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Whither The Stock Market?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a new historical high, signaling continued U.S. market strength. Chris Hyzy, CIO at Bank of America Private Bank and Merrill, maintains a positive outlook on U.S. investment opportunities. Current sentiment…
Politics And The Markets 02/08/26
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Ringgit to trade in tight range between RM3.95 and RM3.96 next week
KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit is expected to trade in a tight range, hovering around RM3.95 to RM3.96 next week as the market anticipates more catalysts, including the upcoming US economic data. Bank Muamalat Malaysia Bhd chief economist Dr Mohd…
Apple (AAPL) Should Be Up Again, Says Jim Cramer
We recently published 12 Stocks on Jim Cramer's Radar. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the stocks on Jim Cramer's radar. Consumer electronics giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of Jim Cramer's favorite stocks. The CNBC TV host continues to…
Historic Win Pits Takaichi's Vision of Japan Against the Markets
Back in October, Sanae Takaichi struggled to wrangle enough seats in parliament to become prime minister. Now she has the biggest election mandate of any Japanese leader since World War II. The surprisingly large victory margin allows the staunch…
Top banks trial stablecoin loan deals, but a bigger threat is looming
Australian banks and super funds are taking their first tentative steps in the use of stablecoins, deploying the digital currency in trial capital market transactions to speed up settlement times and reduce costs. Offshore, stablecoins are…
Extreme US weather will buoy Macquarie's profit, but headwinds abound
Macquarie's chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake and her commodities and global markets lieutenant, Simon Wright, were keeping close tabs on the wild weather battering parts of the US in late January. As a severe winter storm engulfed the…
Cobre preps $50m raising for M&A; Tribeca, BlackRock back the deal
Cobre, the copper and silver explorer capitalised at $81 million on the ASX, is ready to make an M&A bet and has found backers willing to bankroll the transaction. Street Talk can reveal the mining junior is closing in on the acquisition of Chile's…
Software start-up for physios nets $46m from top Aussie athletes, US VC
An Adelaide-based start-up delivering practice management software to over 20,000 allied health professionals has secured its first offshore backer, attracting US venture capital firm Spectrum Equity to its latest funding round. Street Talk can…
GIP restarts $565m-a-year Pacific National sale; sale flyers sent
Global Infrastructure Partners' Rob Stewart is ready to get the monkey off his back. People briefed on the matter who requested anonymity said Stewart, GIP's managing partner and an elder statesman in Asia-Pacific infrastructure circles, has told…
Non-bank lender Pepper Money in late-stage privatisation talks
ASX-listed Pepper Money is in advanced discussions to be privatised, five years after majority shareholder KKR listed the non-bank lender on the local bourse. Pepper, capitalised at $785 million, is circa 60 per cent owned by the global buyout…
Paying staff with shares is getting tougher for burnt software giants
Mizuho's veteran technology analyst Gregg Moskowitz summed up the state of utter bewilderment during Atlassian's earnings call on Friday morning. The Nasdaq-listed software firm's shares had plunged 40 per cent this year. But the company was…
Crescent revives Hall Contracting exit plans, brings in bankers
It took Michael Alscher's Crescent Capital Partners a few years to nurse Hall Contracting back to health after its COVID-19 blues. But the business, billed as Australia's biggest privately owned dredging and marine infrastructure company, is now in…
Business People: Former IRS deputy counsel Teri Jackson joins Fredrikson
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fredrikson, Minneapolis, announced that attorney Teri L. Jackson has joined its Tax Disputes & Litigation Group in the Minneapolis office. Jackson previously served as deputy area counsel for the IRS…
Bank chairs backtracking on climate commitments could face shareholder revolts
Bank chairs who water down their lenders' climate commitments this year could face embarrassing shareholder revolts as campaigners try to hold bosses to account for environmental backtracking. ShareAction, a campaign group for responsible…
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