Global Macro/Markets
- Washington downgrades EU mission to US – DW.COM
- Nellie Liang Withdraws From Consideration for Fed Board Seat – Wall Street Journal
- 10 Major Trends Driving Banking in 2019: Banking’s Evolution Accelerates – Forbes
- World Bank president resigns, paving the way for a Trump appointee at the helm of this global lender – NBCNews
Americas
- Mick Mulvaney is interested in becoming USC president, sources say– postandcourier.com
- Amazon Takes Market Cap Crown, Cementing Tech Power – Wall Street Journal
- No talks planned on U.S. metals tariffs after Trudeau-Trump chat – Reuters
- To air or not to air: Networks face pressure over broadcasting Trump’s immigration address – NBC News
- Only six immigrants in terrorism database stopped by CBP at southern border in first half of 2018 – NBC News
- Fed’s Bostic sees one U.S. interest rate hike this year – Reuters
- Carbon emissions up as Trump agenda rolls back climate change work – Last year’s 3.4% jump in emissions is the largest since 2010 recession and second largest gain in more than two decades – The Guardian
Europe/Middle East
- Six-day queues into Dover feared under no-deal Brexit scenario – Financial Times
- Pompeo, in Cairo speech, to rebuke Obama’s Mideast vision – Politico
- Putin says Russia will supply soy beans, poultry meat to China – Reuters
- 12,000 year old town in Turkey soon to be submerged underwater by dam project – Firstpost (well that’s nuts)
- Italy’s populist leaders back France ‘Yellow Vest’ protests – France24
- Why investment by UK companies continues to fall – Financial Times
- US plea on Syria Kurds ‘unacceptable’ – BBC
- Brexit will slice nearly one-fifth off the value of Britain’s commercial farms according to forecasters, bringing to an end the decades-long boom in agricultural land prices as EU subsidies are withdrawn. – The Guardian
Asia/Sub-continent
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- How China Flexes Its Political Muscle to Expand Power Overseas – Wall Street Journal
- North Korea’s Kim begins visit to China – BBC
- Canada helped pressure Thailand to protect Saudi woman, says Human Rights Watch – CBC
- Japan warns that relations with South Korea are in a ‘severe state’– Japantimes
- Oil tanker explodes off Hong Kong – ABC
- School maintenance man held after 20 primary pupils wounded in Beijing hammer attack – SCMP
- Uyghur woman details life inside Chinese ‘re-education camp’ in Xinjiang – ABC (this is where identity politics can end up….)
Australia/New Zealand
- Two communities in Western Australia are reeling after the suicides of two Indigenous girls who died within a day of each other. – The Guardian
- Saudi teen detained in Bangkok could realise her dream of living in Australia – The Age
- Dust storm turns town’s sky red as parts of NSW hit by another thunderstorm – ABC
Other
- A Promobot robot was killed by a self-driving Tesla car – YouTube (and so the Robot Wars begin!)
- The Warning Label That Should Come With Venture Capital – Hacker Noon
- Mysterious ‘sonic attacks’ on US diplomats in Cuba may just have been loud Caribbean crickets – Business Insider
- Apple and Tesla shares on the blockchain could be the next big thing in crypto – CNBC
- Almost $500,000 in Ethereum Classic coin stolen by forking its blockchain – Ars Technica