Global Macro:
- Stocks still beat bonds – Burton Malkiel in the Wall Street Journal. He’s the guy that wrote “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” – HT Business Insider
- Standard Chartered has agreed a $340 million fine – everyone is covering this but here is The Guardian’s take
- Climate Change – “That sinking feeling”. The Economist Babbage
United States:
- US Retail sales hit 5 month high – Sky
Europe:
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- Europe – what goes around comes around. 5 of 17 nations in recession BBC
- Euro-Zone rot keeps spreading – Wall Street Journal (great head line)
- Eurozone economy sinks – Al Jazeera
- Romania out of recession, Czechs, Hungary slip deeper into the mire – Reuters
- Bloomberg on EU banking plans calling for ECB to share power – here
- Greece got a debt issue away last night – Wall Street Journal
Asia:
- China’s ghost towns and phantom malls – Yes again, BBC
- China’s golden years are gone – Bloomberg
- Hot money turns cold on China – Wall Street Journal
Local:
- Mmmmm – Blackwood sinks after Tinkler misses deadline. The Australian
- Don’t intervene in the Aussie Dollar – David Uren in the Oz
- ACCC getting titchy over comments on Facebook pages – SmartCompany
- ASIC warns website operators over Crowd Funding sites – Smart Company
- Just another reason why the Australian Dollar is so well bid – Melbourne World’s most livable city. ABC
- Retailers urged to stop making unsuitable clothing for young girls – SMH. Here here, getting very hard for me and my wife to dress our 7 year old appropriately from some stores.
- NAB feels squeeze in the quarter – SMH
Other/Interesting:
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- The lies we tell ourselves – Forbes
- Fukushima’s mutant butterflies – CNN
- As a Fibonacci lover I found this one very interesting – Guardian Science