Energy sector dips while tech stocks soar. Santos, Corporate Travel, IAG, Domino’s down earnings miss expectations. Brambles’ $500m buyback wins over investors. New CEOs at Perpetual, Atlas Arteria as PEXA search begins. WiseTech hits record.
Inflation will be ‘slow to decline’: RBA minutes. Dexus sinks on FY25 distribution warning. Ansell’s result better than expected. Judo tops expectations. Reliance results ‘operationally strong’. Yancoal slumps on weak first-half. Baby Bunting, Monadelphous gain.
Mixed reactions to Westpac update. BlueScope falls on FY24 profit drop. A2 Milk plummets on missed expectations. Lendlease losses grow. Australian Vintage, SkyCity flag impairments. Reece tanks on near-term challenges.
ASX 200 soars to two-week high after strong US gains. RBA boss says no rate cuts likely in the near term. ASX Ltd dips amid calls for chair exit. Banks rise on positive signs for net interest margins. Dispute settlement lifts Synlait, A2M. PWR Holdings dives.
AUD rises on ‘quite tight’ jobs market. Cochlear, Origin sink on profit miss . Telstra rises despite profit fall. Treasury Wine lifts on China boost. Goodman dips on mixed results. Nufarm tumbles on earnings downgrade.
RBNZ begins easing with first rate cut since 2020. ASIC sues ASX over CHESS statements. APRA orders review into CFMEU-linked super funds. CBA profits slip. Seven Group underlying profit jumps, Seven West Media earnings sink.
Wages growth at its slowest pace in two years, but no rate cut yet. CSL’s FY25 guidance disappoints. Orora rejects Lone Star’s ‘opportunistic’ $4.3bn offer. Seek dives after swing to loss. Temple & Webster soars on trading update.
RBA’s Hauser warns on ‘overconfidence’ on rate forecasts. JB Hi-Fi buying e&s, reports lower profit but beats forecasts. Aurizon flags $150m buyback, strong FY25 after missing consensus estimates. Beach Energy slumps to loss.
Stocks rise after strong US gains in response to lower-than-expected jobless claims data and commodities rise on China CPI beat. Super Retail boss ‘used company funds to further affair’: court docs. News Corp flags ‘external interest’ in Foxtel. Life360 shares jump as much as 20pc after revenue rise.
The local sharemarket ends slightly in the red, as investors ditch property, mining and energy stocks. RBA ‘won’t hesitate’ to life rates if necessary, Bullock says. ACCC can appeal CFMEU/Hutchinson court decision.
Local shares extend gains for a second day, with nearly all 11 sectors in the black. Property and energy stocks found strong support following a rebound in the US. Nikkei up 4.3 per cent on Bank of Japan news it won’t raise rates while markets unstable.
Local shares finish higher after major sell off. RBA governor Michele Bullock says there will be no interest rate cut in the next six months. Wall Street bled overnight amid a global sell-off.
Bloodbath across the board as the local sharemarket plunges with the ASX 200 down 3.7 per cent to a two-month low of 7649.6 in its worst day since May 2020. Global investors dump shares after US falls. Tokyo plunges 14 per cent in its worst day since the 1987 crash. Woodside buying OCI Clean Ammonia for $US2.35bn.
‘People were making good money for good effort. But it wasn’t egregious’: Luke Sayers. Mercer to cough up $11.3m for greenwashing. ASX has worst day in almost two years. JB Hi-Fi falls on downgrades. Afterpay owner among top gainers on strong guidance.
Tech, property sectors lead gains. CBA fades from record intraday high. Albemarle’s Kemerton expansion halt weighs on Monadelphous. Star dives as licence suitability laid bare. ACCC ex-chair knows why Rex failed. US futures soar on Meta. Apple, Amazon results due.
RBA unlikely to hike rates next week with core inflation heading south. CBA shares reach intraday record of $137.34. Rio Tinto lifts on first-half profit jump. Telix, Origin among losers. Asian buyer circles Rex.
Super Retail ex-exec alleges bullying, harassment. Fortescue crashes after mystery stake sale. BHP, Lundin bid $C4.1bn for Filo Corp. Ramsay taps Woolworths Supermarkets boss as next CEO. Credit Corp’s top gainer. Rex halts 737 bookings amid financial woes.
CBA hits new record high. NIB’s long-time CEO Mark Fitzgibbon flags retirement amid battle with St Vincent’s Health. Rex halts trade as Deloitte experts fly in. Viva interim earnings rise amid ‘soft’ conditions.
Investors welcome MinRes cash gains, price wins. Bellevue Gold downgraded on discounted equity raise. Inflation uptick may force RBA hike. Key exit triggers Cochlear executive rehaul.
Senate committee to grill PwC CEO Kevin Burrowes, former bosses again. Commodities sink despite China rate cut. Fortescue misses guidance. ANZ suspends, sacks staff as market manipulation probe continues. Macquarie’s flat first quarter.
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