Bit of a slow start to the Easter break.. I’ll be adding more links over the break.
From the team at MB to you and yours , Happy Easter ! We hope the short break treats you well.
It would appear now that the rest of Australia is finally waking up to what MB has been warning about for a number of years, so it will be very interesting to see just how different the media,political and economic landscape looks by this time next year.
In the meantime … the links.
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Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why Did Commodity Prices Move Together? – Naked Cap
- What If An Oil Rebound Never Comes? – OilPrice
- Larry Summers and Ben Bernanke are having the most important blog fight ever – WaPO
- Traders Are Now Expecting the Fed to Raise Rates Later Than Ever Before – Bloomberg
- Wall Street trader makes $2.4M — thanks to a tweet – NY Post
North America:
- Obama Expands Options for Retaliating Against Foreign Hackers – NYT
- US corporate backlash hits religious freedom bills – FT
- Brown Orders Mandatory Water Curbs for California Drought – Bloomberg
- Americans Can’t Stand Their Bosses, and Bosses Admit They’re Phoning it in – Bloomberg
- Unemployment steady at 5.5% in March, to reach 4.7% by September – Brookings
- S&P Doubles Its CMBS Ratings Business After SEC Bans It From Market – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Greece Throws Away One of Its Eurogroup Memo Wins, Submits Reforms Reaching Up to a 3.9% Fiscal Surplus – Naked Cap
- EU Prepares Google Antitrust Charges -Wall Street Journal
- European banking supervisor should limit banks’ exposure to all eurozone governments, not just Greece -Bruegel
- Reading the ECB runes -Reuters
- Poor and under pressure: the social impact of Europe’s fiscal consolidation – Bruegel
- Sweden is about to add a gender-neutral pronoun to its official dictionary – Washington Post
- Updated reform list still not enough to unlock aid -Ekathimerini
- Greece sends new reform list to eurozone – FT
- Greek defiance mounts as Alexis Tsipras turns to Russia and China – Ambrose
- Greece draws up drachma plans, prepares to miss IMF payment – The Telegraph
- Norway Reverts to Cold War Mode as Russian Air Patrols Spike – New York Times
Asia:
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- Japan on Brink of Another GDP Contraction – WSJ Japan Real Time
- Yemen crisis: Rebels storm presidential palace in Aden – BBC
- China approves 30 new IPOs to cool red-hot stock market – Reuters
- BMW, Mercedes grapple with unauthorized exports from U.S. to China – Reuters
- China knocking on door of IMF’s major league, U.S. wavers – Reuters
Local:
- Triple-A credit rating warning – TheOz
- BHP, Rio shares hit as iron ore freefall continues – SMH
- Iron ore seen sliding to low $US40s in weeks – Business Day
- ‘Tide is turning’ for mining stocks – SMH
- Life insurance industry failing to heal – SMH
- Largesse for rich pensioners under review – SMH
- Rio worried about Ranger uranium mine – AFR
- Goyder admits Coles’ conduct ‘morally indefensible’ – AFR
- Super, negative gearing on tax table – AFR
- Penfolds going cheap in China – for now – SMH
- Retirees face new asset tests – TheOz
- Super talk splits Libs – TheOz
- Iron ore price plunge hits budget – TheOz
Other:
- Mice sing just like birds, but we can’t hear them – Washington Post
- iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch – Wired
- Wally Wins A Nobel For Economics – Dilbert
- Big bank brokers use decoys, spy tactics to go alone – Reuters