Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:  

• Central Bankers Take to Stage as Dovish Outlooks Spread.

• ECB Eyes Data as Slowdown Proves ‘Significant,’ Villeroy Says.

• Hong Kong's Growth Halved in Fourth Quarter as Trade War Hit.

• Asia Stocks Set to Climb as Trade Optimism Grows. Asian stocks looked set to rise on Monday following a strong U.S. session amid optimistic signs on the economy and trade discussions. Australian shares edged higher and futures rose late Friday in Japan, Hong Kong and China after the S&P 500 climbed to a 10-week high. Reports that the U.S. and China had reached consensus in principle on the main topics in their trade negotiations helped boost risk appetite, ahead of talks that resume in Washington this week. The dollar slipped and oil pushed higher. U.S. markets are closed Monday due to a holiday. Futures on the S&P 500 added 0.1 percent. The S&P 500 Index increased 1.1 percent Friday. Futures on Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.5 percent in Singapore. Hang Seng futures advanced 0.9 percent. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index added 0.2 percent.

• Lindsey Graham Says Talk About Removing Trump Will Be Probed in Hearing .

• U.S. Student Debt in 'Serious Delinquency' Tops $166 Billion.

Wall Street Journal:

• Investors Get Burned After Betting on Electric-Car Metals.

• New White House, Congress Spending Battles Loom.

• The Hot Trade in the Housing Market: Servicing Mortgages.

• The Unrealistic Economics of the Green New Deal.

• Amazon Fiasco Splits New York’s Left.

• $1,973 LEDs and the Green New Deal. 

• This Once-Scruffy Beach Town Is South Florida’s New Real Estate Hot Spot.

MarketWatch.com:

• A Jekyll-and-Hyde economy? Nah. Long expansion unlikely to morph into recession.

• Berkshire’s Charlie Munger has a very blunt response to those ‘driving rich people away’ as Amazon scraps HQ2.

Fox News:

• Elizabeth Warren confronted over heritage controversy at latest 2020 stop.

• Limbaugh: Spending bill was effort by some Republicans to sabotage president.

• Graham: McCabe, Rosenstein to be hauled before Senate over Trump talk.

CNBC:

• As Apple nears the launch of its video service, 2 big names could be missing from the line-up.

• Why California’s new solar mandate could cost new homeowners up to an extra $10,000.

Zero Hedge:

• Two Trump Cabinet Officials Were "Ready To Support" 25th Amendment 'Coup' As Rosenstein Tallied Votes.

• Spreading The Fake Smollett "MAGA Country" Hate Crime: A Mainstream Media Montage.

• Smollett Shuffles Attorneys, Hires Crisis Management Firm As Scandal Deepens.

• Meet Generation Z: The Newest Member Of The Workforce.

• A World Full Of Zombies: Global Revenue Growth Has Collapsed.

• Schiff-ting The Goal Posts: House Intel Chairman Claims Trump-Russia Collusion "Compelling" But Not Necessarily "Criminal".

• Trump To Europe: Take Back 800 ISIS Foreign Fighters Or We'll Be Forced To Release Them.

• Some Clear Thinking About Amazon's "Shocking" Tax Incentives.

• Weiner Goes Free: Stiff Sentence Turns Soft As Ex-Congressman Gets Early Release.

• In "Serious Blow" To US, Britain Concludes Huawei Is "Manageable Risk" To 5G Rollout.

• Nigerian Brothers In Smollett Investigation Paid $7,000 To Stage "MAGA Country" Attack: Report.

• Saudi Aramco Makes Existential Bet On Oil.

• NFL Paid Kaepernick $60 To $80 Million To Settle: Report.

• All US Citizens Ordered Out Of Haiti Amidst Mass Unrest And Chaos.

• Group Of 10 Elite Hedge Fund Managers Made $7.7 Billion In 2018.

• China Accounts For More Than 60% Of All New Credit Created Globally In The Past Ten Years.

• First US Military Planes Land Near Venezuela Border With Aid In Defiance Of Maduro.

The Telegraph: 

• Political turmoil and an unravelling budget: Why Spain is Europe's next powder keg.