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RBA's move to ban card fees | Kraft Heinz breakup | Musk's SpaceX invests into Musk's xAI · What the Flux

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  Speaker 1: This is what the Flux. I'm Brett and Justin and
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  Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, the sixteenth of July. Josey Boyd.
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  Speaker 2: Three non personalized advice stories today, Jazzy Boyd, let's do
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  Speaker 2: it for our first the RBA has read commended a
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  Speaker 2: ban on search charges for debit and credit card payments
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  Speaker 2: in Australia in a plan to save shoppers over one
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Australia's payment system finally entering a new era. So tell
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  Speaker 1: me what is going on here?
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  Speaker 2: So you know that little fee that gets added on
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  Speaker 2: top of your coffee when you pay with card, juzzy boy,
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  Speaker 2: as if.
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  Speaker 1: The coffee wasn't expensive enough, b Man by six dollar
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  Speaker 1: coffee ends up being six dollars and twenty one cents.
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  Speaker 2: That is a surcharge and it's meant to help businesses
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  Speaker 2: cover the costs that they are charged by payment facilitators
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  Speaker 2: like Visa or MasterCard.
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  Speaker 1: But b Man, Australia's payment landscape has changed a lot
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  Speaker 1: since the early two thousands.
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  Speaker 2: That is right, cash is out, card is the new king.
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  Speaker 1: And now the RBA is recommending three key changes to
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  Speaker 1: Australia's payment system.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Numero Uno is banned surch charges on all
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  Speaker 2: debit and credit transaction and.
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  Speaker 1: That's supposed to save shoppers at one point two billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars per year, or sixty dollars a year for each
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  Speaker 1: card using adult.
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  Speaker 2: Next, they want banks to spill the beans on their
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  Speaker 2: hidden fees.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, the RBA want Australia's major banks to reduce
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  Speaker 1: their inter change fees.
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  Speaker 2: That's the fees charged to businesses by payment facilitators for
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  Speaker 2: using cars.
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  Speaker 1: But be man at these changes, although exciting and not
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  Speaker 1: locked in yet.
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  Speaker 2: For the next six weeks, the RBA will continue consulting
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  Speaker 2: on these recommendations.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the key learning here?
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  Speaker 2: As ossies have traded in cash payments for cards, the
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  Speaker 2: payment system has not kept up.
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  Speaker 1: You get this. A national RBA survey showed that usage
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  Speaker 1: of cash dropped by more than half in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Down to just thirteen percent of total payments in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Yet be Man, we're still getting pinged fees like it's
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and three.
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  Speaker 2: Aussie retailers are still being hit with a fee which
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  Speaker 2: is then passed on to shoppers when using a car.
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  Speaker 1: But the question is if shoppers aren't paying the surcharge
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  Speaker 1: anymore in the future, someone else will be.
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  Speaker 2: And that someone else could be businesses.
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  Speaker 1: Which puts a lot of pressure on small business margins.
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  Speaker 2: So unless the RBA also forces payment giants to lower
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  Speaker 2: their fees, this policy might just shift the pain instead
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  Speaker 2: of actually fixing it.
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  Speaker 1: Fox Am. Before we jump into our second story today,
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  Speaker 1: you'll all know that this month in the Flex Academy
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  Speaker 1: we're talking all about Lender's Mortgage Insurance in partnership with Helia.
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  Speaker 1: So today we're very excited to have Sharona join us
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  Speaker 1: in the pod, who successfully used Elmai to get on
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  Speaker 1: the property ladder. Sharona, welcome to What the Fox.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. It's great to be here.
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  Speaker 1: You are a property owner, congratulations on that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: When you're going into buying a property. What we were
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  Speaker 1: original property goals and did they shift it all once
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  Speaker 1: you looked at what was achievable in the Sydney market.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean the Sydney market's always been really crazy.
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  Speaker 3: We've always wanted to live in the Hills district in
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  Speaker 3: Sydney and you know, it's unreasonable for us to do
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  Speaker 3: that at this stage, so we just thought an investment
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  Speaker 3: property was just a really good way to get our
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  Speaker 1: And Sharona, did you know much about the concept of
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  Speaker 1: rent vesting before you went down this path?
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  Speaker 3: Yes and no, we had heard about it and we
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like you know, there's great tax benefits, then
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  Speaker 3: you are moving home to home a bit. But I
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  Speaker 3: when we first started looking.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely agree And how did you come to learn about
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  Speaker 2: Lender's Mortgage Insurance?
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  Speaker 3: With Lender's Mortgage Insurance or LMI, our mortgage broker really
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  Speaker 3: an idea of what it is, but you know, he
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  Speaker 3: really went through like the pros and cons then what
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  Speaker 3: that's going to look like. And we didn't have the
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  Speaker 3: required deposit, so was you know, from the very beginning,
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  Speaker 3: we knew that we need to use LMI if we
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  Speaker 3: want to go down this path.
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  Speaker 1: Johnnie, you mentioned you didn't have the required deposit, So
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  Speaker 1: what difference did lm I make to what you thought
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  Speaker 1: was possible compared to what was actually possible In the end.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it absolutely opened the door for us to
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  Speaker 3: a lot more opportunities with you know, an investment property
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  Speaker 3: we weren't able to use like the government schemes. So
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  Speaker 3: if we didn't have LMI, a house in the Sydney
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  Speaker 3: market would have been out of the question for us.
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  Speaker 3: We would have needed to settle for an apartment, which
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  Speaker 3: isn't really what we're looking for, or you know, purchasing
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  Speaker 3: someone like risbon on Perth, which is just a bit
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  Speaker 3: more complicated. So the only reason we were able to
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  Speaker 3: buy what we could was because we used Elmi.
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  Speaker 2: Did you and your partner have any worries about going
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  Speaker 2: in with less than a twenty percent deposit?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean you are taking a be here alone,
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  Speaker 3: and there is also an additional cost involved were taking ELMI.
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  Speaker 3: But ultimately, when we really looked at the numbers and
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  Speaker 3: looked at the costs, we realize it's pretty insignificant. The
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  Speaker 3: property growth and the equity that we've gotten from the
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  Speaker 3: property has more than made up for it. And essentially
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  Speaker 3: we just thought, you know, this is the only path
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  Speaker 3: for us.
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  Speaker 1: So what advice would you give someone who's sitting on
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  Speaker 1: a deposit right now that's almost enough for them to
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  Speaker 1: buy a property but not quite twenty percent.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, absolutely, one thousand percent use LAMAI. But
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  Speaker 3: it's the only way that works. Otherwise other options is
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  Speaker 3: just saving more and by the time you say it
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  Speaker 3: almost feels like, you know, houses are out of budget
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  Speaker 3: again because of just growing house prices. There is an
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  Speaker 3: extra cost involved, of course, but for us it was
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  Speaker 3: so worth it. We're now looking into buying a property
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  Speaker 3: to live in and we're absolutely going to be using
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  Speaker 3: Elmi again. I mean if we had waited for the
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  Speaker 3: last two years and didn't have the property to begin
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  Speaker 3: with and be benefiting from the property growth, so we
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  Speaker 3: would have really missed out.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Sounds like you've had a great experience with LMI. Schroiner,
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  Speaker 1: and congrats for getting on the property ladder. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for our second story. Craft Hines
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  Speaker 1: is weighing up a big corporate breakup only ten years
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  Speaker 1: after Craft and Heines got together.
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  Speaker 2: Power couple know more what the Craft singles is going
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  Speaker 2: on here?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? So, Kraft Heigns is a global food company. It
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  Speaker 1: was created in twenty fifteen through a merger between Craft
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  Speaker 1: Foods and Heines.
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  Speaker 2: Now Craft Foods being the maker of Craft Macaroni and Cheese,
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  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Cream Cheese, as well as Oreo and Ritz.
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  Speaker 1: Heines is obviously the maker of the famous ketchup the
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  Speaker 1: baked Beans as well as Golden Circle here in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this mega merger was backed by Man the Myth,
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  Speaker 2: the legend, Warren Buffett and his firm Berkshire Hathaway, but
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  Speaker 2: be Man.
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  Speaker 1: After a decade as a committed family unit, Kraft HNS
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  Speaker 1: is reportedly planning to split itself into two.
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  Speaker 2: Who gets custody of the cheddar cheese Jesse Boy.
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  Speaker 1: In the one business they would have their high growth
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  Speaker 1: condiments and sources.
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  Speaker 2: In the other business they would have grocery staples like
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  Speaker 2: cheese and meats.
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  Speaker 1: What's the reason for this potential Slipbeaman.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there has been rising competition from private label brands
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  Speaker 2: from supermarkets.
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  Speaker 1: And also a big shift towards healthy foods or no
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  Speaker 1: food at all yep.
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  Speaker 2: Weight loss drugs like ozempic a squeezing big food brands globally.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the key learning here? Is a time for
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  Speaker 2: merging and a time for demerging, and a time to
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge your cheesy dreams didn't quite pan out as expected.
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  Speaker 1: When Craft and Heines came together in twenty fifteen. The
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  Speaker 1: goal was to build a global consumer goods.
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  Speaker 2: Powerhouse, one that could compete with Unileva and Neslite.
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  Speaker 1: Think he was bigger, equals better.
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  Speaker 2: But nearly a decade later, it turns out some parts
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  Speaker 2: of the business have pulled their weight Hello Heines sources, while.
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  Speaker 1: Others like Oscarmeia Meats are lagging behind.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, by twenty nineteen, just four years after the
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  Speaker 2: merger out Kraft Heines wrote down the value of some
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  Speaker 2: of their brands by more than fifteen billion US dollars.
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  Speaker 1: On top of that, the share price has lost more
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  Speaker 1: than sixty percent since the merger.
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  Speaker 2: So now, the idea is that by splitting up the business,
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  Speaker 2: it could give each division the chance to shine on
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  Speaker 2: its own. And it's the example of a split up
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  Speaker 2: recently b Man, where we saw Kellogg's split up its
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  Speaker 2: business into Kelenova, which owns snackety snacks like pringles and
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  Speaker 2: pop tarts, while wh Keller co owns the US serial business.
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  Speaker 2: So Juzzy Boy, Well, mergers can promise synergies. Sometimes the
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  Speaker 2: cleaner story is two separate businesses.
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  Speaker 1: For our third and final story, SpaceX is reportedly investing
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  Speaker 1: two billion US dollars into Xai because when Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: borrows money, he borrows it from himself.
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  Speaker 2: Forget bank loans. Musk's idea of fundraising is just asking
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  Speaker 2: himself nicely, tell me more.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So SpaceX is the aerospace company over four hundred
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  Speaker 1: billion US dollars.
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  Speaker 2: It's got some pretty grand ambitions to establish a human
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  Speaker 2: colony on Mars, just quietly and launch internet all over
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  Speaker 2: the world via Starlink.
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  Speaker 1: Another one of Musk's companies is Xai.
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  Speaker 2: That's his answer to open Ai, which Musk did co found,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, but then he rage quit open Ai.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, but b man controversy aside. Xai is planning to
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  Speaker 1: raise another five billion US dollars.
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  Speaker 2: And surprise, nearly half the mulla is coming from Elon's
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  Speaker 2: other business, SpaceX.
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  Speaker 1: Is all part of his strategy of cross pollinating his empire.
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  Speaker 2: And it's fair to say, juzzy boy Elon has become
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  Speaker 2: the master of related party transaction.
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  Speaker 1: So true, So what is the key learning here?
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  Speaker 2: A related party transaction is when a company does business
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  Speaker 2: with another business or party that is closely connected. It
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  Speaker 2: might be a major shareholder, an executive, or in this case,
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  Speaker 2: another company controlled by the same person. He's essentially using
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  Speaker 2: one of his most successful companies, SpaceX, to bankroll one
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  Speaker 2: of his most speculative companies, Xai.
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  Speaker 1: And Juzzy Boy.
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  Speaker 2: In public companies, these deals usually involve a full review
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  Speaker 2: of the deal by directors and sometimes a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a vote, but on the SpaceX and Xai deal, Musk
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  Speaker 2: doesn't face these hurdles because they're both private. So this
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  Speaker 2: investment between SpaceX and Xai will just be another way
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  Speaker 2: to blur the lines between Elon Musk's ventures Fox. The
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  Speaker 2: ASX two hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Index gained a open temporary two percent in FO twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: We cover the top two performing companies that are both
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  Speaker 1: from the same industry in the Flux app this month.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to learn a little bit more about
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  Speaker 1: the best performance of FY twenty five, make sure to
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and we'll see you on Friday.