Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Iron Ore Cut by Morgan Stanley as Supply Surge Counters Closures – Bloomberg
- Oil Slides Below $55 as U.S. Output Seen Steady Amid OPEC Fight – Bloomberg
- Brent falls below $60 for first time since 2009 – Reuters
- Saudi Arabia is playing chicken with its oil – Reuters
- Why Are Commodity Prices Falling? – Project-Syndicate
- Rouble leads plunge as oil rout contagion spreads – Fairfax
- This Hedge Fund Manager Who Remembers 1998 Says Prepare for Pain – Bloomberg
- Oil Is Dragging Down Prices Faster Than Official Price Index Can Capture – Wall Street Journal
- Why 1998 Was Different, and Same, to Emerging-Market Crisis Now – Bloomberg
- 1998 Comes Calling in Currency and Credit Plunges From Russia to Venezuela – Bloomberg
North America:
- As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep Up – New York Times
- The secret to the Uber economy is wealth inequality – Quartz
- Grand Central: How Oil’s Plunge Could Become a Financial Stability Worry for Fed – Wall Street Journal
- U.S. factory production accelerates in sign of economy’s strength – Reuters
Europe:
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- The big risk of the Russian central bank’s drastic interest rate rise – The Guardian
- German Economy at Risk of Downturn as Growth Seen Weak at Best – Bloomberg
- Ruble Fails to Sustain Gains After Surprise Russia Rate Increase – Bloomberg
- Putin Wins Russia’s ’Man Of The Year’ For The 15th Time In A Row – Business Insider
- Germany’s eurosceptics back anti-immigration drive – Financial Times
- Russian Ruble Under Pressure Despite Rate Rise – Wall Street Journal
- German Economy at Risk of Downturn as Growth Seen Weak at Best – Bloomberg
Asia:
- US$1.25 trillion moved out of mainland China illegally in 10 years, says report – SCMP
- Former top China official believed to be graft probe target gushes support for President Xi – SCMP
- China industrial activity shrinks in December, calls grow for more stimulus – Reuters
- Yes, Japan Lost a Decade. So Did U.S. – Bloomberg View
Local:
- The Coalition’s previous budget rhetoric has come back to haunt them – The Guardian
- Budget warning: Treasury predicting thousands more job losses next year – Fairfax
- MYEFO news not as bad as it seems – Fairfax
- East-west tram and bus projects in limbo under new government – Fairfax
- Financial System Inquiry: Stop guessing, Murray tells analysts – Fairfax
- Japan Free Trade Agreement to come into force in January – ABC
- OECD slams Australian budget measures, ‘close monitoring’ required – Fairfax
- Hockey backflips on tax laws to target multinational profit shifters – Fairfax
- Australian tax a global ‘outlier’ – The AFR
- OECD urges pension payout rethink – The AFR
- Joe Hockey shows his reform potential – The AFR
- OECD plan gives states more say on tax – The AFR
- The Budget has tied Abbott in knots – The AFR
- Banks to pay $412.5m fee to Reserve Bank – The AFR
- LNG exports push up gas prices, crimp demand – The AFR
- Ageing population will squeeze workforce – The AFR
- Australia does not have a debt problem. It has a ‘living beyond its means’ problem – The Australian
- OECD urges GST reform in Aust – The Australian
- Woodside’s $4.6bn punt on LNG assets – The Australian
- Page 117 reveals Hockey’s backflip – Fairfax
- Medibank has nothing on looming state sell-offs – Business Spectator
- A fundamental change for the banks – Business Spectator
- The Kouk: Hockey’s spending spree – The Drum
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