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[Bloomberg] S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq, Russell 2000 Hit Record Highs as Oil Jumps [Bloomberg] China May Face Yuan Float if Capital Controls Fail [Bloomberg] Three Charts Signal Dark December for Slumping China Bond Market [Bloomberg] How India’s Cash Chaos Is Shaking Everyone From Families to Banks [Reuters] Top ECB officials pledge continued support to euro […]

[Reuters] Asian shares on the defensive as U.S. yields, dollar rise [Bloomberg] Japanese Shares Extend Rally to Eighth Day as Yen Holds Decline [Bloomberg] Japan Imports Continue Decline, Exports Fall More Than Forecast [Bloomberg] Dollar Is King as Fed Hike Bets Mount While Putin Bolsters Crude [Bloomberg] Schumer Says He Can Block Trump’s Efforts to […]

[Spiegel] A Turning Point for Globalization – Inequality, Market Chaos and Angry Voters [CNBC/NYT] Italy’s Banks Are in a Slow-Motion Crisis. And Europe May Pay. [NYT] Showdown Looms as U.S. Questions Chinese Deal for Aixtron
“One trouble with every inflationary creation of credit is that it acts like a delayed time bomb. There is an interval of indefinite and sometimes considerable length between the injection of the stimulant and the resulting speculation. Likewise, there is an interval of a similarly indefinite length of time between the injection of the remedial […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick “Everything in life is nuanced. And everything on a political platform becomes very bifurcated, and good or evil, and that’s not nuanced at all. So now that we’re past the election we need to start getting into the fine brush-strokes and figuring out what are […]

[Bloomberg] Trump-Trade Rally Pushes Dollar to Weekly Surge as Bonds Slump [Bloomberg] Puerto Rico Board Warns Deep Debt Cuts Needed to Steady Island [Bloomberg] Fight Over Puerto Rico Debt Heats Up as Creditors Fire Back [CNBC] ‘The conservatives are going to go crazy’ — Trump’s top advisor lays out his vision for shaking up America […]

[Bloomberg] Asia Stocks Set for More Gains Amid Stronger Dollar After Yellen [Bloomberg] Treasury Yields Reach Year’s High as Fed on Track for Rate Hike [Reuters] Wall street stocks lifted by data, earnings Yellen remarks [Bloomberg] Mexico Raises Overnight Rate After Trump’s Win Wallops Peso [Reuters] Mexico central bank hikes rate after Trump win, peso […]

[Reuters] Dow, S&P drop as financials’ rally ebbs, tech boosts Nasdaq [Bloomberg] Dollar Posts Longest Winning Streak Since 2012 as Fed Hike Seen [Bloomberg] Investors Just Flooded Into Financials at the Fastest Weekly Pace Ever [Bloomberg] Hensarling Says He’s Willing to Tweak Dodd-Frank Overhaul Plan [CNBC] Goldman Sachs sees Trump leading to more aggressive Fed, […]