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Macro/Markets
- U.S. companies repatriate over half a trillion dollars in 2018, but… Reuters
- Corporate Profit Crunch Looms as Stocks Slide – Wall Street Journal
- Mutual Fund Managers Try a New Role: Activist Investor Wall Street Journal
- Corporate Debt Is Reaching Record Levels – Wall Street Journal
- Time to base currencies on a unit of energy – Financial Times
- The coming reckoning for capitalism – Axios
Americas
- Trump Digs In, Darkening Hopes for a Deal to End the Shutdown – New York Times
- US stocks post worst year in a decade as the S&P 500 falls more than 6% in 2018 – CNBC (no correlation to above of course)
- Outgoing White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly defends his rocky tenure – LA Times
- Mexican president decrees tax cuts for U.S. border region – Reuters
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Europe/Middle East
- Boris Johnson hangs on for a last shot at leadership – Financial Times
- Spain Will Close Every Single Coal Mine by 2019 – Telesure
- Footage shows Saudi hit team carrying bags believed to contain body parts of murdered journalist, Turkish reports say – AlJazeera
- Brexit will not unite a divided nation – The Guardian
- Dozens missing in deadly Russia explosion in Magnitogorsk – BBC
Asia
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- China’s December manufacturing activity contracts even more than expected – CNBC
- Empty Homes and Protests: China’s Property Market Strains the World – New York Times
- China Thwarts U.S. Effort to Promote American Culture on Campuses – New York Times
- Car crashes into New Year’s crowd in Tokyo in suspected terror attack, eight injured – Reuters
- Thousands march in Hong Kong against China ‘repression’ after grim 2018 – Reuters
- Japan Intercepts Chinese Spy Plane Over East China Sea. For the second time this month – The Diplomat
Australia/New Zealand
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- John Howard reflects on his time in government as cabinet papers released – ABC
- Howard cabinet stared down climate policy threat, newly revealed files show – ABC
- History isn’t over. We are witnessing its bloody return – ABC (oh yes…)
- Time to make 2019 predictions – Interest.co.nz
- WA retailers warned against flouting plastic bag ban as fines for offenders come into effect ABC
- Tower foundations ‘not at fault’ – The Australian
- Tighter lending stings investors – The Australian
- Westpac learnt its lessons – The Australian (this is laughable at be
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Fire fears as Melbourne braces for 42 degrees – The Age
and some other things
- Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars – New York Times
- I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. – Huffington Post
- The Story of 2018 Was Climate Change – New York Times (indeed…)
- Facebook is the least trusted tech company followed by twitter, amazon: survey – Firstpost
- Finally declassified: Swedish pilots awarded US Air Medals for saving SR-71 spy plane – AirforceTimes