Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- UN: Covid jobs crisis ‘most severe’ since the 1930s – BBC
- BlackBerry says unaware of reason for stock price surge – Reuters
- Google workers across the globe announce international union alliance to hold Alphabet accountable – The Verge
- US Stock Market: Signs Of Bubbles – Christophe Barraud
- Netflix still several steps ahead in strategy for wooing subscribers – The Guardian
- Why Big Companies Buy Small Ones – Medium
- Big Oil hits brakes on search for new fossil fuels – Reuters
- Job losses from virus 4 times as bad as ’09 financial crisis – AP News
Americas:
- Biden pushes ‘Buy American’ goal to order the government to buy more U.S. goods and create new technologies – CNBC
- Amazon and Facebook set records in annual spending lobbying Washington amid scrutiny – Mazech
- Janet Yellen gets Senate confirmation as first woman to lead the Treasury Department – CNBC
- ‘There’s a red flag here’: how an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a US village–like many others around the United States, turns corn into biofuel – The Guardian
- US Giant Merck Ends Covid Vaccine After Poor Response – NDTV
- How Biden’s Keystone XL pipeline executive order affects American jobs – Politifact
Europe:
- 5 things to know about the EU’s new Google cases – Politico
- Italy consumer association sues Apple for planned iPhone obsolescence – Reuters
- Europe’s ‘long-Covid’ economic frailty – Social Europe
- Digital euro’s ‘moment of truth’ to come in April – Euractiv
- ‘Gas is over’, EU bank chief says – Euractiv
- What do vaccination passports mean for Europe? – Bruegel
Asia:
- China, New Zealand sign protocol to upgrade free trade deal – CGTN
- China takes new foreign investment top spot from US – BBC
- Foreign companies are giving up on the United States and betting big on China, report says – CNN
- Tokyo’s apartment prices rise to near bubble-era high in 2020 — Edge Markets
- China’s century: Yuan to dethrone US dollar as major global currency – RT
- China’s Economy Overtaking the U.S. Will Be Harder Than It Looks – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- ASIC Servers Cyber Attack Confirmed by Overseer – Forex Review
- Australian billionaires’ fortunes increase amid pandemic as poor get poorer – ABC
- Tasmanian sexual assault survivor Grace Tame named 2021 Australian of the Year – The Guardian
- ‘I lost my virginity to a paedophile’: Australian of the Year’s powerful speech – Stuff
- Coalition targets bushfire recovery funds for Coalition seats – Michael West
- Despite ‘social cohesion’ campaign, Coalition interested in dividing Australians, Labor says – The Guardian
- Australia at risk of losing billions of dollars in revenue without cultural shift to re-use – The Guardian
- Jacinda Ardern ‘disappointed’ with Morrison’s decision to close border to NZ – The Guardian
- Anthony Albanese signals possible return to Labor’s 2019 workplace policies – The Guardian
- Australia calls for ‘restraint and peace’ as Chinese military escalates Taiwan incursions – The SMH
- Australia ‘frustrates the hell’ out of Xi Jinping with massive trade surplus – New Daily
- As heatwaves become more extreme, which jobs are riskiest? – The Conversation
- RBNZ ‘to end QE by June – OCR of 1% by 2023’ – Interest.co.nz
- Falling interest rates a savage kick in the guts for first home buyers while existing home owners laugh all the way to the bank – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ should ‘adjust risk weightings on home loans’ – Interest.co.nz
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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