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  • US, Taliban Negotiate Short-Term Deal To Reduce Violence

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 1:30pm EST

    US, Taliban Negotiate Short-Term Deal To Reduce Violence Authored by Jennie Taer via SaraACarter.com, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper revealed Thursday that the U.S. and Taliban reached a deal “for a seven-day reduction in violence,” he told reporters during a visit to Brussels where he’s meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministers. “The United […]

  • 30-Year Auction Prices At Lowest Yield On Record

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 1:13pm EST

    30-Year Auction Prices At Lowest Yield On Record One day after a solid 10Y auction, moments ago the US Treasury closed off the week’s coupon issuance with a bang, when it sold $19 billion in 30Y bonds with a bang, thanks to a high yield of 2.061%, which not only stopped through the When Issued […]

  • Harvard, Yale Under Federal Investigation Over Shady Foreign Gifts

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 1:05pm EST

    Harvard, Yale Under Federal Investigation Over Shady Foreign Gifts Authored by Clay Robinson via CampusReform.org, The Department of Education has opened an investigation into the millions of dollars in foreign funding going to Harvard and Yale Universities. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Department of Education is continuing a review that American colleges did not […]

  • A Third Of Fossil Fuel Assets May Soon Be Stranded

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 12:30pm EST

    A Third Of Fossil Fuel Assets May Soon Be Stranded Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Fossil fuel companies hold vast oil, gas and coal riches that they frequently tout to the investing universe to help elevate their market values. However, not a single energy company has ever told investors about the potential effects on […]

  • “Maybe This Was Man Made” – CNBC Questions Coronavirus Origins As ZeroHedge Remains Banned On Twitter

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 12:10pm EST

    “Maybe This Was Man Made” – CNBC Questions Coronavirus Origins As ZeroHedge Remains Banned On Twitter In keeping with our storied history of presenting readers with plausible theories and allowing them to make their own decisions often times weeks, months or years in advance of the mainstream media figuring them out and/or having the courage to […]

  • Turley: No, Trump Did Not Commit Criminal Witness Retaliation

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 11:55am EST

    Turley: No, Trump Did Not Commit Criminal Witness Retaliation Authored by Jonathan Turley, I recently wrote a Washington Post column explaining that, while I viewed the moves by President Donald Trump against impeachment witnesses was wrong, it was not criminal as claimed by legal analysts like CNN’s Elie Honig. Yesterday, Honig responded by arguing in a column that he […]

  • Nasdaq, S&P Surge Back Into Green – Shrug Off Massive Surge In Virus Deaths, Cases

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 11:39am EST

    Nasdaq, S&P Surge Back Into Green – Shrug Off Massive Surge In Virus Deaths, Cases What’s another 15,000 deadly virus cases when we have central banks at our back? Tyler Durden Thu, 02/13/2020 – 11:39

  • Black NYT Columnist Slams Bloomberg’s “Racist” Stop & Frisk Expansion That Saved Minority Lives

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 11:33am EST

    Black NYT Columnist Slams Bloomberg’s “Racist” Stop & Frisk Expansion That Saved Minority Lives Across the entire American media edifice, is there a single institution more deserving of ridicule and irrelevance than the New York Times editorial board? Despite efforts to shake up a stale cast of writers who have aged largely in place since […]

  • Falling Oil Prices An Economic Warning Sign

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 11:30am EST

    Falling Oil Prices An Economic Warning Sign Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On Tuesday morning, I got engaged in a debate on the recent decline in oil prices following my report on COT Positioning in the space. To wit: “The inherent problem with this is that if crude oil breaks below $48/bbl, those long contracts […]

  • A Humiliated Wall Street Scrambles To Convince Clients That Nothing Is F***ed Here As Infections Soar

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 11:10am EST

    A Humiliated Wall Street Scrambles To Convince Clients That Nothing Is F***ed Here As Infections Soar After China was brazenly lying (because there is no other way to call what misrepresenting the full impact of a deadly viral pandemic can be called) to the world for two weeks, the overnight admission that there are in […]

  • Subprime Auto Loans Explode, “Serious Delinquencies” Spike To Record

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 10:50am EST

    Subprime Auto Loans Explode, “Serious Delinquencies” Spike To Record Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com, Nearly a quarter of all subprime auto loans are 90+ days delinquent. Why? Auto loan and lease balances have surged to a new record of $1.33 trillion. Delinquencies of auto loans to borrowers with prime credit rates hover near historic […]

  • Hope Hicks To Return To The West Wing As ‘Counselor To The President’

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 10:30am EST

    Hope Hicks To Return To The West Wing As ‘Counselor To The President’ Hope Hicks, the former White House aide who served as communications director during the first turbulent year of Trump’s term, is reportedly planning to leave Fox News and return to the White House and work alongside Jared Kushner, according to the New […]

  • Boeing Narrative Busts As Southwest Extends 737 Max Flight Cancellations Through Early August

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 10:15am EST

    Boeing Narrative Busts As Southwest Extends 737 Max Flight Cancellations Through Early August Despite optimism over FAA comments about return to service, which sent the stock up to the highest level since early December, the narrative of mid-year flight is now starting to crack. Randy Tinseth, vice president of commercial marketing at Boeing, painted a […]

  • Blain: “Virus Vs Markets: I Think The Music Just Stopped”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 9:55am EST

    Blain: “Virus Vs Markets: I Think The Music Just Stopped” Blain’s Morning Porridge, submitted by Bill Blain Jaguar earlobes! Wolf nipple chips, get em while they’re hot.. Dromedary pretzels, only half a dinar. Tuscany Fried Bat.. ” On the train this morning – someone started coughing and the whole carriage went quiet. People started moving […]

  • Beijing Fires 2 Top Party Officials As Virus Death Toll Soars

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 9:40am EST

    Beijing Fires 2 Top Party Officials As Virus Death Toll Soars Last night, we wrote the following in conclusion to our report on the dire numbers coming out of Hubei. Essentially, we predicted that President Xi was cranking up the Party’s scapegoating machine and getting ready to blame the undercounting of coronavirus cases and deaths […]

  • Rabobank: “The Quants Who Were Merrily Looking At The Decline In New Virus Cases Woke Up To A Shock”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 9:27am EST

    Rabobank: “The Quants Who Were Merrily Looking At The Decline In New Virus Cases Woke Up To A Shock” Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank Outbreak Data Break Out Yesterday we warned “Curb your enthusiasm”, and all week we have been warning that the markets were totally out of line with the fat tail risks […]

  • Watch Live: Judy Shelton Faces Senate Banking Committee In First Test For Trump’s Controversial Fed Nominee

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:55am EST

    Watch Live: Judy Shelton Faces Senate Banking Committee In First Test For Trump’s Controversial Fed Nominee President Trump’s push to reshape the Fed board of governors is facing a critical test on Thursday. Trump’s latest picks to serve on the Fed board of governors are appearing before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday for the first […]

  • Fed Injects $79BN In Liquidity: Term Repo Most Oversubscribed Since Repo Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:53am EST

    Fed Injects $79BN In Liquidity: Term Repo Most Oversubscribed Since Repo Crisis The repo market was supposed to be fixed in September; then the year-end liquidity flood was supposed to definitely fix the repo market. But it is now mid-February and moments ago the Fed just reported it conducted the fourth oversubscribed term-repo operation as […]

  • US Military Initiates “Global Campaign Plan For Pandemic”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:46am EST

    US Military Initiates “Global Campaign Plan For Pandemic” Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, It appears that the U.S. military is taking this coronavirus outbreak extremely seriously.  An executive order has been issued which has initiated the implementation of “the Department of Defense Global Campaign plan for Pandemic Influenza […]

  • Consumer Price Inflation Hotter Than Expected Despite Goods Deflation

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:36am EST

    Consumer Price Inflation Hotter Than Expected Despite Goods Deflation After jumping in December, analysts expected a modest acceleration in headline consumer prices and small slowdown in core prices, but the headline CPI printed hotter than expected at +2.5% YoY (despite only rising 0.1% MoM) – that is the hottest since oct 2018. Source: Bloomberg The […]

  • Tesla Slides After Disclosing New SEC Subpoena And $2 Billion Capital Raise

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:28am EST

    Tesla Slides After Disclosing New SEC Subpoena And $2 Billion Capital Raise Tesla shares are extending overnight losses (following the Model X recall) after announcing a $2 billion secondary stock offering and revealing in their newly filed 10-K that they were issued a new subpoena by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to “certain financial […]

  • Lead Juror In Roger Stone Trial Was Left-Wing Former Political Candidate Who Despises Trump

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:20am EST

    Lead Juror In Roger Stone Trial Was Left-Wing Former Political Candidate Who Despises Trump The lead juror in the Roger Stone trial is a former Democratic congressional candidate who hates President Trump, and actively posted anti-Trump material online during the trial, according to Cernovich.com and the Daily Caller. Tomeka Hart admitted to being a Stone […]

  • Markets Hit By “Perfect Storm” As Stocks Slide On Surge In New Coronavirus Cases, Deaths

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:04am EST

    Markets Hit By “Perfect Storm” As Stocks Slide On Surge In New Coronavirus Cases, Deaths For weeks we had been warning that China was misrepresenting, obfuscating and otherwise lying, either directly or simply by changing the definition of an “infected case” or even “death”, about the true extent of the corona pandemic, a conclusion that […]

  • Cables Climbs As Boris Sacks Chancellor Javid In Latest ‘Cabinet Reshuffle’ Twist

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 7:41am EST

    Cables Climbs As Boris Sacks Chancellor Javid In Latest ‘Cabinet Reshuffle’ Twist UK Chancellor Sajid Javid was ousted on Thursday after choosing to resign instead of firing a group of advisors that the prime minister wanted sacked, according to the FT. According to the British financial paper of record, Javid, a one-time contender for the […]

  • Beijing Fires Top Party Officials In Hubei After Death-Toll Bombshell

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 6:42am EST

    Beijing Fires Top Party Officials In Hubei After Death-Toll Bombshell Last night, we wrote the following in conclusion to our report on the dire numbers coming out of Hubei. Essentially, we predicted that President Xi was cranking up the Party’s scapegoating machine and getting ready to blame the undercounting of coronavirus cases and deaths on […]