As the world watches tariff brinkmanship unfold between the US and China, analysts have cast doubt on the truth of US President Donald Trump's claim in a magazine interview that China's President Xi Jinping called him.
After bouncing following February’s 0.25% interest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), momentum in Australia’s housing market has stalled. The Easter long weekend recorded the softest final auction clearance rate since January, with only 57.6% of auctions selling across the combined capital cities. This weekend’s results softened further, recording a preliminary clearance
DXY is up some more. EUR down. AUD looks like it’s sitting on resistance turned support. Led boots stuck fast. Gold and oil pulling back. Metals flaming out. Miners too. EM yawn. Junk has nearly priced out recession. Bad idea! Yields down. Stocks up. The base case is a reversal of risk before long and
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IA's catalogue of major reasons Peter Dutton should never be prime minister – begun a few months ago and updated here by Michelle Pini – is now at 95 big fat whopping reasons.
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small, but important, step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed.
Peter Dutton’s long-awaited military spending plan was supposed to be the Coalition’s chance to shift the election debate onto the former defence minister’s favoured terrain.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Moscow on Friday for discussions on the Ukraine conflict and other issues. The talks have proven to be “constructive” and brought the US and Russian positions “closer,” Yury Ushakov, an adviser to the Russian leader on international affairs, has said.
The recent visit to South Africa by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is a diplomatic show for NATO, which has been a destabilizing force around the world, Thato Senabe, leader of the local chapter of the Anti-Fascist International Organization, has said.
France and the UK displayed a weakening resolve to put boots on the ground in Ukraine, during recent talks in London, The Times has reported, citing anonymous sources.
Defense chiefs from a number of European NATO states have been debating deploying forces to Ukraine as part of a self-titled “coalition of the willing.”