Thursday, December 15, 2022

Friday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Equity Selloff Deepens as Recession Fears Grow: Markets Wrap

[Reuters] Stock, bonds stung by hawkish central banks

[Reuters] Oil falls, still set for weekly gain on demand hopes

[AP] US recession a growing fear as Fed plans to keep rates high

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Global Recession Risks Rise as Central Banks Raise Rates

[AP] US puts 3 dozen more Chinese companies on trade blacklist

[Reuters] U.S. Senate passes record $858 billion defense act, sending bill to Biden

[Reuters] Chinese leaders vow to prop up COVID-battered economy as virus spreads

[Reuters] As Kuroda bows out, Bank of Japan's rising hawks eye end to unloved yield cap

[CNBC] Home flipping profits drop at the fastest pace in over a decade

[CNBC] Mazars Group suspends all work with crypto clients including Binance, Crypto.com

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] San Francisco Mayor Warns of Budget Deficit as Remote Work Hits Revenue

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Russian Missile Barrage Knocks Out Power to Ukrainian Cities

[Reuters] Russia fires scores of missiles in one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Euro-Area Inflation at 10.1% Slowed Less Than Thought Last Month

[Reuters] Debt-laden Italy lashes out at 'crazy' ECB after rate hike

[Reuters] Japan Dec factory activity contracts at fastest pace in 26 months

[Reuters] Pacifist Japan unveils biggest military build-up since World War Two

[Bloomberg] Covid Unleashed in Beijing Shows Rest of China What’s Next

[Bloomberg] China Hints at More Property Support as Economy Takes Priority

[WSJ] Chinese Property Bonds Are Suddenly a Huge Winner

[WSJ] Japan to Build a More Powerful Military, Citing China as Its No. 1 Menace

[FT] FTX charges leave industry’s image in tatters

Thursday Evening Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Asia Stocks Set to Open Lower on Hawkish Policy: Markets Wrap

[Reuters] Wall Street slumps as Fed heightens recession fears

[Reuters] Breakingviews: FTX sins don’t absolve its big-money enablers

[WSJ] A World of Tighter Money

[FT] Lagarde’s hawkishness reflects Europe’s stickier inflation problem

Thursday Afternoon Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Push Lower as Traders Digest Rate Moves: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Rally Falters Amid Rate Hikes, Partial Keystone Restart

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] ECB Faced Sizable Push Favoring 75 Basis-Point Rate Increase

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Mortgage Rates Drop for a Fifth Straight Week

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Quants May Be Forced to Sell $30 Billion of Stock Futures as Markets Drop

[CNBC] Binance CEO Zhao brushes off $2.1 billion FTX clawback concerns

[AP] High inflation and efforts to tame it defined 2022 economy

[CNBC] Long Covid medical costs average $9,500 in first six months, as patients become ‘health-system wanderers’