Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Slow Drip Stock Sell-off Getting Worse Than Past Flash Crashes – Bloomberg
- What’s Wrong With the 2 Percent Inflation Target – Bloomberg
- Under the surface, this stock market is slowly ‘rotting away’ – MarketWatch
- Dow plunges more than 600 points in another day of losses, officially wiping out its 2018 gains – Washington Post
- Tesla shares soar on surprise third-quarter profit that beats Wall Street expectations – CNBC
- Apple and Facebook call for EU-style privacy laws in US – FT
- Stock Prices Falling Is Perfectly Normal – All Star Charts
- The Moral Machine experiment – Nature
- Stock Rout Deepens; S&P Erases Gain for the Year: Markets Wrap – Bloomberg
Americas:
- The White House Says Socialism Is a Threat. It’s Right. – Bloomberg
- Should you worry about American democracy? Here’s what our new poll finds. – Washington Post
- The Fed – Beige Book – October 24, 2018 – Fed Reserve
- Middle class is disappearing in California as wealth gap grows – The Hill
- Climate Change Is Already Damaging American Democracy – The Atlantic
- America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away – Bloomberg
- U.S. New-Home Sales Tumble to Lowest in Almost Two Years – Bloomberg
- Business growth slowest for over two years, optimism hits four-year low – Markit
- America’s Plutocrats Are Winning – Project Syndicate
Europe:
- Tory peers told to come clean about Russia links – The Times
- Brexit transition could last for years, cabinet warned – The Times
- The ECB should think again on ending monetary stimulus – FT
- Trade Woes Set Up Euro Economy for Disappointing Year-End – Bloomberg
- The British #MeToo scandal which cannot be revealed – The Telegraph
- Can Germany survive the ‘iPhone moment’ for cars? – FT
Asia:
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- When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese Listen and Learn – NY Times
- China wants to stop buying American soybeans – CNN
- Inside China’s internment camps: tear gas, Tasers and textbooks – Yahoo
- China’s Communist Party lists its Top 100 private sector business leaders – SCMP
- Why the U.S. and China are struggling to reach a trade deal – Washington Post
- Let’s Vote on a China Cold War – WSJ
- China’s hidden camps – BBC
- China is tightening its grip on blockchain companies – Tech Review
Trans-Tasman:
- For the first time Australian company directors have nominated climate change as the number one issue – ABC
- Poor nations castigate Australia for abandoning global climate fund – The Age
- Nationals MP pushes to allow logging of huge river red gum forest – The Guardian
- My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it – ABC
- Scott Morrison’s big plan of ‘fair dinkum power’ is a relic of the past – The Guardian
- Former Home Affairs officer calls for all refugees to be brought to Australia – The Conversation
- Coalition MPs angry about being kept in the dark on ‘gay students’ law – The SMH
- Renewable energy will inadvertently put more children at risk of drowning, says Liberal MP – Daily Telegraph
- Morrison energy pledge at risk from hung parliament – The SMH
- Australia abandoned plans for Taiwanese free trade agreement after warning from China – The Age
- Banking royal commission shows how financial regulators have smaller fish to fry – ABC
- The NBN sinks deeper into a technological mire – John Menadue
- Fears of a ‘dangerous precedent’ as labour hire extends to Medicare – The Age
- There were over 250K High-net-worth individuals in Australia in 2016 and they had over US$ 802 billion in wealth – World Wealth Report
- The reality is we just don’t care enough about climate change – The SMH
- Farmers don’t benefit from branded milk’s prices – The Guardian
- ‘Twisted’ fibre optic light breakthrough could make internet 100 times faster – The Guardian
- Australia Faces Weaker House Prices If Government Changes: RBC – Bloomberg
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New Zealand ratifies CPTPP – Interest.co.nz