Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Preparing for Bentry, not Brexit – VOX
- Bitcoins 2016 rally crushed all other currencies – Bloomberg
- Big pharma to get bruised on new pricing regimes – FT
- The oil price each gulf state needs to balance its budget – Bloomberg (The Saudi’s need $75USD per barrel – lets hope it never gets there!)
Americas:
- Trump rejects climate change, but one of his resorts could be lost to sea – Bloomberg
- Canada says only 28 Americans have applied for refugee status due to Trump – HeatST.com (just wait another 12 months!)
- The anti-democratic view of Trumps top two advisors – Politico
- GOP wants to dismantle Obamacare because it slashes rich tax bill – LA Times
- President Obama calls Russia a “weak and small country” in last press conference – CNBC
Europe:
- Will the UK’s Post-Brexit trade hinge on non-tariff barriers? – FT
- Lessons on the 1976 crisis for Brexit in 2017 – Bloomberg Brexit
- As UK banks get away with sub 6% corporate tax rate – Reuters
- Protests grow in Poland as new crisis stirs – CNN
Asia:
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- China orders 1200 factories to close amid smog problems – Bloomberg
- Purges in North Korea reach new highs under Fat Kim Jong Un – SCMP
- India to cease coal power plant construction in 2022 – Climatechangenews (which implies a drop in imported coal of approx. 23MT)
Trans-Tasman:
- New UnZud PM shakes up the cabinet – Bloomberg
- PM Turnbulls push for Republic is “political deathwish” – ABC News (at least he could get one positive thing done)
- One Nation announces 36 candidates for next QLD election – ABC News (hear that sucking sound?)
- The recession we’re in for real – ABC News
- Top article at DomainFax: how to live in a dogbox of 8 square meters
- As architects decry the dogbox fix as not good enough – Fairfax
Other:
- Disney’s first standalone Star Wars movie, Rogue One big first weekend – Bloomberg (go see it – its not quite Empire Strikes Back, but its no prequel!)
- Elon Musk recommends new sub-subway tunnels to cure congestion – Inverse.com
- The 12 key science moments for 2016 – Guardian