Markets Macro & Investing
- Shaping the fourth industrial revolution – Project Syndicate
- BP slashes thousands of jobs in the wake of the oil price drop – Reuters
- Oil heading to $20USD per barrel as USD appreciates – IB Times
Asia/Middle East
- China’s 4Q GDP to be weakest since 2009 – Business Insider
- China’s two renminbi rates converge – FT
- Where does the Shia/Sunni Muslim divide after Saudi’s execution leave the West – Guardian
Europe
- Germany arrests 200 far righters in a riot in Leipzig – Guardian
- As it nears “boiling point” on immigration – Business Insider
- Suicide bomber kills 10 in Istanbul – Bloomberg
- Tens of thousands of doctors go on strike in UK today – Quartz
- Has the ECBs QE lifted inflation? Bruegel
- Warmer weather in UK leads to drop in industrial production – Reuters
Americas
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- Americans switch back to SUVs and gas guzzlers as oil prices plummets – Bloomberg
- Obama raises curtain on last Union Address as President – Bloomberg
- No surprise as white supremacist leader backs Donald Trump – Washington Post
- As Hillary Clinton attacks Bernie Sanders on gun control – Bloomberg (ridiculous, she’s running out of puff!)
Terra Incognita
Other
- Why NASA wants to go to Mars – Project Syndicate
- A mean feat as professional forecasters keep getting growth wrong – The Economist