Today\u2019s Issue Cluster: US Health Insurance<\/p>\n MAJOR DATA POINTS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n US – Jun: Case-Shiller Home Prices Continued Strong Gains; +5.1% from +5.3% \/ R<\/a> \/ WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n US – Aug: ConfBd Consumer confidence rises; 101.1 from 97.3 \/ CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n EZ – Aug: Business Climate indicator at lowest since Oct’13; 0.02 from 0.38 \/ FT<\/a> MARKETS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n ECONOMICS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n MENA – Arab youth: Look forward in anger E<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Tunisia – Isis terror drives tourists away FT<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Egypt – A Black Market Emerges for Dollars WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Egypt – Economy: State of denial E<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Saudi – The soft pinch of austerity could backfire B<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Iraq – Some International Companies Cautiously Return WSJ<\/a> *<\/a> POLITICS & FISCAL POLICY<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n MONETARY POLICY<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n FINANCE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n 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 TRADE & TRANSPORTATION<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Ship – At Ports, a Sign of Altered Supply Chains WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Ship – Pirate attacks fall to 21-year low FT<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Ship – LA area Port Traffic Flat \/ CR<\/a> *<\/a> COMMODITIES<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Crops – Wheat price falls to lowest level in a decade FT<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Crops – Tour Finds Record Corn, Soy on Trek Across Midwest B<\/a> *<\/a> ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Oil – Market: Discoveries at a 70-Year Low B<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Oil – North Sea: Statoil makes flagship project profitable at $25 FT<\/a> \/ WSJ<\/a> HEALTH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Exchange sign-ups fall far short of forecasts WaPo<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – States Start to Approve Steep Increases in Premiums WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Obama Makes New Push to Boost Health Care Act NYT<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Obamacare Is a Money-Loser for Insurers, Who Are Giving Up BW<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – In Many Parts of Country, Only One Option Will Remain nyt<\/a> \/ Hill<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Pullback Threatens to Create Monopolies WSJ<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – 2017 vs 2016 \/ mckinsey<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – A tough run for Obamacare bi<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Problems turn critical FT<\/a> \/ nyt<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Some Small Businesses Restore Group Coverage WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n Insurance – Burden of Health-Care Costs Moves to the Middle Class WSJ<\/a> *<\/a> *<\/a> ENDNOTE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Do Newly Built Skyscrapers Signal The Top of the Stock Market? vc<\/a> *<\/a> Today\u2019s Issue Cluster: US Health Insurance MAJOR DATA POINTS US – Jun: Case-Shiller Home Prices Continued Strong Gains; +5.1% from +5.3% \/ R \/ WSJ US – Aug: ConfBd Consumer confidence rises; 101.1 from 97.3 \/ CNBC EZ – Aug: Business Climate indicator at lowest since Oct’13; 0.02 from 0.38 \/ FT MARKETS ECONOMICS MENA […]<\/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\/59088"}],"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=59088"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59105,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59088\/revisions\/59105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bznwz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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