Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- This Negative-Fee ETF Will Pay Investors to Invest – Barron’s
- Goldman Sachs to Open Up In-House Moneymaker to Outside Investors – WSJ
- Low Inflation Is Federal Reserve’s Maddening Unsolved Mystery – Bloomberg
- Monetary policy has run its course – FT
- Ballooning US debt piles put investors on guard – FT
Americas:
- FBI accuses wealthy parents, including celebrities, in college-entrance bribery scheme – Washington Post
- Nearly 50 Charged in College Admissions Bribery Scandal – NY Times
- All College Admissions Are a Pay-to-Play Scandal – NY Mag
- Opioids and the Labor Market – Cleveland Fed
- Warren took tech’s money while ripping its biggest players – Politico
- The Tragedy of Baltimore – NY Times
- Peak California – Medium
- Trump’s Economic Outlook Is Rosy. That Could Be a Problem. – NY Times
Europe:
- Theresa May’s Brexit Deal Fails Again in Parliament, Sowing Confusion – NY Times
- Lost & ruined: May humiliated once again by Commons – Politics UK
- Brussels ramps up criticism of China’s investment strategy in EU – FT
- Theresa May’s Brexit Deal Routed With Extension Now Seen as ‘Inevitable’ – Bloomberg
- Reaction as May’s deal is voted down – BBC
- May in final push to save Brexit deal – BBC
- EU ditches digital tax plan, to work for global reform – Reuters
- UK working poor increasingly rely on charities for basic needs – FT
- ECB’s Loan Bazooka Might Not Reveal True Firepower for Months – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- US trade chief warns that China talks could fail – FT
- U.S. Takes On China’s Huawei in Undersea Battle Over the Global Internet Grid – WSJ
- China’s Night Traders Are Moving U.S. Stocks – WSJ
- Drop Huawei or See Intelligence Sharing Pared Back, U.S. Tells Germany – WSJ
- China doubles down on gold in shift away from dollar – FT
- Chinese Data Breach Exposes ’Breed Ready’ Status Of Almost 2 Million Women – Forbes
Trans-Tasman:
- Unions will push for a $43 weekly boost to the minimum wage – SBS
- Labor prepares to legislate a ‘living wage’ by changing the Fair Work Act – The SMH
- Joyce retreats from Nats leadership talk – SBS
- Federal government to fully fund disability royal commission – SBS
- NSW election confusion, chaos as computer problem shuts several pre-poll centres – ABC
- Climate change poses risk to Australia’s financial stability, warns RBA deputy governor – The Guardian
- Government backs away from pledge to ban trailing commissions for mortgage brokers – ABC
- Nationals face climate change backlash, internal polling reveals – The Age
- ‘Shut up’: NSW Nationals leader unleashes on federal colleagues for wrecking state campaign – The SMH
- Morrison government has not ruled out supporting coal, energy minister says – The Guardian
- House sales down 9.5% in February – Interest.co.nz
- Some businesses will be winners and others will lose from Capital Gains Tax – Interest.co.nz