Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Trader builds $5 billion position after realizing he wasn’t using test program, but brokerage says he can’t keep his profit – CNBC
- Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech – NPR
- Ten Thousand Years Of History Show That Expecting Big Tech To Self-Regulate Is A Fantasy – Forbes
- Big Pharma nixes new drugs despite impending ‘antibiotic apocalypse’ – DW
- Oil To Hit $100? Half Of Saudi Oil Output Shut After Drone Strikes Cripple World’s Largest Oil Processing Facility – Zero Hedge
- Saudi Arabia is shutting down half of its oil production after drone attack, WSJ says – CNBC
- Tough Housing Market Forces More Millennials To Live In Van Down By The River – Babylon Bee
- Salary needed to save 10% of your income and retire with $2 million – CNBC
- The onset of a downturn is as much a matter of mood as of money – The Economist
Americas:
- Startup rents bunkbeds in San Francisco for $1,200 per month. Welcome to third world housing. – SF Curbed
- California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis – NY Times
- Mine shutdowns in top US coal region bring new uncertainty – Yahoo
- One in Four of New York’s New Luxury Apartments Is Unsold – NY Times
- Heating oil prices drop to lowest levels in nearly 2 years – WMTV
- California Has Highest Poverty Rate, with Housing Costs – Breitbart
- Trump to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – 71Republic
- Feds finalize plan to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling – LA Times
- Trump promises to propose a substantial new tax cut for middle class ahead of 2020 – National Sentinel
Europe:
- Why is France’s finance minister at war with Facebook’s cryptocurrency? – France 24
- France and Germany agree to block Facebook’s Libra – Reuters
- Danes raise millions of euros in first-ever climate telethon – DW
- Drought reveals long lost ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ in Extremadura reservoir – The Local
- Green Startup Breaks ‘Big Six’ U.K. Oligopoly With SSE Deal – Bloomberg
- TO allows U.S. to hit EU with tariffs over Airbus subsidies – Politico
Asia:
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- Study Says U.S.-China Trade War Unwinnable – Time
- Beijing exempts some U.S. agriculture products from tariffs as food inflation hits new high, squeezing Chinese consumers – National Sentinel
- Trade war: China says US soybeans, pork to be exempt from tariff hikes – Yahoo
- China to lift punitive tariffs on U.S. soybeans, pork – ABC News
- In Bid to Stamp Out Dengue, Mosquitoes Carrying Disease-Resistant Bacteria Released in Vietnam – Japan Times
- After Fleeing North Korea, Women Get Trapped as Cybersex Slaves in China – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘Going to the streets again’: what you need to know about Friday’s climate strike – The Guardian
- Adani mining insider reveals she is leaking material to environmental activists – ABC
- 80% of recipients who had payments suspended not at fault, data shows – The Guardian
- Don’t politicise the bushfires? The alternative is to sit back while more severe events happen – The Guardian
- ‘Critical’: parts of regional NSW set to run out of water by November – The Guardian
- Tony Abbott, Barnaby Joyce expected to address anti-abortion rally – SBS
- Chinese owners ordered to rehabilitate Yakka Munga cattle station in the Kimberley – ABC
- The nightmare of Australia’s welfare system: ‘At the push of a button, my working life was erased’ – The Guardian
- Opinion: Inside Xi’s ‘magic weapon’ that has backfired on Gladys Liu – ABC
- Gladys Liu sinks, while Morrison throws her a life preserver – Independent Australia
- AEMO slashes output of five big solar farms by half due to voltage issues – Renew Economy
- Labor’s Mark Butler rejects 45 per cent emissions reduction target – The Age
- Migrant exploitation, people trafficking, fraud & non-compliance undermine visa system – Interest.co.nz
- Auckland house sales crash to 2010 levels – Interest.co.nz