Courtesy of Tyler Durden
- China’s Top Fund Manager Favors Commodities as Inflation Worsens (Bloomberg)
- U.S. Warns China Is Closing Up Again (WSJ)
- Bullish for destroyed crops: France’s Second-Hottest April in Century Desiccates Farm Fields (Bloomberg)
- A Mission Not Yet Accomplished (David Leonhardt)
- FM for Flexibility in IMF Capital Flow Control Framework (Business Standard)
- Syrian Troops Storm Damascus Suburb, Make Arrests (Reuters)
- Hamas and Fatah sign reconciliation deal to end four-year rift (Xinhua)
- Central Banks Expand Gold Reserves With $6 Billion in Purchases (Bloomberg)
- BOE Holds Interest Rate at 0.5% on Signs Recovery Is Fading (Bloomberg)
- Barclays’ Protium Deal is ‘all that’s wrong in the City’ (Daily Telegraph)
- Mortgage Fraud: Will Wall Street finally have to pay for its misdeeds? (Time)
- Portugal Faces Pain Despite Rescue (FT)
- Fed Ready to Fight Inflation, but Not Yet Time (Reuters)
- Republicans Want Numbers Ahead of Debt Meeting (Reuters)
- Portugal Says GDP to Contract 2% This Year Under Added Cuts (Bloomberg)