Wednesday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Drift With Wall Street Rally Put on Pause: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Climbs as Industry Report Points to Falling US Stockpiles

[CNBC] World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers

[AP] Europe’s world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers. Here’s what happens next

[CNBC] Weekly mortgage demand jumps again as interest rates fall just below 7%

[CNBC] Top CFOs are as bullish on the Dow and as dovish on the Fed as they’ve been in a long time: CNBC survey

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] ECB More Likely to Cut in June Than April, Villeroy Says

[Reuters] Country Garden onshore bondholders have not received coupon payment, news site reports

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] BOJ Looks for Final Piece of Rate Puzzle in Wage Talks

[Reuters] Toyota agrees to biggest wage hike in 25 years in sign of Japan Inc's big pay bump

[Reuters] Global electric car sales in February hurt by China's New Year celebrations

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Major Russian Oil Refinery on Fire After Drone Strike

[Reuters] Ukraine knocks out Russian refinery in major attack

[AP] Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

[Bloomberg] Dudley: The Fed Will Slow QT. What Matters Is Where It Stops

[WSJ] Hold the Inflation Champagne

[WSJ] How China Tried to Fix the Stock Market—and Broke the Quants

[FT] China’s treatment of local debt ‘ulcer’ threatens growth target

[FT] Russia ‘prepared’ for nuclear war, warns Vladimir Putin