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Skimming has become an epidemic, so know how to protect yourself.

Presented without comment because, well… what else could we say? 

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PingAn Insurance is one of China’s biggest financial institutions if offering zero-deposit home loans for off-the-plan apartments in parts of Australia
– PingAn and property marketing group Austpac are offering Chinese investors the zero-down-payment option for apartments in Melbourne’s West Brunswick and Hope Island on the Gold Coast

In the wake of the war in Iraq and the ground incursion the US launched in Afghanistan after 9/11, the phrase “boots on the ground’ has become something of an obscenity among the American public. 

Putting American lives at stake by sending soldiers into battle against extremist groups operating in the Mid-East is now viewed by many as the ultimate foreign policy blunder, which helps to explain why Washington has resorted increasingly to i) training and supplying proxy armies, and ii) executing “targets” from the stratosphere via drone strikes. 

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A key Chinese Communist Party meeting, a Japanese data barrage and a Fed meeting will be the big events in a packed week for markets.

Bloomberg with the headline, no further details at this stage
Just this:
– China has room to further loosen monetary policy: Researcher
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Wonder if this guy has heard the news from Friday?

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s (BABA.N) second-quarter revenue growth is likely to have slumped to half the year-earlier rate, undermining hopes consumer spending will temper a slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy. Beijing is hoping that private consumption will pick up the slack as exports fall and it tries to rebalance the economy – now heading for its slowest full-year growth in 25 years – away from a reliance on trade and government spending. “Much focus will be paid to the deceleration in volume growth Alibaba guided to mid-quarter.