Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Cambridge Analytica planned to issue digital currency: sources – Reuters
- Winning ‘Black Swan’ Investor in 2008 Says Market’s More Fragile – Bloomberg
- Wall Street’s $6 Trillion Man Fink Is Finally Worth $1 Billion – Bloomberg
- The Pension Time Bomb: $400 Trillion by 2050 – Visual Capitalist
- Goldman Reaps the Benefits of Diversification – WSJ
Americas:
- Billionaire GOP Donor: I’m Using My Tax-Cut Money To Help Elect Democrats – Huffington Post
- San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble – NY Times
- The Retail Real Estate Glut Is Getting Worse – Bloomberg
- The Biggest U.S. Banks Made $2.5 Billion From Tax Law—in One Quarter – WSJ
- Facing Historic Labor Shortages, Companies Snap Up Teenagers – WSJ
- Don’t Blame Airbnb for Rising Rents – Bloomberg
- Harvard, Yale Are Among Colleges Working to Repeal Endowment Tax – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Brexit Britain slides down Europe’s economic league table – FT
- Europe’s venture capitalists embrace virtual currency craze – Reuters
- Robots Ride to the Rescue Where Workers Can’t Be Found – NY Times
- British Businesses Aren’t Backing a Second Brexit Vote – Bloomberg
- Germans find ’Harald Bluetooth’ treasure – BBC
Asia:
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- CIA Director Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over Easter weekend – Washington Post
- China’s ZTE may lose Android license as U.S. market woes build – Reuters
- Surging China steel output defies Trump pressure – FT
- How the mud in this small Japanese island could change the global economy – CNN
- Cryptocurrency Exchange Kraken Pulls Out of Japan – Bloomberg
- The Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Tuscany – New Yorker
- Two Koreas Discuss Official End to 68-Year War, Report Says – Bloomberg
- In new sign of trade battle, China slaps U.S. sorghum producers with 179 percent deposit – Washington Post
- Strong yuan, rising costs are bigger worries than US trade war, say Chinese exporters – SCMP
- Chinese carmaker stocks plunge as Beijing moves to fully open market to foreign ventures – SCMP
- US to bar telecom equipment from Huawei and ZTE – Nikkei Asian Review
- U.S. Moves to Block Sales by Chinese Telecom Equipment Makers – NY Times
- China’s Economy Grows, and Its Trade Gap With the U.S. Widens – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- NBN: Queensland govt calls for more FTTC, FTTP and less FTTN – Computer World
- Australia government says banking executives responsible for misconduct could face jail – Reuters
- Plastic bag bans are coming. Here’s what you need to know – ABC
- Multinationals mollycoddled: former ATO official calls for tax secrecy to go – Michael West
- Turnbull’s national energy guarantee could have ‘no meaningful emission reduction’ – The Guardian
- Browned off: $90m ‘clean coal’ program ends as final project collapses – The Age
- Regional rents are rising 61pc faster than capital cities – ABC
- Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash media shy despite government’s jobs success – New Daily
- Morrison warns AMP’s behaviour can be punished by ‘jail time’ – The SMH
- Joe Hockey putts for power, going nine holes with Donald Trump – ABC
- BrickX offered millennials access to the property market — now one of its properties has fallen $100,000 in value and returns from others are under pressure – Business Insider
- Banking royal commission: AMP loses count of how many times it misled ASIC – ABC
- Banking royal commission: CBA agrees it is the ‘gold medallist’ at fees for no service – Guardian
- Richard Flanagan: ‘Our politics is a dreadful black comedy’ – press club speech in full – Guardian
- Treasurer Scott Morrison ‘deeply distressed’ by AMP’s evidence to banking royal commission – ABC
- ASIC missed chance to stop the rot in financial advice 12 years ago – Fairfax
- AMP denies it ‘traps’ investors in poorly performing funds – Fairfax
- Playing nice at work could cost you success – The Conversation
- Move over Canada and EU, Australia is best placed to benefit in the US-China trade tug-of-war – The Conversation
- Building a house ‘more attractive than buying one’ – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- War on malaria: on the brink of a breakthrough? – Telegraph