Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Uber will soon join an ugly but exclusive club: Unprofitable companies worth more than $50 billion – CNBC
- The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections – Quartz
- Sensing a threat they can’t ignore, Wall Street banks instead partner with tech giants like Apple – CNBC
- Warren Buffett says Berkshire could buy back $100 billion stock: FT – CNBC
- Financialization Continues to Fracture Society – Bunker Basics
- Why you should never start a trade war with an autocracy – The Economist
- Hedge Funds Are Shorting the VIX at a Rate Never Seen Before – Bloomberg
- Does Universal Basic Income Work? A Hedge Fund Boss Wants to Find Out – Barron’s
Americas:
- Monsanto Ordered to Pay Millions to Cancer Victims With More than 1600 Similar Cases To Be Heard – National Law Review
- US Home Sale Prices Experience First Annual Decrease in 7 Years – Housing Wire
- Forgiving Student-Loan Debt Could Pay Off for Everyone – Barrons
- New NAFTA Faces Mounting Resistance In Democrat-Controlled House – WSJ
- U.S. Durable Goods Orders Register Solid Rise 2.7% in March – Connect Media
- Would a Federal Reserve Rate Cut be Irrational after Strong Q1 Growth? – Beincrypto
- The gig economy is distorting U.S. economic data – Axios
- America’s 3 wealthiest families have more money than 4 million average families combined – Yahoo
Europe:
- European real estate assets record strong income and capital growth – CRE Herald
- Spain election: socialist party PSOE declared winner – The Guardian
- Spain: Socialist Party wins general election but falls short of an absolute majority – Elpais
- Spain election: Socialists win amid far-right breakthrough – BBC
- Nicola Sturgeon: Time for Scotland to become independent – Sky News
- ‘EU needs CO2 tax to tackle climate change,’ says Brussels top job hopeful – Euro News
- Support for EU membership above 70% in all but one state. – Independent
Asia:
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- The US could have a huge say in China’s future – CNN
- Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents have taken to the streets to demand their government halt a plan that would make it easier to extradite people to the secretive judicial system in mainland China – The Guardian
- Hong Kong: Thousands protest against China extradition law – BBC
- Why Is This Happening? Uncovering China’s secret internment camps with Rian Thum – NBC
- UK: Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt urges caution over large Chinese businesses such as Huawei – The Guardian
- China deploys 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in bid to grow 6 million hectares of new forest this year – Independent
- China’s Trade War Is Taiwan’s Opportunity to Bring Cash Home – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia slips three spots to 62nd in global broadband speed rankings – The SMH
- Coalition gets a miserable 4% on climate change policy scorecard – The Guardian
- Question mark over eligibility of at least 19 Clive Palmer candidates – The Guardian
- Liquor and gaming lobby pumped more than $1m into Liberal, Labor and far-right parties – The Guardian
- Just two rental listings in Australia affordable for single people on Newstart: report – The Guardian
- Clive Palmer goes on an extraordinary rant during Today show interview – Daily Mail
- Chemical burns and toxic sludge: workers expose shocking conditions inside the Melbourne factory that blew up – ABC
- Labor ends up preferencing Clive Palmer in Clark – oh, the hypocrisy! – Andrew Wilkie
- Treatment of anxiety, depression: 3 million Aussies taking Xanax, Valium – News.com.au
- Australians lost nearly half a billion dollars to scammers in 2018, says ACCC – ABC
- Rent growth much lower in Auckland and Canterbury than the rest of NZ – Interest.co.nz