Today’s Issue Cluster: US Health Insurance
US – More Young Adults Now Live With Parents Than Partners
Cigs – Tax rates on roll-your-own tobacco and pipe tobacco diverge
Oil – Militants again blowing up Nigeria’s pipelines
US – Apr: Capital Goods Orders Fall; non-defense -0.8%, total +3.4% / B / WSJ
US – Apr: NAR pending home sales surge to a 10-year high; +5.1% / MW
US – Week: Jobless claims fall; -10k to 268k / R / WSJ
World – Half Embrace Bull Market on Fed-Fueled Rally B *
US – US productivity slips for first time in three decades FT *
US – Household borrowing nears precrisis peaks WSJ *
US – Consumer Reliance on Credit Cards Reaches New Low / B *
US – Big Banks Ladle On the Risk WSJ *
US – Chinese Investors Pour Money In WSJ
US – More Young Adults Now Live With Parents Than Partners B *
Cigs – Smoking drop correlates with rise of obesity wapo *
Cigs – Tax rates on roll-your-own tobacco and pipe tobacco diverge mr *
Cigs – UK dull packaging will not end strong returns FT *
Cigs – Soaring Tobacco Prompts Calpers to Reconsider Strategy WSJ *
Cigs – Indian Firms Halt Output as They Fight New Warning Labels WSJ
Chemicals – Bayer’s Room to Raise Monsanto Bid Looks Limited WSJ
Chemicals – Bayer courts environmental bogeyman FT * *
TPP – Obama Reasserts Hope for Passage This Year WSJ
TPP – Ten Winning and Losing Industries WSJ
TPP – Trade pitch turns Obama into salesman for Vietnam shoes McC
Oil – Breaks through $50 for first time in 2016 FT / R *
Oil – What Comes After $50 WSJ *
Oil – Militants again blowing up Nigeria’s pipelines B *
Oil – Iran’s Deals Hit Banking Snag WSJ *
Oil – Iraq struggles to match January’s record production FT
Oil – Opec’s Ability to Ease A Supply Shock is Now Fading WSJ *
Insurance – Companies Seek Big Premium Boosts WSJ *
Insurance – Companies Struggle to Offset New Costs WSJ
Insurance – Aetna Not Withdrawing From Any Exchange States WSJ
Insurance – Options Dwindle in Some Rural Regions WSJ *
Insurance – CO Weighs Universal Coverage NYT
Insurance – Obama Wrongly Repaying Funds to Insurers, Judge Says WSJ / NYT / R / NYT
57% of Homes in SF are Worth Over $1m vc *
