Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Dark day for workers as thousands lose jobs including 15,000 at Boeing rival Airbus – MarketWatch
- Coronavirus will wipe out 400 million jobs worldwide in the second quarter – Economo
- Hertz bankruptcy turns into $11B standoff in court over used car fleet – CNET
- Stocks Pare Gains as Virus Angst Offsets Jobs Data – Bloomberg
- U.S. Moves Closer To Digital Dollar – Forbes
- Jeff Bezos is so rich he just set a new record – CNN
Americas:
- The Unemployment Rate Is Falling, But More People Are Losing Their Jobs Permanently – Five Thirty Eight
- Biden: Economy remains at risk until Trump ‘faces what’s going on in this country’ – The Hill
- National Face Mask Mandate Could Help the Economy: Goldman Sachs – US News
- Trump Is So Amped About the Economy Surging That He Forgot COVID Is Too – VICE
- US jobs recovery may be short-lived as coronavirus comes back with a vengeance – RT
- US businesses cut more than 170,000 jobs in June – Economo
- American and 4 other airlines reach loan agreements with US Government – Techxplore
- Fed: Fiscal aid to households and businesses is unlikely to be enough – Economo
Europe:
- Bundestag has approved Germany’s record debt of 218 billion EUR – Economic Daily
- The EC plans to invest at least 22 billion EUR in support of youth employment – Economo
- Romania allocates 1.16 billion EUR to help SMEs – Economo
- UK PM Johnson says on Huawei: We must protect from ‘hostile state vendors’ – Channel News Asia
- ‘Biggest ever’ UK operation against organised crime after encrypted phone network cracked – Independent
- The UK is in ‘pole position’ for market recovery despite gloomy economic outlook, UBS says – CNBC
Asia:
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- China vows to stop UK granting Hongkongers residency – The Guardian
- Huawei stole 5G tech from Canada’s Nortel. – Bloomberg
- The 53 countries supporting China’s crackdown on Hong Kong – Axios
- China’s Own Documents Show Potentially Genocidal Sterilization Plans in Xinjiang – Foreign Policy
- China lashes out at Five Eyes as Britain, Australia offer to help Hongkongers after national security law passed – SCMP
- China announces ‘No. 1 Flood’ for Three Gorges Dam Headwaters – Taiwan News
- China Appears to Have Tamed a Second Wave of Coronavirus in Just 21 Days with No Deaths – Time
Trans-Tasman:
- Unions say Coalition’s ‘demonising’ of unemployed is groundwork for Covid-19 welfare cuts – The Guardian
- Seven companies unlawfully hid political donations from NSW planning authorities – The Guardian
- Mathias Cormann set to quit politics – New Daily
- 45,000 renewables jobs are Australia’s for the taking – but how many will go to coal workers? – The Conversation
- Health officials raise conspiracy concerns as 10,000 refuse coronavirus tests in Victoria – SBS
- ‘All lives matter’ sign depicting Pauline Hanson pulled down after community outrage – ABC
- ‘A national security scandal’: Kevin Rudd names three gaps in defence strategy – The SMH
- JobSeeker’s $200 boost could cost $4 billion for six months – The SMH
- Victoria’s hotel quarantine program could be the biggest scandal of Daniel Andrews’ career – ABC
- NSW mine could face multi-million dollar fine for allegedly breaching water law – The Guardian
- Why the RBNZ shouldn’t bother adding foreign assets to its QE programme – Interest.co.nz
- CoreLogic survey shows nearly two-thirds of real estate agents expect house prices to fall – Interest.co.nz