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What basketball, Formula 1 and chess teach active managers about surviving a machine-driven market

The government plans to remove negative gearing to help renters buy homes. For those who remain renters, the wrong levers are being pulled

Oil hit $120 again. Last time it coincided with a bear market. This time the AI economy and forgotten economy are rewriting the playbook.

Why Australia's biggest energy bet may already be redundant.

How passive investing has permanently changed market structure — and why sophisticated tools are now the price of survival

Every geopolitical oil shock spikes the crude price. What it does to equities is far more complicated

Hormuz 2026: history's biggest oil shock. Yet offsets, free markets and contained tail risk explain why crude hasn't surged further.

The 2026 Hormuz crisis is a story of major powers protecting their own oil supply. Australia is left to absorb the consequences.

The gold–oil ratio has collapsed. Record gold miner margins are about to face their first serious test

The 2026 Hormuz blockade has broken refined product markets in ways the 2022 Ukraine crisis never did.