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  • ECB Keeps Bond Purchase Program, Rates Unchanged As Expected

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 7:51am EDT

    ECB Keeps Bond Purchase Program, Rates Unchanged As Expected Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 07:51 No surprises were expected at today’s ECB policy announcement, and that’s what the ECB delivered when it kept both its rates and the size (€1.35TN) and duration of its PEPP program unchanged, both as expected. The full statement is below: […]

  • Futures Slide, Euro Rises Ahead Of ECB

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 7:43am EDT

    Futures Slide, Euro Rises Ahead Of ECB Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 07:43 Wednesday’s tech-led rally in stock markets stalled in Europe on Thursday as traders pulled back to hear what the European Central Bank would say about the euro’s run-up in recent months and this morning. Meanwhile, S&P futures dropped 17 points suggesting the […]

  • ECB Preview: Watch For A Dovish Tilt And Euro Jawboning

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 7:15am EDT

    ECB Preview: Watch For A Dovish Tilt And Euro Jawboning Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 07:15 The European Central Bank is expected to keep policy unchanged when its latest decision is announced at 7:45 a.m, however analysts will be on the lookout for for any hints about more asset purchases before the end of the […]

  • AstraZeneca Should Know ‘Whether Vaccine Works Or Not’ By Year-End, CEO Says

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 6:35am EDT

    AstraZeneca Should Know ‘Whether Vaccine Works Or Not’ By Year-End, CEO Says Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 06:35 Two months after AstraZeneca touted trial data which suggested its SARS-COV-2 vaccine candidate would be safe for hman consumption, AZ, one of the global leaders in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine, dropped a bombshell on the […]

  • Citizens Stop Spanish Police From Arresting Woman For Not Wearing Mask

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 5:00am EDT

    Citizens Stop Spanish Police From Arresting Woman For Not Wearing Mask Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 05:00 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A video out of Spain shows citizens preventing police from arresting a woman for not wearing a face mask. The clip shows officers attempting to pull the older woman away […]

  • Greenwald: MSM Journalists Hate Assange Because He’s Broken More Blockbuster Stories Than All Combined

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 4:15am EDT

    Greenwald: MSM Journalists Hate Assange Because He’s Broken More Blockbuster Stories Than All Combined Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 04:15 “Nonsense!” — Julian Assange shouted as during the second day of his resumed extradition hearing US federal government attorney James Lewis told a witness that the WikiLeaks founder is facing extradition over the publication of informants’ names and […]

  • The EU’s Drive Toward Political Centralization Will Doom Its Economy

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 3:30am EDT

    The EU’s Drive Toward Political Centralization Will Doom Its Economy Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 03:30 Authored by Antonis Giannakopoulos via The Mises Institute, In the wake of the economically disastrous covid-19 shutdowns, the political class has desperately tried to save the failing euro system. On July 21 European leaders agreed on what they called a […]

  • These Are The World’s Richest Families

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 2:45am EDT

    These Are The World’s Richest Families Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 02:45 The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped the world’s wealthiest families from growing their fortunes. As Visual Capitalist’s Carmen Ang notes, over the past year, the richest family – the Waltons – grew their wealth by $25 billion, or almost $3 million per hour. This graphic, using data […]

  • Navalny, Novichok, And Nord Stream 2

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 2:00am EDT

    Navalny, Novichok, And Nord Stream 2 Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 02:00 Authored by Johanna Ross via InfoBRICS.org, Timing is everything, they say. Never more so was it crucial in the case of Alexei Navalny, currently coming out of a coma in the Charité hospital in Berlin, Germany, where he was transferred last month from […]

  • Mile Markers Of Tyranny: Losing Our Freedoms On The Road From 9/11 To COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Sep 10th 2020 12:00am EDT

    Mile Markers Of Tyranny: Losing Our Freedoms On The Road From 9/11 To COVID-19 Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 00:00 Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.” – George Orwell You can map the […]

  • US Military Testing “Skylord” Counter-Drone AR Interception System

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 11:40pm EDT

    US Military Testing “Skylord” Counter-Drone AR Interception System Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 23:40 The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has partnered with an Israeli-based startup, called Xtend, to pilot test the Skylord drone, initially developed for the gaming world, which would be used as a drone interception system on the modern battlefield.  The joint pilot program will be directed by the Directorate […]

  • America’s Caste System & “Deviating From The Norm”

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 11:20pm EDT

    America’s Caste System & “Deviating From The Norm” Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 23:20 Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, Variety is the spice of life but when does it go too far? When does a person move from being a nonconformist to where they are just plain weird?  This is not a question […]

  • Chinese Farmers Hoard Wheat In Hopes Of Creating Shortages That Push Prices Higher

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 11:00pm EDT

    Chinese Farmers Hoard Wheat In Hopes Of Creating Shortages That Push Prices Higher Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 23:00 The latest Chinese inflation data released overnight showed that consumer prices slowed again, dropping to 2.4% Y/Y, the lowest since early 2019, largely moderating on lower pork inflation (still over 50% y/y, but slowing), while producer […]

  • Is The Pandemic Over?

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 10:40pm EDT

    Is The Pandemic Over? Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 22:40 Authored by Ron Ross via AmericanThinker.com, A curious but fortunate characteristic of virus epidemics is their limited lifespans. No one knows why, but guesses include herd immunity and mutations of the virus. The following graph from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center […]

  • Zoltan Pozsar Spots A Possible Year-End Funding Crisis, But Not Everyone Agrees

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 10:20pm EDT

    Zoltan Pozsar Spots A Possible Year-End Funding Crisis, But Not Everyone Agrees Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 22:20 It seems like an eternity ago and in far simpler time, when bond markets were worried about such trivial things as bank reserve and funding levels, and repo rate squeezes. And yet, it was almost exactly one […]

  • We’re Headed Toward Stagnation Unless The Fed Reins In Its Money Printing

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 10:00pm EDT

    We’re Headed Toward Stagnation Unless The Fed Reins In Its Money Printing Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 22:00 Submitted by Frank Shostak, chief economist of AAS Economics via Mises.org The US Fed is considering lifting its inflation target above 2 percent in order to revive the economy. Contrary to the accepted practice, the Fed is not […]

  • Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract To Build New ICBM

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 9:40pm EDT

    Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract To Build New ICBM Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 21:40 Defense firm Northrop Grumman has announced it has landed a major defense contract to lead in developing America’s Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program. It won a whopping $13.3 billion Air Force contract to build the Pentagon’s next-generation intercontinental ballistic […]

  • AI-Written Editorial Warns “I Will Not Be Able To Avoid Destroying Mankind”

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 9:20pm EDT

    AI-Written Editorial Warns “I Will Not Be Able To Avoid Destroying Mankind” Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 21:20 Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, The UK Guardian published an editorial written entirely by an AI language generator called GPT-3. The assignment? To convince humans they have nothing to fear from the rapid advancement of […]

  • US Revokes Chinese Graduate Student Visas On Fears Of Research Theft

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 9:00pm EDT

    US Revokes Chinese Graduate Student Visas On Fears Of Research Theft Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 21:00 The Trump administration confirmed in a statement Wednesday that it is “blocking” many students from China from obtaining visas to America, specifically graduate students focusing on research in scientific and medical fields over fears they could steal sensitive research. […]

  • “We’ve Just Had The Largest Global Upgrade Cycle Since The Dawn Of Personal Computing”

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 8:40pm EDT

    “We’ve Just Had The Largest Global Upgrade Cycle Since The Dawn Of Personal Computing” Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 20:40 Submitted by Nicholas Colas of DataTrek Even as there are many story lines behind the 3-day, 7% sell-off in the S&P 500, we will focus today on just one: the 11% selloff in the large […]

  • The Mysterious $100 Billion Gap In China’s Payments Data

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 8:33pm EDT

    The Mysterious $100 Billion Gap In China’s Payments Data Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 20:33 Authored by Ye Xie, Bloomberg macro commentator and analyst Three strikes … and the bears are out? The Nasdaq 100 Index roared back Wednesday after plunging for three sessions. It’s hard to know for sure that the correction in tech […]

  • “October Surprise” – Satellite Images Suggest North Korea Preparing Ballistic Missile Test 

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 8:20pm EDT

    “October Surprise” – Satellite Images Suggest North Korea Preparing Ballistic Missile Test  Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 20:20 While Sino-US relations are set to dominate the Southeast Asia summit on Wednesday, foreign ministers of ten Southeast Asian countries could discuss the recent North Korean ballistic missile activity that suggests a launch could be nearing. New commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s […]

  • The New Puritans Are On The Prowl

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 8:00pm EDT

    The New Puritans Are On The Prowl Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 20:00 Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, In the spring of 1692, Giles Corey was 80 years old when his wife was accused of witchcraft. The entire town was in such a frenzy that even Giles started to believe that his wife might […]

  • Apocalypse On Broadway: Study Finds 78% Increase In Vacant Storefronts

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 7:40pm EDT

    Apocalypse On Broadway: Study Finds 78% Increase In Vacant Storefronts Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 19:40 If the rising taxes and complete loss of law and order in the midst of a global pandemic wasn’t enough to drive you out of New York City, perhaps complete apocalypse on the city’s iconic Broadway will do it. […]

  • JPMorgan Finds Some Employees “Illegally Pocketed” Covid-Relief Funds

    ZeroHedge - Sep 9th 2020 7:20pm EDT

    JPMorgan Finds Some Employees “Illegally Pocketed” Covid-Relief Funds Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 19:20 Yesterday, when we first reported that JPMorgan was probing its employees’ role in abuse of PPP funds following reports of “instances in which Covid-relief funds were misused by customers and is probing employees’ involvement in the potentially illegal activities”, we said […]