Thursday, January 2, 2025

Friday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Stocks Rise After Five-Day Losing Streak: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Rally Stalls With China Woes After Breakout From Tight Range

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Lets Yuan Weaken After Defending 7.3 Per Dollar for Weeks

[Yahoo/Reuters] US manufacturing PMI rises to nine-month high in December

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Biden Blocks Nippon Steel’s $14.1 Billion Takeover of US Steel

[Axios] Trump's uphill trade battle with China

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Reserves at Fed Sink Below $3 Trillion to the Lowest Since 2020

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Rebound in Food Prices Set to Be Followed by Trade Uncertainty

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Fast-Money Quants Saw Big Year Go Bust in Wild Cross-Asset Ride

[Yahoo/Reuters] 2024 US new-car sales rise to five-year high, but Tesla and Stellantis lag

[Yahoo/Reuters] US equity inflows cool on higher bond yields

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Posts Record Outflow After Banner Year

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Flexes Lithium Dominance With Plans for Tech-Export Curbs

[Yahoo/Reuters] China will sharply increase funding from treasury bonds to spur growth in 2025

[CNBC] Foreign phone sales plunge 47% in China spelling trouble for Apple

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] South Korea Faces Resistance in Attempt to Arrest President Yoon

[Bloomberg] Economy in Counties Trump Won Points to Governing Challenges

[WSJ] China Adds to Sanctions of U.S. Defense Contractors Over Taiwan Arms Sales

[FT] 2025 will be the year of investing dangerously

[FT] Antony Blinken: ‘China has been trying to have it both ways’