Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Evening
- Stocks Resume Rally Led by Cyclicals, Small-Caps: Markets Wrap
- Hospitals begin to limp out of the latest COVID-19 surge
- Putin weaponizing gas supplies to Europe will be ‘deeply damaging,’ says Dan Yergin
- Bank of Japan’s Kuroda Faces Tough Task to Persuade Markets He Won’t Pivot
- Wall Street Opens Its Wallet to Keep Talent. It’s Not Always Enough.
- U.S. Households Took On $1 Trillion in New Debt in 2021
- Government bonds drop as traders contemplate central bank direction
Afternoon
- Wall Street turns higher after groggy open, euro stalled by Lagarde
- Oil Slips for Second Day With Focus on Geopolitical Risks, Iran
- Aluminum Hits Highest Since 2008 on LME, Closes In on a Record
- US taste for imports drives 2021 trade gap to record $859B
- Americans Ramp Up Credit-Card Spending, Return to Old Habits
- The most small businesses since 1974 are raising prices due to inflation, NFIB says
- Russia Undercuts Macron’s Report of a Putin Deal: Ukraine Update
General
- U.S. Stocks Slip, Treasuries Dip; Oil Declines: Markets Wrap
- China's blue-chip index hits 19-month low as U.S. sanction worries weigh
- Bumper BP profits lift European stocks, euro stalled by cautious Lagarde
- Oil Extends Decline With Geopolitical Tensions Seen Easing
- As oil nears $100 a barrel, U.S. drillers get busy in costly shale basins
- U.S. trade deficit rises in December; deficit in 2021 largest on record
- U.S. Small-Business Confidence Decreased in January on Supply Shortages, Inflation — NFIB
- Mounting Risks for S&P 500 Are Under the Surface, BofA Analysts Say
- Macron Says Putin Assured Him of No Escalation: Ukraine Update
- European Electricity Prices Soar as France Cuts Nuclear Forecast
- China Eases Property Loan Curbs as Housing Market Slumps
- China State Funds Said to Buy Stocks to Stem Worsening Rout
- China Eases Some Loan Curbs, Logan Rating Cut: Evergrande Update
- China Battles to Contain Coal Price Surge as Dependency Worsens
- Hong Kong's COVID misery deepens with new social restrictions, vegetable shortage
- Chile Inflation ‘Running Wild’ as Prices Unexpectedly Surge
- China’s Taking on a Risky Bubble Deflation Experiment
- Two Years Into Pandemic, Shoppers Are Still Hoarding
- Lagarde signals ‘gradual’ shift in ECB policy to tackle record inflation
- Hong Kong’s ‘zero-Covid’ policy faces critical test from Omicron surge