Wednesday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Blistering Metals Rally Sends Gold, Silver and Copper to Records

[CNBC] Stocks lose ground as traders weigh more bank earnings: Live updates

[Axios] Oil prices climb as markets weigh Trump's potential Iran strike

[AP] Retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.6% in November as the holiday season kicked into gear

[AP] Producer prices rise a mild 0.2% in November, government says in report delayed by federal shutdown

[Axios] Grocery prices jump in Dallas-Fort Worth and nationally

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Growing Number of Options Traders See No Fed Cuts in 2026

[Yahoo/Reuters] Fed's Kashkari says Trump administration's threats are 'about monetary policy', NYT reports

[NPR] How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart

[AP] Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Reasserts Greenland Claim as Diplomats Arrive in US

[Politico] Europe goes all out to make a deal with Trump on Greenland

[AP] Iran signals fast trials and executions for protesters as death toll in crackdown goes over 2,500

[AP] China had a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025, as exports rose 6.6% in December

[AP] Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives in Beijing for landmark 4-day visit to China

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Xi Welcomes Stream of Leaders Shaken by Trump’s New World Order

[Reuters] Ukraine drone attack sparks industrial fire in Russia's Rostov-on-Don, officials say

[Bloomberg] Japan’s Five-Year Bond Sale Demand Weaker Than 12-Month Average

[Bloomberg] Pirro Defends Powell Subpoena, Saying ‘No One Is Above the Law’

[Bloomberg] JPMorgan Sets Major US Bank Bond Sales in Motion After Earnings

[Bloomberg] US Mortgage Rates Slide to One of Lowest Levels Since 2022

[NYT] ‘We’re Not Stupid’: What Greenlanders Would Say to Trump

[NYT] A Top Fed Official Says the Trump Administration’s Threats Are ‘About Monetary Policy’

[NYT] Caught Between Superpowers, Canada Seeks a New Path in Beijing

[NYT] China Announces Record Trade Surplus as Its Exports Flood World’s Markets

[WSJ] The Collapse of a Car-Parts Supplier Puts Spotlight on How Cash Flow Can Lie

[WSJ] U.S. Blows Up China’s Latin America Ambitions With Maduro Ouster

[WSJ] The Obscure Bank Collapse That Sent Iran Into a Tailspin

[WSJ] Market Underprices Geopolitical Uncertainties, ECB’s Vice President Says

[FT] Iran’s chief justice urges regime to swiftly ‘punish’ protest detainees

[FT] China blames US for trade imbalances as surplus hits record $1.2tn in 2025

[FT] Why the world has started stockpiling food again