Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- It’s The End Of The World As We Know It – Deal Breaker
- Hedge Funds Facing Death By Margin Call? – Deal Breaker
- Banker Bonuses Are Rising, But Traders Aren’t as Lucky – Bloomberg
- What Econ 101 Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence – WSJ
- When did the financial crisis begin? Some say August 9, 2007 – MarketPlace
- With $1 Trillion Chasing Deals, Investors Park Cash in ETFs – Bloomberg
- Rogoff: Rising interest rates ’threaten global economy’ – BBC
- The Financial Crisis, 10 Years On – NPR
- Coal falls as gas rises: World energy balances in 2016 – Iea
- Yes, Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value. Neither Does a $1 Bill – Wired
- We let the 2007 financial crisis go to waste – The Guardian
Americas:
- Walmart is taking a direct shot at Amazon and making checkout lanes obsolete – Business Insider
- US expels 2 Cuban diplomats after incidents in Cuba – Washington Post
- Trump’s Pointless Untruths About U.S. Nuclear Weapons – The Atlantic
- Trump Is Wrong: A Weak Dollar Doesn’t Make a Strong Economy – WSJ
- U.S. Productivity Rose at 0.9% Rate in Second Quarter – WSJ
- Why the Trump Organization could be Trump’s undoing – Washington Post
- It Was a Great Year for America’s Pensions, but Many Are Still in Crisis – WSJ
Europe:
- These Germans Who Swim To Work Are Happier Than You – The Awl
- Inside the Next Fake News War – Time
- Russian spy plane buzzes D.C. – Politico
- European region most skeptical in the world on vaccine safety – Science Daily
- Greece’s Energean secures gas sales contracts for Israel offshore project – Reuters
- Paris attack: Man shot in hunt for BMW driver who mowed down six French soldiers – The Telegraph
- GBP: Near-term turbulence for sterling – ING
- Brits Fearing Brexit, Corbyn Seek Shelter in FX Accounts at HSBC – Bloomberg
- Darling: ’Alarm bells ringing’ for UK economy – BBC
- Bank of England warns Brexit will put strain on regulatory resources – The Guardian
Asia:
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- A Missing Tycoon’s Links to China’s Troubled Dalian Wanda – NY Times
- China targets mobile payments oligopoly with clearing mandate – FT
- How Baidu Will Win China’s AI race—and, Maybe, the World’s – Wired
- Trump aides downplaying his North Korea threat as ‘impromptu’ – Politico
- Chinese Politics Has No Rules, But It May Be Good if Xi Jinping Breaks Them – CSIS
- Car Battery Breakthrough Claimed in Japan – ieee
- GE to close New York plant, move work to China – Fox Business
- In China’s Hedge Fund Industry, Global Managers Are a Tough Sell – Bloomberg
- Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ Threat Raises Alarm in Asia – NY Times
- America Is Not Ready for a War in North Korea – The Atlantic
- What War Between North Korea and the U.S. Might Look Like – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Internet Australia continues to call out #NBNFail amid media attacks – Independent Australia
- ‘Worst type of research you can do apart from robopolls’: Pollsters rubbish postal vote – Canberra Times
- The South Australian government has flicked the switch on “ultra-fast” internet in Adelaide, making it “one of the most connected cities in the world”. – Innovation Aus
- ABC staff gagged over marriage equality – The Age
- Labor and Bill Shorten to pull out all the stops and campaign for a ‘yes’ vote on same-sex marriage – The SMH
- Same-sex marriage: Australians have 15 days to enrol to vote in postal plebiscite – ABC
- Border Force tackles internal corruption as officers suspected of helping alleged crime ring – The SMH
- Growing farm jobs is wiser than subsidising Adani’s coal – The New Daily
- Border Force official reportedly charged over involvement in tobacco smuggling ring – SBS
- Residential construction heading for 31pc three-year collapse – ABC
- Peter Martin: Don’t blame Turnbull for Labor’s flawed NBN – The Age
- Dick Smith blames his generation for housing crisis, calls for reduced immigration in new book – Daily Telegraph
- Chinese economy flashing warning signals for Australian economic collapse – News.com.au
- Stock market crash: how Slater and Gordon became a casualty of the neoliberal dream – The Guardian