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Audacy, Inc.
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This house is a mansion by Australian standards and would run like 1.6m AUD lol.

I had 3 Computershare accounts, and a couple of months ago I consolidated into one main account via Computershare Medalliin Guarantee signature verification. Cost me $220 AUD, but was well worth it to simplify matters. All of my stock and warrants were transferred to the new account. It was about a month long process all up.

There have been a few big market shifts in the last 9 months or so.
1) US stocks went sideways from around October last year until April.
2) Gold and Silver's historic bull run ended
3) Yen weakness was put on hold for a bit by BoJ interventions, but then has seemingly continued.
4) AUD's relative strength seems to have come to an end.
5) Stocks picked up again for a bit, again but a reversal is looking increasingly likely now.
Honestly, I'm really, really not enjoying the current market conditions. For me, things really started getting difficult with all the uncertainty around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. I'm hoping that gets sorted soon, but I doubt it will.

South32's enterprise value was AUD 18.68B or $12.96B. For South32, underlying EBITDA by commodity (H1 FY26):
* copper 34%
* zinc-lead-silver 18%
* manganese 10%
* aluminum 22%
* alumina 16%
Selling 38% of EBITDA for 43.2% of EV is a slight win. But they'll also potentially have net cash - debts of $US 5.6 B to go shopping with. Would be chuckle worthy if South32 used a portion of that to buy Element25 (another Australian manganese co), presently trading for US 51M mkt cap.

I have 1gram Bluey bars I bought for $10 AUD each, so I understand.

Thanks for the SGOV/BIL/BOXX idea to achieve a higher rate than IBKR pays. That's a good idea, but I also use my cash as collateral to sell options on currency futures (CAD, AUD, EUR). Keeping cash available gives me much more flexibility, even if the yield is a bit lower.

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To compare across countries the report converts all currencies to USD. While 1 USD is still 1 USD, it lost 11% of its value in 2025 against a basket of global currencies, that means it is worth fewer Euros, pounds, CAD, AUD, etc than the year previously. Assets priced in euros/gbp/cad etc would increase in value against the American assets.

AUDUSD has a mildly supportive backdrop right now: AUD news tone was positive over the last 24h, while USD sentiment stayed heavily negative. The main drivers look like better risk mood, firmer China-linked sentiment, and softer US rate expectations.
Positioning is close to balanced at 52% long vs 48% short.
On the chart, the bigger move is still down, but price bounced from 0.688-0.690 and is now testing 0.697-0.700. That leaves a sideways tone near term unless it breaks cleanly above 0.700; otherwise a retest lower stays in play.
Do you see this as a pause before another push up, or just a relief rally in a broader downtrend?

What strategy do you use? My first strategy was trading 1h/4h OB's, so i used EUR/USD, GBP/JPY, USD/JPY, AUD/USD. There was some corealation but not that much.