Today’s Issue Cluster: Africa
Online – CBS to Offer Stand-Alone Web Subscription Service
US – Auto Loans: A Subprime Market Grows in the Shadows
Coffee – ICE arabica falls on forecast for rain in Brazil
EU – Sep: Inflation Falls to Five-Year Low; 0.4% from 0.5% / WSJ *
US – Sep: Industrial Output Rises by Most Since November 2012; +1.0% from -0.2% / B / WSJ / R / cr *
US – Oct: Philly Fed shows manufacturers still growing; 20.7 from 22.5 / R *
US – Oct: NAHB Home-Builder Confidence Fell; 54 from 59 / WSJ / b *
US – Week: Jobless claims fall to lowest level in 14 years; -23k to 264k / R / WSJ / B / FT / AP *
Stocks – Bulls run for the exit FT * *
Stocks – After QE: Taking off the stabilisers FT *
Africa – Ebola impact an ‘economic embargo’: Sierra Leone AFP / wapo / wsj / nyt / Ind
Africa – Ebola escalation could trigger major food crisis AP
Africa – Lighting a dark continent E *
Africa – China still trumps the competition FT
Africa – China’s French graduates swap government jobs for adventure FT *
South Africa – Booming film industry boosts economy FT *
Mozambique – Former rebel closes in on favourite in poll race FT * *
Ivory Coast – Adds to rising flow of debt from ‘frontier markets’ FT * *
Nigeria – “Megachurches”: a hidden pillar of Africa’s top economy R
Nigeria – The other caliphate: Boko Haram taking territory E *
Ukraine – Sanctions noose begins to tighten on sanguine Russia FT
Ukraine – Russia’s defence budget hit by slowdown FT * * *
Ukraine – Fears frozen conflict could yield winter energy crisis FT / AFP
Fed – Economy growing at modest to moderate pace R / WSJ / B / AP
Fed – Rate expectations change faster than the data FT *
Fed – Slowing China Could Give Chills WSJ / AP *
Fed – QE worked in defiance of theory FT * *
Fed – Are Doves Mucking Unemployment Estimates? cfr *
US – Market Tumult Squeezes Big Banks WSJ * *
US – Auto Loans: A Subprime Market Grows in the Shadows BW *
US – ‘Wal-Mart Banking Makes A Lot Of Sense’ 538 * *
Retail – Sales Falter Amid Signs of Global Slowdown WSJ *
Retail – Department stores fight back from online challenge R
Retail – Wal-Mart to Shift Spending Away From Big Stores WSJ / NYT / B
Retail – Homegrown firms rule the roost in China CD *
Online – HBO to Launch Stand-Alone Streaming Service WSJ / R / NYT / FT / WSJ *
Online – CBS to Offer Stand-Alone Web Subscription Service NYT
Online – The Cable Bundle Is Slowly Coming Apart a *
Online – Netflix Reports Disappointing Number of New Users WSJ / B / FT / R *
Sugar – Brussels lifts production quotas FT *
Coffee – ICE arabica falls on forecast for rain in Brazil R *
Tea – Indian producer sees drop in output due to erratic rainfall R *
Oil – Global Glut Sends Prices Plunging WSJ *
Oil – Winners and losers from plunge FT / NYT / FT / NYT
Oil – US output cuts could take a while R / B / B
Oil – Price Slump Is Double-Edged Sword for Asia WSJ * * *
Ebola – New Cases May Rise to 10k a Week by December WSJ / FT *
Ebola – Containment methods hurriedly exported worldwide FT
Ebola – China sends thousands of doses of jk-05 drug to Africa FT
Every Single Device Connected to the Internet time *
