Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- This Stock’s 9,500% Rally Created a Town of Millionaires – Bloomberg
- One Firm Is Way Ahead of Wall Street on Bitcoin – NY Times
- Global Growth Set to Ebb as Expansion Shows Age, World Bank Says – Bloomberg
- World’s Biggest Hedge Fund: “We Are Bearish On Almost All Financial Assets” – Zero Hedge
- ‘There’s an ETF for That’ Mindset Comes for Mortgage Securities – Bloomberg
- Fund Managers Are Ditching Wall Street for Florida – Bloomberg
- U.S. Asks OPEC for 1 Million Barrel a Day Oil Output Hike – Bloomberg
- Tesla Veterans Reveal Fires, Accidents, and Delays Inside Elon Musk’s Company – Daily Beast
- Bailing Out the Coal Industry Will Hurt Consumers – NY Times
Americas:
- Housing Demand May Keep U.S. Recession at Bay, CIO Schawel Says – Bloomberg
- UN office calls on US to stop separating families at border – AP
- Mnuchin urged Trump to exempt Canada from steel and aluminum tariffs: Sources – ABC News
- Almost seven-in-ten Americans have news fatigue, more among Republicans – Pew Research
- The Trump era can’t end soon enough – Washington Post
- The likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant – Washington Post
- Student loan debt just hit $1.5 trillion. Women hold most of it – CNN
- Why Trump’s Trade War Isn’t Worrying Wall Street Economists, Yet – Bloomberg
- Pressure is building among some Democrats for another antitrust probe of Google – Washington Post
- Mexico publishes retaliatory tariffs on US imports – AP
- Mexico set to impose 20 percent tariff on U.S. pork legs – sources – Reuters
- Mexican Peso Falls to Lowest in a Year as Nafta Seen Delayed – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Why the Swiss should vote for ‘Vollgeld’ – FT
- European businesses advised to avoid using British parts ahead of Brexit – Sky
- Macron says calls with Trump like sausages – better not know what’s… – Reuters
- Italians Still Want the Euro – Bloomberg
- Calls grow in Germany for expulsion of disputed US envoy – Yahoo
- Italy turmoil shows banking ‘doom loop’ still a powerful force – FT
Asia:
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- China’s ZTE signed preliminary agreement to lift U.S. ban – Reuters
- China Offers to Buy Nearly $70 Billion of U.S. Products to Fend Off Trade Tariffs – WSJ
- How China Skirts America’s Antidumping Tariffs on Steel – WSJ
- China Revives Its Push to Make the Yuan Go Global – Bloomberg
- Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West? – The Economist
Trans-Tasman:
- The Turnbull government’s personal income tax plan will cost $24 billion a year by the end of the decade, new figures show, in what will be the largest income tax cut in Australian history – The Age
- Senate inquiry calls for sweeping political donations ban – The Guardian
- Bank details, TFNs, personal details of job applicants compromised in major Australian data breach – ABC
- Steve Ciobo overturned mining loan ban without consulting department – The Guardian
- Queensland Government considering funding $100m road for Adani mine, documents show – ABC
- Fortnite or Netflix: which should NBN Co be more concerned about? – ABC
- Tech experts say gamers aren’t to blame for traffic on the NBN – ABC
- NBN blaming ‘gamers’ for slow broadband contradicts its own online advice – ABC
- Victorian public housing waiting list at 82,000 and growing by 500 a month – ABC
- Aussie Broadband may have to cut some NBN users loose – IT News
- Fall in house prices is ‘quite a bit larger’ than expected, says ANZ – ANZ
- University explains why it walked away from western civilisation degree – The Guardian
- Private schools unleash last-ditch campaign against ‘disastrous’ school funding changes – Canberra Times
- Institute of Public Affairs Says Progressive Taxation Is Like Racism – Junkee
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HSBC launches a 3.85% 18-month mortgage rate, a 50 year low – Interest.co.nz
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