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  • Chinese Propaganda Video Shows Coronavirus Victims Dancing In Detainment Facility

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 12:39pm EST

    Chinese Propaganda Video Shows Coronavirus Victims Dancing In Detainment Facility Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Apparently keen to offset video footage of screaming Chinese people being abducted from their homes and taken to detention camps, the ruling Communist Party put out a video showing “mild” coronavirus victims housed in a “temporary hospital” […]

  • Erdogan Ready To Hit Assad Forces “Anywhere” As US Vows Full Support To “Our NATO Ally” 

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 12:25pm EST

    Erdogan Ready To Hit Assad Forces “Anywhere” As US Vows Full Support To “Our NATO Ally”  This week has already witnessed significant direct fighting between the Syrian and Turkish armies — after on Monday and Tuesday over a dozen more Turkish troops were killed following a bloody weekend of possibly scores killed on each side and now both are vowing to […]

  • Why “Not-QE” Is QE: Deciphering Gibberish

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 12:05pm EST

    Why “Not-QE” Is QE: Deciphering Gibberish Authored by Michael Lebowitz and Jack Scott via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.” – Alan Greenspan Imagine if Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell told the American people they must pay more for […]

  • Frenzied Traders Send Option Volumes To All Time High; Go All-In Tesla, Tech Calls

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 11:45am EST

    Frenzied Traders Send Option Volumes To All Time High; Go All-In Tesla, Tech Calls Trading stocks (or even fractions of stocks) is so 2019: 2020 is all about options. With prices of underlying securities soaring to never before seen levels and market momentum back if only for a handful of megatech stocks, investors have decided […]

  • After Three Record Breaking Years, Is The US Wind Energy Boom Over?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 11:30am EST

    After Three Record Breaking Years, Is The US Wind Energy Boom Over? Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, In 2019, the U.S. wind power industry recorded its third record-breaking installation year in a row, with new wind capacity hitting 9.14 GW. To date, there are another 44 GW under construction or in advanced development. Yet there are […]

  • Powell Admits “Low Rates Are Not A Choice Any More”, Says QE Will Be Used In Next Downturn

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 11:14am EST

    Powell Admits “Low Rates Are Not A Choice Any More”, Says QE Will Be Used In Next Downturn Instead of Powell bloviating before Congress for hours every six or so months while discussing his social life and avoiding answers to questions that really matter, it would be a much better use of everyone’s time if […]

  • Key Takeaways From The New Hampshire Primary

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 11:00am EST

    Key Takeaways From The New Hampshire Primary Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) eked out a win over former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg in Tuesday night’s New Hampshire primary after enjoying a wide lead early in the count. Meanwhile, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was able to clench third place over Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and […]

  • “All Disasters Are Not Created Equally” – CDC Powerless In Halting Spread Of Covid-19

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 10:45am EST

    “All Disasters Are Not Created Equally” – CDC Powerless In Halting Spread Of Covid-19 Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, It may come as a shock to many Americans but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will most likely prove rather powerless in halting the spread of the coronavirus. High profile […]

  • Oil Algos Confused After Huge Crude Build, Record Production, & OPEC Demand Cut

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 10:34am EST

    Oil Algos Confused After Huge Crude Build, Record Production, & OPEC Demand Cut Having briefly dropped back below $50 after API reported a significantly bigger than expected crude inventory build, WTI has roared higher this morning on ever-optimistic hopes that Covid-19’s impact has peaked and utterly disregarding OPEC’s slashing of its oil demand outlook for […]

  • India’s Leaders Claim Drinking Cow Urine Will Cure Covid-19

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 5:00am EST

    India’s Leaders Claim Drinking Cow Urine Will Cure Covid-19 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his extreme Hindu backers are making some amazing claims about science. Indian nationalists peddle something worse than snake oil. It’s the The Cow Dung Cure for Coronavirus. Swami Chakrapani Maharaj, president of the Hindu Mahasabha—a […]

  • Samsung Introduces Latest Foldable ‘iPhone-Killer’ Following Last Year’s Epic Flop

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 4:15am EST

    Samsung Introduces Latest Foldable ‘iPhone-Killer’ Following Last Year’s Epic Flop Though it’s not quite as exciting as rival Apple’s legendary product-launch events, Samsung released its new line of smartphones on Tuesday, offering the first in-depth glimpse at its latest foldable smartphone and iPhone killer following the company’s abysmal flop last time around. Samsung just showed […]

  • France Quietly Reintroducing The Crime Of Blasphemy

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 3:30am EST

    France Quietly Reintroducing The Crime Of Blasphemy Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute, France had just come out of the fifth anniversary of the massacre at its satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo than it was plunged into a similar case. On January 18, Mila O., a 16-year-old French girl, made insulting comments about Islam during an Instagram livestream. “During […]

  • Coronavirus Could Crush Natgas Market Amid Collapsing Chinese Demand

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 2:45am EST

    Coronavirus Could Crush Natgas Market Amid Collapsing Chinese Demand Last week we warned that the drop in Chinese petroleum consumption could spark one of the “biggest shocks to oil markets since the Lehman crisis.” Now it seems the fast-moving contagion has spread to liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets, Fitch Ratings detailed in a new report.  LNG markets […]

  • “Intelligence Coup Of The Century”: CIA Ran Global Spy Op Using Well-Known Swiss Encryption Company

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 5:05pm EST

    “Intelligence Coup Of The Century”: CIA Ran Global Spy Op Using Well-Known Swiss Encryption Company In a new bombshell report, The Washington Post reveals a massive covert operation which was ‘hidden in plain sight’ that seems straight out of Confessions of an Economic Hitman — it’s yet more ‘conspiracy theory’ of the past now definitively proven conspiracy fact. For […]

  • China’s Fatal Dilemma

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 4:45pm EST

    China’s Fatal Dilemma Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Ending the limited quarantine and falsely proclaiming China safe for visitors and business travelers will only re-introduce the virus to workplaces and infect foreigners. China faces an inescapably fatal dilemma: to save its economy from collapse, China’s leadership must end the quarantines soon and declare […]

  • WTI Drops Back Below $50 After Bigger Than Expected Crude Build

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 4:41pm EST

    WTI Drops Back Below $50 After Bigger Than Expected Crude Build Oil clung to a gain today, bouncing back from a one-year low even as Russia kept OPEC+ waiting on a decision about whether to cut production in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Additionally, the Energy Information Administration cut its global petroleum demand growth outlook by 23% […]

  • Solid 3Y Auction Prices At Lowest Yield Since Nov 2016

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 1:13pm EST

    Solid 3Y Auction Prices At Lowest Yield Since Nov 2016 With bond yields tumbling in recent weeks as a result of the fears the Chinese coronavirus epidemic will cripple global growth for at least the first quarter, moments ago we got the first coupon auction since the full extent of the Chinese viral pandemic emerged, […]

  • UBS’ Flagship Real-Estate Fund Hit With $7 BIllion In Redemptions

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 1:07pm EST

    UBS’ Flagship Real-Estate Fund Hit With $7 BIllion In Redemptions The pain for active investors who have underperformed the broader market for over a decade, has claimed its first notable casualty for 2020: according to the WSJ, the flagship real-estate fund of Swiss banking giant UBS has been hit with about $7 billion in redemption […]

  • Why Is The Government Turning 11 Military Bases Inside The US Into Quarantine Camps?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 12:45pm EST

    Why Is The Government Turning 11 Military Bases Inside The US Into Quarantine Camps? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, If this coronavirus outbreak is not a serious threat, then why is the U.S. government preparing to quarantine victims all over America? As you will see below, 11 U.S. military bases located close to major […]

  • Space Force Commander Confirms Multi-Billion-Dollar US Spy Satellite Being Trailed By Russian Spacecraft

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 12:25pm EST

    Space Force Commander Confirms Multi-Billion-Dollar US Spy Satellite Being Trailed By Russian Spacecraft “We view this behavior as unusual and disturbing,” Gen. John ‘Jay’ Raymond, commander of the newly minted U.S. Space Force, told TIME about a pair of Russian spacecraft that are tailing a multibillion-dollar U.S. spy satellite hundreds of miles above the Earth’s surface. […]

  • Buchanan: Long Before Trump, We Were A Divided People

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 12:05pm EST

    Buchanan: Long Before Trump, We Were A Divided People Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, In a way, Donald Trump might be called The Great Uniter. Bear with me. No Republican president in the lifetime of this writer, not even Ronald Reagan, united the party as did Trump in the week of his acquittal in […]

  • MAGA-Tech Stocks Stumble After FTC Starts Probe Of Past Acquisitions

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 11:49am EST

    MAGA-Tech Stocks Stumble After FTC Starts Probe Of Past Acquisitions The Federal Trade Commission has just announced that it will issue special orders to Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft in order to probe the purpose of acquisitions they made between January 2010 and December 31, 2019. That has sent all of the so-called MAGA […]

  • ‘Worse Impact Than SARS’ – China Home Sales Crash In First Week Of February

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 11:45am EST

    ‘Worse Impact Than SARS’ – China Home Sales Crash In First Week Of February Bloomberg cited a new report via China Merchants Securities (CMSC) that said new apartment sales crashed 90% in the first week of February over the same period last year. Sales of existing homes in 8 cities plunged 91% over the same period. […]

  • Boeing Slides On No New Airplane Orders In January

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 11:26am EST

    Boeing Slides On No New Airplane Orders In January Boeing shares slid half a percent on the news that the Chicago-based airplane manufacturer sold zero commercial planes in January. January is typically a slow month for the planemaker, however, with the grounding of the 737 Max and production halted, this was the first time the […]

  • Judge Postpones Flynn Sentencing… Again

    ZeroHedge - Feb 11th 2020 11:26am EST

    Judge Postpones Flynn Sentencing… Again Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Justice Department has secured yet another postponement of sentencing for former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Even though the Justice Department recently dropped its demand for jail time, it appears to be continuing its scorched Earth campaign against Flynn. It is demanding that Flynn waive attorney-client […]