Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The prospects for a bitcoin ETF look dead in the water – MarketWatch
- This is how coal dies — super cheap renewables plus battery storage – Think Progress
- For New Fed Chief, Stock Boom May Bring Bubble Déjà Vu – WSJ
- Bond Traders Question the Bear Market – Bloomberg
- Predicting doom for the bond market – The Economist
- Treasuries Slide as China Said to View Them as `Less Attractive’ – Bloomberg
- Investors Are Snubbing One of the Best Hedges Against Soaring Yields – Bloomberg
- Cryptocurrencies Drop as High Flier Ripple Trades 50% Below Peak – Bloomberg
- Is the Great Bond Blowout Finally Happening? – WSJ
- Goldman Says Cryptocurrencies May Succeed as Form of Real Money – Bloomberg
- Battered Bond Market May Give Pause to Stampeding Stock Bulls – Bloomberg
Americas:
- How the Shale Bust Created Trump’s Economic Boom – Bloomberg
- Trump Renews Pledge to ‘Take a Strong Look’ at Libel Laws – NY Times
- U.S. Became a Net Gas Exporter for the First Time in 60 Years – Bloomberg
- California’s Brown Raises Prospect of Pension Cuts in Downturn – Bloomberg
- Trump companies sold $35 million in real estate in 2017: report – The Hill
- Trump’s Deals Keep Collapsing Because His Aides Overrule Him – NY Mag
- Bigger Companies Once Meant Bigger Pay. No More. – WSJ
- 7-Eleven probe opens new front on immigration – AP
- Quebec Lures Cryptocurrency Miners as China Sours on Industry – Coin Desk
- Mexican Peso, Canadian Dollar Decline on U.S. Nafta Exit Risk – Bloomberg
- Canada convinced Trump will soon pull plug on NAFTA – Reuters
Europe:
- May ’Breached Ministerial Code’ With Tory Reshuffle PR Stunt – Huff Post
- David Davis’s petulant leaked letter is the latest slice of Brexit cakeism – The Guardian
- Europe Has Completely Turned the Tables on Brexit – Bloomberg
- UK manufacturing output best for 10 years – BBC
Asia:
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- U.S. House Backs Greater Ties With Taiwan, Risking China’s Ire – Bloomberg
- Analysis: China’s U.S. bond rebalancing would hold few fears for Fed – Reuters
- The class allegiance of China’s de facto voters – Chublico Opinion
- Saving Hollywood From the Chinese Box Office – Bloomberg
- South Korea’s Moon says Trump deserves ’big’ credit for North Korea talks – Reuters
- China’s fingerprints are everywhere – Washington Post
- China Weighs Slowing or Halting Purchases of U.S. Treasuries – Bloomberg
- South Korea’s major cryptocurrency exchanges raided by police, tax authorities – Reuters
- With U.S. Aid Cut, Pakistan Drifts Closer to China – WSJ
- China Quietly Orders Closing of Bitcoin Mining Operations – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- 99% of Australian Green Sea Turtles Studied Turning Female From Climate Change – National Geographic
- ‘Creeping Stalinism’: secrecy law could imprison whistleblowers and journalists – The Guardian
- Pineapples go to waste as farmers warn of shortage of canned fruit produced in Australia – ABC
- Microsoft Australia pays extra tax after ATO audit – IT News
- Peter Dutton steps up attack on Daniel Andrews over street gang crime – The Age
- Victoria Police Say Daily Mail Provoked African ‘gang flare-up’ Scuffle – The Guardian
- Beijing complains about Australia’s ‘irresponsible’ attack on China’s Pacific aid program – ABC
- Tesla could beat its own record with an even bigger Powerpack project with Neoen in Australia – Electrek
- Joe Hockey and the Reserve Bank: no such thing as a free $8.8 billion – Michael West
- NBN rollout: Malcolm Turnbull’s future tangled in National Broadband Network web – Herald Sun
- ‘Undemocratic and disrespectful’: Why music festivals divide Byron Bay – The SMH
- A month in, Tesla’s SA battery is surpassing expectations – The Conversation
- The long list of reasons for Sydney’s train chaos – The ABC
- Why Sydney’s transport is doomed to fail its users – The ABC