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  • UBS Contemplating Mega-Merger With Credit Suisse; Would Be Biggest Bank Deal Since Financial Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 11:20am EDT

    UBS Contemplating Mega-Merger With Credit Suisse; Would Be Biggest Bank Deal Since Financial Crisis Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 11:20 Swiss financial blog Inside Paradeplatz first reported that the chairmen of Swiss banking giants UBS and Credit Suisse are exploring the possibility of a merger that would presumably fuse the two Swiss banking behemoths into […]

  • Candace Owens Rages At BLM-Enablers Over Cop Shooting

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 10:45am EDT

    Candace Owens Rages At BLM-Enablers Over Cop Shooting Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 10:45 Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Following the horrific premeditated shooting of two Sherrif’s deputies in LA Saturday, conservative commentator Candace Owens tore into “pea-brained celebrities” who have enabled “racist,” “anti-cop” rhetoric by throwing their support behind extremists using the […]

  • Yet Another Poll Oversamples Democrats As Pollsters Fail To Learn From 2016

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 10:25am EDT

    Yet Another Poll Oversamples Democrats As Pollsters Fail To Learn From 2016 Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 10:25 As we’ve noted numerous times over the past several years, a trick commonly employed by pollsters to achieve a desired outcome is oversampling – including more Democrats and left-leaning independents than Republicans and right-leaning independents in surveys […]

  • In ‘War On Restaurants’, Media Champion Lockdown Narrative

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 10:04am EDT

    In ‘War On Restaurants’, Media Champion Lockdown Narrative Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 10:04 Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, Just when the fear starts to subside, and growing public skepticism seems to push governors into opening, something predictable happens. The entire apparatus of mass media hops on some new, […]

  • Suga High: Abe’s #2 Becomes Japan’s Next PM After Landslide LDP Victory – What That Means For Japan

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 9:50am EDT

    Suga High: Abe’s #2 Becomes Japan’s Next PM After Landslide LDP Victory – What That Means For Japan Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 09:50 On Monday, two weeks after the (second and final) resignation by Shinzo Abe on Aug 28 who stepped down as Japan’s Prime Minister due to deterioration in a pre-existing health condition […]

  • Tropical Storm Sally To Strengthen Into Hurricane With Crosshairs On Gulf Coast States  

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 9:40am EDT

    Tropical Storm Sally To Strengthen Into Hurricane With Crosshairs On Gulf Coast States   Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 09:40 Tropical Storm Sally is moving away from Florida as it will strengthen into a hurricane Monday afternoon. The storm is expected to make landfall along portions of the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday.  Sally is moving west-northwest toward Mississippi and Louisiana […]

  • Key Events This Week: Fed, Retail Sales, Industrial Production And Confidence

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 9:30am EDT

    Key Events This Week: Fed, Retail Sales, Industrial Production And Confidence Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 09:30 Looking at the key market events this week, central banks take center stage, with a raft of policy announcements due from around the world. The highlight will come from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, though we’ll also get […]

  • China’s Global Times Warns: “China Must Be Ready For A Potential War”

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 9:10am EDT

    China’s Global Times Warns: “China Must Be Ready For A Potential War” Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 09:10 Bu Michael Every of Rabobank August saw a bumper Chinese total social financing number, up much more than the market had expected at CNY3,580bn. That’s around USD500bn in one month in new borrowing, an annualised pace of […]

  • Mnuchin Confirms CFIUS Will Issue Decision On Oracle-TikTok Deal In Coming Days

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 8:53am EDT

    Mnuchin Confirms CFIUS Will Issue Decision On Oracle-TikTok Deal In Coming Days Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 08:53 Oracle shares surged Monday morning following last night’s late-breaking surprise that the Redwood City-based company, founded by one of President Trump’s biggest backers in Silicon Valley, had beat out Microsoft and Wal-Mart to become TikTok’s licensing partner […]

  • The 5 Ingredients For Another ‘Market Event’ Remain

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 8:36am EDT

    The 5 Ingredients For Another ‘Market Event’ Remain Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 08:36 Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A typical mainstream media claim is the March decline was “the bear market,” and the next bull market cycle has begun. Unfortunately, March was not a “bear market,” but just a correction within the ongoing bull market that started in […]

  • Global COVID-19 Cases Top 29 Million After WHO Reports Record Jump: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 8:21am EDT

    Global COVID-19 Cases Top 29 Million After WHO Reports Record Jump: Live Updates Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 08:21 Summary: WHO says record jump reported Sunday Global cases topped 29 million Israel imposes new 3 week lockdown Schools reopen across Europe Victoria state sees lowest case count in 3 months New Zealand to lift all […]

  • Nikola Shares Tumble After Company Issues Second Response, Admits Nikola One Semi Was Not “Powertrain Driven”

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 8:07am EDT

    Nikola Shares Tumble After Company Issues Second Response, Admits Nikola One Semi Was Not “Powertrain Driven” Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 08:07 Yesterday we reported that people were driving out to the desert in Utah to film themselves rolling their cars, in neutral, down the very same hill that was alleged to be used to […]

  • Futures Surge On Monday Merger Mania, Fresh Vaccine Hopes

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 7:58am EDT

    Futures Surge On Monday Merger Mania, Fresh Vaccine Hopes Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 07:58 U.S. stock index futures jumped 1.3% on Monday amid fresh progress in COVID-19 vaccine development and a triumphal return of “Merger Monday” thanks to a flurry of multi-billion dollar deals. Oracle soared as much as 11% leading gains among the […]

  • Amazon Hires 100,000 Workers Ahead Of Holiday Season Amid Pandemic-Inspired E-Commerce Boom 

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 7:11am EDT

    Amazon Hires 100,000 Workers Ahead Of Holiday Season Amid Pandemic-Inspired E-Commerce Boom  Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 07:11 Amazon announced on Monday that its planning to hire 100,000 new employees in the US and Canada on top of the 33,000 corporate new hires it announced last week.  The new jobs start at $15 per hour, and […]

  • Terry Branstad Unexpectedly Quits As US Ambassador To Beijing

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 6:24am EDT

    Terry Branstad Unexpectedly Quits As US Ambassador To Beijing Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 06:24 In an unexpected move, former Iowa Gov Terry Branstad is stepping down from his position as the US Ambassador to China after more than three years on the job as tensions between Washington and Beijing reach a fever pitch ahead […]

  • Alibaba In Talks To Buy Some Of Uber’s ‘Grab’ Stake In Ride-Share Fire Sale

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 6:10am EDT

    Alibaba In Talks To Buy Some Of Uber’s ‘Grab’ Stake In Ride-Share Fire Sale Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 06:10 In a report that probably won’t raise eyebrows amid Uber’s court battle for the future of its London business (the company’s lawyers are facing off against Transport for London in a British court on Monday […]

  • Iran To Link Its Power Grid To Russia, Azerbaijan

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 5:00am EDT

    Iran To Link Its Power Grid To Russia, Azerbaijan Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 05:00 Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Iran’s electricity grid will be connected with Russia and Azerbaijan in a few months, once grid compatibility studies are completed, Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said on Friday. Iran’s power grid could be linked and synchronized […]

  • New Research Shows Google Searches For COVID-19 Stomach Symptoms May Predict Outbreaks

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 4:15am EDT

    New Research Shows Google Searches For COVID-19 Stomach Symptoms May Predict Outbreaks Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 04:15 According to a newly released study, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have discovered that Internet searches on gastrointestinal symptoms predicted a rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases weeks later with a surprisingly high degree of regularity. The researchers […]

  • How Spain Became A Squatter’s Paradise

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 3:30am EDT

    How Spain Became A Squatter’s Paradise Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 03:30 Authored by Nick Corbishley via WolfStreet.com, Since the burst of Spain’s madcap housing bubble in 2009, squatting – the unlawful occupancy of uninhabited buildings or unused land – has become a major problem. By 2019, following a 58% surge in cases in five […]

  • Infighting & Resignations Rock Knesset As Israel Imposes 2nd Sweeping Nationwide Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 2:45am EDT

    Infighting & Resignations Rock Knesset As Israel Imposes 2nd Sweeping Nationwide Lockdown Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 02:45 Israel is set to return to a controversial nationwide coronavirus lockdown after a recent spike in cases, with the details of how far restrictions on businesses are expected to go being hotly debated in Knesset Sunday morning. The […]

  • The EU Is To Blame For The Latest Brexit Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Sep 14th 2020 2:00am EDT

    The EU Is To Blame For The Latest Brexit Crisis Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2020 – 02:00 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, The UK is threatening to ignore the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. How did we get here? “No Miserable Squabbling”  Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his Plan to Override Part of the Brexit […]

  • The 9/11 Attacks: Understanding Al-Qaeda & The Domestic Fall-Out From America’s Secret War

    ZeroHedge - Sep 13th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    The 9/11 Attacks: Understanding Al-Qaeda & The Domestic Fall-Out From America’s Secret War Tyler Durden Sun, 09/13/2020 – 23:30 Authored by Sam Jacobs via Ammo.com, With American military personnel now entering service who were not even alive on 9/11, this seems an appropriate time to reexamine the events of September 11, 2001 – the opaque motives […]

  • Fast Food Restaurants ‘Radically’ Redesign Floor Plans With “Convenience Focus”

    ZeroHedge - Sep 13th 2020 11:00pm EDT

    Fast Food Restaurants ‘Radically’ Redesign Floor Plans With “Convenience Focus” Tyler Durden Sun, 09/13/2020 – 23:00 Taco Bell, Shake Shack, and Burger King are among some of the major fast-food restaurant chains redesigning store layouts to accommodate larger volumes of drive-thru traffic as the virus pandemic has altered consumer behaviors, reported CNBC.  To this day, or about seven months into […]

  • “This Time Is Different”: Why Morgan Stanley Expects The Fed To Finally Succeed In Boosting Inflation

    ZeroHedge - Sep 13th 2020 10:00pm EDT

    “This Time Is Different”: Why Morgan Stanley Expects The Fed To Finally Succeed In Boosting Inflation Tyler Durden Sun, 09/13/2020 – 22:00 Looking at this week’s main event, the FOMC’s two-day meeting on Wednesday, consensus expects that the Fed won’t announce any new actions having crushed the idea of yield curve control or a shift […]

  • America’s Color Revolution

    ZeroHedge - Sep 13th 2020 9:30pm EDT

    America’s Color Revolution Tyler Durden Sun, 09/13/2020 – 21:30 Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, I have provided evidence that the military/security complex, using the media and the Democrats, intends to turn the November election into a color revolution – here, here, and here.   The CIA is very experienced at color revolutions, having pulled them off […]