Morning News: December 19, 2023

What Icelandic Eruption Means for Travel, Economy

Russia’s Crude Flows Stay Strong Despite Baltic Port Stoppage

Gaza Is Making Oil and Gas Markets Twitchier

How the Suez Canal Attacks Could Upend Global Trade

With Houthis Menacing Fleet, Shipping’s Great Detour Around Africa Gathers Pace

Bank of Japan Chief, Bucking Expectations, Avoids Talk of Rate Increase

Wall Street’s Tepid Bonuses for Traders Lumber Into Another Year

The Other Side of Greenwich: Hunger Among the Hedge Funds

The Private Equity Firm Tapping America’s Spring Water

Borrowers Turned to Nonbank Lenders for Mortgages — And It’s Costing Them

How the Housing Market Slowdown Is Rippling Through the Economy in Five Charts

America Doesn’t Have Enough Air-Traffic Controllers, and That’s a Problem

Apple to Halt US Sales of Smartwatches After Patent Loss

Apple Races to Tweak Software Ahead of Looming US Watch Ban

These Tesla Wannabes Are Running Out of Road

Nippon Makes Steely Bet on a U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance

End of Adobe’s Takeover Bid for Figma Spells New Challenges for Venture Deals, Startups

Family Split at LG, a South Korean Giant, Tests Corporate Succession

Behind the Shortage Keeping Cancer Patients From Chemo

Possible Ways to Ease Drug Shortages

Bill Ackman Took a Wall Street Tactic to an Ivy League Fight in His Attempt to Oust Harvard’s President

Chinese Company Ditches Year-End Bonus for Exercise-Based Reward

What’s Ahead in 2024? The Cookie Cutters Tell All

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Posted by on December 19th, 2023 at 7:03 am


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