Good afternoon, Macquarie Group has flagged the potential for a significant scaling up in its private credit operations and shrugged off the impact of the US pulling back from green energy, as it reported broadly flat net profit. Where the trend in business is to slim down, spin-off and simplify, Ryan Stokes has been going in the other direction, writes Eric Johnston. Securing access to a key cog in the NSW renewables plan will come as relief to Origin following its $300m acquisition of the giant Yanco Delta wind development. |