Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Gold hits record, equities edge higher on stimulus hopes – Reuters
- A perfect financial storm is brewing and it is worse than 2008 – CNBC
Americas:
- $600 A Week: Poverty Remedy Or Job Slayer? – NPR
- What’s a COVID fee? Why consumers are split on whether to pay more for drinks, dinner, or a haircut – NBC
- Republicans Finally Reveal the Amount of Next Stimulus – Latin Post
- How Canada Can Tame the National Debt – Epoch Times
- How the U.S. Consumer Became the Most Resilient Force in the Economy – A Wealth of Common Sense
- U.S. economy stalls as the coronavirus continues to surge – CBS News
Europe:
- Germany has rejected Trump’s offer to return Russia to the G-7 – Economo
- The European economy will recover faster from the crisis than the US – Finances Herald
- The danger to the Eurozone is not over yet – ECB
- The business climate in Germany recovers further in July – Economic Daily
- Eurozone economic activity rose for the first time in 5 months – Economo
- German business activity recorded its first increase in five months – Economic Daily
Asia:
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- Profits of industrial companies in China reported the fastest growth since the end of 2018 – Economo
- China Destroyed COVID-19 Evidence, Says Doctor Who Investigated Wuhan Cases – VICE
- Nathan Law fled Hong Kong with a mission—harden the West against China – News Week
- China warns of new floods as Three Gorges Dam exceeds limit – Nikkei
- UK businesses call for better relations with China, after Huawei’s 5G ban – Global Times
- China is Sending Fake Seeds to the USA – CNN
- China is rewriting the facts about coronavirus to suit its own narrative – The Guardian
Trans-Tasman:
- Scott Morrison’s ‘deflect blame, take the credit’ shtick is wearing thin – The SMH
- ‘I’ve applied for 600 jobs since March’: Tough road ahead for workers after pandemic – ABC
- At least three protesters detained at Sydney Black Lives Matter march – ABC
- Canberra landlord who sued former tenant for broken coffee plunger, missed rent ordered to pay thousands – ABC
- ‘Insulting’ Medicare changes could stop patients from accessing lifesaving care, GPs warn – ABC
- Are Thatcherism and Reaganomics your best answer, Josh? – Michael West
- Public servants were pulled from overseeing hotel quarantine over safety fears – The Age
- Melbourne school criticised for guidelines requiring coronavirus masks to match uniform – The Guardian
- Encryption laws are hurting Australia’s tech sector, Atlassian says – The Guardian
- Palaszczuk warns Queenslanders against travelling to NSW – ABC
- Customers still seeking mortgage deferrals – though in much smaller numbers – Interest.co.nz
- Overseas buyers of NZ residential properties drying up – Interest.co.nz
- Govt can’t say when in 2021 ‘small cohorts’ of international students will be let into NZ – Interest.co.nz