Thursday, February 16, 2023

Friday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Slide on Hawkish Rate Fears; Dollar Rallies: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Dollar Erases Loss for Year as Bets on Bigger US Rate Hikes Grow

[Reuters] Goldman Sachs now expects three more Fed rate hikes in 2023

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] BofA Says Says Hard Landing to Hit Stocks in Second Half

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Traders Amp Up Rate Hike Bets in Europe on ECB Inflation Warning

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] ECB’s Schnabel Sees Risk Markets Underestimate Inflation

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China’s Top Tech Banker Goes Missing, Unnerving Finance Industry

[Reuters] China Renaissance shares plunge after investment bank says chairman unreachable

[Reuters] Exclusive: Crypto giant Binance moved $400 million from U.S. partner to firm managed by CEO Zhao

[Reuters] With Japan's new central bank boss, Kishida bids farewell to Abenomics

[Reuters] Germans worry about inflation, say it causes financial pain - survey

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] PBOC Governor In Focus as Finance Leadership Reshuffle Nears

[Reuters] North Korea threatens unprecedented action over allied military drills

[Bloomberg] The Post-Cold War Era Is Gone. A New Arms Race Has Arrived

[NYT] Roose: Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive.

[FT] Fed faces new inflection point amid troubling inflation data

[FT] ‘Not one inch’: unpicking Putin’s deadly obsession with the details of history

Thursday Evening Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks in Asia Set to Drop After Wall Street Slump: Markets Wrap

[CNBC] Stocks close lower, Dow sheds 400 points after another hot inflation report raises rate hike fears

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Fed’s Bullard Open to Half-Point Rate Hike at Next Meeting

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Fed Officials Support More Rate Hikes to Ensure Lower Inflation

[Yahoo Finance] Retail investors are pouring a record $1.5 billion per day into the stock market

[FT] Pentagon’s top China official to visit Taiwan amid rising bilateral tensions

Thursday Afternoon Links

[Reuters] Wall St slides as inflation, jobless claims data fuel rate-hike angst 

[AP] Wholesale price pressures emerge despite long-term slowdown

[Reuters] U.S. single-family housing starts, building permits tumble in January

[Reuters] Philadelphia Fed manufacturing gauge plunges unexpectedly

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Mortgage Rates in the US Climb for a Second Week, Hitting 6.32%

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Household Debt Surges as Young Borrowers Struggle With Loans

[Yahoo Finance] Troubling signs emerge as credit card debt hits record high

[Reuters] Bank of Canada says overheated economy still causing price pressure - Macklem

[Reuters] In Argentina's drought-hit fields, billion dollar losses and farmers going under

[FT] Tett: The financial system is alarmingly vulnerable to cyber attack

[FT] China’s top tech dealmaker Bao Fan goes missing