Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Climate Change is Making it Much Harder to be a Young Farmer – Mother Jones
- Airbus to pay record £3bn in fines for ‘endemic’ corruption – The Guardian
- Facebook plunges, wiping out more than $50 billion in market value – CNBC
- Dow drops 550 points as worries grow about the economic impact of the coronavirus – CNBC
- Amazon Lifts the Lid on Prime Membership Count, and It’s Big (150M!) – Digital Trends
- Tech for good: Microsoft launches ‘AI for Health’ – Nuadox
- The Global System Nearing Financial and Climate Collapse: Capitalism – Global Research
- Market crash incoming within the next weeks – MarketWatch
Americas:
- UPS to buy 10,000 electric trucks from U.K. startup Arrival – Axios
- Most Americans Are Lonely, And Our Workplace Culture May Not Be Helping – NPR
- GM reviving Hummer brand with 1,000-horsepower electric truck – Globe & Mail
- Trump’s Pick for Federal Reserve Is a Fan of Cryptocurrency – Be In Crypto
- The US consumer spending rose steadily in December – Economo
- A quarter of Millennials who save have amassed $100,000. Here’s how they plan to spend it – CNN
- Report: China’s Currency Manipulation, Unfair Subsidies Killed 3.7 Million US Jobs – Epoch Times
- U.S. farm bankruptcies hit an eight-year high: court data – Reuters
- Why the Bank of Canada is suddenly concerned about economic growth – Igorb News
Europe:
- Spanish economy ended 2019 with an unprecedented acceleration – Economo
- French police clash with striking firefighters in Paris – Igorb News
- German Banks Are Hoarding So Many Euros They Need More Vaults – Bloomberg
- The French economy has contracted unexpectedly in Q4 2019 – Economo
- Sea foam covers streets of Spanish coastal town – Igorb News
- Eurozone Growth Hits 6-Year Low as Key Automobile Industry Struggles – WSJ
- EU leaders to push for ever closer union without Britain – The Times
Asia:
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- Singapore: total 18 cases of coronavirus – Igorb News
- Apple to shut down all official stores in Chinese mainland due to virus outbreak – Reuters
- Coronavirus may wipe out 1% of the China’s economic growth – Economo
- How the coronavirus may impact China’s economic growth – Igorb News
- Senior North Korea Party Official Visits China, North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un Sends Letter to China’s Xi Over Anti-Virus Campaign – Kyodo News
- India Announces Measures to Revive Sputtering Economy – VOA News
Trans-Tasman:
- Morrison’s twisted logic on the sports rort is perfectly Trumpian – and no surprise – The Guardian
- Sports rort: Dutton backs beleaguered McKenzie saying ‘I’ve got confidence in Bridget’ – The Guardian
- Scott Morrison is stuck in a time warp – more gas is not the answer – The Guardian
- 36 years ago Medicare was introduced in Australia – NMA
- Australia to deny entry to travellers from mainland China unless they’re Australian citizens – SBS
- Govt backs down on plan to charge Wuhan evacuees for flight to safety – New Daily
- Childcare package all but gone 18 months after introduction – Brisbane Times
- Australia’s Top 40 Tax Dodgers 2020: fossil fuels dominate once more – Michael West
- Lower rates will mean higher house prices, economists say – The SMH
- Australians told not to travel to mainland China, border restrictions tightened considerably – ABC
- Labor attacks Josh Frydenberg for failing to meet banking royal commission deadline – The Guardian
- It could become harder for migrants and kiwi expats to get Super – Interest.co.nz
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