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Bioweapon? Scientists Sound Alarm Over DARPA Plans To Spread Viruses Using Insects
Bioweapon? Scientists Sound Alarm Over DARPA Plans To Spread Viruses Using Insects A team of scientist sounds the alarm in a new Science Policy Forum report about a mysterious US government program that is developing genetically modified viruses that would be dispersed into the environment using insects. The virus-infected or ‘Frankenstein’ insects are being developed as […]
We Have Entered The Zone When Yields Trigger Market Selloffs
We Have Entered The Zone When Yields Trigger Market Selloffs With payrolls now in the rearview mirror and nothing too outlandish revealed in the generally goldilocks data, traders have resumed contemplating the one question that is on everyone’s mind: how much higher (and at what pace) will rates rise before stocks are slammed? To be […]
How Will The Surge In Oil Prices Impact US GDP: One Bank Answers
How Will The Surge In Oil Prices Impact US GDP: One Bank Answers Back in late 2014, when oil prices tumbled after the OPEC “thanksgiving massacre“, the conventional narrative was that dropping oil prices were a boon for the economy as they resulted in lower gas prices and thus greater discretionary income. The stark reality […]
Greece Planning Bad Debt Bailout For Its Banks After Market Crash
Greece Planning Bad Debt Bailout For Its Banks After Market Crash It seems like it was just yesterday that Greek banks, which carry some €89BN of bad loans on their balance sheets, passed the ECB’s latest confidence building exercise, known as the “stress test.” In retrospect that may have been premature, because as Bloomberg reports, […]
Step Aside Russia: Pence Accuses China Of “Meddling In American Democracy”
Step Aside Russia: Pence Accuses China Of “Meddling In American Democracy” Update: Highlights from Pence’s speech (via Bloomberg): *PENCE SAYS TRUMP HAS MADE RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA `A PRIORITY’ *PENCE: CHINA USING WHOLE-OF-GOVT APPROACH TO INFLUENCE U.S. *PENCE: HOPE THAT FREEDOM IN CHINA WOULD EXPAND WENT UNFULFILLED *PENCE: CHINA USING STOLEN TECH TO TURN PLOWSHARES INTO […]
Chinese Imports Of US Crude Have “Totally Stopped” As Tariff Threats Persist
Chinese Imports Of US Crude Have “Totally Stopped” As Tariff Threats Persist It has been roughly two months since China threatened to impose a 25% tariff on US energy imports (it eventually went back on those threats), and less than two weeks since the latest round of tariffs has been implemented. But even as China […]
“Monster Move” In Treasuries Unleashes Global Market Rout
“Monster Move” In Treasuries Unleashes Global Market Rout A sea of red has greeted stock traders across the world this morning after what one analyst called “monster moves” in U.S. Treasury yields. The bond rout that sent 10Y Treasury yields to the highest since May 2011 promoted by stronger than expected US economic data, and which […]
Fed Chair Powell Hints He May Soon Crash The Market
Fed Chair Powell Hints He May Soon Crash The Market Speaking at an event at the Atlantic Festival in Washington, Jerome Powell’s second public appearance of the week, the Fed chair took the opportunity to underscore just why he remains so complacent about the US economy, saying “it’s a remarkably positive set of economic circumstances,” […]
WTI Tumbles On Biggest Crude Build In 19 Months
WTI Tumbles On Biggest Crude Build In 19 Months Modest overnight gains following API’s data have been erased as DOE reports a massive surprise (biggest since March 2017) crude build… “We’re right in the middle of refinery maintenance season and you’ll probably see a lot of demand coming offline,” says Michael Loewen, a commodities strategist at […]
Putin: Trump Is To Blame For Higher Oil Prices
Putin: Trump Is To Blame For Higher Oil Prices Just hours after President Trump implicitly threatened Saudi Arabia with a withdrawal of military protection (a threat that was possibly inspired by OPEC+ ignoring Trump’s demands to raise production at its Algiers meeting last month) Russian President Vladimir Putin said out loud what many oil traders […]
“Shocking” Turkish Inflation Hits 15 Year High, Unleashing Stagflationary Shockwave; Lira Plunges
“Shocking” Turkish Inflation Hits 15 Year High, Unleashing Stagflationary Shockwave; Lira Plunges A few days ago we discussed how soaring oil prices have been a stagflationary double whammy to emerging markets, which have been hit not only by a surging dollar, resulting in a collapse in local currencies and spiking import costs, but a spike […]
Oil Slides After Russia, Saudi Arabia Agree To Boost Output: Report
Oil Slides After Russia, Saudi Arabia Agree To Boost Output: Report Rumors that Saudi Arabia might raise oil production spread across financial media last week, prompting representatives of the Kingdom to eventually step in and confirm that the Kingdom planned to ramp up production to try and compensate for the expected hole in global supply […]
Iran “Finalizing” Mechanism To Bypass SWIFT In Trade With Europe
Iran “Finalizing” Mechanism To Bypass SWIFT In Trade With Europe Just days after Europe unveiled a “special purpose vehicle” meant to circumvent SWIFT and US monopoly on global dollar-denominated monetary transfers – and potentially jeopardizing the reserve status of the dollar – Iran said it was finalizing mechanisms for the oil trade to bypass US […]
“It Will End In Tears”: World Stocks, Euro Slide As Italian Contagion Spreads
“It Will End In Tears”: World Stocks, Euro Slide As Italian Contagion Spreads World stocks slumped, European assets sold off and the Euro dropped to a three week low on Tuesday after anti-euro comments from an Italian party official sent renewed shockwaves across Europe and the globe, and pushed Italy’s bond yields up to multi-year […]
