Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Winklevoss twins bitcoin ETF rejected by SEC – CNBC
- Winklevoss Twins Want To Sell You A Bitcoin Fund – BuzzFeed
- Facebook’s $119 Billion One-Day Rout Makes U.S. History – Bloomberg
- How Facebook’s $151 Billion Rout Could Rewrite the History Books – Bloomberg
- How Facebook Went So Wrong So Fast – Bloomberg
- Up to Two-Thirds of Bitcoin Transactions Have No Economic Value – Bloomberg
- The Top 5 Stocks Are Big. And They’re Outperforming. This Is Normal – The Fat Pitch
- Outflows From U.S. Stocks Swell as Investors Seek Refuge in Bonds – WSJ
- Bond yields reliably predict recessions. Why? – The Economist
- ECB Keeps to Policy Path to End Bond Purchases – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting – CNN
- The U.S. Housing Market Looks Headed for Its Worst Slowdown in Years – Bloomberg
- Record Drop in Foreigners Buying U.S. Homes – WSJ
- Juncker’s Trade Pitch to Trump: ‘I Can Be Stupid, as Well’ – WSJ
- An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Presidential Election – NY Times
- Assessing the Trump economy – Washington Post
- Trump uses taxpayer-funded trip to campaign for GOP candidates – Washington Post
- What the GDP Report Won’t Tell You About the Economy – Bloomberg
- Kudlow says US GDP figure will be ‘big’ – FT
- Venezuela to remove five zeroes from ailing currency – Reuters
Europe:
- Trump’s Trade Truce With Europe Has a Familiar Feel: It Mirrors Obama’s Path – NY Times
- EU-US trade truce falters on Day 1 over farming – Politico
- Diamonds, guns and Russian cash – Channel 4
- Michel Barnier kills off Theresa May’s Brexit customs proposals – The Guardian
- The Swiss National Bank owns more A-class Facebook shares than Zuckerberg – Len News
- Turkish Lira Slumps as U.S. Threatens ‘Significant’ Sanctions – Bloomberg
- How Investors Are Dealing With Threat of Russian Debt Sanctions – Bloomberg
- Europe’s Vow to Buy More U.S. Soy Won’t Make Up for China Losses – Bloomberg
- Wages Are Rising in Europe. But Economists Are Puzzled. – NY Times
Asia:
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- China’s debt threat: time to rein in the spending boom – FT
- The Chinese are wary of Donald Trump’s creative destruction – FT
- Qualcomm Plans to Abandon NXP Deal Amid U.S.-China Tensions – WSJ
- China won’t bow to U.S. in trade war, WTO envoy says – Globe & Mail
- How the rise of Asia will change the liberal international order – East Asia Forum
- China’s economy doing well despite threat of trade war fallout, IMF says – SCMP
- Mentalities for China to Battle in the Trade War – Jumore Global
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia thinks Trump could be ready to order a strike against Iran – ABC
- Cashless welfare card ‘demonising’ Centrelink recipients – ABC
- My Health Record undermines teens’ medical privacy, critics fear – ABC
- FactCheck: has Pauline Hanson voted ‘effectively 100% of the time with the Turnbull government’ in 2018? – The Conversation
- Extra 539,0000 now call Australia home as migration hits a record high – The Age
- Longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century to shine bright red in Australia’s early morning sky – ABC
- Someone Has Painted A Mural Calling Turnbull And Dutton “Criminal Gang Leaders” – Junkee
- Powerhouse director steps down after public funds used to back fashion party – ABC
- Pauline Hanson cut-outs ‘as good as the real thing’, Longman candidate says – ABC
- What’s at stake for Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten in the by-elections? – ABC
- Paul Keating: The Fairfax takeover is a great pity – Nine has the ethics of an alley cat – The Guardian
- AMP releases royal commission damage control plan; warns investors to lower profit expectations – ABC
- Turnbull rules out Federal election this year – SBS
- Fraud squad to investigate Victorian Labor Party over rort allegations – ABC
- Overseas buyer activity increasing in central Auckland, mostly down elsewhere – Interest.co.nz