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US Fed hold decision bets persist despite softer CPI, and one BIG question mark for jobs

It's been an interesting weekend for U.S. economic data, if you can really call economic data…
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Trump’s got a new Fed head, Kevin Warsh – but til May, Powell’s in the chair. Expect a March hold

When Trump announced he would be picking Kevin Warsh to be the new Federal Reserve chief (or FedHead, if you’d prefer), it put
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We’ve long had ‘Shariah loans’. Now Vatican Bank is launching Catholic stock indexes

If you were looking for some left-of-field news from the world of markets and finance on this Wednesday morning, look no further than
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NIKKEI surges to records after Japanese election. Stimmy checks are probably part of that

While Week 7's Wall Street recovery is part of the story, here's why we've been seeing…
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Ahead of Trump-Xi April meeting, China reportedly asks banks to drop US T-bonds

Even ahead of a meeting between Trump and Xi in April, Bloomberg reports indicate China has…
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Kazakhstan strikes again: Uranium falls off everything rally as CY26 output set for boost

Uranium prices have fallen off the 'everything rally' wagon, largely because major Kazakh miner Kazatomprom is…
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A new ‘crypto winter’ is here. Why, for how long, and what does it tell us?

With crypto crown jewel Bitcoin back to fetching some US$75,660 per coin just after close on Monday (Sydney time), it’s fair to say
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That’s not footy: Trump changes goalposts on US gov’t rare earth price support; Aussie REE stocks tank

Beware the ides of March, or maybe January, because Trump, having lost interest in Greenland perhaps, has sent shockwaves through the rare earth
An AI generated image of a bull headed trader made from silver.

Measuring ETF turnover, silver’s hotter than NVIDIA and index funds. Is it a meme trade?

For those investors who have the balls to go against crowdthink when a lot of money is being made – a type of
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Less than two weeks into CY26, Trump moves to arrest Fed Chair Jerome Powell

We’re less than two weeks into 2026, and Donald Trump wants to arrest Jerome Powell on criminal charges.