Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Breaking up big tech companies like Amazon and Google is supported by two thirds of Americans, poll shows – VOX
- MIT Future of Work Report: We Shouldn’t Worry About Quantity of Jobs, But Quality – Singularity Hub
- Providence Equity Closes Eighth Flagship Fund Above $6 Billion – WSJ
- Microsoft to Buy Back Up to $40 Billion in Stock – Stock Market News
Americas:
- Revealed: how US senators invest in firms they are supposed to regulate – The Guardian
- Fed will inject another $75 billion into markets marking the fourth injection this week. Weekly total is $203.2 billion in injections – Bloomberg
- The CEOs of America’s biggest companies just lowered their economic growth forecast for the year – CNBC
- ‘Huge concern’: Minnesota farmers see big disparity in trade war compensation – Fox 9
- Size matters: Big U.S. farms get even bigger amid China trade war – Reuters
Europe:
- UK ‘cannot meet’ EU deadline for Brexit plan and needs another year, government says – Independent
- Make smartphones last longer to cut emissions in EU: activists’ report – Reuters
- The threat to the southern European olive – The Economist
- Germany warns of 5G attacks by ‘nation states’ in veiled Huawei swipe – SCMP
- New British aircraft carrier sails for the first time – BBC
- US takes ‘richest nation on earth’ crown from Switzerland – The Local
Asia:
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- North Korea Envoy Says Ties with Japan Going “From Bad to Worse” – Japan Times
- Former TEPCO Executives Found Not Guilty of Criminal Negligence in Fukushima Disaster – Japan Times
- Wildfires in Indonesia Have Ravaged 800,000 Acres. Palm Oil Farmers Are Mostly to Blame. – Washington Post
- Matrimania: The Changing Face of India’s Weddings – BBC
- Taiwan Says China Meddling with Elections After Solomon Islands Cuts Ties – Reuters
- The Taiwanese sending 2,000 gas masks to Hong Kong – BBC
- China Central Television urges netizens to doxx Hong Kong protesters and reporters – Global Voices
- More Chinese save for retirement amid fears state pension will run dry – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia banned from speaking at UN climate change summit in ‘unprecedented’ rebuke – SBS
- Secret letters reveal plan to spy on Aussies – Gladstone Observer
- National School Strike for Climate sees students across the country planning to skip school – ABC
- ‘Gold standard’: Porter praises union that stripped workers of $1 billion – The SMH
- ‘It’s too expensive’: Vendor struggles to sell The Big Issue, a sign of ‘tough economic times’ – ABC
- Scheme promising economic boom for northern Australia has not spent a cent in Queensland – ABC
- Big claims and corporate spin about small nuclear reactor costs – Renew Economy
- Australia could produce 200% of energy needs from renewables by 2050, researchers say – The Guardian
- Newstart pay rise amounts to less than 24 cents per day, but it can’t stagnate forever – ABC
- Australian universities are accused of trading free speech for cash – The Economist
- Falling interest rates push house prices further out of reach for first home buyers – Interest.co.nz