Australia’s rush into exchange traded funds risks leaving investors unaware of the fees they pay and where their money goes, a stockbroking boss has warned.
Ryan Johnson
Premier Roger Cook and WA’s crucial resources sector are scrambling to figure out if a landmark High Court ruling on carbon emissions could kill off major projects.
Adrian Rauso
Defence Minister Richard Marles suggests the Federal Government is unlikely to raise concerns over a proposed $1.7 billion purchase of Austal’s US shipyard.
Sean Smith
The heavy rare earths hopeful that could break Australia’s delicate trade relationship with China has missed an investment deadline for its project in north-east WA.
The Prime Minister is set to ramp up regulations around artificial intelligence data centres as he doubles down on their importance to the nation’s future economy and sovereignty.
Adrian Lowe
The number of investment approvals into Australia fell by more than 22 per cent in one year as the government made it harder for foreign investors to buy homes.
Jacob Shteyman
America’s $US40 trillion debt mountain is rattling one of investing’s oldest safety nets, with Australian Retirement Trust warning bonds could fall alongside shares instead of cushioning a market rout.
Donald Trump may want Australian critical minerals, but there’s seemingly no place in the US for a company from a long trusted ally to help expand its navy.
Australia has lost out on a huge amount of investment thanks to “increasingly hostile” government policies that have forced the resources sector into decline, new research claims.
Rebecca Le May
The Federal Government has moved to block three China-linked shareholders of rare earths miner Northern Minerals from voting or exercising other rights after defying earlier orders to sell their stock.
Daniel Newell
Wesfarmers boss Rob Scott has warned Australia’s ‘less hospitable tax settings’ could force companies investing in the nation’s resources and oil and gas sectors offshore.
Cheyanne Enciso
The Albanese Government’s fourth intervention to purge Northern Minerals’ share register of mysterious Chinese entities has been defended by Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
Australia should be ‘unleashing’ its oil and gas sector instead of controlling it as Canada plots to snaffle our markets, Santos boss Kevin Gallagher says.
Northern Minerals is hoping the Federal Government’s fourth intervention to rid its register of mysterious Chinese entities will be the last as the miner welcomes orders for their stakes to be sold.
Australia has been told to ‘earnestly respect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese investors’ after the Albanese government forced the hand over several Beijing-linked companies.
Andrew Greene and Daniel Newell
Treasurer Chalmers continues to play whack-a-mole with mysterious Chinese investors in WA rare earths hopeful Northern Minerals.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
High demand in the economy is driving the high rental yields benefitting commercial property investors.
Kim Macdonald
The new investment lifts taxpayer support for the critical minerals play and its flagship Northern Territory project past $1.2 billion.
Jim Chalmers has now banned the Chinese-linked shareholders from voting their shares at the rare earth play’s next annual meeting.
Macquarie chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake has told a gathering in Washington that Australia’s superannuation funds will soon be larger than the UK or Canada.
Amy Bainbridge and Enda Curran
A mysterious Chinese investor has abruptly aborted attempts to overthrow Northern Minerals’ leadership.
WA has soared back up a list of the globe’s best mining spots but it has still been overshadowed by South Australia’s rapid rise.
Uncle Sam and Australia’s export bank are willing to tip nearly $1 billion into a proposed nickel-cobalt project 70 kilometres out from Kalgoorlie as part of a joint critical minerals resilience drive.
Simone Grogan
A Zijin Mining Group subsidiary has agreed to buy Allied Gold, which owns gold mines in Africa, for $C5.5 billion ($5.8b) in the latest step in the Chinese company’s rapid growth.
William Clowes
