Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Quarterly Loss; Sales Miss Estimates – Bloomberg
- Uber loses $5 billion, misses Wall Street targets despite easing price war – Reuters
- Investors try to figure out Trump’s trade war endgame: ‘I can’t even tell you what victory is’ – CNBC
- Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea as a secret – Huffington Post
- How Centralized Cryptocurrency Exchange Works: 2 Types of Platforms – Medium
- How Android sparked the global smartphone revolution more than Apple, but it’s business model wont be sustainable – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Why Canadian Drugs Can’t Cure Deadly Shortages in the United States – FCPP
- NAFTA v. New NAFTA: Making a Bad Deal Worse – Counter Punch
- Jerome Powell’s Useless Precaution – WSJ
- As Mortgage Rates Drop, the Trick is Finding a House – Florida Daily
- Bankruptcy-related job losses are grimly reminiscent of the Great Recession – MarketWatch
Europe:
- Almost every country in the European Union has seen its forest area increase in the past 25 years – The Economist
- Uber Created a $6.1 Billion Dutch Weapon to Avoid Paying Taxes – Bloomberg
- Venice bans large cruise ships from historic centre – BBC
- Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis – The Guardian
- ‘Brief radiation spike’ after explosion in Russia – BBC
- Brexiteer jailed for ‘terrifying’ threats to Heidi Allen over Brexit, including pictures of her children with nooses – The Guardian
- Europe coal generation collapsed by 19% in first six months of 2019 – Renew Economy
- Italian government on the brink of collapse – Reppublica
Asia:
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- China is now the world’s largest official creditor, a new study tracks the surge in Chinese loans to poor countries – The Economist
- Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China – Truth Dig
- Chinese troops must stay off the streets of Hong Kong – The Economist
- White House bans federal agencies from buying from certain Chinese tech companies – Medium
- China the Currency Manipulator? What About the Fed! – Liberty Nation
- Nestle starts selling Starbucks-branded coffee in China – Channel News Asia
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian students to walk out of lectures today to protest climate change inaction – SBS
- Pro-Hong Kong students in Australia filmed, threatened and intimidated – The Age
- Schools warned compulsory sports carnival participation can put children off exercise for life – ABC
- Australian teachers work longer hours than those in most OECD countries – The Age
- Is the Coalition as good at managing the economy as it claims? – New Daily
- Sydney councils push to make expensive property owners pay higher rates – The SMH
- Sleek pay, oblique performance: Angus Taylor’s first government agency, the IPFA – Michael West
- NSW lower house votes to decriminalise abortion – The SMH
- Ban on recyclable waste exports looms as political leaders commit to a phase out – ABC
- Criminal charges for senior CFMMEU official over alleged secret commissions – The SMH
- A cattle station in the middle of Australia has unveiled its plans to grow industrial hemp – ABC
- Will you help stop Peter Dutton from privatising Australia’s visa system? – ALP
- Scott Morrison finalises inner circle of advisers and will now get to work on policy – The Guardian
- Highly protected species: Calls for government to stop propping up pharmacies – Brisbane Times
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Net migration gain of 49,427 in year to June – Interest.co.nz
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