Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- How COVID-19 Has Accelerated The End Of 9-5 Workday – adeccogroup.com
- US, UK employees working equivalent of extra week each month during COVID-19 – Cnet
- How can Wall Street be so healthy when Main Street isn’t? – AP News
- The Politicization of the Stock Market – Frugal Prof
- Canadian oil sands compound their image problem – Petroleum Economist
- Gold’s evolution into a ‘must-have’ asset is storing up trouble – FT
Americas:
- End to US unemployment protections could fuel wave of despair and suicides – The Guardian
- Senate leaves until September without coronavirus relief deal – The Hill
- Fed Boston: Failure to deal with Covid-19 damages economic recovery – Economo
- Tax them and they will Leave – New York City loses hundreds of billions in wealth as rich residents skip town – Yahoo
- Federal Deficit Leaps From Under 5% of GDP last year to 15% Now – Angry Bear Blog
- U.S. weekly jobless claims fell to 963,000, first time below 1 million since mid-March – CNBC
- U.S. farmers leave fields fallow as COVID-19 wrecks crop prospects – Reuters
Europe:
- UK officially in a recession after COVID-19 shrinks economy by 22 per cent – 9News
- Virus exposes economic, racial divide in French health care – AP News
- Turkey on brink of recession as economy collapses – Arab News
- Coronavirus: France, Malta and Netherlands added to UK’s travel quarantine list – Sky
- France sends jets and ships to tense east Mediterranean – France
- Poverty threatens ever more people in Germany – DW
Asia:
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- China’s deadly summer floods have caused $25B in damage – ABC News
- 3 charts show China is far from meeting its ‘phase one’ trade commitment to the U.S. – CNBC
- The Bank of Japan offers commercial banks bonuses of millions – Economo
- North Korea nuclear reactor site threatened by recent flooding – Reuters
- GOP senator calls on China to repay $1.6T of century-old debt – Fox Business
- China’s Organ Harvesting Allegations Gain Credibility – National Review
Trans-Tasman:
- Queensland Government moves to ban publication of political corruption allegations during election campaign periods – ABC
- WA has moved to stop Clive Palmer ‘bankrupting’ the state, but a costly legal battle now looms – ABC
- TikTok won’t be banned in Australia after the government deemed it does not pose a national security threat – Business Insider
- Victorian man in his 20s becomes youngest Australian COVID victim – 7 News
- Early and mid-career scientists face a bleak future in the wake of the pandemic – The Conversation
- Australian government spends almost $3m waging ‘war’ on whistleblowers in court – The Guardian
- Time to pick winners: Business Council of Australia says new approach needed to end recession – The Age
- High Court rules against union bid for more paid sick leave for shift workers – ABC
- Australian government acted with ‘hubris’ before Victoria’s aged care outbreak, inquiry told – The Guardian
- Coronavirus-hit Melbourne supermarket alarmed by silence from contact tracers – ABC
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13 new Covid-19 cases; 2 in Tokoroa; 12 linked to Auckland cluster – Interest.co.nz
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Housing market on a high with July’s sales at their highest level in 5 years – REINZ – Interest.co.nz
- House buyers still stretching their debt-to-income levels further – Interest.co.nz