Some of Australia’s big institutional investors seek growth in nascent local private debt market to take advantage of high interest rates and banks’ rejection of riskier loans. IFM Investors, owned by the country’s main pension funds, has seen its Australian debt portfolio grow to 12 billion Australian dollars (US$8 billion), which includes private credit, around ...
Australia to buy US missiles at a cost of 7 billion Australian dollars (US$4.7 billion) to increase its long-range strike capability, and Defense Industry Minister Pat Conroy warned of “the biggest arms race” in the region since 1945. Conroy announced the purchase of the Standard Missile Block IIIC and Standard Missile-6 during a visit to ...
Ukraine attacked a military explosives manufacturer on Russian territory, as well as the storage infrastructure of a military airfield in the Lipetsk region, overnight. as reported by the kyiv General Staff in a statement on Sunday. Russian air defense units shot down 110 Ukrainian drones over the country, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, andAmong ...
Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for helping start the war with Russia, a comment that further suggests that Trump will likely radically change US policy towards Russia if he wins the November 5 election. The former Republican president has frequently criticized Zelensky during the election campaign, repeatedly calling him “the biggest ...
President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will not allow Ukraine to obtain nuclear weapons, after the Ukrainian leader said that, Since kyiv had given up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons, it had to join NATO. Putin said any move by Ukraine to obtain nuclear weapons could not be hidden and would provoke an appropriate Russian ...
SIM Distribuidora, the buyer, has more than 500 service stations, in addition to lubricant distribution activities French oil company TotalEnergies agreed to sell a network of about 240 retail service stations and several oil product storage facilities in Brazil to a subsidiary of Grupo Argentina, the company reported on Friday. SIM Distributor, the buyer, It ...
Streaming video pioneer Netflix gained 5.1 million subscribers in the third quarter, surpassing Wall Street estimates by more than one million users, the company reported in its earnings report on Thursday. Netflix shares were volatile in after-hours trading. Investors expected Netflix to add 4 million subscribers between July and September, according to analyst estimates compiled ...
An Israeli attack on the port city of Latakia, on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, It caused a fire early on Thursday, the Syrian state news agency Sana reported. Firefighters were working to extinguish the flames, Sana added. Two people were injured and several private properties were damaged, state media reported, citing a military statement. Syrian state ...
The vice president’s campaign has been boosted by the recent endorsement of former Representative Liz Cheney and the support of other Republicans opposed to Donald Trump, developments that his team believes reinforce his attempt to win over more Republican voters in battleground states than previous Democrats. To highlight that momentum, Harris will appear Wednesday with ...
blackstonethe world’s largest alternative asset manager, plans to invest 7.5 billion euros ($8.2 billion) in the development of data centers in Aragon, northeast of Spainthus boosting the region’s growing status as one of the leading cloud computing centers in Europe. The venture capital fund United States will follow technology giants like Microsoft and amazon who ...
