Silver took a nose dive as the Trump regime enacted a critical minerals directive plus tariffs on semiconductors amid more national security beat-ups while still promising an attack on Iran keeping other risk markets in check. The USD remains somewhat firm due to safe haven bids while the oil price has been beaten back slightly.
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Perhaps we can be grateful that Australia’s capital city and its national interest policy process are so far gone from sense that no legislation is any longer possible. Thus, the response to the horror of the Bondi massacre appears to be melting down faster even than it was ill-conceived. Having allowed himself to be bullied
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Rooftop PV enjoys record month of installations at the end of 2025, as the home battery boom continues.
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Back in 2017, I wrote a piece about the likely fragmentation of the conservatives in Australia1. Here, most of the conservatives largely belong to what is ironically named the Liberal Party, with a few other small fringe groups soaking up the racist and religious extremists. That article was precipitated by one of the religious nutters in the Liberal Party, spitting the dummy, leaving that party and attempting unsuccessfully to start his own2.
Charts thanks to TME. SPX range high reversion. Three black crows for tech. Vol of vol on the move. Rotation to the mini-me. Vix is very short. And will soon get the accelerant. Some vol moving ahead. Anarcho-imperialsim is here as a market factor. It takes a pretty sizable geopolitical shock to make a
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Roy Morgan reports that mortgage stress has fallen to its lowest level since January 2023, following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) three 25 bp rate cuts. Roy Morgan classified 24.7% of mortgage holders as ‘At Risk’ of’ mortgage stress’ in the three months ending November 2025, a 3.2% decrease from August 2025 and significantly
High-level talks in Washington have concluded without bridging the divide between the United States and Denmark over the future of Greenland, with Danish officials stating a “fundamental disagreement” persists after President Donald Trump reaffirmed his intent to acquire the Arctic territory.
British wind farms helped limit the role of gas power plants in setting prices, cutting power prices by almost a third, according to new analysis.
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Offshore wind hopes boosted after a massive auction held in the UK awarded a record 8.4 gigawatt (GW) of projects at an unexpectedly low price.
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In recent months, the evolution of events and rhetoric over Greenland has been absolutely unprecedented. “Unprecedented” is a word that has been thrown around a great deal in recent memory, but in this instance, it’s entirely apt. On one side of the divide over the issue, there are reports that U.S. President Donald Trump ordered
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Wind and solar generated a record 30 per cent of EU power needs in 2025, with fossil fuels generating 29 per cent.
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A collapse in the price of LGCs means consumer GreenPower prices should also plunge this year - but will they? And why haven't they already?
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Three quarters of the 6.8 million residential electricity customers in the National Energy Market are not on their retailer’s cheapest plan. It's time to change!
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Cotality’s Chart Pack for December shows that dwelling values nationally increased by 2.9% in the final quarter of 2025, with regional values (3.5%) outpacing capital city values (2.7%). One of the key factors driving the rise in Australian dwelling values is the complete dearth of homes available for sale. Cotality’s data shows that total listings