Thursday, January 23, 2025

Friday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Dollar Slides as Trump Softens China Tariff Stance: Markets Wrap 

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Flirts With Record High as Trump China Comments Hit Dollar

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Set for First Weekly Drop This Year as Trump Rattles Market

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Says He Would ‘Rather Not’ Have to Impose Tariffs on China

[Axios] Trump 2.0 softens on China

[Reuters] Trump’s rapid changes in U.S. government stun federal workers

[AP] What Americans think about Trump and Musk’s plans for the federal government: AP-NORC poll

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Corporate insiders dump shares at record pace amid S&P 500 rally

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Fink Says US Economic Strength May Bring Rate Hikes in Future

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Wall Street enters darker age with most stock trading now hidden

[AP] US economic losses from natural disasters soared in 2024, even as they eased globally

[AP] Bank of Japan raises interest rate to about 0.5%, citing higher wages and inflation

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China’s New Rules to Add $138 Billion Into Market, Analysts Say

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Euro Zone’s Private Sector Unexpectedly Returns to Growth

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Brazil Inflation Slows Less Than Expected Despite Cheaper Energy

[Bloomberg] Newsom Faces Trump Showdown Over Aid, Immigration and Insults

[Bloomberg] Investors Wary of Weaker Indian Shadow Banks After Debt Binge

[NYT] Trump Lashes Out at Banks Over Treatment of Conservatives

[NYT] Trump’s Inflation Fix Centers on Energy Emergency That Doesn’t Exist

[NYT] ‘Debanking,’ and the Trump Diss Heard Around Davos

[WSJ] Swaths of U.S. Government Grind to a Halt After Trump Shock Therapy

[WSJ] Britain Starts 2025 in a Dark Mood Amid Economic Clouds

[WSJ] Russia Brushes Off Trump’s Threats on Ukraine

[FT] Wall Street will stymie Donald Trump’s US oil surge plan, say shale bosses

[FT] US stocks at most expensive relative to bonds since dotcom era

[FT] Bank of Japan raises interest rates to highest level in 17 years

[FT] China unleashes record short-term funds ahead of lunar new year

[FT] Tett: Five ways to fix the knowledge crisis in the age of Trump