Today\u2019s Issue Cluster: US Health Insurance<\/p>\n US \u2013 More Young Adults Now Live With Parents Than Partners MAJOR DATA POINTS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n US – Apr: Capital Goods Orders Fall; non-defense -0.8%, total +3.4% \/ B<\/a> \/ WSJ<\/a> MARKETS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n World – Half Embrace Bull Market on Fed-Fueled Rally B<\/a> *<\/a> ECONOMICS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n US – US productivity slips for first time in three decades FT<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n US – Household borrowing nears precrisis peaks WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n US – Consumer Reliance on Credit Cards Reaches New Low \/ B<\/a> *<\/a> POLITICS & FISCAL POLICY<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n MONETARY POLICY<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n FINANCE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n US – Big Banks Ladle On the Risk WSJ<\/a> *<\/a> REAL ESTATE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n US – Chinese Investors Pour Money In WSJ<\/a> LABOR & EDUCATION<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n US – More Young Adults Now Live With Parents Than Partners B<\/a> *<\/a> SERVICES<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Cigs – Smoking drop correlates with rise of obesity wapo<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Cigs – Tax rates on roll-your-own tobacco and pipe tobacco diverge mr<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Cigs – UK dull packaging will not end strong returns FT<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Cigs – Soaring Tobacco Prompts Calpers to Reconsider Strategy WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Cigs – Indian Firms Halt Output as They Fight New Warning Labels WSJ<\/a> MANUFACTURING<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Chemicals – Bayer\u2019s Room to Raise Monsanto Bid Looks Limited WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n Chemicals – Bayer courts environmental bogeyman FT<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a> TECH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n TRADE & TRANSPORTATION<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n TPP – Obama Reasserts Hope for Passage This Year WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n TPP – Ten Winning and Losing Industries WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n TPP – Trade pitch turns Obama into salesman for Vietnam shoes McC<\/a> COMMODITIES<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Oil – Breaks through $50 for first time in 2016 FT<\/a> \/ R<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Oil – What Comes After $50 WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Oil – Militants again blowing up Nigeria\u2019s pipelines B<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Oil – Iran\u2019s Deals Hit Banking Snag WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Oil – Iraq struggles to match January\u2019s record production FT<\/a><\/p>\n Oil – Opec\u2019s Ability to Ease A Supply Shock is Now Fading WSJ<\/a> *<\/a> HEALTH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Companies Seek Big Premium Boosts WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Companies Struggle to Offset New Costs WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Aetna Not Withdrawing From Any Exchange States WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Options Dwindle in Some Rural Regions WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – CO Weighs Universal Coverage NYT<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Obama Wrongly Repaying Funds to Insurers, Judge Says WSJ<\/a> \/ NYT<\/a> \/ R<\/a> \/ NYT<\/a> ENDNOTE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n 57% of Homes in SF are Worth Over $1m vc<\/a> *<\/a> Today\u2019s Issue Cluster: US Health Insurance US \u2013 More Young Adults Now Live With Parents Than Partners Cigs \u2013 Tax rates on roll-your-own tobacco and pipe tobacco diverge Oil \u2013 Militants again blowing up Nigeria\u2019s pipelines MAJOR DATA POINTS US – Apr: Capital Goods Orders Fall; non-defense -0.8%, total +3.4% \/ B \/ WSJ US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57763"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57778,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57763\/revisions\/57778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nUS – Apr: NAR pending home sales surge to a 10-year high; +5.1% \/ MW<\/a>
\nUS – Week: Jobless claims fall; -10k to 268k \/ R<\/a> \/ WSJ<\/a>
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