Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Global banking network’s role in shock transmission – VOX
- Madoff Victims Dealt Blow in Effort to Keep $875 Million – Bloomberg
- Dow, S&P close within 2% of all-time high despite tech drag – CNBC
- There are only two companies left with top-notch AAA credit ratings – Quartz
Americas:
- Why I Blame TV for Trump – Politico
- Trump’s ‘woman’s card’ comment escalates the campaign’s gender wars – Washington Post
- How Donald Trump Became the Kremlin’s Candidate – Politico
- Trump fails to impress foreign-policy experts – Politico
- Philippine Peso Sinks as Mayor Likened to Trump Leads Election Race – Bloomberg
- Puerto Rico to Call Moratorium If May Bond Payment Isn’t Delayed – Bloomberg
- Fed signals no rush to hike rates as economy hits soft patch – Reuters
- Brazil’s Economic Meltdown: Interview with Monica de Bolle – YouTube
Europe:
- In World Where Steel Is Money Loser, Russian Mills Find a Profit – Bloomberg
- MEPs dragged into Russia film row – Politico
- In Italy, one in three pizza makers isn’t Italian – Quartz
- The European Union always was a CIA project, as Brexiteers discover – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- Bank of Japan shocks markets by voting against more stimulus – The Guardian
- Bank of Japan Stuns Market by Holding Off on More Stimulus – Bloomberg
- Contaminated water and mental health: Evidence from Bangladesh – VOX
- China Wants to Own Small Stake in Web Firms – WSJ
- China’s $1 Trillion Bond Leverage Unwinds as Pimco Senses Panic – Bloomberg
- China’s ’Belt and Road’ Strategy – Bloomberg
- South China Sea tensions to dominate Sino-Asean talks in Singapore – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Day of reckoning coming for property investors – Interest.co.nz
- The core problem: property prices out of the reach of most – Interest.co.nz
- The $72 billion Gonski funding question – Canberra Times
- Raise the dole, spend less on the dying, and save $12b – Canberra Times
- Industry ‘livid’ over backpacker tax – Canberra Times
- Scene set for RBA v ScoMo showdown – Canberra Times
- Malcolm Turnbull reprises elements of Tony Abbott’s scare campaign to fight Labor plan – The Age
- A few home truths on tax spoil outlook for Tim Pallas’ Victorian budget bonanza – The Age
- Origin’s LNG project using ‘transfer pricing’ – The AFR
- 79 per cent of property owners to switch if negative gearing ditched: REIQ – The AFR
- ‘Kelly O’Dwyer channels Monty Python’ – The Australian
- Commonwealth Bank whistleblower alleges smear campaign – ABC News
- Victorian budget will survive property market drop, Government says – ABC News
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