Today’s Issue Cluster: Metals
Canada – Gloom Deepens as GDP Unexpectedly Stalls
Retail – Stores Get Late Shopping Surge, Lifting Holiday Sales
Alt – Wind: Germany Pays to Halt Danish Power to Protect Own Output
Japan – Nov: Factory output worse than expected; -1.0% not -0.6% / R / B / AFP
China – Nov: Industrial profits fall for sixth month; -1.4% / R
Vietnam – 2015: Economy grows at highest rate in five years; +6.68% / AFP
Canada – Gloom Deepens as GDP Unexpectedly Stalls B *
Canada – Economy may be more feeble than it looks G&M *
Australia – Downgrades economic forecasts FT *
Canada – House prices ratchet higher but Montreal steady CBC *
Canada – Liberals move to cool hot housing markets G&M * *
Retail – Stores Get Late Shopping Surge, Lifting Holiday Sales B
Retail – Stores at risk of missing modest holiday sales goals R
Retail – Malls Reel as Web Roars WSJ
Retail – Generation Y is main force in China’s online shopping CD *
Retail – China Market Saturation / bm *
Streaming – Why YouTube Is Twice as Valuable as Netflix Bn *
Streaming – Cable Bills Are Rising Again B *
Streaming – For Pandora, Ruling on Royalty Rates Is Crucial NYT
Metals – Hedge Fund Says China to Bring More Pain B / AFP * *
Molybdenum – This Year’s Worst Commodity B * *
Lithium – Tesla in stand-off over supply FT
Gold – China Central Bank Expands Reserves WSJ *
Aluminum – Rises as Chinese Producers Vow to Cut Production WSJ
Iron – China’s steel industry has own take on supply and demand ft *
Iron – Miners Shoveling Furiously Prop Up Aussie GDP B *
Iron – Industry eyes India lifeline FT * *
Gold – Won’t Take Gold in Metals Race WSJ *
Alt – Wind: Germany Pays to Halt Danish Power to Protect Own Output B *
Alt – Wind: ‘Largest US source of new electricity in 2014’ / awea *
Pharma – Generics revive Philippines industry FT *
Pharma – Employers Battle Drug Costs WSJ * *
US States’ accuracy over 100 years of elections dr *
