Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Wednesday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Nasdaq Rises as Tech Rebounds Ahead of Fed: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Fed to Hold Rates Steady and Brace for Trump

[AP] Fed likely to hold rates steady despite Trump call for cuts as it awaits tariff, immigration changes

[Yahoo/Reuters] US goods trade deficit widens sharply in December on imports

[CNBC] Mortgage demand drops further, even as interest rates settle

[Yahoo/WSJ] A List of Trump’s Key Executive Orders—So Far

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Wilbur Ross Says Trump Is ‘Deadly Serious’ About Using Tariffs

[AP] Trump makes moves to expand his power, sparking chaos and a possible constitutional crisis

[Reuters] Factbox: All of Donald Trump's tariff threats

[Reuters] Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek

[Yahoo/Reuters] Stock hedge funds post big one-day drop in DeepSeek rout, say Goldman data

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Wall Street’s Levered ETF Boom Is Near-$1 Billion Money Spinner

[Reuters] Waves of Ukrainian drones target Russian power, oil facilities

[Reuters] Sisi says Egypt will not participate in 'act of injustice' displacing Palestinians

[Bloomberg] Trump Buyouts, Spending Freezes Wreak Havoc Across Government

[Bloomberg] More Risk, Less Reward: Welcome to the New World Order

[Bloomberg] Riksbank Cuts Swedish Rate and Signals End to Easing for Now

[Bloomberg] Global Euphoria for Indian Bonds Wanes as Rupee Slumps

[Bloomberg] Musk’s Election Interference Is Rattling German Political Class

[NYT] They Invested Billions. Then the A.I. Script Got Flipped.

[NYT] Meta Gave Away Its A.I. Crown Jewels. DeepSeek Vindicated Its Strategy.

[WSJ] DeepSeek Is Upending Wall Street’s Big AI Power Trade

[WSJ] GenAI Increasingly Powering Scams, Wall Street Watchdog Warns

[FT] Federal Reserve set to repel Donald Trump’s calls for deep rate cuts

[FT] Blackstone’s BREIT hole keeps growing

[FT] Trump’s bully tactics could end up benefiting China

[FT] Wider LA areas will be ‘more flammable’ due to climate change, study finds

[FT] Beijing-backed lending boosts China’s dominance in clean energy minerals