Today’s Issue Cluster: Virtual Reality
EMs – Flows surge in as investors bet on China and Brazil
Ship – Too Many Boats for Too Little Cargo
Water – Rain Finally Heading Toward California
US – Feb: Retail sales dip; -0.1% from -0.4% / R / WSJ
US – Feb: Producer Prices Fell; -0.2%; core flat / WSJ
US – Mar: NAHB Housing Index Holds; 58 from 58 / WSJ
EMs – Flows surge in as investors bet on China and Brazil FT *
EMs – Bond markets reopen for borrowers FT *
EMs – The Incredible Debt Switcheroo WSJ *
EMs – Questions over recent rally FT *
EMs – Currency Rally Is Too Good to Last WSJ *
EMs – Russia slides from technological superpower to also-ran FT *
World – Fears on downturn are overdone, say economists FT *
World – IMF GDP projections revised downwards / t *
Germany – Merkel vows to stay the course on refugees despite drubbing FT / WSJ / FT / WSJ / B * *
Germany – Migrant crisis dims once unassailable Merkel’s aura FT / WSJ / B *
Germany – Immune to Populist Right No More B *
Germany – Where refugees and asylum seekers are allocated / vow *
ECB – Inflation Target Draws Fire From All Sides WSJ *
ECB – Bundesbank Opposed Latest Stimulus WSJ *
ECB – Inflation forecasts have been revised down / b *
ECB – Rate Cuts Help Spanish Home-Buyers, Hurt Banks WSJ *
EU – ECB Woke Up to Banks’ Profits Nightmare WSJ *
EU – ECB’s Cheap Loans Highlight Rift Among Banks WSJ *
EU – Eurozone corporate bond sales heat up FT *
EU – Faces Pension Predicament WSJ WSJ *
EU – Eurozone equities recovery trails S&P 500 FT * *
EU – Euro forecasts torn up after whipsaw run FT *
VR – To Take Over Game Developers Conference WSJ / verge
VR – Hollywood looks to technology FT / AP * * * *
VR – Goldman Sachs Sees Huge Potential B * * * *
VR – Computing’s next big thing? B * *
Ship – Pressures Build in Oil-Shipping Business WSJ *
Ship – Size obsession could be ending, study finds FT *
Ship – Too Many Boats for Too Little Cargo B * *
Water – El Niño Still Clobbering Crops WSJ
Water – Rain Finally Heading Toward California B *
All the roads that lead to Rome moovellab *
