Join us as we go through the news of the year’s last week: Bank of Japan surprising the markets, Biden bailing out a pension fund through pandemic response package, the House failing to ban stock trading for the Congress, Uruguay’s global ambitions shaking up Mercosur, China and Covid hitting headlines again, and housing market softening in the boom locations.
Bank of Japan shocks global markets with bond yield shift (cnbc.com)
Biden: Teamster workers getting federal bailout for pension fund (usatoday.com)
House Democratic Leadership Designed Stock Trade Ban to Fail, Negotiators Say (theintercept.com)
Uruguay’s global ambitions shake up Latin America’s Mercosur trade blocUK NEWS TO DAY (chof360.com)
China stops publishing daily Covid figures amid reports of explosion in cases | China | The Guardian