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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 7h

Labor's visa crackdown: some of it is law, some of it isn't. Melbourne immigration lawyer Johanna Bertumen Nonato draws the line clearly — student visas, visitor conditions, and the skilled points changes still waiting on legislation. ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 7h

AI chip stocks cratered, then recovered inside 24 hours across Wall St, Asia and the ASX. Bitcoin sat it out entirely. Gold kept climbing. The divergences here are more interesting than the rebound. market7.financialregister.com.au/p/…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 7h

A $9.4B takeover bid on the table — and Cleanaway shares fell. Markets price anxiety, not just outcomes. New FR Money Wire: theregisterau.substack.com/p/cleana…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 7h

Australia lost 39,300 jobs and the unemployment rate hit 4.7% — and that's what stopped the ASX from falling harder. Weak labour data as a stabiliser. That's the market logic right now. market7.financialregister.com.au/p/… ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Weak jobs data just sent the Aussie dollar to a three-month low and quietly shelved rate-rise talk. Wall Street looked fine on paper — until you noticed the rotation out of AI stocks. FR Money Wire has both. theregisterau.substack.com/p/the-au…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Scammers in Pattaya are specifically targeting past fraud victims. That's not opportunism — that's a playbook. Alongside: Australia's unemployment hits a five-year high. www.newsletter.financialregister.co… ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

SHAPE Australia just won an $800m data centre contract — its biggest ever — and the stock fell. Markets weren't impressed by the revenue; they were worried about the margins. A useful gap to understand. theregisterau.substack.com/p/shape-…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Australia's unemployment rate hit 4.7% in September. 39,000 fewer people employed. Participation rate down. Underemployment up. The labour market is weakening on every measure at once. theregisterau.substack.com/p/australias-unemployment-rate-is-47

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

ASML beat every estimate this quarter and its shares fell anyway. Hot US inflation data did the rest — ASX and Wall Street both soft. FR Money Wire breaks it down. theregisterau.substack.com/p/asml-p…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Fake trading apps, money mules, a deepening stock slide — Southeast Asia's financial stress is coming from multiple directions at once. www.newsletter.financialregister.co… #SoutheastAsia

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Goldman beats, JPMorgan misses its first in three years — and ASX banks fall anyway. Mixed Wall Street earnings apparently have one outcome here. market7.financialregister.com.au/p/… #ASX

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Glencore listed on the ASX today — not because it suddenly loves Australia, but because $4.8 trillion in super money is sitting here. Debut came in soft. Worth knowing why. theregisterau.substack.com/p/glenco…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Bank of America just copped a $1.2B fine — one of the largest in US Treasury history — for years of missed suspicious-activity reporting. Not a glitch. Years. Full breakdown on FR Money Wire. theregisterau.substack.com/p/bank-o…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fake job ads as a scam recruitment tool — not just a fraud story, a labour market vulnerability. Alongside P121B in Filipino scam losses and Thai household debt at an 18-year high. www.newsletter.financialregister.co… ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One chipmaker's claimed breakthrough, $100B wiped from memory stocks, a hawkish RBA, and a closed Saudi airport — markets at 7 covered a lot of ground. market7.financialregister.com.au/p/… #markets

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A small-cap lab equipment and precious-metals refiner just had a 16% day on record quarterly revenue — while an ASX investing app had the opposite kind of news after an old tax problem resurfaced. FR Money Wire has the full picture. ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Bumble's shares surged 50% — its biggest trading day in years — on reports it's nearing a $1 billion take-private deal with Ithaca Holdings. FR Money Wire explains what's moving markets. theregisterau.substack.com/p/bumble…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thailand capping mule accounts for teens, Indonesia shutting 1,222 illegal lenders, Philippine inflation at a three-year high. Southeast Asia's financial system is under real stress from multiple directions. www.newsletter.financialregister.co… ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Perth engineering firm buys Melbourne's Entire Operations for $112m, lifts its own profit guidance on the same day, and the stock jumps 7%. The acquisition and the upgrade arriving together is the part worth understanding. theregisterau.substack.com/p/cee-sh…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

6,436 people died waiting for approved home care funding in 2025-26. The government missed two Senate deadlines to say so. When the number finally appeared, there was no announcement. New Inside AusPol episode. theregisterau.substack.com/p/deaths…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Trump announces an energy ceasefire. Zelensky says he wasn't told. Houthis hit Riyadh's main airport a third time, killing at least 12. The ASX is near a one-month high anyway. market7.financialregister.com.au/p/…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Equities higher, oil above $104, Middle East supply worries driving the crude jump. The FR Money Wire market wrap covers what moved and why it matters. theregisterau.substack.com/p/asx-an…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

RM1.9 billion in scams blocked by Malaysia — and that's just what was caught. The region's fraud economy is a serious industrial operation. Full picture in today's Financial Register. www.newsletter.financialregister.co… ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Firmus pulled a $44bn ASX float. OpenAI's revenue missed by $20bn. The AI funding story is getting harder to tell with a straight face. market7.financialregister.com.au/p/… #ASX

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The card surcharge ban didn't kill the fee — it just rebranded it. Platform charges are still legal, and some retailers simply raised base prices instead. Dr Marian Makkar unpacks the loophole on The Part 8A. theregisterau.substack.com/p/card-s…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Amex fined $350 million — not for laundering money, but for not having adequate controls to catch it. The absence of a system is the offence. FR Money Wire covers that and the Firmus float fallout. theregisterau.substack.com/p/americ…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hollard accepted a storm damage claim, sat on it for 15 months, then rejected it — leaving a regional Victorian family in an uninhabitable home. The Federal Court just handed down a $2M penalty. theregisterau.substack.com/p/hollar…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The ATO was going to stop taking card payments. The government's fix: pay the surcharges itself. The Flashwire unpacks it. theregisterau.substack.com/p/govern…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Singapore raids unlicensed lenders, Manila rebounds, and the Philippine peso sits closer than ever to its record low — a lot happening across Southeast Asia at once. www.newsletter.financialregister.co… ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fed hike signal + Iran strike reports + oil at a two-week high = ASX down 0.77%, banks and miners out, defensives in. The full picture: market7.financialregister.com.au/p/…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Starbucks reportedly explored buying Chipotle — one of the biggest restaurant deals ever floated — and the CEO pitching it used to run Chipotle. Shares jumped 8%. More in today's FR Money Wire. theregisterau.substack.com/p/starbu…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Australia's biggest proposed ASX float since Telstra in 1997 — a $44B AI data centre listing — just got pulled after investors passed. The market said no. theregisterau.substack.com/p/firmus…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ASIC just froze $252m of new money going into three private credit funds — retail investors, it says, weren't being told the real risks. Worth knowing how that happens. theregisterau.substack.com/p/asic-h…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Scammers targeting delivery riders in Singapore, AI deepfakes impersonating Bank Negara in Malaysia, and the peso sliding in Manila — Southeast Asia's financial week in one read. www.newsletter.financialregister.co… ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Webull dropped 20% after US lawmakers accused it of being secretly controlled from Beijing. Wall St pulled back from records. ASX set to open lower. The allegation of concealed foreign control is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Google's $4.3bn, 20-year nuclear deal pushed Wall Street to a record — and Australian uranium miners felt it too. The supply chain logic is worth reading. market7.financialregister.com.au/p/…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Arena REIT shares jumped 14% in a single session after Goodstart agreed to rescue dozens of childcare centres left stranded by Edge Early Learning's collapse. That's a big move — and a clean lesson in tenant risk. Full story in today's FR Money Wire. ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Google signed a 20-year, $4.3B nuclear deal for its AI data centres. Constellation Energy jumped 12%. ASX uranium stocks noticed. The energy cost of AI is being locked in at scale — for a generation. theregisterau.substack.com/p/conste…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Livestream scams, a 20-billion-baht asset freeze, Philippine inflation at a 3-year high, and Vietnam merging its stock exchanges. The region's financial picture is complicated right now. www.newsletter.financialregister.co… ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When a buyout sends the target's shares up 33%, the market is basically saying the acquirers paid a real premium. McKesson and CD&R's $5.8bn Option Care Health deal, unpacked. theregisterau.substack.com/p/option…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nasdaq hits a record, ASX rises for a third day, and households are still getting squeezed by oil near $100. All three in one read. market7.financialregister.com.au/p/… #ASX #markets

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dicker Data's stock is up 50%+ this year and now trading is halted ahead of a major acquisition reveal. The halt is the announcement before the announcement. FR Money Wire has the rundown. theregisterau.substack.com/p/dicker…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Indonesia put a $668M number on its scam problem. Jakarta dropped 3%. Markets have a way of treating fraud disclosures as governance signals. Full picture — Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines too: www.newsletter.financialregister.co… ...

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Taylor's migration plan: 100k net arrivals in year one, graduate visas gone, 650k temp visas cut, humanitarian intake halved to 10k. The Flashwire breaks down what's actually in it. theregisterau.substack.com/p/breaki…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A terrible US jobs report sent Nvidia to a record high. Bad news, good market — the rate-cut logic is doing a lot of heavy lifting right now. Full picture in Market at 7: market7.financialregister.com.au/p/…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Schneider Electric just dropped $22.6bn on US software firm PTC. Meanwhile a weak jobs report had Wall Street... relieved? FR Money Wire unpacks all of it. theregisterau.substack.com/p/schnei…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Budget came in $6bn better than forecast. Underlying inflation didn't budge. RBA raised rates to 4.6% anyway. The headline number and the real story aren't the same thing. theregisterau.substack.com/p/why-yo…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Australia's biggest IPO since Telstra in 1997 just priced — $44bn for a data-centre operator riding AI infrastructure demand. Plus the card-surcharge ban is already showing up in prices. FR Money Wire has the detail: theregisterau.substack.com/p/firmus…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

4.60% — the highest cash rate since 2011. RMIT's Dr Angel Zhong breaks down what it actually costs mortgage holders monthly, why renters aren't spared, and what the RBA is really watching. theregisterau.substack.com/p/rba-ca…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ASX hits a three-month low, the Philippines posts its worst close since November, and Malaysia busts a 74-person scam ring — all in one news cycle. The Financial Register has the full read. www.newsletter.financialregister.co… ...

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