Joker's Google Blog: Business Intelligence Monitor 210924

※ Beijing, reluctant to bail out the country’s most heavily indebted property developer, is asking local officials across the country to prepare for a ‘possible storm’

• WSJ: China Evergrande Loses Support of Hong Kong Tycoon Amid Debt Crisis

• WSJ: Evergrande Is Only the Latest in a Chain of Chinese Debt Crises

• WSJ: Democratic Leaders Scramble to Find Areas of Agreement on $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill

• WSJ: Pelosi Says Government Funding Won’t Lapse

※ Biden administration began preparing for a possible partial shutdown

• WSJ: Fed Officials See ‘Transitory’ Inflation Lasting Quite a While

• WSJ: Foreign Businesses Say They Feel Effects From China’s Turn Inward

• WSJ: Investors Bet Environmental Fears Will Crunch Commodity Supply, Lifting Prices

• WSJ: Federal Regulator Calls for Tougher Power Plant Standards Following Texas Freeze

• WSJ: Voters Want to Curb the Influence of Big Tech Companies, New Poll Shows

• NYT: Biden Huddles With Democrats as Divisions Threaten His Agenda

• NYT: House Approves Funding for Israel's Iron Dome

• NYT: France’s Power Is Questioned After Failed Submarine Deal

• NYT: Boris Johnson Cuts a Colorful Swath in U.S., but to What End?

• NYT: Navalny to the Russian Opposition: ‘Be Discouraged, a Little Bit’

• NYT: A record number of cargo ships off the California coast shows a crack in the supply chain.

• WP: Semiconductor shortage that has hobbled manufacturing worldwide is getting worse

• WP: Moderna’s chief expects enough vaccines for everyone by next year. Much of the world is still waiting.

• WP: Will Biden actually benefit politically if his infrastructure plan passes?

• WP: What to know about a potential government shutdown

• WP: Fauci says this is 'worst time in the world' for a government shutdown

• WP: Who will lead Europe after Merkel? Presidents and prime ministers jockey for the job.

• FT: Evergrande deadline sends chills through $400bn Asian debt market

• FT: US and China climate commitments raise hopes ahead of COP26 summit

• FT: Collapsed Blackstone deal shows that ‘everything is political’ in China

• FT: Germany’s election: a new era of uncertain coalition politics

• FT: France and Britain trip up at the boundary of geopolitics and trade

• FT: Draghi pledges €3bn energy subsidy to maintain Italy’s pandemic recovery

• FT: Varadkar says Ireland wants to be ‘in the tent’ on OECD global tax deal

• FT: The risks of doing away with EU law

• FT: Sunak feels growing Tory pressure to ease impact of rising cost of living

• FT: Ministers under fire as energy retailers rescue package put on ice

• FT: The Biden tax quiz: why it’s so hard to target corporations and the wealthy

• FT: The Fed prepares to tighten: five takeaways from its latest meeting

• FT: US oil output to climb again despite restraint of big shale drillers

• FT: China urges end to sanctions on Afghanistan underscoring divide with west

• FT: Ankara struggles to control inflation narrative as Turks’ mistrust mounts

• Bloomberg: EU Confirms Inaugural Trade-Tech Summit With U.S. to Go Ahead

• Bloomberg: Evergrande’s EV Unit Has Stopped Paying Staff, Factory Suppliers

• Bloomberg: Covid Booster Shot Available: How the U.S. Plan Was Developed

• Bloomberg: Fed to Be Behind the Curve in Inflation Fight, Ex Officials Say

• Bloomberg: ECB Is Lonelier Than Ever After a Hawkish Turn Led by the Fed

• Bloomberg: Spain’s Surprise Growth Revision Casts Doubt on Stellar Rebound

• Bloomberg: Carney Sees $2.5 Trillion Opportunity Annually in Infrastructure

• Bloomberg: Johnson Abandons His Pet Project Tunnel Link to Northern Ireland

• Bloomberg: Russia Can’t Ease Europe’s Gas Crunch in Time for the Cold

• Bloomberg: Fitch Cuts China’s Growth Forecast to 8.1% on Property Curbs

• Bloomberg: Taiwan’s Trade Deal Application Sets Up Showdown With China

• Bloomberg: Taper Warning Signs Flash to Markets From India’s Central Bank

• Bloomberg: India’s Power Outage Risks Increase as Coal Stockpiles Plummet

• Bloomberg: Mexico Says USMCA Pact Change Needs Approval From All Members

• Bloomberg: Brazil Could Get $9 Billion a Year from Gambling Taxes in Reform

• Bloomberg: Argentina Revives Kirchner Accounting Moves to Ease Cash Crunch

• Bloomberg: Fed Reverse Repo Usage Hits Record High After Tweak to Limits

• Bloomberg: Russian Markets Unruffled as U.S. House Raises Sanctions Risk

• Bloomberg: Climate Change Risk Looms for Government Debt

• Bloomberg: China Property Assets Soar as Evergrande Spillover Fears Ease

• Bloomberg: China’s Fledgling Cross-Border Payments System Grows Its Reach

• Bloomberg: Top Copper Producers Show Some Love for Peru’s Leftist Leader

• Bloomberg: Worsening Chip Woes to Cost Automakers $210 Billion in Sales

• Bloomberg: Automakers Look to Hedge Against China Rare Earth Dominance

• Bloomberg: U.S. Must Cut Dependence on Chinese Solar Products, Ossoff Says

• Bloomberg: Over-Estimating the Short Term and Under-Estimating the Long Term

• Bloomberg: Arctic Oil, Gas Production Is Booming Despite Climate Fears

• Reuters: Intel, Apple, carmakers to attend White House meeting on chip shortage

※ The meeting will be hosted by Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, the Commerce Department saidearlier this month

• Reuters: White House seeks to address semiconductor chips crisis harming automakers

• Reuters: U.S. Commerce chief: 'Aggressive' action on chip shortage needed

• Reuters: Quad leaders to deliver on vaccines, infrastructure, tech -U.S. official

※ "We have what we call deliverables in infrastructure, on broader health engagements on science and technology on the space, on cyber,"

• Reuters: U.S. Commerce chief says further action will be taken on Huawei if necessary

• Reuters: Death sentence': low-lying nations implore faster action on climate at U.N.

• Reuters: Novavax applies to WHO for emergency listing of COVID-19 vaccine

• Reuters: Tedros poised for re-election at WHO as support grows -diplomats

• Reuters: Severe COVID-19 may trigger autoimmune conditions; New variants cause more virus in the air

• Reuters: How the Fed's policy statement has changed this year

• Reuters: EXCLUSIVE ECB braces for sticky inflation; eyes end of emergency stimulus, sources say

• Reuters: EXCLUSIVE Bank of England's Woods cautiously optimistic Evergrande "won't go badly wrong"