Thursday, January 7, 2016

Thursday's News Links

[Bloomberg] Stocks Extend Rout, Oil Slides on China as Soros Warns of Crisis

[Bloomberg] U.S. Stocks Plunge at Open for Second Day

[Bloomberg] George Soros Sees Crisis in Global Markets That Echoes 2008

[Bloomberg] China Suspends Stock Circuit Breaker Rule, CSRC Says on Weibo

[Bloomberg] $30 Oil Just Got Closer as WTI Slides to 12-Year Low on China

[Bloomberg] Junk-Bond Risk Gauge Jumps as China Meltdown Adds to Energy Rout

[Bloomberg] China Reserves Post First Yearly Drop Since 1992 Amid Yuan Slide

[Bloomberg] China's 29 Minutes of Chaos: Stunned Brokers and a Race to Sell

[CNBC] Chinese yuan: Here's what's happening to the currency

[WSJ] Why China Shifted Its Strategy for the Yuan, and How It Backfired

[Bloomberg] Gold Is Turmoil's Beneficiary as Soros Reminded of Market Crisis

[Bloomberg] Deepening Metals Rout Sends Copper Below $2 First Time Since '09

[Bloomberg] Brazil Industry Drop Signals Recession Deepened at Year-End

[Bloomberg] Swap Spreads Are Falling Again, and Analysts Are Blaming China

[NYT] Chinese Stock Plunge Forces a Trading Halt, and Global Markets Shudder

[Bloomberg] How Central Banks Gained More Control Over The World's Major Currencies

[Bloomberg] Charts to Make You Go: 'ARGGHHHH'

[Reuters] British Chancellor Warns of 'Dangerous Cocktail' of Threats for 2016

[Reuters] Merkel wants authorities to get to bottom of Cologne attacks

[Washington Post] Iran claims Saudi airstrikes on Yemen embassy amid deepening tensions