Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis unsettled investors who were already on edge ahead of the November election – Daily NY
- In September, OPEC recorded an increase in oil production of 160,000 barrels per day – Business Devilhunter
- Pope: Market capitalism has failed in pandemic, needs reform – AP News
- Airbnb aims to raise roughly $3 billion in IPO – Reuters
- H&M is closing 250 stores amid coronavirus pandemic – ABC News
Americas:
- The U.S. has $64 trillion in consumer, business and government debt—which can drag down an economic recovery. – WSJ
- Trump’s tax returns hint of possible legal problems – VOX
- Brazil economy outshines Mexico after surprise role reversal – Aljazeera
- Number of unemployed people classified as permanently losing their old jobs climbed to 3.8 million – Daily NY
- The Pandemic Recession Has Just Begun – NY Times
- Nearly 4 million US jobs have vanished forever – CNN
- Job Gains Are Waning, a Blow to Economic Recovery – NY Times
Europe:
- Belarus: 100,000 take to the streets to protest against Lukashenko – Euro News
- UK’s Johnson doesn’t want a no-deal Brexit but can live with it – Reuters
- Turkey’s Drones Are Coming In All Sizes These Days – Forbes
- New Caledonia rejects independence from France for second time – The Guardian
- MS Estonia: Europe’s worst shipping disaster ’caused by Baltic submarine collision’ – Euro News
- Coronavirus: Paris to shut bars and raise alert to maximum – BBC
Asia:
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- Japan’s Sony and Kioxia seeking US approval to supply to Huawei: Report – Channel News Asia
- China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims sparks anger near new embassy site in London – CNN
- Chinese firm refuses to honour pact on sharing Covid-19 vaccine tech with Bangladesh – Economic Times
- China’s War on Uighur Culture – The Atlantic
- Merkel warns China to do more to open up or risk EU restrictions – SCMP
- China is winning the war for global tech dominance – The Hill
Trans-Tasman:
- Smaller Government has failed, but let’s cut taxes anyway – The Age
- Tudge dismisses judge’s description of ‘criminal’ conduct as ‘commentary’ – ABC
- Australia’s ‘no jab, no pay’ rule has little effect on anti-vaxxer parents – The Guardian
- Spies, abduction, poison… it’s a story with the lot, so why is it unloved by the media? – Crikey
- All Victorian school students to return to classroom learning this month – ABC
- Brett Sutton says it’s ‘line ball’ whether Melbourne Covid restrictions will be eased in two weeks – The Guardian
- COVID-19 benefit payments spent on poker machines as gambling hits record high in Queensland – ABC
- Centre Alliance holds the cards on university funding bill, adding new demands – The Guardian
- Budget numbers based on a COVID vaccine that might never come – New Daily
- NBN backflip: Copper was always going to be a losing bet – New Daily
- National campaigns on progressive home ownership for state housing tenants – Interest.co.nz
- The housing market is booming and first home buyers appear to be the main beneficiaries – Interest.co.nz
- Auckland to move to Level 1 on Wednesday – Interest.co.nz
- The conversation on migration we should be having now – Interest.co.nz