Today
ASX to open firm; floods hit AACO; Coronado halts coal mine
ASX to edge up; AACO flags “material” earnings hit; Coronado suspends coal mine after fatality; investors watch oil markets after US captures Maduro. Follow Live.
Yesterday
Conflicts, poor transparency riddle $256b managed account market
The industry is plagued by a dearth of available and comparative performance data, while it’s often not clear how portfolio fees are divided between parties.
ASX to edge up, shares to grind higher in 2026 as rate talk dominates
Equity futures point to modest gains for Australia’s sharemarket as investors shrug off geopolitical uncertainty to focus on the next move in interest rates.
This Month
S&P 500 rises 0.2pc in broad energy-led advance
US equities ended the first session of the year mostly higher, albeit modestly so. Tesla, Microsoft started 2026 in the negative, pressuring the Nasdaq Composite.
There’s no way to sugar coat it, the S&P 500 is ‘expensive’: BofA
Savita Subramanian sees “elevated risks” in the near term, pointing to 18 of 20 valuation metrics she tracks that are “statistically expensive”.
Some Warren Buffett wisdom on his last day leading Berkshire Hathaway
The advice that legendary investor Warren Buffett offered on investing and life over the years helped earn him legions of followers.
ASX makes firm start to 2026, snapping four-day losing streak
The Australian sharemarket shrugged off early losses to edge higher in the first session of 2026, buoyed by energy stocks.
3 money habits to adopt in 2026 (and 3 others to dump)
Financial goals often feature among New Year’s resolutions but make sure they’re the right ones.
Super’s ‘boring’ options outperform with 9.1pc gain
That would make the third year in a row of above-average growth for the balanced investment option and a “really good outcome for investors”.
Sovereign funds push into technology as assets swell to $22.5trn
Overall, such vehicles ploughed $US66 billion into investments in artificial intelligence and digitisation in 2025, according to Global SWF.
ASX set for soggy start to 2026 as inflation threat looms
A retreat in precious metals and crude prices is likely to weigh on resources stocks and the broader sharemarket on the first trading day of the year.
US stocks stumble into year-end, silver slumps anew
The S&P 500 falls 0.7 per cent in low volume in final trading day of the year, paring its 2025 gain to 16.4 per cent; US 10-year yield spikes to 4.17 per cent.
Wall Street’s biggest winners and losers in 2025
Three of the index’s top 10 performers were data storage companies, which are among the main beneficiaries of the hundreds of billions of dollars in AI spending.
December 2025
ASX ends 2025 with a whimper for weakest annual rise in 3 years
The Australian sharemarket extended losses in a shortened final session, resulting in less than a 7 per cent gain for the year, lagging overseas peers.
Silver rises after biggest one-day drop in more than five years
A lingering supply shortage is helping to keep the metal on track for a 33 per cent monthly gain even after exchanges lifted margin requirements.
ASX extends losing streak as BHP, gold miners fall
Australian shares nudged lower as declines for precious metals miners and real estate stocks cancelled gains by Santos and Origin.
How to squash a private credit ‘cockroach’? Ask these 10 questions
With new private credit investment funds popping up everywhere, we asked the experts to reveal the questions they ask before they invest in the booming sector.
Every Wall Street analyst now predicts a stock rally in 2026
“The pessimists have just been wrong for so long that people are kind of tired of that schtick,” said veteran market strategist and longtime bull Ed Yardeni.
ASX falls as tech weighs; DroneShield slumps but Star soars
The sharemarket fell 0.4 per cent, but Rio Tinto hit a record high, and Weebit Nano surged after signing a licence agreement with Texas Instruments.
What will it take to fire up a sluggish ASX listings market in 2026?
The pipeline for initial public offerings looks healthy going into the new year, but fund managers warn the prospect of higher interest rates poses a big risk.