Thursday, March 20, 2025

Thursday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Erase Losses After Solid Housing Report: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Erases Gains as Traders Assess Fed Stance, Trump’s Rate Push

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Chinese Bonds Recover From Selloff as PBOC Steps Up Cash Support

[Yahoo Finance] Trump says Fed would be 'much better off' lowering rates as tariffs start

[AP] Applications for jobless benefits inch up, but layoffs remain low, labor market healthy

[CNBC] February home resales jump much more than expected, despite higher mortgage rates

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] A $4.5 Trillion Triple-Witching Gives Investors Yet Another Test

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Powell Downplays Growing Risks, Sees Tariff Impact as Transitory

[AP] Trump will order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

[AP] New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will call a snap election on Sunday

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Small Business Optimism in Canada Collapses to 25-Year Low

[Yahoo/Reuters] Bank of England keeps rates on hold, warns against assumptions for cuts in face of uncertainty

[Politico] ECB’s Lagarde: EU needs to be ready for tariff ‘blackmail’ in age of Trump

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] ECB’s Muller Warns of Upside Risk for Inflation From Tariffs

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Erdogan’s Foreign Policy Clout Sees Him Test Limits of Power

[Bloomberg] Authers: The Fed Is Clueless, Too. And That’s OK

[Bloomberg] Macron Is Heading for a Clash With Trump Over His Push to Help Ukraine

[NYT] Powell Revives a Debate on ‘Transitory’ Inflation

[NYT] Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges

[WSJ] Fed Projections See an Economy Dramatically Reset by Trump’s Election

[WSJ] Global Central Banks Wrestle With Slowing Growth, Stubborn Inflation

[WSJ] Debt Issuance by Governments of Rich Countries to Hit Record High, OECD Says

[WSJ] Tariffs Are a Risk for Midsize Businesses, and Their Lenders

[FT] Erdoğan’s move against main rival plunges Turkey into crisis