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Here it is comes! Waymo is talking to local regulators about trialling the company’s self-driving taxis in Australia, as the autonomous vehicle company begins lobbying governments around the country. Owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, Waymo describes itself as the “world’s first autonomous ride-hailing service” and says its vehicles have completed 10 million driverless rides

The IEA has done an analysis of the immense looming global gas glut. It is even bigger than I thought. Following the supply shock of 2022/23, natural gas markets moved towards a gradual rebalancing in 2024 and 2025. During this period, supply fundamentals remained tight and prices stayed well above their historic levels. This limited

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It’s a new paradigm for stocks! The Market Ear. Retail buying still relentless 1.October, September, and August 2025 mark the biggest monthly retail buy imbalances since 2019, with September hitting a record ~$3bn in a single day. 2. Since the S&P 500’s April 8th low, retail traders have poured in roughly $292bn, more than any

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Wind and solar hit new national peaks amid heatwaves and storms, while rooftop PV set new peaks in three southern states in the sunny day that followed.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released its annual national accounts for the 2024-25 financial year, which includes extensive data on land values. Land values underpinning the Australian housing market increased by 7.0% during the 2024-25 financial year. In 2024-25, Australia’s land was valued at $9.8 trillion, with residential land accounting for 85% ($8.3

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French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to intervene militarily in Ukraine, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed. In a statement published on Monday, the agency’s press department suggested that he desperately wants to leave his mark on history.  

A few wobbles across Asian share markets with the catalyst of another potential rare earth trade deal between the Trump regime and Japan helped Yen strengthen against USD. The fallout from Friday’s not so firm US CPI print is keeping the USD down against most of the majors as expectation of a cut from the

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Tomago Aluminium flags possible 2028 closure, cites "significant uncertainty about when renewable projects will be available at the scale we need."

Data released in the U.S. prior to the government shutdown painted an optimistic picture of the economy. Second-quarter economic growth was revised up to 3.8% annualised, and consumer spending grew by 2.8% in the third quarter. Although comforting, these data raise a question: why is growth so resilient when other economic indicators, including employment and

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Murdoch hating is Crikey’s core business model. Which, hilariously, makes it just as bad as Murdoch, across some imaginary divide that has little to do with any identifiable value system beyond monkeys throwing poop. Bernard Keane is so lost in Murdoch hate that he has embraced the most vicious autocracy on earth. You might find

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