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Sep 12 (Tuesday) Markets U.S. Stocks Climb to Record as Irma Threat Recedes: Markets Wrap (B) Dow Industrials Climb Back Above 22000 as Fears Ease (W) Risk Appetite Returns After Weekend’s Worst-Case Scenarios Are Averted (B) Commodities & currencies Hurricanes Add to Problems for Oil Bulls (W) The Dollar’s Weakness Is a Good-News Story About Global Growth (B) China to Shut Bitcoin Exchanges (W) Bitcoin Diehards Are Undeterred by China (B) US Which Came First, the Opioids or the Despair? (B) The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs (W) China China Pulls Back on Measures Aimed at Bolstering Currency (W) China Sends One of the West’s Most Critical Materials Soaring (B) US politics Inside the Government Program That Pays to Rebuild Areas Hit by Storms (W) Clinton Says Giving Paid Speeches to Wall Street Firms a Mistake (B) Geopolitics China’s biggest banks ban new North Korean accounts (FT) North Korea: U.S. Will Pay a Price if Tougher Sanctions Are Imposed (W) U.S. Waters Down North Korea Sanctions Draft Before Vote (B) Economic Sanctions Have Limited Reach (W) Industries & companies Autos: Toyota unlikely to launch another diesel car (FT) FANGs: Apple’s iPhone Event: What You Need to Know (W) FANGs: Amazon’s Big HQ2: A Sign of Hubris and Danger (W) FANGS: Google Appeals Record EU Antitrust Fine (W) Financials: Citi warns on sharp fall in Q3 trading revenues (FT) Retail: Whole Foods Deal Boosts Amazon’s Online Grocery Sales, Too (B) Pharma: Teva Appoints New Chief Executive After Months of Speculation (W) Cybersecurity Equifax Customer Complaints Keep Piling Up (W) Equifax Hack Is ‘Exhibit A’ in Case for Regulation, Durbin Says (B) Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Should Worry You (B) Technology The Future of Home Wi-Fi Is Fast, Expensive and Exotic (W) VW to Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models by 2030 (B) Shell Retail Looks to the Future With Car Charging, Clean Fuels (B) Mother Nature Millions Lack Power in Irma’s Wake (W) Three Reasons Why Irma’s Florida Strike Wasn’t as Bad as Forecast (W) Insurance Stocks Recover as Irma Heads North (W) Reinsurers Will Foot the Irma Bill (W) The Same System Delivering Nice Weather Is Keeping Hurricane Jose at Bay (B)

Sep 11 (Monday) Markets Even Hurricanes Can’t Kill Off This Rally (BR) Why the Market Needs a 20% Drop (BR) Active Managers Are Getting to Work (BR) Five Solid Payout Plays (BR) Oil The Plastic Fantasy That’s Propping Up the Oil Market (B) Central banks The Trouble With the Fed’s Inflation Target (BR) China China Is Striving to Contain Its Once-Diving, Now-Thriving Yuan (W) Short Sellers Take Fight Against Chinese Companies to the Big Screen (W) China’s Global Buying Spree Hits Hurdles (W) US politics Nestled in House Spending Bill: Campaign Finance Deregulation (W) Clinton Says She Is ‘Done With Being a Candidate’ (B) Clinton Says Election Loss Still ‘Very Painful’ (W) Geopolitics China and U.S. Both Think the Other Can Solve North Korea Crisis (B) Japan Backs U.S. Proposal to Target North Korea’s Oil Supplies (B) North Korea’s nuclear test has left the South wanting nukes too (E) Industries & companies FANGs: Why Amazon’s Growth Ambitions Don’t Fit in Seattle (W) Media: A Smart Strategy for Cable and Telecom Investors (BR) Media: After a Slow Box-Office Summer, ‘It’ Shatters Records (W) Media: An MTV Reboot Won’t Make Viacom Cool Again (BR) Pharma: Lilly Breast Cancer Drug Results May Challenge Pfizer Pill (B) Retail: Nordstrom Tries On a New Look: Stores Without Merchandise (W) Retail: How Kirkland Signature Became One of Costco’s Biggest Success Stories (W) Retail: Thinking of Buying Nike Shares? Just Don’t (BR) Tech: Why You Might Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone (W) Tech: Apple’s Trillion Dollar iPhone (W) Tech: Apple’s Top New Phone to Be Called ‘iPhone X,’ Code Leaks Show (B) Cybersecuirty Equifax Hack Leaves Consumers, Firms Scrambling (W) Technology Ever better and cheaper, face-recognition technology is spreading (E) Uncle Sam Wants You … to Fight Alongside a Killer Robot (B) China’s Fossil Fuel Deadline Shifts Focus to Electric Car Race (B) Offbeat Hurricane Irma Makes Florida Landfall (B) Uber Gives Free Rides to Shelters in Hurricane Irma’s Path (B)

Sep 08 (Friday) Markets Financial Stocks Slide, Along With Treasury Yields (W) These Insurers Are Tumbling on Fears of Hurricane Irma Damage (B) Airline Stocks Tumble as Hurricanes Add to Growth Concerns (W) Goldman Sachs’s New Bond ETF Shuns the Riskiest Debt (B) Central banks White House Considering at Least Six for Fed Chair (B) Fischer’s departure shows weaknesses in the Fed (FT) Low Inflation Gives Fed Pause on Raising Rates Again This Year (W) ECB Weighs Ending Stimulus as Fed Calibrates Its Easy Money Stance (W) Europe’s Stock Market Bulls Don’t Need Draghi to Keep Buying (B) US Don’t Look Now, But Productivity Is Finally Rising (B) Three Dangerous Words for an Investor: Inflation Is Dead (W) Opioid Epidemic May Be Keeping Prime-Age Americans Out of the Workforce (W) U.S. Jobless Claims Soar by Most Since 2012 on Hurricane Harvey (B) 5 facts about Millennial households (Pew) China Yuan’s Sharp Rise Muddles China’s Growth Picture (W) US politics Senate Passes Debt-Limit Deal Trump Struck With Democrats (B) GOP Cites Progress in Tax Talks; 15% Corporate Rate Is Doubted (W) Paul Ryan just signaled that Republicans won’t deliver on one of Trump’s biggest tax cut promises (BI) Trump’s souring on Cohn has ominous implications for the one thing Wall Street cares about most (BI) Trump Jr. Hoped Russian Lawyer Had Insight on Clinton’s ‘Character’ (W) Geopolitics & cybersecurity As World Watches Kim, China Quietly Builds South China Sea Clout (B) Trump says N Korea military action ‘not inevitable’ (FT) Twitter Is Expected to Brief Senate Panel on Activity by Russians (W) Senator Says Facebook’s Russian Ads Suggest Need for New Law (B) Equifax Says Cyber Attack May Have Hit 143 Million Customers (B) Industries & companies Consumer: Benevolent Bacon? Nestle And Unilever Gobble Up Niche Brands (W) FANGs: Amazon Seeks Prime Location for $5 Billion Second HQ (W) FANGs: Few Cities Could Accommodate Amazon’s New Headquarters (B) Industrials: GE’s Slump to Deepen Even After $64 Billion Slide, JPMorgan Says (B) Media: Disney sinks after CEO Bob Iger gives disappointing guidance (BI) Media: Disney to Include ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel Movies on New Streaming Service (W) Media: Comcast warns it’s going to lose as many as 150,000 video subscribers in the third quarter (BI) Pharma: Eli Lilly to Cut 8% of Workforce (W) Retail: Restoration Hardware explodes after crushing earnings and raising guidance (BI) Retail: Starbucks could be an “indirect casualty” of the retail apocalypse (BI) Tech: iPhone’s Summer Production Glitches Create Holiday Jitters (W) Tech: Next iPhone’s Big Problem Is Winning Over China’s Jaded Consumers (B) Technology Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Already Here (B) Washington sets out rules of the driverless road (FT) Google parent backs machine-learning cancer treatment (FT) Irma Back-to Back Hurricanes to Test FEMA (W) Hurricane Irma to Test New Codes Put in Place After Andrew (W) Irma on Collision Course With Miami After Wrecking Caribbean (B) Why Florida Is Largely Insured by Companies You’ve Never Heard Of (W) Gas Shortage in Florida Gets Worse as Drivers Flee Irma (W) Harvey How Hurricane Harvey Will Ripple Through the U.S. Economy (W) Houston CEOs Race to Mend a Storm-Battered Workforce (W) The Next Hurricane-Related Shortage: Construction Workers (W) Offbeat Hurricane Jose is expected to become a major hurricane by Friday (BI) Hi Mom, Stop Sending Me Voice Messages (W)

Sep 07 (Thursday) Markets Comfortably Numb: Why the Economy Shrugs Off Risks (W) Goldman’s Blankfein on Markets: ‘Things Have Been Going Up for Too Long’ (W) Deutsche Bank’s Cryan Sees Increasing Signs of Asset Bubbles (B) North Korea Isn’t the Only Headwind for Asian Stocks (B) Currencies The Euro Is Partying Like It’s 1999 (W) Canadian dollar soars after rate tightening (FT) Central banks Fischer to Step Down in Mid-October as Fed Vacancies Mount (B) Here’s How Trump Can Reshape the Fed (B) Bank of Canada Raises Benchmark Rate to 1% (B) Central banks wake up to cryptocurrency threat (FT) US U.S. Trade Gap Widens Slightly in July (W) Where’s the Pricing Power? Little Sign of It in Fed’s Beige Book (B) The Market’s Big Puzzle: What Is Happening to Growth and Inflation? (W) Europe Surprise: These Are Unexpectedly Good Times for the EU (R) Catalonia passes bill for vote to break from Spain (FT) EU plans rule change to increase taxes on online giants (R) Sweden’s Biggest Bank Is Moving Because of Regulation (W) Tensions Grow as EU Rules Hungary Must Take Migrants (W) Emerging India Rises in Eyes of Investors (W) US politics Trump, Democrats Reach Deal on Debt Limit and Storm Aid (W) Ryan Pledges to Seek Compromise on ‘Dreamer’ Immigrants (W) Donald Trump Jr., Susan Rice Talking to Russia Panels (W) Hundreds of EPA Workers Leave in Recent Days (W) Geopolitics & trade Putin Bats Down North Korea Oil Ban (W) Behind North Korea’s Nuclear Advance: Scientists Who Bring Technology Home (W) Mexico signs e-commerce deal with China’s Alibaba Group (R) Industries & companies Airlines: Comfortable Planes? Airlines Say Passengers Don’t Care (W) Retail: More Shoppers Head to Whole Foods After Amazon Purchase (W) Retail: Gap Closing Hundreds of Stores in Shift Toward Old Navy, Athleta (B) Tech: Apple’s Bonds Are Acting More and More Like Government Debt (B) Corporate finance Goldman Halts IPO Work for China HNA Unit on Ownership Concerns (W) Offbeat Irma Barrels Toward Puerto Rico and Florida (B) Why It’s So Hard to Predict Hurricane Irma’s Path (B) FEMA Is Almost Out of Money and Hurricane Irma Is Approaching (B)

Sep 06 (Wednesday) Markets September’s Bringing Tons of Catalysts to Shatter Market Calm (B) Beneath the Surface, the Stock Market Is Going Wild (B) Does Massive Inflow Into Bond ETFs Spell Bubble? (IBD) Lots of Liquidity Isn’t Always Better (B) Traders are increasingly worried that the US government may soon run out of ways to pay its bills (BI) Copper prices surge to near three-year highs (FT) Central banks Fed’s Brainard: Weak Inflation Argues for Caution on Further Rate Rises (W) I Speech Kashkari: Fed May Have Harmed U.S. Economy With Rate Hikes (B) ECB Expected to Signal Stimulus Phase-Out (W) Why BOJ Should Stop Being Obsessed With 2% Inflation Goal (B) Europe Eurozone Growth Seen Easing Slightly (W) German vote takes back seat to monetary moves (FT) Liam Fox: Britain does not have capacity to strike trade deals now (PO) Japan The fears about Japan’s debt are overblown (FT) China China hits booming cryptocurrency market with coin fundraising ban (R) China’s Big Banks Still Have a Credibility Gap (W) China rewrites history with new censorship drive (FT) Emerging Russia’s inflation drops to its lowest level since the collapse of the Soviet Union (BI) Merkel Dials Down Tone on Ending Turkey’s EU Membership Bid (W) US politics ‘Big Six’ Policy Group Faces Decision Time on Tax Changes (W) Industry Groups Push for Repeal or Delay of Two Obamacare Taxes (W) Trump Rescinds Protections for DACA Immigrants (W) Trump Confronts Accelerating Russia Probes on Multiple Fronts (B) Geopolitics North Korea Gives Defiant Response to U.S. Over Latest Nuclear Test (W) Trump Says U.S. May Boost Arms Sales to Asia Allies (W) Putin Warns U.S. Against Sending Weapons to Ukraine (W) Putin Echoes China in Spurning U.S. on North Korea Sanctions (B) China’s Oil Lifeline to North Korea Targeted After Nuclear Blast (B) Why Xi Jinping Refuses to Go Ballistic Over North Korea (W) N Korea’s nuclear endgame: deterrence or aggression? (FT) What War Between North Korea and the U.S. Might Look Like (B) Industries & companies Airlines: The Five Biggest Airlines Plunged in August, Wiping Out $10 Billion (B) Cruise Lines: Cruise Line Stocks Plunge as Hurricane Irma Threatens Caribbean (B) Media: Verizon Wants to Build an Advertising Juggernaut—It Needs Your Data First (W) Pharma: Don’t Ignore Big Pharma’s New Breakthrough (W) Corporate finance United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion (W) Airbus Warns United Tech to Deliver on Orders Rather Than Deals (B) Boeing Balks at United Tech-Rockwell Deal (W) Houston Slows But Doesn’t Stop Energy M&A (B) Retailers to Amazon: pick me, pick me (FT) Technology Take Elon Musk Seriously on the Russian AI Threat (B) Nvidia to Play Big Role in ‘Huge’ Wal-Mart Cloud Push, Says Global Equities (BR) Automation Kills Jobs in Retail—and Replaces Them With Better Ones (W) Offbeat Irma Tops Storm Scales as Florida Preps for Catastrophic System (B) Houston Rockets Sell for $2.2 Billion, Breaking NBA Record (B)

Sep 05 (Tuesday) Markets How This Bull Market Will End (BR) Why Markets Don’t Care About North Korea—Yet (W) Investors Hedge Their Bets Entering Choppiest Season for Markets (W) The Crowded Trades of a Scary September (BR) Attention, Yield Hunters: EM Payouts on the Rise (BR) Vanguard chief dismisses ETF bubble fears (FT) Investor With 30% in Cash Says North Korea Selloff Will Come (B) Central banks ECB taper talk could have longer to run (FT) Bitcoin Tumbles as PBOC Declares Initial Coin Offerings Illegal (B) Emerging Merkel: ‘Turkey should not become an EU member’ (FT) Turkey lashes out at Merkel over threat to end its EU bid (FT) India’s Modi Shakes Up Cabinet (W) Japan Time to Give Japan a Look (BR) US politics Trump Expected to Lift Protections for Immigrant ‘Dreamers’ (W) Geopolitics North Korea Plans New Missile Test as U.S. Calls for Action (W) North Korea Hails Test of Hydrogen Bomb for ICBM a ‘Perfect Success’ (W) Trump Threatens New Sanctions After North Korea Nuclear Test (B) Haley Says North Korea ‘Begging for War,’ Demands New Sanctions (B) Mattis Warns North Korea: U.S. Has ‘Many Military Options’ (W) Three Hard Truths Govern the Confrontation With North Korea (W) As North Korea Flexes Nuclear Muscles, U.S. Picks Fight With South (W) Russia Complies With U.S. Order to Close Three Diplomatic Properties (W) Latest Nafta Talks Near End Without Major Breakthroughs (B) Industries & companies Consumer: P&G Proxy Fight Pits Former Finance Chief Against Longtime Protégé (W) Energy: Exxon Working Toward Restarting Baytown Refinery (W) Energy: Underwater: Houston’s Refiners, Not the Stocks (BR) Financials: Bank Investors Say: Mind the Gap (W) Financials: Harvey Losses Won’t Sink Insurers (BR) Materials: U.S. Steel Upgrades to Cut Costs and Benefit From the Alloy’s Rising Price (B) Media: Hollywood Calls a Wrap on $3.8 Billion Summer, Worst Since 2006 (B) Retail: Kroger Seeks to Repel Amazon’s Grocery Onslaught (W) Shipping: Package-Delivery Companies Hiring Staff, Gear Up Before Holiday Season (W) Tech: Secretive Apple Tries to Open Up On Artificial Intelligence (W) Cybersecurity Instagram Says Hack That Targeted Celebrities Was Wider Than Thought (W) Offbeat Future Hurricanes Will Be Worse Than Harvey (B) Houston Residents Return Home to Scary Reality: No Insurance Coverage (W)

Sep 02 (Saturday) Markets Correlation crash clears way for stockpickers (FT) Investors Have Stopped Pulling Money From the Stock Market (W) Central banks Slower U.S. Hiring and Growth in Unemployment Clouds Task for Fed (W) Jobs Report Doesn’t Solve Fed’s Inflation Puzzle (W) ECB May Not Have Final QE Plan Ready Until December (B) Bank Of Japan’s Break From Battling the Yield Curve May Soon End (B) US U.S. Factory-Sector Activity Hits Six-Year High (W) U.S. Business Innovation Burns Bright With Tech Companies Like Tesla And Netflix (IBD) U.S. Jobs Growth Slows More Than Expected in August (W) U.S. Jobs Report Disappoints. Here’s Who’s Hiring and Who’s Not (B) As Workers Expect Less, Job Satisfaction Rises (W) Europe Eurozone industry surges despite currency strength (FT) Emerging Brazil emerges from its worst ever recession (FT) US politics Repealing Obamacare Just Got Even More Complicated (B) Senate Health Proposal Signals Deeper Rift Between GOP, Trump (W) Cohn Says Top Earners May See Higher Effective Rate in Tax Plan (B) House speaker urges Trump not to scrap ‘Dreamers’ immigration policy (R) If Trump Ends DACA, Issue Falls to Congress (W) Geopolitics Putin warns North Korea situation on verge of ‘large-scale conflict’ (R) US show of strength masks limited N Korea options (FT) Here’s What’s on the Table in the Second Round of Nafta Talks (B) Industries & companies Autos: Nissan Leads Sales Plunge in Mixed Results for U.S. Carmakers (B) Autos: Tesla Faces Complaint From U.S. Labor Board (W) FANGs: Amazon Hires Hundreds of Engineers to Bolster Alexa (W) Financials: Federal Reserve finalizes rules to help unwind big banks (R) Financials: Wells’ woes come at troubling time for US banks (FT) Retail: Big Food Brands Pressed on Prices (W) Tech: Meg Whitman Has a Different Mess to Clean Up (W) Cybersecurity Records of four million Time Warner Cable customers left unsecured: Gizmodo (R) Offbeat Insuring Coastal Cities Against the Next Hurricane Harvey (W) Barclays new DIY investment site suffers hitches (FT)

Sep 01 (Friday) Markets Bulls and Bears Both Can’t Be Right on the Stock Market (MW) The Bond Market’s Biggest Rally of 2017 Amazes Traders (B) Watch Out: The Weak Dollar Gives Shareholders Money Illusion (W) Markets Are About to Find Out What China’s Leadership Reshuffle Means (B) Funds Goldman’s Biggest ETF Customer Readies Its Own Rival Funds (B) Trend-Chasing Quants Catch a Break From Abysmal 2017 Returns (B) Wall Street’s High-Frequency Traders Are In Trouble (BI) Oil & gas Harvey Raises Gasoline Prices (W) Harvey’s Toll on U.S. Gas Market May Not Emerge Until Next Week (B) Harvey’s Floods Could Delay 10% of U.S. Fracking (B) Oil refineries may have released up to 2 million pounds of chemicals in Harvey’s wake (BI) US GDPNow Forecast for Third Quarter Is 3.3 Percent Weak U.S. Inflation Complicates Federal Reserve Plans (W) U.S. Pending Home Sales Unexpectedly Fall on Lean Inventory (B) U.S. Consumer Comfort Rises a Seventh Week to Fresh 16-Year High (B) America’s Jobs Engine Keeps Defying Forecasts for 2017 Slowdown (B) ‘Nonprime has a nice ring to it’: the return of the high-risk mortgage (FT) Europe Euro-Area Inflation Gathers Pace as ECB Weighs Future Stimulus (B) In Win for Macron, Labor Opposition to Overhaul Is Mild—So Far (W) Plea for ban as Germany faces 300,000 more refugees (FT) China China Factory-Price Optimism Surges But Not Everyone’s Convinced (B) US politics Mnuchin: White House, Congress to Release Tax Plan in Coming Weeks (W) In GOP Primaries, Candidates Battle to Be the Trumpiest (W) Trump’s Impatience Emerging as Biggest Threat to Nafta Agreement (B) Geopolitics U.S. Bombers in Show of Force After North Korea Missile (W) U.S. to Shut 3 Russia Diplomatic Buildings But Expel No Staffers (B) Industries & companies Autos: Is the World Ready for a Rolls-Royce SUV? (W) FANGs: Apple Confirms Sept. 12 Product Launch At New Headquarters (W) FANGs: Apple Balks at Higher Web-Access Fees After $1 Billion Video Bet (B) FANGs: Europe’s Grocers Feel Amazon’s Heat (W) Financials: Wells Raises Tally of Unauthorized Accounts by 67% (W) Pharma: Read the Fine Print on the $475,000 Price of a Cancer Breakthrough (B) Pharma: Smaller India Drug Firms Drive Generics Success in U.S. (B) Tech: Fitbit Aims to Take a Piece Out of Apple With New Smartwatch (W) Tech: Instagram Opens Up ‘Stories’ on Web to Fuel International Growth (B) Tech: Microsoft and Amazon steal an AI march on rivals (FT) Tech: You’re Using Foursquare All the Time. You Just Don’t Know It (B) Offbeat Harvey Wasn’t Just Bad Weather. It Was Bad City Planning (B)

Aug 31 (Thursday) Markets From Stocks to Bonds, the Bear-Market Signals Are Multiplying (B) The New York Stock Exchange wants to delay when companies can drop big news after the closing bell (BI) Buffett Says Stocks Are ‘Less Attractive’ But Still Beat Bonds (B) Credit Republican Tax Plan Poses Risk to U.S. Bond Market (W) Emerging-Market Bonds: The Stars Align (W) Oil Gasoline jumps, crude down; Harvey shuts 24 percent of U.S. refining (R) Fallout From Harvey to Disrupt Energy Markets Around the World (R) Central banks After the flood, Fed likely to see little change in economy, policy course (R) US U.S. Second-Quarter Growth Revised to 3% in Momentum Boost (B) Europe Eurozone Economic Sentiment Hits 10-Year High (W) Tech sector struggles with new EU data protection (FT) China Beijing Shows Its Power With China’s Latest Megamerger (W) US politics Trump: Once-In-Generation Chance for Tax Overhaul (B) Trump Pitches Business Tax Cut to Middle Class (W) The Goldman guys in the White House hinted their tax plan has some gifts for Wall Street (BI) TRUMP: I don’t ‘want to be disappointed by Congress’ on tax cuts (C) Government Shutdown Costs Could Exceed Trump’s $12 Billion Wall (B) Geopolitics & terrorism Trump Says Talk With North Korea Done as Mattis Urges Diplomacy (B) North Korea renews Guam threat after Trump warning (FT) South Koreans Feel Sidelined by U.S. in North Korea Debate (W) NATO Will Send Three Observers to Russian Military Exercise (W) U.S. Delivers Airstrikes to Block Islamic State Convoy (W) Industries & companies Autos: Toyota Grabs Bigger Piece of Ride-Hailing Action (W) Biotech: FDA Approves First Gene Therapy (W) FANGs: Amazon Will Need to Cut Whole Foods Prices More to Beat Wal-Mart (B) FANGs: Apple App Store’s Chinese Customers Get New Way to Pay (W) FANGs: How Apple Plans to Change the Way You Use the Next iPhone (B) Financials: New Worry in ‘Repo’: Just One Bank for $3.5 Trillion Market (W) Insurance: Insurers Are Set to Use Drones to Assess Harvey’s Damage (W) Pharma: New Novartis cancer drug among most expensive ever (FT) Tech: New Uber CEO Hints at 2019 IPO (B) Technology Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana Can Soon Talk to Each Other (W) A slew of Apple auto engineers reportedly left to join the self-driving car startup Zoox (BI) Offbeat ‘Vacation shaming’ is preventing millennials from taking time off work (BI)

Aug 30 (Wednesday) Markets European stocks tumble as risk appetite hit (FT) Utilities Shares Rally in August as U.S. Stock Market Stalls (W) Bond, Dollar Traders Won’t Let Missiles Distract Them From Fed (B) Commodities & currencies Storm Could Cause East Coast Fuel Shortages (W) Harvey’s Widespread Destruction Tests U.S. Shale (W) Iron Ore’s Kings Are Spending Again (B) Bitcoin’s Epic Rise Leaves Late-1990s Tech Bubble in the Dust (B) Central banks An Interview With Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan (W) US U.S. Consumer Confidence Increased in August (W) Hotel Building Boom Stalls As Demand Plays Catchup (W) Commercial Real Estate Begins to Draw Vultures (W) Five charts showing how millennials are worse off (FT) Harvey Costs Projected to Rise to $42 Billion (B) Europe Germany’s ‘comfort zone’ poll could surprise (FT) Denmark Decides to Make It ‘More Attractive to Work’ (B) China Credit default swaps spell trouble for China (FT) US politics Trump Set to Renew Tax Debate (W) Trump Surveys ‘Epic’ Damage as Texas Braces for Long Recovery (B) Geopolitics & trade Kim Jong Un Says Latest Missile Test Was ‘Prelude’ to Containing Guam (B) Trump Vows ‘All Options’ Open After North Korea Missile Launch (B) Editorial: North Korea’s Provocations Raise Questions for Japan (B) North Korea Missile Test Prompts Neighbors to Upgrade Defenses (W) Russia Says War Games Are ‘Purely Defensive’ (W) Trump rejected China steel offer his team backed (FT) Nafta Talks Target Low Wages in Mexico (W) Industries & companies FANGs: Google Tells EU How It Will Change Search Results (W) Financials: BlackRock Finds $5 Trillion Industry Is Now Riskier Than in ’08 (B) Financials: Buffett Converts BofA Warrants Into $16.5 Billion Stake in Bank (B) Financials: Why Goldman Sachs still wants to be Asia number one (FT) Media: Apple Spars With Movie Studios Over Pricing Ahead of Apple TV Rollout (W) Technology: Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Plans to Accept Uber’s CEO Job (W) Corporate finance United Tech Nears Deal to Buy Rockwell Collins for More Than $20 Billion (W) Ridding markets of their bias against capex won’t be easy (FT) Offbeat Day Trading in Wall Street’s Complex ‘Fear Gauge’ Proliferates (N)