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European Regulators Tell Banks To Put Russian Accounts Under Surveillance, Even EU Residents In the latest alarming story that has that disturbing whiff of WWII-era Japanese…

Futures Surge On Beijing Market Rescue, Ukraine Ceasefire Hopes As Fed Rate Hike Looms Normally, the first rate hike in more than four years meant…

The Fed’s Feckless Inflation Fight Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, The Fed is supposedly about to step into the ring to fight inflation. But…

Starbucks Shares Pop 8% On News Howard Schultz To Return As Interim CEO Shares of Starbucks are shooting higher by more than 8% in pre-market…

US Mulls Sending New “Switchblade” Kamikaze Robot Drone To Ukraine An advanced US-made killer drone that acts as a guided ‘smart’ missile capable of locking…

Retail Sales Miss, Q1 GDP May Contract After Unexpected Slide In Control Group After January’s shockingly strong beat in adjusted retail sales, which however was…

Pozsar’s “Margin Call Doom Loop” Prediction Comes True As Trafigura Faces Billions In Margin Calls While there have been occasional stories of hedge fund blow…

Who Is Going to Buy All The European Bonds? By Michael Read, Bloomberg Markets Live commentator and analyst Despite the fact that German 10y yields…

European Gas Injections Begin As Warmer Temperatures Trend    Temperatures in Europe are turning higher as peak winter is over and spring nears. Heating demand…

Beijing Capitulates: Chinese Stocks Soar, Hong Kong Markets Jump By Most Ever After China Vows To Prop Up Markets Yesterday, we had a feeling that…

Russia Sparks Ceasefire Hope After Kremlin Says Neutral Ukraine With Army Could Be “Compromise” “The talks are hard and slow-going. Of course, we would like…

LME Re-Opens Nickel Trading; Quickly Halts Again On Limit-Down Band “System Error” Update (0650ET): “What a debacle,” said Ole Hansen, head of commodities strategy at…