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It’s absolute negligence on the banks’ behalf and it’s an embarrassment internationally.'
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Jenée Tibshraeny: Are all these mortgage rate hikes justified?
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Financial Times: New independence policies a challenge to other Big Four accounting firms.
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An ambitious timetable to deliver the world’s newest fighter jet
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Possible govt bond supply glut could cost taxpayers - economist
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Opinion: China’s demand dilemma could spell trouble for the world
FT: Other G20 countries should signal consensus against Beijing running a big surplus.
Opinion: The new scramble for space requires a fresh set of rules
FT: Once the preserve of powerful nations - soon, this will no longer be the case.
Universal Music strikes deal to reshape streaming economics
Financial Times: It's the first big shift in the music streaming business model since 2008
Apple and Microsoft in fight over iMessage and Bing ‘gatekeeper’ label
FT: EU aims to curb Big Tech as it lists services to be regulated under digital act.
Reserve Bank of Australia keeps rates on hold, cites China as a risk
But the bank has left the door open for further rate hikes.
ASB hikes fixed mortgage rates as borrowers snub floating rates
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SkyCity Entertainment Group among those ‘blacklisted’ by $5.2b fund manager
Fossil fuels, porn, gambling among industries off-limits to "ethical" investment group.
Why the electric vehicle battery race needs a recycling revolution
Financial Times: Uncertainty over which cells will power tomorrow’s cars.
Economists grow gloomier on 2024 as central banks delay rate cuts
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Australia revamps hydrogen push to reshape economy
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China’s economic slowdown reverberates across Asia
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Sasha Borissenko: Mainzeal case serves as warning for other directors
OPINION: It wouldn't be surprising if the appetite for directorships declined as a result.
Cooling US economy gives Fed breathing room on interest rates
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Sickness and work is a disaster that must be fixed
An increasing number of younger people are suffering disabilities so bad they can't work.
Everton suitor 777 hails new era of football ‘hyper commercialisation’
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Business confidence on the rise as inflation expectations fall
ANZ describes the latest outlook survey results as being in "the Goldilocks" zone.
Opinion: Russia still has options to sustain its creaking war economy
Financial Times: Russia displays many classic symptoms of a wartime economy.
Opinion: The five global economic shifts happening now
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ATM skimmers clean out woman's bank account
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Anatomy of a corporate disaster: What went wrong at Mainzeal?
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China’s shoppers hesitate to spend big in face of deflation
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