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DXY held last night. AIUD lifted anyway. CNY meh. Gold yeh. Are all metals AI now? The chosen one returns. EM meh. Is a downtrend forming in junk? Yields edged up. Stocks edged down. The US isn’t going to publish shutdown CPI or job numbers, straight out of Xi Jinping’s playbook. Helping gold. Credit Agricole

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A poll put out by Resolve earlier this month asked respondents to say if they had a positive, neutral, or negative opinion of a list of federal politicians if they had heard of them. What it found was that compared with December last year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had seen his standing improve from -17

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Global wind giant says turbine prices have peaked, but not civil construction costs, and warns more projects must reach FID in 2026 if renewable target is to be met.

At the end of World War II in 1945, international relations quickly coalesced around two superpowers (the USA and the USSR), giving rise to a bipolar world. Since then, the quest for a balance of power, fueled by the space race and the expansion of spheres of influence, has fostered a logic of escalation and a mutual perception of threat that continues to divide relations between Washington and Moscow today.

In succumbing to a lust for the limelight, the ASIO director, Mike Burgess, is not making it easier for the government and citizens to retain confidence in him and the organisation he’s trying to run.

The latest rental data from Cotality suggests that Australia’s rental market has tightened. Rental vacancy rates nationally fell to a new record low of 1.5% in October, down from 2.0% 12 months prior. The number of homes listed for rent across the combined capital cities has fallen to its lowest level on record for an

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Air conditioning is set to become one of the biggest drivers of rising electricity demand, but the IEA says much of this will be met by a new wave of solar investment.

Although I’m not quite sure how much I can offer Mr Zhang’s steel and ironmongery…

Speculation is rife on what caused the spectacular failure of a transformer at the site of Australia's most powerful battery, and what it all means.

A new study from the US shows wind farms lift nearby property values by around 3%, and improve rural schools as well.

JPM on the AI data centre rollout. It is large. The global data center and AI build-out will be an extraordinary and sustained capital markets event. Building out global data center and AI infrastructure and related power supplies could cost over $5 trillion in our view, with at least one consultant calling for $7 trillion

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The ABS updated its biannual series on life expectancy yesterday, and, according to the numbers, you will now, on average, die a few months earlier than before Albo’s election win. We should probably acknowledge some role for COVID, given that the dip has been a global phenomenon. We can ship that home to Albo’s mates

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