US stocks have closed significantly higher as investors cheered signs that fuel would be able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
Stephen Culp and Purvi Agarwal
Shell said its first-quarter results were boosted by its oil trading operation, even as the company’s Middle East assets were battered by the Iran conflict.
Mitchell Ferman
Australian shares have surged after a ceasefire deal between the US/Israel and Iran reopened a crucial shipping route.
Abisha Sapkota
Futures contract volumes, including interest rate, commodities, ASX and energy bets, leapt 52 per cent in March on a year ago and were up 120 per cent on February.
Sean Smith
Donald Trump’s backdown on threats against Iran — including that a ‘whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back’ — have lit a fire under Australian stocks
Daniel Newell
A rare stretch of production consistency at Bellevue Gold’s eponymous mine and its minimal exposure to diesel made the company a market darling on Wednesday.
Adrian Rauso
The bourse has clocked its best session in a year after a US-Iran ceasefire deal supported hopes of de-escalation and improved oil flow from the Middle East.
Adrian Black
While the rest of the Australian share market is riding a wave of euphoria as a two-week ceasefire eases tensions in the Middle East, a subsequent fall in oil prices is now smashing energy stocks.
The Australian share market has come bursting out of the blocks as a potential two-week ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran takes the sting out of oil prices.
Blair Jackson
Oil prices have plunged and stocks and bonds have soared after the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iain Withers and Ankur Banerjee
DroneShield says founder and chief executive Oleg Vornik and chair Peter James are stepping down after more than 10 years with the defence company.
Perenti has secured a $180 million contract to stay on at Regis Resources’ Duketon gold mine in the northern Goldfields.
US chemicals giant Albemarle says it has “largely completed” sacking roughly 250 WA workers after making the call to idle the Kemerton lithium hydroxide refinery in February.
Simone Grogan
US stocks have closed mostly higher as investors monitor developments in the Middle East conflict.
The Australian sharemarket closed higher on Monday, as US President Donald Trump’s deadline for a ceasefire deal with Iran looms.
Australian investors have followed a positive lead from Wall Street overnight, pinned on hopes of an 11th-hour peace deal between the US and Iran.
NRW Holdings is back on the tools at Core Lithium’s Finniss mine in the Northern Territory after securing a surface mining services contract worth about $50 million.
Matrix Composites & Engineering’s board has agreed to allow interested suitor Advanced Innergy Holdings to start due diligence in aid of a proposed $90 million cash deal.
Guzman y Gomez has delivered a welcome surprise in the third quarter, analysts say, with Australian sales growing on the back of its tie-up with popular online food ordering platform Uber Eats.
Cheyanne Enciso
Panicked super fund members are making a move which potentially costs them tens of thousands in retirement savings.
The Iran war energy shock continues to rattle investors, as crude prices edge over $US110 and Donald Trump's deadline for a deal with Tehran draws closer.
Lawrence White
Both CSL and Adelaide-based woman's health company Mayne Pharma say they won't be impacted by Donald Trump's new pharmaceutical tariffs.
Derek Rose
Charlie Aitken thinks investors can create wealth for themselves over the next decade by buying up certain stocks.
Tom Richardson
Australia's share market has risen to four-week highs, but investor optimism could be short-lived with the potential for escalating conflict in the Middle East.
