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Thursday, August 27, 2015

General

• European Stocks Join Global Relief Rally
  Bloomberg
• China Intervened Today to Shore Up Stocks Ahead of Military Parade
  Bloomberg
• China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan
  Bloomberg
• China Brings Back High-Risk Debt Structures to Increase Leverage
  Bloomberg
• China's Central Bank Intensifies Assault on Financing Costs With Cash Injections
  Bloomberg
• Don't Blame Yuan Devaluation for Global Market Rout-China Central Bank Official
  Reuters
• Kuroda Says Bank of Japan Can Still Achieve Inflation Target
  Bloomberg
• Petrobras Taps Brazil Bond Market as Dollar Borrowing Costs Soar
  Bloomberg
• From Manhattan to Detroit, Dollar’s Rally Spreads Economic Pain
  Bloomberg
• Exporters run for high ground as China growth story unravels
  Reuters
• Oil Industry Needs Half a Trillion Dollars to Endure Price Slump
  Bloomberg
• China's Central Bank Won't Do Beijing's Dirty Work
  Bloomberg, Pesek
• Russia Says It Won’t Participate in Ukraine Restructuring
  Bloomberg
• Forget Templeton, Ukraine Still Has Putin’s Bond to Contend With
  Bloomberg
• Seven Ukraine servicemen killed, 13 wounded: Ukraine military
  Reuters
• China denies rushing forces to border during Korean tensions
  Reuters
• Kremlin pivot to China slowed as projects delayed
  Reuters

Evening

• Money Pours Out of Emerging Markets at Rate Unseen Since Lehman
  Bloomberg
• JPMorgan Analyst Sees Quantitative Traders Lashing U.S. Equities
  Bloomberg
• Frictions shake Brazil’s ruling coalition
  FT

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

General

• Fed's Dudley Says Decision on September Liftoff Less Compelling
  Bloomberg
• Asian Stocks Rebound on Japan Gains as China Shares Extend Rout
  Bloomberg
• U.S. Index Futures Rebound After Stock Gains Vanish on Tuesday
  Bloomberg
• Stock futures rise after China injects $21.8 billion
  Reuters
• Signs, Long Unheeded, Now Point to Risks in U.S. Economy
  NYT, Thomas
• China Authorities Escalate Blame Game as Stock Slide Worsens
  Bloomberg
• Emerging Debt Health Worsens Most Since 2009 as Record Comes Due
  Bloomberg
• Hong Kong Dollar Options Suggest Peg Is Most at Risk in a Decade
  Bloomberg
• China’s Stocks Slump as Rate Cut Fails to Stop $5 Trillion Rout
  Bloomberg
• As Markets Flail, China Investigates Large Brokerage Firms
  NYT
• China’s ‘asset bubble’ growth solution hangs in the balance
  FT
• China's Stunning Stock Market Moves in One Huge, Annotated Chart
  Bloomberg
• ECB Ready to Expand QE If Needed on Inflation Risks, Praet Says
  Bloomberg
• China Swaps Decline as Rate Cuts Succeed Where Injections Failed
  Bloomberg
• China Rate Cut Fails to Buoy Markets as Stocks, Commodities Fall
  Bloomberg
• August Was the Month to Take Out the Trash in the Bond Market
  Bloomberg
• Chinese Margin Debts Shrink by $156 Billion as Trades Unwind
  Bloomberg
• There Aren’t Enough Firefighters to Stop America’s West From Burning
  Bloomberg
• U.S. plans more Asia-Pacific drills to counter China reclamation
  Reuters

Evening

• The U.S. Is Short on Options to Confront Next Crisis
  Bloomberg
• Goldman Distressed-Debt Traders Ensnared in Market Turmoil
  Bloomberg
• Hedge Funds Bruised by Stocks’ Meltdown
  WSJ
• Emerging-Market Currency Risk Shifts to Lenders
  WSJ
• Venezuela Is Adding More Zeroes to Its Currency to Deal With Hyperinflation
  Bloomberg
• Margin Calls Bite Investors, Banks
  WSJ
• China’s push-me-pull-you policies leave the world reeling
  FT
• A Key Federal Reserve Official Sees September Rate Increase as Less Likely
  NYT
• Young Kurds take up arms as clashes increase in south-east Turkey
  FT

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

General

• China Cuts Interest Rates for Fifth Time in Bid to Stem Rout
  Bloomberg
• Global stocks, oil, dollar extend gains after China cuts rates
  Reuters
• Stock futures rise sharply as China cuts interest rates
  Reuters
• Yen Volatility Surges Most Since Fukushima on Global Stock Rout
  Bloomberg
• Selloff in Dim Sum Bonds Spikes Borrowing Rates in Yuan
  WSJ
• Sales of Dim Sum bonds lifts yuan borrowing rates
  MarketWatch
• Not Even World's Highest Rates Keep Foreigners in Brazil Bonds
  Bloomberg
• Uncertainty in the Market May Imperil Deal-Making
  NYT
• From Venezuela to Iraq to Russia, Oil Price Drops Raise Fears of Unrest
  NYT
• China Said to Halt Stock Support Amid Intervention Debate
  Bloomberg
• German Economy Boosted by Exports Shows Risks of China Slowdown
  Bloomberg
• Saudi Arabia Is Seeking Advice on Cutting Billions From Its Budget in the Wake of the Oil Crash
  Bloomberg
• China Stocks Extend Biggest Plunge Since 2007 on Support Doubts
  Bloomberg
• Hedge Fund ‘Hotels’ Sting Managers by Losing Up to 42% in Week
  Bloomberg
• Asian Stocks Reverse Losses as Banks, Tech Shares Advance
  Bloomberg
• China's Central Bank Injects $23.4 Billion as Yuan Intervention Drains Funds
  Bloomberg
• Japan’s Aso Says China Policies Stirring Concerns in Markets
  Bloomberg
• A Stock Market Rout in a Month That Hedge Funds Would Sooner Forget
  NYT
• Investing: Whatever the weather?
  FT
• In China, a ghost town points to shifting fortunes
  Washington Post

Evening

• China's Yuan Shock Gives Carry-Trade Crowd Worst Year Since '08
  Bloomberg
• U.S. Stocks Erase Advance as S&P 500 Index Rebound Falters
  Bloomberg
• Stock-Market Tumult Exposes Flaws in Modern Markets
  WSJ
• Traders Increase Bets Against Yuan
  WSJ
• PBOC's Zhou Under Pressure to Ease Monetary Policy Further
  Bloomberg
• Petrobras Among Brazil Borrowers Most at Risk as Real Sinks
  Bloomberg
• Merger Bubble May Burst as Record Goodwill Piles Up: Real M&A
  Bloomberg
• Chinese Economy Faces Risks From Political Instability
  NYT
• DeMark Says Chinese Stocks Are at Make-or-Break Inflection Point
  Bloomberg
• Brazil judge says president's ex-chief of staff may have been bribed
  Reuters

Monday, August 24, 2015

General

• Panic Grips Emerging-Market VIX in Biggest Jump on Record
  Bloomberg
• U.S. Stocks Fall as Exchanges Open; S&P 500 Index Loses 3.4%
  Bloomberg
• From Panic to Judgment Day, Investors Struggle to Describe Rout
  Bloomberg
• NYSE Will Suspend Stock Trading If S&P 500 Index Plunges 7%
  Bloomberg
• China’s Stocks Sink Most Since 2007 as State Intervention Fails
  Bloomberg
• Stock Rout Spreads Through Europe After China Plunge
  Bloomberg
• Brazilian Real Leads Latin America Currency Rout Amid Sell-Off
  Bloomberg
• Oil leads market rout as China sends investors fleeing
  Reuters
• Credit Risk Surges for Europe's High-Yield Companies Amid Rout
  Bloomberg
• Bond Issuers and Investors Are About to Find Out It's Not Easy Being Green(back-Denominated)
  Bloomberg
• Emerging market currencies suffer sharp drop
  FT
• Bears look to HK dollar risks as China crisis spreads
  FT
• Beijing capitulates after spending $200bn to prop up equities
  FT
• China Stocks Erase 2015 Gain as State Support Fails to Stop Rout
  Bloomberg
• Taiwan Stocks Sink Most Since 1990 as China Equity Rout Spreads
  Bloomberg
• Japan’s Topix Heads for Correction as Shanghai Leads Global Rout
  Bloomberg
• Commodities Slide to Lowest in 16 Years as Oil Extends Collapse
  Bloomberg
• U.S. Stock-Index Futures Decline After Steepest Slump Since 2011
  Bloomberg
• Euro Rallies With Yen as Stocks Rout Dims U.S. Rate Hike Outlook
  Bloomberg
• Oil-Nation Currency Pegs to Cave on Crude Rout, Kazakh PM Says
  Bloomberg
• Angry investors capture head of China metals exchange
  CNBC/FT
• Ukraine faces risky year fighting to escape Russian orbit: Poroshenko
  Reuters

Evening

• S&P 500 Futures Rise After Steepest Two-Day Slump Since 2008
  Bloomberg
• Yen Falls First Time in Five Days as Official Says Rally Abrupt
  Bloomberg
• World Leaders Have No Words of Wisdom on Rout Spooking Investors
  Bloomberg
• S&P 500 Index Falls Into Correction Amid Global Equities Rout
  Bloomberg
• Biggest Day in Years for Currencies as Investors Flee Risk
  Bloomberg
• Credit Risk Surges for Global Company Debt on Growth Concerns
  Bloomberg
• Traders are More Bearish on Yuan Than They Are on Argentine Peso
  Bloomberg
• Latin American Currencies Sink to 22-Year Low as Stocks Tumble
  Bloomberg
• Colombian peso closes down 4.43 percent, sharpest fall since 2008
  Reuters
• Oil tumbles up to 6 percent to new lows as China fears intensify rout
  Reuters
• Low liquidity drives fresh emerging markets forex sell-off
  FT
• Emerging Markets Hit Hard as Global Rout Continues
  WSJ
• Hot Tech Start-Ups May Face a Long and Bumpy Fall
  NYT
• Brazilian Wipeout Sends Half of Ibovespa Stocks to 52-Week Lows
  Bloomberg
• Faber: The Selloff Is a Signal Something Is Very Wrong
  Bloomberg Audio
• Worst Junk-Bond Bet Wipes Out Junior Lenders of KKR's Samson
  Bloomberg
• Ukraine Bonds Slide With Writedown Said to Be More Than Expected
  Bloomberg

Sunday, August 23, 2015

General

• No Sign of End to Korea Talks as Kim Steps Up Force Mobilization
  Bloomberg
• Dubai, Saudi Markets Lose 7 Percent After Oil Price Dip
  AP
• Mideast Stocks - Plunge on oil price drop, Fitch cut to Saudi outlook
  Reuters
• Mideast Stocks Sink as Oil at 2009-Low Sparks Concern
  Bloomberg
• North Korean Submarines Leave Ports as Talks With South Restart
  Bloomberg
• S. Korea slams North over submarine, artillery deployments
  AFP
• With Force Deployments, North Korea Raises Stakes of Talks With South
  NYT
• China Now Has Company in Supporting Stocks as Neighbors Follow
  Bloomberg
• China Poised to Raise Banks’ Liquidity to Boost Lending
  WSJ
• Brazil Judge Seeks Probe Into Rousseff’s 2014 Campaign Funds
  Bloomberg
• Lebanon Premier Warns of Economic Collapse Amid Political Crisis
  Bloomberg
• Emerging markets turmoil: in charts
  FT
• Tianjin Tragedy Is A Painful Reflection Of How China Largely Works
  NPR

Evening

• U.S. Stock-Index Futures Decline After Steepest Slump Since 2011
  Bloomberg
• Asia Braces for More Market Turbulence
  Bloomberg
• Could China's Yuan Devaluation Spark a New Financial Crisis?
  Bloomberg
• S&P Bulls Are Betrayed By Their Most Loved Stocks
  Bloomberg
• Hedge Funds Can’t Exit Crop Markets Fast Enough Amid Big Supply
  Bloomberg
• Gulf markets’ plunge points to more pain
  FT
• Angry investors capture head of China metals exchange
  FT
• Market turmoil leaves tech sector exposed
  FT

Saturday, August 22, 2015

General

• Investors Race to Escape Risk in Once-Booming Emerging-Market Bonds
  NYT, Thomas
• Fading Economy and Graft Crackdown Rattle China’s Leaders
  NYT
• China syndrome: how the slowdown could spread to the Brics and beyond
  UK Guardian
• Koreas Locked in Talks as Kim’s Deadline for Attack Passes
  Bloomberg
• IMF official says 'premature' to speak of Chinese crisis
  Reuters
• Missing Inflation Grips Dollar Bulls With Fed D-Day a Month Away
  Bloomberg
• Record capital flight from China as industrial slump drags on
  UK Telegraph, Evans-Pritchard
• North Korea Ready for 'All-Out War' With South
  VOA
• North Korea says its threats are not empty, as Saturday deadline looms
  Reuters
• Turkish army captain killed in clashes with Kurdish militants
  Reuters

Friday, August 21, 2015

General

• North Korea prepares for war as missiles are moved
  Asia Times
• European Stocks Head for Correction as China Concern Intensifies
  Bloomberg
• Italy’s Bonds Slide for Second Day on China Turmoil, Greek Vote
  Bloomberg
• China Stocks Sink in Worst Weekly Rout Since 2011 Amid Outflows
  Bloomberg
• Emerging Markets Sink as China Data Heightens Slowdown Concerns
  Bloomberg
• Puerto Rico Finds Waning Demand for Water Bonds Amid Debt Talks
  Bloomberg
• Equity outflows at 15-week high as investors seek bond safety: BAML
  Reuters
• Outflows from EM bond funds hit 86 week high
  FT
• Malaysia’s Reserves Extend Slump as Global Currency Rout Deepens
  Bloomberg
• Disappointing business surveys intensify growth fears
  Reuters
• China’s Yuan, Swaps Decline as Factory PMI Signals Contraction
  Bloomberg
• Chinese Factory Gauge Drops to Lowest Level Since March 2009
  Bloomberg
• Chinese province's debt crisis exposes economic fault line
  Reuters
• China to Punish Some Major Holders for Share Selling Violations
  Bloomberg
• China’s Resistance to Reform May Grow With IMF Rebuff
  WSJ
• Feels like 1986: Oil on track for longest weekly losing streak in 29 years
  Reuters
• North Korea ratchets up tensions after trading fire with South
  CNN
• Kim Puts North Korea Army on War Footing as Rhetoric Worsens
  Bloomberg
• Far left splits from Tsipras as Greece heads to elections
  Reuters
• Turkey to hold snap election on Nov 1: Erdogan
  Reuters
• Japan's finance minister warns China on currency moves
  AP
• China's land reclamation in South China Sea grows: Pentagon report
  Reuters

Evening

• Stocks Fall Most in 4 Years as China Dread Sinks Global Markets
  Bloomberg
• Emerging market bond insurance costs surge as rout bites
  Reuters
• Colombian Peso Leads Global Currency Declines as Crude Tumbles
  Bloomberg
• U.S. Backs Ally S. Korea’s Rejection of Kim Jong Un’s Ultimatum
  Bloomberg
• U.S. Stocks Head for Worst Week Since 2011 Amid Global Selloff
  Bloomberg
• These Charts Show How Hard China Has Hit Global Markets
  Bloomberg
• Colombian Peso Leads Global Currency Declines as Crude Tumbles
  Bloomberg
• Mexican Peso Slides Toward 17 per Dollar as Crude Tumbles and Government Cuts Growth Forecast
  Bloomberg
• Saudi’s CDS spikes as market frets currency float
  Markit
• Oil Prices Dip Below $40 a Barrel
  Dow Jones
• China island-building altering South China Sea status quo: US
  AFP