While speaking at the Davos summit on Tuesday, French president Emmanuel Macron drew attention for his stern rebuke of US leader Donald Trump's threat to tariff eight European countries opposed to his proposed takeover of Greenland.
But another aspect of Macron's speech also made an impression: his choice of eyewear.
Asian share markets have fallen across the region although Chinese shares remain resilient in the wake of the selloff on Wall Street overnight on a broader “America-off” strategy by all risk markets. Gold is heading higher faster while the USD is losing ground against all the majors yet again. Oil prices remain in flux with
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State government has already ploughed more than $300 million into embattled coal generator, and has now promised more just six months after saying it wouldn't.
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Less than three years after launching its home battery product, Sigenergy has dominated the Australian market, becoming the biggest seller in 2025.
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The next-generation of solar technology could be cheaper, more efficient and a step closer to reality after advances by a team of Australian scientists.
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Kaluza CEO Melissa Gander on the change in technologies, and energy thinking, that will deliver more value to consumers. Plus: News of the week, including solar recycling plan and home battery uptake.
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As Australia's biggest utility stalls on the closure of the biggest coal plant, Andrew Forrest says he is charging towards real zero: "We’re not doing this to be heroic."
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Energy retailers should be required to act in their customers’ best interests, rather than forcing consumers to constantly defend themselves against bad electricity plans.
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When DemosAU released its latest federal polling last week, it brought a deeply unwelcome set of news for an already struggling Coalition; they were now neck and neck with One Nation for primary vote, with both parties at 23%. The transformation of the nation’s polling landscape since the election is remarkable. One Nation has seen
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Cotality has a rather hopeful press release. Momentum returns to the building sector The Cordell Construction Cost Index (CCCI) recorded a 1.0% increase in construction costs nationally over the December 2025 quarter, the strongest quarterly growth of the year. This marks a notable acceleration compared with the previous quarterly increases of 0.4%, 0.5%, and 0.6%,
Charts from TME. Is there a relationship between the Japanese long end and gold? Maybe. If so, YCC would create a divorce. Gold volatility says there’s no panic yet. Same regarding speculators. CTAs are more fully invested. The miner’s leverage to prices is normal. A few overheated signs. My own view is that gold is
When an Australian major party loses a federal election, it produces an internal report, or, as elements of the media describe it, an autopsy of what went wrong and what may have been managed better. The report into the disastrous campaign and defeat of the Coalition was in its final stages when former Liberal Leader
ANZ – Consumer Confidence at Royal Morgan slumped 5.2 points to 79.3 points from 5.2 points last week. This was the biggest weekly decline in confidence since the RBA raised the cash rate to 3.35% in February 2023. After a modest recovery following the implementation of Stage 3 tax cuts in July 2024, consumer confidence
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In 2012, the Gillard government declared that the 21st century would be the “Asian Century”, and produced a White Paper detailing its expectations for how things would play out, entitled “Australia in the Asian Century”. It included expectations such as a baseline scenario predicting China would grow at 7% each year from 2012 to 2025,
