Australian stocks led the way to a new record high today but the rest of Asian share markets were mainly down across the board as risk sentiment continues to shift further into negative space as we all await the Jackson Hole conference tomorrow. The USD remains on a small rally against the majors although Euro
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APA Group with the news. AFR. The chief executive of the country’s biggest gas transporter, APA Group, has fired off against plans to import LNG to avert a potential gas shortage, warning that the high cost of imports risks turning consumers and industry against gas altogether. Adam Watson said importing liquefied natural gas into the
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There is nothing a central banker likes more than to waste money while forcing everybody else into austerity. The cost of renovating the RBA’s asbestos-ridden head office in Sydney’s Martin Place has risen to $1.2 billion, prompting the newly installed governance board to consider selling the building and walking away from the troubled project. The
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Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen and distressed debt manager Jonathan Rochford run through the problems facing Australia and it’s tumble down the productivity tables. 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,
With the release of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) latest Statement on Monetary Policy last week, the media focus was swiftly placed squarely upon the RBA’s forecast that productivity growth would be anaemic 0.7% per year on a long-term time horizon. But buried in the RBA’s lengthy forecast table was perhaps an even more
Last week, during a video posted on YouTube for the War Abolisher Awards, Roger Waters shared a new song titled "Sumud."
SUMUD
There is a word in Arabic
Sumud
It means
Steadfast
Perseverance
Particularly
In Resistance
To the occupation of your homeland
I just want that thing
When voices join in harmony
And in that fleeting moment
DXY is refusing to go away. AUD is going away. CNY not. I’m wary of gold here. Metals dead cat. Miners plain dead. EM rolling. Junk doesn’t care. Yields are falling in a growth scare. Stocks could catch that bug. At issue is a Fed that the market has gotten wrong. In their discussion of
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Growth! S&P flash PMI. Flash Australia Composite PMI Output Index: 54.9 (Jul: Index, sa, >50 = growth m/m % qr/qr 53.8) Flash Australia Services PMI Business Activity Index: 55.1 (Jul: 54.1) Flash Australia Manufacturing PMI: 52.9 (Jul: 51.3) Flash Australia Manufacturing PMI Output Index: 53.9 (Jul: 52.3) Australia’s business activity growth accelerated midway through the
Overnight saw Wall Street stumble again, as big tech stocks couldn’t do the heavy lifting while European markets also pulled back slightly although the rising FTSE was an outsider. The release of the latest FOMC meeting minutes saw them highlight inflation and tariff risks with politics pushing in again as the Trump regime places pressure
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I think I am in a bad dream and soon I will wake and find Donald J. Trump didn’t happen.
I listen to hours of podcasts where pundits try to make sense of this creature. Like Atlas, he holds the world on his shoulders. Will he be doomed like the Titan God or smash us all before he is done?