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DXY is back. AUD is buggered again. But auld lead boots got Deepsuckered. The oil pop was specs. Dirt dead cat. Mining meh. EM meh. Junk thinks it can. Bear flattener! Stocks no likee. The Fed has pivoted again. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said officials are not in a rush to lower interest rates,

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Scale of battery and solar projects seeking grid connection soars, and capacity of new projects actually working through registration and commissioning has also more than doubled.

For the second year running, lies have emerged as the primary risk facing humanity, in the Global Risks Survey 2024-25 conducted by the World Economic Forum of 900 experts worldwide.

KPMG Australia is upbeat about the outlook for the housing market in 2025, spurred on by expected interest rate cuts. The firm expects house prices in Sydney to rise by 3.3% this year, followed by 7.8% growth in 2026. Prices in Melbourne are forecast to rise by 3.5% in 2025 and 6% in the following

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Irish smart grid technology company says it has confirmed its position as the leading provider of ‘very fast’ FCAS in Australia’s main grid.

The Ukraine conflict could end in two months of Kiev is deprived of the money and ammunition it depends on to continue fighting, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

Speaking to reporter Pavel Zarubin on Tuesday, Putin was asked about the possibility of a negotiated end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

“They can’t exist without their Western sponsors. They won’t last a month if the money and ammunition run out,”Putin told Zarubin.

When dreaming up a name for a bold new research hub, the team at the University of Auckland Business School took on a semantic minefield. “We knew when we called our centre Dialogues on Inclusive Capitalism that the word ‘inclusive’ would upset half the world, and ‘capitalism’ would upset the other half,” says Professor Susan Watson, dean of the Business School and interim head of the centre. 

It appears that the outcome of one of the most fiercely disputed renewable energy tenders has been decided. But we may have to wait to know the winners, and losers.

Australian households could knock more than $1500 off their energy bills with some basic home upgrades – and almost twice as much by investing in renewable energy technology.  But the potential savings identified in a study – which add up to more than $23.6 billion nationwide –

There really is not much more Tony Wood of the Grattan Institute can do to destroy Australia’s energy transition. He helped create the gas cartel by arguing against domestic reservation in 2013, aided by the sponsorship from his former employer and gas cartelier Origin Energy. He is currently arguing that LNG imports are our only

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Coal seam gas producer seeks approval for a small solar farm and battery, which it insists will "cut emissions" from its massive gas expansion project.

According to 9News, the Australian Olympic Committee has backed a bold, new proposal by Swimming Australia and other aquatic sports to build a multi-million dollar complex for Brisbane 2032. The Australian Olympic Committee is backing a bold, new proposal by Swimming Australia and other aquatic sports to build a multi-million dollar complex for Brisbane 2032.

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the consumer price index (CPI) for Q4 2024, which printed below the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) expectations. Three of the Big Four banks forecast that the pivotal “trimmed mean” inflation would be 0.5% in Q4. The fourth Big Four bank (Westpac) was only slightly higher, tipping

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