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Canberra sparks gas industry price unrest

12 Dec 2022 - A brawl is looming between Canberra, the East Coast gas industry and some investors over plans the federal government has to force the producers to fix their sales co…

Commodities corner: It takes two to contango

12 Dec 2022 - Once again events in the oil market – led by the looming Fed decision on interest rates this week and its impact on the value of the US dollar – have dominated commod…

Diary: Central by name, Central by nature

12 Dec 2022 - The coming week is being brought to you by the central bank club which sees a mass of meetings from some of its leading members.

Talk aplenty but little action at the Critical Minerals Summit

10 Dec 2022 - On November 25, 2022, the Australian partnered with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to present the Critical Minerals Summit, aimed at answering questions about how Austr…

IEA sees the dying embers of coal's reign

10 Dec 2022 - The International Energy Agency reckons coal has only two and a bit more years before it is overtaken by renewables as the world’s major source of electricity and for…

Beach left stranded in Warrego battle

10 Dec 2022 - The Kerry Stokes-backed Beach Energy (ASX:BPT) has abandoned the takeover battle for Warrego (ASX:WGO), leaving Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Energy seemingly in the box se…

Idling Tesla left in BYD's slipstream

10 Dec 2022 - The pressures on Elon Musk grew this week after it became known that even an all-time record monthly electric vehicle sales performance in the huge Chinese market in …

Iron ore market firing up into the New Year

10 Dec 2022 - Iron ore prices have staged their now familiar late year rebound ahead of the Lunar New Year in China in mid-January 2023, which this year is being helped by the rela…

Stocks of the Hour: Codrus, PhosCo, Warrego Energy

09 Dec 2022 - A snapshot of the stocks on the move, featuring Codrus, PhosCo and Warrego Energy.

Trade slump forces China's hand on Covid protocols

09 Dec 2022 - China’s move to further relax its Covid controls was made easier to understand by trade data for November showing a massive plunge in imports and exports in the worst…

Trans-Tasman Tudbuts: DOW, FSF, AIZ

09 Dec 2022 - Thursday turned out to be a busy day for trans-Tasman stocks on the ASX, with Downer EDI (ASX:DOW), Fonterra (ASX:FSF) and Air NZ (ASX:AIZ) each making headlines.

Vale to spin off, sell stake in metals business

09 Dec 2022 - Brazilian mining giant Vale has confirmed that it will separate its copper, nickel and other metals business and sell a 10% stake in it to an outside shareholder.

Chalice keeps pouring it on at Julimar

09 Dec 2022 - Chalice Mining (ASX:CHN) has further confirmed the world-class potential of its Julimar metals complex area northeast of Perth with a third major strike – a discovery…

Stocks of the Hour: Corazon Mining, Synertec Corporation, Imagion Biosystems

08 Dec 2022 - A snapshot of the stocks on the move featuring Corazon Mining (ASX:CZN), Synertec Corporation (ASX:SOP) and Imagion Biosystems (ASX:IBX).

Oz economy proving a tough beast to slay

08 Dec 2022 - Australia’s economic activity slowed slightly in the three months to September; but in reality, except for a couple of data sets, the national accounts and GDP number…

SkyCity latest to not pass muster with AUSTRAC

08 Dec 2022 - SkyCity Entertainment Group’s (ASX:SKC) Adelaide casino has become the latest gambling operation to face court action over alleged non-compliance with anti-money laun…

Forrest's squadron swoops on CWP Renewables

08 Dec 2022 - Fortescue Metals' Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has made his biggest play yet in renewables with a multi-billion-dollar deal that will see his Squadron Energy subsidiary bu…

Santos managing its capital as oil price tanks

08 Dec 2022 - Great timing by Santos (ASX:STO) on Wednesday.

Fancy moves put Strike back in the Warrego mix

08 Dec 2022 - Strike Energy (ASX:STX) has dealt itself back into the battle for Warrego Energy (ASX:WGO), its 50% partner in the West Erregulla gas field near Perth.

Stocks of the Hour: Red Mountain Mining, 4DS Memory, Golden Deeps

07 Dec 2022 - A snapshot of the stocks on the move featuring Red Mountain Mining (ASX:RMX), 4DS Memory (ASX:4DS) and Golden Deeps (ASX:GED).

Oz budget in deficit for first time in four years

07 Dec 2022 - Yes, we got another rate rise from the Reserve Bank yesterday but there was also an even bigger news item – the country’s first current account deficit in just over f…

Like water off an Aussie farmer's back

07 Dec 2022 - Rural and regional Australia continues to show its resilience as the echoes from the third La Niña in a row spread through agriculture along parts of the East Coast a…

And miles to go before the RBA sleeps on inflation

07 Dec 2022 - The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates for an eighth straight month, lifting its key cash rate by another 0.25% to a 10 year high of 3.1% as it continues to try a…

Chinese EV strength continues to drive lithium

07 Dec 2022 - Record sales of new energy vehicles in China last month has again helped explain the continuing strength in lithium prices.

Stocks of the Hour: Sarytogan Graphite, Ragusa Minerals, Eastern Resources

06 Dec 2022 - A snapshot of the stocks on the move, featuring Sarytogan Graphite (ASX:SGA), Ragusa Minerals (ASX:RAS) and Eastern Resources (ASX:EFE).

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