Thursday, March 20, 2025

Friday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Slip as Company Results Add to Tariff Gloom: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Reuters] Gold set for third week of gains on global uncertainties, rate cut hopes

[Yahoo/Reuters] Oil set for weekly gain on Iran sanctions, OPEC+ plan to rein in overproduction

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Lira Heads for Worst Weekly Drop Since 2023 Amid Turkey Tumult

[Reuters] Morning Bid: Glum end to markets week as tariffs loom

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump’s ‘Big One’ on Tariffs Has Emerging-Market Traders on Edge

[Axios] Americans' job anxiety soars to highest level in 10 years

[Yahoo/Reuters] Hedge fund pessimism over Wall Street hits 5-year high, Goldman says

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Money-Losing Retail Crowd Keeps Buying Stocks as Market Teeters

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] BofA says tariff risk dismissed as stocks get ‘monster’ inflows

[Yahoo/Reuters] Global equity funds see a weekly sell-off on tariff woes, economic uncertainties

[Yahoo/WSJ] Frackers, Once Jubilant, Are Unnerved by Trump’s First Weeks in Office

[Politico] Germany’s big spending splurge gives EU the jitters

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Japan’s Inflation Slows Less Than Expected, Backing BOJ Hikes

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China to Add Cobalt, Copper in Boost to State Metal Reserves

[Axios] Scoop: Musk's PAC offers $100 to Wisconsin voters in pitch against "activist judges"

[Politico] Elon Musk threatens Pentagon leakers after NYT report on secret China war briefing

[Reuters] Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of blowing up Russian gas pumping station

[Bloomberg] Jerome Powell Says Trump Can’t Fire Him. That Might Change

[Bloomberg] Authers: Mar-a-Lago, or Much Ado That Might Never Happen

[Bloomberg] China Imports of US Commodities, Cars Collapse in New Trade War

[Bloomberg] German Spending Spree Stokes Bond Market Jitters in EU Periphery

[Bloomberg] Pro-Beijing Paper Urges Li Ka-shing to Scrap Panama Port Sale

[NYT] Drawing Back the Pentagon’s Curtains for Musk

[NYT] China’s Government Is Short of Money as Its Leaders Face Trump

[NYT] ‘Who Will Come to Invest?’ China’s Attacks on Panama Canal Deal Alarm Hong Kong

[WSJ] How Trump’s Trade War Played Out at Breakneck Speed

[WSJ] Germany Set for Trillion-Euro Defense and Infrastructure Splurge

[WSJ] Musk to Receive Top-Secret Briefing on U.S. War Plans for China

[WSJ] Inside Trump’s Lightning-Fast Deportation of Venezuelans to a Salvadoran Prison

[FT] Donald Trump imposes sanctions on Chinese companies over Iranian oil shipments

[FT] Donald Trump takes on America’s elite

[FT] Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending plan wins final approval from Germany’s upper house

[FT] European military powers work on 5-10 year plan to replace US in Nato

[FT] Big Tech under pressure to act on data centres’ thirst for water