Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Fed’s $400 Billion Plan to Bailout the Repo Market – Fortune
- Silicon Valley bankers and lawyers push for alternative to IPOs – FT
- US stocks turn lower on weak European manufacturing – Fox Business
- The U.S Dollar Will Make Up 50% of Facebook’s Libra Reserves – BeInCrypto
- Time to Worry About Corporate Debt Again – WSJ
Americas:
- GM fires Mexican workers for aiding US strikers and calling for cross-border fight against automaker – WSWS
- Apple will make the Mac Pro in Austin, avoiding some China tariffs – CNBC
- A Wasteful Weapon for America’s Forever Wars – Lobelog
- A recession within 12 months? – CNBC
- US universities see decline in students from China – AP News
Europe:
- Danske’s Ex-CEO in Estonia Goes Missing as Police Start Search – Bloomberg
- EU plans to spend more on private jets for top officials – Politico
- Britain, France, Germany blame Iran for Saudi attack – Reuters
- Spain will remove rights for British residents post-Brexit if the UK does not reciprocate – Elpais
- Russia adopts Paris climate agreement – France24
- Germany Limps Closer to Recession as Factory Output Plunges to 2009 Lows – The Street
Asia:
Advertisement
- Code on Wages lacks clear policy outcome – Oxfam India
- China to place government officials inside 100 private companies, including Alibaba – CNBC
- Chinese state-backed news channel CGTN is under investigation by the British media regulator over claims its coverage of protests in Hong Kong breached broadcasting rules – The Guardian
- ‘I Was Begging for Mercy’: How Undercover Officers in Hong Kong Launched a Bloody Crackdown – NY Times
- After Spying on Them for years, China Deports 13 South Korean Families for Practicing Christianity – Faith Wire
- Chinese State Hackers Suspected Of Devious New Attack On U.S. Companies – Forbes
- China footage reveals hundreds of blindfolded and shackled prisoners – The Guardian
Trans-Tasman:
- David Attenborough slams Australian PM on climate record – ABC
- Labor to oppose cashless welfare card expansion unless it is voluntary – The Guardian
- Scott Morrison holds out on UN push for deeper emissions cuts – The SMH
- Pacific leaders urge the world not to accept the ‘living nightmare’ of climate change – ABC
- Thinking of moving overseas for work? Research says you’ll struggle to return – ABC
- The Big Stack: How the government hijacked the AAT – New Daily
- Deaths of despair in Australia – Grattan Institute
- Australian PM says China must step up on climate change as ‘newly developed’ nation – The Guardian
- James Cook University sacked professor Peter Ridd raises $500k to fight university’s appeal – ABC
- ‘Mean-spirited’: plan to make people with savings wait longer for welfare criticised – The Guardian
- Winston Peters says the Government is striving to address the quality of immigration, saying ‘it’s not whether it’s too high – Interest.co.nz