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Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said on Wednesday he hoped US President Donald Trump was joking when he suggested the leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea were “conspiring” against Washington.

Trump posted the claim on Truth Social during a military parade in Beijing marking the World War II victory over Japan. Russian President Vladimir Putin was in attendance alongside Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. 

Manufacturers of frames, junction boxes, deployment technologies and other critical PV supply chain components will vie for a share of round 2 Solar Sunshot funding.

A single abandoned gas bore in Queensland is emitting as much methane as the equivalent of 10,000 cars a year. And there are 130,000 of these bore holes.

Asian share markets are seeing a broad selloff as the riskoff mood in the wake of bond sales continues to dominate the marketplace as we await Friday’s NFP print from the US. The USD is lifting slightly after being against a wall of selling against the majors but all eyes on are US Treasuries as

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Developers and investors are warning that if Queensland wants any clean energy investment at all, it must stop randomly cancelling projects.

Danny criticizes U.S. and Western policy toward Russia and Ukraine, framing it as unrealistic "script-writing" divorced from battlefield realities.

Kaya Callis praised Trump’s diplomacy but argued Putin rejects peace, insisting Russia seeks war.

The speaker counters that Russia has offered peace on its own terms, while the West demands concessions from a weaker position it would never accept if roles were reversed.

New Zealand’s economy and housing market remain in a funk. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s Kiwi-GDP nowcasting model suggests that the nation’s GDP may have declined in Q2 2025 by 0.3%. New Zealand’s labour market is also suffering its weakest conditions in a decade outside

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The Aussie economy has passed the zenith of its historic government spending splurge as public investment peaks, according to Westpac. Today’s data showed that public investment was the primary drag. As the pipeline of public investment projects turns lower, this is feeding through into weaker activity. This quarter new public investment declined 3.4%qtr to be

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Recently here at MacroBusiness, I explored how during the industrial revolution the investors in the stocks of American railroad companies did not see the huge returns that one might have expected, despite railroads dramatically transforming and boosting the U.S. economy. The piece posed an important question regarding the rise of AI: it’s entirely possible to be

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Steel prices are in an outright rout. This is the opposite of what the Beijing parade should produce. Yet everybody wants town iron ore with Simndou two months hence? This is fruitcake time. Chinese steel margins are collapsing as inventories pile up. There is only one outcome here. Production must fall, and all ferrous inventories

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The left-leaning media have come out in force against the notion that Australia’s immigration intake remains too high. The SMH/Age posted a weak sauce ‘fact check’ on claims that Australia has experienced “unprecedented immigration” and “Big Australia by stealth”. The authors Natassia Chrysanthos and Shane Wright claim that the recent migration surge is merely ‘catch-up’

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Rewiring Australia's John Buchelin outlines what’s working, and what’s not, in the country's most ambitious community electrification pilot.