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Australia Home Prices Flatline as Rate Hikes, Tax Changes Weigh

Australian home prices stagnated last month, with growth weakening across most major cities as higher borrowing costs and tax reforms sapped demand.

Newly built houses in the Denham Court suburb of Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. One of the developed world’s last remaining doves turned hawkish as Australia’s central bank rocked markets with a bigger-than-expected interest-rate hike in the middle of an election campaign.
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NZ Should Have ‘Conversation’ on Nuclear Stance, Minister Says

New Zealand Defence Minister Chris Penk said the country should have a “conversation” about its long-standing anti-nuclear policy, as its ally Australia acquires nuclear-powered submarines.

New Zealand Defence Minister Chris Penk, left, with Lithuania's Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas. Photographer: Jam Sta Rosa/AFP/Getty Images
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Australian Budget to Support Debt, Hit Consumer Stocks: Analysts

Australian bonds may find longer-term support after an initial selloff, while consumer-linked shares may come under pressure following tax changes unveiled in the fiscal 2027 budget, analysts said.

Pedestrians at promenade, opposite the Sydney Opera House, are reflected in a building at The Rocks in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Sydney had a record number of Covid-19 infections, accounting for the bulk of cases in New South Wales as Australia’s most populous state battles to contain the spread of the highly infectious delta variant. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg
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BlueScope Shares Slip After Spurning Steel Dynamics, SGH Bid

BlueScope Steel Ltd. shares slipped after it turned down the latest takeover approach from the US’s Steel Dynamics Inc., arguing an $8.8 billion joint offer with Australian conglomerate SGH Ltd. “very significantly” undervalued its assets.

Slit steel coil rolls at BlueScope Steel Ltd. Port Kembla steelworks in Port Kembla, Australia, on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. The world's two biggest miners, BHP Group Ltd. and Rio Tinto Group, are teaming up in a bid to develop Australia's first electric-smelting furnace, in what could prove an important step toward slashing emissions in the steel-making process.
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