Macro & Markets
- Oil-producing nations dip into sovereign wealth funds to fill gaps – Nikkei Asian Review
- $3 trillion corporate credit crunch looms as debtors face day of reckoning, says IMF – Telegraph
- Crude awakening: Beware oil’s ‘dead cat bounce’ – CNBC
- China and Europe may team up to snub TPP – CNBC
- Disregard the Dow Theory at your own peril – Market Watch
- Four Ways the Oil Price Crash Is Hurting the Global Economy – Bloomberg
- Why the Ride up for Interest Rates Could Be Much Bumpier Than the Road Down – Bloomberg
- Deutsche Bank May Swell $14 Billion Selloff in China Bank Stakes – Bloomberg
- Bond Markets Message: More Stimulus? – Short Side of Long…good charts…
Asia
- China’s bond market bubble may be unsustainable – SCMP
- Japan logs current account surplus in Aug. for 14th month – Nikkei Asian Review
- Bank of Japan keeps policy steady, but more easing still expected at end of month – SCMP
- China: Don’t worry about our economy – Telegraph
- China’s graft watchdog investigates former Sinopec chairman – Reuters
- Japan bought record Indonesian bonds in August – CNBC
- China will be able to support the yuan for a long, long time – Market Watch
Europe
- The real ticking time bomb for the Tories is home ownership – Telegraph
- German exports record biggest slump since 2009 – Telegraph
- Can France ever be an economic powerhouse again? – Market Watch
- The Case for Euro-Optimism – NY Times
- Europe’s capital markets union and the new single market challenge – VoxEU
- The Bank of England’s Predicament in Five Charts – Bloomberg
- Evolving NPL Challenge in Europe – Marc to Market…great graphic…
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Americas
- Clinton says she does not support new Pacific trade pact – Nikkei Asian Review
- Wage growth is real indicator Fed should be watching – SCMP
- Why lifting oil export ban can help U.S. foreign policy – Reuters
- Forget Mexico—Is Peru the region’s secret success story? – CNBC
- In Vancouver, North America’s most expensive city, rich Chinese take the blame for skyrocketing home prices – Financial Post
- UDI panel digs into foreign ownership issues – Vancouver Sun
- Canada and the Oil Price Shock – Sober Look
- Head of VW in US will tell Congress he knew of emissions rigging in early 2014 – Guardian
Our world
- Housing downturn bigger risk to Australia than Chinese hard landing: economist – ABC, Janda
- Rents fall across most cities in September – ABC, Janda
- Coal Mining’s Promise Falls Through for Remote Australian Town – NY Times
- Westinghouse eyes Australian nuclear potential, links with local suppliers – Fairfax
- Treasury tells Malcolm Turnbull: We’re here to help sell tax reform – Fairfax
- Hong Kong’s CLP sells Australia gas facilities to rationalise asset portfolio – SCMP
- Fiji pulls off a coup with $200m offering – Nikkei Asian Review
- BlueScope Steel workers vote to forfeit jobs, working conditions in bid to prevent Port Kembla plant closure – ABC
- Canada has an ISDS clause with the US. It has faced 35 challenges. Is this Australia’s future? – The Conversation….something to think about…..
- Australia Post’s Ahmed Fahour calls for work traineeships to counter lure of extremism – Fairfax…there’s a lot in this idea….
- The Big Read: From Taranaki to Africa – NZ Herald…Stephen Jennings: in his way a figure of legend and a very interesting man to have a drink with….
…and furthermore…
- Don’t trust your financial adviser the way you trust your doctor – Telegraph
- President Obama puts his finger on the real danger of robots – Washington Post
- For decades, the government steered millions away from whole milk. Was that wrong? – Washington Post
- The one number that’s eerily good at predicting your success in love – Washington Post
- The other deepwater battleground – Reuters…very important for Australia…
- Volkswagen and the Future of Honesty – Project-Syndicate, Singer….honesty has no future if it is chained to capital…
- The Bezzle Years – Project-Syndicate
- World’s oceans facing biggest coral die-off in history, scientists warn – Guardian
- Why Are Corporate Profit Margins So High? – PragCap
- Unintended effects of anti-tax avoidance laws on multinational firms: Evidence from controlled foreign company rules – VoxEU
- Rupert Murdoch suggests US President Barack Obama is not a ‘real black’ president – Fairfax…and Uncle Rupert’s expertise in Black President genuineness is?…