Today’s Issue Cluster: UK Real Estate
EMs – Currencies Extend Best Month in 18 Years on Fed
Pot – US industry poised for major expansion
Pharma – Hot Drugs Show Sharp Price Hikes in Shadow Market
Japan – Feb: Factory output falls at worst pace since 2011; -6.2% / AFP
US – Mar: ADP above economists’ expectations; +200k from +205k / R / WSJ
EMs – Currencies Extend Best Month in 18 Years on Fed B *
EMs – Portfolio flows hit 21-month high FT *
World – Has the recession ended? GDP per capita change from 2008 to 2015 / reddit *
World – Raining money to spur the economy? Not as crazy as it sounds AP / t *
UK – Regions Lead House Prices Higher B *
UK – Housing ladder loses two rungs FT *
UK – Construction shrinks more than expected FT *
UK – Economic uncertainty hits construction industry FT *
UK – London Developers Finding Costliest Apartments Harder to Sell B / FT *
UK – Investor appetite for London luxury flats ebbs FT *
UK – Housebuilders under fire for slow pace of construction FT
UK – Average home costs £.5m in half of London postcodes FT / FT *
UK – Flight of the non-doms? FT *
UK – House price/earnings ratio / r *
UK – London’s Commercial Property Market Is Offering Rare Bargains WSJ *
UK – Property trusts suffer steepest fall in five years FT * *
Pot – US industry poised for major expansion AFP
Pot – Starting Off Even Better in OR & WA Than It Did In CO B *
PCs – Apple Is Missing a Golden Opportunity WSJ
PCs – HP targets Apple’s share of premium laptops market FT
PCs – Sales Drop to Historic Lows WSJ / st *
PCs – Microsoft Is Pulling the Plug on Windows 8 st *
Pharma – Chinese Market Offers New Life to Many Drugs WSJ *
Pharma – India’s Drugmakers Step Up US Investment WSJ *
Pharma – Hot Drugs Show Sharp Price Hikes in Shadow Market B *
Pharma – Price of branded prescription drugs in the US doubles FT *
Pharma – Bristol-Myers Bucks Trend Toward Precision Medicine WSJ *
Most attractive and ugliest accents in the UK + Ireland reddit *
