Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Treat trade surpluses and deficits with analytical caution – FT
- A New Sign of Fear for U.S. Drillers – Bloomberg
- Ranking the 20 Most Valuable Cryptocurrencies Over Time – Visual Capitalist
- Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds Have Big Returns As Bitcoin Price Surges – Value Walk
- Robots and AI are going to make social inequality even worse, says new report – The Verge
- Globally, More Name U.S. Than China as World’s Leading Economic Power – Pew Global
- Steel stocks spike as Trump says he is considering using quotas, tariffs to deter steel dumping – CNBC
- Saying There’s a Bubble in ETFs Makes Little Sense – Bloomberg
- The Dark Side of Globalization: An Update on Country Risk! – Musings & Markets
- The backlash against globalisation – VOX
- Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children – The Guardian
- IEA says OPEC compliance with oil cuts at lowest in six months – Reuters
Americas:
- ’Great concern’ over new GOP bill – CNN
- If Janet Yellen Is Headed for the Exit, Who’s Next Leading Fed? – Bloomberg
- Revised Senate health-care bill still lacks the votes to pass – Washington Post
- Tale of two factories: hope, anguish ahead of Trump’s steel tariff call – Reuters
- Americans are hoarding money in checking accounts – USA Today
- No need for a full border wall, Trump says – LA Times
- Is Bernie Sanders Really The Democratic Front-Runner? – Five Thirty Eight
Europe:
- How Europe’s Monster Gas Field Turned Into a Monster Headache – Bloomberg
- Britain Aggressively Courts $2 Trillion Saudi Aramco Listing – NY Times
- Brexit bill to cause constitutional clash with Scotland and Wales – The Guardian
- The Latest: Macron: Important to maintain contact with Putin – Go
- UK university applications fall by 4%, Ucas figures show – BBC
- Emmanuel Macron Takes Regal Approach to French Presidency – WSJ
Asia:
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- Off the Map: The Rough Road Ahead for Self-Driving Cars in China – WSJ
- How robots are teaching Singapore’s kids – FT
- Obituary: Liu Xiaobo, China’s leading human-rights campaigner – The Economist
- The Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, in His Own Words – NY Times
- Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, Who Fought for Democracy in China, Dies in Police Custody – WSJ
- Liu Xiaobo’s suffering holds a message for China – The Economist
- U.S.-China Trade Tensions Are About to Get Ugly Again – WSJ
- China is still playing catch up to Silicon Valley, says drone maker co-founder – CNBC
- He ran North Korea’s secret moneymaking operation. Now he lives in Virginia. – Washington Post
Trans-Tasman:
- Scott Ludlam resigns from Australian senate after finding out he has New Zealand citizenship – The Guardian
- Supermarket giant Woolworths has announced plans to phase out single-use plastic bags over the next 12 months. – ABC
- This MP Will Not Stop Arguing That Renewable Energy Will Literally Kill People – Buzz Feed
- The laws of Australia will trump the laws of mathematics: Turnbull – ZD Net
- Elon Musk Exposes Deep Coal Divide in Australia – Bloomberg
- ‘Unions to blame’: public service wages growing fastest at higher levels – Canberra Times
- 1930s Australia: the art deco designs ushering in a brave new world – in pictures – The Guardian
- ‘It just frustrates me’: Barnaby Joyce hits out at Liberal party infighting – The Guardian
- Frozen berries and hepatitis A: Local growers quick to freeze fruit after imported products recalled, linked to virus – ABC
- Australia’s largest banana grower’s anxious wait over suspect Panama case – ABC
- Vehicle emissions standards: Why Australia needs them, and why they’re NOT a carbon tax – Renew Economy
- Universities’ greed and phony prestige to blame for appalling drop-out rates – The SMH
- ‘The system is failing people’: Family turns to crowdfunding to take on costs of cancer – Brisbane Times
- Irritable bowel syndrome an umbrella term for individual gut conditions, research breakthroughs find – ABC
- More Australian adult children are living at home, census data shows – Domain
- Microplastic pollution of seafloor widespread along Australia’s south-east coast, study finds – ABC
- Are we in too deep to turn off the tap on migration? – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- The Electric Vehicle Takeover? Think Different. – Bloomberg
- Sugar is poison. My heart attack has finally opened my eyes to the truth – The Guardian
- Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world – Guardian…but can it get out of the coffin?…