Today’s Issue Cluster: Telecoms
Mexico – Remittances Top Oil Income
Pot – Reeferegulatory challenge
Zika – UN: Stopping virus may require GM insects
Australia – Jan: Unemployment Spikes; 6.0% from 5.8% / B
Japan – Exports Drop Most Since 2009; -12.9% from -8.0% / B / FT
EZ – Dec: Current Account Surplus Declines; +€25b from +€27b / WSJ
US – Jan: Leading Indicators Fell for a Second Month; -0.2% from -0.3% / B
US – Week: Jobless claims fall; -7k to 262k / R / WSJ / AP
Venezuela – On collision course for default crisis FT / B / AP / FT *
Venezuela – Faces Test on Debt WSJ *
Argentina – Reaches Deal to Settle Bond Default Lawsuit WSJ / FT
Brazil – How low can Real go? FT * *
Mexico – Remittances Top Oil Income AP
Banxico – Mexico delivers unexpected rate rise with eye on inflation FT / AP *
Pot – Cannabis shifts from outlaw weed to mainstream commodity FT
Pot – As Sales Grow, Start-Ups Step In for Wary Banks NYT
Pot – Power Demands Tax US Electricity Grids B *
Pot – Reeferegulatory challenge E / e * * * *
Pot – The disjointed states of America e *
Telecoms – European towers find their range FT * *
Telecoms – Race Is On to Deliver Internet From Space WSJ
Telecoms – The Future of Public Wi-Fi FT *
Telecoms – T-Mobile US adds 1m lucrative customers FT *
Telecoms – More smartphone users to switch from talking to tapping FT *
Farms – US hit by dollar’s strength FT *
Farms – Banks Feel the Pain of Dairy Downturn WSJ *
Farms – UK prices head back to earth FT *
NatGas – Shale Gas Exports Near at Cheniere B *
NatGas – US exports start as overseas demand for LNG is slowing WSJ *
NatGas – Total Starts North Sea Project Despite Low Prices WSJ *
NatGas – Global market braced for price war FT * *
NatGas – As Ukraine Looks Elsewhere, Gazprom Sees No Let Up in Sales B / WSJ * * *
Zika – Threatens Brazil’s Olympic boost FT *
Zika – Birth Defects in Brazil May Be Over-Reported Amid Virus Fears NYT / R
Zika – New Study Links Virus to Microcephaly WSJ
Zika – Fighting the ‘Cockroach of Mosquitoes’ WSJ *
Zika – WHO Says Vaccines at Least 18 Months Away From Broad Trials WSJ / FT / NYT
Zika – UN: Stopping virus may require GM insects AP
World’s Stock Exchanges by Size vc *
