The Week’s Edge

Gold’s been strutting around like it owns the place. At a time when the tech-heavy Nasdaq is also rampaging higher. Hardly risk-off flows! An everything bull market.

There’s a lot of noise about gigawatts, turbines and high-voltage lines. But the sleeper move in Canberra’s latest energy package is in liquid fuels.

Last week the government earmarked $1.1 billion over the next decade to seed a domestic biofuels industry, including sustainable aviation fuel. It’s not flashy like offshore wind…

Unless you’ve been living under a coal stack, you’ve probably noticed the chatter.

Australia is changing.

Quiet, odourless, smokeless change.

Big batteries are steadily popping up across the country. They’re grid-connected Virtual Power Plants (VPP). And they’re now fueling your iced mocha latte maker. Which means they’re fueling YOU!

Money is stupid.

For all the elaborate innovations in modern finance, from intricate derivatives and sprawling Quantitative Easing (QE) programs to complex monetary policy frameworks, our money still has the sophistication of bronze-age coins dressed up in digital disguise.

War.

War never changes.

And war in the Middle East is seemingly never too far away. The latest flare-up is between Israel and Iran. As you’ve no doubt heard, Israel has launched ‘pre-emptive’ strikes against Iran’s ability to manufacture nuclear weapons.

Aussie investors have predicted strong rate cuts in 2025. The expectation has been over 125 basis points of cuts for the year. That includes the February cut the RBA has already delivered.

Unless you’ve been living under a coal stack, you’ve probably noticed the chatter.

Australia is changing.

Quiet, odourless, smokeless change.

Big batteries are steadily popping up across the country. They’re grid-connected Virtual Power Plants (VPP). And they’re now fueling your iced mocha latte maker. Which means they’re fueling YOU!

There’s something stirring beneath the surface of the global financial system. You can’t see it in the headlines. You won’t find it on your CommSec homepage. But it’s there—quiet, monstrous, and ready to burst.

Unless you’ve been living under a coal stack, you’ve probably noticed the chatter.

Australia is changing.

Quiet, odourless, smokeless change.

Big batteries are steadily popping up across the country. They’re grid-connected Virtual Power Plants (VPP). And they’re now fueling your iced mocha latte maker. Which means they’re fueling YOU!

Australia is barreling towards the 2025 federal election, and the big-ticket topics are sucking up all the oxygen in the conversation. Medicare, cost of living, national security and a housing shortage. But there’s an economic elephant in the room that no one in Canberra wants to name for fear of uttering a four-letter word.