OTHER STORIES MAKING NEWS this morning of which you may want to be aware:

• Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar was gunned down yesterday outside an Amman courtroom, where he was on trial for insulting Islam and inciting sectarian strife sharing on Facebook a cartoon lampooning Daesh to which more state-acceptable fundamentalists objected.
• “Jordan is pressing Israel for trade and financial concessions before it signs off on a groundbreaking but politically sensitive multibn-USD agreement to buy gas from the offshore Leviathan field,” the Financial Times reports, citing Jordan’s deputy PM for economic affairs.
• Goldman Sachs is axing 30% of its investment bankers in Asia (ex-Japan), Reuters reports, citing sources “familiar with the matter.” Bloomberg independently puts the number at 25%.
• Between all that’s happening in Egypt and the US presidential election, it’s sometimes hard to remember that the UK has voted to leave the European Union — and the City is just waking up to the notion that it might be a “hard exit,” the Financial Times reports.
• Golf legend Arnold Palmer died overnight at age 87, Golf Digest reports, noting that, “No one did more to popularize the sport than Palmer. His dashing presence singlehandedly took golf out of the country clubs and into the mainstream. Quite simply, he made golf cool.” The New York Times’ full obituary is here.