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  • Q4 Earnings Shocker: Excluding The FAAMGs, Net Income Is Down 7.5%

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 12:50pm EST

    Q4 Earnings Shocker: Excluding The FAAMGs, Net Income Is Down 7.5% Yesterday we showed readers a remarkable statistic from the latest Weekly Kickstart report by Goldman’s David Kostin: according to the chief Goldman US equity strategist, whereas modest S&P500 earnings growth in Q4 was set to finally end a 4 quarters-streak of negative EPS growth, […]

  • “More Than A Disgrace” – The WHO’s “Industrially-Necessary” Doctor Tedros Should Go!

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 12:25pm EST

    “More Than A Disgrace” – The WHO’s “Industrially-Necessary” Doctor Tedros Should Go! Authored by Ben Hunt via EpsilonTheory.com, The World Health Organisation will lead a mission to China this weekend to start investigating the COVID-19 outbreak. Sky News, FEBRUARY 15, 2020 “start investigating” … AYFKM? There’s this pleasing mythology out there that the World Health […]

  • Bloomberg Frames Farmers As Primitive Idiots In Demeaning Diatribe

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 12:00pm EST

    Bloomberg Frames Farmers As Primitive Idiots In Demeaning Diatribe Michael Bloomberg isn’t making any friends in the agriculture industry, after video of the former NYC Mayor surfaced of him describing farmers as having simple jobs that don’t require much intelligence, according to the Washington Times. “I could teach anybody, even the people in this room” […]

  • Rabobank: China’s Stimulus Will Struggle In The Face Of What Is Needed To Contain The Spread Of The Virus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 11:35am EST

    Rabobank: China’s Stimulus Will Struggle In The Face Of What Is Needed To Contain The Spread Of The Virus Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank There is a grim familiarity this morning in the news that the number of Chinese coronavirus cases has continued to rise. The number of cases in the country is now […]

  • Watch: Topless Protesters Give Bernie Sanders Eye-Full At Nevada Campaign Rally

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 11:10am EST

    Watch: Topless Protesters Give Bernie Sanders Eye-Full At Nevada Campaign Rally Topless animal activists stormed the stage at a Bernie Sanders rally in Carson City, Nevada on Sunday, shortly after NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced the Democratic Socialist, according to the New York Post. De Blasio had just introduced Sanders to the crowd in […]

  • After A Decade, Investors Are Finally Back To Even

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 10:45am EST

    After A Decade, Investors Are Finally Back To Even Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I recently discussed putting market corrections into perspective, in which we looked at the financial impact of a 10-60% correction. But what happens afterward? During strongly advancing, and very long bull markets, investors become overly complacent about the potential risks of investing. […]

  • The Death Of Free Speech: Zuckerberg Asks Governments For Instructions On “What Discourse Should Be Allowed”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 9:54am EST

    The Death Of Free Speech: Zuckerberg Asks Governments For Instructions On “What Discourse Should Be Allowed” Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have written for years on the effort of European countries to expand their crackdown on free speech globally through restrictions on social media and Internet speech. It appears that Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has relented […]

  • State-Backed Economist Says China Must Delay Trade-Deal Commitments

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 9:30am EST

    State-Backed Economist Says China Must Delay Trade-Deal Commitments Remember when Larry Kudlow said that President Xi had pledged to “meet [China’s] obligations” under the ‘Phase 1’ trade pact, outbreak be damned, and that negotiations for ‘Phase 2’ were “completely separate” from the outbreak? Unsurprisingly, the SCMP confirmed on Monday that this probably isn’t going to […]

  • Senator Cotton: China Refusing To Hand Over Evidence About Wuhan BioLab

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 9:05am EST

    Senator Cotton: China Refusing To Hand Over Evidence About Wuhan BioLab Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Senator Tom Cotton says that China is refusing to hand over evidence concerning the bio-safety level 4 research lab in Wuhan despite a new report from biological scientists at the South China University of Technology saying […]

  • China Stocks Surge, S&P Futs Hit All Time High On Latest Chinese Monetary Stimulus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 8:45am EST

    China Stocks Surge, S&P Futs Hit All Time High On Latest Chinese Monetary Stimulus European stocks rose on Monday, Chinese shares surged, recovering all their post-coronavirus losses and S&P and Nasdaq futures jumped to new all time highs as investors took encouragement from the Asian country’s monetary (if not fiscal) pledges to support the world’s second-biggest economy […]

  • The Fed Has Created A Monster Bubble It Can No Longer Control

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 8:15am EST

    The Fed Has Created A Monster Bubble It Can No Longer Control Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The Fed must now accept responsibility for what happens in the end-game of the Moral-Hazard Monster Bubble it created. Contrary to popular opinion, the Federal Reserve didn’t set out to create a Monster Bubble that […]

  • White House Plans To Cut Off Sales Of American Chip Technology To China

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 7:57am EST

    White House Plans To Cut Off Sales Of American Chip Technology To China Just hours after Beijing lifted more trade-war restrictions on importing US farm products due to the outbreak… Reuters: CHINA APPROVES IMPORTS OF ALL POULTRY, POULTRY PRODUCTS FROM U.S. – AGRICULTURE MINISTRY — Vincent Lee (@Rover829) February 17, 2020 ReuterS: BEIJING, Feb 17 […]

  • 14 ‘Diamond Princess’ Passengers Test Positive During Flight Back To US; Tokyo Marathon Cancelled

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 7:34am EST

    14 ‘Diamond Princess’ Passengers Test Positive During Flight Back To US; Tokyo Marathon Cancelled It’s like the ‘Alien’ franchise: The evacuation ship always carries the monster. Unfortunately, in this instance, the monster is an invisible, inaudible yet highly infectious virus. And instead of the Nostromo, we have two chartered Boeing 747s. According to the New […]

  • Armed Thieves Steal Truckload Of Toilet Paper In Hong Kong Amid Worsening Shortage Of Basic Goods

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 6:15am EST

    Armed Thieves Steal Truckload Of Toilet Paper In Hong Kong Amid Worsening Shortage Of Basic Goods Looks like the sh*t is really about to hit the fan in Hong Kong…and we mean that literally. In a shocking indication of just how bad shortages of basic goods have gotten as mainland China expands its lockdown to […]

  • 24 Killed In Brutal Terror Attack On Burkina Faso Church; Local Pastor Targeted

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 5:57am EST

    24 Killed In Brutal Terror Attack On Burkina Faso Church; Local Pastor Targeted Gunmen killed at least 24 people and wounded 18 more during an attack on a protestant church in the village of Pansi, in the north of Burkina Faso, announced the governor of the Sahel region, Colonel Salfo Kaboré. A group of “armed […]

  • Escobar: It’s Time To Reclaim Syria’s Road To Recovery

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 5:00am EST

    Escobar: It’s Time To Reclaim Syria’s Road To Recovery Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Erdogan de facto supports al-Qaeda remnants while facing either humiliating retreat from or total war against Syria Recep Tayyip Erdogan, neo-Ottoman extraordinaire, is not exactly inclined to commit seppuku, the Japanese act of ritual suicide. But if not through […]

  • US Says Latest Sanctions Have Finally Thwarted Russia-Germany NS2 Gas Pipeline

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 4:15am EST

    US Says Latest Sanctions Have Finally Thwarted Russia-Germany NS2 Gas Pipeline The Trump administrated is claiming to have successfully thwarted the multi-billion dollar Russia-Germany gas pipeline known as Nord Stream 2, after US sanctions in December took direct aim at the European and international companies and their executives assembling the controversial 760-mile long project that would allow Russia […]

  • Chinese Banks Are Quarantining Cash, Destroying ‘Dirty’ Money

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 3:30am EST

    Chinese Banks Are Quarantining Cash, Destroying ‘Dirty’ Money Authored by Mitchell Blatt via NationalInterest.org, China’s widespread quarantine policy thanks to the coronavirus had been expanded from the city of Wuhan to a dozen other cities in Hubei province, to community quarantines for people returning from holiday, and now even inanimate objects must be quarantined. Paper currency, that […]

  • UN Says Libya Arms Embargo “A Joke” As Oil Export Blockade Reaches One Month

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 2:45am EST

    UN Says Libya Arms Embargo “A Joke” As Oil Export Blockade Reaches One Month The fighting in Libya as well as the external arms supplies fueling both sides of the conflict has become so bad that the United Nations has called an arms embargo recently in place “a joke”.  “The arms embargo has become a joke, we all […]

  • The Terrorists Migrating Into Europe

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 2:00am EST

    The Terrorists Migrating Into Europe Authored by Judith Bergman via The Gatestone Institute, A new report, “What Terrorist Migration Over European Borders Can Teach About American Border Security”, by Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, describes the extent to which terrorists disguised as migrants have entered the European […]

  • The Geopolitics Of Biological Weapons, Part 3: Population Control & The Doomsday Vault

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 12:00am EST

    The Geopolitics Of Biological Weapons, Part 3: Population Control & The Doomsday Vault Authored by Larry Romanoff via GlobalResearch.ca, Read Part 1 here… Read Part 2 here… GM seeds and GM food carry great risks for all nations, so much so that for many reasons it is probably imperative these foods be banned outright. This […]

  • “This Is Just Chauvinism”: Oklahoma Woman Upset After Being Thrown Out Of All-Male Barbershop

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 11:30pm EST

    “This Is Just Chauvinism”: Oklahoma Woman Upset After Being Thrown Out Of All-Male Barbershop Today in “private business owners are allowed to do whatever they want at their own business and tough sh*t if you don’t like it” news… An Oklahoma woman took her story to the media when she was asked to leave an […]

  • Mapping Out The Banking Elite’s Goal For A Cashless Monetary System, Part 1

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 11:00pm EST

    Mapping Out The Banking Elite’s Goal For A Cashless Monetary System, Part 1 Authored by Steven Guinness, Back in 2014 the Bank of England became the first central bank to publish research on digital currencies through their quarterly bulletin (Innovations in payment technologies and the emergence of digital currencies). A leading focus was on the […]

  • Buzzkill: Many Public Marijuana Companies Have Just Several Months Worth Of Cash Left

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 10:30pm EST

    Buzzkill: Many Public Marijuana Companies Have Just Several Months Worth Of Cash Left While the idea of marijuana companies has certainly been a hot topic in the public market space – especially since Tilray’s epic short squeeze in late 2018 – companies in the sector have been silently burning through their war chests of cash, leaving […]

  • Are Web Traffic Trends The Best Way To See What’s Happening In The World?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 10:00pm EST

    Are Web Traffic Trends The Best Way To See What’s Happening In The World? Submitted by Market Crumbs For most people, it’s hard to imagine a day going by without using the internet. Without it, you wouldn’t be reading this. It’s estimated that nearly 4.8 billion people, or about 61% of the world’s population, currently […]