Thursday's News Links

[CNBC] Stock futures are little changed after S&P 500, Dow retreat from record highs: Live updates

[Yahoo/Reuters] AI to boost copper demand 50% by 2040, but more mines needed to ensure supply, S&P says

[AP] Trump threats against Greenland pose new, potentially unprecedented challenge to NATO

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Expands US Climate Retreat With Exits From UN Bodies

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Team Races to Come Up With Deals for His Greenland Vision

[Bloomberg] Trump Opens New Front Against China With Brazen Arrest of Maduro

[Bloomberg] How Rare Earths Raise the Stakes in China-Japan Spat

[Bloomberg] China Kicks Off 2026 With Record Pace of Sovereign Bond Issuance

[Bloomberg] China’s Zhipu Says AI Price War Will Spread Internationally

[WSJ] Trump’s Plan to Run the Hemisphere Scares Friends and Puzzles Foes

[WSJ] Trump Team Works Up Sweeping Plan to Control Venezuelan Oil for Years to Come

[FT] The next Fed chair shouldn’t party like it’s 1999

[FT] Donald Trump’s Venezuela action raises threat for China’s oil supplies

[FT] Huge copper shortage to pose ‘systemic risk’ to global economies, warns S&P

[FT] The gangs, goons and guerrillas running swaths of Venezuela

Wednesday Evening Links

[CNBC] Stock futures are little changed after S&P 500, Dow retreat from record highs: Live updates

[AP] Trump proposes massive increase in 2027 defense spending to $1.5T, citing ‘dangerous times’

[CNBC] Trump says he will not permit dividends and stock buybacks for defense companies

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] World’s Worst Bond Market Faces Another Big Supply Shock

[Bloomberg] Global Bond Sales Hit Record $245 Billion to Kick Off 2026

[Bloomberg] Trump Signs Order Pressing Defense Firms to Cut Buybacks

[Bloomberg] Trump’s Bid to Block Corporate Homebuying Blindsides Wall Street

[Bloomberg] Trump Withdraws US From 31 Bodies in UN, Already in Fiscal Peril

[WSJ] Raising the FDIC Limit Risks Repeating the S&L Crisis

[WSJ] The Pentagon’s Patriot-Missile Realism

[FT] White House moves to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes

[FT] US seizes Russian tanker in Atlantic

[FT] Donald Trump calls for 50% increase in US defence spending by 2027

Wednesday Afternoon Links

[CNBC] S&P 500 ticks higher to another record, but rally this week loses some momentum: Live updates

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Crude Falls as US Deepens Involvement in Venezuelan Oil Industry

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Seizes Two More Ships as Trump Tightens Venezuela Quarantine

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Says It Will Control Venezuela Oil Exports Indefinitely

[AP] US seeks to assert its control over Venezuelan oil with tanker seizures and sales worldwide

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Services Activity Expands at Fastest Pace in Over a Year

[Axios] The job market is showing signs of life

[Yahoo/Reuters] US job openings slide to 14-month low; hiring weak in November

[CNBC] Trump says U.S. to ban large investors from buying homes

[Politico] Trump hammers NATO allies while Greenland crisis deepens

[Axios] Rubio to meet Danish counterpart next week on Greenland crisis

[Axios] Trump's Greenland threats leave allies sweating: How we got here

[Bloomberg] Blue Owl BDC Allows for 17% Redemptions as Investors Storm Exit

[Bloomberg] Blackstone, TPG Deliver a $7 Billion Test to Risky Loan Market

[Bloomberg] First Brands Warns Cash to Run Out by Jan. 31, Force Asset Sales

[Bloomberg] Trump’s Venezuela Gambit Makes Oil a Tool of American Power

[Bloomberg] German Authorities Investigate Another Power Grid Attack

[WSJ] U.S. Escalates Venezuela Oil Embargo With Two Tanker Seizures

[WSJ] Trump Moves to Ban Big Investors From Buying Single-Family Homes

[FT] US seeks to control sales of Venezuelan oil ‘indefinitely’

[FT] How Europe should respond to Trump’s Greenland threats

[FT] First Brands facing cash crisis as company seeks emergency funds

Wednesday's News Links

[CNBC] Stocks are little changed after S&P 500, Dow rally to fresh highs: Live updates

[CNBC] Oil sales from Venezuela to continue indefinitely and sanctions will be reduced, sources say

[CNN] US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker linked to Venezuela

[Yahoo Finance] ADP data shows employers added 41,000 jobs in December as US labor market shows signs of stabilizing

[Yahoo/Reuters] US online holiday spending hits record levels despite slower growth, Adobe says

[MSN/WP] The data center rebellion is here, and it's reshaping the political landscape

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] U.S. Venture-Capital Fundraising Falls 35% as Firms Stay Private Longer

[AP] California tax revenue getting a boost from AI boom -- but for how long?

[AP] White House says military ‘always an option’ in Greenland as European leaders reject US takeover

[Reuters] Exclusive: In post-Maduro Venezuela, US eyes security chief as potential target, sources say

[Axios] Trump's Greenland threats put transatlantic alliance on death watch

[Politico] France and Germany scurry to resist Trump’s Greenland threats

[Politico] How Trump gets Greenland in 4 easy steps

[Axios] U.S. dollar dominance could be in danger

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Xi Is Testing Japan’s Ties With Trump by Escalating Trade Battle

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Escalates Feud With Japan, Probes Chipmaking Material

[Yahoo/Reuters] Japan says China's dual-use export ban 'unacceptable', rare earths in crosshairs

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] China’s Feud With Japan Worsens as Tokyo Slams Export Controls

[Reuters] Japan's service sector growth slows in December, PMI shows

[Reuters] Taiwan says China's war games sought to undermine global support for the island

[Bloomberg] US Attempts to Seize Russia-Flagged Ship ‘Marinera’ in Atlantic

[Bloomberg] US Tells Venezuela to Cut Ties With China, Russia, ABC Says

[Bloomberg] Carney to Visit China to Talk Trade With Xi as US Tariffs Hit Growth

[NYT] Tests of Fed’s Independence Intensify as Trump Seeks to Reshape Institution

[NYT] Why Trump’s Greenland Strategy Has the World on Edge

[NYT] Stephen Miller Offers a Strongman’s View of the World

[NYT] China’s Threat to Block Rare Earths Has Put Japan on High Alert

[WSJ] Private Hiring Trended Positive in December, ADP Says

[WSJ] The Brutal Maduro Enforcer Standing in Trump’s Way in Venezuela

[FT] US seizes Russian tanker in Atlantic

[FT] US says using military is among ‘options’ to acquire Greenland

[FT] Trump’s Venezuela operation echoes the CIA’s Chile playbook

[FT] China imposes export ban targeting Japan’s military in Taiwan dispute

[FT] Eurozone inflation falls to 2% in December