Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- We may have just moved closer to a global trade war – Business Insider
- Interest Rates After Inflation May Be a Real Bubble – Bloomberg
- Quants Are Eating Away at Wall Street’s Edge – Bloomberg
Americas:
- FBI probe of Trump-Russia ties began 3 months before election – Yahoo
- James Comey’s Remarkable Five Hours on Capitol Hill – New Yorker
- Republicans change health care bill in search for votes – CNN
- The Republican Health-Care Plan Has Disappeared Again – NY Mag
- GOP leaders pile on sweeteners to sell Obamacare repeal – Politico
- America’s Epidemic of Infallibility – NY Times
- If the US wants high-end manufacturing jobs, the US needs imports – CNBC
- Private-label mortgage bonds are rising from the grave – CNBC
- Almost half of Canadians want illegal border crossers deported – Reuters poll – Reuters
Europe:
- Once in the Shadows, Europe’s Neo-Fascists Are Re-emerging – NY Times
- Laundered Russian Cash Went Through Big Banks, Guardian Says – Bloomberg
- British banks handled vast sums of laundered Russian money – The Guardian
- France’s Presidential Candidates Take Part in Head-to-Head TV Debate – Bloomberg
- Brexit: why the Great Repeal Bill will be the Great Whitehall Power Grab – FT
- MPs savage Corbyn for driving Labour ’off cliff’ – Sky
- Greek firms paying employees with coupons – DW
- German Auditors Push for Greater ECB Oversight – Handelsblatt
- This German reporter took on Trump. Now she’s being hailed at home. – Washington Post
Asia:
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- China’s HNA Is Buying a NYC Office Tower for $2.21 Billion – Bloomberg
- China Medical Technologies Executives Charged in U.S. Fraud Case – Bloomberg
- China’s High-Tech Tool to Fight Toilet Paper Bandits – NY Times
- China’s Record Stock Market Streak – Bespoke Premium
- China prepares to counter any U.S. trade penalties: sources – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- RBA Warns Over Aussie Housing Risks as Global Reflation Emerges – Bloomberg
- Former prime minister Julia Gillard named as beyondblue chair, replacing Jeff Kennett – The Age
- Labor stretches to 10-point lead over Coalition, Guardian Essential poll finds – The Guardian
- NSW Police Minister fined for using phone in car, says he didn’t know it was illegal – ABC
- Sydney Airport staff sleeping at work say they cannot afford to go home – ABC
- Home doctors bracing for Medicare cuts in budget – The Age
- Most voters in Peter Dutton’s electorate oppose subsidising Adani coalmine, poll says – The Guardian
- Katter says he is one vote away from establishing a Commission of Inquiry into the banks – The SMH
- Immigration Department contradicts DFAT on US refugee resettlement deal – ABC
- ABS house price data a clear sign threats in Sydney and Melbourne steadily rising – Domain
- Secrecy on land titles registry sale helps keep bidders’ tax haven links quiet – The Conversation
- Wildlife on the urban fringe getting fat and sick thanks to humans and their pets – ABC
- ‘We don’t need it’: Pauline Hanson takes aim at SBS– SBS News
- House prices: Take a tour inside a Sydney micro apartment – ABC
- Superannuation: Using your retirement pool for housing? Don’t even think about it – ABC
- Bill English less popular than John Key as preferred PM, new poll finds – Stuff
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NZ’s growth model showing ‘environmental limits’ – Interest.co.nz
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‘There is no need to rush into rate increases’ – Interest.co.nz