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What We've Been Reading - Week of August 28

​Markets & Economy:

• Firms say goodbye to flattering financial results (WSJ)
• Beneath Yuan’s quiet, China worries rise (WSJ)
• Silly central bank metaphors - Bazooka! (WSJ)
• Brazilian GDP contracts 0.6% in Q2 (Fast FT)
• Dow Chemical shares show evidence of manipulation (WSJ)
• South Africa’s biggest debt manager halts loans to state firms (Bloomberg)
• For U.S. businesses, Brexit leads to uncertainty and worry (NPR)
• Has Delaware’s Chancery court grown too powerful? (Bloomberg)
• Bridgewater says China is preparing for a bust (Business Insider)
• Who are the owners behind China’s Anbang? (NYT)

Asset Management:

• Credit Suisse’s legal battle with 5 tech bankers (Business Insider)
• How the Vanguard effect adds up to $1 trillion (Bloomberg)

Long Reads:

• The New Cheating Economy (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Women in Financial Services (Oliver Wyman)

Alternatives:

• Big Data is Leading to a Silent Financial Crisis (Time)
• Carlyle weighs withdrawal from hedge funds (FT)
• Activists circle U.S. lenders (FT)
• Virtually no institutional investors are happy with activist funds right now (Bloomberg)
• Bridgewater fights back against negative press with new videos on its website (Bridgewater)
• Private Equity firms may have a fee problem with co-investment deals (Fortune)

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Print books are far from dead (Pew Research Center)
• Melania Trump sues Daily Mail and blogger for $150M (BBC)