into shock supporters and the leadership of Idlib armed groups and became a visual confirmation of something that Western […]

  • Judicial Watch Uncovers NIH Fetal Organ Purchases For ‘Humanized Mice’ Testing

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 11:05pm EST

    Judicial Watch Uncovers NIH Fetal Organ Purchases For ‘Humanized Mice’ Testing The National Institutes of Health (NIH) paid nearly $20,000 to a California-based firm to purchase organs from aborted human fetuses for a program to create “humanized mice” for HIV research, according to Judicial Watch. The discovery was made after the conservative watchdog group received […]

  • China Takes Additional Steps To Digitize The Renminbi

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 10:45pm EST

    China Takes Additional Steps To Digitize The Renminbi Via CoinTelegraph.com, China has been leading the way when it comes to digital payments by average consumers in the country. While such payments in the United States like Apple Pay are becoming more widely accepted, in nearby Japan such methods are still relatively rare. image courtesy of […]

  • US Says Iran’s Satellite Launch Program ‘Cover’ For Nuclear Weapons Delivery

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 10:25pm EST

    US Says Iran’s Satellite Launch Program ‘Cover’ For Nuclear Weapons Delivery Iran’s latest attempt to launch a satellite into orbit marked the fourth recent space launch operation in a row ending in failure, and yet Iran’s space program and Defense Ministry still praised the launch as “remarkable” and vowed to continue to program.  This elicited a response from US Secretary […]

  • Doug Casey: How To Survive The “Deep State”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 10:05pm EST

    Doug Casey: How To Survive The “Deep State” Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, Almost everyone looks for a political solution to problems. However, once a Deep State situation has taken over, only a revolution or a dictatorship can turn it around, and probably only in a small country. Maybe you’re thinking you should get […]

  • India Develops World’s First Bulletproof Combat Helmet Against AK-47

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 9:45pm EST

    India Develops World’s First Bulletproof Combat Helmet Against AK-47 An Indian Army Major who had designed an advanced bulletproof vest against sniper rounds has now developed a helmet that can protect the wearer from a 7.62×39mm bullet, commonly chambered in an AK-47.  Major Anoop Mishra developed world’s first bullet proof helmet against AK 47 bullet, […]

  • First Mass Quarantine Outside Of China: Vietnam Puts Area With 10,000 Residents Under Coronavirus Quarantine

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 9:37pm EST

    First Mass Quarantine Outside Of China: Vietnam Puts Area With 10,000 Residents Under Coronavirus Quarantine For most of the past decade, Vietnam had benefited from China’s rising standard of living, higher wages, as companies seeking the lowest cost producer quietly but firmly transferred supply chains to originate out of China and into lower-cost locales such […]