Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Lawsuits Against Bayer are Sprouting Like Weeds – Bloomberg
- S&P 500 hits 3,000 as Powell’s comments raise rate cut bets – Reuters
- “Someone Got Lucky”: The Mystery of the $1.8 Billion Trump Trade – Vanity Fair
- S&P 500 hits 3,000 points for first time ever! – WFMZ
Americas:
- The comeback state of 2019: Kansas economy rebounds from tax-cutting disaster – CNBC
- Newsroom employment has dropped by 25 percent in last decade: analysis – The Hill
- Trump has reportedly tasked aides to find a way to weaken the US dollar – CNBC
- Real estate boom threatens rooming houses at bottom of the housing market – NECIR
- New report: US government faces potential default in Sept. – Star Tribute
- Making Trump’s Tax Cuts Permanent Would Cost Nearly $920 Billion – Bloomberg
- Powell Signals That Rate Cut Could Be Coming Soon – US News
- Ross Perot’s Warning of a ‘Giant Sucking Sound’ on Nafta Echoes Today – NY Times
Europe:
- Royal Bank of Scotland Holding Talks with Facebook’s Libra – Be In Crypto
- France to stop reimbursing patients for homeopathy – The Guardian
- Vladimir Putin’s Russia is rehabilitating Stalin. We must not let it happen – The Guardian
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffers third shaking bout in less than a month – Sky
- MEPs to block Le Pen’s party from taking Parliament jobs – Euractiv
- Britain would take Ireland’s economy down with it in a no-deal, Brexit Secretary warns – Independent
Asia:
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- Trade War Threatens Chinese Factories’ Existence, Supplier Says – Bloomberg
- Chinese air pollution dimmed sunlight enough to impact solar panels – Ars Technica
- Wife of Chinese Billionaire sues for being fined at not living in investment property in Vancouver. – CNN
- Nintendo to move Switch output to Vietnam as China tariffs loom – Nikkei
- China tells schools to step up patriotic education – Ink Stone News
- Xinjiang camps: UN ambassadors urge China to end detention of Uygurs in open letter – SCMP
- Trump softened stance on Hong Kong protests to revive trade talks – FT
- China’s pollution is so bad it’s blocking the sunlight from solar panels – CNet
- The world has a hard time trusting China. But does it care? – The Conversation
Trans-Tasman:
- Foreign Minister mocked for attending press freedom conference after ABC raids – SBS
- Australia urged to invest in recycling manufacturing after Indonesia sends rubbish back – The Guardian
- Telstra purchase of NBN ‘inappropriate’: Competition watchdog – The SMH
- David Attenborough takes aim at Australia for lack of climate action – SBS
- NSW deputy premier vows to open up Murray Valley national park to logging – The Guardian
- ABC writes to Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton asking for action against journalists to stop – ABC
- Human rights commissioner pushes for wind-back of metadata laws – The SMH
- Australians locked out of NDIS because they declined invasive surgery, advocate finds – The Guardian
- ACTU lobbies crossbenchers to oppose Coalition’s ‘unfair’ union-busting bill – The Guardian
- Home building slows while tax cuts and cheaper mortgages fail to buoy consumers – The SMH
- APRA forces NAB, Westpac, ANZ to hold extra $500m each in capital due to culture, governance concerns – The SMH
- Deeming rates explained: What they are, how they cut pensions and why we have them – ABC
- NAB warns tax cuts won’t deliver much economic boost – ABC
- NZ rents surge – Interest.co.nz