Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Wall Street plunges, S&P 500 erases 2018’s gains – Reuters
- Blackstone COO expects a 10- to 20-percent correction – CNBC
- S&P Warns High Corporate Debt Could Trigger Next Default Cycle – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin Bloodbath Builds – Now Among Biggest Crashes Ever – Zero Hedge
- Stock Selloff Is Starting to Cast Doubt on Fed’s Rate Hikes – Bloomberg
- These Charts Show Just How Bad the Selloff in Risk Assets Is – Bloomberg
- Dow Crashes 1300 Points As Bond Yields Flash-Crash – Zero Hedge
- Bitcoin drops below $8,000 after another bank ban on credit-card buying hits – MarketWatch
- The weak dollar is adding fuel to investors’ big new worry – Business Insider
Americas:
- ISM Non-Manufacturing Index increased to 59.9% in January – Calculated Risk
- Wells Fargo Must Be Better Before It Gets Bigger – Bloomberg
- U.S. Farmers Are Producing Too Much Food. Here’s Why They Can’t Stop – WSJ
- ‘The Memo’ Follows the GOP Plan to Destroy Neutral Authority – NY Mag
- ‘Dreamer’ Talks Aim to End Budget Impasse – WSJ
- Immigration Deal’s Chances Slip as Trump and Democrats Dig In – Bloomberg
- The stock market dive might actually mean good news for the economy – Washington Post
Europe:
- The Berlin Wall has now been down longer than it was up – The Economist
- Pressure grows on DPD and Theresa May after courier dies of diabetes – The Guardian
- Michel Barnier warns UK ’time has come to make a choice’ on Brexit – Sky
- Europe shuns Russian oil as boost of Chinese flows hits quality – Reuters
- S&P Says Disorderly Brexit Would Pressure U.K. Sovereign Rating – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- A Change in World Bank Methodology (Not Reform) Explains India’s Rise in Doing Business Rankings – Cgdev
- China Enlists Its ’Great Firewall’ to Block Bitcoin Websites – Fortune
- Nissan to Invest $9 Billion in China in Race for EV Dominance – Bloomberg
- Samsung Heir Lee Jae-yong Freed From Prison by Appeals Court – WSJ
- Chinese Funds Buy Record $1.6 Billion of Hong Kong Stocks Today – Bloomberg
- Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee Set Free in Unexpected Court Reversal – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Ban on the most Australian symbol of them all an outrage – The SMH
- Former unlikely senator Ricky Muir to stand for Victorian Parliament – ABC
- Is private health insurance a con? The answer is in the graphs – The Guardian
- ALP right faction sees democratisation as ‘threat to power base’, Pat Conroy says – The Guardian
- Q&A: Should employers have the right to take ‘strike’ action and lock out workers? – ABC
- Brisbane school sends ‘hundreds’ of students to detention over shoes – ABC
- Secret men’s business of the arms industry needs exposure – Canberra Times
- The Axe Is Likely To Fall On Work For The Dole Under A Labor Government – BuzzFeed
- Tesla big battery is already bringing Australia’s gas cartel to heel – Renew Economy
- Labor to join the Greens in a bid to stop Murray-Darling Basin Plan changes – ABC
- Scott Morrison didn’t believe Treasury advice on negative gearing – The AFR
- ‘I won’t support it’: Bill Shorten issues ultimatum on secrecy laws – Brisbane Times
- Top End shale gas development would blow Australia’s carbon budget, TAI says – The SMH
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Plenty for the Reserve Bank to talk about – Interest.co.nz
