Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- UN condemns North Korean rocket launch – Reuters
- Moscow stock exchange to trade cryptocurrency – Bitcoin News
- Vampire Squid to explain what its tentacles do – Reuters
- Companies are furious they weren’t warned ads would appear on alt-right Breitbart – Intl Business Times
- Trump trips and tweets like a twit on North Korea – ZH
Americas:
- Trump attacking freedom of the press according to UN rights boss – Reuters
- In the middle of flooded Texas, Trump makes it all about him – Washington Post
- US private jobs add 237,000 jobs in August – Reuters
- Q2 GDP Revised up to 3.0% Annual Rate – Bill McBride
Europe/Middle East/Africa:
- Iran rejects US request for UN visit to military sites – Yahoo
- Britain asks EU for more Brexit negotiating sessions as reality sinks in – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Over 1200 killed across India, Nepal and Bangladesh in worst monsoon flooding in years – The Guardian
- Japan, US look to cut off North Korean oil supply – Nikkei
- China vows to step up intellectual property protection – BBC
Trans-Tasman:
- Big lull in tourism bookings at Great Barrier Reef after coral bleaching news – The Guardian
- I’m Derryn Hinch. Possible American, possibly out of a job – ABCNews
- Adani contradicts Indian government on need for Australian coal – ABC
- Worst PM ever suggests even more selling off of the country – TheAustralian
Interesting/Different/Technology:
- Cassini probe about to end its mission to Saturn – Reuters
- Images from Cassini mission here – NASA (you have to look at these!)
- Terry Pratchett’s unpublished works crushed by steamroller, as he wished – BBC