Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Ripple Has Tried to Buy Its Way Onto Major Exchanges for Cryptocurrency – Bloomberg
- Gundlach betting against stocks because of bond yields and bitcoin – CNBC
- The striking similarities between mortgage-backed securities and the 17th century financial system – MarketWatch
- The Hedge Fund Guy Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google -NPR
- Specter of Full Trade War Returns to Batter Stocks: Markets Wrap – Bloomberg
- Trade Wars, Stranded Assets, and the Stock Market – NY Times
- Stock futures plunge, with the Dow set for a more than 500-point drop, after China announces tariffs – CNBC
- How Unusual Was the First Quarter? Even Wall Street Trading Desks Are Expected to Thrive – WSJ
- Libor Keeps Rattling U.S. Stocks Even After Debut of Its Replacement – Libor
- Oligarchs hide billions in shell companies. Here’s how we stop them – The Guardian
- AI will destroy fewer jobs than you think – The Verge
Americas:
- Look at These Astounding Photos of Abandoned Dockless Vehicles in America. – The Atlantic
- Automobiles Dominate U.S. Non-China Imports – WSJ
- Canada has pulled off a brain heist – Axios
- Homeowners are sitting on $5.4 trillion in ready cash, the most ever – CNBC
- An airing of grievances: Trump spends days issuing a torrent of complaints against foes – Washington Post
- Why I’m optimistic about U.S. democracy – Hewlett
- Do the Employed Get Better Job Offers? – NY Fed
- Stunned Investors Reap 95% Gains on Defaulted Puerto Rico Bonds – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Whitehall ’chaos’ puts the UK’s Brexit trade strategy in doubt – The Telegraph
- ’Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack’: Swedes turn against cashlessness – The Guardian
- European Central Bank’s marathon man moves to front of the pack – FT
- London remains graduate choice for financial services careers – FT
- Swiss bankers’ hopes for EU access dashed by Brexit – FT
Asia:
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- Banks Rush to Turn Japan Cashless – Bloomberg
- China Tariffs Could Wreck Republicans in November – Bloomberg
- China Hits Soybeans, Aircraft in Counter-Punch to Trump Tariffs – Bloomberg
- China’s Anbang Insurance Gets $9.7 Billion Capital Injection From Rescue Fund – WSJ
- China Threatens U.S. Cars, Planes and Soy in Response to Trump – WSJ
- China and US exchange tariff threats in trade battle – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Unions are planning a series of mass marches calling for a change to workplace bargaining rules and the lifting of stagnating wages – SBS
- Why do we keep turning a blind eye to Chinese political interference? – The Conversation
- Eight surgeries and still no cure in sight: The disease crippling Australian women – ABC
- You don’t have to be a climate science denier to join the Monash coal forum, but it helps – The Guardian
- South Sudan, Somalia and Iran excluded from one of Australia’s refugee programs – The Guardian
- Canberra travel allowance ‘rort’ costs taxpayers $1 million a year – New Daily
- Dutton pledges loyalty to Turnbull as leadership questions loom – SBS
- ACCC report calls for government to get ready to split up NBN – Computer World
- More than 300,000 Australians may have had their personal information exposed in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. – ABC
- “An unbelievably bad idea”: Di Natale’s universal basic income proposal attracts criticism – 4bc
- Australia’s immigration policy is meant to be blind to race, but is it? – The Guardian
- Home buyers’ borrowing capacity could be cut by 35 per cent under tougher rules – ABC
- Making the RBA the People’s Bank would shake up the big four – so it’s worth a try – The Guardian
- Ghost water, poor planning and theft: how the Murray-Darling plan fell apart – The Guardian
- Turnbull Government pressures AGL to sell Liddell power station to Alinta – ABC
- Wealthy landlords and more sharehousing: how the rental sector is changing – The Conversation
- GST redistribution delivers boosts to WA and Victoria, but NT and Queensland set to lose out – ABC
- New Zealand deports eight Australian crims across Tasman – Stuff.co.nz
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KiwiBuild speedbump – dwelling sizes might be an issue for lenders – Interest.co.nz