ordered Adidas to ‘start to make new designs’ — hours after he was embarrassingly escorted out of the headquarters of rivals Skechers, amid the rapid implosion of his business empire.
On Wednesday night he also appeared to reference his declining financial clout, noting: ‘I haven’t got super model pu**y in over a month.Please send help.’
His girlfriend of the past few weeks, Brazilian 24-year-old Juliana Nalu, is a model.
West, 45, on October 9 tweeted that he would go ‘death con 3’ on ‘JEWISH PEOPLE,’ an apparent reference to Defcon, the U.S.military defense readiness system.
His Twitter and Instagram accounts were blocked in response and his lucrative deals with Adidas, Gap, Balenciaga and Vogue all abruptly ended — but the rapper was unrepentant, .
West on Monday was , but on Tuesday an analyst said that the German-based sportswear company intends to sell existing Yeezy product designs using its own branding.
The company said it would cease production of Yeezy-branded products and halt all payments to West and his businesses, but added that it is the owner of the Yeezy design rights.
‘Adidas is the sole owner of all design rights to existing products as well as previous and new colorways under the partnership,’ the company said.
West on Wednesday issued his first response to their statement.
Kanye West on Wednesday evening issued his first response to being dropped by Adidas on Monday — a move which cost him $1.5 billion
West is seen on October 19 with his new girlfriend, Brazilian model Juliana Nalu, 24, at a Beverly Hills restaurant
‘As to Adidas, you can start to make new designs for footwear, apparel and accessories immediately,’ he wrote in a text to a ‘Quinn Emmanuel’, screenshotted and shared to Instagram.
West has previously been represented by law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, but Alex Spiro, a partner at the firm, said he was not involved.
West ‘asked me to be his attorney but the representation never formalized,’ said Spiro, whose other clients include Elon Musk.’I do not represent Mr. West.’
West, in the text, continued: ‘As to Gap, the non-compete expires December 15, 2022.
‘You own the Yeezy name and all trademarks associated with Yeezy.’
West on Wednesday was removed from Forbes’ list of billionaires, with the magazine concluding that without Adidas he is worth $400 million.
His fortune comes from real estate, cash, his music catalog and a 5 percent stake in ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s shapewear firm, Skims.
The deal with Adidas brought West an estimated $1.5 billion.
On Wednesday afternoon, Westwas embarrassingly escorted out of Skechers headquarters after showing up unannounced to pitch his Yeezy brand, one day after and having his songs banned by Peloton.
He was taken out by two ‘executives’ according to a statement released by the company Wednesday afternoon.
said in a statement: ‘Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation. If you have any queries relthat they have ‘indefinitely paused’ the inclusion of any songs by Ye in their classes.
‘We take this issue very seriously and can confirm Peloton indefinitely paused the use of Kanye West’s music on our platform, the statement said.
‘This means our instructors are no longer using his music in any newly produced classes and we are not suggesting any class that includes his music in our proactive recommendations to Members.
‘You should know this was a decision we made immediately following his remarks.Again, thank you for sharing your concerns and thank you for being a Member of our Peloton community.’
One Peloton instructor, Alex Toussaint, went so far as to comment on the
‘Cause I love everybody, I want to make sure everybody feels safe in my environment, in my classes, I’m not going to speak too much on it because you know I stand with you.
‘You will not hear that artist in my class,’ Toussaint said.’I promise y’all I do not support hate speech, whatsoever, eVDEN eve NAkLiyAt baby. I don’t tolerate that at all all.’
It’s been loss after loss for Ye, who also lost his partnership with GAP, who immediately pulled his merchandise from their dedicated website after announcing that they were no longer working with him.
The company condemned West’s comments Tuesday, saying that were taking ‘immediate steps’ to remove Yeezy GAP products from their stores and shut down their website.
‘On behalf of our customers, employees and shareholders, we are partnering with organizations that combat hate and discrimination.’
Universal Music’s Def Jam has also condemned West’s comments, after splitting with the rapper last year.
They said: ‘Def Jam’s relationship with Ye as a recording artists, eVden eVe nakLiyAT its partnership with the GOOD Music label venture and Ye’s merchandise agreement with Bravado all ended in 2021.
‘There is no place for antisemitism in our society.We are deeply committed to combating antisemitism and every other form of prejudice.’
The rapper was also dropped Monday by talent agency CAA.
In a statement GAP said: ‘Anti-Semitism, racism and hate in any form are inexcusable and not tolerated in accordance with our values.
His Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted, Evden eve NAKLiyaT with the social media platforms saying they removed his posts that online users condemned as antisemitic.
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By Mike Dolan
LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) — Like mirages on the horizon, recession forecasts seem to be appearing and disappearing with great regularity — questioning any investment conviction, the reliability of pandemic-distorted data and still-low volatility gauges in financial markets.
In just six weeks of 2023, economic forecasters have hurriedly revised away this year’s long-assumed recessions in euro zone and the United States — confounded as they were by a mix of warm weather in Europe and some wild U.S.jobs market revisions and statistical quirks that have dramatically reshaped the interest rate outlook stateside.
Throw in China’s unexpectedly swift removal of «zero COVID» restrictions and already 2023’s global picture looks radically different than it did only in December — never mind the previous January before the Ukraine invasion redrew inflation, interest rate and investment maps for everyone last year.
Bearing in mind the United States, China and euro zone together account for well over half the annual $101 trillion of global output, that’s some collective moving target.
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs — often a market mover with its big macro calls — is a good example.Last month it revised away forecasts for a euro zone contraction this year and this week cut its chances of a U.S. recession in 2023 to just one-in-four from one-in-three previously.
Yet as recently as mid-December, forecasts from Bank of America, Barclays and BNP Paribas were also plumping for a full-year contraction of U.S.gross domestic product this year.
Last month’s Bank of America survey of fund managers around the world still had net 68% expecting recession this year.
But no one’s quite sure all of a sudden — and so much for so-called ‘leading indicators’ like the historically inverted U.S.Treasury yield curve — traditionally a sure fire predictor of downturns ahead.
Last Friday’s red hot January employment report is forcing hurried rethinks everywhere. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated baldly that the lowest jobless rate since 1969 is simply inconsistent with recession this year and EVDEN eVE Nakliyat Federal Reserve policymakers are already turning even more hawkish on the rate outlook.
Rates markets reared up to price Fed rates back above 5% and now expect them higher at yearend than they are today.Stocks swooned again and currency strategists, such as the team at Morgan Stanley, switched negative views on the U.S. dollar worldwide to neutral all of a sudden.
If that wasn’t enough whiplash, Fed Chair Jerome Powell chimed with his colleagues on more that needs to be done to tackle inflation — but also laced his comments with expectations of a cooling jobs market and opined on the difficulties predicting this cycle.
In other words, if your outlook hinges on getting a recession call right or nailing the timing of peak interest rates, be prepared to shift it now from week to week.
HOARDING AND FOMO
What’s the big deal?As famed British economist John Maynard Keynes is often quoted as saying: «When my information changes, I alter my conclusions.»
But the problem may indeed be the «information.»
To be sure, the dance around the «R word» is a little artificial.Rigid technical definitions involving consecutive quarters of contraction may mean changes are only the difference of a couple of tenths of GDP either way, the sort of margin easily revised away down the pike anyway.
A bigger issue is whether monthly data can be trusted for steer on the business cycle you’re trying to second guess.
High-frequency economic numbers were bamboozled by the pandemic’s economic shutdowns and reboot worldwide — with distortions still lingering on everything from supply chains to labour force participation, savings, consumption and policy rescues.
The energy shock around Ukraine merely compounded that by amplifying an outsize inflationary twist and household squeeze while jamming some supply chains even more.
Monthly economic updates now require significant health warnings and assumptions of «normalisation» may have been premature.
Although not inconsistent with other tight labour market soundings, the U.S.January jobs report was riddled with revisions, remodelling and seasonal adjustments.
While that may not change your view of employment today, reasonable concern about labour hoarding and lags between announcements of company layoffs and data surveys mean it’s hard to rely on it solely for a change of course the way many in markets seem to have done since Friday.
But even doubts about the data can be read both ways.Barclays’ economists stressed there was evidence of job hoarding in the fact that a huge downturn in the U.S. In case you have any inquiries concerning in which as well as the best way to make use of EvDEn EVE naKLiYat, it is possible to email us from our own webpage. housing market last year clearly hasn’t shown up in construction layoffs. And if the Fed had assumed those job cuts would come and the sector EvdeN EVE NAKliYaT is already bottoming, there may be more aggressive policy ahead.
But the numbers are so unclear, we’re still in a guessing game.
«It would be helpful to hear an assessment of what the Fed actually thinks is happening given structural economic changes, cyclical impulses and poorer quality data,» lamented UBS economist Paul Donovan ahead of Powell’s speech on Tuesday.
Investors trying to bet on where all this pans out can’t be filled with confidence.
And yet market volatility gauges have stayed peculiarly serene.
At just under 20, Wall Street’s VIX is pretty much at its average for the 33 years of existence.Bond market volatility remains well above its 20-year mean — but it has retreated sharply to two-thirds of last year’s peaks. Even currency volality is only marginally above average.
Are people just peering through the noisy macro and fearful of missing out on the return to beaten down assets?
BNP Paribas Chief Economist William De Vijlder talks of the risks of being «three times wrongfooted».
«One would expect that bond and equity markets would rally when central banks signal that the tightening cycle is (almost) over,» he said.»But such positioning comes with the risk of being wrongfooted by the data. What follows is huge volatility.»
The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.
(by Mike Dolan, Twitter: @reutersMikeD; Editing by Josie Kao)
