Today’s Issue Cluster: US Labor
Retail – Medical Clinics Take Over Malls’ Empty Spaces
Oil – Banks Serving the Energy Industry Brace for a Jolt
Oil – Top traders book supertankers for storage at sea
Greece – Syriza Holds the Lead in Opinion Polls WSJ / B / E *
Greece – Banks Ready Contingency Plans in Case of Eurozone Exit WSJ
Greece – Spectre of sovereign bond defaults looms FT / WSJ / FT *
Greece – Here’s who hurts most if default / b *
Greece – Euro-area governments hold 62% of public debt / b *
Fed – Low Wages Work Against a Move WSJ / WSJ / FT *
Fed – Closely Watched Inflation Gauge Falls to Lowest Level in 14 Years WSJ *
Retail – Medical Clinics Take Over Malls’ Empty Spaces BW
Retail – Festive cheer for US stores as sales hit decade high FT *
Commods – Floods Buoy the Price of Palm Oil, Rubber WSJ *
Commods – Fall as Stockpiles Mount Up WSJ *
Commods – Dependency e * * * *
Oil – Saudi prince: $100 ‘never’ again USAT / B
Oil – US Producers Cut Rigs as Price Declines NYT / FT
Oil – Deep Debt Keeps Firms Pumping WSJ *
Oil – Firms’ New Dilemma: Save, or Borrow More? WSJ *
Oil – Banks Serving the Energy Industry Brace for a Jolt NYT *
Oil – Top traders book supertankers for storage at sea R / FT *
Oil – Big Trouble in Store WSJ *
Oil – Product Prices Fall as Supplies Climb WSJ *
Oil – US export code adds to bearish outlook FT * *
Oil – China won’t be riding to the rescue for producers any time soon q *
Oil – Location of Sector Jobs / bi *
Oil – Price Drop Takes Shine Off Steel Town WSJ
Oil – Goldman sees $40 needed to curb shale investments B / B
Oil – New shale wells needed to replace fading output from existing ones r * *
US – Hiring Booms, but Soft Wages Linger WSJ *
US – Unemployment by race, ethnicity / r *
US – New entrants, re-entrants / r *
US – UE duration down, but so is participation; discouraged up / r *
US – Wage growth and labor market participation / r *
US – Average Age of Workers / b *
US – The December Jobs Report in Charts wsj * *
US – Labor-Market Dropouts Stay on the Sidelines WSJ *
US – Will the Labor Force See a Resurgence? wsj *
US – County With More Cows Than People Leads Labor Market B *
US – Wages Winners and Losers Since 2004 wsj / bp *
US – House Moves to Change Full-Time Work to 40 Hours in Health Law WSJ
US – Twenty states raised their minimum wage on Jan. 1 NYT / B / WSJ / wapo * *
Population density across 9 cities vox *
