North America:
- April Employment Report: 288,000 Jobs, 6.3% Unemployment Rate – Calculated Risk
- Obama’s Secretive, Corporate-Run TPP Trade Deal Got Stuck – Testosterone Pit
- Yellen’s Fed Resigned to Diminished Growth Expectations – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Euro Unemployment Holds Near Record Amid Factory Gains – Bloomberg
- Euro Area unemployment rate at 11.8% – Eurostat
- Eurozone manufacturing recovery broadens in April – Markit Economics
- Ukraine attacks rebel city, helicopter shot down – Reuters
- RBS turns corner as first-quarter profit trebles – Reuters
- Greek Parliament’s budget office questions primary surplus sustainability – Macropolis
Asia:
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- Great Graphic: Asia’s Decline as an Export Machine – Marc Chandler
- China tried to undermine economic data – FT
- Japan household spending hits four-decade high, wages key to outlook – Reuters
- Junket Figure’s Disappearance Shakes Macau’s Gambling Industry – WSJ
Local:
- Telstra’s $US2.4bn CSL sale approved – AFR
- Commodities boom not over -AFR
- Abbott bails on bali visit – TheOz
- Twiggy beefs up for China exports – TheOz
- Jolly Joe Hockey, the 1965 baby – SMH
- NSW Liberals’ credibility hanging by a thread before election – SMH
Other:
- Banking Bad ( Something to look out for on Monday ) – ABC
- A eulogy for twitter – The Atlantic , or Alternatively
- US , Germany fail to reach deal on spying – NYT