Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The battle to provide chips for the AI boom heats up – Technology Review
- Nasdaq’s “Big 5” Stocks Near $3 Trillion Market Cap – Zero Hedge
- Cheaper Robots are Helping Small Businesses Survive – Bloomberg
- Countries with Higher Tariffs Have Larger Trade Deficits – PIIE
- G7 seen urging Trump to stick with climate pact at summit – Reuters
Americas:
- New FBI Boss Could Be More Controversial Than Comey – Daily Beast
- ’There Is a Real Risk Here Things Will Spin Out of Control’ – The Atlantic
- GOP scrambles to shield agenda from Comey fallout – Politico
- Sense of Crisis Deepens as Trump Defends F.B.I. Firing – NY Times
- After Comey, Republicans worry about 2018 ‘wipeout’ – McClatchy
- President Trump Is the Enemy of Their Enemies – NY Times
- Fannie, Freddie regulator says may have to retain earnings – Reuters
- California Leads U.S. Economy, Away From Trump – Bloomberg
- A nightmare scenario is beginning for Ford and General Motors – Business Insider
- Venezuela protesters fling feces at soldiers, unrest takes 2 more lives – Reuters
- The U.S., Canada and Mexico are buying more job-killing robots than ever before – Recode
Europe:
- Options for a ‘Global Britain’ after Brexit – VOX
- Brexit will inevitably hurt UK exports, slowly but surely – LSE
- Macron and the Revival of Europe – NY Times
- Mario Draghi riled by Dutch MPs in public grilling – FT
- Putin reacts to Comey firing: “We have nothing to do with that” – CBS News
- Brexit wasn’t enough. They’re trying to make this an election without experts as well – Politics.co.uk
- IMF likely to take part in Greek bailout, Slovak finance minister says – Reuters
- Macron lays down law to big beasts of French politics – Politico
Asia:
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- Look at the facts of demonetisation, not politics – Indian Express
- Indian solar power prices hit record low, undercutting fossil fuels – The Guardian
- Ambition to meet reality as China gathers world for Silk Road summit – Reuters
- Xi’s New Silk Road Forum Sets Chinese Tone for Globalization 2.0 – Bloomberg
- North Korean defector says conflict with Kim Jong-un is ’inevitable’ – Mail Online
Trans-Tasman:
- Scott Morrison says sewage will be tested to find areas of high drug use for welfare trial – The Guardian
- Fines doubled for Queensland developers who flout laws to demolish heritage buildings – ABC
- NSW Parliament votes no on legislation to decriminalise abortion – ABC
- Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman data shows sharp increase in complaints – The SMH
- Australia’s gay marriage fail gives New Zealand $550m wedding windfall – The SMH
- Mark Colvin: Respected ABC journalist, PM presenter and former foreign correspondent dies aged 65 – ABC
- Federal budget 2017: Morrison reveals corporate tax cut could blow out to $65.4bn – The Guardian
- Updated company tax cut bill hits $65bn – The AFR
- War on waste: Australians ignoring cheap, sustainable fish over farmed and foreign varieties – ABC
- Adani says $900m loan for Carmichael coal mine rail line in Queensland now critical – ABC
- Senate inquiry told zero tax or royalties paid on Australia’s biggest new gas projects – The Conversation
- The price of drug-testing welfare recipients: ‘Pushing people to utter desperation’ – The Guardian
- Budget 2017: welfare changes stigmatise recipients and are sitting on shaky ground – The Conversation
- ‘Productivity went up’: Peter Dutton sprays Fairfax journalists over strike – The SMH
- Banks, the tax and the $14 billion insider trade – Michael West
- Premier flags ‘comprehensive’ housing package – The AFR
- New Zealand’s biggest non-export industry is property: report – Stuff.co.nz
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