’Cause I’m free to do what I want any old time:Elon Musk has just liberated himself from the X debt.

Elon Musk just had his own Liberation Day

The merger of social media platform X with Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI will allow him,his co-investors and X’s banks to exit the struggling business unscathed.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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Hutchison’s 96-year-old multi-billionaire founder Li Ka-shing.

Was Li Ka-shing pushed to sell Panama ports,or did he jump?

Trump sees the sale of CK Hutchison’s ports as a victory,China sees it as coercion. For the 96-year-old Hong Kong billionaire,it might just be a good opportunity.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Fed chairman Jerome Powell has been reluctant to speculate about how Donald Trump’s policies might affect the central bank’s decisions.

The Trump fire is burning on Wall Street

The American people are losing confidence in Donald Trump,sending shockwaves through Wall Street. And that’s before “Liberation Day”.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Australia regardless of US President Donald Trump needs to spend more on defence because we are so exposed to Chinese bullying.

Trump’s war sets up America for a painful future

The US president’s policies have rattled economies and markets around the world. What isn’t as clear is what America will look like as they take hold.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump has sparked uncertainty in markets around the world.

The golden ticket Trump has sent Australia’s way

Australia is getting a big windfall,and it has Donald Trump to thank for it.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Things haven’t quite turned out for Wall Street as investors hoped they would when Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Trump didn’t use the ‘R-word’,but that’s what markets fear

The sell-off on Wall Street is accelerating as fears of stagflation and recession rise. It’s not helping that no one,including Donald Trump,seems to know what his tariff regime will ultimately look like.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with US President-elect Donald Trump at the Elysee Palace on Saturday.

Trump is changing the narratives on both sides of the Atlantic

The president’s policies and his decision to force Ukraine into a peace deal with Russia have prompted Europe to take steps that were unimaginable before he regained the White House.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Drill,baby,drill:US President Donald Trump’s policies are weighing on the oil price.

More than ‘a little disturbance’:Trump and OPEC are sinking the oil price

This week,OPEC+ did what Donald Trump has demanded and announced it would start increasing production,pushing oil prices down to three-year lows. Trump may get more than he bargained for.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump’s escalating trade war has set off a market sell-down on Wall Street and on stock exchanges around the world.

Has the market’s Trump bet been wiped out? Maybe – or maybe not

Investors are confused whether the market sell-down in response to Donald Trump’s punitive trade policies will prompt him to limit them after all,after his Commerce secretary flagged a potential tariff compromise.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
A cartoon image of the US president holding a Bitcoin at a store in Hong Kong. Trump,who used to dismiss crypto assets as a “scam”,is now a convert,even if he hasn’t explained why.

Boosting Bitcoin:Is Trump making America part of a giant crypto scam?

Does the US need Donald Trump’s planned national strategic reserve of crypto assets? Absolutely not.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz