Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Millennials’ attitudes towards clothing ownership are bringing about a major change in the fashion industry – Business Insider
- Take Note, Capitalists: Green Energy Is Where the Growth Is – Bloomberg
- The stock market would be much lower if it weren’t for companies buying back their own shares – CNBC
- New research claims green energy creates more jobs than the traditional kind – CBC
- Fiat Chrysler submits proposal for a merger with Renault – CNBC
- How this trade war will remake the world – The Star
- Typical CEO pay package up 7% last year to a total $12 million – CBS News
Americas:
- Economy at ‘very real risk’ of falling into recession in late 2020, UCLA forecast says – CNBC
- Many Are Replacing Disability Checks With Paychecks – NPR
- Despite all the optimistic talk by Pres. Trump about the state of the US economy, the latest data on economic activity and industrial production suggest that America is joining Europe and Japan in a sharp slowdown as we enter the second half of 2019 – The Next Recession
- Americans’ Life Savings Disappear From Mexican Bank Accounts – Bloomberg
- In need of teacher housing, more California school districts building their own – Mercury News
- Economists: There’s now a 25% chance of a recession in the next year – Housing Wire
Europe:
- Tens of thousands of Romanians did not get a chance to vote throughout Europe due to low number of polling stations. – Romania Insider
- EU elections: Romanian president asks ruling party to step down after defeat – Romania Insider
- Greek PM Tsipras calls snap elections after major electoral defeat – Euractiv
- Five things we have learned from the election results across Europe – The Guardian
- Dutch riot police called to the Romanian embassy to disband disenfranchised Romanian voters – BBC
Asia:
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- China has run a small-scale test of the “nuclear option” in its trade war with the US by selling $20 billion of US government debt – Insider
- Trade War Latest: Trump Tactics Hit Snag as China Plays Long Game – Bloomberg
- Trump’s Tariff Hammer Won’t Hit China’s IP Nail – Bloomberg
- Asia stocks steady, euro little moved as EU vote shows limited gains by nationalists – Reuters
- America Begins To See The Consequences Of The Past Policy Errors That Helped China’s Rise – Forbes
- The Trade War between the U.S. and China: A Prisoner’s Dilemma – Cornell
- Foreign selling on Bursa Malaysia slowing down – The Star
Trans-Tasman:
- Anthony Albanese to become Labor’s new leader unopposed – ABC
- Torres Strait Islanders ask UN to hold Australia to account on climate ‘human rights abuses’ – The Conversation
- Baby boomers are a budget problem that still needs to be solved – ABC
- It’s a myth that Aussie battlers handed the Coalition its election victory – The Guardian
- Australia’s obsession with cheap solar is derailing the market, insiders say – ABC
- Australia isn’t doing its part for the global climate. Sooner or later we’ll have to pay our share – The Guardian
- NBN Co to trial its first FTTN upgrade paths from June – IT News
- Auckland house price expectations turn negative for first time since 2009 – Interest.co.nz
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Kiwibank takes another step down – Interest.co.nz
- What has driven our low inflation? – Interest.co.nz
- Mortgage rates still sliding – Interest.co.nz