Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Buffett Adds More Apple, Reduces IBM Stake by Another Third – Bloomberg
- Investors Scoop Up $90 Oil Bets as Saudi-Iran Tensions Escalate – Bloomberg
- Whipsawing Million-Ounce Gold Trades Are Becoming the New Norm – Bloomberg
- The Message in the S&P 500’s 12-Month Winning Streak – Bloomberg
- Trump’s Trade Swagger Leaves Markets Unimpressed – Bloomberg
- Banking on capital – VOX
- ‘Irrational Exuberance’ May Rule the Roost in Stock Markets – Bloomberg
- Top Central Bankers Defend Stimulus Efforts – WSJ
Americas:
- SEC Rejects Last-Minute Push to Delay Stock Surveillance System – Bloomberg
- Lower Corporate Taxes, Higher Wages? Voters Are Skeptical – NY Times
- How American politics went batshit crazy – Axios
- House passes $700B compromise defense bill – Politico
- Trump’s Judicial Picks Are Literally Right-Wing Bloggers – Daily Beast
- How Obamacare’s individual mandate works – VOX
- Senate Plans to End Obamacare Mandate in Revised Tax Proposal – NY Times
- Trump remains dead wrong on trade deals – AEI
Europe:
- London is installing electric car charging stations inside lamp posts for street charging – Electrek
- The lure of the Russian smoking gun – Washington Post
- Russia used 419 fake accounts to tweet about Brexit, data shows – The Guardian
- HSBC pays 300 million euros to settle investigation of Swiss bank – Reuters
- Bank Deposits No Longer Off Limits as ECB Seeks Power to Freeze – Bloomberg
- Why does Vladimir Putin hate me? – CNN
- Nearly 20 Tory MPs threaten to side with Labour and rebel against Brexit date after ’brutal’ meeting with chief whip – The Telegraph
Asia:
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- As Selloff Extends in Japan Stocks, One Prominent Buyer Is Back – Bloomberg
- Japan’s GDP grows for seven straight quarters, outlook remains solid – Reuters
- China Throws Lifeline to Builders Facing Record Wall of Debt – Bloomberg
- Japan’s top banks lay out cost-cutting plans amid lending gloom – Reuters
- The Tea Leaves of Xi-Era Discourse – China Media Project
- Another Singapore Chili Crab Restaurant Is Going Public – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Non Vaccinated children won’t be able to enrol in Victorian schools. – 9News
- No Campaign Blames Result On Lower Number Of No Voters – Betoota Advocate
- Number of dickheads in Australia slumps below 5 million – The Chaser
- Computer password laws being ‘sneaked’ through SA parliament, Greens say. -ABC news
- Same-sex marriage result: Huge ‘no’ votes in multicultural electorates – Brisbane Times
- Same-sex marriage: Majority of No voters from Western Sydney – The SMH
- SSM: Why NSW had the largest opposition to same-sex marriage – ABC
- Turnbull claims Labor stood in the way of the people having their say on SSM. – ABC
- Same-sex marriage debate: Religious freedom is, and should be, limited – The Age
- Profits of Adani’s Carmichael mine company tumble, leaving it in financial peril – The Guardian
- New Zealand to give NZ$3million to Manus Island, Nauru refugees – News.com.au
- Wage growth mired near record lows despite minimum pay rise, Aussie dollar tumbles – ABC
- Queensland election: LNP vows to tackle ‘young thugs’ with new detention centres – ABC
- ‘The bank tax is dead’: SA Government dumps controversial plan – ABC
- How a new power monitoring app is helping cut electricity bills by 20pc – ABC
- RBNZ gives Westpac 18 months to get its capital requirements sorted – Interest.co.nz
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