Macro & Markets
- Copper on course to notch seven-year high as Goldman calls bull market – FT
- The coronavirus pandemic has translated into a decade’s worth of growth for e-commerce – IBT
- Leaked documents reveal China severely underreported coronavirus cases as the pandemic spread – Business Insider
- Fears grow over mysterious, massive Chinese fishing fleet near the Galapagos Islands – Observers
Americas
- US economy needs a booster shot of stimulus – Project Syndicate
- Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high under President Bolsonaro – Skynews
- Canada plans digital tax in 2022 on global tech giants such as Facebook, Google – Reuters
- Sean Hannity makes bold admission: ‘I don’t vet the information on this program’ – Yahoo (no surprise there, a liar without disguise!)
- Georgia reports more than 940,000 absentee ballot requests for Senate runoff – CNN
- ‘I’m Kinda Dumb’: Proud Boys Supporter’s Honest Interview Answers Go Viral – Newsweek
- This Country Can’t Survive If 43% of Us Live in Unreality – Esquire (a 2nd civil war?)
Asia
- China eyes Biden foreign policy team for trade talks – GlobalTimes
- Hong Kong takes aim at yacht parties in latest virus crackdown – Bloomberg
- China regulator says property ‘biggest grey rhino risk’ for financial system – SCMP News
- Hong Kong and Singapore delay their travel bubble beyond 2020 – Bloomberg
- Thailand Removes Cannabis from Narcotics List – Bangkok Herald
- A year after Wuhan alarm, China seeks to change Covid origin story – Guardian
Europe
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- European regulator to decide Dec. 29 on Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine – LA Times
- Emmanuel Macron’s government seeks to hold its line over police violence – Bloomberg
- Germany bans far-right, pro-Nazi group, police raid homes – AP
- French government drops draft law curbing filming of police officers – Reuters
Oceania
- APRA give Westpac a kick up the backside – AFR
- New Zealand is set to legalise pill testing ahead of this summer’s festival season – SBS
- ‘Catastrophic’ bushfire burns half of Queensland’s Fraser Island and threatens ecological disaster – The Guardian
- Global giant Unilever to trial four-day working week in NZ – NZ Herald
- Australia and the United States will jointly develop hypersonic cruise missiles, the Australian defence minister announced on Tuesday – AL Jazeera
- Taiwan foreign minister calls on Australia to help defend against China’s ‘expansionism’ – ABC
- Pacific leaders condemn Australia’s ‘weak’ climate target in open letter to Scott Morrison – Guardian
- “Mind-boggling” waste revealed in the record rise in weapons spending – Michael West
…and furthermore…