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More Chinese tourists means higher house prices

July 15, 2025 - 00:10 -- Admin

This is wrong in every way that matters. Yahoo. Australia’s tourism sector says it is “great to see” Anthony Albanese spruiking the country’s postcard-perfect tourism offerings to would-be Chinese holiday-makers in Shanghai The Prime Minister on Sunday witnessed Tourism Australia sign a deal with Chinese travel giant Trip.com to promote Australia as the place to

Macro Afternoon

July 14, 2025 - 16:00 -- Admin

An uneasy start to the trading week as markets react to further bullying on trade from the Trump regime, with distracting letters sent to the EU and Mexico over the weekend. The USD was up slightly on the weekend gap before losing those gains later in the session as the EU indicated it will just

June 2025 MB Fund Performance

July 14, 2025 - 14:00 -- Admin

The financial year-end, 30 June, was volatile. After all was said and done, our international fund finished up over 18%, and our Australian fund finished up over 15%. Our tactical growth finished up over 12%. All of our funds look attractive relative to their benchmarks, especially as they were all significantly less volatile than the

The greatest ever copper trade

July 14, 2025 - 13:30 -- Admin

Bloomberg is out this week talking about the “once-in-a-generation trade” in the copper market: The Aug. 1 deadline for Trump’s 50% copper tariffs signals the endgame for the most profitable trade that industry veterans say they have ever seen… And the traders were only getting started. Trump’s probe fired the starting gun on a massive movement

Neither China nor Australia wants green steel

July 14, 2025 - 12:30 -- Admin

Yawn. The Australian. Anthony Albanese and the ­nation’s biggest miners have made a joint effort to defend the nation’s $100bn iron ore trade with China, with billionaire ­Andrew Forrest warning that Australia faces an urgent race to fast-track a green metals industry or risk losing market share. The Prime Minister will put Australia’s iron ore trade

Taiwan should defend Taiwan

July 14, 2025 - 12:00 -- Admin

As usual, everybody is asking the wrong question. AFR. The Trump administration’s undersecretary for policy, Elbridge Colby, is already leading a review into the AUKUS agreement between Australia, the US and the United Kingdom, and increasingly pushing for firmer commitments about how nuclear submarines would be used. Citing five sources, the Financial Times reported that Colby had asked Australia and

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