Daily News Links

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

General

• Emerging Stocks Fall Before U.S. Data as Tech Slides; Lira Drops
  Bloomberg
• Asian Currency Index Declines to Five-Year Low on Slowing Growth
  Bloomberg
• Brazilian Budget Capitulation Sinks Currency to Four-Month Low
  Bloomberg
• Moody’s Says Low Oil Price Here to Stay as Russia Bleeds Capital
  Bloomberg
• Greece Extends Market Shutdown to Fifth Week as Traders Trapped
  Bloomberg
• Greece faces recession warning as bailout talks set to open
  Reuters
• Personalities Clashing Over How to Handle New Greek Bailout
  NYT
• Oil Warning: The Crash Could Be Worst in More Than 45 Years
  Bloomberg
• Distressed-Debt Market Upended Amid Deepening Commodities Rout
  Bloomberg
• Beijing's stock rescue has $800 billion bark, small market bite
  Reuters
• Giant Hedge Fund Bridgewater Flips View on China: ‘No Safe Places to Invest’
  WSJ
• Why Investors Shy Away From China’s $6.4 Trillion Bond Market
  WSJ
• China Auto Market in ‘Downward Spiral,’ Japan Group Says
  Bloomberg
• Japan’s Debt Risks Surge to Triple GDP Without Change, IMF Says
  Bloomberg
• Levy Faces Hard Reality After Brazil’s Recession Erodes Savings
  Bloomberg
• China says Japan's East China Sea pictures provoke confrontation
  Reuters

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

General

• Housing Recovery in Full Swing as U.S. Sales at Eight-Year High
  Bloomberg
• ECB Said to Raise Greek Emergency Bank Aid Before Bailout
  Bloomberg
• Rating-Cut Angst Lurks as Brazil Stocks, Real Decline on Budget
  Bloomberg
• Chinese Stocks in Hong Kong Fall to Extend World’s Worst Losses
  Bloomberg
• The Biggest Tech Rally Since October Just Hit a Brick Wall
  Bloomberg
• Gold Rout Spreads to Copper, Tin and Zinc
  Bloomberg
• Treasuries Swing on Intel as Corporates Exert More Market Force
  Bloomberg
• Police Deaths Fuel Lira Drop as Turkey Security Concerns Mount
  Bloomberg
• Greek bailout vote to test Syriza party rebellion
  Reuters
• Puerto Rico Left Adrift by Washington as Bankruptcy Bills Stall
  Bloomberg
• Hedge Funds Gear Up for Another Big Short
  WSJ
• Exchange traded funds grow bigger than hedge funds
  FT
• Special Report: Blackstone champions hedge funds for the little guy
  Reuters
• Awkward Alliance Running Germany Exposed by Greek Crisis
  Bloomberg
• A $4 Trillion Force From China That Helped the Euro Now Hurts It
  Bloomberg
• Brazil Bank Said to Lose $2 Billion on Junk-Rated Loans
  Bloomberg
• Art Auctions Slide to $8.1 Billion as Picasso, Monet Dominate
  Bloomberg
• War between China and Japan ended 70 years ago, but fighting continues
  Washington Post
• China says Japan defense review misleading, damages relations
  Reuters
• Marc Faber: Why US stocks could drop up to 40%
  CNBC
• Fifty Years of Debasing Money
  WSJ, Lipsky

Evening

• Puerto Rico Default Recovery Rates as Low as 35%, Moody’s Says
  Bloomberg
• Xi Hones Next Blueprint for China Economy After Stock Turmoil
  Bloomberg
• Stock Downturn Hits Chinese Investors in the Heart, Not Just the Wallet
  NYT
• Pension Funds Hunting Yield Return to Bonds Tied to Risky Loans
  Bloomberg

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

General

• Greece looks to seal bailout deal in weeks
  Reuters
• Euro Zone's Have-Nots Ask-Why Should Greece Get More Than Us?
  NYT
• Italian Bonds Gain for 11th Day as QE Pushes Market After Greece
  Bloomberg
• Wall Street Lenders Growing Impatient With U.S. Shale Revolution
  Bloomberg
• U.S. banks prepare for oil and gas company loans to worsen
  Reuters
• Bull Market for Global Economists as Dominguez Tapped for Fed
  Bloomberg
• Toshiba Executives Resign Over $1.2 Billion Accounting Scandal
  Bloomberg
• China injects massive funds into policy lenders - Caixin
  Reuters
• As Markets Swing, Beijing Steadies Yuan
  WSJ
• New Brics bank in Shanghai to challenge major institutions
  FT
• Gold Leads Commodities ‘Mess’ That Has Many Investors Smarting
  Bloomberg
• China Protests U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander’s Spy-Plane Flight
  Bloomberg
• Japan ratchets up criticism of China in revised defense paper
  Reuters
• U.S. 'disturbed' by Iranian leader's criticism after deal
  Reuters
• Monster El Niño Makes Record-Hot Year Look Inevitable
  Bloomberg
• World Breaks Temperature Record as Climate Summit Nears
  Bloomberg

Evening

• Stock Futures Signal Slump After Apple Results; Oil Resumes Drop
  Bloomberg
• Tech Rally Unravelling With Apple Poised for $50 Billion Slump
  Bloomberg
• Microsoft posts record loss as it writes down Nokia
  Reuters
• ECB Readies for Athens Return as Greek Banks Remain in Emergency
  Bloomberg

Monday, July 20, 2015

Evening

• China's Been Hoarding Gold And It Isn't Likely to Stop
  Bloomberg
• In Bailouts, China’s Bias for the Complex May Be Storing Up Risk
  Bloomberg
• Greece’s Real Crisis Deadline Arrives With ECB Debt to Pay
  Bloomberg
• Merkel Calls for Swift Start of Greek Bailout Talks
  NYT
• Fuel Feud Pits Saudis’ Secretive Ghawar Against Sprawling Bakken
  Bloomberg
• Hedge Funds Dump Crude Oil as Iran Deal Threatens Prolonged Glut
  Bloomberg

General

• Commodity Rout Extends Toward 13-Year Low as Gold Shunned on Fed
  Bloomberg
• Brazil Real Leads Declines as Rousseff Faces Political Challenge
  Bloomberg
• Precious Metals Routed as Gold Extends Decline to Five-Year Low
  Bloomberg
• Gold ETFs suffer biggest outflow in two years
  FT
• Greek Banks Reopen but Cash Limits Remain; Taxes Soar
  AP
• Special Report: The man who cost Greece billions
  Reuters
• Bidding Wars Return to Home Market
  WSJ
• Shrinking China Trade Drags on Banks From Hong Kong to Singapore
  Bloomberg
• China Stock Resumptions Dwindle as 20% of Shares Stay Halted
  Bloomberg
• For Many Firms, China’s ‘New Normal’ Spells Doom
  WSJ
• The $42 Billion Debt Trap That Putin Has Three Years to Escape
  Bloomberg
• U.S. Admiral says his South China Sea surveillance flight 'routine'
  Reuters

Evening

• New Data Show How Bad Things Were for Greek Banks the Week Capital Controls Were Introduced
  Bloomberg
• Four Signs of Pain in Commodities
  Bloomberg
• Puerto Rico Says Services Come Before Agency Debt Payment
  Bloomberg
• Puerto Rico on the Brink Owes Investors $5 Billion in Next Year
  Bloomberg
• BM Drops After Revenue Declines for 13th Straight Quarter
  Bloomberg
• Russian Town Near Ukraine, Once Quiet, Now Buzzes With Military Activity
  Bloomberg

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Evening

• Manage, Meddle or Magnify? China's Corporate Debt Threat
  Reuters
• More Than Half of Germans Think Planned Greek Deal Is Bad: Poll
  Reuters
• Minister in Germany Discusses Greece Role
  NYT
• Intensified shelling in east Ukraine kills four civilians, soldier
  Reuters

General

• Greek debt crisis: Germany 'may consider' debt relief
  BBC
• Greek Banks to Open Monday as Tsipras Prepares for Another Vote
  Bloomberg
• France’s Hollande Proposes Creation of Euro-Zone Government
  Bloomberg
• In Greek crisis, one big unhappy EU family
  Reuters
• German Economy Minister criticizes Schaeuble's proposal for temporary Grexit
  Reuters
• A Tightrope for Europe’s Central Bank Chief
  NYT
• China’s hunt for short-sellers tests legal boundaries
  FT
• Brazil Lower House Leader Says He’s Not Trying to Create ‘Chaos’
  Bloomberg
• Ukraine, rebels trade blame over shelling of central Donetsk
  Reuters

Saturday, July 18, 2015

General

• Greek Banks Set to Reopen as Tsipras’s New Cabinet Takes Over
  Bloomberg
• China Home Price Gains Spread as Large Cities Lead Recovery
  Bloomberg
• Schaeuble Says No Reason to Quit Over Greece After Deal
  Bloomberg
• A Government Divided: Schäuble's Push for Grexit Puts Merkel on Defensive
  Der Spiegel
• Interview with Wolfgang Schäuble: 'There Is No German Dominance'
  Der Spiegel
• Greece debt crisis: Reforms 'will fail' - Varoufakis
  BBC
• Bond Volatility Plunging as Euro Region Rallies on Greece
  Bloomberg
• China must learn lessons from stock market rout: vice finance minister
  Reuters
• China Central Bank Issues Guidelines on Internet Finance Development
  Reuters
• Ukraine-Russia tension rises over separatist powers, expulsions
  LA Times
• Japan PM Abe's support rate plummets after defense bills pass lower house
  Reuters
• Russia's Putin orders formation of new military reserve force
  Reuters
• Iran leader withholds verdict on nuclear deal, vows anti-U.S. policies
  Reuters

Friday, July 17, 2015

General

• China Unleashes $483 Billion to Stem the Market Rout
  Bloomberg
• China’s Stocks Rally Most in a Week on State Fund Support
  Bloomberg
• How China's Slowdown Is Worse Than You Think
  Bloomberg
• China’s biggest state banks recruited into stock market rescue
  FT
• German lawmakers back Greek bailout talks after Merkel's chaos warning
  Reuters
• Record Leverage in Property Bonds Gives Moody’s Crisis Flashback
  Bloomberg
• Maybe Investors Love Credit Index Options a Little Too Much
  Bloomberg
• Pension Funds Burn Cities as $1 Trillion Shortfall Set to Grow
  Bloomberg
• Housing Starts in U.S. Surge to Second-Highest Level Since 2007
  Bloomberg
• Oil Heads for Longest Weekly Losing Streak Since January on Glut
  Bloomberg
• China Gold Reserves Top Russia in First Disclosure Since ’09
  Bloomberg
• Grexit Still on the Table Even With EU’s Latest Band-Aid
  Bloomberg
• Analysis-Counting the Cost for Greece and Europe
  Reuters
• These Online Lenders Could Be China's Next Big Trouble Spot
  Bloomberg
• Germany’s Tone Grows Sharper in Greek Debt Crisis
  NYT
• Why Argentina Consistently, and Unapologetically, Refuses to Pay Its Debts
  Bloomberg
• Japan Moves to Allow Military Combat for First Time in 70 Years
  NYT
• Japan military chief says South China Sea surveillance possible
  Reuters
• The Freakish Year in Broken Climate Records
  Bloomberg

Evening

• Emerging Markets Had Biggest Outflow Since 2009, JPMorgan Says
  Bloomberg
• Commodity Meltdown Deepens as Expanding Gluts Drag Down Shares
  Bloomberg
• Google Adds a Record $60 Billion to Its Stock in One Day
  Bloomberg
• San Francisco Area Home Prices Near Record as Sales Surge
  Bloomberg
• Gold settles at a more than five-year low
  MarketWatch
• California Flexes Muscles in Water Tussle with Farmers
  AP
• Who will pay for Greece’s new €86bn bailout?
  FT
• Germany Risks Its Reputation With Idea of Greece Exiting Eurozone
  NYT
• Spanish ghost airport costing €1bn attracts offer of just €10,000
  FT