Today’s Issue Cluster: US Insurance
Africa – $30b Rail Renaissance Holds Ticket for Trade
Pot – Legalization in New England Is Stalled by Opiate Crisis
PCs – Global Market Shrinking Further
US – Mar: Existing Home Sales UpL +5.1% from -7.3% / WSJ / R / AP
Africa – Discovers the downside of foreign borrowing E *
Africa – For outsiders in particular, investing is strewn with hurdles E *
Africa – GDP growth sliding towards 17-year low FT *
Africa – Market of 1.2b people still holds huge promise E *
Africa – The middle class: A matter of definition E *
Africa – Trade suffers from dismal infrastructure E * *
Africa – Manufacturing: Not making it E *
Africa – $30b Rail Renaissance Holds Ticket for Trade B *
Africa – Food Costs Soar Amid Worst Drought in Decades B *
Africa – Farms are prospering E * * *
Africa – Big Men Are Reverting to Type B *
Africa – Much hangs on mobile money E *
Africa – Cement industry is expanding fast B *
Pot – Big Tobacco’s Pot of Gold b *
Pot – Legalization in New England Is Stalled by Opiate Crisis NYT
Pot – In CA, Marijuana Is Smelling More Like Big Business NYT
Pot – Wall Street banks not willing to go long the bong FT
Pot – World split in fight over drugs FT
PCs – Intel Cuts 12k Jobs B / WSJ / FT * *
PCs – Global Market Shrinking Further statista *
PCs – How Thin, Pricey Laptops Compute WSJ *
Insurance – UnitedHealth quits most ACA exchanges NYT / FT / WSJ / WSJ *
Insurance – Companies warn ACA losses are unsustainable Hill
Insurance – The short and chaotic life of an ACA darling Crain’s
Insurance – ACA Enrollee Spending Is Increasing WSJ
Insurance – Sales of Short-Term Policies Surge WSJ
Insurance – Immigrants, the Poor and Minorities Gain Under ACA NYT *
Americans stand out on religiosity pew *
