If you’re like me you’re probably a bit over using your lounge room as an office, cinema, dining room and gym. The multidisciplinary heart of my home is often littered with dumbbells, yoga mats, wine glasses and whatever book I’m currently reading. It’s an odd picture. The thought of getting back into a real gym,
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An undisclosed US Federal Government department is set to beef up its protection with the order of $1.5 million worth of specialist ballistic armour products from defence manufacturer XTEK (ASX: XTE). The $1.5m order (USD $1.1m) was placed with XTEK’s wholly-owned subsidiary HighCom Armor Solutions which specialises in advanced ballistic body armour. “By leveraging advanced
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If you can’t beat them, join them. This is exactly what one unnamed Big 4 bank is doing with neolender Wisr (ASX: WZR) as the senior funder of their new $225 million vehicle financing warehouse as more Australians transition away from traditional banking. The new warehouse will upsize Wisr’s existing $127m facility which will be
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Experts estimate that sleep apnoea affects nearly 1 billion people worldwide. Every year, 4 million people die prematurely from chronic respiratory diseases such as COPD, asthma, acute respiratory tract infections, tuberculosis and lung cancer. The global impact of respiratory based ailments is expansive, prompting The World Health Organisation to launch the Global Alliance Against Respiratory
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US markets on Friday closed slightly lower but finished to week higher. We have likely seen the worst of the selling for now as the US has kicked the debt ceiling issues out to December. Investors will likely wait for the reporting to kick off before buying too much more into this market. Fastenal will
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime. This is the mantra being undertaken by marketing tech company Rewardle (ASX: RXH) which is passing on up to $60k worth of fees for a 1% equity stake in buy-now-pay-later operator SplitPay. At that ratio,
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US markets recovered somewhat overnight after a compromise to extend the debt ceiling to fund operations through to early December. This gives the Democrats some time to come to a longer-term solution to fund the government and bides 3.5 trillion spending agenda. The major US indices did not hold the high for the day, giving
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There is an air of confidence around digital payments company Novatti Group (ASX: NOV) which has increased its equity stake in their neobank subsidiary, giving the Aussie fintech a 70% stake in the business expected to be granted its banking license soon. Already a global financial institution, banking services have been on the agenda for
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Of the myriad of contraceptives out there, those that don’t require daily effort are gaining in popularity. As our lives get busier and brains get fuller, women are electing for long term, ‘set and forget’ birth control measures. Two thirds of Australian women of reproductive age use birth control. Whilst methods like the oral contraceptive
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One of the world’s most progressive populations in the world is set to enjoy the pleasures of Kentucky Fried Chicken with Collins Foods (ASX: CKF) taking a major step forward in their European expansion project, signing a franchise agreement to launch KFC in The Netherlands. The corporate franchise agreement (CFA) with KFC Europe enables Collins
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