Sunday, January 9, 2022

Business Intelligence Monitor 220110

(Introduction)

[Markets]
※   U.S. stocks, Treasury yields mixed on ‘mess’ of jobs report
※   Bitcoin slides, gold edges back up
※   Oil prices dip, but pressure from Kazakh turmoil remains
※   Dollar drops


[Indicators]
•   US Dec. Nonfarm payrolls: Hiring Hit Annual Record Despite December Slowdown
※   U.S added just 199,000 jobs in December, but total increase of 6.4 million in 2021 and tight labor market signal steady gains ahead
•   US Dec. Dodge momentum index: Dodge Construction's Momentum Index Declines in December
※   Surprise increase to 5% piles pressure on ECB to speed up stimulus scaleback
•   Germany Nov. Balance of trade: German exports rise, output falls slightly in November
•   Germany Nov. Industrial production: German Industrial Production Unexpectedly Declined in November
•   Japan Nov. Household spending: Japanese Households Cut Spending Even Before Omicron Hit
•   한국 주간 아파트 수급동향(부동산원): 아파트 매수심리 '꽁꽁'…지방 8개道 팔자 > 사자


[Trackers]
•   Johns Hopkins University: COVID-19 Global Cases & Deaths
•   Worldometer: COVID Live Update
•   Bloomberg: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker
•   Bloomberg: Global PMI Tracker
•   Bloomberg: The Covid Resilience Ranking


[Calendars]


[News]
※   Justices consider whether federal government is overstepping its authority with mandates for healthcare workers and employees of large companies
※   Weekly cases have jumped at the start of this year to almost 10 million from 5.5 million at the end of last month, according to Johns Hopkins
※   Week of talks to open Sunday night with dinner in Geneva; Antony Blinken sees ‘two paths before us’
※   Leaders called on a Russia-led security alliance for help after days of antigovernment protests
※   Shimao’s dollar bonds have dropped to deeply distressed levels
※   The Biden administration and its allies are developing new possible sanctions ahead of a series of meetings to defuse the crisis with Moscow.
※   “There are currently omicron and delta co-infections and we found this strain that is a combination of these two,”
※   igniting a mass testing blitz in the northern city of Tianjin as the country strives to maintain its zero-tolerance approach to Covid


[Opinions]
•   Project Syndicate(Daniel Cohen): The Battle for the French Right
•   Project Syndicate(James K. Galbraith): America's Democratic Future
•   Project Syndicate(Nina L. Khrushcheva): Kazakhstan and the Price of Russia's Empire
•   Project Syndicate(Koichi Hamada): The Power and Poison of MMT
•   Project Syndicate(Djoomart Otorbaev): Chaos and Opportunism in Kazakhstan
•   FT(Editorial Board): No reward for Putin’s aggression
•   FT(Editorial Board): Solving Britain’s high energy bill dilemma
•   FT(Robert Armstrong): China’s slow motion financial crisis
•   FT(Merryn Somerset Webb): Rising energy prices will upset stock markets
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): A Dangerous Moment for Europe
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): The Worker Supply Bottleneck
•   WSJ(Editorial Board): No Climate Warriors in Frozen Foxholes
•   WSJ(Peggy Noonan): The Endless Loop of Covid-19
•   WSJ(Mary Anastasia O’Grady): China’s New Friends in Central America
•   WSJ(Elisabeth Braw): China Takes Lithuania as an Economic Hostage
•   WSJ(David B. Rivkin Jr., Andrew M. Grossman): The Vaccine Mandate Case May Mark the End of the ‘Work-Around’ Era
•   WSJ(Mark Dubowitz, Matthew Kroenig): Biden’s Moment of Truth in Iran
•   WSJ(Elisabeth Braw): China Takes Lithuania as an Economic Hostage
•   WSJ(Luc Montagnier, Jed Rubenfeld): Omicron Makes Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Obsolete
•   NYT(Editorial Board): Russia Invites Calamity if It Invades Ukraine
•   NYT(Paul Krugman): The Economic Case for Goldilocks
•   WP(David Von Drehle): Is the world ready for the farmerless tractor?

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