Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The World’s Wealthiest People And Companies Are Holding Record Levels Of Unused Cash – Axios
- Two Epic Bull Markets Are Dueling Over the Fate of Global Growth – Bloomberg
- World leaders prepare for biggest corporate tax overhaul in a century – Local10
- The Effects of Concentration in the Asset Management Industry on Stock Prices – ProMarket
- The Slowdown Has Arrived – In All But 2 Important Measures – Seeking Alpha
- G20 to Speed Up ‘Digital Tax’ on Transnational Giants – Telesure
- The Superrich Endanger Democracy – Zeit
- Uber’s COO and CMO are leaving one month after disappointing IPO – CNN
Americas:
- U.S. creates just 75,000 jobs in May and wage growth slows in warning sign for economy – We Trade HQ
- A farm in Missouri got $2.8 million in Trump trade war money. Hundreds more took triple the allowed limit. – New Food Economy
- Canada’s Unemployment Rate Hits New Low As Job Seekers Declined, and Services Hire More – kbpco
- Pelosi Slams Sluggish Jobs Report, Saying Trump Policies ‘Hollowing Out’ US Economy – The Bipartisan Press
- Chile Central Bank Stuns Market With a Half-Point Rate Cut – Bloomberg
- The rise of a few ‘superstar cities’ hobbles the job and housing markets – MarketWatch
- US nonfarm payrolls rose 75,000 in May, vs 180,000 estimate, unemployment 3.6% – CNBC
- Trump Tariffs Wipe Out Tax Bill Savings for Average Americans – Bloomberg
- Trucking hires continue to stall as job growth cools in the economy – Freight Waves
- Venezuelan Central Bank Releases Economic Data After Three-Year Hiatus – Venezuelan Analysis
- Trump suspends tariffs on Mexico – Reuters
Europe:
- Economics of the disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet – PNAS
- The ECB raised its GDP and inflation projections for 2019 – Economo
- Swiss regulator fines five banks $91mln over FX cartel – The Forex Review
- Moldova gets surprise new government – Politico
- One of Europe’s most wanted men is arrested in Malta – BBC
- Siemens train division receives billion Euros order from Russia – Spiegel
- Spain fires diplomat in Scotland over EU membership letter – Politico
Asia:
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- India Proposes 10-Year Jail For Cryptocurrency Use, May Introduce Its Own Digital Currency – Bloomberg
- Is China Actually Growing Rapidly? – The Money Illusion
- Putin stands by China, criticizes U.S., in trade, Huawei disputes – Reuters
- China reportedly summoned tech giants — and warned against cooperating with Trump’s sales ban – CNBC
- Decades of Being Wrong About China Should Teach Us Something – The Atlantic
- China targeting human-rights activists in Canada, Senate committee told – The Globe & Mail
- Why Tiananmen still haunts China – Asia Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Politicians’ texts safe from raid: report – SBS
- Australia’s national security laws should protect the country, not its politicians in power – ABC
- To protect press freedom, we need more public outrage – and an overhaul of our laws – The Conversation
- Meet the drain sock — a simple pollution solution taking the world by storm – ABC
- $2,000 pay cut in store for hospitality workers – Yahoo
- It’s not 2007 any more. We need new tools to fight election lies – The Guardian
- Why Are the Australian Police Rummaging Through Journalists’ Files? – NY Times
- WA credit rating boost to AA1 sees Labor laughing all the way to the bank, and the next election – ABC
- Drone trial of 8,000 summer flights over popular beaches reveals trove of data on shark hotspots – ABC
- After the hype, our economy’s grim reality setting in – The SMH
- Exposed: a second-rate country unwilling to defend press freedom – The SMH
- How the death tax lie infected Australia’s election campaign – The Guardian
- City of Perth rolls out new facial recognition CCTV cameras, but is it surveillance by stealth? – ABC
- What the Chinese warships were really after. – News API
- The rot at treasury started years ago – Interest.co.nz
- Sluggish Auckland market dragged auction numbers down in May – Interest.co.nz
- If the property market is having a ‘CGT relief rally’ then it’s a mild one… – Interest.co.nz