Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Tuesday Evening Links

[Reuters] Wall St. rebounds as U.S.-China trade rhetoric cools

[Reuters] Oil prices rise over 1% on drone attack on Saudi Aramco facilities

[CNBC] Chinese state media touts ‘5,000 years of trials and tribulations,’ gearing up for a long trade war

[Reuters] Trump: No collapse in China trade talks, tariff war 'a little squabble'

[AP] US targets $300B of Chinese goods for new tariff hikes

[CNBC] Fed’s Esther George says there’s no need for a rate cut even with the trade threat looming

[Reuters] U.S. mortgage delinquencies rose in first quarter from 18-year low at year-end -MBA

[Reuters] U.S. GDP growth based 'exclusively' on government, corporate and mortgage debt: Gundlach

[Reuters] Brazil to cut 2019 GDP forecast below 2% as fiscal picture worsens

[Bloomberg] Salvini Says Italy Could Break EU Debt Rules to Boost Employment

[Bloomberg] Fed’s George Warns Rate Cut Could Lead to Bubbles and Recession

[Reuters] Saudi Arabia oil facilities attacked, U.S.-Iran tensions flare

[Reuters] Trump denies U.S. plan to send 120,000 troops to counter Iran threat

[NYT] Why the U.S.-China Trade War Could Be Long and Painful: No Off-Ramps

[NYT] In China, Some Fear the End of ‘Chimerica’

[WSJ] U.S. Tariffs Knock Chinese Yuan

[WSJ] China Could Lose Face, Get Rich From a Trade Deal

[FT] Trump calls on Fed to help win the trade war

[FT] Iran and the US risk igniting the Middle East tinderbox