Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The stock market is on pace for its worst December since the Great Depression – CNBC
- It Was Easy for New Hedge Funds to Raise Money in 2018. Making It Was Harder – WSJ
- US credit markets dry up as volatility rattles investors – FT
- Jeffrey Gundlach says the S&P 500 is headed to new lows: ’I’m pretty sure this is a bear market’ – CNBC
- S&P 500 drops more than 2% to new low for 2018, Dow dives 500 points – CNBC
Americas:
- Russian Effort to Influence 2016 Election Targeted African-Americans – NY Times
- Fed Stuck In An Uncomfortable Situation – University of Origin
- Fed Faces Communication Challenge on Rates – WSJ
- Fed Tightening? Not Now – WSJ
- America Can’t Move Its Cheese – WSJ
- The Yoda of Silicon Valley – NY Times
- New Google Campus Accelerates Tech’s March Into New York – NY Times
- U.S. banks quietly pull back from riskiest loans amid recession fears – Reuters
- I’ve Seen the Future of a Republican Party That’s Not Insane – NY Mag
- Mexico to raise minimum wage to $5 a day – FT
Europe:
- How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe – New Yorker
- Brexit deal vote to take place in week of 14 January, May says – The Guardian
- How Britain grapples with nationalist dark web – Politico
- The march against the Hungarian state propaganda in Budapest – Index
- German union calls strike at Amazon warehouses – Reuters
- French tax on Google, Facebook to apply from January 1, 2019: Paris moves ahead despite failure to agree at EU level – Politico
Asia:
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- China: Emergence of a Trade Leviathan – WSJ
- US sportswear traced to factory in China’s internment camps – AP
- Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation – The Intercept
- Google has reportedly ended China search project – CNBC
- Beijing orders manufacturing hub to stop producing economic data – SCMP
- Alarm over China’s church crackdown – BBC
- Xi Jinping comes under fire as China celebrates Deng’s reforms – WSJ
- Doors are slamming shut for Huawei around the world – CNN
Trans-Tasman:
- Queensland grazier leaves $9.85 million in will to Royal Flying Doctor Service and Children’s Hospital Foundation – ABC
- Andrew Broad used taxpayer funds for part of his bombshell Hong Kong ‘sugar baby’ trip – The SMH
- MYEFO rips A$130 million per year from research funding despite budget surplus – The Conversation
- Government expects voters will ‘overlook’ the Coalition’s treatment of women in favour of economic issues – ABC
- Labor to abolish remote work for the dole as part of reconciliation plan – The Guardian
- We say we love our national parks. The evidence suggests otherwise – The Guardian
- Regional NBN users to get faster download speeds, but upload speeds to halve – ABC
- Trees are worth billions to Australia’s economy — but how we value them is changing – ABC
- How you can protect yourself from online data trackers – ABC
- Woolworths denied permission for shelf stackers to work Christmas Day – ABC
- Universities hit with another wave of funding cuts – The SMH
- Labor would order workplace tribunal to prioritise pay equity for women – The SMH
- Some ‘Christmas cheer’ in December business confidence survey – Interest.co.nz
- Housing NZ loans and grants available for more pricey regional new builds – Interest.co.nz
- Govt proposes ‘significant’ changes to work visas – Interest.co.nz