Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Parent company CEO defends Gillette as ‘great business’ after #MeToo campaign ends in $8 billion loss – Washington Examiner
- Berkshire Hathaway Posts Rising Profit – Stock Market News
- Investment giant BlackRock lost $90 billion over the last 10 years by investing in fossil fuel companies, a report found – Business Insider
- $1.24b UK Class Action Against JPMorgan and Other Banking Giants Over FX Cartel – Be In Crypto
- How Uber is turning everyone in the company into a data scientist – Venture Beat
- Can AI Machine Learning Beat the Stock Market? Not Yet – Bloomberg
- Tariff Threats Rock Global Economy in 24 Hours of Pain – Bloomberg
- The Future of Online Gambling – Medium
Americas:
- 61% of Canadians want government to take action on climate change even if economy suffers: poll Politics
- $100 bill surpasses $1 bill in circulation for first time in U.S. history – UPI
- Stock traders have theories about timing of Trump’s tariff tweet – Bloomberg
- With Jobs Numbers Like These, It’s Hard To See Why The Economy Is Slowing – NPR
- Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class – WSJ
- Country’s Forex Reserves Fall By $727 Million To $429.6 Billion – Yuv News
- US Jobs Report July 2019: 164,000 Added, Wages Picked Up – Bloomberg
- USA: Black Youth Unemployment Falls to Lowest Level in History – Breitbart
- Trump Said If Trade Negotiations Fail To Progress He Could Raise Tariffs Further – Yuv News
- American farmer: Trump ‘took away all of our markets’ – Yahoo
- US housing affordability is out of whack with minimum wage – Yahoo
Europe:
- BMW boss urges Boris Johnson to abandon no-deal Brexit – The Guardian
- US warned Sweden of ‘negative consequences’ if ASAP Rocky wasn’t released – NBC News
- Edinburgh Festival artists refuse to be paid in sterling: Brexit uncertainty forces event organisers to use euros and dollars – FT
- Germany seizes 1 billion euros of cocaine from Uruguay in 221 sports bags – Global Press
- More than 600 detained in banned Russian protest – BBC
- Ukip beaten by Monster Raving Loony party at by-election – Independent
- France to develop anti-satellite laser weapons – France 24
Asia:
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- Second Chinese Bank Collapses in Just Three Months – BeInCrypto
- Trade deal chances remote as US imposes new tariffs on China – The Economy Club
- Intel says it’s been selling products to Huawei and has applied for licenses to sell more – CNBC
- Thousands of Hong Kong Civil Servants Defy Government to Join Protests – Reuters
- Japan: Two Murderers Executed in Tokyo and Fukuoka, Bringing Death Penalty Toll Under Abe to 38 – Japan Times
- Body Donations Surge in Japan Amid Changing Views of Death – Kyodo News
Trans-Tasman:
- Bludgeoning the jobless: It’s a work of decades – The SMH
- Bluey: The Australian cartoon that’s going global – BBC
- ‘We cannot be seen’: the fallout from the University of Queensland’s Hong Kong protests – The Guardian
- ‘Both sides’ of the climate change debate? How bad we think it is, and how bad it really is – The Guardian
- Arnott’s sold to American investment firm KKR in $3.2 billion deal – Adelaide Now
- US wants Pacific missile ‘within months’ – Canberra Times
- Do windfarms kill birds? How Australia can limit the impact on threatened species – The Guardian
- ABC board: secret shortlist of candidates ignored in favour of mining executive revealed – The Guardian
- Where’s the outrage? There’s a bigger problem than the lame inquiry into Crown – The SMH
- Australia’s climate stance is inflicting criminal damage on humanity – The Guardian
- Sydney stuck with the bad decisions of those blinded by big piles of dosh – The SMH
- NBN fiascos still leaving Aussies in broadband limbo – The SMH
- RBNZ highlights big four banks’ strong profitability – Interest.co.nz
