Today’s Issue Cluster: Shale
China – Nobody’s home in 10.2m apartments, survey finds
ECB – Readies package of rate cuts and targeted measures
China – Wheat-growing north produces individualists and its rice-growing south is clannish
EZ – Mar: Industrial Output Falters; -0.3%, -0.1% yr / WSJ / m *
UK – Q1: UK unemployment drops to 5 year low; 6.8% from 7.2% / AP / R / r *
US – Apr: Producer prices post largest gain in 1-1/2 years; +0.6% from +0.5% / R / WSJ / AP / B / r *
Mortgages – Bulls trample on quality of CMBS deals FT *
Mortgages – Worry Wanes About CMBS Reckoning WSJ *
Mortgages – US Backs Off Tight Mortgage Rules WSJ *
Australia – Debates Whether It Has a Debt Crisis WSJ *
Australia – Unveils austerity budget to tackle deficit FT / B * *
ECB – Readies package of rate cuts and targeted measures R / NYT / r *
ECB – Bundesbank Willing to Back Stimulus WSJ *
ECB – Draghi performs another euro conjuring trick FT *
US – Prosecutors push for $3.5bn BNP fine for violating sanctions FT / B / WSJ *
China – Property sector slowdown adds to fears FT / NYT / b *
China – Factories, electricity generators, cement kilns, all slowing / b *
China – Hangzhou offers window on to China’s property woes FT *
China – Central Bank Prods Lenders on Mortgages WSJ / B
China – Nobody’s home in 10.2m apartments, survey finds CD *
Google – Privacy ruling threatens shake-up FT / WSJ / NYT / R / B *
Rail – Where’s the Fertilizer? Some Farmers Grow Worried WSJ * *
Rail – Canadian Canola Farmers Feeling Crushed WSJ
Steel – US imports surge nearly 26 per cent in Q1 on shale boom FT / WSJ *
Steel – Are cheap imports killing American jobs? wapo * *
Shale – US reverses 40-year decline in crude oil output in just 5.5 years cd *
Shale – The Future of the U.S. Oil Boom Is Anyone’s Guess 538 *
Shale – Smaller Drillers With Tight Focus On Quality of Sites Appeal to Investors WSJ / WSJ *
Shale – EPA eyes new disclosure rules for fracking chemicals FT / WSJ *
Shale – Fracking Regulation bp *
Shale – Radioactive Waste Is New ND Problem WSJ
Shale – Deadly side effect to fracking boom AP
Shale – Ohio Geologists Link Fracking With Earthquakes WSJ *
Shale – Labor Shortage ‘Imperils Boom’ B
Shale – Mexico’s prospective boom will be a long time coming E *
Shale – North America leads in production, China in reserves N *
Shale – China Boom Seen by Honghua as Pollution Cuts Coal Use B
Shale – China Takes on Big Risks in Push NYT
Shale – Freedom to frack plan set to spark UK backlash FT / FT
Shale – Britain Confronts Gas Mother Lode With Fracking by Lord Browne B *
Alcohol – Kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide: WHO AFP / bi / e / afp * * *
Alcohol – Most dangerous drug cd * *
China’s wheat-growing north produces individualists and its rice-growing south is clannish SCMP *
