2+ hour, 37+ min ago   (115+ words) AFR Toronto-listed Element Fleet Management Corporation has pulled out of the auction for FleetPartners, one of Australia’s largest providers of leased cars which was put into play in July. Element, advised by JPMorgan, is the only FleetPartners’ suitor to not…...

2+ hour, 54+ min ago   (99+ words) AFR Two super funds, an asset consultant and four fund managers debate whether Australia’s public equity markets and its biggest players are working as they should. Big superannuation funds have built in-house equities teams and shifted huge amounts of money…...

5+ hour, 4+ min ago   (77+ words) Pacific Equity Partners Tony Duthie steps into his ‘venerables’ era AFR Major changes are on the horizon for storied dealmaker Tony Duthie, once viewed as heir apparent at the country’s biggest private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners. Duthie, who joined…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (119+ words) The chooks discuss the growing sense of panic inside Australia’s property industry, and look ahead to the next big test for markets. This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald examine the growing sense of panic inside…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (110+ words) AFR Investors are bracing for the global bond storm to wreak havoc on still-elevated share market valuations as a sharp spike in oil prices adds to fears that the Reserve Bank will be forced to tip the economy into recession…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (91+ words) AFR Nvidia says its chips will be drawing more energy in Australia next year than all the nation’s existing data centres use today, as it flagged plans for an extra two gigawatts of capacity to power artificial intelligence. The United…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (60+ words) AFR In today’s news, Australia’s sharemarket suffers its worst day since March, investors just showed Scott Bessent who’s really boss, and Bathla’s collapse is being compared to the GFC. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe....

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (91+ words) Google makes $21b investment in AI and nuclear power in Finland AFR Helsinki | Alphabet’s Google will invest at least €13 billion ($21 billion) in artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland over the next two years and has signed its first nuclear power contract outside…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (88+ words) AFR JB Hi-Fi is proving itself to be the pin-up of the “softening Australia” sell-off. It’s a lesson all blue chips should heed. JB Hi-Fi shares are tanking harder than Sydney property prices, yet for some reason no one’s talking…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (98+ words) Banned Garry Crole shares First Guardian and Shield’s lessons from Warren Buffett AFR The Oracle of Omaha’s annual letter to shareholders has inspired a litany of copycat newsletters. When Warren Buffett famously declared “it takes 20 years to build a reputation…...