Friday, December 17, 2021
Afternoon
- Stocks Drop in Big Options Day Amid Heavy Volume: Markets Wrap
- Stocks slide, safe havens gain as Omicron worries weigh
- Turkey working to ease banks' capital strains amid lira crash - sources
- ‘This Is a Whole New Animal:' NY Reports Highest Single-Day Case Total of Pandemic
- UK Covid cases hit ANOTHER record high with 93k infected as Omicron now DOMINANT
- Omicron more likely to reinfect than Delta, no milder -study
- New York Cases Hit Record; NFL Delays Games: Virus Update
- Not just Joe Manchin: Here’s what stands in the way of Democrats passing Biden’s social spending bill
- Fed’s Waller Says Rate Hike Warranted Shortly After Taper Ends
- Williams Says Fed Is Preparing for Higher Rates in 2022
- Rates Market Calls Fed’s Bluff After Historical Hawkish Pivot
- ECB Must Follow Its Peers With a Tough Inflation Message, Wunsch Says
- Exclusive: Next in China regulatory crackdown: online brokers - sources
General
- Stocks Skid on Tech as Policy Tightening Saps Mood: Markets Wrap
- Turkey Stock Rout Triggers Circuit Breakers Twice in an Hour
- Turkey's lira sinks to new low, prompting bank to intervene
- Oil Declines As Omicron and Monetary Tightening Darken Outlook
- A Covid-19 'viral blizzard' is about to hit the US, expert says, with 'millions' to be infected soon
- ‘Striking’ vaccine resistance in Omicron variant: Columbia University
- Omicron rewrites the COVID plan for 2022
- South Africa Hospital Rate Falls; Drug Weakness: Virus Update
- BOJ dials back pandemic funding as global central banks eye post-COVID era
- S&P dumps Chinese property giant Evergrande into default
- S&P Labels Evergrande Defaulter; Shimao Cut: Evergrande Update
- Turkey’s Erdogan Is Losing Support Where He Can Least Afford It
- Bundesbank Lifts Inflation Outlook as Weidmann Urges Vigilance
- Era of Low Yields Confronts Central Banks Focused on Inflation
- Global bond funds see biggest outflow since early April 2020 - Lipper
- Russia tells NATO to leave eastern Europe, stay out of former USSR
- U.K. Study Finds No Evidence Omicron Cases Are Less Severe Than Delta
- Omicron Presents a Major Challenge for China
- The liquidity threat looming over markets in 2022
- Turkish business reels from lira fallout in Erdogan’s ‘laboratory’
Evening
- Asia-Pacific markets trade mixed following overnight losses on Wall Street
- Democrats are forced to regroup as Biden's signature spending bill stalls
- Mexican central bank hikes rates more than expected to tame inflation
- Evergrande Boss Leads $46 Billion in Lost Wealth for China’s Property Tycoons
- Scientists Are Racing to Gauge the Threat of Omicron