Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- It Was a Stock Picker’s Market In the First Quarter. Too Bad About the Stock Picks – Bloomberg
- Simple vs Complex investing – The Reformed Broker
- The Big Mistake Investors Still Make – WSJ
- Regulators seen as exhausted in effort to end too-big-to-fail banks – Market Watch
- IMF’s Lagarde Says Risks to Weak Global Recovery Are Increasing – Bloomberg
- Oil glut up close: How Cushing copes with full crude tanks – Reuters
Americas:
- Trump would seek to block money transfers to force Mexico to fund border wall – Washington Post
- There is math, there is fantasy math, and then there’s Donald Trump’s economic math – Washington Post
- San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee From $4,500 Rents – Bloomberg
- GLUT: The U.S. Economy and the American Worker in the Age of Oversupply – Third Way
- Cheap Oil Means Record U.S. Trade Surplus With OPEC – WSJ
- How Can a Jobs Recovery So Historic Be So Disappointing? – The Atlantic
- U.S. Moves to Thwart Use of Foreign Inversions as Tax Dodge – NY Times
- Don’t Cry for Argentina’s Investors – Bloomberg View
Europe:
- Panama Papers Scandal Brings Down Iceland’s Prime Minister – NY Times
- Panama Papers: Iceland prime minister resigns – BBC
- Revealed: the tycoons and world leaders who built secret UK property empires – The Guardian
- The ECB Explains Why Central Banks Can’t Go Bankrupt in a Footnote – Bloomberg
- Greece may have deported asylum seekers by mistake, says UN – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Paywall down as Alibaba takes ownership of SCMP – SCMP
- Japan’s Shinzo Abe Defends U.S. Alliance, Warns Against ‘Naked Nationalism’ – WSJ
- China Bulls Become an Extinct Species – WSJ
- China accuses former top military official of taking massive bribes – Channel News Asia
- Global funds drawn to India’s record $120 bln sour debt – Reuters
- China stockpiles intrigue copper market – FT
Trans-Tasman:
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BoM plan to take over CSIRO research – Canberra Times
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PM weighs announcing local subs build before poll – Canberra Times
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China’s Millennials, the new miracle – Canberra Times
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ASIC says Westpac rigged BBSW rates – Canberra Times
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Paul Hogan’s revenge – Canberra Times
- The $1 billion sitting in unclaimed accounts – The Age
- ABC prepares for journo job cuts – The Age
- Low-skilled people are being left behind, and they are sure to show their anger at the ballot box – The Age
- The rising Australian dollar could derail the economy, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens warns – The Australian
- Voters wary on economic outlook – The Australian
- Business leaders want Malcolm Turnbull to use the May 3 budget to recover lost momentum on economic reform – The Australian
- Newspoll: Malcolm Turnbull plummets to Tony Abbott’s best result – The Australian
- Bank investors face future of lower returns – The AFR
- Banks still too big to fail, says NAB’s Henry – The AFR
- Arrium on precipice as board offers scalps – The AFR
- What a broad land tax would cost you – The AFR
- David Murray lashes regulators on culture crackdown – The AFR
- How Malcolm Turnbull will gradually turn the screws on the states – The AFR
- States rebuff stamp duty-land tax swap – The AFR
- The cashless welfare card to combat drug and alcohol abuse is launched – ABC Lateline
- Ex-Treasury Ken Henry’s warning on the next financial shock – ABC The Business
- Higher education debts to skyrocket costing budget billions: documents – ABC News
- School principals targeted by Labor as education funding debate heats up – ABC News
- Barnett concedes GST reform campaign defeat – ABC News
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