Saturday, November 26, 2022

Sunday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks, China Assets Face Rough Open as Covid Unrest Hits Mood

[Reuters] U.S. Black Friday online sales hit record $9 bln despite high inflation- Adobe Analytics

[Reuters] Shanghai protesters, police jostle as anger over China's COVID curbs mounts

[AP] Crowds angered by lockdowns call for China’s Xi to step down

[Reuters] Blank sheets of paper become symbol of defiance in China protests

[Reuters] China reports fourth straight daily record of new COVID cases

[Reuters] China's industrial profits fall at faster pace in Jan-Oct

[AP] Hardship and hope: Winter, missile storms show Kyiv’s mettle

[Reuters] Kim Jong Un says North Korea aims to have the world's strongest nuclear force

[Reuters] Canada launches new Indo-Pacific strategy, focus on 'disruptive' China

[Bloomberg] China Covid Unrest Boils Over as Citizens Defy Lockdown Efforts

[Bloomberg] Videos Show How Covid Protests Are Spreading Across China

[WSJ] Chinese Protests Spread Over Government’s Covid Restrictions

[FT] China rocked by protests as zero-Covid anger spreads

[FT] Latin America’s stagnation ‘worse than the 1980s’, says UN official

Saturday's News Links

[Reuters] Thin Black Friday crowds mark U.S. holiday shopping kickoff

[Reuters] Crypto lender Genesis subject of probe by regulators - Barron's

[Reuters] Protests erupt in Xinjiang and Beijing after deadly fire

[Newsweek] Videos Show Huge Protests in China as Xi Jinping Comes Under Pressure

[Axios] China's COVID storm

[Reuters] U.S. bans Huawei, ZTE equipment sales, citing national security risk

[Reuters] Factbox: UK faces winter of strikes as workers demand higher pay

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] IPO Hole Is Partly Plugged by $24 Billion Burst in Share Sales

[FT] Investors pump almost $16bn in to US corporate bond funds

[FT] Catastrophe reinsurance set to soar after year of extreme weather, industry warns

[FT] Global floods and droughts will intensify sooner than expected, studies show