Today’s Issue Cluster: Alternative Energy
Fed – Not June, Not Likely July, More Likely September
US – Running Out of Workers to Fill Open Jobs?
US/Canada – Lumber talks stalled, litigation looms
EZ – Apr: Industrial Output Rebounds; +1.1%, +2.0% yr / WSJ *
US – May: Retail Sales Rose; +0.5% from +1.3% / WSJ
US – May: Import Prices Rise Fastest Since 2012; +1.4% from +0.7% / WSJ / R
US – Apr: Business inventories barely rose; +0.1% from +0.3% / R
Bitcoin – Price Hits Two-Year High WSJ *
Bitcoin – Resurgence may be short-lived E *
US – A lot of economic data still flashing green r *
US – When barometers go wrong E * *
US – Odds of recession up to 36% after job report / jpm *
US – Aren’t Buying More Abroad Despite the Dollar’s Surge B *
US – Investors in capital-intensive sectors will hope data are misleading FT *
Fed – Not June, Not Likely July, More Likely September B *
Fed – Economists See Two 2016 Rate Hikes B *
Fed – Concerns over US labour market weigh on next move FT / B * *
Fed – Wrestles With So-Called Natural Rate WSJ *
US – Top Republican outlines plans to rip up Dodd-Frank FT / WSJ / NYT
US – Builders Fail to Profit From Slump in Raw Materials Prices WSJ *
US – CoreLogic House Prices Up 6.2% / cr *
US – May Was a Renter’s Market for Manhattan Apartment Seekers / B *
US – Dodge Index for Commercial Real Estate Up 2.4% / cr *
US – Where Are the Warehouses? / WSJ *
US – Running Out of Workers to Fill Open Jobs? B *
US/Canada – Lumber talks stalled, litigation looms R
Alt – Germany’s renewable energy reforms ‘a step backwards’ DW
Alt – Denmark Scares Off Investors After Energy Agenda Is Jettisoned B *
Alt – Solar Panel Leasing Decreases as More Customers Look to Buy WSJ / B *
Alt – Solar battery makers eye take-off as prices fall R
Alt – Solar Is the Fastest-Growing Energy B * *
Alt – The World’s Largest Solar Plant Just Torched Itself giz *
Alt – Energy groups in pledge to slash cost of offshore wind farms FT *
Alt – Oil drilling technology could be used to harness wind B *
Alt – England not windy enough, admits wind industry chief DT
Alt – Big oil is dipping a few more toes into clean energy B *
Alt – Clean-Energy Jobs Surpass Oil Drilling for First Time in US / B *
Photos taken by locals and tourists in DC motw *