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Big bank clips rates as RBA mulls next move

Strong retail spending figures are not expected to deter the Reserve Bank from cutting rates at its next meeting as one big bank lowers fixed-rate loans.

AAP

What happens if Thames Water goes bankrupt?

The government could take ownership of the water company – along with its £16bn debt pile

The Independent UK

China's in the driver's seat as EV sales are set to keep growing into 2025

China “will add nearly twice as many EV sales next year as the rest of the world combined," predicts Rho Motion's Will Roberts.

Fortune

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Why Wall Street Sees Major Upside for PayPal Stock

Some investors are wondering whether the rally in PayPal is over, yet other indicators show that there's more potential upside left.

MarketBeat

Australia’s Macquarie offers to buy UK-listed waste management firm Renewi for £700m

Firms reach preliminary agreement on financial terms of deal that values Renewi at 870p a share

The Guardian - UK

FCA fines Macquarie Bank £13m for fictitious trades amid ‘serious failings’

Trader was able to record more than 400 fictitious trades over a period of 20 months, says watchdog

The Guardian - UK

Macquarie fined £13m by City watchdog after fake trades

Fake trades were not detected earlier because of ‘significant weaknesses’ in the bank’s systems and controls, the regulator said.

Evening Standard

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Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary picks ‘enshittification’ as word of 2024

Judging committee says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.

Al Jazeera

London City, Bristol and Birmingham airports reportedly for sale

Canadian pension fund said to be in talks with minority shareholders as it seeks to cash in on post-Covid revival

The Guardian - UK

Scandal-hit Thames Water blocked from paying 'undeserved' bonuses for top bosses from customers' money

Eight other water firms won’t be using customers’ funds to pay bonuses

Evening Standard

Southern Water gets rating downgrade amid ‘challenging funding conditions’

Southern’s latest downgrade by Fitch follows a similar move by ratings agency Moody’s earlier in November.

Evening Standard

Owner of Aberdeen, Southampton and Glasgow airports sold in £1.53bn deal

AGS Airports, joint venture of Ferrovial and Macquarie, to be sold to AviAlliance for £900m along with £653m in debt

The Guardian - UK

Home loans boost Macquarie as profit disappoints

Weaker commodities and markets revenues have hurt profits at financial services group Macquarie but its growing mortgage book has paid dividends.

AAP

China unveiled more stimulus actions for its property sector—investors weren’t pleased, again

Some analysts were hoping for Beijing to expand a program that would allow the government to act as a buyer of last resort.

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The Guardian - UK

Don’t indulge the Thames Water whingers next week, prime minister

Labour should stand firm at its investors summit and remind attenders that the UK’s utilities sector is eminently investable

The Guardian - AU

Lucy’s job should be more secure – but at Australian universities, labour laws are having the opposite effect

Closing loopholes bill was designed to offer a pathway to full-time work but some casual academics say it’s not a reality

International Business Times

Blackstone-led Consortium Nears $13.5B Deal To Buy Australia's AirTrunk: Report

Blackstone consortium is inching its way closer to acquiring AirTrunk in $13.5 billion deal.

The Guardian - AU

Interactive: pick an Australian CEO and compare their salary with a childcare worker, nurse or teacher

As cost-of-living pressures bite, the country’s highest-paid chief executive earns almost 300 times a typical worker

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The U.S. dollar is weakening because some investors think Kamala Harris will win

The dollar should be relatively strong, yet it’s close to its 2024 low.

Fortune

Trump says the dollar is too strong—but his policies may make it even stronger, bank strategist says

An immigration clampdown, aggressive tax cuts, and heavy tariffs could lift the U.S. dollar even as Trump tries to fight what he calls a "currency problem."

AAP

Macquarie reports subdued earnings, shares slide

Macquarie is taking a cautious stance and conservative approach to capital in 2024/25, as it looks forward to the opening of its new global HQ in Sydney.

The Guardian - AU

Australian CEOs made less in 2023-24 but still earned on average 50 times a typical worker’s wage

Audit finds chief executives of 100 largest listed businesses are more likely to be sacked than lose their bonuses

The Guardian - UK

Debt, sewage and dividends: the rising tide of Thames Water’s troubles

In the second part of our focus on the water industry, we chart the decline of one of the UK’s major utility companies, now on the brink of restructuring or renationalisation

Fortune

France's soaring debt could lead to calls to leave the EU, a top bank warns

Far-left and far-right parties from the political fringes have proposed economic plans that centrist figures ripped as excuses to exit the European Union.

Newcastle Herald

Wests Rosellas won't take any half-chances with veteran playmaker

'We'll probably hold him back until next week'

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