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MacroBusiness Friday, October 17, 2025 - 07:57 Source

DXY no bueno. AUD even less bueno. Gold bueno. Oil no bueno. AI metals are confused. Big miners breakout or false? EM bounceback. Junk not so much! Yields freefall. Stocks need a deeper pullback. Newsflow is whacko, courtesy of ZH. Washington shutdown. Geopolitical risk Weak Macro Hawkish FedSpeak Waller sounded less dovish than normal: “You

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Your Democracy Friday, October 17, 2025 - 06:55 Source

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela.

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Your Democracy Friday, October 17, 2025 - 06:44 Source

Climate change and human activity are causing the health of the world’s oceans to decline at an alarming rate, the UN has warned.

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 17, 2025 - 00:05 Source

Australians have endured the biggest decline in real wages in history. As of the June quarter of 2025, Australian real wages were still tracking 6.0% below their June 2020 level, at roughly the same level as December 2011. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) Assistant governor and chief economist Sarah Hunter warned that Australia’s sagging

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Your Democracy Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 18:48 Source

The US War Department stands ready to do its part and “impose costs” on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, War Secretary Pete Hegseth has said.

Speaking at Ramstein military base on Wednesday ahead of a meeting of countries coordinating military support for Ukraine, he lauded NATO members’ recent militarization push.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 17:35 Source

    AUD/USD   EUR/USD   USD/JPY   GBP/USD   Gold   WTI   Brent   Australia 200   US S&P 500   UK 100   Japan 225       Vids                    

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 16:30 Source

Asian share markets are still trying to get a wriggle on as the trading week starts to wind down following some potential progress on the rare earth US-China trade war while the latest unemployment print locally is resetting the chances of more RBA rate cuts although the Australian dollar remains resilient against a very weak

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 14:30 Source

The gold boom has many investors asking for more precise ways to get exposure. Today we’re adding a Mid-Cap Gold tilt to our Direct Indexes—so you can target the part of the gold market that sits between physical bullion and the mega miners. What is the Mid-Cap Gold tilt? It’s a rules-based basket of ~a dozen listed gold

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