Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Record Buybacks Help Steady Wobbly Market – WSJ
- A Hedge-Fund Fee Plan That Only Charges for Alpha – Bloomberg
- Investors accelerate withdrawal from emerging markets – FT
- The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10 Billion of Bitcoin in Bunkers – Bloomberg
- Wall Street rallies and Apple approaches $1 trillion value – Reuters
- The U.S. Yield Curve Is the Flattest Since August 2007 – Bloomberg
- Corporate America Is Staring Down a $4 Trillion Wall of Refinancing – Bloomberg
- Hedge fund Third Point seeks to launch ’blank-check’… – Reuters
- Smart Beta Vs. Factor Funds: What’s The Difference? – ETF
- BlackRock Backs a Startup to Find Out What Young Investors Want – WSJ
- Cyber Gold: Understand Cryptocurrency With ClickHole’s Guide To Bitcoin – Click Hole
- Is Capitalism a Threat to Democracy? – New Yorker
- Struggling Tesla Faces an Investor Insurrection – Wired
- Wall Street’s ‘fear index’ drops to levels not seen since before stocks fell in to correction – Market Watch
- Oil at $100 Is a Possibility Next Year, Bank of America Says – Bloomberg
- What’s behind the dollar surge? Look to Europe, not US interest rates – SCMP
- The double standard of America’s China trade policy – Nikkei Asian Review
Americas:
- Homeland Security Secretary Was Close to Resigning After Trump Berated Her – NY Times
- White House official mocked ’dying’ McCain at internal meeting – The Hill
- Trump is no longer the worst person in government – Washington Post
- Trump to Drop Call for Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices – NY Times
- Dick Cheney: Restart enhanced interrogation programs – Politico
- Trump Treasury nominee withdraws amid concern over finances – Politico
- U.S. Consumer Prices Rise Less Than Forecast as Autos Drop – Bloomberg
- A Financial-Crisis Settlement Shows Trump Team’s Lighter Touch on Banks – Bloomberg
- Venezuela’s Brewing Oil Shock May Be Bigger Than Iran’s – WSJ
- Economists Think the Next U.S. Recession Could Begin in 2020 – WSJ
Europe:
- Sanctioned Russian tycoon hands back his private jets – Reuters
- Brexiteers urge PM to extend the transition period to break Cabinet deadlock – The Sun
- Carney Says Modest Rate Hikes Needed Even as Inflation Cools – Bloomberg
- At Putin’s Parade, Netanyahu Seeks Understanding on Iran – WSJ
- U.K. Retail Misery Endures as Sales Decline Most on Record – Bloomberg
- European Firms Plot Strategy Amid Trump Withdrawal from Iran Deal – WSJ
Asia:
Advertisement
- Chinese Tech Giant on Brink of Collapse in New U.S. Cold War – NY Times
- Anbang Insurance Founder’s Stunning Fall Ends With 18-Year Prison Term – WSJ
- Southeast Asian governments almost never lose elections. Malaysia’s just did – Quartz
- Japan’s Bitcoin King Poaches Wall Street Talent for Crypto Empire – Bloomberg
- China’s ZTE Ceases Major Operations After U.S. Trade Ban – Bloomberg
- Malaysia’s election upset sends shockwaves through bond market – Ifr Asia
- China credit spreads near 2-year highs on default worries – FT
- Growing list of U.S. products face issues at China’s borders – Axios
- Alibaba buys Rocket Internet’s Daraz to expand its e-commerce empire into South Asia – Tech Crunch
- China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to publish ratings for blockchain projects – including bitcoin – SCMP
- Anbang’s ex-chief Wu Xiaohui sentenced to 18 years behind bars for US$12 billion fraud, embezzlement – SCMP
- With Jail Sentences and Corporate Flameouts, China Is Tackling Its Debt – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Why the government should spend $50 million on ABC rather than Capt Cook – Canberra Times
- News Corp quarterly loss widens as Foxtel, Fox Sports Australia weigh – The SMH
- Coalition’s flat tax to benefit well-off city dwellers over regional Australians – The Guardian
- It’s the neoliberal budget when Australians no longer believe in neoliberalism – The Guardian
- Hobart floods: Havoc as wild weather floods city and Tasmania’s South East – The Mercury
- Live export ban faces prospect of passing Parliament after Labor signs on – Canberra Times
- Linc Energy fined $4.5 million for serious environmental harm at underground coal gasification plant – ABC
- Franchisees gagged as Red Rooster, Oporto enter damage control – Canberra Times
- Child protection worker sues state government for overwork and stress – The Age
- ASIC loses $28 million in funding under 2018 budget – RN Breakfast
- Australia’s AMP at risk of hemorrhaging wealth clients: Macquarie – Reuters
- The Coalition’s tax plan favours the rich and doesn’t solve bracket creep for middle-income earners – ABC
- Citizenship concerns now laid to rest: Labor MP – Sky News
- Budget 2018 ignores millennials’ housing woes by propping up elderly homeowners – ABC
- House prices cool, but are far from freezing – Interest.co.nz
- Central govt admits rates rises aren’t enough to help local govt – Interest.co.nz
- Budget 2018: Income tax brackets and how the Government’s plan really works – ABC
…and furthermore…