Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Thursday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] U.S. Stocks Decline; Treasuries Rise: Markets Wrap

[Reuters] World stocks drift lower as second wave virus fears mount

[Reuters] Coronavirus second wave fears boost yen; Aussie dollar falls after data

[Reuters] U.S. weekly jobless claims remain high as second wave of layoffs hits industries

[CNBC] Coronavirus live updates: Staggering jobless claims persist; global deaths near 450,000

[Reuters] World's ultra-wealthy go for gold amid stimulus bonanza

[Reuters] Trump says U.S. will not lock down again amid rising coronavirus cases

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Pledges Credit Boom to Push Economy Out of Virus Slump

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Banks Snap Up $1.5 Trillion of ECB’s Cheap Loans

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Wall Street Rewrites Market Playbooks as Second Wave Looms

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Goldman Warns of Declines for U.S. Stocks With High China Sales

[Reuters] China finds heavy coronavirus traces in seafood, meat sections of Beijing food market

[Bloomberg] Finance’s Addiction to Dollars Leaves World Vulnerable to U.S.

[Bloomberg] China Asks Banks to Forgo $211 Billion to Help Boost Economy

[Bloomberg] NYC Home-Purchase Contracts Plummet, Delaying a Price Reckoning

[WSJ] Americans Skip Millions of Loan Payments as Coronavirus Takes Economic Toll

[WSJ] Once Booming San Francisco Apartment Market Goes in Reverse

[FT] US stimulus: rescue for the wealthy, limbo for the rest

[FT] Merkel issues stark warning on urgency of EU coronavirus recovery fund