The Shanghai Composite is leading global indices this year with a jump of over 21% so far. India is up by over 5% while Brazil has increased by a decent 12% year-to-date. In developed Europe, DAX is up by over 10%. It remains to be see if the rest of the year adds more returns to global markets or they where they will end by December.

Below are some interesting reads for this weekend:

• Nine UK shares that tick all of Warren Buffett’s boxes and Dogs of the Footsie: will 2019 pack be a pedigree year? 10 shares yielding 6% plus (Money Observer)
• The ironies of automation (FT Alphaville) and Boeing 737 Crashes Raise Tough Questions (Bloomberg)
• Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the world wide web: ‘We can get the web we want‘ (The Guardian)
• The Hidden Risk When You Own Stocks for the Long Run (Jasson Zweig @ WSJ)
• Healthcare Stocks: Invest in Business, not Science (Alliance Bernstein)
• Don’t Be Fooled by the Politics of Envy (U.S. Global Investors)
• The Catalysts Set to Drive Frontier Markets (T.Rowe Price)
• Best Canadian Stocks to buy for 2019 (Canadian Business)
• How to increase the odds of owning the few stocks that drive returns (Vanguard UK)

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