“The Bear Market Rally Is Over”: Futures Slide As Dollar Surges, Lifting Bonds
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 8:12am EDT “The Bear Market Rally Is Over”: Futures Slide As Dollar Surges, Lifting Bonds Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 08:12 S&P futures slumped lower after Novartis CEO said a coronavirus vaccine may not be available until 2H 2021 and European stocks declined on Thursday as investors worried that the current economic downturn maybe be here for […]
FBI Seizes Senate Intel Chairman’s Cellphone As Probe Into Suspicious Virus-Linked ‘Insider Trading’ Heats Up
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 7:59am EDT FBI Seizes Senate Intel Chairman’s Cellphone As Probe Into Suspicious Virus-Linked ‘Insider Trading’ Heats Up Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 07:59 Although the public outrage over stock trades made by GOP Senators during the early days of the US coronavirus outbreak appears to have subsided, the DoJ’s investigation into the ‘controversial’ stock trades has continued […]
Disgraced Government Scientist Warns US Faces “Darkest Winter In Modern History” As COVID-19 Expected To Rebound: Live Updates
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 7:36am EDT Disgraced Government Scientist Warns US Faces “Darkest Winter In Modern History” As COVID-19 Expected To Rebound: Live Updates Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 07:36 As health authorities in Wuhan scramble to test as many of the city’s 11 million residents as possible after discovering a handful of new cases, in the US, more states are […]
Hope Trade Fades
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 7:31am EDT Hope Trade Fades Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 07:31 By Eleanor Creagh, Australian Market Strategist at Saxo Bank Summary: Asia stocks sliding, following Wall Street lower as economic realities begin to set in, with market sentiment starting to catch down to fundamentals. The sharp rebound from March lows is beginning to stall as record levels […]
Lansing Braces For Another Militia Fueled State Capitol Protest
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 6:30am EDT Lansing Braces For Another Militia Fueled State Capitol Protest Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 06:30 Militia groups in Michigan plan their return to the state capitol building on Thursday to protest Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders that have been enforced for virus containment purposes. Thursday will be the next round of protests as anti-quarantine demonstrators have already flooded the […]
Is Sweden’s ‘Herd Immunity Strategy’ The Best We Can Do?
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 6:00am EDT Is Sweden’s ‘Herd Immunity Strategy’ The Best We Can Do? Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 06:00 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, A debate over herd immunity is in the news spotlight. Answers vary widely, so let’s look at both sides. “Only Realistic Option” Says Foreign Affairs Herd Immunity Is the Only Realistic Option.. The […]
Ag Nightmare Could Result In “Corn Mountain” As Prices Collapse
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 5:30am EDT Ag Nightmare Could Result In “Corn Mountain” As Prices Collapse Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 05:30 In early January, President Trump told his followers at a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, that the “economy is booming,” and farmers should “go buy larger tractors” ahead of the trade deal that was signed mid-month. Farmers bought those tractors, extra seed, […]
Opposing Lockdown Is Not “Profits Before People”
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 5:00am EDT Opposing Lockdown Is Not “Profits Before People” Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 05:00 Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Ever since the UK entered “lockdown”, those pushing for it to end have been labelled “callous” or “selfish” or accused of putting profits before people. Meanwhile millions are unemployed and a global famine is on the […]
Angela Merkel Says “Hard Evidence” Russia Targeted Her Emails
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 4:15am EDT Angela Merkel Says “Hard Evidence” Russia Targeted Her Emails Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 04:15 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday, she has “hard evidence” that Russia is behind a 2015 hack attack of her emails. “I can honestly say that it pains me. Every day I try to build a better relationship with Russia and […]
A 1962 “Life In 2022” Image Depicted Everyone Trapped In Pods
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 3:30am EDT A 1962 “Life In 2022” Image Depicted Everyone Trapped In Pods Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 03:30 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A depiction of life in 2022 by an Italian magazine first published in 1962 depicted pedestrians using motorized pods instead of walking, something that may turn out to be quite […]
World’s Largest Shipper Warns Of Collapsing Volumes, Dashes Hope For V-Shaped Recovery
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 2:45am EDT World’s Largest Shipper Warns Of Collapsing Volumes, Dashes Hope For V-Shaped Recovery Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 02:45 A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s largest container line, warned Wednesday that global trade will continue to falter with volumes declining by at least a quarter in 2Q20. Maersk dashed all hope that a V-shaped recovery will be seen in the […]
The Face Of Post-COVID Geo-Politics
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 2:00am EDT The Face Of Post-COVID Geo-Politics Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 02:00 Authored by Wayne Madsen via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The post-Covid international geo-political structure may resemble that which followed the most lethal pandemic that affected the world – the highly contagious Black Death of the 14th century. The bubonic plague killed between 75 and 200 […]
Why China’s Move To Test 11 Million Wuhan Residents Could Set Off Firestorm In US
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 1:00am EDT Why China’s Move To Test 11 Million Wuhan Residents Could Set Off Firestorm In US Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 01:00 After six new cases in the past days popped in Wuhan, despite health officials thinking corovavirus was finally eradicated in the place of its origin, authorities say they are planning to undertake the hugely ambitious […]
The Worst Is Yet To Come: Contact-Tracing, Immunity-Cards, & Mass-Testing
ZeroHedge - May 14th 2020 12:05am EDT The Worst Is Yet To Come: Contact-Tracing, Immunity-Cards, & Mass-Testing Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2020 – 00:05 Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The things we were worried would happen are happening.” – Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets […]
New York Times Is Getting A Jump Start On Spreading COVID-19 “Anti-Vaxx” Hysteria
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 11:45pm EDT New York Times Is Getting A Jump Start On Spreading COVID-19 “Anti-Vaxx” Hysteria Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 23:45 The coronavirus vaccine is still – according to the most optimistic projections provided by Dr. Anthony Fauci – at least 18 months away (Dr. Fauci reaffirmed during yesterday’s Senate testimony the expected timeline for a vaccine […]
The “See-No-Evil” Phase of Russiagate
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 11:25pm EDT The “See-No-Evil” Phase of Russiagate Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 23:25 Authored by Patrick Lawrence via ConsortiumNews.com, The media spinfest following the collapse of this conspiracy theory suggests our troubled republic simply cannot accept its errors, leaving us unable to learn from them. The long, destructive conspiracy theory known as Russiagate, the mother of them all, […]
Visualizing Where COVID-19 Is Rising And Falling Around The World
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 11:05pm EDT Visualizing Where COVID-19 Is Rising And Falling Around The World Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 23:05 It’s been just over two months since New York declared a state of emergency, and global stock markets were hammered as the fears of a full-blown crisis began to take hold. Since then, we’ve seen detailed, daily coronavirus coverage […]
“We Were In A Headless-Chicken Phase”: NYTimes Reporter Rebuked For Anti-Trump Tirade On CNN
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 10:45pm EDT “We Were In A Headless-Chicken Phase”: NYTimes Reporter Rebuked For Anti-Trump Tirade On CNN Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 22:45 Authored by Jonathan Turley, The New York Times’s Science and Health reporter, Donald McNeil Jr. is under fire for a tirade against President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and others in an interview on […]
Exiled Businessman Exposes Sweeping Chinese ‘Disinformation Campaign’ On Social Media
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 10:25pm EDT Exiled Businessman Exposes Sweeping Chinese ‘Disinformation Campaign’ On Social Media Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 22:25 Were you surprised by the sheer volume of vitriolic tweets about President Trump’s decision to use the phrase “Chinese virus”? Well, one London-based Chinese businessman/dissident says he has evidence that might explain this phenomenon, and shed some light on […]
The COVID-19 Sword Of Damocles
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 10:05pm EDT The COVID-19 Sword Of Damocles Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 22:05 Authored by Robert Weissberg via The Unz Review, A continuum exists in how to address the Covid-19 virus. On one end are those wanting to quickly phase out the lockdown (“a cure worse than the disease”) despite the mounting deaths. Opposed are Americans so […]
California Inmates Infecting Themselves With COVID-19 In Scheme To Get Released
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 9:45pm EDTCalifornia Inmates Infecting Themselves With COVID-19 In Scheme To Get Released Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 21:45 Inmates in Los Angeles County, California are infecting themselves with the Wuhan coronavirus in the hope that they will be released from prison, Sheriff Alex Villanueva revealed during a Monday press conference. Surveillance footage from the Pitchess Detention […]
“Don’t Believe The Happy Talk” – Jim Rickards Warns “This Time ‘Is’ Different”
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 9:25pm EDT “Don’t Believe The Happy Talk” – Jim Rickards Warns “This Time ‘Is’ Different” Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 21:25 Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, Stocks stumbled the last two days, at least partially on fears about a resurgence in coronavirus cases. South Korea, which did an excellent job containing the virus, has […]
China Still Bitter, Wants Houston Rockets GM “Properly Handled” Over Hong Kong Support
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 9:05pm EDT China Still Bitter, Wants Houston Rockets GM “Properly Handled” Over Hong Kong Support Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 21:05 Six months ago, China brought the NBA to heel over a tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey which showed his support for democracy in Hong Kong. Following the tweet, Beijing severed ties with 11 […]
The “Big Short 2” Hits An All Time Low As Commercial Real Estate Implodes
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 8:45pm EDT The “Big Short 2” Hits An All Time Low As Commercial Real Estate Implodes Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 20:45 Back in March 2017, a bearish trade emerged which quickly gained popularity on Wall Street, and promptly received the moniker “The Next Big Short.” As we reported at the time, similar to the run-up to […]
Amazon Restoring Normal Delivery Times For Products, Will Cut Overtime Pay For Workers
ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 8:25pm EDT Amazon Restoring Normal Delivery Times For Products, Will Cut Overtime Pay For Workers Tyler Durden Wed, 05/13/2020 – 20:25 Update: Amazon appears to be normalizing operations following an unprecedented demand surge during lockdowns. We noted earlier, normal delivery times for many of its products will be gradually seen over the next couple of weeks. Now it appears the […]
