Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots – Bloomberg
- Alphabet Is Sitting on About $11 Billion in Startup Investments – Bloomberg
- Alphabet’s Earnings Soar as Sales Continue to Climb – WSJ
- Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain – Bloomberg
- How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream – NY Times
- The SEC Wants Wall Street to Treat Clients Better. What’s at Stake? – Bloomberg
- Netflix Is Selling $1.5 Billion of Junk Bonds to Finance More Shows – Bloomberg
- Investors’ New Headache: It’s Getting Harder to Buy or Sell When They Want – WSJ
- It’s a Scary Time to Be Trading Wall Street’s Fear Index – WSJ
- Yes. It’s a Bubble. So What? – Research Affiliates
Americas:
- Flight Records Illuminate Mystery of Trump’s Moscow Nights – Bloomberg
- Why Working on the Railroad Comes With a $25,000 Signing Bonus – WSJ
- A typical American birth costs as much as delivering a royal baby – The Economist
- Tax Changes Mean Mortgage-Interest Deduction Finds Fewer Takers – WSJ
- People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor – The Atlantic
- A Time for Big Economic Ideas – NY Times
- Amazon’s Typical Worker Is in a Warehouse Making $28,446 a Year – WSJ
- How Long Can Trump’s Long Con Last? – Bloomberg
- Don’t worry about a recession. Worry about the Federal Reserve. – Washington Post
- America Is Going Even Deeper Into Debt – Bloomberg
- Still Waiting for the Tax-Cut Boost – WSJ
- What If the Problem Isn’t the President—It’s the Presidency? – The Atlantic
- Economists are warning Donald Trump about tariffs with a letter from the 1930s – Quartz
Europe:
- France commits to boosting defense spending by 35 percent over six years – Reuters
- Basic income trial falls flat in Finland – BBC
- Brexit could yet be stopped at customs – FT
- The British media is a closed shop. These are the facts. – Medium
- UK will leave customs union, insists No 10 – BBC
- Eurozone investors race up chart of US debt owners – FT
- The eurozone economy: a nasty surprise in store? – FT
Asia:
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- Sexist Job Ads Show Discrimination Rife at China Tech Giants – Bloomberg
- Japan will reach 2% inflation target and can begin reducing stimulus in five years, BOJ’s Kuroda says – CNBC
- How China Is Buying Its Way Into Europe – Bloomberg
- Trump says North Korea agreed to denuclearize. It hasn’t. – AP
- China ‘Welcomes’ Mnuchin’s Interest in Traveling to Beijing for Trade Talks – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- A rogue AMP planner ran a secret property advocacy business while advising clients to source investment properties from his firm, the banking royal commission has heard – Brisbane Times
- The Federal Government has awarded a $6 million grant to a gas producer wholly-owned by a massive Chinese company – ABC
- Turnbull government is mulling an early election – The New Daily
- Sydney council cracks down on foreign words on shopfront signs – SBS
- Australia was conned by financial regulators. And now we’ll pay the price – The Guardian
- Five years on and Australians still benefit from modern slavery every day – ABC
- Jails bursting with unsentenced prisoners as costs also soar – The SMH
- “Fraudulent bankers should be jailed, or made leader of Liberal party” says Morrison – Chaser
- Pauline Hanson says Government’s company tax cuts wouldn’t deliver higher wages – ABC
- Fracking can cause social stress in nearby areas: new research – The Conversation
- Liberal MP Michael Sukkar pledges to crush party’s Left ‘termites’ – Herald-Sun
- Australians growing more concerned over immigration – Guardian Essential poll – The Guardian
- Banking royal commission: 5pc of ANZ clients got financial advice not likely in their best interests – ABC
- Victorian timber mills facing closure after Heyfield receives supply boost from Government – ABC
- Peak cows, peak milk and Fonterra’s dilemma – Interest.co.nz
- March migration gain smallest in four years – Interest.co.nz