The Fortescue director, who is also the departing chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia, says the world’s biggest economy feels like it’s being run by a property developer.
As Australian farmers plant their winter crops in volatile times, major wheat, barley and canola exporter GrainCorp predicts the Trump tariff war will push up food prices.
Core Lithium says it plans to revive its mothballed operations near Darwin but JPMorgan still believes investors in the sector should take the money and run.
BHP and Rio Tinto agree that China is showing real confidence despite the trade war, with Mike Henry predicting a future marked by ongoing tariffs and bilateral agreements.
Chris Ellison’s embattled Mineral Resources is selling a land package that is expected to reap somewhere between $100m and $150m as MinRes teeters under a $5.4bn net debt pile.
Industry superannuation fund Hesta has sold its remaining shares in Mineral Resources and cast doubt on the scandal-plagued company’s capacity to clean up its act.
The miner has pulled the trigger on its long-awaited leadership shake-up as it forges ahead with one eye on copper’s riches.
Everything is turning up trumps for Wyloo, the private mining company owned by billionaires Andrew and Nicola Forrest.
Nicola and Andrew Forrest, who have funded a new David Attenborough documentary, are pushing for 30 per cent of the world’s oceans to become marine parks.
More than a dozen activists disrupted the company’s annual general meeting but when the proxies were counted, there weren’t enough votes to stop the re-election of one under-pressure director.
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