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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 14:00 Source

Goldman has pumped copper and is now turning. A key signal that the top is near.  The US looks set to announce copper import tariffs in the coming weeks, according to apress report. This would shorten the timeline for tariffs, which we were expecting between September and November. What is the impact on physical market

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 13:30 Source

Let us recall the spectacle of Raja Albo dining with his fellow lords of Indian immigration over a damn good curry and discussions about how to gut the Australian border. Perhaps the suspected baksheesh was insufficient, or the Rajas underestimated Albo’s nature because, today, it is reported the man behind the party is not doing

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 13:00 Source

They keep trying and keep failing to describe what is going on. SMH. Yet a gas reservation policy now will not save Australia from the diabolically embarrassing scenario of having to import gas to keep the lights on in Melbourne and Sydney. Understandably, Australians are having trouble getting to grips with the fact that we

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:30 Source

Greenpeace, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), and WWF Australia are among several environmental groups that will actively target Labor in the run-up to the federal election. They will help fund an advertising campaign against the federal government’s plans to legislate to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry. The groups contend that the legislation will hasten the extinction of

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:30 Source

Tuesday’s federal budget included the following explanation of how the decline in tobacco excise has resulted in the loss of billions of dollars in revenue. Excluding new policy decisions, excise and customs duty receipts have been revised down by $1.7 billion in 2025–26 and $8.5 billion over the five years from 2024–25 to 2028–29. The

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:05 Source

Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen look at earnings forecasts and which sectors are starting to see the effects of the chaos around policy making and tariffs. 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

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:00 Source

Liberal leader Peter Dutton has thrown a cost-of-living Hail Mary at voters, promising to halve the rate of fuel excise for a year, which would cost the federal budget $6 billion. Dutton boasted that his policy would take effect as soon as the Coalition wins office, unlike Labor’s new tax cuts that are more than

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 11:30 Source

DXY is back. EUR is unravelling. Could be tactical. AUD follows EUR. Lead boots getting heavier. Stupid Trump has revived oil with Venezuela and Iran alk. Copper bubble begins. Helping RIO. EM meh. Junk stressy. Yields up with oil. Stocks plunged. The Australian dollar has once again been tariffed. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 11:00 Source

The Housing Industry Association (HIA) attacked Tuesday’s federal budget for failing to stimulate housing supply, describing the budget as “a missed opportunity to deliver a concrete housing plan”. “Australia needs to be delivering a quarter of million new homes year on year to meet our growing population and put downwards pressure on housing and rental

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Your Democracy Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 10:51 Source

Ukrainian government is raising its own cannon fodder for the war against Russia from a very young age.

Here's how:

▪️A doll in Ukrainian military uniform without a leg BLEW UP minds on social media. Should such a toy prepare Ukrainian children for the same fate in the future?

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Cheeseburger Gothic Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 10:39 Source

I wrote to the US law firm running a class action against Meta for IP theft and got a good result:

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