Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Evening
- Wall Street rises as Target, Lowe's results point to consumer confidence
- Treasuries - Yields rise after Fed minutes, Powell speech in focus
- Fed was divided on rate cut, wanted to avoid appearing on path for more cuts
- Fed officials widely divided on rates at July meeting
- CBO expects deficit to grow more than projected, warns that tariff hikes could harm growth
- Trump-Pelosi budget deal sends deficit soaring
- Trump heaps pressure on Fed and its chairman Powell to cut rates
- Trump: 'I am the chosen one' to fix U.S. trade imbalance with China
- First-time U.S. home buyers face supply struggle as rates fall
- Shock in Denmark after Trump, spurned over Greenland, cancels visit
- Economic twilight zone: Bonds that charge you for lending
- Hong Kong protesters clash with police, angry at lack of prosecutions after subway mob attack
- In Reversal, Trump Says He Is No Longer Considering Tax Cuts
- Federal Deficits to Grow More Than Expected Over Next Decade, CBO Says
- China Threatens Sanctions Over Planned U.S. Sale of Jet Fighters to Taiwan
- Falling cost of debt piles pressure on governments to spend more
General
- Stocks gain on upbeat Target, Lowe's earnings; Fed minutes eyed
- European stocks recover before Fed minutes, Jackson Hole gathering
- Oil up over 1%, buoyed by U.S. stock drawdown
- U.S. existing home sales rise, boosted by lower interest rates
- Trump team braces GOP donors for a potential ‘moderate and short’ recession
- Trump says he had to 'take China on,' regardless of short-term impact on U.S. economy
- Trump says the Fed is the ‘only problem’ with economy, calls Powell ‘a golfer who can’t putt’
- Surge in corporate debt with negative yields poses risk ‘unlike anything’ investors have ever seen
- Trump acknowledges China policies may mean US economic pain
- Beijing appeals to US to ‘meet China halfway’ on trade
- U.S. home refinancing activity hits three-year high: MBA
- Merkel aims to work out friction-free Brexit with British PM
- Germany sells new 30-year bond with negative yield, a first
- Bond yields a one-way bet? Loosening Europe's purse strings will end trend
- State Department approves possible $8 billion fighter jet sale to Taiwan: Pentagon
- Japanese report to say North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads: newspaper
- U.S. commander says cracks in Asian alliances a worry amid North Korea, China threats
- Fed’s Daly Says She Doesn’t See a U.S. Recession on the Horizon
- Luxury Homebuilder's Woes Show Mounting Fears of U.S. Slowdown
- China Threatens Retaliation Over U.S. Arms Sale to Taiwan
- Hong Kong Protests Enter Crucial Period Before China’s Big Anniversary
- Bavaria’s Leader Wants Germany to Outlaw Negative Rates
- Fed Minutes to Show Extent of Committee Divisions on Last Month’s Rate Cut
- Slowing Share Buybacks Remove a Pillar of Stock Market
- Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers
- America’s Priciest Listing Sells at Foreclosure Auction
- The Trouble With Rate Cuts in China
- The Great Student-Loan Scam
- Central bankers seek fresh policy tools to combat slowdown
- Rip-roaring bond rally revives talk of ‘widow-maker’ trade