Sunday, August 18, 2024

Monday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Drift as Caution Reigns Before Jackson Hole: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Yen Rises More Than 1% Versus Dollar, Leads G-10 Currency Gains

[Reuters] Oil prices ease on China demand fears, focus on Mideast talks

[Reuters] At Jackson Hole, Fed faces pivotal test on unemployment

[Reuters] Fed's Kashkari says appropriate to debate Sept rate cut, WSJ reports

[Reuters] Explainer: Why Canada is on the verge of an unprecedented rail labor stoppage

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Levered trade that blew up in 2008 gets a $600M ETF Redo

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Lula Is Running Huge Budget Deficits and Scaring Off Investors

[Reuters] Hamas, Islamic Jihad claim responsibility for bomb blast in Tel Aviv

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Israel-Hamas Talks Stall as Blinken Tries to Clinch Truce

[Reuters] Blinken warns Israel, Hamas of last chance to end Gaza war

[Reuters] Russia says third bridge damaged in Ukrainian incursion in Kursk region

[Reuters] Philippines, China trade blame after vessels collide in the South China Sea

[NYT] Businesses Are Already Girding for Next Phase of the U.S.-China Trade War

[FT] Coming rate cuts shouldn’t overshadow Fed’s strategic review

[FT] Start-up failures up by 60% as founders face hangover from boom years

[FT] How shadow banking drove a rural Kentucky lender to the brink

[FT] Beijing restricts trading data as foreign investors flee Chinese stocks

[FT] China-US tensions erode co-operation on science and tech