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Asian share markets pivoted around inflation prints and other macro news as the chaos from Davos dies down although the TACO trade remains in play. The USD remains under pressure against almost all major undollars particularly antipodean with the Australian dollar pushing through resistance to head above the 68 cent level while bond market stress

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That gold has not come off post-Greenland tells us it is now in the blowoff phase. If gold has become attached to the mind of the American madman, then this is going to be epic. RSI at 95 is mad. Vol is entering blowoff. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Can’t buy this, alas, even if the

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This is my fourteenth year of working from home. I brew my coffee, and when I need a hit while driving, I almost always purchase a cheap $2 coffee from a service station or convenience store. While travelling around New South Wales and regional Victoria over the Christmas break, I visited several cafés and was

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Westpac is unmoved by the good jobs report. The December LFS clearly landed on the firmer side and the wash-up for the last few months suggests that the ‘gradual softening’ narrative, which characterised the bulk of last year, paused or completely halted. This leaves us with the question of whether further gradual softening is still

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China’s population fell for the fourth straight year in 2025, dropping by about 3 million people, as the country recorded its lowest birthrate since 1949. Births fell to 5.63 per 1,000 people, the lowest since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. Only 7.9 million babies were born in 2025, down sharply from 9.5

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Developer of what was once hailed as the biggest solar hybrid project cuts PV component in half, due to "reduced appetite" and to addre

Fortescue wind technology company says its turbines will be the "tallest, mightiest and the widest," and will cost up to 30 pct less than traditional towers.

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I reported earlier in the week on the massive rise in bridging visas, which has been driven by former international students. As illustrated above, the number of bridging visas on issue ballooned by 201,300 between Q3 2019 and Q3 2025. The Attorney-General’s department recently reported an “unprecedented surge” in appeals over student visa refusals, which

The ferrous jaws remain far too wide. Scuttlebutt is negatory. Australia’s Fortescue  posted a 2% rise in second-quarter iron ore shipments, supported by the resilient performance of its Iron Bridge project alongside an uptick in output from its hematite operations. It maintained its forecast for fiscal 2025/26 shipments, with quarterly iron ore shipments remaining at

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Via Judo Bank. Flash Australia Composite PMI Output Index: 55.5  (Dec: 51.0) Flash Australia Services PMI Business Activity Index: 56.0 (Dec: 51.1) Flash Australia Manufacturing PMI: 52.4 (Dec: 51.6) To cope with rising workloads, Australian firms hired additional staff at the start of the new year. That said, the overall rate of employment growth softened

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A third battery project proposed for the town of Collie in Western Australia has entered the federal government’s environmental approval queue ,which would see the construction of a 66-megawatt (MW) solar farm combined with a 200 MW battery energy storage system (BESS). Collie remains the heart of the state’s declining coal industry, but it is […]

Miller is a grotesque figure granted power, a carnival barker of repression whose racism operates as projection: a deep, unresolved self-loathing displaced outward and weaponized.

As the hypersonic penetrators broke through the cloud layers, each was enveloped in a luminous plasma sheath, producing brief but violent flashes that momentarily illuminated the surrounding atmosphere. These flashes were not explosions in the conventional sense, but visual signatures of extreme velocity, friction, and compression as the warheads tore through dense air at hypersonic speed.