Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Stock Market Has Been On One Of Its Strongest Runs In Two Decades, But A Looming Pullback In Earnings Poses A Threat To Its Rise – Stock Market News
- Fiat Chrysler to pay Tesla hundreds of millions of euros to pool fleet – Reuters
- The flat truth on the yield curve and recessions – The Hill
- 13% of developed-country public companies are ‘zombies’ that don’t make enough to cover interest payments on their debts – CNN
- Why the remarkable stock market recovery could just be getting started – CNN
Americas:
- The Costs of Trump’s Import Tariffs Have Landed Entirely on US Citizens – ProMarket
- G.O.P. Cruelty Is a Pre-existing Condition – NY Times
- Federal regulators and Republicans in Congress over the past two years have paved the way for banks and other financial companies to issue more than $1 trillion in risky corporate loans – Washington Post
- Payrolls post another disappointing month in March as job market keeps slowing – CNBC
- Andrew Yang: “We need to build a trickle-up economy” as automation, artificial intelligence change American workplace – NewsWeek
- The U.S. just had the most Q1 layoffs in a decade – Axios
- Research: When Companies Cozy Up to Politicians, the Economy Suffers – HBR
- Millennial Student Loan Debt Now Tops $1 Trillion – MSN
- New NAFTA deal ‘in trouble’, bruised by elections, tariff rows – Reuters
- February Jobs Report Preview: Wage Growth Is Happening Fastest for Workers in Low-Wage Industries – Hiring Lab
Europe:
- The German economy just had its worst year since 2013 – CNN
- Is this a good solution to high rents? – Euro News
- Germany’s economy: Should we be worried – BBC
- Germany Tried to Remake the Eurozone in Its Own Image. The Trouble Is, It Half-Succeeded – Fortune
- Why Europe Axed Its Wealth Taxes – Yahoo
- Germany’s long economic upswing is over, experts say – DW
Asia:
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- Chinese city calls in riot police as angry investors protest outside P2P lender’s headquarters – SCMP
- Hong Kong’s financial regulator urged to keep an open mind on fintech start-ups as city hands out virtual bank licences – SCMP
- China’s ‘junk bonds’ are looking more and more attractive to some investors – CNBC
- China refuses to give up ‘developing country’ status at WTO – SCMP
- Huawei’s security troubles are hardening into a fight between the US and China – The Verge
Trans-Tasman:
- Analysis: 54% of Tax Cuts Benefit go to Highest Income Earners – TAI
- ‘Shorten wants to end the weekend’: Morrison attacks Labor’s electric vehicle policy – The Guardian
- The desire to help the wealthiest is entrenched in the government’s strategy – The Guardian
- Kristina Keneally says out-of-pocket costs to visit a GP have gone up 25 per cent under the Coalition Government. Is she correct? – ABC
- Higher education is failing our youth, leaving them overqualified and underemployed – ABC
- Labor says Government delaying election call so it can use taxpayer funds to pay for advertising policies – ABC
- Antony Green’s swing calculator for the 2019 federal election – ABC
- When voters think they’re being taken for a ride, they’re dangerous – Canberra Times
- ‘Diabolically bad’ poll: Abbott facing 12 per cent swing to lose seat – Canberra Times
- Chinese investors abandon Aussie real estate, mining – ABC
- ‘Big risk with cutting the OCR is the housing market’ – Interest.co.nz
- ‘Monetary policy has done everything it can and fiscal policy hasn’t done much’ – Interest.co.nz