Former journalist with Bloomberg, Reuters, Newscorp. No longer writing stories but still abiding with the great plot of business, markets, and economics
@meadea Ampol is not a fossil fuel giant, it's not a producer, it's simply a fuel retailer. The lack of understanding and distinction from everyone involved here makes our industry look like it's living in an alternate reality, which it clearly is in part
If, like me, you haven't heard of "carryover commitments" it's time you did. @AngusWhitley1 and @SybillaGross unravel the opaque world of water trading in Australia https://t.co/sXQCU3Vf89 via @climate
Partners Group has shown initial interest in Hamilton Island, a holiday destination in Australia, sources say.
https://t.co/Mh2GjWjqyo via @markets@HarryBrumpton#Switzerland
Macquarie's asset management arm is in talks with investors to raise a total of up to $11.5 billion for a trio of funds
New w/ @HarryBrumpton ⬇️ $MQG
https://t.co/5FXzSnRZ2C
Virgin Australia is looking at November for its IPO which could raise about $1 billion and value the company about $2.5 billion - story yesterday: https://t.co/NTMp64GIql
In Black Summer 2019-20 Sydney’s CBD smelled like a campfire and office fire alarms went off from nonstop smoke drift. Long term effects for families in the fire’s path are only now being understood @amy_bainbridge and @AngusWhitley1 report: https://t.co/GnO409qyIt
The devastation of the Australian "Black Summer" bushfires was a warning to the world. 3 years later, the health impacts of wildfire smoke are still manifesting themselves.
New episode of Bloomberg Investigates coming here: https://t.co/gk73WYYFZ7
Newmont is near an agreement to buy Newcrest for about $20 billion in one of the mining sector's biggest-ever deals. Story by @HarryBrumpton and @DNair5
https://t.co/AzHGpaVgc0
Step inside Rio Tinto's $7 billion underground copper mine in Mongolia.
Mines like Oyu Tolgoi are key for the world's transition to clean energy, but the road here wasn't easy, reports @JamesFernyhough from beneath the Gobi Desert https://t.co/8yRWLM9Akg
Researching this story made me very worried about the future of copper supply - getting enough to decarbonise the global economy seems almost impossible https://t.co/2A5EY2BUCv
Today in Bloomberg Deals: A JPMorgan banker talks M&A Down Under, Glencore dangles Teck shareholders a carrot and Kim Kardashian is hiring @HarryBrumpton https://t.co/tbB8Ca0vyE
Today on Bloomberg Deals, we're breaking down the mining M&A mayhem this week, plus Peltz backs out of Disney proxy fight and more health-care mergers get to the finish line. @HarryBrumpton https://t.co/AM1VKzCsU3
Virgin Australia is considering taking on new debt in order to hand cash to owner Bain Capital just months ahead of the airline’s prospective IPO. https://t.co/wwDhhQq7RP via @markets
Authorities and industries in Singapore say “we don’t know why you want to send us all these electrons, when what we’ve asked the world for — and no one’s giving us — is molecules,” Forrest said.
https://t.co/sGFPeZyx8O @business
Check out my Bloomberg TV interview from this past Friday about the ~$40 billion of corporate M&A/LBO debt stuck on bank balance sheets. #levfin#LBo#PE https://t.co/YILmRCI6eW
From banks to industrial heavyweights, dozens of the biggest global companies tout themselves as “carbon neutral” thanks to purchases of carbon offsets that experts say are actually useless. https://t.co/y3bOLbno7N via @bbgvisualdata