Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Battered, Apologetic and Still Pitching Their Hedge Funds – NY Times
- US Congressional Leaders Agree to Lift 40-Year Ban on Oil Exports – WSJ
- Congress Reaches Fiscal Agreement That Ends U.S. Oil Export Ban – Bloomberg
- This Junk Bond Derivative Index Is Saying Something Scary About Defaults – Bloomberg
- The Government’s Financial Watchdog Just Warned Us That Another Third Avenue-Style Bond Fund Run Is Likely – WSJ
Americas:
- Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement–December 16, 2015 – Federal Reserve
- Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era; Signals 4 Quarter-Point 2016 Increases – Bloomberg
- Fed Removes Reverse Repo Cap to Ensure Control Over Rates – Bloomberg
- The Federal Reserve may be jumping the gun – FT
- What Happens When the Fed Raises Rates, in One Rube Goldberg Machine – NY Times
- The last time the Fed raised interest rates – Marketplace
- The SEC Will Allow Stocks to Be Issued And Traded Over the Internet Via Bitcoin’s Blockchain – Wired
- Donald Trump issued a remarkably blunt denunciation of the Iraq War during the debate – VOX
Europe:
- Physicists in Europe Find Tantalizing Hints of a Mysterious New Particle – NY Times
- UK Labour Market Statistics, December 2015 – ons.gov.uk
- The Great Greek Bank Robbery – Project Syndicate
- Carney defends forward guidance – FT
- Vladimir Putin offers Donald Trump fans a glimpse of the possible – FT
Asia:
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- Mass Layoffs in China’s Coal Country Threaten Unrest – NY Times
- China’s Workers Are Fighting Back as Economic Dream Fades – WSJ
- What Japan and Australia can tell us about low US interest rates – VOX
- Shipping Index Plunges to Fresh Record Amid China Steel Slump – Bloomberg
Local:
- What does 2016 hold for property? – The AFR
- ATO to name 579 companies that paid no tax – The AFR
- Cut deeper, audit head tells Turnbull – The AFR
- Morrison flags taking IR reform to next election – The AFR
- SMSFs average $1m for the first time – The AFR
- Overtime nation: professionals are putting in a six-day week – The AFR
- Labor, doctors lead cuts backlash – Canberra Times
- Economists call for lifting of book import restrictions – Canberra Times
- Zero tax: Public companies in spotlight – Canberra Times
- ‘Cut deeper and economy tanks‘ – The Australian
- Budget needs back-up plans – The Australian
- Vocational education shake-up: Victorian students to pay more under proposed changes – ABC News
- ‘Almost all my friends live at home’: Adult children living with parents becoming ‘normal’ in Australia – ABC News
- Australia’s biggest companies bagging $100m in sales each year under tax microscope – ABC News
- Financial transactions linked to terrorism up 300 per cent: Austrac – ABC News
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