Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- U.S. dollar’s decline reverberates as emerging markets rise with gold – Financial Post
- Will OPEC agree to freeze output in Sept? – Reuters
- Coal’s rally is at risk from lower China imports in August – Reuters
Americas:
- Factory production increases 0.5% in July – Bloomberg
- As underlying inflation remains unchanged – Reuters
- Oil states in the US are where the mortgage delinquincies are rising the fastest – BI
Europe:
- First post-Brexit data shows UK inflation rose to 0.6% in July – Guardian
- Search continues for Nazi gold train that may not exist – BI
- Trump lies again – Bloomberg (riding the fear train means not worrying about checking facts)
- UK gives go ahead for world’s largest off shore windfarm – Bloomberg (blowhards at the LNP wouldn’t like that)
Asia:
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- Activist short sellers shaking up Japan’s stock market – Nikkei Asian Review
- BOJ’s negative rate policy still only halfway to intended results – Nikkei Asian Review
- Repercussions of failed coup casting pall over Turkish economy – Nikkei Asian Review
- Japan in transition: Rest of world watches as country tries negative interest rates to spur economy – Financial Post
- Asean has more to lose than China from rising geopolitical tensions – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Gas Glut Upends Global Trade Flows as Buyers Find Leverage – Bloomberg…unless they are Australian consumers…
- Australia’s Fortescue mines data for exploration permit advantage – Reuters
- Australia’s FTA experience backs up Treasurer’s Ausgrid decision – ABC, Verrender…well said – Australia’s FTA’s aren’t worth the paper they are written on…
- $8.3 billion loss for BHP smashes the record – Fairfax
- BHP Billiton declares commodity prices have stopped falling after big loss – Fairfax
- Reserve Bank: ‘ongoing spare capacity’ in labour market for years to come – Guardian
- Australian gas 40% cheaper in Japan than in Australia despite export costs – Guardian
- BHP Billiton reports record full year loss of US$6.39bn – Guardian
- Casual hours to count towards redundancy payouts – Fairfax
- Australia’s luck is running out – FT (most read article today there…for good reason!)
Other:
- China’s hack-proof quantum satellite leap into space leads the world – SCMP
- The internet is taking over human memory – ScienceDaily
- The myth of millennial entitlement was created to cover their parents mistakes – Quartz (ooh..touchy one this one…but element of truth)