Sunday, November 12, 2017

Monday's News Links

[Bloomberg] Stocks Drop as Bonds Gain; Sterling Under Pressure: Markets Wrap

[Bloomberg] Emerging-Market Bonds See Biggest Yield Jump Since Trump Victory

[Reuters] Bitcoin claws back over $1,000 after losing almost a third of value

[Bloomberg] China's Credit Data Show Signs Deleveraging Is Starting to Bite

[Bloomberg] The U.S. Yield Curve Is Flattening and Here's Why It Matters

[Reuters] Fed's Harker stands by call for rate hike next month

[CNBC] General Electric slashes dividend by 50% as new CEO tries to turnaround 125-year-old conglomerate

[CNBC] The 'second-most' important job at the Fed will soon be vacant. Here's who may get it

[Reuters] Fed policies won't have direct linkage to BOJ steps: BOJ official

[FT] Saudi Arabia confronts legacy of corruption

[FT] Trump era brings lowest stock market volatility since early 1960s

[FT] European corporate bond issuance set for record year

[FT] Riskiest countries are selling debt at record rate

[WSJ] IPOs Roar Back World-Wide, With Asia Driving the Boom

Sunday Evening Links

[Bloomberg] Asia Stocks Drop; Pound Slides With May Pressured: Markets Wrap

[CNBC] Bitcoin briefly drops 15% in rocky weekend amid controversy over digital currency's future

[Politico] GOP leaders bullish tax bill will pass the House this week

[Bloomberg] House Won't Accept Repeal of Local Tax Break, Brady Says

[Reuters] Saudi Arabia requests urgent Arab League meeting over Iran: Egypt state news

[WSJ] GOP Bills Remove Some of the Tax Code’s Complexities

[FT] Will the picture turn ugly for junk bonds?

Sunday's News Links

[Bloomberg] Saudi Arabia Credit Risk Surges Most in Almost Two Years

[Bloomberg] What the Saudi Arrests Mean for the Kingdom's Oil Policy

[Bloomberg] U.K.'s May Pressured as Times Says 40 MPs Signal No Confidence

[Bloomberg] Bond Traders Brace for Inflation Data That Could Rattle the Fed

[Reuters] Support for Merkel's conservatives falls to 6-yr low ahead of crunch coalition talks