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Azzet Unpacked: Greenland deal heats up; inflation cools
CY2026 so far has been defined by humanity's current buzz sectors - energy and tech. As markets gobbled up a cooldown in American inflationary pressure, the real heat was generated by Washington’s renewed interest in Greenland and a tightening grip on South American energy flows. All the top moves, shakes, and high-stakes power plays from Azzet’s editorial team are right here in your weekly business wrap every Friday (9 January, 2026). From the boardrooms of Silicon Valley - where xAI secured a war chest that would make most nations blush - to the halls of Copenhagen, where sovereignty is being fiercely defended, the team at Azzet put the squeeze on some big topics in business this week. Here's what you need to know:MondayThe week opened with a focus on yield and long-term stability as analysts suggested that 2026 Aussie bonds and fixed interest are set to remain attractive for investors seeking a safe haven. This positive sentiment was bolstered by a strong lead from New York, with the ASX set to rise after a higher close on Wall Street. However, the transition to green energy faced a legal hurdle as wind developers moved to challenge lease suspensions, highlighting the ongoing friction between industrial rollout a
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Azzet Unpacked: New year, world and week in business
The first few days of 2026 have felt more like a Tom Clancy novel than a standard trading week as sovereign interests and industrial consolidation collided across the board. While the world watched Mar-a-Lago for back-channel diplomacy, the real action was unfolding in strategic mineral basins and the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. All the top moves, shakes, and high-stakes power plays from Azzet’s editorial team are right here in your weekly business wrap every Friday (2 January, 2026). We saw Nvidia effectively nationalise the chip sector, Chile seize control of the lithium market, and a flurry of Washington summits that left the global order looking for a new baseline. Here is what you need to know:MondayThe week opened with Donald Trump holding a high-stakes call with Vladimir Putin ahead of proposed talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signalling a frantic start to the 2026 diplomatic calendar. Simultaneously, the U.S. hammered its "maximum pressure" agenda by banning new foreign drones from entering the country, a move designed to kneecap the market dominance of China’s DJI and fortify domestic sovereign capability. NASA chief Jared Isaacman is leaning into the new era of American space supremacy, promising a return
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US Q3 earnings wrap: Mega-cap momentum cools
The glow of a blockbuster United States third-quarter earnings season is now fading into the background, and investors are beginning to reassess the resilience of the equity rally that has defined much of 2025. Lofty valuations across major names - particularly among the so-called “Magnificent 7” technology giants - are prompting fresh caution as mixed economic signals and weakening consumer sentiment fuel debate about whether markets are entering a necessary cooling phase. Volatility, too, is creeping higher, with levels hitting peaks last seen during President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcements earlier this year, reviving anxiety about trade-related disruptions, supply-chain resilience, and the sustainability of corporate margins. Against this backdrop, the latest earnings season has revealed several dominant themes, from diverging performance among mega-cap tech names to surprisingly robust results from consumer and financial companies navigating tariff and inflation pressures.Tech titans lose steam after earningsThe market reaction to some of the most heavily traded stocks in the world has been far from uniform. NVIDIA, which has become the bellwether of global artificial intelligence investment, is
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Azzet Unpacked: Ford EV dream crashes the week in business
Grab a stiff drink - unless you were on the Warner Bros board - in which case you probably already drained the minibar in a panic. Elon Musk’s net worth spiralled into numbers usually reserved for sovereign debt, and Ford’s bean counters were busy incinerating US$19.5 billion on an EV dream that hit the wall hard. And somewhere in between those extremes, Big Tech decided it owned Hollywood now, and global trade deals started unravelling faster than a pound shop cardigan. Welcome back to Azzet Unpacked. All the top moves, shakes, and family gathering ham's from Azzet's editorial team are right here in your weekly business wrap every Friday (19 December, 2025). Here's what you need to know:MondayIn entertainment, Disney proved everyone still loves a talking fox as Zootopia 2 became the second 2025 film to crack $1 billion, while elsewhere in the sector, LiveNation and Ticketmaster faced antitrust lawsuits for their stranglehold on live events. Locally, financial news was grim as a Super fund stumble dimmed returns for retirees, coinciding with reports that Coca-Cola's Costa exit faced valuation hurdles after an expensive impulse buy. Wall Street saw some political manoeuvring as Jamie Dimon backed Kevin Warsh for F
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Azzet Unpacked: Stream(lin)ing a hot week in business
Who's the leader of the (OpenAI) club that's made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! Popcorn at the ready? Welcome back to Azzet Unpacked. If you thought your family's holiday negotiation over the remote was heated, spare a thought for the Warner Bros boardroom. We’ve seen the streaming wars go nuclear with hostile bids and class actions fit for a Hollywood drama. From massive M&A plays to AI eating the world (and Disney's IP), the capital flow this week was anything but a low-key trip to the movies. All the top moves, shakes, and Christmas party steaks from Azzet's editorial team are right here in your weekly business wrap every Friday (12 December, 2025). We saw Netflix make a play for the crown, Paramount try to slap it out of their hands, and Disney finally deciding that if you can't beat the bots, you should probably just license Mickey Mouse to them for a billion dollars. Here's what you need to know:The week that wasThe media landscape effectively melted down this week, starting with Netflix acquiring Warner Bros in a US$72 billion deal. The move, which would see the streaming giant swallow HBO and the DC Universe, immediately drew regulatory heat and industry panic about a monopoly on creativity. But th

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Azzet Unpacked: Digesting a sales-heavy week in business
The festive season has begun with record Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales pushed by AI, despite some hiccups as tech giants battled tech outages. Geopolitical tensions have also risen from Washington to Moscow, while Europe deals with resurfacing inflation concerns. However, Christmas has come early for some, including Databricks, which raised US$5 billion in capital and Korea after the U.S. retroactively reduced tariffs. All the top moves, shakes, and red-hot takes from Azzet's editorial team are right here in your weekly business wrap every Friday (5 December, 2025).MondayGlobal markets opened the week with a heavy macro focus, with investors digesting the previous week’s domestic inflation pressures closely as runaway price growth threatened the RBA’s easing path, while Airbus faced an urgent recall of its A320 aircraft, raising industry-wide safety questions. Early retail signals were upbeat, with AI tools bolstering Black Friday sales volumes. In Switzerland, voters rejected an inheritance tax proposal aimed at the ultra-wealthy. Geopolitics intensified as the Trump administration warned that Venezuela’s airspace should be treated as closed, while the U.S. President separately announced a pause on migration
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Azzet Unpacked: Giving thanks for a thin week in business
Spatchcock anyone? Welcome back to Unpacked. Institutional capital flooded the market this week, with major plays ranging from Fleet Street consolidation to massive Australian logistics buyouts. And while Wall Street semi-shuttered for the Thanksgiving holiday, thinning liquidity across global bourses late in the week - the M&A desks certainly didn't stop. All the top moves, shakes, and red hot turkey bastes from Azzet's editorial team are right here in your weekly business wrap every Friday (28 November, 2025). We saw the Daily Mail finally clinch its prize, Macquarie return to its infrastructure roots, and a COP30 accord that left policymakers divvying up the bill. Here is what you need to know:The week that wasAfter months of regulatory-intensive wrangling, the Daily Mail struck a £500 million deal to acquire The Telegraph, cementing a significant consolidation of right-leaning media in the UK. This acquisition finally ends the uncertainty that has plagued the broadsheet since the RedBird IMI bid collapsed, though the deal is almost certain to attract fresh scrutiny from competition watchdogs concerned about media plurality. Closer to home, the "Millionaire’s Factory" is deploying capital into hard assets again a
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Azzet Unpacked: Silicon dreams up your week in business
If you thought the markets were going to take a breather before the holiday season, you should look up the meaning of the most used work in finance right now - volatility. This week has been an absolute slugfest of capex one-upmanship, with the word "trillion" again being thrown around like confetti at a small cap funeral. Between the AI arms race turning nuclear (literally and figuratively), Trump throwing tariff grenades at the dinner table, and NVIDIA reminding us all who actually runs this whole darn simulation, it’s certainly been a week for the history books. Or the bonfire. Take your pick. All the top moves, shakes, and red hot AI stocktakes from Azzet's editorial team are right here in your weekly business wrap every Friday (21 November, 2025). Here's what mattered this week…The LeadsThe AI Crown is Heavy: Just when you thought the AI hype cycle might be cooling off, the big boys decided to double down. Google dropped Gemini 3 like a mic on Wednesday, claiming state-of-the-art dominance. But the ink wasn't even dry on that press release before stalwart tech giant Microsoft opened its war chest, handing AI chatbot leader Anthropic a casual US$30bn to make sure they don't lose ground. Not to be outdone by the
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Azzet Unpacked: AI spending splits the week in business
Markets navigated choppy waters this week as Washington finally ended its record-breaking government paralysis while tech's biggest names threw billions at AI infrastructure - even as Michael Burry warned the party might be ending. Elsewhere, unemployment in the UK reached 5% and COP30 opened in Brazil without top polluting nations present. The contradictions were stark - just as the U.S. government shutdown dragged into its sixth week, causing economic havoc and grounding flights, Silicon Valley was unveiling plans to spend tens of billions on data centres. Meanwhile, one of the world's most famous short-sellers, Burry, was betting it's all built on dodgy accounting.Shutdown finally breaksPresident Donald Trump signed legislation on Thursday ending the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history after more than 40 days of paralysis. The House voted 222-209 to pass the bill, with nearly all Republicans backing it alongside a handful of Democrats who broke party lines, after the Senate had cleared it earlier in the week. The stalemate centred on Obamacare subsidies - Republicans refused to fund enhanced tax credits for insurance premiums under the Affordable Care Act, which expire this year. Democrats wouldn'