Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- GE freezing pensions for 20,000 employees – MarketWatch
- The world’s 10 most and least liveable cities for 2019 – CRE Herald
- Apple Stock Is at ‘Unreasonable’ Levels, Analyst Says – Barrons
- N.Y. Fed awards $47.05 billion in Monday morning repos – Reuters
Americas:
- U.S. Economy: The Economic Slowdown Will Only Get Worse – Stock Market News
- US Solar Power Industry Set For Massive Growth In Next 5 Years – IB News
- More than 2.5 Million Households Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump – Breitbart
- 25% of total US health care spending estimated to be waste – Eureka Alert
- Trump Taxes: President Ordered to Turn Over Returns to Manhattan D.A. – NY Times
- The Trumponomics experiment is failing before our eyes – Business Insider
- U.S. Is ‘Code Red’ for Recession, Inventor of the Yield Curve Signal Says – YouTube
- U.S. economists wrestle with how to help ‘left behind’ areas – Reuters
- Millennials are to blame for sluggish economy – CNBC
Europe:
- German Banks Start Passing On Negative Interest Rates to Retail Clients – Bloomberg
- Greece to Allow Drilling for Oil, Gas at More than 30 Underwater Sites located in Ionian Sea and around Crete – Greek Reporter
- EU warns that Turkish invasion will ‘exacerbate civilian suffering’ – Kurdistan24
- German government waters down climate bill – DW
- “Unprecedented’ rise in infant mortality in England linked to poverty. – Pressenza
- France: calls grow for answers over police killer’s radicalisation – The Guardian
- EU agrees to ‘update’ Paris climate pledge – Climate Change News
- Revealed: the EU’s point-by-point rejection of Johnson’s Brexit plan – The Guardian
Asia:
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- China Appears Reluctant to Resolve United States Trade War – Be In Crypto
- Hong Kong ATMs Run Out of Money As Bitcoin Trading Volume Balloons – BeInCrypto
- India gets first tranche of Swiss bank account details under automatic exchange framework – Yuv News
- Petrol Bombs and Tear Gas Rock Hong Kong, Scores Arrested for Defying Mask Ban – Reuters
- U.S. Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities Over Abuses in Xinjiang – NY Times
- The NBA Chooses China’s Money Over Hong Kong’s Human Rights – Rolling Stone
Trans-Tasman:
- The irony in the fact that coastal erosion is probably going to hit climate change deniers the hardest in cities. – The Guardian
- Josh Frydenberg and Gladys Liu election challenges should be thrown out, AEC says – The Guardian
- Construction sector falters as business investment at recession-like levels – The SMH
- Catholic college stacking ‘scheme’ angers NSW MPs – The SMH
- Telstra cuts uplink speeds early in NBN fixed wireless shift – IT News
- Australian outback on the money – ABC
- Trains deliver water to drought-affected NSW coal mines to keep production going – ABC
- Water resources minister ‘totally’ accepts drought linked to climate change – The Guardian
- $13 bn investment, 15,000 hectares of land: What will go in creating the world’s largest solar farm – The Economic Times
- Secret Victorian ALP report says ‘one size fits all’ campaign may have cost it 2019 election – The Guardian
- Sydney and Melbourne house prices could return to peak levels sooner rather than later – Domain
- Political donations hidden from NSW planning authorities by big corporations – The Guardian
- Massive increase in government’s rail freight network valuation – Interest.co.nz