Thursday Afternoon Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Slide as Eco Data Fail to Shift Fed Bets: Markets Live

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Falls as US Says Price Trigger Not Needed to Refill Reserves

[Reuters] U.S. natgas drops 9% on rail deal, bigger than expected storage build 

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Treasury 5- to 30-Year Yield Curve Inverts by Most Since 2000

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Germany Working on Historic Takeover of Three Gas Companies

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Global Banks Drawn Into Japan’s Structured Bond Crackdown

[Reuters] Hedge funds investing in Eastern Europe face worst results in eight years

[Washington Examiner] Xi to Putin: ‘We are ready to team up with our Russian colleagues’

[Reuters] Russia says longer-range U.S. missiles for Kyiv would cross red line