Pacific Perspectives

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Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher has signalled he intends to lead the oil and gas group until at least 2028 to guide it through the next stages of major projects, outlasting chairman Keith Spence who…

Grant Berry is a director and portfolio manager of Australian real estate investment trusts at SG Hiscock. The Melbourne-based firm oversees $3.3 billion in assets. Following back-to-back interest rate rises from the Reserve Bank of…

New data shows some retail investors piling into Australian tech companies, whose shares have been smashed by artificial intelligence fears, but a rally in Atlassian shares has come too late to save it from a…

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The country’s largest operator of tollroads has reported slowing growth on some of its major motorways as the conflict in the Middle East sends the price of petrol soaring and pushes drivers toward public transport.…

Investors’ expectations for global growth plummeted in April by the most in four years due to the Iran war, with local fund managers warning that a downturn could be even more pronounced in Australia. The…

First came the keynote speech and the fireside chat. Two years ago, press conferences after every monetary policy decision. Now the Reserve Bank of Australia is launching into the social media age – on Instagram.…

U.S. stock futures were little changed on Wednesday night after both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite rose to fresh records during the regular session. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures both traded around the flatline. Futures tied to the Dow Jones…