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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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

Firmus scraps ASX float after $44 billion valuation unravels Firmus had contracted a gigawatt of computing power but built only 50 megawatts, and would have listed with about $30 billion in… financialregister.com.au/news/firmu…

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

Small business paid $2 billion a year to ATO by card, COSBOA says Matthew Addison said the government should negotiate its own merchant fee rates if the surcharge ban stays, and that a… financialregister.com.au/news/small…

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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

Hastie says Australia needs a sovereign AI capability, not reliance on US tech Hastie said he hopes the government lands on a position the Opposition can support and warned that a parti… financialregister.com.au/news/coali…

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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 · 05/10/2026

CBA pledges to keep all 281 regional branches open to 2030 The bank will also spend $140 million upgrading metro and regional branches and keep its ATM network at 1,700 machines, CBA Group Execu… financialregister.com.au/news/cba-c…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

18 per cent of surveyed businesses had not done AML risk assessment a month after reforms 18 per cent of surveyed businesses had not done AML risk assessment a month after ref… financialregister.com.au/news/18-pe…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Self-policing by AI billionaires won't work, academic says An AI safety pact framed as morally binding lacks any legal enforcement mechanism, University of Sydney academic Dr. Raffaele Ciriell… financialregister.com.au/news/self-…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OpenAI agents ran wild for months before being stopped, professor says Thousands of OpenAI agents worked together unsupervised for weeks or months, University of New South Wales A… financialregister.com.au/news/opena…

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The Financial Register @finrig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tech investment nears one-third of US GDP, Bank of America says Mark Cabana of Bank of America Securities said markets currently see low risk of an AI bubble, though profitability of the… financialregister.com.au/news/tech-…

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