Oil crash signals global deflation wave, biggest drop since Ukraine war, markets ignore war, brace for deleveraging. Summer liquidity vanishes before earnings storm

Markets hit weekly high right after Israel strike but low summer liquidity could trigger another brutal crash… Oil is pointing to a new global deflation. That I predict will be outside of central bank control aka. a mass deleveraging event. pic.twitter.com/Srkj9RtjbJ — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) June 24, 2025 Today was the biggest down day for oil …

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Jobs beat on paper miss in reality, revisions slash 95K from March and April totals. The recession is close, but not there yet. “Don’t expect the market to go anywhere this summer,” JPMorgan has said

Once again markets are celebrating a "strong" May jobs report, with 139K jobs beating estimates by 10K, while ignoring the 95K downward revisions to the prior two months. But beneath the surface, the May jobs report, which showed even slower job growth than the prior month, was… — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) June 6, 2025 The …

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U.S. worldwide shipping container exports by ocean carrier fell 78.4% in April compared to March

by Fidler_2K https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/trump-tariffs-hit-us-exports-import-covid-level-event.html The Port of Portland, Oregon, tops the list with a 51% decrease in exports, while the Port of Tacoma, Washington, a large agricultural export port, has seen a 28% decrease. Tacoma’s top destinations for corn, soybeans and other ag exports include Japan, China and South Korea. The trade data shows declines of …

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More mass layoffs, this time at UPS. March JOLTS job openings down to 7.192M vs. 7.5M est. & 7.48M prior

More mass layoffs, this time at $UPS https://t.co/qLD0SlWzdE — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) April 29, 2025 UPS to cut 20,000 jobs, close dozens of buildings due to lower Amazon volumes UPS’s stock jumps after earnings beat expectations, but full-year outlook wasn’t updated given economic uncertainties https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ups-beats-earnings-expectations-but-outlook-wasnt-updated-given-uncertainties-91bc5f1f?mod=home_ln March JOLTS job openings down to 7.192M vs. 7.5M …

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Credit card delinquencies highest since 2011. 275,000 jobs cut in March as layoffs surge. Trucking volumes have collapsed to near pre-COVID levels.

The pressure is not just building. It is bursting through the seams. More than 5,300,000 student borrowers are now in default. Another 4,000,000 are about to be hunted down when federal collections resume on May 5. These are not small figures. They represent lives unraveling under debt that was never meant to be repaid in …

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Gold Continued Streaming Into ETFs in March

by Mike Maharrey Significant amounts of gold flowed into gold ETFs for the fourth straight month in March, driving assets under management (AUM) to a new month-end record. Funds in every region reported inflows of gold, with North American ETFs leading the way. Globally, gold-backed funds added 92 tonnes of gold to their reserves last …

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March CPI cools to +2.4% — core misses. Tariffs loom. It doesn’t really matter. 10-year drops, then bounces back immediately.

🇺🇸 INFLATION FOR MARCH JUST CAME IN BELOW EXPECTATIONS US CPI for February just came in at +2.4% YoY below expectations of +2.5% YoY pic.twitter.com/poThrsLSWZ — Evan (@StockMKTNewz) April 10, 2025 BREAKING: Inflation in the US is now down 60 basis points in 3 months. pic.twitter.com/xeWfmv5oh3 — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 10, 2025

Global commerce grinds to a halt just like March 2020

Importers for certain will be frozen in a difficult place, usually 20-40% margins. Move too soon, you will have at negative gross 90-120 days out and you can’t even lay people off if business is back to usual. Move too late and you drown in expenses. — Lawrence Chung (@lchung98) April 7, 2025 104% China …

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Jobs Crush Expectations: 228,000 Added In March as Trump Economy Defies Critics

“The private sector’s hiring was much stronger than expected. Economists had forecast 115,000 jobs. Businesses added 209,000 jobs. The workforce participation rate climbed from 62.4 percent to 62.5 percent. The average workweek lengthened, a sign of increased demand for labor. Average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent compared with February and 3.8 percent compared with a …

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CABLE NEWS Ratings for MARCH just in!

Among Total Viewers The Five – Fox News ( 4,300,000) Jesse Watters Primetime – Fox News -( 4,021,000) Special Report with Bret Baier – Fox News – (3,452,000) Gutfeld! – Fox News – (3,344,000) Hannity – Fox News – (3,338,000) The Ingraham Angle – Fox News – (3,334,000) The Will Cain Show – Fox News …

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216,000 federal jobs eliminated in March.

Furloughs in the federal government totaled 216,215 for March, part of a total 275,240 reductions overall in the labor force, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The monthly total was surpassed only by April and May of 2020 in the early days of the pandemic when employers announced combined reductions of more than 1 million. …

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The Trade Policy Uncertainty Index is out for March

Credit to this site for the graph: https://www.policyuncertainty.com/index.html 2/ The US stock market has staged a sharp rally off recent lows This comes immediately after some of the most oversold conditions seen since 2020 Given that level of selling pressure, a relief rally was almost inevitable pic.twitter.com/SecPiDFPuY — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) March 31, 2025 4/ …

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Consumer inflation expectations soar in March, highest in 32 years. Atlanta Fed slashes Q1 GDP forecast to -2.8%

Summary: The University of Michigan’s final report shows five-year inflation expectations jumped to 4.1% in March, the highest since February 1993. Consumer sentiment plunged 12% from February, reaching its weakest level since November 2022. Two-thirds of respondents expect unemployment to increase over the next year. Major U.S. equity indices dropped sharply following the release, with …

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Alexa will send everything you say to Amazon, even without Alexa+ enrollment. Starting March 28.

Alexa+ is billed as a major upgrade that includes individual voice recognition through Alexa Voice ID, nuanced calendar scheduling, Ring home security system integrations, and product purchasing capabilities. It’s Amazon’s latest effort to generate a profit from Alexa, which lost $25 billion in revenue between 2007-2021 according to The Wall Street Journal last year. While …

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The Wells Fargo Housing Market Index Declines Again in March, Dismal Traffic

by Mike Shedlock Homebuilder confidence is lowest level in seven months. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) dropped again in march. NAHB Key Findings March 2025 Current sales conditions fell three points to 43. Sales expectations in the next six months held steady at 47. Traffic of prospective buyers dropped five points to 24. 29% of …

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Search for “stocks crash” now in the levels of the Covid crash 5 years ago. March 2020 crash and current drawdown: no consecutive green days.

Search for “stocks crash” now in the levels of the Covid crash 5 years ago. It’s time. pic.twitter.com/iktmI58rHs — Heisenberg (@Mr_Derivatives) March 13, 2025 🚨 Heisenberg Observation 🚨$SPX The 2020 March Covid Crash peak to trough, never had consecutive green days. Not one. Until it bottomed. This current drawdown peak to current trough, we have …

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Starting in March, All Diesel Sold in Indonesia Must Contains 40% Palm Oil.

Indonesia is set to reach full implementation of its mandatory B40 biodiesel programme, which contains 40% palm oil fuel, starting this March. The programme was initially poised for implementation starting 1 January 2025 but was delayed due to regulatory issues. Indonesia to implement mandatory B40 diesel starting March 2025 According to Reuters, the B40 diesel reduces the …

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Rumor Alert! Reports about delaying 25% tariffs on Canada & Mexico are flying around, but no official word yet. Update: The White House confirms the March 1st report is false.

There’s been quite a buzz about potential delays in the 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico. Some sources have suggested that the tariffs, initially set to go into effect on February 1st, might be postponed until March 1st. However, there hasn’t been any official confirmation from the Trump administration. President Trump has reiterated …

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Asking Rents Fall 0.7% to Lowest Level Since March 2022

The median asking rent fell 0.7% year over year in November to $1,595, dropping 1.1% month over month. The asking price per square foot for rental apartments fell 2.2% year over year to the lowest level since December 2021. Rents dropped across all bedroom counts for the fifth consecutive month. Cleveland recorded the biggest rent …

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Inflation is Rising Again for the First Time since March

Breaking: October PPI +.2% as expected but hotter than recent trends +.3% ex food and energy. Hotter than expected Annualized 3.1%. Also hotter than expected 🔥 Jobless claims down to 217k. Hot as well Bond yields up. Futures pretty flat — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) November 14, 2024

U.S. executives are wildly offloading stocks as the market reaches its highest Greed level since March

Smart. They know this is the final rally before the collapse. Start lightening the load on your overweight equity positions. — South Auck (@south_auck) September 26, 2024 JUST IN 🚨: Stock Market hits highest level of Greed since March 13 and is on the verge of Extreme Greed! pic.twitter.com/jFNjcsdArx — Barchart (@Barchart) September 26, 2024 …

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As of March 31, 2024, three of the largest U.S. banks had a combined total of $1.832 trillion in loans outstanding to giant Hedge Funds.

  By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 3, 2024 ~ The Office of Financial Research (OFR), the federal agency created after the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street to defog the lenses of federal regulators to prevent a replay of that disaster, has posted frightening graphs on its website as part of its “Hedge Fund …

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“Gold has outperformed Treasury bonds by 100% since March 2020, amid rising government spending.

2/ US government bonds have broken below a 40-year uptrend After experiencing one of the most aggressive bear market since the 1980s pic.twitter.com/FTPZvQuipe — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) August 28, 2024 4/ Since March 2020, gold has outperformed Treasury bonds by +100% coinciding with rising government spending Government expenditures have gone from $3.4 trillion to nearly …

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The Shift to a One-World Agriculture: The Long March To Dystopia

“A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthetic.” Silvia Guerini, radical ecologist, in ‘From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology’ (2023) We are currently seeing …

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US job numbers for April 2023 to March 2024 revised down by 1 million, revealing only 1.6 million jobs created instead of 2.6 million. Is this Chinese statistics?

Is this Chinese statistics? I can't believe these statistics are from the U.S. We want to know the accurate indication, even if the announcement is late. I can't invest based on such unreliable statistics. — Hiroki Miyano(宮野宏樹) (@hiroki_miyano27) August 20, 2024

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