US stocks have closed higher as investors digested comments from Federal Reserve member Christopher Waller.
Stephen Culp and Niket Nishant
Nvidia Corp. has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face, which was at the centre of a recent high-profile cybersecurity incident.
Ryan Gould, Ian King and Rachel Metz
Former Beacon Minerals project manager Alexander McCulloch has been sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for insider trading over share tips that helped two mates pocket more than $177,000.
Ryan Johnson
Australia’s major banks have led the ASX 200 to snap a three-day losing streak – but one stock has crashed to a 14-year low amid a scandal.
Cameron Micallef
The Dutch Central Bank has shifted gold reserves worth about $US12 billion ($16.8b) from New York and Ottawa to London, citing concerns about increasing global geopolitical unrest.
Patrick Van Oosterom and Jack Ryan
Rising interest rates on government bonds influence consumer rates on mortgages, student loans, credit cards and more.
Ron Lieber and Tara Siegel Bernard
Shares in one of Australia’s largest travel businesses have plunged on relisting after the business was embroiled in an overcharging scandal last year.
Oil trading was once largely the preserve of commodity houses, institutional investors and professional traders able to make bets involving thousands of barrels at a time. That barrier is becoming much lower.
Lee Ying Shan
Higher rates are crushing households, but a wave of spending on miners, infrastructure and AI is creating a new breed of share market winners.
Tom Richardson
Australia's top listed companies have returned to earnings growth after three years of declines, but the profit season was still soft compared to the US.
Derek Rose
US stocks closed higher, notching a partial rebound from a three-day losing streak, despite worries over Mideast tensions.
Staff Writers
Australia’s sharemarket has slumped as fears of new rate hikes and Donald Trump’s warning on a “worthless” deal with Iran rattled investors.
The incoming chair of Wesfarmers has bulked up his stake in the retail and chemicals juggernaut.
Daniel Newell
One of the executives who helped to resolve a tense standoff with China Mineral Resources Group is leaving the miner.
Daniel Newell and Paul-Alain Hunt
Australia’s economy has grown weakly, with surging petrol prices and three interest rate hikes led to “cautious” Aussies to slow down their spending.
Asian share markets, led by Japan and South Korea, dropped after a fall on Wall Street and a selloff on the bond market.
US stocks have closed lower as investors digested economic data and monitored developments in the Middle East.
Five months of stock market momentum has come to an abrupt halt as US-Iran strikes in the Strait of Hormuz sent oil prices soaring and rattled investors.
NRW Holdings will stay on at Karara Mining’s namesake operations in the Mid West and bank about $960 million for an extra five years’ work.
Late-night trading hours at hundreds of KFC restaurants in Australia may not have provided as much of a sales boost as some analysts expected.
Cheyanne Enciso
Asian stock markets closed mostly lower as higher oil prices and renewed US-Iran fighting stoked fears about inflation.
Oil rose the most in three weeks as tensions spiked in the Middle East, with the US and Iran exchanging strikes for the first time in about a month and fighting appearing poised to continue.
Mia Gindis, Charles Gorrivan and Paul Burkhardt
US stocks have closed lower as investors continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh.
The Australian dollar has tumbled from a 15-week high and the ASX 200 has been hammered by a dual threat of surging oil prices and interest rate fears.
