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• Wall St and European markets slip from early highs on Biden stimulus doubts

  25-01-2021 22:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The local share market is closed for Australia Day, while rising COVID-19 cases and delays in supplying vaccines have offset Wall Street's optimism about a potential $US1.9 trillion ($2.46 trillion) stimulus package that the Biden administration is trying to pass.
  
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• Apple pushes Nasdaq to record high, as global markets slip on Biden stimulus doubts

  25-01-2021 22:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The local share market is closed for Australia Day, while rising COVID-19 cases and delays in supplying vaccines have offset Wall Street's optimism about a potential $US1.9 trillion ($2.46 trillion) stimulus package that the Biden administration is trying to pass.
  
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• 'Take down barriers to trade': Xi Jinping calls for open world economy

  25-01-2021 18:04 via abc.net.au
  
  At a virtual World Economic Forum, Mr Xi urges nations to remove all barriers to trade while working together on coronavirus vaccine research and distribution.
  
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• Funds pledged to reduce disaster risk

  25-01-2021 11:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia will pledge $1.5 billion over five years to help build a more climate-resilient world and set up a new agency to deal with disaster resilience and risk reduction.
  
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• China exports buoy Australia trade surplus

  25-01-2021 10:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The diplomatic row between Australian and China rolls on, but new figures show trade between the two countries has not been totally throttled by the war of words.
  
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• Indonesia considers importing Mexican cattle as Australian beef prices reach record highs

  25-01-2021 08:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The Indonesian Government is reportedly looking to Mexico as an alternate source of live cattle, after Australian cattle hit record prices and Jakarta meat sellers go on strike.
  
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• Labor slaps down City West revamp

  25-01-2021 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  WA Labor has pilloried the opposition’s plan to sink the City West rail line, warning the project could cost the state as much as $1 billion.
  
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• ASX closes up 0.36%, AUD at 77.4 US cents

  25-01-2021 08:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia's share market has closed a little higher as investors favoured consumer and technology stocks, expected to do well in next month's earnings reports.
  
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• Australia closes bubble with New Zealand

  25-01-2021 08:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Australia has put a stop to the New Zealand travel bubble for 72 hours after a South African variant of COVID-19 was detected in a woman after 14 days of isolation.
  
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• State govt defends homelessness record

  25-01-2021 07:30 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Western Australian government has blamed spiralling debt under the previous administration for its failure to house more vulnerable people.
  
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• China, dollar take toll on prices

  25-01-2021 07:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  After a bumpy 2020, Australian meat producers and exporters face headwinds in 2021.
  
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• Three people charged over alleged million-dollar gold theft at Coolgardie's Greenfields Mill

  25-01-2021 06:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Three people are charged in connection with an alleged million-dollar gold theft in Western Australia's Goldfields, in which police say more than 8,000 tonnes of gold-bearing ore was stolen.
  
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• Three people charged over alleged million-dollar gold theft

  25-01-2021 06:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Three people are charged in connection with an alleged million-dollar gold theft in Western Australia's Goldfields, in which police say more than 8,000 tonnes of gold-bearing ore was stolen from a processing plant near Coolgardie.
  
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• K2fly wins five-year Alcoa deal

  25-01-2021 06:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Perth-based software solutions company K2fly has signed a five-year contract with aluminum producer Alcoa Corporation.
  
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• WA bright spot amid clouds

  25-01-2021 05:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Western Australia is in better economic shape than any other state as we bid a relieved farewell to 2020 and look forward to 2021.
  
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• Australian billionaires' fortunes increase amid pandemic as poor get poorer

  25-01-2021 04:46 via abc.net.au
  
  With unprecedented support from global governments, the stock market has boomed, driving up billionaire's wealth even while the real economy has faced the deepest recession in a century and the poor have gotten poorer.
  
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• Australian billionaires' fortunes increase amid pandemic

  25-01-2021 04:46 via abc.net.au
  
  With unprecedented support from global governments, the stock market has boomed, driving up billionaire's wealth even while the real economy has faced the deepest recession in a century and the poor have gotten poorer.
  
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• WA’s woman in DFAT

  25-01-2021 04:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  Economic tensions and COVID-19 loom large as Sarah Hooper champions WA and international trade atop the state’s branch of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
  
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• Navy to develop advanced guided missiles

  25-01-2021 03:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The federal government is boosting Australia's maritime security with a $1 billion development of advanced guided weapons.
  
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• State boosts struggling Perth hotels

  25-01-2021 02:23 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The state government has launched a new initiative to boost Perth’s tourism sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid claims as many as one in five WA tourism businesses face closure.
  
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• Pfizer vaccine approved for Australian use

  25-01-2021 02:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine has been provisionally approved for use in Australia with the first jabs set for late next month.
  
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• Rethinking the blueprint to house the homeless

  25-01-2021 01:00 via businessnews.com.au
  
  From advertiser to architect, Michelle Blakeley is at the forefront of a new housing solution tackling homelessness.
  
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• Australian exports surge despite China hostility, ASX follows 'sky-high optimism' on Wall Street

  25-01-2021 00:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Despite Beijing's increasingly hostile trade war, Australia sold a lot more goods to China (particularly iron ore) in December. The Australian share market begins its shortened trading week, ahead of Australia Day, with small gains.
  
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• ASX follows 'sky-high optimism' on Wall Street, despite risk of 'short term' pull back

  25-01-2021 00:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares kick off their shortened trading week with slight gains, even as economists warn that Donald Trump's impeachment trial may delay the passage of trillion-dollar stimulus deals and the US economic recovery.
  
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• ASX follows 'sky-high optimism' on Wall Street, ahead of inflation data and Australia Day

  25-01-2021 00:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian shares kick off their shortened trading week with slight gains, even as economists warn that Donald Trump's impeachment trial may delay the passage of trillion-dollar stimulus deals and the US economic recovery.
  
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• ASX follows Nasdaq's record high, ahead of inflation data and Australia Day

  25-01-2021 00:34 via abc.net.au
  
  The local share market kicks off its shortened trading week, ahead of Australia Day, with slight gains.
  
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