Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:        

• China Seeks to Defuse Trade War With Reversals on Cars, Corn.   

• Huawei Hemorrhages Allies in Europe on Growing Security Concerns.   

• China’s Home-Price Growth Eases Amid Lackluster Buyer Demand.

• May Said to Warn Merkel, Macron Their Brexit Deal Is Almost Dead.

• Ruling Striking Down Obamacare Won’t Affect Health Coverage, Yet.  

• Bitcoin Set for Longest Weekly Losing Streak Since 2011: Chart.

• Stock Sell-Off Takes Key Sectors Into or Near Bear Markets.  

• The Stock Market Is the Most Divorced It’s Been From the Economy Since 2010.

• ‘Historic’ Tax Refunds Will Extend Retail Boom Into 2019.

Wall Street Journal:

• Paris Sees Fifth Weekend of ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests.

• Slower Overseas Growth Fans Worries On U.S. Expansion.

• Investors Turn Focus to Fed’s 2019 Rate Path.

• Facebook Bug Exposed Users’ Unshared Photos.

• Fight Over Voter Data Roils Democrats Ahead of 2020 Election.

• How Many More Tears at Johnson & Johnson?

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (CAT), (PYPL), (TWNK), (LABL), (PLNT), (FSCT), (QYLS), (VRNS), (GOOGL), (AAPL), (INTC), (AMD), (GRUB) and (AMAT).

MarketWatch.com

• Individual stock investors are the most bearish since 2013: survey.

• Investors flee U.S. stock funds at record pace: Lipper.

• These are the U.S. stock market’s biggest losers this week.

• Bitcoin is pretty much dead, says teenage crypto phenom.

• Cryptos slide further as bitcoin nears crucial $3,000 mark.

Fox News:

• FOX News Special Report: Patients driven to despair, suicide after doctors cut off opioid prescriptions.

CNBC:   

• The S&P 500 and Dow are back in a correction. Here's what experts are watching for next week. 

• Federated Investors' top fund manager thinks the market is wrongly pricing in a 2019 recession.

• Goodbye to bidding wars: Some of the hottest housing markets are falling the hardest.

• Intel and TPG in talks to sell McAfee to Thoma Bravo for significantly more than $4.2 billion.

• Mueller investigation cost $25 million in first 16 months, report shows.

Zero Hedge:

• Obamacare Gutted: Core Provisions Ruled Unconstitutional By Texas Judge.

• Interior Secretary Zinke Stepping Down Amid Ethics Inquiry.

• European Auto Registrations Plunge Third Month In A Row, Down 8.1% In November.

• Skyscraper Construction: Nobody Comes Close To China In 2018.

• Scientists Will Begin Geoengineering Experiment And Try To Block The Sun.

• "If This Continues, We’re Going To Start Hearing Some Fund Liquidity Issues".

• Seattle Home Prices Plunge Again, Down 11% In Six Months.

• Hopkins: "Nothing Scares The Identity Politics Left Like An Actual Working-Class Uprising".

• "Unconstitutional Disaster!": Trump Celebrates After Judge Strikes Down Obamacare.

• Mueller Destroyed Messages From Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG Recovers 19,000 New "FBI Lovebird" Texts.

• FBI Docs Reveal: "Flynn Was Not Lying Or Did Not Think He Was Lying".

• Bare-Breasted 'Mariannes' Face Off With French Police; Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Used On Protesting Yellow Vests.

• More Than 150 People Are Moving Out Of Chicago Every Day.

• Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Testify: "It Operated As An Unregistered Foreign Agent".

• "Absolute Mayhem" In DC Court As Mueller May Have Made A Move. 

• "Inclusive" Hillary Tells Americans: "If You Don't Support Democrats, Go Somewhere Else".

• Billionaire Tom Steyer Urges Tiny Crowd To Rise Up And "Crush" Republicans.

• Trump Picks Mick Mulvaney As Acting Chief Of Staff.

• Credit On Verge Of Crisis: $176 Billion A-Rated Bonds Downgraded To BBB In Q4.

• Weekend Reading: Did The Grinch Steal Christmas?

• Meltdown: Traders Tremble As Trump, Trade & Talc Trigger Turmoil.

Business Insider:

• Almost $40 billion has been erased from Johnson & Johnson's market value, but JPMorgan says the selling is overdone.

The Telegraph:

• World economy faces slowdown as eurozone stagnates, China stimulus struggles and US growth peaks.