Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Hedge funds closures set for worst year since 2008 – FT
- Hedge Funds’ Unlikely Savior – Bloomberg
- Trump Win Set Off $2 Trillion Shock Rotation to Stocks From Debt – Bloomberg
- Make globalisation more inclusive or suffer the consequences – VOX
- Macropru’s fatal flaw – VOX
- The World’s Top Oil Market Is Starting to Lose Its Sheen – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump hires a third general, raising concerns about heavy military influence – Washington Post
- Donald Trump: I’ve Done Nothing to Divide the Country – NY Times
- The right has its own version of political correctness. It’s just as stifling. – Washington Post
- Why Donald Trump is TIME’s Person of the Year – Time
- Customs and Border chief: Migrant surge not letting up – Star Telegram
- Donald Trump’s most terrifying appointment – Washington Post
- US Steel wants to accelerate investments, bring back jobs, CEO says – CNBC
- AAA Grades Return for Securities Backed by Riskier Mortgages – Bloomberg
- GOP still splintered over Obamacare after Pence meeting – Politico
- Everything you were afraid to ask about white nationalism’s new place in American politics – VOX
Europe:
- Dana Rohrabacher on human rights abuses in Russia: ‘Oh, baloney!’ – Yahoo
- Knight Vinke warns European investment banks too small to thrive – Reuters
- My brawl over Brexit with Prime Minister, Theresa May – The New European
- Twenty reasons why Brexit will be even trickier than we thought – The Guardian
- MPs back government’s Brexit timetable – BBC
- Major cut in EU migrants risks long-term damage to UK economy – The Guardian
- Scottish Labour calls for new federal state to unite UK after Brexit – The Guardian
Asia:
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- China pledges to increase openness with foreign investment rules – Reuters
- Japan’s sex problem is so bad that people are quitting dating and marrying their friends – Business Insider
- China starts $21.8 billion offshore fund amid currency concerns – Reuters
- China’s Yuan Pessimists Are Multiplying – Bloomberg
- India unexpectedly keeps rates unchanged even as cash crunch roils economy – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Is Australia headed for its first recession in 25 years? – CNN Money
- Don’t mention the R word: Talk of recession is ‘alarmist’ says Treasurer Scott Morrison – Canberra Times
- Adani’s mega mine neither financially viable nor justified, says energy analyst – ABC
- Government killed emissions scheme despite advice it could shave $15 billion off electricity bills – The SMH
- The great ‘living within our means’ con: Why you’re more in debt than ever – ABC
- Here’s the truth about the ‘free ride’ that some Australians think Indigenous peoples get – SBS
- Climate policy: Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg achieve a rare trifecta of utter failure – The AFR
- Sydney – Lockout, last drinks laws relaxed after review – The SMH
- Credit might be cheap but a fifth of these borrowers struggle to make their mortgage repayments – realestate.com.au
- Revealed: Rio Tinto’s plan to use drones to monitor workers’ private lives – The Guardian
- Gas plants, not wind, may have been at fault in South Australia blackout : Renew Economy – Renew Economy
- Climate policy review: SA Premier Jay Weatherill calls for state-based emissions trading scheme – ABC
- Why power prices are higher without a carbon price – Renew Economy
- How 2016 Wrecked Malcolm Turnbull – BuzzFeed
- Mind the Gap: Woolworths scheme to hit suppliers for extra payments cleared in case against ACCC – ABC
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‘We can’t get rich by buying houses off each other’ – Interest.co.nz
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Bill English to be PM – Interest.co.nzEnglish ramps up capital spending – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- A Robot Will Never Be a Great Co-Worker – Bloomberg