Today’s Issue Cluster: Oil
Bonds – Yields Buoyed Around Globe as Fed Rate-Boost Odds Beat 50%
US – The South Rises: Regional Banks Gain; Giants Struggle
Cybersecurity – Pentagon Farmed Out Its Coding to Russia
Germany – Sep: Factory orders drop 3rd month; -1.7% from -1.8% / AP / AFP / B *
US – Q3: Productivity Rises at Modest Rate; +1.6% from +3.5% / WSJ / R / AP / B
US – Week: Jobless claims post largest increase since February; +16k to 276k / R / WSJ / AP / B
Bonds – Yields Buoyed Around Globe as Fed Rate-Boost Odds Beat 50% B *
Bonds – Munis Shine in Bleak Landscape WSJ * *
Bonds – US Corporate Market Booms WSJ *
Fed – Yellen Signals December Increase NYT / FT / WSJ / AP / R / B
US – The South Rises: Regional Banks Gain; Giants Struggle IBD
Germany – Battered Regional Lenders Tiptoe Back Into Risk WSJ
HigherEd – Shrinking Financial Aid Curbs Tuition Increases WSJ
HigherEd – Liberal Arts Students Earn Less WSJ *
Media – Axel Springer sees early success in countering adblockers R / FT
Media – UK’s biggest-selling newspaper to take down paywall R / FT
Cybersecurity – US Detects Flurry of Iranian Hacking WSJ
Cybersecurity – Pentagon Farmed Out Its Coding to Russia DB
Cybersecurity – Businesses braced for bout of regulation FT * *
Cybersecurity – Senate Passes Legislation WSJ / FT
Cybersecurity – Old Internet Flaw Causes New Problems WSJ *
Cybersecurity – US Firms Fight Global Deal WSJ
Ship – Glut of container capacity torpedoes shipping fees N
Ship – Maersk to Cut 4k Jobs as Market Deteriorates WSJ *
Oil – Gasoline Could Be Even Cheaper WSJ *
Oil – Will Struggle to Break Past $60 in 2016 WSJ *
Oil – Producers Curb Megaproject Ambitions to Focus on US Shale B
Oil – In West Texas, Drillers Keep Pumping WSJ / WSJ *
Oil – Shell Has Biggest Loss in More Than a Decade B / FT / ft * * *
Oil – Brazil strike cuts output up to 13% R
Oil – Pakistani broker fuels Iraqi Kurdistan exports FT * *
Oil – Don’t Look to China for Rebound WSJ *
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