Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Paradox of Quant – The Reformed Broker
- Professorial salaries and research performance – VOX
- Nearly 1 in 100 worldwide are now displaced from their homes – Pew Research
Americas:
- Donald Trump Is the Lone Ranger Candidate – US News
- Clint Eastwood Is Not Impressed by America’s ’Kiss-Ass Generation’ – Esquire
- Trump and Putin: A Love Story – NY Mag
- I Know Why Poor Whites Chant Trump, Trump, Trump – The Establishment
- Obama just commuted 214 sentences in one go—more than any president in 100 years – Quartz
- The Democrats Who Cried Wolf – The Atlantic
- Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) – Washington Post
- 1.8 million American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots. What then? – VOX
- Venezuela crisis: sterilizations soar as couples count the cost of children – The Guardian
- Venezuela: Where basics cost a month’s pay – CNN
- How bad is the water in Rio? Bad. Like, don’t-swallow-any-poop bad – Quartz
- It’s Canada’s moment to seize – The Star
Europe:
- Mass stabbing in central London leaves woman dead and five injured – The Guardian
- Social Media Blitz Has Russians Asking: What’s a Central Bank? – Bloomberg
- Looking back at the ex ante estimates of the costs of Brexit – VOX
- Brexit Flu? – Irish Economy
- Rate cut ’foregone conclusion’ as economy slows sharply – BBC
- Italy investigating possible Islamic State role in migrant flows – Reuters
- BOE ’Sledgehammer’ Could Deliver Another Blow to the Pound – Bloomberg
- Brexit Bulletin: Banks in No Rush to Leave London – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Massive funding, Apple backing helped Didi outrun Uber in China – Reuters
- China Is Starting to Lose Its Taste for McDonald’s and KFC – Bloomberg
- China Shuts 10,000 Hedge Funds Amid Crackdown – Value Walk
- Why Tokyo is the land of rising home construction but not prices – FT
- Shinzo Abe’s Stimulus Is a Lesson for the World – PIIE
- Gorilla or Elephant, Chinese Surplus Capacity is the Challenge – Marctomarket
- Japanese Bond Selloff Pushes Yields Near Positive – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- One Nation now the 4th biggest party in the Senate – The SMH
- Millions of Australians can now ‘cash out’ their annual leave – The SMH
- Bill Shorten rubbishes Malcolm Turnbull’s ’empty lecture and tax cut’ for banks – The SMH
- Banning native-speaking Chinese students from subject unlikely to be discrimination – The Age
- CSIRO: Greg Hunt instructs organisation to renew climate science focus, confirms new jobs – ABC
- Turnbull government order CSIRO U-turn towards climate science – The Age
- Banks save $917 million by keeping half the rate cut – The SMH
- Outgoing RBA board member John Edwards says an inquiry into banks ‘would be helpful’ – The SMH
- Only a royal commission will stop the banks ripping us off with impunity – The SMH
- Malcolm Turnbull just needs banks to care – The SMH
- Australian banks have made a mockery of Paris Agreement, Market Forces says – The Fifth Estate
- Banks to report to Parliament in bid to keep sector accountable – ABC
- Labor senators call for party to block marriage equality plebiscite legislation – The Guardian
- Social issues dominate Turnbull agenda – News.com
- Deposit rates rise – but not for the bulk of savers – ABC
- Perth’s record office vacancy rate sparks call for more diverse tenants – ABC
- Taxpayers exposed to $3b clean-up of Queensland’s coal mines: report – ABC
- How interest rates have become Gen X and Gen Y’s revenge – The AFR
- What will the expected OCR cut mean for borrowers & savers? – Interest.co.nz
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