Woodside to cut over 500 jobs in $570m cost purge
The oil and gas producer will reduce almost $600 million in annual costs starting in 2028 and is reforming its dividend policy.
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The oil and gas producer will reduce almost $600 million in annual costs starting in 2028 and is reforming its dividend policy.
However, it is unclear if the duo hit its goal of building a 9.9 per stake in NextDC.
Our index of the nine stock tips made at last year’s Sohn conference lost 9.5 per cent. It’s a long way from Hamish Douglass Apple stock pick 10 years ago.
Australia’s largest business bank pointed to cost pressures posing a material risk to the economy.
The election result should remove the “insanity premium” investors have been forced to build into their calculations. Dangers still lurk, though.
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The Albanese government needs a circuit breaker, but it can’t change course from its broken economic model because to do so would be an admission of past sins.
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Investors have embraced ultra-low management fees, but some fund managers argue true costs depend just as much on other factors.
Within just four months, analysts have halved their earnings forecasts for the financial year to just 7 per cent.
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