A shock unless you read MB that is. The Australian. Electricity bills will rise by as much as 9 per cent from July 1, the Australian Energy Regulator has declared. The AER said increases will vary across the National Electricity Market, but the largest jump will be seen in NSW, where prices are set to
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The Market Ear gives us smashed stocks. General awakening NVDA gonna take this market higher in the short term? Source: Refinitiv Not so sexy SOX… ….but it sure is sexy when you catch the moves. SOX has done little since last Feb, but the moves inside the range have been well rewarding for the mean
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Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen checks in on the markets after recent large falls and discusses what to watch for going forward. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment Officer at the Macrobusiness Fund, which is
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Australia’s last major plastics manufacturer, Qenos, closed last year due to high energy costs. Now, Australia is wholly reliant on imported plastics from China. In February, Australia’s only architectural glass manufacturer, Oceania Glass, collapsed after 169 years of operation, amid soaring gas costs. Oceania Glass was Australia’s only manufacturer of architectural flat glass, producing and
We have a lot of information about how the count is going for the Legislative Assembly in Western Australia – there’s a few close races, and places where we’re waiting for full distributions of preferences, but the information is reasonably clear.
Unfortunately there’s a lot less useful data for the Legislative Council, and there’s bunch of ways in which the data reporting is falling short of what we’ve got in other states using similar electoral systems.
For a while there it was almost as of iron ore might turn rational and close its jaws with steel prices. Soon enough! Goldman on Chinese construction conditions. We continue to monitor the trend of post CNY construction activities after coming back from our China trip and conducting machinery dealer channel checks. This week, we
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A new report by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) claims that the capital gains tax (CGT) discount and negative gearing “disproportionately” benefit Australia’s wealthiest while also fuelling the housing affordability crisis. ACOSS says the wealthiest 10% of households own two-thirds of all investment properties and are receiving 82% of the $16 billion in
The federal government is targeting 82% of electricity being generated by renewables by 2030. Clean Energy Regulator figures show that renewables accounted for 46% of electricity in the grid in the last quarter of 2024. Modelling by energy consultant Rystad Energy contends that renewable energy will only account for 65% of electricity generation by 2030,
Honestly, what a pack of wingers. Washington has refused to allow us to cheat it out of a lousy $700m of steel and aluminum exports and ANZUS is off, screams the MSM! Australia does subsidise aluminium and steel production. If we didn’t the gas cartel would have killed both long ago. More to the point,
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DXY firmed last night. AUD did too. Lead boots are walking slowly up hill. Bloody Brent won’t break. Dirt decoupling! Miners smashed anyway. EM meh. Stress creeping into junk. Not enough! Yields up. Stocks up. It was a a soft US inflation print. Goldman. February core CPI rose 0.23% month-over-month, below expectations, and the year-on-year
A modest bounce on Wall Street overnight due to the weaker than expected CPI print was somewhat overshadowed by the Bank of Canada forced to make another interest rate cut to forestall the effects of the slowing domestic economy due to Trump’s tariffs, while the Canadian government announced another round of targeted counter tariffs alongside
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