Today's Headlnes

Bloomberg:

• Trump Gets Readout on China Trade Talks Progress From U.S. Team.

• Theresa May Makes Another Plea for Unity to Get Brexit Deal Through.

• BofA Says a ‘Real’ Trade Deal Could Vault S&P 500 to Record High.

• The Rise and Fall of Chavismo in Venezuela.    

• Scattered Yellow Vest Protests Against Macron, Anti-Semitism.

• Spain’s Vote, Brexit Blunder, Trump’s Business Woes: Weekend Reads.

• The Best-Paid Hedge Fund Managers Made $7.7 Billion in 2018.  

• Amazon's Pullout Is a Blow to New York City's Tech Momentum.

Wall Street Journal:  

• Trump’s Emergency Declaration Sets Up Likely Court Fight.

• Gas Shortages Give New York an Early Taste of the Green New Deal.

• Nasdaq Climbs in a New Bull Run.

• Payless to Close U.S. Stores as It Prepares for Another Bankruptcy.

• U.S. and China Inch Toward a Broad Trade Agreement.

• China’s Property Market, Once a Lifeline, Shows Growing Strains.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (IRM), (INXN), (COR), (EQIX), (RXN), (AOS), (RUN), (VEEV), (SIBN), (INSP) and (YEYI).

MarketWatch.com:

• Bitcoin holds above $3,500, but analyst warns of lower prices ahead.

• Ivan Martchev: The junk bond market has good things to say about the stock market.

Fox News:

• Gunman who killed 5 was being let go from job after 15 years, police chief says.

• ‘See for yourself’ how we treat our employees, AOC told.

CNBC:

• Trade talks with the US are ‘making a final sprint,’ Chinese state media claim.

• As Trump ponders auto tariffs, free-trade Republicans push back.

• All signs point to more money pouring into Chinese markets this year.

• A big change in accounting will put $3 trillion in liabilities on corporate balance sheets.

• The Fed could move markets this week when it tells us what it was thinking at the January meeting.

Zero Hedge:

• Charlie Munger Warns Of "Extreme" Monetary Policy, "Dangerous" Money Printing And "Ignorant" Liberals.

• Smollett "Assault" Story Unraveling: Nigerian Brothers May Have Been Paid To Perform "Attack".

• Nearly Three Years After Olympics, The Rio 2016 Organizing Committee's Debt Load Has Tripled.

• Chart Of The Day: European Earnings Are Unchanged Over The Past Ten Years.

• Nomi Prins: Get Used To "The Powell Put".

• Here Comes The Shanghai Accord 2.0: China Unleashes Gargantuan Credit Injection To Start 2019.

• French Schools Replace "Mother" And "Father" With "Parent 1" And "Parent 2".

• Trifecta Of Folly: Pritzker Admin's Pension Plan For Illinois Will Center On The Three Worst Ideas Available.

• Visualizing America's Crime Rate Perception Gap.

• IMF Discreetly Preps Massive Aid Package For "Day After" Maduro's Fall.

• Mueller Recommends 19 - 24 Years In Prison For Manafort.

• Foreign Investors Dump Record Amount Of Treasuries.

• Now That Trump Has Declared A National Emergency, Here Is What Happens Next.

• As Russia Collusion Narrative Collapses, The 'Resistance' Reaches New Depths Of Delusion.

• FOIA Docs Reveal Obama FBI Covered Up "Chart" Of Potential Hillary Clinton Crimes.

• California Nightmare: Over Half Of Golden State Residents Wish They Could Leave.

• "Goldilocks, My A$$" - Stocks Soar As Economic Data Crashes Most Since 2011.

Business Insider:

• Vaping among teens skyrocketed in the last year as cigarette use declined, new CDC study shows.

• Relatives of China's oppressed Muslim minority are getting blocked online by their own family members, who are terrified to even tell them how bad their lives are.

• Here's why Conservative MPs now believe Theresa May's Brexit deal will pass.

The Telegraph:

• Comment: A no-deal Brexit starts to lose its terror as the EU draws up survival plans.