Tuesday Afternoon Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Pare Declines Amid US Trade-Deal Hopes: Markets Wrap 

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Gains as Investors Digest Bessent Comments, Await Fed

[CNBC] Paul Tudor Jones says stock market will hit new lows even if Trump cuts China tariffs to 50%

[BBC] Germany's Merz becomes chancellor after surviving historic vote failure

[Bloomberg] Trump Downplays Trade Negotiations, Says He’ll Dictate Terms

[Bloomberg] China Halts Imports of US Oil in Negative Sign for Shale Drillers

[WSJ] U.S. Trade Deficit Hits Record as Companies Front-Load Pharmaceuticals

[WSJ] As U.S. Turns Its Back on Free Trade, Other Countries Double Down

[FT] Mark Carney tells Donald Trump Canada is ‘not for sale’

[FT] Taiwanese troubles; Formosa bonds and US interest rate volatility

[FT] Friedrich Merz wins second vote to become Germany’s chancellor

[FT] The old global economic order is dead