China
- China slashes interest rates, banks’ reserve ratio for the sixth time in a year in bid to stem slowdown after lacklustre third-quarter growth – SCMP
- China says outflows of money normal and not a sign of panic capital flight – SCMP
- Economics professor has solution for China’s millions of bachelors: let them share wives, or even marry each other – SCMP
- Xi says China has reduced iron and steel capacity – Nikkei Asian Review
- China cuts rates again as growth engine stalls – Reuters
- China’s economic data is dodgy, but it doesn’t matter – Reuters, Clyde Russell
- China’s Economy at the Fifth Plenum – Project-Syndicate
- Ceiling on deposit rates scrapped – Nikkei Asian Review
- China Cuts Interest Rates for Sixth Time Since November – NY Times
- China interest rate cut fuels fears over ailing economy – Guardian
Asia
- Negative rates point to loss of market function – Nikkei Asian Review
- A stabilized East Timor creating opportunities for foreign businesses – Nikkei Asian Review
- Turkey — Europe’s backdoor – Nikkei Asian Review
- Japan to assist natural gas processing projects in Turkmenistan – Nikkei Asian Review
- Japan industry body cuts FY crude steel output forecast on slowing exports – Reuters
- South Korea’s economy expands at fastest rate in three quarters – SCMP
United Kingdom
- HSBC will probably stay put in London – Reuters
- Home invasion: fifth of adults live with parents until they’re at least 26 – Guardian
- Has the cost of tax credits really ballooned? – New Statesman
- What actually happens if Britain leaves the EU? – New Statesman
Europe
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- Eurozone recovery picks up speed as ECB readies stronger stimulus – Telegraph
- Top Greek Tax Official Is Dismissed – NY Times
- EU takes member states to court over ‘bail-in’ laws to protect taxpayers – Telegraph
- French President Hollande: Greece needs debt relief – CBS
- Renzi’s risky budget strategy – Bruegel
- Inflation expectations and global risks: the need for ECB action – Bruegel…a week old but this explains a lot…
United States
- America’s Heartland Feels a Chill From Collapsing Commodity Prices – NY Times
- On the decline: 1 in 10 U.S. workers self-employed – CBS
- US faster payments: Banking’s technological backwater – Euromoney
- McDonald’s Just Had Its First Great Quarter in Two Years. The Turnaround Might Actually Be Working. – Slate
- Canada Just Voted for Bigger Budget Deficits. So Should America! – Slate
- U.S. Regulators Approve First New Nuclear Plant in Nearly 20 Years — Energy Journal – WSJ
- American Households Confusion, Delusions & Illusions, Living on the Brink of Catastrophe – Market Oracle
Americas
- Argentine Front-Runner for President Is Expected to Resolve Standoff With U.S. Hedge Funds – NY Times
- How the Liberal victory is a major setback for Canada’s wealthy – Financial Post…Canada’s ‘Liberals’ and our Torynuffs should not be confused…
- Canada does not have a youth jobless crisis – Financial post
- The Overlooked Forces Driving Brazil’s Inflation to 10 Percent – Bloomberg
Terra Incognita
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- Who is calling the shots on Australia’s monetary policy? – Fairfax…certainly not everyday people, future house buyers, or those looking to work in globally competitive jobs……
- Bill Shorten starts to become an issue for Labor – Fairfax
- The Malcolm Turnbull interview: ‘If something isn’t working, chuck it out’ – Guardian
- I am a reformer: Malcolm Turnbull sets course for growth and unity – Fairfax
- All eyes on RBA after bank rate hikes – Fairfax
- Aussie banks may need fresh capital hikes – Reuters
- ACCC raises concerns over $47.7b Halliburton’s Baker deal – Fairfax
- Buttressing the financial pillars of our economy – Fairfax, Gitto
- Tax reform aside, there’s no real case to kill off dividend imputation – The Conversation
- Register undermines NZ’s reputation – NZ Herald
Commodities
- Investors eschew gold’s safe-haven role, leaving price low for longer – Reuters
- China’s ‘Silk Road’ initiative to give more options to copper smelters – Reuters
- If China’s slowing, why are its copper imports so strong? – Reuters
- After year of pain, OPEC is about to crush the U.S. shale oil boom – Financial Post
- Commodities are dead. Long live commodities – Mineweb
- Cash starved mines draw new money on bet metal slump ends soon – Mineweb
- Smoke gets in your eyes: The future of China’s love of steel – Platts
- Iron Ore Is Buckling Again as Supply Jumps, China Demand Sags – Bloomberg
- The War Over the Periodic Table – Bloomberg
Capital Markets
- City watchdogs signal end to ‘unsustainable’ deluge of regulation – Telegraph
- ‘Perfect storm’ to lead to euro-dollar parity by December? – CNBC
- Huh? It Costs How Much to Trade a Bond? – WSJ
- The eternal struggle of the bank treasurer – Euromoney…very good read…
- Draghi’s Signal Adds $190 Billion to Negative-Yield Universe – Bloomberg
- Are We Tight Yet? The Fed’s Problem in Finding the Neutral Rate – Bloomberg
Global Macro
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- Markets bolstered by China interest rate cuts to stimulate growth – Telegraph
- The world would be better off without debt – Reuters, Hadas
- Britain backs China’s bid for free-trade pact with the European Union – SCMP
- World’s biggest shipping line Maersk slashes profit forecasts amid China slump – Telegraph
- Why China doesn’t want a Fed rate hike – Market Watch
- DEFLATION: NO UPSIDE FOR THE 99% – Pieria
- RENTS AND RETURNS– Pieria
- What China’s Rate Cut Will and Won’t Do – Bloomberg, El-Erian
- IMF Said to Give China Strong Signs of Reserve-Currency Nod – Bloomberg
…and furthermore…
- Wasted Drugs and the Creation of Superbugs – Project-Syndicate
- Are you a democratic socialist like Bernie Sanders? Take the quiz. – Washington Post
- The Porn Business Isn’t Anything Like You Think It Is – Wired