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2 months ago | 
futures.tradingcharts.com | Patrick Durkin |Hans van Leeuwen
Jan 27, 2025 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) --Jillian Broadbent says Australian companies would be 'tone-deaf' to ignore the backlash against diversity and environmental programs that has grown since the re-election of Donald Trump.
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Patrick Durkin |Hans van Leeuwen
Business leaders say Australian companies cannot ignore the escalating backlash against diversity and environmental programs after President Donald Trump’s re-election. Jan 27, 2025 – 3.48pm or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
afr.com | Hans van Leeuwen
Davos, Switzerland | The British industrialist behind the struggling Whyalla steelworks in South Australia says he is raising $150 million in new funds for the operation and claims that the company is just months away from shaking off its creditors, paying suppliers and getting back on track.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
afr.com | Hans van Leeuwen
One of Australia’s most prominent Jewish figures, Westfield founder Frank Lowy, has backed police claims that foreign agitators may be behind the recent spate of antisemitic attacks, saying “dark forces” were at play. He called on the federal government to “lead by example”, and fulfil its “duty and obligation” to “stamp out” antisemitism, which was staining Australia’s identity as a fair country. Loading... Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
afr.com | Hans van Leeuwen
Davos, Switzerland | Argentina’s firebrand president Javier Milei has named the members of what he calls a new libertarian alliance of countries, whose mission is to push other Western nations to stamp out “woke ideology” and shrink the state. “I no longer feel alone,” Mr Milei said in a typically punchy keynote speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
futures.tradingcharts.com | Hans van Leeuwen
Jan 23, 2025 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) --US President Donald Trump has used a videolink address to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos to call on the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to lower oil prices. He claimed OPEC had prolonged both the Russia-Ukraine war and inflation by keeping prices high, and that if OPEC lowers oil prices, interest rates will also fall.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
afr.com | Hans van Leeuwen
Davos, Switzerland | It had been a big day. First, the whirlwind of US President Donald Trump’s inauguration and his subsequent flurry of executive orders. Then, the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the annual Alpine gabfest for the world’s top financiers, miners, management consultants and tech bros. At a tech firm’s Davos opening-night party, I fell into some quiz-style banter with two trans-Atlantic execs. “What’s your favourite movie about AI?,” one asked.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
afr.com | Hans van Leeuwen
Davos, Switzerland | Chinese and European leaders have urged US President Donald Trump to turn away from a trade war, and vowed to stand up for the old global order, as the world digested the White House’s radical first-day flurry. Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang told the annual World Economic Forum in Davos that “a trade war has no winners”. In a message clearly aimed at Mr Trump, he said that “economic globalisation is not a ‘you lose, I win’, zero-sum game”. Loading...
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
afr.com | Hans van Leeuwen
London | Ructions at Guardian Australia’s offices have come to light just as tensions escalate at the left-liberal newspaper’s London headquarters, where the sale of the group’s Sunday title, The Observer, has sapped morale and opened a schism between staff and management.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
afr.com | Hans van Leeuwen
London | The annual Davos jamboree of the world’s top bankers, consultants, tech execs, mining bosses and politicians is set to become an early litmus test of how sharply Donald Trump’s second term will transform global corporate culture. The World Economic Forum’s ski-slope shindig is not just an opportunity for executives to network frenziedly and tout for business. They also typically use Davos to air their progressive credentials, whether on sustainability, diversity, or fixing society’s ills.
