Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Economy Is Full of Crypto (And Collective Delusion) – Bloomberg
- Investors Brace for More Market Turbulence After Rocky Week – WSJ
- S&P 500 Companies with More Global Exposure Reporting Higher Earnings Growth in Q4 – FactSet
- Is Bitcoin Heading To Zero? – Forbes
- Bitcoin Finds a Bottom as Risk Aversion Grips Global Markets – Bloomberg
- Fed Economists Say Bitcoin Can’t Compete in World of Trust – Bloomberg
- Global trade and the dollar – VOX
- This Is the Worst Momentum Swing for U.S. Stocks in History – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Will truth win out? Rob Porter’s departure holds a key to effective journalism in the Trump era. – Washington Post
- The Flu is Killing Up to 4,000 Americans a Week – Time
- The Republicans Have Become the Party of Debt – NY Times
- U.S. Budget Director Warns Interest Rates May `Spike’ on Deficit – Bloomberg
- New Tax Law Haunts Companies That Did ‘Inversion’ Deals – WSJ
- Liberals Wanted Fiscal Stimulus. Conservatives Delivered It. – NY Times
- The Fed is now in a showdown with the Trump Administration over deficits – Credit Writedown
- America’s extraordinary economic gamble – The Economist
- With Yellen Out of the Picture, Get Ready for Trump vs. Powell – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Private debt assets hit record high as dry powder piles up – IPE.com
- British farmer moves fruit-growing to China over Brexit uncertainty – The Guardian
- Windsor council to impose fines on rough sleepers – The Guardian
- Russian passenger plane crashes near Moscow; 71 dead – Reuters
- Besieged Theresa May pressed to put some Brexit meat on the cabinet table – The Times
- Britain’s sad circular journey: from empire to Efta to Brussels to Brexit – The Guardian
- Brexit wiped out £7.7bn of business investment, says Bank of England – The Times
- George Soros raises donation to anti-Brexit Best for Britain group – The Guardian
- GEORGE SOROS: My love for Britain is why I hate Brexit – Mail Online
- PM and ministers to set out ’road to Brexit’ – BBC
- Brexit: the impossible job? A guide to the roadblocks facing the PM – The Guardian
Asia:
Advertisement
- Singapore Bourse Seeks to Defuse Tensions With Indian Counterpart – Bloomberg
- North Korea gets bafflingly positive coverage at Olympics – Axios
- Leading human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir passes away in Lahore – Dawn
- Xi takes aim at military in anti-graft drive – FT
- Pence: The United States is ready to talk with North Korea – Washington Post
- Wealthy Chinese push racing pigeon prices skywards – FT
- Inside North Korea’s Hacker Army – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia’s solar power boom could almost double capacity in a year, analysts say – The Guardian
- PM’s office says Vikki Campion jobs did not breach rules because she was not Barnaby Joyce’s ‘partner’ – The Age
- PM urged to ask for Barnaby Joyce’s resignation – 9News
- Malcolm Turnbull’s dilemma as Barnaby Joyce becomes a liability – The SMH
- Labor to keep focus on Barnaby Joyce, calling for ‘full transparency’ – ABC
- Australian power prices worse than banana republics – The SMH
- ‘A national disgrace’: Nursing home residents fed for $6 per day – 9News
- Wages growth is worse than the headlines claim – The SMH
- Labor promises stolen generations compensation fund, $75k per individual – The SMH
- Labor to ‘facilitate’ full fibre to the premises NBN in the North – The Advocate
- Darwin Unilodge apartments partly made of same flammable cladding as Grenfell Tower – ABC
- Brisbane apartment owners take massive hits as prices hit four-year low, values plunging – ABC
- Australia’s banks, which are among the most profitable in the world, have been accused of customer exploitation and corporate fraud among other scandals. – ABC
- NBN chief admits it is ‘unlikely’ to hit revenue per user target – The SMH
- Bigger than LNG? South Australia to get first “green hydrogen” plant – InDaily
- Chinese investment in Australia’s power grid explained – ABC
-
Expect ‘far more’ than 100,000 new homes, Twyford says – Interest.co.nz