1+ day, 16+ 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, 15+ hour ago   (128+ words) AFR Intellihub, owned 50-50 by Pacific Equity Partners and Brookfield, is weighing the prospects of Evie Networks, owner of the country’s largest network of ultra-fast chargers for electric vehicles. The smart metering player is trying Evie for a fit with its…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (80+ words) AFR The energy minister getting free accommodation from someone so invested in the dubious carbon credit scheme looks slightly off. Peta Credlin calls him a “clown” and the “minister for failure”. Andrew Bolt a “fact free idiot”. Rowan Dean a…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (99+ words) afr.com Electricity use by data centres in NSW is expected to expand four times as much in the next 10 years as was expected 12 months ago, underscoring the huge expansion needed in renewables, storage and transmission to meet demand while…...

3+ day, 58+ min ago   (105+ words) AFR Political elites have much to fear from the ‘little-people’ talking among themselves. It is perfectly understandable that the government would hate uncontrolled conversation. At a time when productivity is collapsing, along with real wages and our standard of living,…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (93+ words) AFR Investors listening in on earnings calls over the last month would have been inundated with management eagerly spruiking their company’s pivot toward artificial intelligence – regardless of whether the business actually uses it. About 60 per cent of Australia’s 200 biggest companies…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (122+ words) afr.com A well-credentialed bidder has swerved the first round of this year’s biggest auction, the $28 billion-plus sale of Stack Infrastructure’s data centres in the Asia Pacific region. Macquarie Asset Management did not submit an indicative offer for the Stack…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (43+ words) AFR Tweaking the edges of ‘what’ gets served to us (i.e. through algorithmic adjustments) and leaving the business model of digital services untouched, won’t get us to where we need to go....

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (80+ words) AFR Ellerston Capital’s chief investment officer David Keelan is a superstitious man and doesn’t like to tempt fate by doing a victory lap before he feels the victory is won. It’s likely to have been a useful inhibition during his…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (95+ words) AFR The 80/20 rule, also known as Pareto politics, has become the ultimate playbook for modern business titans and disruptors. A centuries-old principle developed by Italian polymath Vilfredo Pareto is being embraced by the likes of Elon Musk. Harry Afentoglou Trying…...