The Dive | Business News

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

This October, shoppers in Japanese supermarkets are seeing the biggest price hikes in almost two generations. For the past year, Japan’s supermarket industry has shielded customers from a 48% rise in import prices — much of that driven by the high cost of energy and the sustained collapse of the yen to a 24-year low against the US dollar. But retailers are now passing on these price hikes to indiv...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

Housing. The world’s biggest asset class. For decades, housing has been the domain of mum-and-pop investors and the big financial institutions have stayed away. But over the past decade that has changed, at least in America. Wall Street wants to come for your family home.  We're not trying to fear monger here, but there is an emerging trend of big financial institutions turning to residential...

The biggest news story of the past week here in Australia has been the Optus Hack.  Australia’s second largest telco reported at the start of the week that they had been hacked and the data of up to 9.8 million Australians had been stolen. For context - with a population of 26 million people, that’s almost 40% of the population.  Alec and Sascha talk today about what happens next? What d...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

A four-day work week is gaining momentum. One of the most significant trials of this new way of working is taking place in Britain at the moment. And at the halfway point, the people involved are saying that productivity levels haven't fallen at all. The pandemic has accelerated hybrid and remote work trends, but has it accelerated the push for a four-day work week as well? Sascha and Darcy talk a...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

The world’s best performing currency this year isn’t crypto - it’s the US dollar. If you turn on the news, you'll often hear about currency movements - but it's full of jargon, and it rarely talks about what that actually means .   So today we wanted to talk about why it matters. Today Alec and Sascha talk about why is the US dollar is on a tear of late, and answer the question - why sho...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

Chess is embroiled in a cheating scandal. No, not the CHESS sponsorship of your share portfolio. Good old fashioned chess.  So, how is chess a business story? Well, like many other sports - there’s huge prize money on offer. And since the Queen’s Gambit dropped on Netflix last year - the popularity of chess has taken off. There’s been a huge increase in global interest. And this story has roc...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

We’re feeling the impacts of inflation and cost of living pressures. In the UK, inflation is at 9.9%, in the US it is 8.3%, in Australia it is 6.1%. We can hear you saying what does 6% or 9% mean? Essentially 9% inflation means that prices are up 9% or, put another way, your money buys 9% less. Because of this, we’re seeing strikes from unions across the world - airport workers in Germany, teacher...

Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram  here , o...

Most people are familiar with the clothing brand Patagonia. The outdoor clothing company was founded in 1973 in California and has expanded to hundreds of stores across tens of countries.  Last week, headlines were made around the world, after the founder, Yvon Chouinard, announced he was giving away the company. That’s right. He didn’t sell it, he didn’t list it on the share market, he just...

We're testing something new for The Dive this week. Alongside your regularly scheduled episode, we're releasing this headlines companion - covering three of the biggest business news stories from around the world. There's so much happening around the world of business and hopefully this headline companion helps keeps you more informed. Tell us what you think of The Dive – email us at thedive@...

Can you remember the last time you went to the cinemas? Are you struggling to think of the answer? Don't feel too bad. For many of us, the answer to that question is: "...it’s been a while”. And it’s starting to have an effect on the cinema industry. Earlier this month, Cineworld, the world’s 2nd largest cinema chain, declared bankruptcy, but the challenges for movie theatres spread far beyond tha...

One of the biggest events in cryptocurrency’s short history is happening this week. The Ethereum Merge.  Now here at The Dive we’re certainly not crypto experts... we'd more describe ourselves as crypto curious. But there’s so much hype around this Merge, it's been hard to avoid the headlines. Today Sascha and Alec are joined by Tracey Plowman, from Crypto Curious, who helps them get their he...

This was a headline on the news last week - Kim Kardashian is starting a private equity fund. The star, best known for her 328 million Instagram followers and reality show Keeping up with the Kardashians, is getting into the space with her new venture Skky Partners. But this story doesn’t come out of the blue. It is actually in keeping with the changing nature of celebrity endorsements that w...

Semiconductors - or microchips - are in everything.  Whatever you’re using to find this podcast - it has a semiconductor. They are the brains of modern electronic devices and are necessary in communications, computing, healthcare, transport, energy… look… basically every industry. And this week, the US Government banned semiconductor companies from building factories or even selling to C...

We often speak about the streaming wars on The DIVE, and this week we are seeing two of the biggest shows in TV history go head-to-head.  In one corner we have, The Rings of Power, the prequel of The Lord of the Rings from Amazon. In the other corner we have, House of the Dragon, the prequel to Game of Thrones from HBO. Two fantasy epics, with epic budgets. And they have come to symbolise the...

In April, Elon Musk signed a deal to buy the social media platform for $44 billion. Months later, he tried to walk away from the deal claiming too many fake accounts and Twitter has sued him to enforce the sale. As the court date gets closer, both sides are making moves. So we wanted to check in on the court case and keep up with what is happening. We’re asking our UK audience to help share o...

Did you hear? Movie star Ryan Reynolds and TV star Rob McElhenney have teamed up to buy a struggling British football team. How could this be a business story? Because behind the excitement of two American celebrities teaming up to buy a British football team (and the subsequent documentary they've made following the journey), this could turn out to be a great investment.  Today Alec and...

McDonalds, Starbucks, Ikea. Or should we say... Uncle Vanya, Stars Coffee, IDEA? After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, many big western brands shut their operations in Russia and left the world’s eleventh largest economy. But these businesses were incredibly popular with the Russian people. Many of them were potent symbols of post-Cold War Russia, and became a part of the Russ...

Student loan forgiveness made headlines around the world last week as US President Joe Biden announced executive action to forgive $240 billion worth of student loans over the next ten years. Plenty has been written about the merits of the policy.  On one hand, we’ve heard about the hardships that many students with loans face and the way it affects new business creation and upward mobil...