Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- World growth: mediocre or pathetic? – Antonio Fatas
- Negative Interest Rates and the Global Financial System – Bloomberg
- Imagining a New Bretton Woods – Project Syndicate
- Negative bond yields cost investors $24bn annually – FT
- OPEC to Head for June Talks Without Plan for Supply Limits – Bloomberg
- Shell’s First-Quarter Profit Fell 89% Amid Weak Energy Prices – NY Times
- Emerging Markets Face Downgrades as Debt Cliff Nears, S&P Warns – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Donald Trump takes the reins of a divided Republican Party – Washington Post
- ‘President Trump?’ Here’s How He Says It Would Look – NY Times
- Donald Trump Won’t Self-Fund General-Election Campaign – WSJ
- How Republicans Protect Themselves From Trump – NY Mag
- Donald Trump Isn’t Going to Be President – Slate
- The Electoral Map Looks Challenging for Trump – NY Times
- San Andreas fault ’locked, loaded and ready to roll’ with big earthquake, expert says – LA Times
- Brazil Senate report recommends Rousseff impeachment trial – Reuters
- U.S. Productivity Shrinks Again in First Quarter – WSJ
- The seeds of the next housing crisis have been planted – MarketWatch
- How bad is it in Venezuela? Soldiers are stealing goats – CNBC
Europe:
- A risible case for Brexit based on dubious data – FT
- Real Exchange Rates and European Adjustment – NY Times
- Turkish prime minister ’to resign’ – Politico
- Turkish Prime Minister to Step Aside in Feud With Erdogan – WSJ
- European Central Bank scraps €500 note – FT
- Russia’s Lavrov says Syria’s Assad is not an ally – RIA – Reuters
- Finance insiders fear Brexit ’leap in the dark’ – Politico
Asia:
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- China Evicts Investment Firms Amid Fears of Unrest – Bloomberg
- US cop saves life of suicidal Chinese student in Italy – china.org.cn
- Goldman Cuts Hong Kong Property Seeing 20% Drop in Home Prices – Bloomberg
- Goldman Sachs nails the staggering size of China’s debt in 3 simple charts – Business Insider
- It’s Official: Japan Now has More Electric Car Charging Spots than Gas Stations* – Transport Evolved
- Japan Finance Minister Fires Off Again on Yen-Trading Concerns – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- NZ housing minister denies housing crisis – Interest.co.nz
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RBNZ’s housing dilemma – Interest.co.nz
- Labor finds $6 billion in spending cuts – Canberra Times
- Not a train wreck, but pretty close for PM – Canberra Times
- Why interest rates are heading to zero – Canberra Times
- Genworth ‘wary’ of Australian housing – Canberra Times
- ‘Multinationals know the game is up’ – Canberra Times
- Can parents help kids buy a first home? – Domain
- Abbott says the darndest things, but Turnbott is trying hard to outdo him – The Age
- The great budget-election circus – The Age
- SA transport minister slams Uber – The Australian
- PM won’t disclose tax plan cost – The Australian
- Shorten to promise $6 billion in savings in education loan crackdown – ABC News
- ASC Adelaide shipyards to shed 640 workers – ABC News
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