Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Goldman Stock Hits Record on Bets Trump Will Unleash Wall Street – Bloomberg
- Hedge funds reportedly want to buy Mt. Gox bankruptcy claims – Arts Technica
- Credit Suisse to cut up to 6,500 jobs after reporting $2.4 billion loss – CNN Money
- A ‘magic bullet’ is about to push U.S. stocks higher – MarketWatch
- U.S. Bonds Are A Safer Bet This Year – Bloomberg
- Not just any tax cut can boost economic growth – CBS
Americas:
- Trump aides were in constant touch with senior Russian officials during campaign – CNN
- In the early weeks of the new administration, the humbling of a president – Washington Post
- The Missing Pieces in the Flynn Story – NY Times
- Retail CEOs to meet Trump in bid to kill U.S. border tax – Reuters
- Oklahoma hits 100 ° in the dead of winter, because climate change is real – Think Progress
- Yellen Rejects Trump Attacks on Dodd-Frank – Bloomberg
- Fed Chair Yellen: ’Unwise’ to wait too long to hike interest rates – CNBC
- Mental health professionals warn Trump is incapable of being president – The Independent
- Oroville Dam Crisis Is an Opportunity for Trump – Bloomberg
- Is Trump the New Boris Yeltsin? – Max Keiser
Europe:
- Mass sexual assaults by refugees in Frankfurt ‘completely made up’ – The Local
- US Allies In Europe Have Literally No Idea What’s Going On With The Trump Administration – BuzzFeed
- Russia deploys missile in apparent treaty violation – CNN
- Putin’s Central Banker – Bloomberg
- Russian Insiders Fear Washington Establishment Will Assassinate Trump – Info Wars
- Putin Starting to Wonder If His Puppets Are Smart Enough to Pull This Off – New Yorker
- The Blair Years: a view from the Treasury – The Independent
- Why Donald Trump is the catalyst that will put Greece on course to end its euro misery – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- Kim Jong Un’s Estranged Brother Murdered in Malaysia – Bloomberg
- China Credit Surging to Record Underscores PBOC Shift to Tighten – Bloomberg
- U.S. Eyes New Tactic to Press China – WSJ
- Currency deal with US possible – China Daily
- U.S. business in China warms to possible Trump trade policy shake-up – Reuters
- China Inflation Hits Multiyear High in January – Caixin Global
- On the frontline of China’s spending revolution: small loans, big data – Reuters
- The Hidden Side to the Reflation Trade Is China’s Surging Prices – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Turnbull’s new scare campaign is going to work – Canberra Times
- Greens want rorting MPs to go to jail – Canberra Times
- Crossbench push for entitlement rorts to go to police voted down – politics live – The Guardian
- Officeworks for sale as Wesfarmers looks to cash in – Canberra Times
- Most people think they’re morally superior to others – Canberra Times
- Ministers threaten tax increases if spending cuts are not passed – Canberra Times
- Treasurer threatens tax hike to fund NDIS – Yahoo
- What zero tolerance really means for Domino’s? – Canberra Times
- The coal war: Inside the fight against Adani’s plans to build Australia’s biggest coal mine – Canberra Times
- The Adani Group’s shocking record: legal research brief rings alarm bells for Carmichael mine project – Envirojustice
- Closing the Gap: A little window of hope amid the bleak picture for Indigenous Australians – ABC
- Waleed Aly offends bogans everywhere on The Project – News.com.au
- Are Australian households on the edge of a debt crisis? – ABC
- Want electricity reform? Start by giving power back to the states – The Conversation
- Centrelink robo-debt: govt pledges fairer deal – Canberra Times
- Morrison pushed NDIS ‘hypothecation’ announcement despite caution about timing from Turnbull’s office – The Conversation
- The end of Australia’s political consensus – The SMH
- FactCheck: is Australia on track to have the oldest pension age in the developed world? – The Conversation
- 2017 Could Be A “Huge Year” For Large-Scale Renewables In Australia – Clean Technica
- Multivitamins a waste of money and just create ‘very expensive urine’: AMA president – The Guardian
- Qld govt stares down budget threat – The Australian
- Budget plan unrealistic and will increase income tax burden, thinktank finds – The Guardian
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Battle of the boom figures – Interest.co.nz
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