Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Development Dreams Stand Still While Mining Money Moves Offshore – ICIJ
- 2x Called Off: Bitcoin Hard Fork Suspended for Lack of Consensus – Coin Desk
- Blockchain ≠ Bitcoin – Bloomberg
- Apple Is Now a $900 Billion Company – WSJ
- Millennial Home Buyers Send a Chill Through Rental Markets – WSJ
- The desperate inequality behind global tax dodging – The Guardian
- The world is in economic, political and environmental gridlock – The Conversation
- Animation: The Rapidly Aging Western World – Visual Capitalist
- Threat of ’imported inflation’ looms as oil prices jump to $62/barrel – Business Today
Americas:
- ‘Canary in the coal mine’: Republicans fear Democratic wins mean more losses to come – Washington Post
- Virginia bloodbath: Trump is exorcising the Democrats’ midterm curse – Washington Post
- Exit polls: This was a message to Trump – Politico
- How Trump Brought the Political Media Class to Its Knees – Vanity Fair
- Democrats Cheer, but They May Have to Do Better in ’18 – NY Times
- Democrats ride grassroots wave to major statehouse gains – Reuters
- Winners and losers from Election Day 2017 – Washington Post
- Happy Anniversary to America’s Most Corrupted Election – Foreign Policy
- The feds are looking into Carl Icahn’s role as former Trump adviser – NBC
- Analysis: High-Income Households Fare Best in GOP Plan – WSJ
- GOP tax bill would add $1.7 trillion to debt: CBO – CBO
- Democrats’ Narrow Path to Winning the House – The Atlantic
- America, a year later – CNN
- America’s Crisis of Courage – The Atlantic
- Ontario Wants Bigger Cut of Canada Pot Tax, Expecting Strong Demand – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Number of senior women in Britain’s boardrooms unchanged in 10 years – The Guardian
- Brits don’t deserve to be damned by a Yankee – The Times
- U.K. Has 10 Times More to Lose Than Germany From No Deal Brexit – Bloomberg
- How to solve the UK housing crisis – FT
- Brexit Should Be Prevented, German Government Advisers Say – Bloomberg
- Commentary: Long the laggards, Italy and France drive “la Euroboom” – Reuters
- The accident that led to Britain’s offshore empire – BBC
- Italy’s shrinking safety net – Bloomberg
- U.K. Pay Being Pushed Higher by Slide in Worker Availability – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Trump visit to China gets going with US$9bn in trade deals as Beijing hints there is more to come – SCMP
- Trump Team Plans $250 Billion in Deals From China Visit – Bloomberg
- China Traders Take on Risk as Margin Debt Tops One Trillion Yuan – Bloomberg
- China’s Tencent buys 12 percent stake in Snapchat owner – Reuters
- IMF’s Lagarde warns protectionism, while now just words, may come to hurt Asia – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Coal-fired plant shifted $1bn offshore while pocketing $117m from Australian taxpayers – The Guardian
- Malcolm Turnbull in fiery TV exchange with ‘patronising’ Karl Stefanovic – The SMH
- CSIRO launch program to make Australia hydrogen fuel leader – The SMH
- Rescind Adani’s Unlimited Water License – YouTube
- Turnbull government’s first home buyer ‘super savers’ scheme in trouble – The Age
- Turnbull calls on Shorten to be ‘fair dinkum’ – 9News
- Lambie denies UK citizenship claims – will release documents ‘when everyone else does’ – Tasmania Talks
- Turnbull won’t survive Christmas – Di Natale – Sky News
- Corporate watchdog Asic in privacy breach exposing users’ search history – The Guardian
- It’s time for a royal commission into banking regulation – The Conversation
- Treasurer expressed doubts over PM’s dual citizenship resolution – News.com.au
- Better economic days ahead? Sorry, not yet – The SMH
- Optus admits customers may have been overcharged for NBN speeds – ABC
- Labor Senator Sam Dastyari ambushed by a far-right group – Sky News
- Revealed: the fastest telcos and cities in Australia for broadband – Canberra Times
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RBNZ may be about to move on LVRs – Interest.co.nz
- The RBNZ’s key assumptions on the new government’s policies – Interest.co.nz
