Weaker than expected earnings results from Macquarie and Qantas dragged the ASX 200 lower on Friday.
Cameron Micallef
Australian shares are down for a second straight week against a backdrop of sticky inflation and fears the Reserve Bank's interest rate-cutting cycle is over.
Adrian Black
US stocks have fallen amid worries over tech valuations, lay-offs due to the government shutdown, and tariffs.
Stephen Culp
A rally in iron ore and gold stocks lifted up the Aussie sharemarket on Thursday, offsetting a slump in banking giant NAB.
Duncan Evans
European shares have stalled after gains for Asia and Wall Street over worries about tech, while the pound is higher before a Bank of England decision.
Marc Jones and Rae Wee
An early rebound has faded to a modest gain for Australian shares, despite strong performances by miners and energy companies as cautious sentiment continues.
National Australia Bank has eked out a modest profit lift to $6.76 billion, with strong business lending offset by surging technology and bad debt costs.
Tom Richardson
A broad rally has sent all three major US equity indexes higher on the day, with a rebound in tech and tech-related momentum stocks leading the push.
Australian shares have bounced during Wednesday afternoon’s trading session, following a 1 per cent fall during the morning’s trading.
Bitcoin on Tuesday plunged below $US100,000 ($154,000) for the first time in more than four months, as cryptocurrency holders backed off the risk-on asset.
Liz Napolitano
Tech shares have led declines in Asian and European markets as investors ponder where sky-high valuations can be sustained.
Amanda Cooper
A storm of local and global headwinds are blowing against the local bourse, which has fallen for six of the last seven sessions.
US shares have ended the day well down after the chief executives of major banks fanned fears of a stock market bubble.
The Australian sharemarket tumbled lower on Tuesday, as the RBA kept rates on hold and delivered a hawkish warning on inflation.
Kroll Australia says the proposed merger is in the best of Southern Cross’ shareholders, who will benefit from being part of a bigger, diversified group with higher earnings and a stronger balance sheet.
Sean Smith
Metcash is facing legal action over allegations its South African CFO bullied staff and didn’t adjust to Australian workplace culture.
The Australian dollar has immediately sunk following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Melbourne Cup meeting.
Asian stocks are mixed after investors were saddled with some weakness in US economic data.
Kevin Buckland
The local bourse fell 0.9 per cent to close at its lowest level since September 26 after the Reserve Bank suggested it might not adjust rates for some time.
Derek Rose
The miner is rolling out redundancies at its Perth headquarters amid a wave of job cuts sweeping through the State’s most important industry.
Adrian Rauso
US stocks have closed higher as investors cheered an Amazon deal to supply cloud computing services to OpenAI.
The Aussie sharemarket has edged higher in a choppy session of trading ahead of Tuesday’s closely-watched decision on interest rates from the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Westpac’s CEO says average-income Australians are locked out of the housing market with the bank seeing enquiries for first-home buyers double in a matter of weeks.
Stephen Johnson
Optimism over a US-China trade agreement has helped lift world shares, while the greenback has been boosted by the outlook for US interest rates.
