Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Google Employees Will Work From Home Until Summer 2021 The Latest Trend – Technology Elevation
- Negative-Yielding Corporate Bonds Are All the Rage in Argentina – Bloomberg
- If an economy is going through a recession/depression, why can’t they just print more money and put it in the economy? – CNBC
- Gold at New Record High as U.S. Dollar Selling Continues – Yahoo
- It Is Time to Abandon Dollar Hegemony – Foreign Affairs
- Dollar wallows near two-year low as virus dashes U.S. recovery hopes – Reuters
Americas:
- US is expected to report a record-breaking economic plunge – ABC
- More Than 40% Of U.S. Renter Households Are At Risk Of Eviction – Forbes
- U.S. small businesses face mass closures without more pandemic aid – Reuters
- U.S. Treasury Will Borrow A Record $3 Trillion This Quarter As Stimulus Spending Soars – Forbes
- Why this economist says it’s a ‘major mistake’ to continue $600 unemployment benefit – CNBC
- US Economic Collapse: The Worst in US History – Global Research
Europe:
- The EU Isn’t Letting In American Tourists Anytime Soon – Bloomberg
- Why the ECB’s ban on banks dividends is unfair? – Economo
- Germany has rejected Trump’s offer to return Russia to the G-7 – Economo
- EU denies grants to ‘LGBT-free’ Polish towns – RTE
- US to pull nearly 12,000 troops out of Germany – FT
- EU restricts exports to Hong Kong over China security law – DW
- Unfortunately for Boris Johnson, much of Europe has moved on from Brexit – CNN
Asia:
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- Singapore Unemployment Hits 2.9% as COVID Slams Workers Asia-wide – Nikkei
- China Is What Orwell Feared: Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control — The Atlantic
- How China used censorship to hide the coronavirus truth: Thousands of Chinese nationalists sent death threats to an author for writing a diary documenting the world’s first coronavirus lockdown. – CNET
- Ecuador should sink China’s fishing fleet if it enters the Galapagos reserve – Washington Examiner
- Teenagers Arrested in Hong Kong for “Inciting Secession” WTAF? – Hong Kong FP
- Japan’s air force faces a ‘relentless’ burden, imposed by China – CNN
- China’s top diplomat in Vancouver blasts Canada’s ‘brutal interference’ in response to the national security law in Hong Kong – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia the big winner from Trump’s disastrous trade wars – Independent Australia
- A tale of two billionaires: Stokes again exempt from self-quarantine for breakfast with Premier as Palmer heads to High Court – The SMH
- ‘Lost decade’ of income growth for under 35s. – The SMH
- Australian PM’s department refuses to release Covid-19 commission documents – The Guardian
- Spotless takes staff to Fair Work Commission for refusing to come to work after coronavirus outbreak – ABC
- Coronavirus in New South Wales is quickly spiralling into the the dreaded ‘red zone’ – ABC
- New gas-fired power not needed as renewable energy expands, grid operator says – The Guardian
- Report finds ‘significant deficiencies’ in regulation of Murray-Darling water markets – ABC
- Mapping COVID-19 spread in Melbourne shows link to job types and ability to stay home – The Conversation
- Top bureaucrats warned a year ago Victoria’s key public health team was starved of money and staff – The Age
- New grid report forecasts rapid transition away from coal-fired power – The SMH
- Business confidence bounce ‘running out of steam’ – Interest.co.nz
- Outlook for residential construction remains strong; new dwelling consents bounce back after lockdown – Interest.co.nz
- Residential property yields remarkably stable through the lockdown – Interest.co.nz