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MarketsPremiumWall Street climbs as US jobs data boosts rate cut bets

US stocks have opened higher as investors digested November payrolls data and possible implications for interest rate cuts.

Shashwat Chauhan and Purvi Agarwal

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Unions’ ‘repressible’ trolling of gas companies, workers

One industry source said the targeted attacks had caused veteran employees to take extended periods of stress leave. SEE THE POSTS

Dan Jervis-Bardy

Iron orePremiumMacquarie predicts iron ore price to go sub-$US100/t

Analysts at Macquarie reckon Rio Tinto’s gargantuan new iron ore mine in Guinea could tip iron ore supplies into a surplus and push WA’s lifeblood commodity into double digit prices

Simone Grogan

Herd on the TerraceCommentsPremiumSlow Joe cops Grim Reaper hurry-up

Tax office gets nasty with top-notch insolvency lawyer Joe Abberton over $1.5m of alleged debts.

StartupsCommentsPremiumWA distiller raises $1.4m after dangling unique reward

WA gin distillery Old Young’s has raised just over $1.4 million in its latest crowdfunding round after its founder offered a once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world for investors with deep pockets.

Cheyanne Enciso

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Federal Police search miner’s West Perth office

Australian Federal Police have raided the West Perth office of embattled lithium hopeful AVZ Minerals.

Matt Mckenzie

KalGold fills in gap with strategic gold tenement pick up

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has picked up a key tenement that joins its western landholdings at its Pinjin gold project near Kalgoorlie with its eastern tenements, creating one contiguous holding.

James Pearson

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newsPremiumASX finishes week in the red

The ASX 200 has traded down following weak investor sentiment and a key piece of US data coming out overnight.

Cameron Micallef

BULLS N’ BEARSAldoro goes nuts after niobium hits in Namibia

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears Runner of the Week is … Aldoro Resources. The Namibian explorer stacked on 201% after jagging niobium in trenching samples, while Macro Metals, Invion and Petratherm also ran hard.

Craig Nolan

BusinessFive-year energy blueprint greenlights Indigenous power

A national blueprint greenlights access to cheaper, safer power for Indigenous Australians as the market operator reassures ministers about overall supply.

Marion Rae

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Anko goes global with new Philippines stores

Kmart’s booming house brand Anko is set to open more stores in the Philippines as part of the group’s push into international markets.

Cheyanne Enciso

BUSINESS CommentsPremiumWorld’s biggest fund manager unveils 2025 predictions

Global giant BlackRock believes that the business cycle is dead — and AI has a huge role to play in the coming year.

Jackson Hewett

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Police update on worker’s death at Goldfields mine site

A 29-year old man has died at Saturn Metals’ Apollo Hill gold exploration project in the northern Goldfields.

Simone Grogan

NEWSPremiumHuge number of working Australians revealed

The number of Aussies employed since Covid has ballooned by 1.5 million, with one sector in particular leading the way.

Cameron Micallef

Lucrative rolePremiumNats candidate slams Feds’ $1600-a-day ‘transition advocate’

WA Nationals candidate and Keep the Sheep campaigner Paul Brown has labelled Federal Labor’s plan to hire a $1600-a-day live export “transition advocate” an “outrageous misuse” of taxpayer funds.

Adam Poulsen

Reach jags more thick rare earth hits at WA Gascoyne project

Reach Resources has uncovered more thick rare earth hits at its 100 per cent owned Wabli Creek project in WA’s Gascoyne region, hitting an impressive 76m grading 1677 parts per million total rare earth oxides.

Craig Nolan

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NewsPremiumAussies urged to avoid $1bn Christmas trap

Australia’s love of gift giving has gone too far, and the unnecessary Christmas extravagance is costing us $1bn, new research reveals.

Ryan Bourke

MarketsPremiumInvestors brace for US payrolls data, while euro flat

Asian shares have risen and European stocks edged up as investors await a US payrolls report, while the euro is set to be broadly unchanged for the week.

Iain Withers and Stella Qiu

FINANCEPremiumToss a coin for rate cuts in February

The big four bank is holding onto predictions of a rate cut in February following Australia’s anaemic growth figures released on Wednesday.

Cameron Micallef

BUSINESSPremiumCashflow concerns remain biggest concern for business owners

As the cost of living crisis continues to impact small and medium Aussie businesses, thousands of owners have revealed their biggest fear which keeps them up at night.

Cameron Micallef

MarketsAussie shares drop ahead of key US jobs report

The ASX200 has fallen 0.6 per cent ahead of a key US jobs report that could determine whether the Fed cuts interest rates one more time in 2024.

Derek Rose

updatedPremiumCult Aussie fast-food chain to go 24/7

This popular Aussie fast-food chain has announced that several of its stores across the country will be open 24 hours a day.

Thomas Sargeant

UPDATEDPremiumTears as fraudsters lashed for $10m scam

There were gasps and tears as a disgraced construction boss and his co-conspirators were jailed over a “crude” $10m tax fraud scheme.

Adelaide Lang

MiningPNG mine abandoned by Rio 35 years ago at risk of collapse

‘This is a defining moment for Rio Tinto’s social license to operate.’

Paul-Alain Hunt