Friday, December 29, 2023
General
- Stocks Set for Last Hurrah as Year Draws to Close: Markets Wrap
- Gold headed for best year since 2020 on Fed rate cut prospects
- Treasury yields tick higher as investors prepare for the new year
- Oil Limps Into 2024 as OPEC+ and War Fail to Prevent Annual Drop
- Hapag-Lloyd, Japanese shipping firms continue to re-route from Suez Canal
- US Tries to Persuade Shippers to Sail Red Sea Despite Houthi Attacks
- Musk Leads World’s Richest to $1.5 Trillion Wealth Gain in 2023
- U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate
- Mortgage rates slide to lowest since May - Freddie Mac
- China Plans Strategy to Challenge America’s Global Leadership
- China Wants to Boost Efforts That ‘Shape’ Global Events Under Xi
- Russia fires 122 missiles and 36 drones in what Ukraine calls the biggest aerial barrage of the war
- Kremlin says it has list of Western assets to be seized if Russian assets are confiscated
- How China’s Property Crisis Blew Up Bets That Couldn’t Lose
- China Confronts a New Political Reality in Taiwan: No Friends
- Israel’s Benny Gantz threatens to intensify military action against Hizbollah