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The Lord Nelson Hotel and brewery has sold for $20m

Australia’s oldest pub brewery sold for $20m

The iconic Lord Nelson in Sydney’s Rocks district has changed hands as the pub market stays frothy, with sales across the country close to $1 billion in 2024.

  • Carolyn Cummins

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While banks’ home loan portfolios get the most attention, their role as business lenders is arguably more important.

Is it too hard for middle Australia to get loans from risk-averse banks?

There is evidence that banks have become too conservative in lending to some businesses, and it’s hurting the economy.

  • Clancy Yeates
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers wants stronger foreign investment rules. What does that mean?

In a world of rising geopolitical tensions, Australia is tightening up its foreign investment laws in lockstep with many other Western nations.

  • Anne Hyland
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to visit China and meet President Xi Jinping.

Chinese investment in Australia plunges to record lows

A report warned that as Chinese investment in Australia reached record lows, a more worrying threat was emerging.

  • Anne Hyland
John Lee, Hong Kong’s chief executive,

Hong Kong’s role as the gateway to China faces a new threat

Proposed new national security laws unveiled this week are likely to have the same chilling effect on investment and activity as the counter-espionage rules that mainland China introduced last year.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The companies that boomed and bombed in WA in 2023

The WA companies that boomed and bombed in 2023

Normally, the saying is you need money to make money, but in WA it seems you need ore to make more – and keep a close watch on China, costs and the energy transition.

  • Peter Milne
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Joe Lewis has denied allegations about insider trading.

British billionaire charged with insider trading takes bigger bite of beef stake

Joe Lewis, who is facing allegations of insider trading, increased his already sizeable holdings in Wagyu producer Australian Agricultural Company.

  • Jessica Yun
The country’s Politburo, China’s President Xi Jinping, flagged more support for its economy on Tuesday.

China’s big solution is missing a vital ingredient

How Beijing manages the efforts to revive the faltering economy matters for commodity producers like Australia.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
China has begun the shift from physical to digital currency, causing consternation in Washington.

China needs ‘clear signals’ with investment in Australia at near record lows

Relations between China and Australia have improved in the past month, with senior politicians and business people from both countries seeking to repair the trade and investment partnerships. But more remediation is needed.

  • Anne Hyland
Containers are piled up in Hamburg harbour. The pandemic exposed the vulnerability of individual economies to the lengthy and complex supply chains that had been built during the period of peak globalisation.

Everyone’s a loser in the age of ‘slowbalisation’

The US and Europe will lose from the fragmentation and redirection of global investment flows, but less developed economies and China will suffer even more, the IMF says.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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