Perry Williams

2 months ago | futures.tradingcharts.com | Perry Williams |Brad Thompson

Apr 03, 2025 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) --Woodside Energy's CEO Meg O'Neil says the Trump administration's reciprocal tariffs regime will have a ripple effect across the global economy, which will in turn result in higher costs. Rio Tinto's head of iron ore Simon Trott says the tariffs regime could potentially prompt the global resources group to accelerate the development of US projects such as the Resolution copper mine.

Mar 28, 2025 | theaustralian.com.au | Perry Williams |Colin Packham

You can now listen to The Australian's articles. Give us your feedback. You can now listen to The Australian's articles. Australia’s largest steelmaker, BlueScope, has backed Peter Dutton’s election plan to bring down gas prices through a reservation scheme as business chiefs say Anthony Albanese must come clean on Labor’s ability to meet its goal of doubling renewable energy by 2030.

Mar 27, 2025 | theaustralian.com.au | Perry Williams

Sanjeev Gupta’s InfraBuild has attacked the Ben Brazil-led private equity firm FitzWalter over its demand for an immediate $800m repayment from GFG Alliance, describing its lawsuit as “spurious” and calling for the case to be dismissed. FitzWalter purchased bonds in InfraBuild Australia, owned by Mr Gupta and the country’s largest processor and distributor of long-steel products, but took legal action claiming there had been a fundamental change of control in the company.

Nov 25, 2024 | joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Perry Williams

By Jo NovaIt’s not even summer and the Australian grid is having heart palpitations. The Blob are in concert — blackouts might be at hand, and they want us to blame the heat (it’s code for climate change). Let’s get a grip, we’re only talking about a Sydney forecast of 33°C (all of 91F). The ABC calls this “sweltering” and files it under “extreme weather events”. Channel Nine call it a “major heatwave”, which it might be if it were London.

Mar 24, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Josh Chiat |Perry Williams |Yaroslav Trofimov |Sune Engel Rasmussen

China’s property crisis continues to bite for Australian iron ore producers, but a new price prediction will give big players a reason to grin. ANZ’s commodity strategists Daniel Hynes and Soni Kumari say iron ore should trade between US$90-110/t for the remainder of 2024, levels that would keep iron ore profits relatively safe, even as China’s real estate sector continues to stumble.