Wind finance drought turns into a minor flood, with the second wind project reaching financial close in two days, and the first on Australia's main grid in 2025.
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Guests at the White House Christmas reception fell silent Sunday as President Donald Trump veered way off topic to deliver a cozy holiday tale about … poisonous snakes?
A sea of red across Asian share markets in response to a selloff on Wall Street overnight although the falls are relatively minor locally as its mainly been tech stocks affected. Markets are awaiting the slew of central bank meetings with the BOE tonight and BOJ tomorrow. USD has strengthened a little against some of
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Labor sheds light on just how hot the Cheaper Home Batteries rebate has been running, and just how much money can be saved by pushing smaller systems.
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In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments, Damien Klassen, is joined by Martin North from DFA to unpack eight critical megatrends set to shape markets and investment returns in the years ahead — and why their combined impact could be powerful, complex, and often pulling in very different directions. Download Presentation Slides Here
The cost per kilowatt hour of community batteries has plunged, says Ausgrid, making them competitive even with subsidised home batteries.
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Victoria's offshore wind proponents are ramping up activities, as they await news of the delayed auction, and the proposed port facilities making progress on approvals.
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The US unemployment rate rose to a four-year high of 4.6% in November (survey: 4.5%). The result marked the fifth consecutive monthly increase, reaching its highest level since 2021. Non-farm payrolls rebounded modestly with 64,000 jobs added. This followed a decline of 105,000 jobs in October, largely due to a 162,000 reduction in federal workers
Heading into the release of the official Q2 population and immigration data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), all indicators were pointing to an increase. A record 448,500 net permanent and long-term (NPLT) arrivals were recorded for the first 10 months of 2025: The ABS monthly NPLT arrivals series has historically tracked the official
The appalling Josh Frydenberg has come out blaming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for the atrocity in Bondi. Always a Liberal. In this he is just echoing the bullshit spouted by the monster of Gaza, Netanyahu1.
I’ve been seeing a particular type of chart circulate more frequently: the one plotting the S&P 500’s forward price-to-earnings ratio against the market’s subsequent 10-year returns. At first glance, it looks authoritative — hundreds of data points neatly arranged, a strong downward relationship, and a clear takeaway that today’s high forward P/Es imply a lost
As battles over trade flows and domestic industry intensify worldwide, it’s worth stepping back and reflecting on how this set of circumstances has come to pass. According to an analysis from the Wall Street Journal, the total inflation-adjusted volume of Chinese exports has risen by 44% since 2019. Meanwhile, China’s imports have risen by only
Cotality Pain and Gain Report for the September quarter has been released, which showed that 95.5% of resales made a gross profit, the highest in two decades: The median resale gain hit a record $335,000, up from $315,000 in the previous quarter and $296,000 a year ago. Even adjusted for current values, this is the
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In February, the Coalition and its leader, Peter Dutton, were riding high in the polls as the unofficial election campaign began to unfold. For the first time in the 2022–2025 parliamentary term, the Coalition had a decent lead in the polls, up 52% to 48% in aggregate. Meanwhile, bookies had the Coalition as the odds
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