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EU chief wants to close trade agreements with Australia, Mexico and Mercosur this year

EU chief wants to close trade agreements with Australia, Mexico and Mercosur this year

The European Union should try to complete free trade agreements with Australia, Mexico and the South American bloc Mercosur before the end of the year, declared the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday. Von der Leyen told the European Parliament in her annual State of the Union address that the ...

Australian Tax Office defrauded through TikTok fraud

Australian Tax Office defrauded through TikTok fraud

Financial Diary – Santiago “Deposit a large amount of money, easily and in just two minutes“With these words, a massive fraud that has affected the Australian Tax Office, ATO, went viral on social media – specifically, TikTok -. Thousands of taxpayers filled out the form that allowed them to obtain income from up to US$50,000 ...

Australian inflation accelerates, keeping the rise of various rates in play

Australian inflation accelerates, keeping the rise of various rates in play

Australia’s monthly inflation gauge acceleratedreflecting global trends amid higher oil prices, rstrengthening the case for the Reserve Bank go up at least one more time. The consumer price indicator increased 5.2% in August compared to the previous year, matching economists’ estimates, Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed on Wednesday. The result contrasts three months of ...

Glencore to close Australian Mount Isa mines in 2025, affecting several jobs

Glencore to close Australian Mount Isa mines in 2025, affecting several jobs

Mining and trading company Glencore cwill fail its three underground copper mines in Mount Isa, Australia, at the end of 2025, which will mean the loss of about a thousand jobsas reported on Tuesday by the Australian Financial Review newspaper. The company, however, will keep its refinery and smelters open in Central Queenslandaccording to the ...

European Commission will intensify control of the commercial practices of influencers

European Commission will intensify control of the commercial practices of influencers

The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it will intensify its surveillance of the commercial practices of social media leaders, Also known as influencers, seeking to protect customers, a market whose value is estimated at around €20 billion (US$21.16 billion). The Commission will work with national authorities in the coming weeks to examine online publications ...

Codelco agrees to acquire the Australian Lithium Power for US$244 million

Codelco agrees to acquire the Australian Lithium Power for US$244 million

Financial Diary – Santiago Codelco reached an agreement to acquire 100% of the Australian mining company Lithium Power International (LPI) for US$244 million. The company owns Minera Salar Blanco in Chile, which has lithium extraction projects in the Salar de Maricunga. The state copper company, which also has an interest in said basin, said that ...

Australian jobs recover thanks to higher rates and falling currency

Australian jobs recover thanks to higher rates and falling currency

Australian employment was weaker than expected in September, reflecting the Reserve Bank’s assessment that the labor market has reached a “tipping point”while fewer people looking for work lowered the unemployment rate. The economy added 6,700 jobs from the previous month, driven mainly by part-time jobs, well below estimates of an increase of 20,000 and the ...

Australian billionaire threatens to sink lithium deal with Chilean SQM

Australian billionaire threatens to sink lithium deal with Chilean SQM

Hancock Prospectingowned by Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, threatened on Friday to torpedo a deal by the world’s second-largest lithium chemicals maker, Chile’s SQM.by an Australian lithium miner. Hancock Prospecting, an iron ore miner, acquired an 18.3% stake in Azure Mineralswhich is developing the Andover project in Western Australia, according to a filing on Friday ...

Australia signs security and migration pact with Tuvalu in the face of the Chinese advance

Australia signs security and migration pact with Tuvalu in the face of the Chinese advance

Australia announced on Friday a security guarantee for the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu to respond to military aggression, protect it from climate change and boost migration in a pact aimed at countering China’s influence in the Pacific. According to the treaty announced by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Tuvalu counterpart Kausea Natano, ...

Cyber ​​attack paralyzes Australian ports and threatens supply chains

Cyber ​​attack paralyzes Australian ports and threatens supply chains

A cyberattack against one of the largest facilitators of global trade has limited access to several ports in Australia, un massive shutdown that threatens to disrupt supply chains for days. DP World Plc detected a hack on Friday that forced it to restrict access to four of the country’s largest ports. The government called a ...