Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- S&P 500 Could Report Earnings Growth of 6% for Q4’16 – Fact Set
- What Oxfam’s misleading stat gets wrong about inequality – Fusion
- How hedge funds would benefit from open-sourcing software – News Week
- In the Wake of a Tumultuous Year, the Global Elite Face a World of Uncertainty – WSJ
- Xi Jinping in Davos, Making the Most of a Waning Era – WSJ
- Saudi Arabia Sees No Need to Extend OPEC Deal Beyond Six Months – Bloomberg
- A Shifting Global Economic Landscape: Update to the World Economic Outlook – IMF
- High Speed Traders Are Taking Over Bitcoin – Bloomberg
- Why these economists say the usual explanation for the financial crisis is wrong – Washington Post
- World’s largest fund manager demands cuts to executive pay and bonuses – The Guardian
Americas:
- Fear Spurs Support for Health Law as Republicans Work to Repeal It – NY Times
- Just when you thought the Trump ethics disaster couldn’t get worse, it did – Washington Post
- Trump, and the world, readies for a ‘leap into the dark’ – Politico
- As Inauguration Nears, Trump Keeps World Leaders on Edge – NY Times
- Poll: 74 percent want to see Trump’s tax returns – The Hill
- Trump Attacks BMW and Mercedes, but Auto Industry Is a Complex Target – NY Times
- Corporations Open the Cash Spigot for Trump’s Inauguration – NY Times
Europe:
- U.K. Leader to Seek Clean Break From EU – WSJ
- Theresa May to confirm UK exit from EU single market – The Guardian
- Hundreds of U.S. Marines land in Norway, irking Russia – Reuters
- In response to Trump, France’s Hollande says EU needs no advice from outsiders – Reuters
- Brexit trade deal with US ’puts NHS, environment and food safety all at risk’, Theresa May warned – The Independent
- Carney Sees Brexit Consumer Slowdown Ahead After 2016 Strength – Bloomberg
- Germany hits back at Trump criticism of refugee policy and BMW tariff threat – The Guardian
- Germany hits out at Donald Trump after he labels Nato ’obsolete’ and threatens car makers with 35pc tariffs – The Telegraph
- Norway’s $885bn-nil advantage in Britain’s sea of social troubles – The Guardian
- EU citizens in UK could face ’deliberate hostility’ policy after Brexit – The Guardian
- European leaders shocked as Trump slams NATO and E.U., raising fears of transatlantic split – Washington Post
Asia:
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- India Is No Longer the World’s Fastest-Growing Large Economy, IMF Says – WSJ
- South Korea prosecutors seek arrest of Samsung heir-apparent – FT
- Alibaba Looks to Bricks and Mortar With Bid for Mall Operator in China – NY Times
- Abe’s No. 2 brands Trump ’hysterical,’ urges him to lay off threats – Japan Times
- South Korea Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of Samsung Group Leader in Bribery Case – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- The ministers leading the war on the poor – Canberra Times
- Religious group linked to Rise Up Australia party loses charity status – The Guardian
- Immigration Department spent more than $1 billion without proper authorisation, independent audit alleges – ABC
- Pensioners and disabled next in line in Centrelink robo-debt campaign – Canberra Times
- Centrelink’s controversial data matching program to target pensioners and disabled, Labor calls for suspension – ABC
- Ipsos survey: Australians want a strong leader to take country back from rich and powerful – The SMH
- Parents upset with requirements to buy tablets and laptops for primary school children – ABC
- Challenge against Bob Day returns to court – SBS
- Hanson denies using taxpayer money for One Nation’s Queensland campaign – The Guardian
- Australia should invest in coal power to reduce emissions, minister says – The Guardian
- Rio Tinto steps up production as iron ore prices surge: economy – ABC
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Mortgage and deposit rate rises to keep coming – Interest.co.nz