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An explosive report by activist short seller Hindenburg Research led Adani Group to shelve a planned US$2.5 billion equity sale and wiped $120 billion from the multinational conglomerate’s market value. While activist short reports should be taken with a grain of salt, market observers said, some of Hindenburg’s key claims are likely valid – including that Adani was vastly overpriced.

ASX200 breaches 7,000 points, Zip Co raising $400m, Woodside gets new CEO The ASX200 (ASX:XJO) finally breached the 7,000 point mark, adding 0.7% in today’s session with IT, healthcare, and materials once again the leaders adding 2.1%, 1.3%, and 1.2% respectively. The iron ore sector gained despite an apparent slowdown in Chinese demand, with gold miners taking off following news…

ASX to open higher on US policy, mining sell off, Woolworths (ASX:WOW) drinks demerging, Platinum (ASX:PTM) delivers performance fee The ASX200 struggled to keep up with the positive US lead, falling 0.9% in the session with a number of companies going ex-dividend key to the weakness. Despite having no impact on the companies’ operations, the payment of…