Today’s Issue Cluster: Nuclear
Commods – Set to break into bull market after four-year rout
World – OECD Blasts the Slipping Into ‘Low-Growth Trap’
Zika – Kill All the Mosquitoes?
EZ – Q1: Grows Faster on Consumption; +0.6% from +0.5% / B
US – Q1: Productivity contraction less severe; -0.6% was -1.0% / R / WSJ
Commods – Set to break into bull market after four-year rout B *
Commods – Beating global bonds and stocks in 2016 FT * *
World – OECD Blasts the Slipping Into ‘Low-Growth Trap’ B *
RBA – Aussie economy keeps policy in limbo for now B *
Australia – Macquarie is now NA’s third-largest trader of natgas WSJ *
Australia – The Next Big Housing Short WSJ *
World – Concerns mounting of another price bubble FT *
World – Lopsided Market for Luxury Properties / vc *
TVs – Samsung Adds More Ads WSJ
TVs – Hisense Targets American Market With Mexican Factory WSJ *
Nuclear – Gains Support as Clean Energy Source NYT
Nuclear – Could Be Best Bet to Combat Climate Change sciam
Nuclear – Finland raises its bet FT *
Nuclear – China to Develop Floating Power Plants NYT
Nuclear – Casualties of the Shale Boom Are Mounting B * *
Nuclear – Output to Decline / b *
Nuclear – German utilities told to pay €23b to clean-up FT
Nuclear – Reactor clean-up weighs on EDF FT / BW / FT * *
Nuclear – Hinkley Point shambles highlights flaws of UK policy E *
Nuclear – Opposition Means Clean Energy Overall is on the Decline epi * *
Zika – Draws US Researchers Into a Race for Understanding WSJ *
Zika – May increase economic risks, industrial costs B * *
Zika – Drugmakers rushed into Ebola work, only to see outbreak wane B
Zika – Trying to get jump on preparations with money in limbo AP / NYT *
Zika – Tropical Mosquitoes Gain Foothold in Northern Europe S *
Zika – First death in France’s Martinique AFP *
Zika – Study Sees Way to Limit Spread of Virus WSJ / WSJ *
Zika – Spread of Virus by Country (1947 to May 2016) maptitude *
Zika – Kill All the Mosquitoes?! Smithsonian *
Photos taken by locals and tourists in Sydney motw *
