Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Investors Have Never Loved OPEC So Much as Cartel Sticks to Cuts – Bloomberg
- Alibaba CEO Warns That ’If Trade Stops, War Starts’ – Gizmodo
- How One Blogger Blew Up the Way ETFs Work – Investor Place
- Wall Street Is Even More Craven Than We Thought – Huffington Post
- Taibbi: Extreme Vetting, But Not for Banks – Rolling Stone
- World leaders duped by manipulated global warming data – Mail Online
Americas:
- Former CIA chief: Trump’s travel ban hurts American spies — and America – Washington Post
- Donald Trump’s Questionable Political Instincts – Commentary
- Trump’s Radical Anti-Americanism – New Yorker
- Farmers and Texans would lose most from barriers to trade with Mexico – The Economist
- Chelsea Clinton Is the Last Thing the Democratic Party Needs – NY Observer
- Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Is Using H-1B Visas To Pay Low Wages To Immigrants – Huffington Post
- Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying – NY Times
- ’The Senate is coming apart’ – Politico
- Canada, Leading the Free World – NY Times
- Trump wants to renegotiate NAFTA — here’s what you need to know – Business Insider
Europe:
- More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead – NY Times
- Trump’s continued defense of Putin confounds Republicans – Washington Post
- Pelosi calls for probe of possible Russian blackmail of Trump – Politico
- Republicans denounce Trump’s defense of ’killer’ Putin – Politico
- U.S. Suggests Path to End Russian Sanctions – WSJ
- Attention Trade Warriors: Germany’s Surplus Is on the Wane – Bloomberg
- France election: Far-right’s Le Pen rails against globalisation – BBC
- Greek debt crisis: an existentialist drama with no good end in sight – The Guardian
- The Italexit Report by Mediobanca is a terrible mess – ricpuglisi.it
- Response to Brexit White Paper: ‘full of wishes but light on detail’ – sussex.ac.uk
Asia:
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- Overseas Chinese acquisitions worth $75bn cancelled last year – FT
- Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80% – zmescience.com
- China Gains on the U.S. in the Artificial Intelligence Arms Race – NY Times
- More controls in China’s complex economy – The Star
- China To Emphasize Economic Stability Over Reform Agenda in 2017 – China Money Network
Trans-Tasman:
- Cory Bernadi to formally split with Liberal Party in next 48 hours – ABC
- Rats like Cory Bernardi will merely help to sink the Liberal ship – The Age
- Cory Bernardi will be shocked by crossbench workload, Xenophon says – ABC
- George Christensen warns Malcolm Turnbull the government’s position could become ‘untenable’ – The SMH
- Support for Coalition slips to lowest level since Malcolm Turnbull took leadership – 9News
- Malcolm Turnbull reveals Liberal Party too broke to pay federal director Tony Nutt in 2015 – The Age
- Malcolm Turnbull’s last stand begins now and he’ll be lucky to last the year – The SMH
- Malcolm Turnbull wants us to think he’s an energy magician – Ross Gittins – The SMH
- Turnbull needs more than thought bubbles – The AFR
- Centrelink staff to strike amid debt-recovery controversy – ABC
- Divide between rich and poor in Australia is growing – The SMH
- With more than one in 10 Australians now vegetarian and that number rising, restaurants are upping their meatless offerings – Courier Mail
- Australians almost united in their desire to manufacture more at home – The SMH
- Australia’s property boom showing signs of slowing as buyers hold back – The SMH
- NBN defends transparency criticisms, spruiks the future of a connected continent post 2020 – News.com.au
- Scott Morrison labels reports of renewed marriage equality push ‘fake news’ – The Guardian
- Apartment owner powerless after discovering tenant was illegally renting home on Airbnb – Domain
- Melbourne apartments: number of bedrooms hard to pinpoint as developers reign – Domain
- Grattan Institute report finds 40 per cent of school students disengaged – ABC
- Liberals are ‘in turmoil’ – The Australian
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