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Stocks Slip on Higher Bond Yields and Year-End Positioning

What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.13%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.08%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.28%. Stocks this morning are moderately lower. Higher bond yields...

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Stock Index Futures Move Lower as Banner Year Nears End

March S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESH24) are down -0.02%, and March Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQH24) are down -0.03% this morning in light trading on the final trading day of 2023.

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Stock Index Futures Move Higher as Banner Year Nears End

March S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESH24) are up +0.02%, and March Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQH24) are up +0.08% this morning in light trading on the final trading day of 2023.

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Stock Index Futures Edge Higher as Banner Year Nears End

March S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESH24) are up +0.02%, and March Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQH24) are up +0.08% this morning in light trading on the final trading day of 2023.

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Chinese shadow bank admits £30bn shortfall after ‘management ran wild’

Zhongzhi, a wealth manager with links to China’s ailing property market, says it is ‘severely insolvent’

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Nomura’s Laser Digital Introduces Bitcoin Adoption Fund For Institutional Investors

The Bitcoin Adoption Fund for institutional investors is first among the numerous digital adoption investment solutions

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Nomura’s Laser Digital Middle East Authorized For Virtual Asset Services In Dubai

Nomura's Laser Digital receives operating license from Dubai's VARA for virtual asset services

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As the West battles inflation, for China ‘the risk is persistent deflation.’ Here’s why it could be a disaster for the world’s second largest economy

EY’s chief economist, Gregory Daco, tells Fortune to look at Japan: Elevated debt and a deflationary environment is “the worst of both worlds.”

Fortune

China is ‘entering a balance sheet recession’ as borrowers shy away from new debt in a potential replay of Japan's 'lost decades'

China's post-COVID boom has fizzled this year, new data shows. Nomura Research Institute's chief economist warns it's just the beginning of the pain unless the government steps in.

Fortune

Did a city consultant’s financial relationship with Bally’s help the gamer win the casino bid?

The Johnson administration should step in now and find out one way or another.

Chicago Sun-Times

Firm that brought Bally’s to Chicago casino deal stood to profit from another Bally’s deal

The company that former Mayor Lori Lightfoot picked to own and operate the planned Chicago casino had financial ties to a consultant City Hall hired to solicit and evaluate bidders.

Chicago Sun-Times

Stocks Climb Before the Open on U.S. Debt Deal Optimism, Walmart Earnings on Tap

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are up +0.16%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are up +0.21% this morning after three major U.S. benchmark indices rallied on Wednesday as hopes of a deal to raise the U.S. debt limit and a jump in regional bank stocks boosted risk appetite.

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Stocks Move Higher Before the Open on U.S. Debt Deal Optimism, Walmart Earnings on Tap

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are up +0.08%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are up +0.15% this morning after three major U.S. benchmark indices rallied on Wednesday as hopes of a deal to raise the U.S. debt limit and a jump in regional bank stocks boosted risk appetite.

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The questions over government contractors and consultants

Government spending on consultants and contractors is back in the news - but what are they actually paid to do?

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The Guardian - UK

Why UK house prices could plunge by 20% after the latest interest rate hike

Property market has defied gravity for years but analysts say rising mortgage rates will mirror the 1980s price crash

Birmingham Post

Deal worth £227m paves way for landmark city centre development

Phase one is scheduled to be completed in August next year with the second phase due in March 2025

Reuters

COVID spread fears grow as China unwinds zero-tolerance curbs

As many Chinese embraced new freedoms on Thursday after the country dropped key parts of its tough zero-COVID regime, there was mounting concern that a virus that had largely been kept in check could soon run wild.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Beijing Drops COVID Testing Burden with Wider Easing Eyed

People in China's capital Beijing on Tuesday were allowed to enter supermarkets, offices and airports without having to show negative COVID tests, the latest in a mix of easing steps nationwide after last month's historic protests. "Beijing readies itself for life again" read a headline in the government-owned China Daily…

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Reuters

Beijing drops COVID testing burden as wider easing beckons

Residents of China's capital were allowed into parks, supermarkets, offices and airports without a negative COVID-19 test on Tuesday, the latest in a mix of easing steps nationwide after unprecedented protests against a tough zero-COVID policy.

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China's COVID infections hit record as economic outlook darkens

China reported record high COVID-19 infections on Thursday, with cities nationwide imposing localised lockdowns, mass testing and other curbs that are fuelling frustration and darkening the outlook for the world's second largest economy.

Fortune

The U.S. and China are facing very different COVID winters

Fauci says the U.S. will not see a repeat of last winter’s COVID wave — but surging infections in China leave experts fearing for the viability of its zero COVID policy.

Reuters

Beijing shuts parks, Shanghai tightens entry as China COVID cases rise

Beijing shut parks and museums on Tuesday and Shanghai tightened rules for people entering the city as Chinese authorities grapple with a spike in COVID-19 cases that has deepened concern about the economy and dimmed hopes for a quick reopening.

Daily Mirror

Violent anti-lockdown riots break out in Chinese city of 15million as Covid spreads

Guangzhou in China has had the largest new outbreak of Covid-19 with new infections exceeding 5,000 for the first time - fuelling speculation that officials could roll out more lockdowns

Daily Mirror

Woman dragged to quarantine camp by hazmat-suited officials in China's zero-Covid regime

The distressing footage was believed to have been taken in China last month and shows one woman being dragged along the floor by two officials - terrified screams and shrieks can be heard

Daily Mirror

China puts 210m people into lockdown after two 'highly contagious’ Covid strains emerge

China has reported a third straight day of more than 1,000 cases and Leader Xi Jinping has swung his zero-Covid policy into action with 208 million people currently living under lockdown

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