Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- If you think your job is pointless, it probably is – WaPo (Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber)
- OPEC is discussing a compromise agreement to boost oil production as Iran, Venz, Iraq threaten to veto supply increase – Bloomberg
- Crowded trade watch: no-one likes the Swiss franc – FT Alphaville
- Cryptocurrency sellers get fresh ammo from critical BIS – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Climate change may already be hitting America’s housing market – Bloomberg
- Argentina has abruptly called on the IMF for financial help, amid currency pressures. -Bruegel
- US oil firms expecting to be slapped by Chinese tariffs on $1 billion monthly trade – Business Insider
- Generation Pickleball: Welcome to Florida’s Political Tomorrowland – Politico
- Facebook quietly made a huge concession to shareholders as it aims to avoid another data disaster – Business Insider
- Trump’s push isn’t stopping coal plants from closing – Bloomberg
Europe/Middle East:
- Hunt admits ‘Brexit dividend’ won’t be ‘anything like enough’ to fund PM’s £20bn boost for NHS – Guardian
- Audi CEO arrested in Germany over diesel scandal – Reuters
- We’re all in this together. Unless it’s Brexit – Bloomberg
- Blain: “Back In The Markets, There Is So Much To Worry About” – ZH
- Gazans challenge Israel’s high-tech defenses with flaming kites – WaPo
Asia:
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- China’s long-expected national property database has started to connect information stations across the country – Global Mail
- Opinion: China is finally ending the one-child policy. It can’t happen soon enough. – WaPo
- A trade war will likely further hurt Asia box-shipping rates to the U.S. – Bloomberg
- Seoul says sanctions on North Korea may be eased before denuclearisation – SCMP News
- North Korea isn’t Dismantling Missile Facilities, Satellite Imagery Reveals – Newsweek
- Magnitude 6.1 quake kills three, stops factories in Japan’s Osaka area – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Derrick Belan has been sentenced to four years in jail after being found guilty of defrauding his union more than $650,000 – AFR
- Super sector is set for a detailed grilling – Aus Business Review
- Senator Lucy Gichuhi says $200,000 salary is ‘not a lot of money’ – ABC
- Voters trust the ABC. And the government looks afraid of it. – Guardian
- A 228MW Victorian wind farm to go ahead as big business snaps up cheap green power – Reneweconomy
- Death of 6yo girl on Sunshine Coast reignites debate over rules and testing for elderly drivers – ABC (definitely – actually everyone should re-sit their physical driver’s license every five years – yearly for those over 65)