Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Amazon Will Pay $0 in Taxes on Multi-Billion Dollar Profits – Breibart
- Oil prices climb amid fall in U.S. stockpiles, Middle East worries – Reuters
- Former Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been ‘A Disaster’ For Drillers, Investors – Popular Resistance
- Hedge funds are looking for their new role – Economo
- Why the Sky Is the Limit for Gold – Gold Newsletter
- UBS: World economy ‘one step away from global recession’ – Yahoo
- As Economy Creeps Into Old Age, Amazon’s Bank Bets on Buyers With Bad Credit – The Street
Americas:
- BofA commodity arm fined by DOJ for trading practices – Reuters
- Farmers are ‘casualties’ of Trump’s trade war, admits agriculture secretary – NBC
- 7 ways $1.6 trillion in student loan debt affects the U.S. economy – Washington Post
- Trump’s trade wars thrust farmers into desperation loans – Politico
- Human trafficking in America among worst in world: report – Fox News
Europe:
- German Ifo business climate index fell to its lowest level since 2014 – Economo
- It was Boris Johnson, UK’s upcoming prime minister, who invented dozens of popular anti-EU lies – New Statesman
- French nuclear to suffer after exclusion from EU’s green investment label – Euractiv
- How Poland’s ‘golden age’ of economic growth is going unreported – Euro News
- France loses landmark court case over air pollution – The Guardian
- NATO says it will act unless Russia destroys nuclear-ready missile – CNBC
- Denmark’s youngest prime minister leads new leftist government – The Guardian
Asia:
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- China considers blacklisting FedEx after Huawei delivery errors – Straits Times
- Don’t Pick a Fight With the People’s Bank of China – WSJ
- The trade war is weighing on Chinese home buying in the US – CNBC
- China is becoming ‘too big to ignore,’ states FTSE analyst – The Economy Club
- China says both U.S., China should make compromises in trade talks – Reuters
- What pork shortage? China bans import of all Canadian meat products – Straits Times
- Thousands March in Taiwan to Protest Pro-Beijing Media – Taipei Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Hairdressers unionise and unite for fight against proposed cut to penalty rates – ABC
- Whistleblower hits out at PM’s department over ‘pervasive and toxic’ disregard for law – The Guardian
- Modern conservatives don’t fear social change, they just oppose it when it undermines their friends – The Guardian
- Media bosses unite to demand law changes after police raids on ABC – ABC
- Apartment owners worried they are living in structurally unsound buildings – ABC
- Key crossbencher calls for government protection for ATO whistleblower – The Age
- NDIS fraud allegations surge as 25 operators kicked off scheme – The Guardian
- New-generation boarding house not delivering for low income earners, survey finds – ABC
- Robots set to take 20m jobs globally by 2030, SA and Victoria will be hard hit, warns report – ABC
- RBNZ holds OCR at 1.5% but hints strongly at future rate cut – Interest.co.nz
- 10,195 new homes added to Auckland’s housing stock in April year – Interest.co.nz
- Renters not as happy with their housing as homeowners, Stats NZ says – Interest.co.nz