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Australia's Square Peg raises $550 million in a rare sign of confidence in the tech sector bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

From banks to industrial heavyweights, dozens of the biggest global companies tout themselves as “carbon neutral” thanks to purchases of carbon offsets that experts say are actually useless. bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-… via Bloomberg Graphics

Check out my Bloomberg TV interview from this past Friday about the ~$40 billion of corporate M&A/LBO debt stuck on bank balance sheets. #levfin #LBo #PE youtube.com/watch?v=TmQN41…

Authorities and industries in Singapore say “we don’t know why you want to send us all these electrons, when what we’ve asked the world for — and no one’s giving us — is molecules,” Forrest said. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Bloomberg

Virgin Australia is considering taking on new debt in order to hand cash to owner Bain Capital just months ahead of the airline’s prospective IPO. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

Today on Bloomberg Deals, we're breaking down the mining M&A mayhem this week, plus Peltz backs out of Disney proxy fight and more health-care mergers get to the finish line. Harry Brumpton trib.al/YhtnGfQ

New Zealand All Blacks to Gauge Demand For NZ$100m Share Sale bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

Today in Bloomberg Deals: A JPMorgan banker talks M&A Down Under, Glencore dangles Teck shareholders a carrot and Kim Kardashian is hiring Harry Brumpton trib.al/0Aw69GT

Infrastructure firm I Squared has done a deal in my sunburnt country (a co called Rentco) 🇦🇺 New w/ Harry Brumpton ⬇️ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Researching this story made me very worried about the future of copper supply - getting enough to decarbonise the global economy seems almost impossible bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Step inside Rio Tinto's $7 billion underground copper mine in Mongolia. Mines like Oyu Tolgoi are key for the world's transition to clean energy, but the road here wasn't easy, reports James Fernyhough from beneath the Gobi Desert trib.al/1ZcUIEM

Newmont is near an agreement to buy Newcrest for about $20 billion in one of the mining sector's biggest-ever deals. Story by Harry Brumpton and Dinesh Nair bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The devastation of the Australian "Black Summer" bushfires was a warning to the world. 3 years later, the health impacts of wildfire smoke are still manifesting themselves. New episode of Bloomberg Investigates coming here: bloom.bg/434hz6a

In Black Summer 2019-20 Sydney’s CBD smelled like a campfire and office fire alarms went off from nonstop smoke drift. Long term effects for families in the fire’s path are only now being understood Amy_Bainbridge and Angus Whitley report: bloomberg.com/features/2023-…

Virgin Australia is looking at November for its IPO which could raise about $1 billion and value the company about $2.5 billion - story yesterday: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Macquarie's asset management arm is in talks with investors to raise a total of up to $11.5 billion for a trio of funds New w/ Harry Brumpton ⬇️ $MQG trib.al/f7BzdHe

Partners Group has shown initial interest in Hamilton Island, a holiday destination in Australia, sources say. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets Harry Brumpton #Switzerland

If, like me, you haven't heard of "carryover commitments" it's time you did. Angus Whitley and Sybilla Gross unravel the opaque world of water trading in Australia bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-… via Bloomberg Green

The Premier of South Australia happily wearing a hard hat emblazoned with the logo of Gupta's GFG Alliance (under criminal investigation in two European countries, although it denies accusations of wrongdoing etc) Really is a different world down there! x.com/PMalinauskasMP…