Monday, August 2, 2021

Tuesday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Gain as Earnings Offset New China Worries: Markets Wrap

[Reuters] Bonds take a breather, Tencent tumbles

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Rises With Equities Even as Concerns Over Delta Persist

[Reuters] Tencent tumbles after China media calls online gaming "spiritual opium"

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Biden Fed Pick Pits Powell Against Liberal Push for Regulation

[Reuters] A hawkish Bullard sees more volatile economic "regime" emerging in U.S.

[Reuters] Baffled investors fear nothing's off limits in China regulatory crackdown

[Reuters] Delta variant surges across U.S. South; political leaders clamp down again

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Outbreak Spreads; Hong Kong Opens to Tourism: Virus Update

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Fed’s Waller Says September Taper Call May Be Warranted

[Reuters] IMF $650 billion reserves distribution clears last hurdle, takes effect on Aug 23

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Soaring Aluminum Drives Up Cost of Everything From Beer to Foil

[Bloomberg] Evergrande Cut by Moody’s, Faces Another Asset Freeze Petition

[Bloomberg] Gaming? China’s Big Crackdown Is Really on Big Capital

[WSJ] Bundled Commercial Real-Estate Loans Climb to Sales Record

[FT] America’s recovery: is Joe Biden’s presidency vulnerable to inflation?

Monday Afternoon Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Pare Gain as Yields Dip on Growth: Markets Wrap

[Reuters] Dollar wavers on dovish Fed tone, mixed economic outlook

[Reuters] U.S. Senate pushes ahead with $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill

[Reuters] U.S. manufacturing growth cooling; bottlenecks starting to abate

[Reuters] Banks eased lending standards for businesses, households in Q2, Fed survey shows

[Reuters] Florida COVID hospitalizations surge, New York urges business push on vaccines