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Trump Tariffs, AI Boom Rewrite 2025 Markets Worldwide
Trump’s tariff turmoil roils markets in 2025, but AI-led rally lifts global equities and the ASX ~14% from April lows.

Retirees Could Shoulder CSLR Costs as Super Tax Windfall Grows
Super taxes soar: extra $10.9b to the budget, $4.3b in 2025-26, driven by wages and 15% accumulation tax; CSLR levy reform eyed.

New super rules tax earnings for large balances, up to 40% on $10m+
Australian super rules tax earnings on large balances, up to 40% for $10m+, with unrealised gains removed; effective July 1, 2026; industry to consult in Jan.

Mortgage trap in later life: housing debt keeps Australians working longer
Australians risk retirement as property wealth masks crippling debt: half of 55–64 homeowners owe housing debt; average >$230k, pension gap widening.

Weekly wrap: A modest rise to end the week
The Australian share market enjoyed a modest rise to end the week on Friday after a Wall Street rally caused by optimism of more interest rate cuts in the future.
The ASX 200 index closed up 0.5%, or 40 points, to close on 8628.2 points after eight of the 11 sectors rose.

Weekly Wrap: ASX Climbs on Santa Rally as Miners and Gold Stocks Lead Gains
The Santa rally arrived in earnest on the Australian stock exchange as the share market rose the most in almost three weeks on Friday.
A continuing rise in gold stocks and strong gains in miners happened as investors jumped aboard the US interest cuts train, hoping that it was creating a rising market tide that would lift all boats.

Weekly Wrap: Market Higher For A Second Week
Australian shares were up slightly for a second week on Friday with investors hoping for an interest rate cut in the US, even as the chances of a local cut have evaporated.
With the US Fed and the local Reserve Bank both meeting this week to decide on official interest rates, there are still strong hopes the US will cut rate even though still strong Australian inflation have greatly reduced the chances of any cut here.

Weekly Wrap: Australia and the US diverge over interest rates
The past week has been quite a significant one as it became clear that the US and Australia were diverging in a significant way.
Here in Australia the ongoing upward trend in inflation made it clear that there is now little hope of an interest rate cut.

Weekly wrap: Harsh day on ASX wipes off $40 billion
Another bruising day on the Australian share market on Friday saw it shed almost $40 billion and sink to a six-month low as hopes for US rate cuts once again diminished.
The ASX 200 dropped by 136.20 points, or 1.6%, to 8416.50 points as AI worries in the US transferred directly to our market.

Wrap: Four months of gains wiped out in $37 billion rout
A combination of increasing doubts about interest rate cuts, worries about AI overvaluation and a share crunch on Wall Street combined to strip four months of growth off the Australian share market.

沙特阿拉伯在《2030 愿景》中投资 1.6 亿美元开采重要矿产
沙特阿比让自己的能源战略目标更加明确,并在不久前宣布,沙特阿比将在重要的矿产资源上加大投入。 沙特政府在里亚德举行的一年一度的未来矿产论坛(FMF)上提出了一系列新倡议,其中包括投资 1.6 亿美元建设一个矿产开采基地。美元投资于矿物勘探项目。 Diese Maßnahmen ergänzen die saudi-arabische Vision 2030, die umfangreiche Investitionsen in die Erschließung der unerschlossenen Bodenschätze des Landes vorsieht und darauf abzielt, den Beitrag des Bergbaus zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt bis zum Jahr 2030 von 27 Mrd.美元降至 103 百万美元。美元。 锂是重点 全球最大的锂电生产商已经意识到,将化石燃料转化为锂电池的重要性。 沙特光束公司在锂以及其他重要矿物和金属元素(如钾、金、锌、磷和镍)方面的勘探工作取得了重大进展。 Das saudische Ministerium für Industrie und Bodenschätze schätzte Anfang 2024, dass […]

巴西制定 130 万美元的全球能源战略矿产开发计划
巴西金融组织 Finep 和巴西国家经济和社会发展银行(BNDES)发布了一项关于支持企业发展的法令,以加强对该州矿业战略的制定。 两家机构将利用 130 万美元的预算投资于生产、研发和创新(F&E&I)领域,以帮助巴西矿业公司实现能源和碳减排目标。 Finep 是巴西联邦地区政府的一个组织,由科学与技术部监管,为该国的科学与技术提供资金支持。 BNDES 是一家发展银行,由巴西经济部监管,是一家联邦机构。该公司的成立旨在为企业提供长期融资,以促进该州的发展。 可提供信贷 这两家金融机构提供信贷、企业贷款和非抵押贷款,以便在州内开发符合绿色战略的材料。 Finep 主要致力于锂、硒、镍、石墨和硅等材料的开发,以及为电池、光伏电池和电磁铁等组件的生产调动投资。 合作的对象既包括工业设备,也包括试点或示范项目、研究和调查,这些项目和调查都是为了提高新的工业设备的可租用性,同时也是为了促进相关项目和技术的发展。因此,在今后几年的投资中,这一要求将有助于提高投资回报率,因为这些投资回报率在五到十年内都不会低于已开发的材料。 Finep公司总裁塞尔索-潘塞拉(Celso Pansera)表示,巴西的矿产开发战略项目是世界上最好的项目之一。 世界矿物鉴定中心 他指出,巴西拥有世界上最大的铌储量和最大的铌产量、第二大天然石墨储量、最大的镍储量、最大的硒储量和其他储量,以及最大的锂产量和最大的硅产量。 “巴西凭借其丰富的知识和战略性矿产资源储备,在全球能源发展中处于领先地位。Finep 总裁 Celso Pansera 表示:”我们不仅要成为天然资源的提供者,更要成为实现可持续发展的主角,在可再生能源技术的推动下,为人类提供更好的生活质量,无论是现在还是下一代”。 “德国正沿着这条道路前进,它将成为最重要的生产材料供应商之一,在能源和碳减排议程中发挥着重要作用,同时也会在其他技术中得到应用”。 “不同的能源” 国家经济和社会发展银行行长 Aloizio Mercadante 先生向企业家们指出,来自不同生产领域的企业家们都希望获得成功。 他指出:”巴西境内外的建筑商和技术与经验使用者将在巴西建立合作伙伴关系,并为巴西的工业提供最佳的融资机会”。 他指出:”这一举措在矿业领域起到了重要的作用,它将帮助巴西政府实现其目标,在新的工业政治和技术发展以及生态转型计划的背景下改善工业生产。