Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced plans to begin releasing documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case, including the deceased sex trafficker’s list of contacts, alleged clients, and flight logs to his private island, “hopefully” as early as Thursday.
Asian share markets are doing slightly better on the back of somewhat mixed sessions on Wall Street and in Europe overnight, absorbing the post close NVIDIA earnings and the new tariff announcements on Europe by the Orange Mussolini. Meanwhile the USD is firming up slightly against some of the majors with the Australian dollar still
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After securing the largest share in the German election, Friedrich Merz has met with President Emmanuel Macron in the French capital. The pair discussed European security in the face of a shifting US policy on Ukraine.
Because now an American and a Russian president will negotiate a peace solution between themselves. Negotiations have already begun and a personal meeting between Trump and Putin is expected to take place in just a few weeks.
In January, Domain published the following chart showing how the percentage of income Australians spent to service mortgage repayments on a median-priced home had hit a record high of 50.6% at the end of 2024. This was up from the decade average of 36.6%. New data from Domain shows the breakdown of mortgage payments across
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Yesterday Domain was upset that Peter Dutton was a crooked property investor. Today it trumpets that Sydney is fixed by the same! A James Packer-backed development in Surry Hills and a 22-storey tower in Edgecliff are among 18 housing projects fast-tracked by the state government’s new planning authority to deliver more than 8600 dwellings. The
Yawn. China plans to start re-capitalizing three of its biggest banks in coming months, according to people familiar with the matter, following through on a broad stimulus package unveiled last year to shore up the struggling economy. Authorities are looking to inject at least 400 billion yuan ($55 billion) of fresh capital into the first
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The latest annual state accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that Victoria’s per capita GDP declined by 1.2% in 2023-04, and it has only increased by 10.4% since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008. This compared with a 1.0% national decline in per capita GDP in 2023-24 and a 14.5% gain
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Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen check in on house price affordability for Australians after the recent interest rate cuts. 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 powered by Nucleus
Simon Kuestenmacher, dubbed the “Stats Guy”, is a well-known immigration shill. For years, he has spread propaganda to support Big Australia. Last year, Kuestenmacher claimed that Australia’s skills shortages will worsen unless net overseas migration remains at an historically high level. “Let’s start with a quick analysis of how important foreign-born workers are for each