Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Thursday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] U.S. Equities Rise as Dollar Extends Slump: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Steadies After Tightening Market Spurs Robust New Year Rally

[AP] Wholesale prices jumped 9.7% , setting record for 2021

[Yahoo Finance] Jobless claims: Another 230,000 Americans filed new claims last week

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Fed’s Daly, Harker Join Calls for Rate Liftoff as Early as March

[AP] China faces omicron test weeks ahead of Beijing Olympics

[Reuters] China's Tianjin outbreak grows as Omicron spreads to Dalian

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Country Garden Selloff Shows Chinese Developer Worries Spreading

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Holders Back Yuan Note Payment Delay; CG Bond: Evergrande Update

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Banks Curb Property Loans to Local Government Firms

[CNBC] China’s zero-Covid strategy hurts consumer spending more than manufacturing 

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Shipping Congestion Is Growing at World’s Biggest Port

[AP] Explainer: How Europe is trying to deal with its gas crisis

[Reuters] Russia says talks on Ukraine crisis at "dead end", threatens action

[Reuters] Europe at greatest risk of war in 30 years, Poland warns

[Bloomberg] China Finds Omicron in Another Port City, Further Threatening Supply Chains

[Bloomberg] Shipping Congestion Is Growing at World’s Biggest Port

[Bloomberg] Chinese Developers’ Short-Sighted Games Are Backfiring

[WSJ] Inflation Surge Is on Many Executives’ List of 2022 Worries

[WSJ] Supermarkets Cut Hours, Services as Omicron Infects Workers

[WSJ] China Looks to Secure Supplies as Strains With U.S. and Its Allies Grow

[WSJ] Shopping, Planes and Khloé Kardashian: How Private Debt Helps Power the Global Economy

[FT] Fed official open to more than three US rate rises this year

[FT] A major failure’: Fed under fire for handling of trading scandal

[FT] Security talks with US and Nato ‘unsuccessful’, says Kremlin