Thursday, August 13, 2020
Evening
- S&P 500 ends down slightly after flirting with record levels again
- Gold, Silver Jump After Swings Amid Weak Dollar and Economic Woe
- Coronavirus stimulus stalemate could drag on for weeks as Congress leaves town
- U.S. hits fiscal cliff with jobs, economic recovery in the balance
- Trump holds up coronavirus aid to block funding for mail-in voting
- Mexican central bank cuts rates to 4.5%, but pace of cuts might slow
- Here’s how Robinhood is raking in record cash on customer trades — despite making it free
- Borrowing to Buy Stocks Pushes Up China’s Record Household Debt
- A Deadly Coronavirus Was Inevitable. Why Was No One Ready?
- US Treasury forced to pay up to fund record stimulus
- Europe credit investors go ‘all in’ rather than fight banks
- Turkey’s finance minister concedes economy at risk of shrinking
General
- Wall Street set to edge up as weekly jobless claims drop
- Gold Advances After Wild Swings as Investors Weigh Next Steps
- U.S. weekly jobless claims fell to 963,000, first time below 1 million since mid-March
- A $2 Trillion Credit Boom Leaves America’s Smaller Firms Behind
- Coronavirus live updates: U.S. records over 1,500 new deaths, for the deadliest day since May
- In China, fears of financial Iron Curtain as U.S. tensions rise
- China's banking sector expected to dispose $490 billion of bad loans in 2020: Xinhua
- China's July air passenger numbers fall 34.1% year-on-year: regulator
- Latin America will see ‘record-breaking contraction’ as the coronavirus shatters their economies, Goldman says
- Taiwan to boost defence spending 10% in face of China pressure
- Manhattan Apartment Rents Plunge 10% in Pandemic-Fueled Exodus
- Turkey Boosts Funding Costs to Avoid Outright Rate Hikes
- Modi’s Key Ministers Hit by Coronavirus as Pandemic Grips India
- Most U.S. Cities Expect Next Fiscal Year to Get Worse, Survey Finds
- Can Spacs shake off their bad reputation?
- China holds military exercises near Taiwan in warning to US
- France stokes Turkey tensions by sending military craft to waters off Cyprus