Miriam Steffens
Miriam Steffens is Associate Digital Editor, Business for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times and WAtoday.
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More than $50b wiped off ASX as miners and banks fall; Oil prices climb
The losses came after falls on Wall Street and other markets around the world, as oil prices leaped even higher on worries about the widening war with Iran.
- Miriam Steffens
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Higher bid for Bluescope likely after board rejects Stokes’ $13bn offer
Billionaire Kerry Stokes’ business conglomerate and its bidding partner Steel Dynamics are likely to make another bid for Bluescope, analysts predict.
- Miriam Steffens and Kishor Napier-Raman
BlueScope weighs $13b carve-up bid from Stokes and US firm
Billionaire Kerry Stokes’ business conglomerate SGH Limited has linked up with US steelmaker Steel Dynamics to take over and then split up Australia’s biggest steelmaker.
- Miriam Steffens and Kishor Napier-Raman
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ASX posts $100b rally as it goes from fear to frenzy
The Australian sharemarket posted its biggest jump in five years on Thursday after Wall Street had its third-best day since World War II following Donald Trump’s stunning tariffs reversal.
- Miriam Steffens and Nick Newling
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- Mergers & acquisitions
‘Money from heaven’: The Reject Shop set for $259m sale to Canadian giant
Australia’s largest discount variety retailer could soon be in Canadian hands.
- Miriam Steffens and Gemma Grant
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ASX loses more than $50b in two days as Trump’s tariffs kick in
The sharemarket accelerated its sell-down on Wednesday after Donald Trump ruled out exempting Australia from 25 per cent tariffs on aluminium and steel.
- Miriam Steffens
ASX starts 2025 with a bang, defying a Wall Street hangover
Miners and energy stocks pushed the Australian sharemarket into the green in the first trading day of the year even after Wall Street ended the year on a sombre note.
- Daniel Lo Surdo and Miriam Steffens
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Miners drive ASX higher; Baby Bunting surges, Yancoal falls
The Australian sharemarket edged higher on Tuesday, buoyed by stronger commodity prices and a global wave of investor bets that the US Federal Reserve is close to cutting interest rates.
- Miriam Steffens and Clancy Yeates
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PwC’s government business gets new name after $1 sale to private equity
PwC Australia’s government business will become a new company called Scyne Advisory, having been offloaded to private equity firm Allegro Funds in a $1 fire sale.
- Jessica Yun and Miriam Steffens
Dividend-tax trades were criminal and ‘blatant’ money grab, German court says
Cum-Ex trading, which involved dozen of global banks including Macquarie Bank, was illegal and can be punished as crimes, Germany’s top criminal court ruled.
- Josefine Fokuhl, Karin Matussek, Miriam Steffens and Clancy Yeates