Monday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Steady, Dollar Rebounds as Shutdown Averted: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Steadies After Weekly Loss While Traders Weigh Trump Threats

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Bond Traders Face 2025 Amid Most Agonizing Easing in Decades

[Reuters] Inflation, elections and war dominated 2024

[Fortune] This is America’s ‘fatal flaw’ as the US bubble gets ready to pop, market expert warns

[Yahoo/Reuters] Brace! Risks stack up for the global economy in 2025

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Hedge Funds Pile Into Trades Dollar-Yen Will Rise as High as 165

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Efficiency Co-Chief Elon Musk Calls Fed ‘Overstaffed’

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] The Star Dealmakers Remaking the Rules of Corporate Debt

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Venture Capital Partners Are Leaving Big Firms in Droves

[Yahoo/Reuters] Lagarde says ECB very close to reaching its inflation goal, FT reports

[Bloomberg] Ueda’s Caution Risks Yen Punching Holes in BOJ Policy Logic

[Bloomberg] Japan’s Bond Market Is Set to Absorb Biggest Supply in a Decade

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Mexico Prices Slow Less Than Expected, Backing Rate Cut Pace

[Bloomberg] America Needs to Break Its Debt Addiction — Crisis or Not

[Bloomberg] Being in the Red Is Latin America’s Biggest Problem

[NYT] U.S. Takes Aim at China’s Production of Essential Computer Chips

[WSJ] GOP Spending Rebellion Is Ominous Sign for Trump’s All-Republican Government

[WSJ] Trump Threatens to Take Control of Panama Canal, Greenland

[WSJ] Xi Digs In With Top-Down Economic Plan Even as China Drowns in Debt

[FT] Donald Trump names critic of Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell to top economic job

[FT] Donald Trump and Panama trade blows over control of canal

[FT] US banking giants capture biggest share of industry profits since 2015

[FT] The world’s leading democracies are struggling to govern

Sunday Evening Links

[CNBC] Stock futures inch higher as the market heads into holiday-shortened week: Live updates

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Asian Stocks Eye Cautious Gains as US Worries Ease: Markets Wrap

[Bloomberg] Hedge Funds Cut Nuclear Technology Exposure After ‘Hard’ Rally

[WSJ] Putin Sends Trump a Ukraine Message

[WSJ] What’s Behind the Meltdown in Brazil

[FT] ‘Fear in the market’: Brazil’s fiscal shortfall sends currency plumbing new lows

[FT] Record $600bn pours into global bond funds in 2024

Sunday's News Links

[Reuters] Wall St Week Ahead Investors hope for 'Santa Claus' rally as stocks lose steam 

[Axios] Biden signs bill funding government through March, averting shutdown

[Yahoo Finance] Wall Street reevaluates 'higher for longer' rates post Fed meeting: What to know this week

[Reuters] Trump says he might demand Panama hand over canal

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Property Flare-Ups Resurface as Crisis Enters Fifth Year

[WSJ] These Are the Wildest, Weirdest Stock-Market Prices We’ve Ever Seen

[WSJ] The Week the GOP’s High Hopes Collided With Reality

[FT] How 2024 reordered the Middle East