Saturday, January 25, 2025

Saturday's News Links

[AP] Trump's stop in Las Vegas will focus on how he wants to eliminate taxes on tips

[Reuters] Mexico refuses US military flight deporting migrants, sources say

[Yahoo/WSJ] Trump Adds Fuel to Claims That Big Banks Discriminate Against Conservatives

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump’s Week One Ends With a Heap of Climate Rollbacks

[Yahoo Finance] Insurers are dropping HOAs, threatening the condo market

[Yahoo/WSJ] Musk-Altman Feud Reaches White House With Battle for Trump’s Approval

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] AI-driven power boom will drive demand 38% higher on top US grid

[Reuters] Hamas frees four Israeli soldiers in swap for 200 Palestinian prisoners

[Reuters] Exclusive: Hamas has added up to 15,000 fighters since start of war, US figures show

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Charting the Global Economy: Bank of Japan Raises Interest Rates

[Bloomberg] Trump’s Frenzied Debut Delights Base as Thornier Decisions Await

[Bloomberg] China Misses Fiscal Spending Target on Effects of Housing Slump

[NYT] Existing-Home Sales in 2024 Were Slowest in Decades

[WSJ] Americans Are Carrying Bigger Credit-Card Balances

[WSJ] Beijing Signals Readiness to Talk to Trump’s Team, Even Old Foes

[FT] Trump’s new economic war

[FT] Mexico and Canada forge united front in face of Donald Trump’s tariff threats

[FT] Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark’s prime minister over Greenland

[FT] ‘Leveraged to the hilt’: PE-backed firms hit by wave of bankruptcies