2+ hour, 16+ min ago  (405+ words) Mining giant BHP has pushed back against suggestions from a Chinese official that the Albanese government's tariffs on steel products could hurt Australian iron ore exports, as the ASX behemoth seeks to mitigate the impact of "tough" price negotiations with…...

6+ hour, 44+ min ago  (178+ words) The news: The Australian sharemarket ended higher as the materials sector rallied following a strong earnings result from BHP. The benchmark ASX 200 gained 0.24% to end at 8,958.9, despite only four out of 11 sectors finishing in the green. The materials sector gained…...

11+ hour, 14+ min ago  (260+ words) On the morning former Liberal leader Sussan Ley's immigration policy was supposedly due to be announced, it found its way into the hands of the media. A document, first leaked to Sky News and seen by Capital Brief, was circulated…...

13+ hour, 19+ min ago  (178+ words) Australia's economy is like a car struggling to reach 30 kilometres an hour. Push it to 40 and the strain becomes obvious " much like my first car, a brown Datsun 200B that needed a service every time it was driven too hard. Productivity…...

18+ hour, 19+ min ago  (299+ words) Fintech industry insiders say they are not alarmed by Treasury's move to slash the team responsible for implementing the sector's cherished consumer data right (CDR) reforms, arguing that internal moves in the government department signal progress after years of inaction....

18+ hour, 19+ min ago  (269+ words) Australia and the European Union (EU) appear closer than ever to striking a major trade agreement, after Trade Minister Don Farrell returned from Europe "confident" a deal will be struck. Capital Brief recently revealed the EU had contacted Canberra to…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (287+ words) Two weeks after taking the reigns at BlueScope Steel, new chief executive Tania Archibald appears to be relishing the timing of her appointment, using today's half-year results to position the company at the start of a new earnings cycle, ramp…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (287+ words) The context: US major indices had started the session higher after Labor Department data showed the US consumer price index rose 0.2% to 2.4% in January, below the 0.3% forecast by economists polled by Reuters. This prompted markets to raise the probability of…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (244+ words) Three-quarters of Australia's domestic graduates find full-time work within months of finishing their degree. That sounds like a system working well " until you ask which graduates, studying what, and where. The headline numbers bear this out. Seventy-four percent of domestic…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (411+ words) Gabe Pereyra was an AI researcher at Google Brain and DeepMind before most people had heard of either. He was on Meta's large language model team when GPT-2 and GPT-3 dropped. He got early access to GPT-4 and used it…...