• Rush Limbaugh Diagnosed With Advanced Lung Cancer

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 2:56pm EST

    Rush Limbaugh Diagnosed With Advanced Lung Cancer Conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh announced on his Monday show that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Rush Limbaugh just announced on his radio program he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Says there will be days he won’t be able to be there due […]

  • Crisis-O-Rama

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 2:45pm EST

    Crisis-O-Rama Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, All of a sudden, events are looking a bit fluxy out there, as though the world is shuddering through some spooky ch-ch-ch-changes, like a monster waiting to be born, with strange convergences of ecology, politics and economy, and there’s only so much you can do to prepare, really. […]

  • 2 Dead, 1 Wounded In Shooting At Texas A&M Dorm

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 2:29pm EST

    2 Dead, 1 Wounded In Shooting At Texas A&M Dorm Two people were killed and another wounded in a shooting at a Texas A&M University dorm hall on Monday at its campus in Commerce, Texas, according to campus police and media reports. A twitter account believed to be associated with the university confirmed the two […]

  • Why 3,254 Is The Only Number That Matters For Traders Today

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 2:25pm EST

    Why 3,254 Is The Only Number That Matters For Traders Today When commenting on the crash in Chinese stocks late on Sunday night, we pointed out that US equity futures had managed to buck the liquidation trend seen across Asia, rebounding from Friday’s rout lows, rising into the mid-3200s, a level which was critical because […]

  • Brace For Impact: Global Pandemic Already Baked In

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 2:00pm EST

    Brace For Impact: Global Pandemic Already Baked In Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If we accept what is known about the virus, then logic, science and probabilities all suggest we brace for impact. Here’s a summary of what is known or credibly estimated about the 2019-nCoV virus as of January 31, 2019: […]

  • John Solomon’s Laptop Stolen Near White House Using ‘Sophisticated Device’; Contained Sensitive Data On Ukraine, Bidens

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 1:40pm EST

    John Solomon’s Laptop Stolen Near White House Using ‘Sophisticated Device’; Contained Sensitive Data On Ukraine, Bidens A thief absconded with John Solomon’s laptop on the eve of the Senate impeachment trial, snatching the evidence-filled device out of the investigative journalist’s car which was parked near the White House, according to RealClearInvestigations, citing a report by […]

  • Platts: 6 Commodity Charts To Watch This Week

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 1:25pm EST

    Platts: 6 Commodity Charts To Watch This Week Via S&P Global Platts Inisght blog, The spread of coronavirus outside China and the WHO’s escalation of the outbreak to emergency status last week continue to stoke fears over weaker energy demand and disruption to key mineral resource supply chains.  In this special edition of Commodity Tracker, […]

  • Gerhardt: The Entire White House Defense Team Will Face Bar Charges

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 12:45pm EST

    Gerhardt: The Entire White House Defense Team Will Face Bar Charges Authored by Jonathan Turley, There have been suggestions that the White House defense team could be brought up on bar charges for their arguments in the Senate. I have previously written that such statements by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others are vindictive and ill-informed. […]

  • Oil Bear Market Sends Tanker Rates Plunging, Hopes For Global Rebound Fade

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 12:30pm EST

    Oil Bear Market Sends Tanker Rates Plunging, Hopes For Global Rebound Fade The coronavirus outbreak has sent Chinese oil demand, energy prices, and tanker freight rates plunging in the last three weeks. With more than a dozen cities locked down, 50 million people or more quarantined, and large manufacturing hubs shuttered, oil demand in China […]

  • “Historical Number Being Updated”: ISM Revises Supplier Deliveries Data, Say Jan Numbers “Valid”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 12:14pm EST

    “Historical Number Being Updated”: ISM Revises Supplier Deliveries Data, Say Jan Numbers “Valid” Update: Well, unlike 2014 when the ISM revised its latest report not once but twice, it appears that today’s revision will only focus on historical numbers, because as Bloomberg reports January numbers remain valid, and only the Historical data on supplier deliveries […]

  • South London Terrorist Released Early Despite Pledging Allegiance To ISIS

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 12:10pm EST

    South London Terrorist Released Early Despite Pledging Allegiance To ISIS Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, 20-year-old Islamic terrorist Sudesh Amman, who was shot dead after trying to stab people in Streatham, south London yesterday, was released halfway through his prison sentence despite pledging allegiance to ISIS, encouraging his girlfriend to behead her […]

  • The Ship Has Literally Sailed: Carnival Admits To Coronavirus Case 6 Days After Cruise

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 11:55am EST

    The Ship Has Literally Sailed: Carnival Admits To Coronavirus Case 6 Days After Cruise Minutes before the CDC sent markets reeling by confirming a couple of additional coronavirus cases in the US, Japan authorities confirmed that they’re quarantining a cruise ship after a Hong Kong man who sailed on it last month tested positive for […]

  • Stocks, Oil, Bond Yields Tumble As CDC “Prepares For Pandemic”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 11:47am EST

    Stocks, Oil, Bond Yields Tumble As CDC “Prepares For Pandemic” After an overnight ramp for absolutely no good reason, US equity markets are fading fast after the CDC said it “was preparing as if Coronavirus was the next pandemic.” The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the US is starting to increase at a rather […]

  • Watch Biden Snap At ‘Today’ Show Anchor Over Hunter & Burisma Questions

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 11:45am EST

    Watch Biden Snap At ‘Today’ Show Anchor Over Hunter & Burisma Questions A year ago the mainstream media treated the Biden-Ukraine scandal as a crank conspiracy theory that belonged only to remote corners of the internet. But now, headed into the Iowa caucuses, the mainstream is finally and much-belatedly peppering Joe Biden with the relevant […]

  • TSLA Goes Full AOL – Explodes 25% In 3 Days

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 11:31am EST

    TSLA Goes Full AOL – Explodes 25% In 3 Days TSLA shares are exploding higher once again today as it appears another hedge fund pukes its shorts into this exponential run. As short interest is eviscerated… The catalysts for this latest move – according to the narrative machine – are numerous… Earlier today, Panasonic, which makes […]

  • Boeing 767 Makes Emergency Landing After Part Of Landing Gear Falls Off; Stock Slides

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 11:19am EST

    Boeing 767 Makes Emergency Landing After Part Of Landing Gear Falls Off; Stock Slides Facing dire, if not terminal, issues with its 737 MAX which may or may not fly again (ideally with passengers not at gunpoint), while cutting production on the 787 Dreamliner due to slumping demand, at least Boeing’s legacy long haul workhorse, […]

  • Coronavirus: How Bad Will It Get?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 11:16am EST

    Coronavirus: How Bad Will It Get? Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com, The official data on the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus continues to suggest a geometric growth rate. Which explains why more and more infectious disease experts are now openly calling the virus a full-blown global pandemic. So how bad might things get? It’s […]

  • Senate To Call ‘Whistleblower’ As Part Of Three-Pronged Investigation Into Impeachment Origins

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 10:55am EST

    Senate To Call ‘Whistleblower’ As Part Of Three-Pronged Investigation Into Impeachment Origins Senate Republicans are gearing up for a three-pronged investigation into the origins of Congressional Democrats’ impeachment of President Trump, according to the Washington Examiner. “I want to understand how all this crap started,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures, […]

  • Trader Warns “Cutting Global Rates Doesn’t Cure Sick People”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 10:40am EST

    Trader Warns “Cutting Global Rates Doesn’t Cure Sick People” Authored by Richard Breslow via Bloomberg, On days like today, it’s easy to fall into one of two camps. You can either look at every move that risk makes and declare it horribly important. Portending something lasting, momentous and dispositive. And demanding to know why someone […]

  • China Seeking “Flexibility” On Phase 1 Trade Pledges As Its Economy Grinds To A Halt

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 10:31am EST

    China Seeking “Flexibility” On Phase 1 Trade Pledges As Its Economy Grinds To A Halt Last night, when we reported the plunge in the yuan below 7.00 vs the dollar – traditionally a level that has been seen as triggering the US Treasury into screaming fx manipulation – we noted that it is only a […]

  • Democrats Gather For Iowa Caucus, Here’s What To Expect

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 10:16am EST

    Democrats Gather For Iowa Caucus, Here’s What To Expect The Iowa caucuses begin tonight at 8 p.m. ET, marking the first nominating contest of the 2020 election cycle. Democrats across the states will head to their local precinct caucus locations to vote for their desired candidate to take on Donald Trump in the November election. […]

  • “Weakness Looks Broad-Based” – US Manufacturing Survey Hits 6-Month Highs (Or 3-Month Lows)

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 10:04am EST

    “Weakness Looks Broad-Based” – US Manufacturing Survey Hits 6-Month Highs (Or 3-Month Lows) Just like with China’s “surprising” PMI beat, it is hard to know if the respondents for this morning’s US manufacturing surveys were interviewed before or since the coronavirus pandemic has collapsed global supply chains. Markit’s Manufacturing PMI beat expectations, printing 51.9 vs […]

  • Coronavirus Makes The Market… Impossible To Predict!

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 9:50am EST

    Coronavirus Makes The Market… Impossible To Predict! Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, It is impossible to predict what lays ahead! The coronavirus outbreak could be a nothing burger or become a watershed event. A mountain of debt has formed over the years and whether countries and central banks can hurl enough resources […]

  • Key Events This Week: Never A Dull Moment

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 9:35am EST

    Key Events This Week: Never A Dull Moment While the world will be focusing on every development out of China which is struggling to contain the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic which has now infected nearly 17,500 people across the globe, in terms of newsflow DB’s Jim Reid writes that this week the highlight could […]

  • Wuhan Begins Human Trials Of New Gilead Coronavirus Vaccine

    ZeroHedge - Feb 3rd 2020 9:21am EST

    Wuhan Begins Human Trials Of New Gilead Coronavirus Vaccine Last week, scientists in Hong Kong warned that it might take up to a year for them to produce and test a vaccine to fight the deadly coronavirus that has now killed more people than SARS in mainland China. But on Monday, shares of drug company […]