Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Companies with more women directors generate a 36% higher return on equity – QZ
- Podcast: Are we ready to live and work alongside robots? – WEF
- These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs – Bloomberg
- How big is bitcoin, really? This chart puts it all in perspective – MarketWatch
- 95-Degree Days: How Extreme Heat Could Spread Across the World – NY Times
- Capitalism Can Thrive Without Cooking the Planet – Bloomberg
- Wall Street Blames Shale, But Shale Points the Finger Right Back – Oil Pro
- The Biotech Rally Might Have Legs – Bloomberg
- The next trade war could be a food fight – Washington Post
Americas:
- Let America plunge toward our fast-unfolding future – Washington Post
- America’s Complex Relationship With Guns – Pew Social Research
- Americans Are Back in Love With SUVs and Pickups – Bloomberg
- Who Americans spend their time with – The Atlas
- How Trump’s dubious claims make the entire government react – Washington Post
- Here’s How Republicans Can Pass Their Cruel Health-Care Bill – NY Mag
- “There will be deaths”: Atul Gawande on the GOP plan to replace Obamacare – VOX
- Supreme Court limits government’s power to revoke citizenship – The Hill
- In the Trump era, Obama nostalgia is a booming industry – LA Times
- Senate Health Care Bill: Worse Than Doing Nothing – CATO
- Biggest U.S. banks clear first hurdle in Fed’s annual stress tests – Reuters
- If NAFTA Ends, Ford’s Move to China Will Be Just the Start – American Quarterly
- Big banks make it through stress tests, investors await cash release – CNBC
- US Trade Laws and the Sovereignty Canard – Cato
- U.S. bans fresh Brazil beef imports over safety concerns – Reuters
- Canada’s Housing Bubble Will Burst – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Narendra Modi is a fine administrator, but not much of a reformer – The Economist
- Government-backed ’red tape’ group looked at EU fire safety rules on morning of Grenfell fire – The Guardian
- Ireland awarded Test status after 10-year quest – RTE
- Germany spied on the White House over years: report – The Local
- The size and location of Europe’s defence industry – Bruegel
- Brexit: do we stand a chance? – London
- To this former EU negotiator, the UK’s chance of a good Brexit deal looks slim – New Statesman
- Moody’s: UK economy faces headwinds from weaker consumer demand and lower house prices – Moody’s
- Fruit and veg farmers facing migrant labour shortages – BBC
- Leave voter complains his business will fail unless he can keep his 2,500 European workers – The Independent
Asia:
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- Beijing’s video-streaming ban lops $1bn off Sina Weibo market cap – FT
- We participated in talks with North Korean representatives. This is what we learned – Washington Post
- North Korea conducts another rocket engine test for ICBM, US officials say – Fox
- Beijing Is Investigating Some of China’s Top Overseas Deal Makers – WSJ
- Tesla Reaches Pact With Shanghai for China Production – Bloomberg
- China Bad Debt Prices Up 30% as New Gold Rush Gets Under Way – Bloomberg
- China’s HNA Takes a Page From Private Equity in Financing Deal Spree – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- SA Government distributes ‘fake news’ to train passengers with phony budget newspaper – ABC
- Australian spy planes to fly over southern Philippines in Islamic State fight – ABC
- NBN providers could pass on monthly levy – News
- Coalition ministers will not face contempt charges after court accepts apology – The Guardian
- Solar penalised, ‘death spiral’ for power grid, critics warn after power supply charge increase – ABC
- Gonski 2.0: School funding package passes Senate, as Coalition takes big win – ABC
- South Australia’s bank levy plan an ‘outrageous cash grab’, say business groups – The Guardian
- Households to be offered cash to turn off power-guzzling appliances under proposed plan – Canberra Times
- ATO tax fraud: Behind the alleged extortion scheme designed to keep fraud going – The SMH
- Top public servants now earning almost $880,000 – Canberra Times
- Federal MPs to get pay rises and tax cuts in July 1 bonanza – The SMH
- ‘A Homeless “Safe Space” Challenges Australia’s Power Brokers’ – NY Times
- Newstart: A public health issue and a national disgrace – Independent Australia
- Electronic medical certificates are cheap and convenient, but are they good for our health? – ABC
- Firers and hirers: Australia’s fastest growing jobs – The SMH
- Changes to HSC English exams will ‘fuel tutoring industry’ – The SMH
- Centrelink’s Robo-Debt Scheme Just Got Slammed… But It’s About To Get Even Bigger – Junkee
- Government exempts small network owners from ‘NBN tax’ – The Age
- National Party consolidates lead – Interest.co.nz
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