Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Oil Price – Traders Are No Longer In Panic Mode To Find Buyers For Unwanted Oil As Demand Ticks Up – Stock Market News
- Still in thrall to John Maynard Keynes – Washington Post
- The IMF calls for freezing of bank dividends and redemptions – Economo
- Dow futures drop more than 150 points as Wall Street struggles to recover from Thursday’s losses – CNBC
Americas:
- With over 35 million people filing for unemployment since March, $1,200 stimulus checks are only a Band-Aid for Americans – MarketWatch
- Argentina defaults for the ninth time in its history – Business Devil Hunter
- Small Businesses Are the Key to Reviving the Economy. They Face an Existential Threat – Barrons
- Fed’s balance sheet tops $7 trillion, shows increased buying of corporate bond ETFs – Barron’s
- 43 states have record unemployment. See where your state ranks – CNN
- Reopening reality check: Georgia’s jobs aren’t flooding back – Economo
- Electric Cars Are About to Start Rolling Out of the Arizona Desert – Bloomberg
- America’s Unemployment Numbers Are Stabilizing. That’s Not A Good Thing. – Five Thirty Eight
- Why Our Economy May Be Headed for a Decade of Depression – NY Mag
- America Has Opted for a Bad Recession – Bloomberg
Europe:
- British factories report the biggest drop in production in over 40 years – Economo
- Top 1% of British earners get 17% of nation’s income – The Guardian
- Russian economy to shrink 9.5% in Q2 in virus standstill: minister – France 24
- Germans being paid to borrow within the negative interest rates environment – Economo
- The UK has sold bonds with below-zero yields – Economo
- EU lays foundation of European federal state by taking huge debts together – Blues
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Asia:
- Coronavirus backlash adds to trade war and decoupling pressure to fray China’s ties to global system – SCMP
- U.S. accuses China of blocking U.S. flights, demands action – Reuters
- Xi Says China Won’t Return to Planned Economy, Urges Cooperation – Bloomberg
- Vietnam Says it Will Ignore Chinese Fishing Ban in South China Sea – VOA News
- China will not set GDP target for 2020 as coronavirus batters economy – CNBC
- How bad are China’s economic woes? – BBC
- China’s financial system: opening up and system risk – Bruegel
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia: Retail trade is ‘bleeding out’ and falls into hell – News.com.au
- The political influence of Australia’s Hillsong Pentecostal Church – ABC
- ‘Don’t come in on Monday’: Could Australia do a four-day work week? – The New Daily
- Federal ministers flooded with unprecedented level of anti-vaccination mail – The SMH
- Which Target stores are set to close, and which will become Kmarts? – ABC
- May temperature records broken across Australia’s Queensland – Al Jazeera
- University of Queensland to ban foreign diplomats from gaining honorary positions – The Guardian
- ‘Just a disaster’: Government under pressure to pay spare JobKeeper billions to those overlooked – New Daily
- Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs – The Conversation
- Why Beijing has to be careful about targeting Australian exports – ABC
- As schools return so will traffic jams. Here’s why they’ll be worse – The Guardian
- Australia, it’s time to talk about our water emergency – Australian Times
- Looking forward to the rebuild – Interest.co.nz
- Pandemic to ‘accelerate nascent trend toward stakeholder rather than rentier capitalism’ – Interest.co.nz
- The mortgage or for retirement? – Interest.co.nz
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