Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO – Axios
- Trump: U.S. not withdrawing from the WTO – Politico
- Warren Buffett is big winner after US bank stress tests – FT
- What Crypto Downturn? ICO Fundraising Surges in 2018 – WSJ
- Bitcoin Bloodbath Nears Dot-Com Levels as Many Tokens Go to Zero – Bloomberg
- Economic growth with stagnating median incomes: New analysis – VOX
- Einhorn Deepens Slide as Greenlight Plunges 19% in First Half – Yahoo
- Dollar Rally Ripples Globally, Leading Investors to Reverse Course – WSJ
- The Money Gods’ Price For Achieving High Returns – The Pitch
- Saudi king said will boost oil output if needed – Reuters
- Traders Are Still Haunted by the VIX Five Months Later – Bloomberg
- That Noise You Hear Is the Sound of Globalization Going Into Reverse – WSJ
Americas:
- Leftist seen as Mexico’s next president after massive win – exit poll – Reuters
- ‘A way of monetizing poor people’: How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans – Washington Post
- Companies used Trump’s tax cut for record stock buybacks, not wages – NBC News
- Trump’s trade policy is a rerun of a terrible 1980s policy where ’American consumers were the biggest losers’ – Business Insider
- Canada makes retaliatory tariffs official: ’We will not back down’ – CNBC
Europe:
- North Korea Expands Key Missile-Manufacturing Plant – WSJ
- EU warns of $300bn hit to US over car import tariffs – FT
- May piles pressure on Brexiteer ministers – The Times
- Interior minister offers to resign, in blow to German coalition – Reuters
- German coalition crisis approaches crunch point – FT
- The Great Russian Disinformation Campaign – The Atlantic
- Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit’s Biggest Backer – NY Times
- U.S. assessing cost of keeping troops in Germany as Trump battles with Europe – Washington Post
Asia:
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- China backs $15bn tech fund to compete with Japan’s SoftBank – FT
- Trump’s Trade War Arrives in the Data as China Awaits Tariffs – Bloomberg
- Renminbi’s worst month ever sparks US-China currency war fears – FT
- Taiwan’s Technology Secrets Come Under Assault From China – WSJ
- The Belt and Road Bubble Is Starting to Burst – Foreign Policy
- Trump Can’t Afford to Admit His Failures With North Korea – The Atlantic
- China’s hedge funds find their feet – Euro Money
- China Begins to Question Whether It’s Ready for a Trade War – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia’s high electricity prices the ‘new normal’, report says – The Guardian
- Study: Almost 1 million Aussies moving from Grade-A HFC to FTTN – The Data
- FOI Request reveals $39m cost of defending Australia’s tobacco plain packaging laws – The Guardian
- Wayne Swan floats dramatic inequality measures as Labor battles in key byelections – Brisbane Times
- South Australian government declares war on marijuana – ABC
- Tougher fines, prison terms for cannabis offences in SA as State Government declares ‘war on drugs’ – Adelaide Now
- LNP to debate abortion, protecting Christmas and Adani’s rail line – Brisbane Times
- Newstart’s hand-to-mouth existence can’t go on for another 25 years – The Guardian
- Report recommends big ideas for regional Australia – beyond decentralisation – The Conversation
- NBN says regional rollout almost complete, but 44 percent still in design – ZD Net
- The most expensive land in Australia might be graves, here’s the problem – Domain
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