Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Mysterious 8,500% Stock Gain Attracts Big Funds (And Big Questions) – Bloomberg
- The Dollar Is Still King. How (in the World) Did That Happen? – NY Times
- Expect mischief as algorithms proliferate – FT
- Junk Bond Rally Obscures a Gathering Storm – Bloomberg
- China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise – NY Times
- Madoff customer payout tops $12 billion – Reuters
- Intel says its 5G modem chips will not appear in phones until 2020 – Reuters
- Does debt matter? It doesn’t until … it does – MarketWatch
- Netflix Is the Most Intoxicating Portal to Planet Earth – NY Times
- Central bank tone moves asset prices – VOX
- Elon Musk Takes Out $50 Million in New Loans, Mortgaging Five Homes – Zero Hedge
- Treasury Inflation Bond Auction Sees Strong Demand – WSJ
Americas:
- Cohen Gave Prosecutors New Information on the Trump Family Business – NY Times
- Trump’s Trade Chief Lectures His Boss and Gets an Earful in Return – Bloomberg
- America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable – NY Times
- Slow-inflation conundrum prompts rethink at the Fed – FT
- A Fed pivot, born of volatility, missteps, and new economic reality – Reuters
- Fed says it will hold larger balance sheet in the long term – FT
- Venezuela’s elite restaurants thrive as food shortages worsen – FT
- The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them. – NY Times
- Fed says U.S. economy ended 2018 with solid but weakening growth – Reuters
- Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from opioid overdoses – The Economist
Europe:
- Why won’t Remainers talk about family? – Unherd
- Labour ’moving towards People’s Vote’ says McDonnell – Standard
- Theresa May must go in three months, cabinet ministers say – The Guardian
- ‘Taking back control’ of UK agriculture clearly includes the right to be stupid – FT
- Russia Exploits U.S.-China Trade Tensions to Sell More Soybeans – WSJ
- Eurosceptic Tory MPs threaten to ‘end the government’ – FT
- Emergency Irish plan for no-deal Brexit – BBC
- No-deal sets the stage for Brexit’s biggest negotiations – FT
- European banks wield axe after bleak fourth quarter – FT
- Downing Street delays No Deal tariffs report to avoid outrage before crunch vote – The Sun
Asia:
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- Trump Looks at Possible Meeting With China’s Xi Next Month to Finish Trade Deal – WSJ
- Trump says he expects to meet with China’s Xi and finalize new trade deal – Washington Post
- Family of American Imprisoned on Spy Charge in China Appeals for Help – NY Times
- Trump, Xi discussing late March summit at Mar-a-Lago, sources say – CNBC
- Letter from Xi Jinping to Donald Trump read aloud in Oval Office – Global News
- How one building reflects the Chinese economy’s struggle with itself – The Economist
- The North Korea summit nobody wanted – Politico
- The story of China’s economy as told through the world’s biggest building – The Economist
- A crisis brewing in the Chinese labour market? – Prospect
Trans-Tasman:
- The government ignored security agency advice on amendments to the medivac bill – Saturday Paper
- Desperate patients turn to black market for medicinal cannabis despite spike in legal prescriptions – ABC
- The Australian Census Data at Risk – mq.edu.au
- Defence finally dumps Windows XP – IT News
- The Only Mammal Native to Great Barrier Reef Has Gone Extinct – Science Alert
- Great Barrier Reef: One million tonnes of sludge to be dumped – BBC
- ‘Blunt approach’: ‘Robo-debt’ cost almost matches debts recovered – Canberra Times
- Helloworld, this is free – Saturday Paper
- NSW state election 2019: Greens to mandate affordable housing targets, abolish priority precincts – Domain
- RBA boss says it’s time for most Australians to get a payrise – Canberra Times
- We’ve been hacked – so will the data be weaponised to influence election 2019? – The Conversation
- Remember being shocked by Tony Abbott? It seems like a picnic now – The Guardian
- Joe Hockey Explores Which Private Sector Jobs He’s Entitled To Upon His Return To Australia – Betoota Advocate
- Hockey’s Helloworld ties add to case for a federal ICAC – The SMH
- Joe Hockey denies allegation he ‘owes’ Helloworld chief executive Andrew Burnes – ABC
- Labor demands answers over Helloworld saga – SBS
- Government to impose default prices for energy – SBS
- Developers ‘free to spend an unlimited amount of money’ on campaigns – Brisbane Times
- Bankruptcy numbers at lowest level since 2000 – Interest.co.nz
- The question Labour should have asked about reforming the tax system – Interest.co.nz