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Australia has a graduate visa problem

May 2, 2025 - 12:00 -- Admin

Australia has some of the most generous post-study work rights for overseas students, as shown in the table below. These generous post-study work rights are especially sought by “students” from South Asia, who prioritise post-study work rights and prospects for permanent residency over most other considerations. Last week, higher education expert Andrew Norton released research

The Greens hoodwink Australian renters

May 2, 2025 - 11:30 -- Admin

The ABC this week published an article explaining how the Australian Greens have rebranded into the “party of renters”. The ABC noted that Greens leader Adam Bandt has been appearing at press conferences wearing a T-shirt saying “FIGHTING FOR RENTERS” and the party’s top priority this election is fighting for renters rights. “We’ve got people

Short squeeze on deck

May 2, 2025 - 10:30 -- Admin

Short squeeze on deck. The Market Ear. Nasty McElligott sums it up well. This is the scenario nobody (few) wanted: “…positioning and leverage exposure de-risked, Macro-Bearish and underweighted the “Mag8” U.S. Equities in general vs R.O.W. …but now suddenly, it’s MegaCap Tech Secular Growth which is awkwardly then leading to the Upside , in a

Macro Morning

May 2, 2025 - 09:00 -- Admin

The Trump regime continues to goose the stock market with non-existent reports of trade deals with “hundreds of countries” while the economic reality continues to set in as the latest initial jobless claims spiked while the ISM manufacturing survey went into contraction territory. Trump may need to up his Macca’s order as well as the

Why renewables will increase energy costs

May 2, 2025 - 08:00 -- Admin

The narrative that renewables are cheaper than baseload power is a myth. Building an intermittent renewable electricity system will be incredibly expensive and inevitably increase power bills. The global empirical evidence is clear: the higher the share of renewables in an energy system, the higher the electricity cost: The reasons should be obvious. Renewables have low

Macro Afternoon

May 1, 2025 - 17:00 -- Admin

Risk markets are still running on hopium as US officials admit there’s no talking going on whatsoever with China (who are having a week long holiday anyway – call back later Donny!) while the Bank of Japan held fire in today’s meeting which sent Yen selling off and stocks lifting higher. The latest trade data

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