Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- $12 trillion of negative-yielding bonds are sending a clear message of distress – QZ
- Deutsche Bank Under Investigation for ‘Potential Money-Laundering Lapses’ – Daily Beast
- Growth in Global Financial Wealth Screeched to a Halt in 2018 – Bloomberg
- More spent on S&P 500 buybacks than all 2018 R&D – Axios
- Blockchain Networks Are the Next Big Step For Retail and E-Commerce Companies. – Be In Crypto
- S&P 500 hits record as Wall Street bets the Fed will lower interest rates, Dow rises 100 points – CNBC
- Goldman Sachs is sounding the alarm: Technology stocks are overvalued – CNBC
Americas:
- Attention, Walmart executives: Amazon’s coming after your low-income shoppers – Washington Post
- Walmart to pay $282 million to settle bribery allegations – Daily Sabah
- Investors Are Buying More of the U.S. Housing Market Than Ever Before – WSJ
- Corporate America Is Repatriating a Fraction of Foreign Profits – Bloomberg
- The One Issue That Could Determine Trump’s Re-Election Bid – Truth Dig
- US Steel is idling plants, despite tariffs designed to save them – CNN
- Slow everywhere wont cause a recession? – CNN
- Trump awards Medal of Freedom to economist who advised him on lowering taxes – NBC News
Europe:
- Romania – Is it the next market for complete mobile digitalization? – Forbes
- British inflation reached BoE target in May 2019 – Economo
- Illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol: EU extends sanctions by one year – Europa
- EA tells UK Parliament loot boxes are ‘quite ethical’ – Engadget
- Half of Britons say we should only trade with those respecting human rights – Sky
- Eastern European states block bid for EU climate change 2050 decarbonisation target – Independent
- ‘Enormous hostility’ across EU to any Brexit extension – Rte
Asia:
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- China sounds alarm over bad-loan surge at small banks – FT
- US Tells India It Is Mulling Caps On H-1B Visas To Deter Data Rules: Report – Yuv News
- Apple Could Shift Some Production Capacity Out Of China – Bezinga
- Taiwan candidates quickly shun China after Hong Kong protests – Nikkei
- South China Sea: Satellite image shows Chinese fighter jets deployed to contested island – CNN
- Officials faked economic data and tried covering their tracks – Ink Stone News
- Chinese foreign minister claims ‘black hand’ of Western involvement in Hong Kong – CNN
- Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang, marking first visit by Chinese leader to North Korea in 14 years – CNN
Trans-Tasman:
- Seventy Australian millionaires paid zero income tax last year. This is how they did it – The Age
- NBN leaves Blue Mountains customer unable to connect and in limbo as ADSL pulls out – ABC
- ‘Prefer to pay nothing’: ABC boss plans to end $4m deal with Foxtel – Brisbane Times
- WA Government issues Chinese company a stop-work order over Kimberley land clearing – ABC
- Melbourne university in talks to cut ties with Wilson Security over offshore detention – The Guardian
- Anthony Albanese says Labor ‘considering’ supporting Coalition’s tax plan – The Guardian
- Tax office dob-in-a-dodger phone line runs hot as it tries to crack down on $50 billion black economy – ABC
- Australian Home Affairs Minister Says Government Still Considering Spying On Its Own Citizens – Tech Dirt
- Mathias Cormann reveals lobbyists he met in lead-up to election – The Guardian
- Mascot Towers owners asked to foot $1 million repair bill as residents remain homeless – ABC
- The Kiwi right to housing choice – Interest.co.nz