Here’s a list of things Reynard read over the weekend.
Global:
- US activity picks up, hopes for euro zone rise Reuters
- Eygpt’s Mursi to meet IMF aide on $4.8bn loan request Reuters
- What’s inside America’s banks The Atlantic
North America:
- Re-branding the “trillion-dollar coin” Interfluiduty
- Default ceiling: Bluffing into the nuts Calculated Risk
- US approves billions in Superstorm sandy aid Al Jazeera
- White house weighs new ‘grand bargain’ on taxes,spending Washington Post
- America’s post-2014 Afganistan game plan The Diplomat
- Fed Holds up $10 billion mortgage pact with banks, OCC WSJ
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Asia:
- Giant Tuna sells for record $1.8mil in Japan France24
- Journalists in China make rare stand against censors after changes to New Year editorial Washington Post
- China ‘biggest’ nuclear plant construction resumes France24
- China chills hit 28-year low, trapping ships in ice Reuters
- China ex-housing official probed for corruption, Xinhua reports Bloomberg
- India’s African “Safari” The Diplomat
- Zinc hungry China asks Canada to back giant mine France24
- North Korea’s new master plan Testosterone Pit
- India takes aim at poverty with cash transfer program NYT
Europe:
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- Europe’s crisis of values George Soros
- Spain taps pension fund in borrowing spree WSJ
- Switzerland and Britain are now at currency war Ambrose
- Why the Irish deserve a helping hand to leave their bailout programme The Economist
- Francoise Hollande remains intent on introducing punishing top income-tax The Economist
- Air France in advanced talks to buy Alitalia Reuters
- German Foreign Minister: Greece didn’t get a blank check and neither will Cyprus eFXNews
- The Europe speech Cameron should give FT
- Portugal does not need debt restructuring: IMF’s Lagarde Reuters
- Triple-dip recession rises as UK service sector shrinks Telegraph UK
Local:
- Growth expected to continue, but at a sedate pace BusinessDay
- What the population boom means for housing TheOz
- ‘Let it be’ as China takes stake in SA power grid AFR
- Local carmakers on the skids AFR
- Dividends an insight into Rinehart empire BusinessDay
- Labor spins research to record high TheOZ
Other:
- Bigger brains come at a cost Scientific America
- Footage of massive solar flare WSJ
- Can computers be funny ? NYT
- 27 science fictions that became science facts in 2012 BuzzFeed
- Microsoft says Google trying to undermine Windows Phone The Register , burglars suggest otherwise BI
- Cerebral circuitry FT
- Extra pounds mean lower chance of death WSJ