Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Coronavirus vaccine will not change world right away; severe challenges remain – Seattle Times
- ‘New Normal’ Emerges for Companies Navigating Covid-19 Pandemic – WSJ
- Those coronavirus vaccines leading the race? Don’t ditch the masks yet – Yahoo
- Summertime Sadness: Resurgent Virus Dims Crisis Recovery Hopes – MSN
Americas:
- ‘It’s really devastating us’: Beach towns fear they won’t survive a summer of COVID-19 – USA Today
- Unemployment Claims Rise for Second Consecutive Week – US News
- MLB boss says ‘no reason to quit’ as more COVID-19 cases hit – Yahoo
- Average Age of Cars & Trucks on the Road Sets Record, Will Jump During Pandemic as New-Vehicle Sales Plunge to 1970s Level – Wolf Street
- Why so many Americans are buying up personal bunkers – NY Post
- More than 93% of U.S. college students say tuition should be lowered if classes are online – CNBC
- New York Fed ‘Nowcast’ Predicts GDP to Surge 16.8 Percent in Third Quarter – Epoch Times
- Undocumented Workers, Shut Out From U.S. Aid, Run Out of Options – Yahoo
- A record number of retail stores are expected to permanently close this year – CNN
Europe:
- Economies of France, Italy and Spain take major hits from coronavirus – Times of Israel
- Retail sales in Germany slightly declined in June – Economo
- Eurozone economy shrinks by record 12.1 percent in second quarter – Politico
- Back on track: Europe’s fading night trains win reprieve – Japan Times
- Tesla Berlin is Being Built Faster Than Tesla Shanghai – Next Big Future
- Spain secretly lobbied US Congress on getting joint sovereignty over Gibraltar – Telegraph
- European airlines urge Canada to remove ‘problematic’ coronavirus-travel restrictions – Global News Canada
Asia:
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- Trump gives support for Microsoft to buy the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok – Mazech
- China expands Burger King probe to other US chains – Nikkei
- ‘Made in India’ iPhone 11 goes into production in Chennai – Nikkei
- Japan Acted Like the Virus Had Gone. Now It’s Spread Everywhere. – Bloomberg
- Chinese industry is growing for the fifth consecutive month – Economo
- India and China race to build along a tense frontier – BBC
Trans-Tasman:
- UNSW under fire for deleting social media posts critical of China over Hong Kong – ABC
- All retail in Melbourne to shut down for six weeks – News.com.au
- Victoria announces increased coronavirus restrictions – ABC
- Complaining about wearing a mask because of coronavirus? These nurses don’t want to hear it – ABC
- Does stage 4 ‘shock and awe’ in Melbourne mean we should have gone for elimination of coronavirus after all? – The Guardian
- NSW duo denied South Australia entry arrested in Adelaide – SBS
- I had to move my mother twice because of appalling experiences in aged care homes – The Guardian
- Why coronavirus will deepen the inequality of our suburbs – The Conversation
- Housing market could still see major recession to come as coronavirus ravages economy – ABC
- Police in Victoria shut down anti-masker meeting – News.com.au
- Australian states raise millions from coronavirus fines — but one state stands out from the rest – ABC
- Recessions are awful for young people – but things were already bad for Australians under 35 – The Guardian
- Government axes ABC and SBS from tech giant’s payouts – New Daily
- Unemployment’s going up – but by how much? – Interest.co.nz