Saturday Brief – January 30th 2021
Americas
U.S. stock indexes dropped, closing out the session with the biggest weekly fall since October, as investors gauged the ramifications of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine trial results https://t.co/RXWaT03Mm2 pic.twitter.com/KLfQL12Z8K
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) January 30, 2021
#Robinhood Fallout Sweeps Market After $1 Billion Lifeline – Bloomberghttps://t.co/omTMHATHOF
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) January 30, 2021
#Covid_19: Daily Summary (January 30th)
➡ Regional/national data
➡ Restrictions (Easing)
➡ Vaccine Trackerhttps://t.co/3ONisBxogD— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) January 30, 2021
#Housing | US 30-Year #Mortgage Rates Are Near Record Low Againhttps://t.co/2mC59YCeU3
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) January 29, 2021
#Housing | US #Mortgage #Refinancing Activity Fell For the Second Week In A Rowhttps://t.co/VINJidMu9t
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) January 29, 2021
Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan predicts an “enthusiastic” internal discussion over when to scale back the central bank's bond buying https://t.co/1rtPKAsN2e
— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) January 29, 2021
Biden administration says Trump’s #China #trade deal ‘under review’ – FThttps://t.co/M5nhCsc6Xp
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) January 29, 2021
Treasury's Yellen affirms importance of close ties with Canada https://t.co/EJpy06AV5k pic.twitter.com/xQWaaXHWVA
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) January 30, 2021
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is introducing sweeping new restrictions on international travel in a bid to stem the spread of new variants of Covid-19 into the country https://t.co/yMarZpgmzA
— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) January 29, 2021
Biden's team signals that Taiwan's security is no longer only the domain of China hawks in Washington, @tculpan says https://t.co/Y9lQu7rehn via @bopinion
— Bloomberg Asia (@BloombergAsia) January 30, 2021
Asia
Three new types of the U.K. Covid-19 strain, previously not detected in Japan, were discovered in Tokyo patients https://t.co/d2sBFzmVG9
— Bloomberg Asia (@BloombergAsia) January 30, 2021
Tokyo considers trials of parasite drug for #COVID19https://t.co/0lNQIVLkYq
— Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) January 30, 2021
Taiwan reports first COVID death in 8 months from local clusterhttps://t.co/59A2FmdRVV
— Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) January 30, 2021
India: has the Covid pandemic started to burn itself out? https://t.co/QO9LCRl36P
— Financial Times (@FT) January 29, 2021
Hong Kong launches recruitment drive for Covid-19 jabs as another 28 cases emerge https://t.co/WiNka3P59p
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) January 30, 2021
Vietnam shortens Communist Party congress amid coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/E47w169Lcw
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) January 30, 2021
China executes former asset management chief for corruption https://t.co/SiO6l9x6bv
— Financial Times (@FT) January 29, 2021
Europe
#Europe #Covid_19: Daily Summary (January 30th)
*Focus on #Germany, #Spain, #France and #Italy
HT @FLAHAULT, @macroandfinance, @euronews, @ngbpadel2, @mianrey, @ramonfornose, @nicolasberrod, @starjoin, @gforestier, @Fabien_L, @Corrierehttps://t.co/7nCyBn4mtr
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) January 30, 2021
By extrapolating the current trend, this threshold could be reached in #France around mid-Feb. https://t.co/ChbCIRyqKV
— Christophe Barraud (@C_Barraud) January 27, 2021
Two European Commission officials described the move as a mistake.
The Commission has issued a statement in which it did not explain what happened.
Ursula von der Leyen spoke to both Boris Johnson and Micheál Martin on Friday night.https://t.co/EiTHi9Tezq— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) January 29, 2021
ECB To Stress Test 38 Euro Area Banks As Part Of 2021 EU-Wide Stress Test Led By EBAhttps://t.co/FvtrTdBEnG
— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) January 29, 2021
Turkish President Erdogan replaced two deputy finance ministers in another reshuffle of policy makers https://t.co/QIx8ZcJWsR
— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) January 30, 2021