Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Russia, Saudis Deny Trump “Expectation” Of 10 Million bpd Oil Production Cut – Zero Hedge
- Fed Panics As Foreigners Dump A Record $109 Billion In US Treasuries – Zero Hedge
- World stocks drift as wary investors expect grim U.S. jobs data – Reuters
- Economic fallout mounts, worldwide cases top 1 million – AP News
Americas:
- US weekly jobless claims double to 6.6 million – CNBC
- U.S. borrowers struggle to get coronavirus relief from big banks – Reuters
- Stimulus package provides USPS no funding, postal service could shutter by June 2020 amid coronavirus – Fortune
- March Data Is In — And It’s Not Good News For Housing – Forbes
- First stimulus payments expected to go out the week of April 13 – Politico
- What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage – Medium
- New York Unemployment Fund Nears Insolvency as Claims Skyrocket – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Britain, France and Germany bypass US sanctions to provide Iran with medical aid – Telegraph
- Germany in talks to inject billions into Lufthansa – Reuters
- France seized one million masks destined for Spain for 15 days – Elmundo
- Finland considers shutting completely border with Sweden – Euractiv
- EU pledges €100 billion scheme for workers facing pay cuts – DW
- EU Commission apologises to Italy over coronavirus response – Reuters
Asia:
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- Anger as Japanese Prime Minister Offers Two Cloth Masks Per Family While Refusing to Declare Coronavirus Emergency – CNN
- The Group Blamed for New COVID-19 Outbreak in India – BBC
- China Reports Fewer Coronavirus Infections, Tallies Asymptomatic Cases – Reuters
- How WHO Became China’s Coronavirus Accomplice – Foreign Policy
- China May Have Beaten Coronavirus, But Now It Could Be Facing a Food Crisis: “China’s agricultural industry has collapsed.” – Vice
- Coronavirus exposes Xi Jinping’s feet of clay – Times of India
- China Claims No New Deaths As Peasant Passes By Shouting ‘Bring Out Your Dead!’ – Babylon Bee
Trans-Tasman:
- Thousands of Australians travelled overseas despite PM’s strict travel advice – SBS
- ASIC Hunting Property Managers Over Superannuation Advice To Tenants – ASIC
- Coronavirus: Landlord tells renting mum with disabled kids to ‘get f**ked’ – News.com.au
- Labor warns some universities face collapse as international enrolments plummet – The Guardian
- Jobkeeper ‘loophole’ could leave millions of employees without leave entitlements, Labor warns – The Guardian
- Australian real estate agents face fines and jail if tenants told to use super to pay rent – The Guardian
- Scott Morrison announces free childcare – The Guardian
- Billions of face masks sent to China during bushfire crisis – The Age
- NBN Co records highest ever peak throughput of 13.8Tbps – IT News
- National Cabinet To Consider Including Landlords In Job-keeper Scheme – The Age