Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- SEC preparing cryptocurrency fraud crackdown – Fox Business
- JPMorgan sued over fees for cryptocurrency purchases – Reuters
- The Yield Curve Is Flattening Relentlessly – Bloomberg
- Fix the Roof While the Window of Opportunity is Open: Three Priorities for the Global Economy – IMF
- Barclays to Shut $1.2 Billion of ETNs, But Do Investors Know? – Bloomberg
- An update from Jeremy Grantham – The Economist
- What the CFOs Think About the Equity Premium in 2018: 6.31% Real Premium? – Alpha Architect
Americas:
- Bannon pitches White House on plan to cripple Mueller probe and protect Trump – Washington Post
- Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, March 20-21, 2018 – Fed Reserve
- Corker: Tax cuts could be ’one of the worst votes I’ve made’ – The Hill
- The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump – NY Times
- ABC: Comey compares Trump to mob boss – Axios
- The share of young Americans living with their parents is the highest in 75 years – Quartz
- Fed Leans Toward Faster Pace of Hikes as Trade War Poses Risk – Bloomberg
- Video shows U.S. border agents trying to dump injured man in Mexico – NBC
- Bitcoin is eating Quebec – Tech Review
Europe:
- Deripaska’s Two-Decade Wooing of U.S. Ends in Financial Meltdown – Bloomberg
- UK businesses call for post-Brexit alignment with EU regulations – FT
- Russia Girds for Economic War After Trump’s Syria Warning – Bloomberg
- European Commission raids Murdoch’s Fox offices in London – The Telegraph
- Norway’s wealth fund blocked from investing in private equity – FT
- Mark Carney Gets a New Right-Hand Man – Bloomberg
- British Banks Will Have to Cut Ties to Sanctioned Oligarchs, U.S. Says – NY Times
Asia:
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- China Adds Flesh to Bones of Plan for Big Bang Financial Opening – Bloomberg
- China asserts firm grip on research data – Science
- For Chinese Steel, the Road to the U.S. Goes Through Vietnam – WSJ
- Xi Warns Against Returning to a ‘Cold War Mentality’ – Bloomberg
- South Korean broker redefines fat-fingered trading – Breaking Views
Trans-Tasman:
- Sydney parents face court over vegan diet which left baby ‘malnourished’ – The SMH
- Forget polls. The economy is Turnbull’s true measure of failure – The New Daily
- Hobart rental prices are now pretty much on par with Melbourne – ABC
- Turnbull’s energy project lead contractor under corruption cloud – The Age
- Sydney once had the biggest tram system in the southern hemisphere – ABC
- ABC changes ‘unnecessary and unjustified’, Michelle Guthrie says – The Guardian
- Singlet ban only for blokes ‘discriminatory’, Queensland surf clubs warned – ABC
- Ocean heat waves and weaker winds will keep Australia warm for a while yet – ABC
- Nuclear waste from Australia’s only reactor ready to be dumped – ABC
- Water wars continue as South Australia enters Murray-Darling market – ABC
- Commercial battery boom headed for Australia, despite “outdated policy” – RenewEconomy
- Labor’s Plan To Fix The NBN Multi Technology Mix Mess – Gizmodo
- Abbott says PM has ‘knickers in a twist’ over migration policy – New Daily
- A disused coal power station in the Hunter Valley will reopen to solely power crypto – Engadget
- Restrictions on privatised ports adding to Sydney’s gridlock: Deloitte report – The SMH
- Sydney to be cooled by an extra five million trees by 2030 – The SMH
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Minister brushes off Westpac minimum wage report – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ ‘has always had regard to the labour market’ – Interest.co.nz
- S&P: Government debt increase unlikely to shift NZ’s credit rating – Interest.co.nz