Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Never Before Has the Fate of Hedge Funds Turned on So Few Stocks – Bloomberg
- Corporate Bond Markets in a Time of Unconventional Monetary Policy – OECD
- There’s been a mysterious surge in $100 bills in circulation, possibly linked to global corruption – CNBC
- Did the Yield Curve Flip? Will the Economy Dip? – FRBSF
Americas:
- Apple self-driving car layoffs hit 190 employees in Santa Clara, Sunnyvale – San Fran Chronicle
- You don’t need a PhD anymore to read Fed’s statements – Reuters
- Washington Official Subpoenas Trump Inaugural Committee – NY Times
- Amazon to abandon lease on huge downtown Seattle office building – Seattle Times
- Powell Says Fed Is Close to Agreement on Plan to Finalize Portfolio Runoff – WSJ
- Who Can Say What California Means? – Bloomberg
- To Revive Rural America, We Must Fix Our Broken Food System – The American Conservative
- Corporate America Goes on Debt Diet After $3 Trillion Binge – Bloomberg
- America’s Job Market Has Some Upside as Disabled Workers Return – Bloomberg
- As California Loses People, a Las Vegas Suburb Grows – WSJ
Europe:
- France would block Brexit delay ’without a clear objective’, Macron … – The Independent
- EU agrees tough post-Brexit financial services rules – FT
- British fintechs are so hot they’re bubbling – Quartz
- No-deal Brexit panic after ministers realise the UK doesn’t have the right pallets for exporting to the EU – Business Insider
- Euro MP rejects criticism after hiring Putin aide’s daughter – FT
- Theresa May to impose agricultural tariffs in no-deal Brexit – FT
- Should the ECB care about the euro’s global role? – VOX
Asia:
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- U.S. drops demand for full accounting of N. Korea nuclear program ahead of talks – NBC News
- U.S. Trade Representative Says China Deal Will Include Enforcement Mechanism – WSJ
- ‘There’s No Money Right Now’: China’s Building Boom Runs Into a Great Wall of Debt – WSJ
- U.S. will formally abandon plans to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, Lighthizer says – MarketWatch
- Jet downing raises India-Pakistan tension – BBC
- Pakistani Military Says It Shot Down 2 Indian Aircraft – NY Times
- China Shifts, and Detroit’s Big Bet Goes Sour – NY Times
- The Chinese scientist and the foreign tongue – Supchina
- Top Chinese officials plagiarised doctoral dissertations – FT
- The Unbearable Lightness of a ‘Stable’ Yuan – Caixin
Trans-Tasman:
- The Paladin scandal is only a drop in the ocean of corruption on Manus and Nauru – The Guardian
- Former ABC chairman Maurice Newman has lashed the decision to ignore the recommendations of an independent panel in selecting the next leader of the public broadcaster – The Age
- ‘It’s been extreme’: Australia’s summer smashes seasonal heat records – Brisbane Times
- Employers apply for creation of new ‘permaflexi’ worker category – The Age
- Time to ‘bite the bullet’ and build high-speed rail: Albanese – The SMH
- Coal’s perfect storm hits $70 billion Australian projects – The SMH
- Interest rates set to be slashed as jobless rate rises, big banks warn – ABC
- Coalition changes rules to let MPs spend millions more taxpayer dollars on ads – The Guardian
- Ex-REIA president Malcolm Gunning and wife face charges over agency trust accounts – Domain
- PM’s office turns taxpayer funded inquiry into Liberal advertising campaign – Canberra Times
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‘Greenfield development that works for Auckland’ – Interest.co.nz
- Mortgage growth stays steady – Interest.co.nz