Today\u2019s Issue Cluster: Mobiles<\/p>\n MAJOR DATA POINTS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n SK – Q2: GDP growth quickens pace; +0.7% from +0.5% Q\/Q \/ FT<\/a><\/p>\n US – May: Case-Shiller Home Prices Maintained Strong Pace; +5.2% from +5.4% \/ WSJ<\/a> \/ R<\/a><\/p>\n US – Jun: New home sales at eight year high; +3.5% \/ R<\/a> \/ WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n US – Jul: ConfBd Consumer Confidence Virtually Unchanged; 97.3 from 97.4 \/ WSJ<\/a> MARKETS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n EMs – Stocks Become a Smart Bet in a Post-Brexit World B<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Africa – BRICs turning ugly? Consider CUTEs B<\/a> *<\/a> ECONOMICS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Africa – Oil and debt to define winners and losers B<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Africa – Has enterprising people, but too few businesses E<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Africa – Moving toward massive CFTA free trade agreement wapo<\/a><\/p>\n Nigeria – Traders ponder the naira free float that wasn\u2019t B<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Nigeria – A new \u201cfloating\u201d exchange rate was fixed E<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Nigeria – IMF forecasts Nigerian economy will contract by 1.8% FT<\/a> \/ B<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n South Africa – On track to avert junk status FT<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Zimbabwe – Closes in on IMF deal to clear debts FT<\/a> *<\/a> POLITICS & FISCAL POLICY<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Tanzania – New president shakes up \u2018sleeping giant\u2019 FT<\/a> *<\/a> MONETARY POLICY<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n FINANCE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Africa – Trouble is stalking many banks E<\/a> *<\/a> REAL ESTATE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n LABOR & EDUCATION<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n SERVICES<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n MANUFACTURING<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n TECH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Apple iPhone sales set to pass 1b milestone FT<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Analyst Downgrades Apple and Says It Has ‘Peaked’ B<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Apple\u2019s Longer iPhone Call WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Apple weathers anti-US demo in China R<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Apple\u2019s China Problem Is That Local Phones are Good, and Cheap B<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Chinese Company in Patent Dispute With Apple Barely Exists WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – China Smartphone Makers Snap Up Patents WSJ<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – India’s $4 smartphone rings alarm R<\/a> \/ FT<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Google Backs Chinese Smartwatch B<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Supply chain plagued by forced labor and armed militias WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Samsung gets smarter with phones strategy FT<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – Samsung Gets Ahead in Handsets by Not Phoning It In WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Mobiles – BlackBerry axes keyboards FT<\/a> *<\/a> TRADE & TRANSPORTATION<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n COMMODITIES<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Alt – Storage: Renewables Growth Revives Old Method WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Alt – Storage: Power stored by heavy rail cars pulled up a hill SciAm<\/a> \/ E<\/a> *<\/a> HEALTH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n ENDNOTE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Every mention of 2016 primary candidates in hip-hop songs 538<\/a> *<\/a> Today\u2019s Issue Cluster: Mobiles MAJOR DATA POINTS SK – Q2: GDP growth quickens pace; +0.7% from +0.5% Q\/Q \/ FT US – May: Case-Shiller Home Prices Maintained Strong Pace; +5.2% from +5.4% \/ WSJ \/ R US – Jun: New home sales at eight year high; +3.5% \/ R \/ WSJ US – Jul: ConfBd […]<\/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\/58618"}],"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=58618"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58642,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58618\/revisions\/58642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"