Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Saudis Raise Oil Pricing to Asia After Attacks Cut Output – Bloomberg
- Dow Drops 300 Points … Fears of a Recession Continue … – Stock Market News
- Dow Drops Most to Start Quarter Since 2008 – Barrons
- The Federal Reserve Should Reduce Interest Rates to Stem an Economic Downturn – Stock Market News
Americas:
- Republican fail: 40 years of tax cuts, record debt and inequality gap – USA Today
- This widening crack in the mortgage market could sink U.S. home prices – MarketWatch
- America’s Auto Loan Debt Is Truly Out Of Control – Jalopnik
- ‘Stunning Rebuke to Predatory Wall Street Megabanks’ as California Governor Signs Law Allowing Creation of Public Banks – Common Dreams
- Trump Economy Is Failing in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan – Bloomberg
- U.S. Service Sector Growth Slows More Than Expected In September – RTT News
- Grim Start to U.S. Auto Sales Stirs Alarm That Collapse Is Here – Bloomberg
- America’s factories are getting crushed by Trump’s trade war, not the Fed – CNN
- A fifth of the economy is now in recession — including much of Trump country – Raw Story
- US economy slowdown spurs concern if it is nearing stall speed – Yuv News
Europe:
- U.S. to Impose New Tariffs on EU Goods – Stock Market News
- European bank chief says negative rates may be bad for banks, but good for society – QZ
- Homeowners win fight over crippling Polish loans – BBC
- Bank scams in the UK cost investors over £616 mln for 6 months alone – Forex Brokerz
- U.S. to Impose Tariffs on EU Goods After WTO’s Airbus Ruling – WSJ
- U.S. plans tariffs on $7.5 billion of European imports after winning WTO ruling – Market Watch
- Fracking banned in Scotland with ‘immediate effect’ – Herald Scotland
Asia:
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- Samsung ends mobile phone production in China – Reuters
- China digital consumer trends in 2019 – McKinsey
- It Is Time for the United States to Stand Up to China in Hong Kong – Foreign Policy
- Hong Kong May Ban Face Masks By Invoking Colonial-Era Emergency Powers – NPR
- A Uighur scholar facing potential execution is one of over a million detained by China – LA Times
- For many in Hong Kong, Beijing’s troops already here: The Hong Kong Police Force – Washington Post
- Opinion | Is China Heading for Crisis? – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Peter Dutton suggests cancelling welfare of climate protesters – ABC
- CBA faces criminal charges over CommInsure scandal – ABC
- ‘The wrong project in the wrong place’: Malcolm Turnbull’s Snowy 2.0 vision comes at a huge cost – New Daily
- Restaurant empire behind Chin Chin underpaid staff: leaked audit – The Age
- Imagine a place with no elite private schools or prohibitive house prices – I’ve lived there – The Guardian
- The Morrison playbook – Inside Story
- Just because both sides support drought relief, doesn’t mean it’s right – The Conversation
- Australia is not prepared to fight the bushfires of the future, experts warn – ABC
- Scott Morrison warns against ‘negative globalism’ – The Conversation
- Retail figures to ‘set off alarm bells’ at the RBA – The SMH
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Government announces refugee quota changes – Interest.co.nz