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The world’s finances weren’t ready for an energy shock of this magnitude

The world’s finances weren’t ready for an energy shock of this magnitude

Governments’ finances were already stretched before the war in Iran sent energy costs soaring.

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The world’s finances weren’t ready for an energy shock of this magnitude

The world’s finances weren’t ready for an energy shock of this magnitude

Governments’ finances were already stretched before the war in Iran caused energy costs to soar.

yesterday 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The world’s finances weren’t ready for an energy shock of this magnitude

The world’s finances weren’t ready for an energy shock of this magnitude

Governments’ finances were already stretched before the war in Iran caused energy costs to soar.

yesterday 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The world’s finances weren’t ready for an energy shock of this magnitude

The world’s finances weren’t ready for an energy shock of this magnitude

Governments’ finances were already stretched before the war in Iran caused energy costs to soar.

yesterday 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why Trump may have changed the world’s oil markets forever

Why Trump may have changed the world’s oil markets forever

Timely access to flows of oil is being prioritised over price and the US is benefiting.

previous day 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why Trump may have changed the world’s oil markets forever

Why Trump may have changed the world’s oil markets forever

Timely access to flows of oil is being prioritised over price and the US is benefiting.

previous day 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why Trump may have changed the world’s oil markets forever

Why Trump may have changed the world’s oil markets forever

Timely access to flows of oil is being prioritised over price and the US is benefiting.

previous day 8

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why Trump may have changed the world’s oil markets forever

Why Trump may have changed the world’s oil markets forever

Timely access to flows of oil is being prioritised over price and the US is benefiting.

previous day 8

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Elon Musk’s problem children could spoil his Wall Street dream

Elon Musk’s problem children could spoil his Wall Street dream

The world’s richest person has never been afraid of talking up a big game.

tuesday 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Elon Musk’s problem children could spoil his Wall Street dream

Elon Musk’s problem children could spoil his Wall Street dream

There are many questions surrounding the world’s richest person’s plan to list his space company.

tuesday 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Elon Musk’s problem children could spoil his Wall Street dream

Elon Musk’s problem children could spoil his Wall Street dream

There are many questions surrounding the world’s richest person’s plan to list his space company.

tuesday 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Elon Musk’s problem children could spoil his Wall Street dream

Elon Musk’s problem children could spoil his Wall Street dream

There are many questions surrounding the world’s richest person’s plan to list his space company.

tuesday 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s attempt to protect big tech and remake WTO fails

Trump’s attempt to protect big tech and remake WTO fails

The Trump administration sent its most senior trade official to the World Trade Organisation’s annual meeting to protect its big tech companies from...

02.04.2026 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s attempt to protect big tech and remake WTO fails

Trump’s attempt to protect big tech and remake WTO fails

The Trump administration sent its most senior trade official to the World Trade Organisation’s annual meeting to protect its big tech companies from...

02.04.2026 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s attempt to protect big tech and remake WTO fails

Trump’s attempt to protect big tech and remake WTO fails

The Trump administration sent its most senior trade official to the World Trade Organisation’s annual meeting to protect its big tech companies from...

02.04.2026 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s attempt to protect big tech and remake WTO fails

Trump’s attempt to protect big tech and remake WTO fails

The Trump administration sent its most senior trade official to the World Trade Organisation’s annual meeting to protect its big tech companies from...

02.04.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is ready to back down but should we believe him?

Trump is ready to back down but should we believe him?

Markets responded enthusiastically to signals from Trump that the end of the war is nigh, but they have been burnt before.

01.04.2026 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is ready to back down but should we believe him?

Trump is ready to back down but should we believe him?

Markets responded enthusiastically to signals from Trump that the end of the war is nigh, but they have been burnt before.

01.04.2026 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is ready to back down but should we believe him?

Trump is ready to back down but should we believe him?

Markets responded enthusiastically to signals from Trump that the end of the war is nigh, but they have been burnt before.

01.04.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s ‘big present’ from Iran could be an even bigger present for China

Trump’s ‘big present’ from Iran could be an even bigger present for China

Donald Trump thinks Iran allowing Pakistani ships passage through the Strait of Hormuz is a “very significant prize”. If US doesn’t win control...

31.03.2026 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s ‘big present’ from Iran could be an even bigger present for China

Trump’s ‘big present’ from Iran could be an even bigger present for China

Donald Trump thinks Iran allowing Pakistani ships passage through the Strait of Hormuz is a “very significant prize”. If US doesn’t win control...

31.03.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s ‘big present’ from Iran could be an even bigger present for China

Trump’s ‘big present’ from Iran could be an even bigger present for China

Donald Trump thinks Iran allowing Pakistani ships passage through the Strait of Hormuz is a “very significant prize”. If US doesn’t win control...

31.03.2026 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s ‘big present’ from Iran could be an even bigger present for China

Trump’s ‘big present’ from Iran could be an even bigger present for China

Donald Trump thinks Iran allowing Pakistani ships passage through the Strait of Hormuz is a “very significant prize”. If US doesn’t win control...

31.03.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is floundering as he looks to chicken out

Trump is floundering as he looks to chicken out

Investors were betting on another of Donald Trump’s TACO moments with the Iran war, but it isn’t going to plan.

30.03.2026 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is floundering as he looks to chicken out

Trump is floundering as he looks to chicken out

Investors were betting on another of Donald Trump’s TACO moments with the Iran war, but it isn’t going to plan.

30.03.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is floundering as he looks to chicken out

Trump is floundering as he looks to chicken out

Investors were betting on another of Donald Trump’s TACO moments with the Iran war, but it isn’t going to plan.

30.03.2026 20

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is floundering as he looks to chicken out

Trump is floundering as he looks to chicken out

Investors were betting on another of Donald Trump’s TACO moments with the Iran war, but it isn’t going to plan.

30.03.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The insider trading shadow hanging over Trump’s sudden backdown

A burst of unusual activity in oil and equity futures markets this week has raised suspicions about insider trading.

26.03.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The insider trading shadow hanging over Trump’s sudden backdown

A burst of unusual activity in oil and equity futures markets this week has raised suspicions about insider trading.

26.03.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The insider trading shadow hanging over Trump’s sudden backdown

A burst of unusual activity in oil and equity futures markets this week has raised suspicions about insider trading.

26.03.2026 20

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The insider trading shadow hanging over Trump’s sudden backdown

A burst of unusual activity in oil and equity futures markets this week has raised suspicions about insider trading.

26.03.2026 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump just paid $1.3b for nothing

The Trump administration did something that, even by its standards, was unusual.

25.03.2026 30

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump just paid $1.3b for nothing

The Trump administration did something that, even by its standards, was unusual.

25.03.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump just paid $1.3b for nothing

The Trump administration did something that, even by its standards, was unusual.

25.03.2026 30

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump just paid $1.3b for nothing

The Trump administration did something that, even by its standards, was unusual.

25.03.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The war may end soon, but its damage will stay with us for years to come

The global economy, faced with higher energy costs and interrupted energy supply, has limited flexibility to blunt the aftershocks of the Iran war.

24.03.2026 20

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The war may end soon, but its damage will stay with us for years to come

The global economy, faced with higher energy costs and interrupted energy supply, has limited flexibility to blunt the aftershocks of the Iran war.

24.03.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The war may end soon, but its damage will stay with us for years to come

The global economy, faced with higher energy costs and interrupted energy supply, has limited flexibility to blunt the aftershocks of the Iran war.

24.03.2026 20

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The war may end soon, but its damage will stay with us for years to come

The global economy, faced with higher energy costs and interrupted energy supply, has limited flexibility to blunt the aftershocks of the Iran war.

24.03.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s $56 trillion problem is spiralling out of control

When he first became president in 2017, Donald Trump promised to eliminate US government debt within eight years. Since that promise was made, the...

23.03.2026 20

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s $56 trillion problem is spiralling out of control

When he first became president in 2017, Donald Trump promised to eliminate US government debt within eight years. Since that promise was made, the...

23.03.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s $56 trillion problem is spiralling out of control

When he first became president in 2017, Donald Trump promised to eliminate US government debt within eight years. Since that promise was made, the...

23.03.2026 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s $56 trillion problem is spiralling out of control

When he first became president in 2017, Donald Trump promised to eliminate US government debt within eight years. Since that promise was made, the...

23.03.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘Nobody knows’: Trump has left an old foe in the dark

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has effectively acknowledged that the central bank hasn’t a clue what the impact of the Iran war might mean for...

19.03.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘Nobody knows’: Trump has left an old foe in the dark

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has effectively acknowledged that the central bank hasn’t a clue what the impact of the Iran war might mean for...

19.03.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘Nobody knows’: Trump has left an old foe in the dark

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has effectively acknowledged that the central bank hasn’t a clue what the impact of the Iran war might mean for...

19.03.2026 20

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘Nobody knows’: Trump has left an old foe in the dark

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has effectively acknowledged that the central bank hasn’t a clue what the impact of the Iran war might mean for...

19.03.2026 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s war is wreaking more havoc than you think

Oil and petrol prices get most of the headlines, but the economic damage inflicted on the world is much more widespread, and will last longer.

18.03.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s war is wreaking more havoc than you think

Oil and petrol prices get most of the headlines, but the economic damage inflicted on the world is much more widespread, and will last longer.

18.03.2026 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s war is wreaking more havoc than you think

Oil and petrol prices get most of the headlines, but the economic damage inflicted on the world is much more widespread.

18.03.2026 20

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz