Tuesday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] U.S. Stocks Edge Higher; European Stocks Advance: Markets Wrap

[Reuters] U.S. Treasury yields fall, dollar firms on stimulus worries

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China's benchmark overnight repo rate jumps to highest since Nov 2019

[CNBC] November home prices rose 9.5%, one of the highest gains on record, Case-Shiller says

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Powell, With Year to Run at Fed, Aims to Avoid Past QE Mistake

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Froth in Retail Options Now Dwarfs Level of August Boom and Bust

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Dot-com Era Stock Valuations Bring Bubble Fears to ESG Funds

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] How a Penny Stock Explodes From Obscurity to 451% Gains Via Chat Forums

[CNBC] Covid live updates: Study shows Regeneron’s antibody cocktail prevents Covid infection

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China’s Economy Picks Up in January, Building on 2020’s Recovery

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Asset-Bubble Warning Threatens Stock Frenzy in Hong Kong

[Reuters] Conte quits as Italy's PM in tactical bid to build new majority

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] ECB Steps Up Scrutiny of Bank Risk Before Potential Default Wave

[Reuters] Tokyo's apartment prices rise to near bubble-era high in 2020: data

[CNBC] Short sellers are down $91 billion in January as GameStop leads squeeze in stocks they bet against

[Reuters] China to conduct military drills in South China Sea amid tensions with U.S.

[Reuters] Taiwan air force flexes muscles after latest Chinese incursion

[Bloomberg] All the Reasons VIX Is Sounding Alarms as Greed Engulfs Markets

[Bloomberg] U.S. States Ease Covid Restrictions Even as Variants Take Hold

[Bloomberg] U.S. Falters in DNA Testing to Detect Dangerous Covid Mutations

[WSJ] U.S. Home-Price Growth Accelerated in November

[WSJ] Citadel, Point72 to Invest $2.75 Billion Into Melvin Capital Management

[FT] Chinese stocks fall as central bank adviser warns of asset bubble

[FT] Beijing turns the screws on China’s property sector

[FT] Companies raise $400bn over three weeks in blistering start to 2021

[FT] Wolfgang Schäuble issues warning on EU recovery fund

[FT] Retail investors rush to find the next stock market unicorn

[FT] Vaccines have been oversold as the pandemic exit strategy