Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Trump’s market honeymoon to turn into a risky divorce – FT
- Yellen, Draghi head to Jackson Hole amid inflation concern – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump targets tax reform to reconnect with lost GOP base – FT
- US readies to cash in on solar eclipse tourism – FT
- Secret Service runs out of money due to Trump’s extended and frequent travel and family – USAToday
- Republicans want to stop talking about white supremacists so they can concentrate on tax cuts – ThinkProgress
Europe/Middle East/Africa:
- Sweden raises defence spending and reintroduces draft on Russian threat – Business Insider
- Abbas – I met Trump’s envoys 20 times and I still don’t understand their peace plan – Haaretz
- Large scale exercises by Russia near Belarus could be prelude to Putin’s next conquest – CNBC
- ECB faces bond shortage as inflation slows – FT
- Nearly 500 dead in tragic mudslide in Sierra Leone – CNBC
- Evolution not to be taught at Turkish schools – NPR (what is this? The American South?)
Asia:
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- US destroyer collides with merchant ship in Singapore – CNN
- Moon warns North Korea over exercises – Bloomberg
- China banks leverage falls for first time since 2010 – Bloomberg
- Anger simmers in Phillipines over Duterte’s drug war – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Fortescue CEO Power says iron ore to remain core business – Bloomberg
- North Korea warns Australia against “suicidal” military exercises with USA – SMH
- Metrics obsessed managers need to be careful what they wish for – SMH
- Mortgage stress hotspots revealed – ABC
- Can electric cars go the distance in the Australian outback – ABC
- ALP refuses to release MP’s citizenship documents – ABC
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