Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world’s biggest carmaker – BBC
- Markets’ Postelection Calm Is Eerie and Historic – WSJ
- The Markets Don’t Believe in Trump for the Long Term – WSJ
- Worst S&P 500 Drop Since Election Day Emboldens Trump’s Haters – Bloomberg
- Immigration ban ends Donald Trump’s stock-market honeymoon – MarketWatch
- Stocks Fell. Are Investors Finally Taking Trump At His Word? – FiveThirtyEight
- Life expectancy vs. healthcare expenditure over time – Our World In Data
- Playing with Economic Matches – Project Syndicate
- Who Are the Biggest Losers in Trump’s Potential Trade War? – The Atlantic
- Bond markets set for a taste of the 60s as inflation picks up – Reuters
- Goldman: Europe’s Stocks to Return Double U.S. Equities in 2017 – Bloomberg
- Stock Markets and the Rule of Law – The Reformed Broker
Americas:
- How Trump’s immigration directive exposed GOP rifts – Washington Post
- White House Lowballs Impact of Trump Ban – Daily Beast
- Tensions flare as Koch promises to hold Trump accountable – Washington Post
- Trump’s border tax is not the right fix for U.S.-Mexico trade – PBS
- Republicans Have One Big Incentive to Stick With Trump – NY Times
- President Trump’s Mexican Standoff – WSJ
- Alarm Over the Fed’s $4.45 Trillion Balance Sheet Is Silly – Economist’s View
- Trump’s point man on trade: ’We envision a more Germany-style economy’ – CNBC
- Mexico sees signs of U.S. change on wall payment – Reuters
- The Mexican peso is taking off again – Business Insider
Europe:
- Theresa May is booed over her response to Trump’s ban before flying to Dublin – Independent
- Moodys: Second review delay ’credit negative for Greek banks – Capital.gr
- New euro zone loans to Greece hinge on IMF participation in bailout – Reuters
- Not again? Why Greece could be on track for another bailout – CNBC
- Putin’s Russia in biggest Arctic military push since Soviet fall – Reuters
- ’History is repeating itself’: Russia is making its biggest push into the Arctic since the Soviet Union fell – Business Insider
- London Property Market Frozen by Winter Chill – Bloomberg
- EU’s Verhofstadt sees Trump as one of a trio of threats to bloc – Reuters
- Southern EU leaders urge firm response to Trump – Euractiv
Asia:
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- Chinese firms extend Lunar New Year wishes to Trump via Times Square billboard – SCMP
- Japanese Arcade Pioneer And ’Father of Pac-Man’ Has Died – Bloomberg
- US-China war increasingly a ’reality,’ Chinese army official says – CNBC
- With Pen Plan, China Etches Nationalist Economic Policy – WSJ
- China Economy Becoming More Strict, ‘Less Open’ – Forbes
- Japan’s Abenomics mastermind calls for aggressive fiscal policy – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia Says Trump Will Honor One-Time Deal to Accept Refugees – NY Times
- Our government is too cowardly to stand up to fascism – The SMH
- Malcolm Turnbull, stop the mealy-mouthed platitudes and stand up for our values – The Guardian
- Most Australians oppose government’s $1bn Adani loan for coal railway line – The Guardian
- Australia must not become an ‘unskilled enclave’ in Asia, Bill Shorten to warn – The Guardian
- Liberals face wipe-out in key Western Australian seat, polling shows – The Guardian
- Banned asbestos is slipping past Australian customs officials: inquiry – The SMH
- Aussie scientists cook up material 200 times stronger than steel out of soybean oil – ABC
- Chinese investors pumping billions of dodgy cash into Australian property – News.com.au
- Government pays compensation to Save the Children workers removed from Nauru – ABC
- Men quietly losing weight-loss battles as focus remains on women – ABC
- ‘Doctors Have No Idea What To Do With Medicinal Cannabis In Australia’ – BuzzFeed
- Bill Shorten addresses National Press Club, vows to help pass transparency reform and warns of alienation – ABC
- FactCheck: What are the facts on Australia’s foreign aid spending? – The Conversation
- Centrelink unable to track how many overpayments caused by error – The Guardian
- How Australia can spread the benefits of our bulging infrastructure pipeline – The Conversation
- Australia has a strong case for joining the EU – The SMH
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Housing investors still stepping back – Interest.co.nz