Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- It’s Official: Wall Street Topped $100 Billion in Profit – Bloomberg
- The Marijuana Billionaire Who Doesn’t Smoke Weed – Fortune
- BlackRock profit misses as investors opt out of expensive funds – Reuters
- Why do we bother with stock market forecasts? – Irish Times
- Cracks are opening in the global monetary system – FT
Americas:
- Microsoft pledges $500 million to tackle housing crisis in Seattle, Eastside – Seattle
- Microsoft Is Pledging $500 Million for Affordable Housing in the Seattle Area – NY Times
- America has never worried about financing its priorities – FT
- Top HUD official’s departure follows disagreements over housing policy and Puerto Rico disaster funds – Washington Post
- Shutdown’s Economic Damage Starts to Pile Up, Threatening an End to Growth – NY Times
- The Fed – Beige Book – January 16, 2019 – Fed Reserve
- Fed Says Student Debt Is Hurting U.S. Housing Market – WSJ
- If Only Obama Had Done the Things Obama Actually Did – NY Mag
- Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery. – NY Times
- Bank of America Profit Rises Sharply – WSJ
- What a Top Income-Tax Rate of 70% Would Mean for the Economy – Barron’s
- Poll: A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent – The Hill
- Trump administration calling nearly 50,000 back to work, unpaid, as shutdown drags on – Washington Post
- Big companies are crushing their competition in the US, and it’s creating a dangerous ’fake capitalism’ that hurts workers and consumers – Business Insider
Europe:
- Philip Hammond tells business chiefs MPs will stop no-deal Brexit – The Telegraph
- Welcome to the Westminster apocalypse. Have you thought about theocracy instead? – The Guardian
- Brexit: EU ready to delay withdrawal until next year – The Times
- May’s government survives no confidence vote – BBC
- Tony Abbott: How to save Brexit – The Spectator
- Why the left should champion Brexit – New Statesman
- Cameron: I don’t regret calling referendum – BBC
Asia:
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- Federal Prosecutors Pursuing Criminal Case Against Huawei for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets – WSJ
- Goldman’s Tactic in Huge Malaysian Fraud Case: Smear an Ex-Partner – NY Times
- China injects record $84bn to boost economy and avoid cash squeeze – FT
- China Is a Dangerous Rival, and America Should Treat It Like One – NY Times
- Xi Jinping’s turn away from the market puts Chinese growth at risk – FT
- Dollar-Hungry Chinese Borrowers Flock to Junk Bond Market – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Greens to introduce bill for royal commission into mismanagement of the Murray-Darling – The Guardian
- ‘You are embarrassing’: Tony Abbott slapped down over Brexit claim – The SMH
- Taxpayers foot $355k bill for Tasmanian Liberals legal fight over anti-protest laws – ABC
- Elon Musk quotes $1 billion to build tunnel through Blue Mountains – ABC
- Tesla says Powerwall now eligible for S.A. home battery scheme – One Step Off the Grid
- Controversial Great Barrier Reef grant didn’t comply with transparency rules, National Audit Office says – ABC
- Extreme heatwave: all-time temperature records fall across parts of Australia – The Guardian
- Tiny houses look marvellous but have a dark side – ABC
- December Auckland house sales volumes lowest in a decade – Interest.co.nz
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Auckland housing market softness could stretch on for several years – Interest.co.nz
- Fitch predicts soft NZ house price growth – Interest.co.nz