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- Cryptocurrencies
The $393 billion crypto craze that could one day threaten banks
Donald Trump is a fan of these digital assets, and some analysts agree they are genuinely useful for moving money and could challenge lending giants.
- Clancy Yeates
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The state with the slowest economy since the turn of the century
The International Monetary Fund has urged the federal government to go bold on tax reform to help lift the nation’s economy.
- Shane Wright
- Opinion
- Global economy
The glass half-full economy has rarely looked so good
Six months after the White House unveiled steep tariffs, the global economy has held up well. Just imagine how things could be humming without some self-inflicted wounds.
- Daniel Moss
A new ocean front opens in Trump’s trade wars
“The shipping news weren’t good this week” as both the US and China started implementing hefty port fees on each other’s vessels.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
Lovers are turning to lab-grown diamond rings in record numbers. It’s left this country reeling
The increasing popularity of lab-grown gems is creating the biggest disruption in the diamond market since early last century.
- Mbongeni Mguni and Matthew Hill
- Opinion
- Trade wars
It’s chess, not checkers: China can play the long game against Trump
Donald Trump thinks trade is a zero-sum game. Xi Jinping appears happy to wait for the trade war to backfire on the US president.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- Oil
Trump’s billionaire oil industry donors aren’t getting what they wished for
The US president said “drill, baby, drill” but his tariffs tanked the commodity’s price and they could reduce, not increase, production.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
‘Trump is doing permanent damage’: What’s got global market leaders spooked?
The meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this past week have been dominated by the future of a key building block of globalisation.
- Colby Smith
- Opinion
- Australia votes
After polling day, our leaders will come clean about the trouble we’re in
By pretending that a planet-scale upheaval is not happening, our political leaders are not helping Australia deal with it.
- Peter Hartcher
- Opinion
- Elon Musk
The MAGA crew is waving white flags towards the Fed, China and Tesla investors
Tuesday wasn’t a great day for Donald Trump and his MAGA mates. But it was a great day for financial markets.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz