Global Macro / Markets / Investment:
- Race to innovate could save world economy from itself – Nikkei Asian Review
- Global stock markets lose ground as Chinese industry reels – Telegraph
- Brent crude price stumbles as Iran raises stakes in oil price war – Telegraph
- Commodity funds hemorrhage cash as investors bail at record pace – Financial Post
- Speculators pile on bearish gas bets before market’s abrupt turn – Reuters
- Survival of fittest for commodities shipping firms in 2016 – Reuters
- Western oil firms must innovate or die – Guardian
- Global financial markets starting 2016 where they ended in 2014 – SCMP
- Biologists create ‘universal algorithm’ to forecast disaster that could help stock investors cash in ahead of a market crisis – SCMP
- Tuna stocks face collapse if nations do not act – Nikkei Asian Review
- Faber Seeing Recession Clashes With Yellen, Likes Treasuries – Bloomberg
Americas:
- LNG hope and OPEC’s tightrope: What’s in store for Canada’s oil patch in 2016 – Financial Post
- Brazil Faces a Modern-Day Plague – Bloomberg
- Stopping Venezuelas harvest of Sorrow – Project Syndicate
Europe:
- Putin’s Bailout Bank Needs a Rescue; It’s an $18 Billion Whopper – Bloomberg
- Tories accused of ‘tax on marriage’ with stamp duty hike – Telegraph…how much longer before we see varying stamp duty rates for RE here?…
- UK manufacturing slumped in 2015 – Telegraph
- Factories forecast to shed tens of thousands of jobs in 2016 – Guardian
Asia/Middle East:
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- China seeks bigger voice in global finance issues – SCMP
- Putting China’s “slowdown” in context – Bloomberg
- Foreign firms boosted by China’s new law on baby formula – SCMP
- China appears ready to begin mass production of first stealth fighter jet, state media suggest – SCMP
- China’s powerful new space camera for ‘civilian use’ launched into high orbit – SCMP
- Why China’s traders love manipulated stocks – Bloomberg (and in other news, bread is now available in sliced form!)
- Asia to play pivotal role in ‘new world order’ of cities – Nikkei Asian Review
- Saudi Arabia reveals cuts plan to shrink $98bn budget deficit – Guardian
- China Fault Lines: Where Economic Turbulence Could Start in 2016 – Bloomberg
- China clamps down on online lenders, vows to cleanse the market – SCMP
- Squeezed by Low Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia Cuts Spending to Shrink Deficit – NY Times
- Saudi riyal in danger as oil war escalates – Telegraph, AEP
Local:
- Bad hangover expected for property market in 2016 – Fairfax
- Nathan Tinkler’s new coal venture will try to raise $30m to fund a new coal plan – Fairfax
- Hopes dashed by Coalition decision to dump Gonski school funding model – Guardian
Other:
- The best female heroes in movie cinema? Studio Ghibli – The Guardian (I’m the biggest fan of Miyazaki, The Wind Rises being one of my all time favourite movies. The new Star Wars movie is also excellent at representing women – and men – not as equals, but as who they are. Story telling is getting better I think, even in this Age of Kardashian)
- Is it OK to have kids? – Aeon…or is it better, for their sake and ours, not to have them?…
- Carbon doped with nitrogen dramatically improves storage capacity of supercapacitors – Phys.Org
- Record El Nino, climate change drive extreme weather – Phys.Org
- Second contagious form of cancer found in Tasmanian devils – Phys.Org
- Scientists detect inherited traits tied to sleep, wake, and activity cycles – Phys.Org
- When the poor are forced to the suburbs, getting to work becomes a huge challenge – Washington Post…but rentseeking on their travel needs can be a nice little earner…