Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why the supply of electric vehicle nickel is so constrained – Kitco
- WeWork may end up being the Napster of the post-pandemic economy – Bloomberg
- IEA says oil demand recovery set to slow for rest of 2020 – Reuters
- Small cap stocks post biggest single day jump in six years – India Narrative
- Coronavirus Hit World Economies 4 Times Harder In Q2 Than The Great Recession – IB Times
Americas:
- Fed warnings on economy fail to resonate with Congress – The Hill
- More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers – Time
- Census: Median income hit record high in 2019 before the pandemic – CNN
- Trump alma mater says Biden plan would lead to more economic growth – CBS
- America’s wealthy likely to power pandemic-hit U.S. holiday sales: Deloitte – Reuters
Europe:
- UK unemployment is rising for the first time since the beginning of the blockade – Economic Daily
- Labor costs in the Eurozone rose in Q2 2020 – Finances Herald
- Germans in the lead, Europeans want to review their economic relationship with China – Business Devilhunter
- What’s next for Belarus? The fight against ‘Europe’s last dictator’ – City Falcon
- Coronavirus crisis will not change Germany’s fiscal discipline – Economo
Asia:
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- Rising government debt casts a shadow over Asia’s economic recovery – Economo
- China’s retail sales rise for the first time in 2020 – CNBC
- Hong Kong Bars, Theme Parks to Reopen as Mass Testing Wraps Up – Kyodo News
- US and UK warn travellers of risk of arbitrary arrest in China and Hong Kong – The Guardian
- China locks down city on Myanmar border over coronavirus – Advcocates OMI
- Xi rejected Trump’s offers of help early in Covid-19 outbreak: Woodward – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- The Federal Government wants its agencies to be able to share your personal information. Should you be worried? – ABC
- Property developer the only stakeholder to raise concerns about NSW koala policy – The SMH
- Coalition began writing landmark environment bill before receiving review it had ordered – The Guardian
- Labor accuses Australian universities of being ‘in cahoots’ with government over funding changes – The Guardian
- PM announced hotel quarantine program before it was endorsed by health chiefs, inquiry hears – The Age
- Overhaul of elite special forces being considered ahead of findings from war crimes inquiry – ABC
- No new cases of coronavirus recorded in Queensland as restrictions eased in some regions – ABC
- Scott Morrison’s power plan is nothing but a gas-fuelled calamity – The Guardian
- ‘Lift the cap’: States told to take more Aussies from overseas – The SMH
- Coalition’s next round of income tax cuts shown to benefit men twice as much as women – The Guardian
- ‘Gas-led recovery’ may actually deter energy investment: Experts – New Daily
- Treasury: Economic recovery (bar housing) to be slower than previously expected – Interest.co.nz
- Is remote work an answer to NZ’s poor productivity? – Interest.co.nz
- Big drop in the number of new homes completed in Auckland in July – Interest.co.nz