Tuesday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Stocks Set to Snap Run of Losses as Year Ends: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Heads for Biggest Gain Since 2010 in Mixed Year for Metals

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Gains on Chinese Factory Activity, Paring This Year’s Loss

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China’s Offshore Yuan Falls to Lowest Since 2022 in Thin Trading

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Cocoa Ends 2024 With Huge Gains Amid Supply Fears and Thin Trade

[Yahoo/Reuters] AI boom, Fed rate cuts lift U.S. stocks to new highs in 2024

[Yahoo Finance] How the Fed and Trump could collide in 2025

[Axios] 2024's chaotic news cycles in one chart

[Reuters] Puerto Rico's power grid collapses, leaving island in the dark

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Tesla Stock Surge Runs Up Against a Potential Annual Sales Drop

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] PBOC Steps Up Liquidity Injection With New Tools At Year-End

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China’s Services Activity Jumps as Stimulus Boosts Local Demand

[AP] China's manufacturing activity slows in December as trade risks grow

[Yahoo/Reuters] China's Xi pledges more proactive economic policies in 2025

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China raises salaries for government workers to boost spending

[Reuters] Xi says no one can stop China's 'reunification' with Taiwan

[Reuters] China, Russia always moving forward 'hand in hand', Xi tells Putin

[FT] US Treasury says Chinese state-backed actor hacked its computers

[FT] Stockpicking funds suffer record $450bn of outflows

[FT] Xi Jinping signals growth is ‘top priority’ in speech acknowledging China’s strains

[FT] Russia trained officers for attacks on Japan and South Korea

[FT] Philippines wrestles with how to face down China while policing 7,000 islands

Monday Evening Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Asian Stocks Fall After Declines on Wall Street: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Natural Gas Surges 16% as Forecasters Warn of Arctic Blast

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Treasury Says It Was Breached by Chinese-Backed Hacker

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Musk Berated by German Leaders Over Backing for Far-Right Party

[Bloomberg] Treasury’s Elite Bond Dealers Will Struggle to Handle $50 Trillion Debt

Monday Afternoon Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Tech Weighs on US Stocks as 2024 Nears an End: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Brazil Central Bank Steps In to Prop Up World’s Worst Currency

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US natural gas futures surge 20% on colder outlook for January

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Cocoa Jumps Most Since May in New York on Production Concerns

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Pending Home Sales Advance to Highest Level Since Early 2023

[NYT] Dark Doldrums Overshadow Europe’s Energy Markets