Monday's News Links

[CNBC] Stocks move higher as traders await big tech earnings, eye trade developments: Live updates

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Rises With US Interest-Rate Cuts and Tariff Agenda in Focus

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Yen firms as investors gird for political uncertainty

[Yahoo/Reuters] US not rushing trade deals ahead of August deadline, will talk with China, Bessent says

[CNBC] U.S. plays hardball on tariffs deadline as EU battles for a deal

[Yahoo/Reuters] US Treasury's Bessent says Federal Reserve needs to be examined as an institution

[Yahoo/Reuters] Brazil acknowledges possibility of no US trade deal by August 1

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Biggest US Power Sale to Offer Glimpse of AI’s Cost to Consumers

[Yahoo/Reuters] U.S. homebuilders head into back half of 2025 with rising costs, tariff uncertainty

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] How Climate Change Is Raising Your Grocery Bill

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Japan’s Ishiba Tries to Buy Time After Historic Election Setback

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Rare-Earth Magnet Exports Jump 158% After Trade Truce

[AP] Russia launches a major aerial attack on Kyiv hours before high-level talks on support for Ukraine

[Bloomberg] Japan Right-Wing Party’s Gains Risk Unnerving Global Investors

[Bloomberg] What’s Behind the New Violence and Israeli Strikes in Syria

[Bloomberg] Heat Wave Scorching Italy and Greece Tests Grids, Sparks Alerts

[WSJ] After Pledging to Keep Prices Low, Amazon Hiked Them on Hundreds of Essentials

[WSJ] Extreme Weather Is Driving Global Food-Price Spikes, Report Says

[WSJ] What Chip-Stock Investors Are Missing About Tariffs

[WSJ] Blank-Check Company Strikes Cryptocurrency Deal

[FT] The threat to central banks from ‘fiscal populism’

[FT] US embassy in China warns exit bans risk straining bilateral relations

[FT] China land sales in smaller cities hit lowest level in a decade

[FT] Top central banker defends climate work after US pushback

Sunday Evening Links

[CNBC] Stock futures are little changed as traders await big tech earnings, eye trade developments: Live updates

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Brazil’s Top Court Defies Trump, Signals No Retreat on Bolsonaro

[AP] Ishiba’s coalition loses majority in Japan’s upper house election

[Bloomberg] Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week

[NYT] China’s Moves Against 3 Foreigners Stoke Anxiety

[WSJ] Japan Election Throws a Wrench in Trade Talks

Sunday's News Links

[AP] Japan’s governing coalition likely to lose upper house election, exit polls show

[Reuters] Japan PM laments 'harsh' election result as upper house control slips

[Reuters] Wall St Week Ahead Industrial sector's gains to be tested as earnings ramp up

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] ‘Priced for Perfection’: Tariffs Loom Over Richly Valued Stocks

[AP] Less selection, higher prices: How tariffs are shaping the holiday shopping season

[Axios] U.S. still looking at 10% baseline tariff, not higher, Lutnick says

[Yahoo/Fortune] Powell once said he couldn’t imagine leaving the Fed early—other than dying. ‘You will not see me getting in the lifeboat’

[Bloomberg] EU to Prepare Retaliation Plan as US Trade Stance Seen to Harden

[Bloomberg] Junk Bond Investors Pile Into the Riskiest Debt: Credit Weekly

[Bloomberg] Why the Federal Reserve’s Building Renovation Costs $2.5 Billion

[NYT] Wall Street Wants to Make Private Markets a Little More Public

[WSJ] Firing Powell Would Shatter the Economy’s Inflation Defenses

[WSJ] How Bessent Made the Case to Trump Against Firing Fed Chair Powell

[WSJ] Chinese Rare-Earth Magnet Exports Surge After U.S. Trade Truce

[FT] Japan’s ruling coalition braces for losses after downbeat exit poll