Macro & Markets
- China targets counterweight in gold trade with yuan fix – SCMP
- USDA report pushes grain futures to ‘staggering’ heights – ABC
- ‘Spectacular rallies’ await investors who buy Greece now – Market Watch...let’s see those cojones…
- Some Chinese Are Taking 22% Margin Loans to Finance Stock Purchases – Bloomberg…maybe they should invest in Greek debt…
- What is Full Employment? – Project-Syndicate
- Getting the Trans-Pacific Partnership Right – Project-Syndicate
- Emerging Markets After the Fed Hikes Rates – Project-Syndicate, Roubini
- Bill Gross: Here’s what could trigger a ‘run on the shadow banks’ – CNBC
- The euro is only headed down: Goldman Sachs – CNBC
- Great Graphic: IMF and Sovereign Exposures to Greece – Marc to Market
Asia
- Activity in China’s factories shrinks at slower pace in June, but job cuts mount – SCMP
- Spending cap likely needed if Japan is to meet fiscal reform goal – Japan Times
- South Korea exports down for sixth straight month in June – SCMP
- China’s central bank reveals its weak hand – Market Watch
- Can China Beat Deflation? – Project-Syndicate
- World Bank censures China for interfering in financial sector – Reuters
- Chinese investors are blaming the US for their stock market drop – Quartz
Europe
- Euro Area Ends Greece Negotiations Until Referendum Outcome – Bloomberg
- Echoes of Greece in Britain’s growing reliance on debt-fuelled growth – Telegraph
- Greek failure to make IMF payment deals historic blow to eurozone – Guardian
- UK’s current account deficit is the forgotten deficit – Guardian
- IMF’s uneven dealings with Greece is saga of embarrassment – Guardian
- Greece Is Placed in ‘Arrears,’ as the I.M.F. Spells ‘Default’ – NY Times
- Greece just defaulted, but the danger is only beginning – Washington Post
- Greece should leave Europe, join with the Levant – Market Watch
- Europe’s Attack on Greek Democracy – Project-Syndicate, Stiglitz
- Waiting for Greece – probability and implications of leaving the EU – Mineweb
- Europe Wants to Punish Greece With Exit – Bloomberg
- Greek Pension Rationing Begins; Poll Shows Tsipras Backed – Bloomberg
- The Extreme Economic Outlier That Is Greece, In 7 Charts – FiveThirtyEight
- Greeks have been misled into believing they can live beyond their means – Quartz
Americas
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- The Bonds That Broke Puerto Rico – NY Times
- As labor advocates hail Obama’s overtime plan, employers brace selves – Washington Post
- A strong dollar cuts U.S. firms’ value but makes them look more profitable – Washington Post
- Puerto Rico poses bigger threat to U.S. investors than Greece – Market Watch
- Export-Import Bank expires – CBS
- As Export-Import Bank charter expires, backers warn of economic damage – LA Times
- Bank of Canada July rate cut back on the table after GDP shocker, economists say – Financial Post
Terra Speculatorus
- Property boom accelerates in Sydney, Melbourne, slide builds in mining states – ABC
- Manufacturing slump points to unemployment increase: Ai Group – ABC
- Report shows Australia’s housing market is overvalued – Fairfax
- Australia iron ore exports to rise 10% as Rinehart jumps in – Mineweb
- A First Recession for Australian Millennials – Bloomberg, Pesek
- NZ nears top of world aged worker index – NZ Herald
- Sydney has the highest poverty rate of any capital city in Australia – Fairfax
- Grattan Institute hits out at Treasury and federal budgets based on ‘hope’ – Fairfax
- ‘Inconsistent’ quality tests see China reject Australian coal – Fairfax
- Property prices boom 12 per cent in 2014 – and 58 per cent in one lucky pocket – Fairfax
- ‘New normal’ of weak commodity prices, strong volumes in Australia forecasts – Reuters, Clyde Russell