Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Government spending (% GDP) – Our World in Data
- Hidden cracks are forming in the record-breaking stock market – Business Insider
- Google’s AI Boss Blasts Musk’s Scare Tactics on Machine Takeover – Bloomberg
- Flattest Curve in Developed World Tells the Bond Market’s Tale – Bloomberg
- The price of bitcoin has a 91% correlation with Google searches for bitcoin – Business Insider
- Bond King Bill Gross Falls to the Middle of the Pack – Bloomberg
Americas:
- GOP odds rise on ObamaCare repeal – The Hill
- The Latest Obamacare Repeal Bill Doesn’t Include Opioid Funding Once Deemed Critical – Daily Beast
- The Hidden Obamacare Detail That Could Cost Hospitals Billions – WSJ
- Trump insists on ’America First.’ Who will follow? – AP
- Trump Evangelizes for American Exceptionalism – Bloomberg
- How the GOP Prompted the Decay of Political Norms – The Atlantic
- Democrats Like Clinton And Sanders, But Don’t Want Either To Seek Presidency Again – Huffington Post
- Ford to cut production at five North American vehicle plants – Reuters
- Powerful Earthquake Shakes Mexico On 32nd Anniversary Of Deadly Temblor – NPR
- NAFTA Doesn’t Need a Senseless Sunset – PIIE
Europe:
- The eurozone’s economic recovery proves doomsayers wrong – FT
- Norway’s oil fund says its market value tops $1tn for first time – FT
- EU to propose stronger monitoring of UK financial firms after Brexit – Reuters
- Swiss shut down ’fake’ E-Coin in latest cryptocurrency crackdown – Reuters
- How strong a Brexit card is Britain’s money? – CER
- 10 Years after Northern Rock – is the UK more or less likely to see another bank run? – Bank Underground
- The North Sea Is Suddenly, Surprisingly, an Oil Hot Spot – WSJ
- Boris Johnson ’could not live with’ Swiss-style Brexit and may even resign before weekend – The Telegraph
- May is so weak that Boris was forced to lead – The Times
- Male employees want flexible work too – BBC
Asia:
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- Nintendo Surges on Prospect of Greater Access to China – WSJ
- China’s bitcoin clampdown is likely here to stay, analysts say – CNBC
- China hit by financial scam ’epidemic’ – BBC
- Want a Better Health Care System? Check Out Japan – Bloomberg
- Trump says if threatened, U.S. will ’totally destroy’ North Korea – Reuters
- Trump’s top negotiator brands China an ‘unprecedented’ threat to global trading system – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- The NSW government has defended spending $200,000 hunting down the source of embarrassing leaks about budget blowouts in major transport projects by saying it is protecting community safety in an age of global terrorism. – The SMH
- Anti-Adani protest censored by operators of Melbourne’s Federation Square – The Guardian
- Australia’s warmest winter ‘driven by climate change’ – BBC
- Turnbull offers Queensland power station funding if it votes LNP in state poll – The Guardian
- Fact check: Are Labor’s policies socialist? – ABC
- ‘A clean energy target is not “unconscionable”, Tony Abbott. Wrecking climate policy is’ – The Guardian
- Liddell power station on ‘sliding scale to oblivion’, AGL general manager says – ABC
- Teens and their screens: Are we raising a generation of unhappy, non-resilient adolescents? – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull says North Korea will be ‘wiped out’ if regime attacks US – The SMH
- ‘Faustian bargain’: defence fears over Australian university’s $100m China partnership – The Guardian
- Big bang theory: Abbott still drowning out Turnbull’s sales pitch – The SMH
- NBN download speeds: New tool to identify in-home wiring faults – News
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English defends housing record; Rules out asset tax – Interest.co.nz
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