Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Wednesday's News Links

[CNBC] Stocks little changed ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate decision: Live updates 

[Bloomberg] Oil Swings in Volatile Market as Trump Spurs War Escalation Fear

[Axios] Khamenei to Trump: Iran will not surrender

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Weighs Iran Options as Israel Ratchets Up Air Strikes

[AP] Iran’s leader rejects call to surrender, saying US intervention would cause ‘irreparable damage’

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Iran’s Leader Shows Defiance With US Weighing War Intervention

[AP] Israel says it killed a top Iranian general as Trump warns people to flee Iran’s capital

[Reuters] Oil tankers near Iran appear to be in rural Russia as signals jammed

[AP] Trump tax bill would widen deficits by $2.8T after factoring in economic impacts, CBO says

[AP] US unemployment claims dipped to 245,000 last week, hovering at historically low levels

[Yahoo/Reuters] US single-family housing starts rise in May; permits slump

[CNBC] Mortgage demand drops, even as rates fall to the lowest since April

[AP] Borrowers looking for lower costs will have to wait as the Fed is unlikely to cut rates

[Yahoo/Reuters] Fed set to hold rates steady as Middle East crisis, tariffs cloud outlook

[Yahoo/Reuters] Analysis-Early Fed chair nomination could rattle markets

[The Hill] Senate GOP leader faces pushback after members blindsided by Trump bill

[Reuters] Japan PM Ishiba says disagreements remain with U.S. on tariff talks

[Politico] China’s got the world in a rare earth choke hold

[Yahoo/LAT] California's economy will contract due to immigration raids and tariffs, UCLA forecast predicts

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Private equity sits on $1 trillion amid uncertainties, M&A stalls, PwC says

[Yahoo/Reuters] US added over 1,000 new millionaires a day last year, UBS report says

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China’s Rare Earth Exports Slump in May as Magnet Sales Curbed

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US-China Tech Fight Widens After Taiwan Blacklists Huawei

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] PBOC Head Imagines New World Currency Order After Dollar Era

[BBC] Russia fears another loss in Middle East from Iran's conflict with Israel

[Bloomberg] Japan to Protect Trade Interests And Not Rush Deal, Ishiba Says

[Bloomberg] US Plans to Ease Capital Rule Limiting Banks’ Treasury Trades

[Bloomberg] Trump Is Driving Off Investors and Threatening the Dollar’s Reign

[Bloomberg] US Lawmakers’ Talks With Top Taiwan Official Risks Irking China

[Bloomberg] Trump Deploys 2,000 More National Guard Troops to Los Angeles

[Bloomberg] Stavridis: The US Is Making the World a More Dangerous Place

[NYT] Trump Calls for Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender’ and Threatens Its Supreme Leader

[NYT] Aiming at the Dollar, China Makes a Pitch for Its Currency

[WSJ] Trump Calls for Iran to ‘Surrender’ as He Weighs Military Action

[WSJ] Israel Is Running Low on Defensive Interceptors, Official Says

[WSJ] The Problem With Wall Street’s Fixation on the Fed Dot Plot

[WSJ] The Biggest Companies Across America Are Cutting Their Workforces

[FT] Donald Trump calls for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’

[FT] Can an American bunker-buster destroy Iran’s nuclear mountain?

[FT] Donald Trump’s abrupt G7 exit causes disquiet among other leaders

[FT] China’s property market recovery stalls as falling prices hit sentiment

[FT] Insurance prices jump for Strait of Hormuz sailings as conflict threatens shipping