Today’s Issue Cluster: Oil
US – Government Shows Growth, After Years of Shrinking
Ebola – Hospitals bleed money as they fight virus
Online – Shoppers Prefer Buying on PCs Over Mobile Devices
EZ – Sep: Industrial Output Points to Weak Q3 Growth; +0.6% from -1.4% / WSJ *
US – Sep: Wholesale inventories rose; +0.3% from +0.6% / R *
US – Predictors of ’29 Crash See 65% Chance of 2015 Recession B
US – What Falling Exports Mean for Economic Growth wsj *
US – Why Rising Rents Haven’t Pumped Up Inflation wsj *
US – Corporate America starts to spend again FT
US – Government Shows Growth, After Years of Shrinking NYT
US – Democrats battled sour economic mood / FT *
US – State Coincident Indexes increased in 43 states / cr * *
US – Fewer Families Lack Bank Accounts WSJ *
US – Younger Generation Faces a Savings Deficit WSJ *
US – One Lesson People Increasingly Learn in College: Saving wsj * *
US – Commercial property prices reach new high FT
US – Fannie, Freddie to send $6.8b to Treasury R / WSJ / NYT *
Online – Republicans signal demise of internet sales tax bill FT / WSJ
Online – Shoppers Prefer Buying on PCs Over Mobile Devices wsj *
Online – ‘Amazon isn’t a monopoly; it’s a behemoth fighting for its life’ a * *
Online – Alibaba breaks records FT / WSJ / R / NYT / B
Online – Customers’ desire for quality boosts shopping CD *
Telecoms – Obama Net-Neutrality Stance May Spur Fight With GOP WSJ / NYT
Telecoms – AT&T suspends superfast broadband plans FT
Telecoms – Did Verizon’s Net Neutrality Win Backfire? WSJ
Telecoms – Fears raised over Comcast’s TWC bid FT
Telecoms – European groups enjoy strong run of results FT
Telecoms – Vodafone to battle for dominance of UK residential broadband FT / FT *
Pipeline – TransCanada Files Application for C$12b Energy East Project WSJ
Pipeline – Trans Mountain expansion would be of less benefit to BC CP / G&M *
Pipeline – Enbridge Says Design is Safe CP / G&M *
Pipeline – Mergers Have Risen as Oil, Gas Production Has Surged / B *
Crops – Sugar: Price Surge Follows Brazil Output Drop WSJ *
Crops – Potatoes: Genetically Modified Version Is Approved by USDA NYT / WSJ *
Oil – OPEC Says Output Fell Sharply WSJ
Oil – Analysts sceptical Opec will halt fall in prices FT
Oil – Don’t panic, situation will fix itself: OPEC R / B *
Oil – OPEC has to cut—but it won’t q *
Oil – Price of crude: how low can it go? FT *
Oil – Transocean warns of offshore oil downturn FT
Oil – G20 states spend $88b in exploration subsidies AFP *
Oil – China Has Refined Taste WSJ / B *
Oil – IEA warns low prices threaten US shale investment FT / B / r *
Oil – US shale pioneers circle the wagons FT * *
Oil – US fracking firms stay in top gear despite oil price slump R / IBD
Oil – UK Plans for Future of Shale NYT
Oil – Cheaper Price Lifts Airlines, Other Industries WSJ / FT *
Ebola – NY doctor cleared, which means no known cases in US WaPo
Ebola – Hospitals bleed money as they fight virus crain’s
MERS – Virus Case Is Reported in Turkey NYT
HIV – Progress against Aids spurs GSK plan to float ViiV Healthcare FT *
Polio – The battle in Pakistan AFP *
TB – Multi-drug resistance / AFP *
Pandemics – G20 to consider plans to create fighting fund FT * *
The deadliest infectious disease by region gp*
