Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why Competitive Advantages Die – Collaborative Fund
- We All Have a Stake in the Stock Market, Right? Guess Again – NY Times
- The 4 VIX-related trading products that will signal the end of the sell-off – CNBC
- What’s needed to unlock the real power of blockchain and… – Tech Crunch
- Some Investors Shun Longer-Dated Bonds as Duration Risk Rises – WSJ
- Investors Pull Most Money Out of Dow Jones ETF in Nine Months – Bloomberg
- Jump in U.S. Yields May Not Lure Foreign Cash, and Here’s Why – Bloomberg
- Wall Street plummets again as S&P, Dow confirm correction – Reuters
- Kill The Quants, Before They Kill Our Markets – Real Investment Advice
- Be Thankful for the Stock-Market Selloff – Bloomberg
- Templeton Enlarges Bet Treasuries Are Doomed by Rising Rates – Bloomberg
- Rising house prices and inequality – VOX
- This week’s stock market drop was machine-made. The freakout that followed was man-made – Washington Post
- Bond Traders Have Gone From Hoping for Volatility to Worrying About It – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Rand Paul objection makes a short-term government shutdown likely – NBC News
- Los Angeles, Houston and the rise of the unreadable city – LA Times
- Trump’s draft plan to punish legal immigrants for sending US-born kids to Head Start – VOX
- Trump administration may target immigrants who use food aid, other benefits – Reuters
- White House instructs government agencies to prepare for shutdown – ForexLive
- What you need to know about the Senate budget deal – The Hill
- Canada’s housing market flirts with disaster – FT
- Is This Obscure Wall Street Invention Responsible for the Market Selloff? – WSJ
- Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decrease to 221,000 – Calculated Risk
- Why Maclean’s is asking men to pay 26% more for our latest issue – Maclean’s
Europe:
- U.K. Lawmakers Fly to Washington to Take On Tech Executives – Bloomberg
- Russian belly dancer deported for threatening Egypt’s ’national security’ – Egypt Independent
- EU doubts 2020 Brexit vision, sees longer goodbye – Reuters
- Germany’s trade surplus shrinks for the first time since 2009 – Reuters
- Wreckage Across Global Equity Markets Has Hong Kong Faring Worst – Bloomberg
- Britain to world: please pretend we are not leaving EU – FT
- EU memo of Barnier meeting raises questions over Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit policy – The Telegraph
- A secret plot to stop Brexit, or an antisemitic dog whistle? – The Guardian
- German workers win right to 28-hour week – CNN
- George Soros, the man who ’broke the Bank of England’, backing secret plot to thwart Brexit – The Telegraph
- Bank of England Set to Hike Rates Earlier Than Expected – Bloomberg
- The biggest privatisation you’ve never heard of: land – The Guardian
- Theresa May Plans Instant Split From Some EU Rules After Brexit – Bloomberg
- Italy’s Northern League chief attacks euro, says preparing exit – Reuters
Asia:
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- Hong Kong Orders Exchanges to Delist Tokens Deemed Securities – CoinDesk
- Asian stocks plunge again after latest Dow sell-off – CNN
- Everything’s a Sell in China After $660 Billion Equity Wipeout – Bloomberg
- China’s Yuan Plunges Most Since Aftermath of Devaluation in 2015 – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Calls For National Sick Day After Nation Forced To Imagine Barnaby Joyce Having Sex – The Shovel
- Barnaby Joyce’s girlfriend ‘handed senior role’ in Canavan office – 9News
- Turnball to take 65 Billion company tax cut to election – The SMH
- Victoria the safest it’s been for 10 years, says ABS – The Age
- Spies, Lies And Timor Gas: Prepare to Be Rocked By Canberra Lawyer’s Book – New Matilda
- Farmers fed up with trampled sunflower fields for selfies – ABC
- GetUp’s action in Batman byelection hinges on Labor’s Adani stance – The Guardian
- Revolving Doors: how the fossil fuel lobby has governments ensnared – Michael West
- Closing the gap in Indigenous literacy and numeracy? Not remotely – or in cities – The Conversation
- Australia’s Reserve Bank governor urges businesses to lift wages – The Guardian
- Reserve Bank governor rules out interest rate hikes until wages rise – ABC
- Appeal against WA uranium mine fails – The AFR
- Holiday homewreckers expose hole in home insurance – Domain
- Labor majority under threat in Victoria as MP considers quitting – ABC
- QV says average property values up strongly in Wellington, flat in Auckland, down in Christchurch – Interest.co.nz