Notes Today:

 

• Tensions between Ukraine and Russia have led to the U.S. delivering 90 tons of military aid that arrived in Ukraine.

• State Department orders families of U.S. embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as soon as Monday.

• The FOMC meets this week, and they are projected to hasten the taper of asset purchases. 

• Reports upcoming are the estimate of Q4 GDP and December New Home sales, December Personal Income and Outlays and November Case-Shiller house prices. 

• If you think your stock portfolio had a rough week, Jeff Bezos lost $20 billion of his fortune, Changpeng Zhao of Binance dropped $17.7 billion, and Zuckerberg’s wealth fell $10.4 billion. 
• Feel better?

• The Arizona Democratic Party on Saturday voted to formally censure the state’s senior senator for her part in killing the Freedom to Vote and John Lewis Voting Rights Acts.

• Artificial snow has become a Winter Olympics fixture as climate change shrinks the number of countries that get enough natural snowfall to hold the event. But Beijing will be the first host to rely completely on man-made powder.