Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Can Blockchain Embrace The $200B Millennials Travel Market? – Forbes
- Multinationals pay lower taxes than a decade ago – FT
- Portfolio Managers, Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Your Jobs – CFA
- Why Blockchain Will Survive, Even If Bitcoin Doesn’t – WSJ
- OPEC Divided on the Right Price for Oil – WSJ
- How Fast is the Learning Curve for Traders? – Trader Feed
Americas:
- White House vows to help arm teachers and backs off raising age for buying guns – Washington Post
- Top Fed official warns of interest rate risk to recovery – FT
- G.O.P. Rushed to Pass Tax Overhaul. Now It May Need to Be Altered. – NY Times
- The Financial Whisperer to Trump’s America – Politico
- Visas Issued to Foreign Students Fall, Partly Due to Trump Immigration Policy – WSJ
- Tax Law Doesn’t Pay for Itself, Harvard Economists Find – WSJ
- U.S. Household Net Worth Pushes Further Into Record Territory – WSJ
Europe:
- ’No deal’ Brexit could cost UK, EU companies 58 billion pounds – Oliver Wyman report – Reuters
- Donald Trump threatens German carmakers with tariffs – FT
- Immigration: the wrong battle – Stumbling & Mumbling
- What Bust? European Banks Are Loading Up on Real Estate – WSJ
- Larry Kudlow predicted Europe’s exemption from Trump’s tariff plan – NY Post
- Fears over future market crash stalk Norway’s $1tn oil fund – FT
- A glimpse into Brexit Britain’s future: going it alone in a trade war – The Guardian
- Labour surges in polls over fears brutal Tory cuts will spark recession – Mirror Online
Asia:
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- China at Risk of Banking Crisis in BIS’s Early Warning Signal – Bloomberg
- Inside the Chinese lab that plans to rewire the world with AI – Technology Review
- Ending Term Limits for China’s Xi Is a Big Deal. Here’s Why. – NY Times
- ’This could destroy China’: parliament sets Xi Jinping up to rule for life – The Guardian
- Economist Paul Johnson: ‘We are nowhere near out of austerity’ – The Guardian
- Cash May Disappear in China as Payments Go Digital, PBOC Says – Bloomberg
- PBOC governor says Bitcoin not a legitimate method of payment – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Victorian government calls for biggest minimum wage boost since 2010 – The Age
- The head of Microsoft Australia says “company tax cuts are not a key factor in the investment decisions” – The SMH
- Woolworths accused of interfering in South Australian election as pokie battle rages – Brisbane Times
- ‘We’ve done an abysmal job’: Australia is struggling to handle its swelling population – ABC
- Australia leads on extinction rate: report – SBS
- Poll of Malcolm Turnbull’s electorate finds 75% back review of Adani approval – The Guardian
- Irish scammers leave Australia, others ‘go to ground’ after alleged fraud exposed – ABC
- Labor’s $250m promise to Catholic schools reveals a funding horror story – The Guardian
- ACT chief minister says he ‘hates’ journalists and ‘is over’ mainstream media – The Guardian
- Australia will not join any EU complaint to the WTO steel tariffs – The Guardian
- From $8000 to $80: Bar owner challenges massive AGL gas bill – The SMH
- Outsourcing visa services risking jobs and national security – Andrew Wilkie
- Gold Coast property outperforms Brisbane in 2017: REIQ – ABC
- Tail-end business cycle concerns loom over GDP growth figures – Interest.co.nz
- Labour’s housing policies may fall short like National’s policies did – Interest.co.nz