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Australian shares have stumbled as bond market woes continue to weigh on investor confidence, with miners, banks and technology stocks taking hits.

Migration policies delivered by the major parties are being described as a missed opportunity to bring construction apprentices to Australia to help boost desperately needed housing supply.

The tax man doubling down on blocking credit card payments has prompted accusations of a double standard and sounded alarm bells within the government.

US stocks pulled back from their record on Wednesday.

The Australian bourse has ended a disappointing session after trading sideways for most of the day, as investors took a cautious stance given a lack of obvious direction from Asia.

Australians face "recession-like" conditions as the nation's increasing reliance on population growth over productivity catches up with policy-makers.

Sweeping cuts to migration proposed by the coalition have been blasted by the business sector, while farming leaders back the approach that would bring workers back to the regions.

Australian shares have clocked a third straight session of gains, as easing oil prices and confidence in the US market lifted investor sentiment.

Angus Taylor has pledged to "regain control" of Australia's borders, unveiling sweeping cuts to the migration system in a bid to stem the flow of votes to One Nation.

Small businesses are calling for more support from the government to fight back against a rising tide of artificial intelligence-fuelled scams and cyber crime.

The Nasdaq notched a record high close on Monday, lifted by ‌Nvidia and Microsoft, as investors focused on a dip in oil prices and looked ahead to quarterly earnings reports.

Australian shares have traded flat after an early rally faded as multiple states paused for a public holiday and traders tracked sovereign debt concerns in Europe.

Australia's climate credentials will face renewed scrutiny at an international summit in Fiji as the federal government considers approval for a major coal mine expansion. 

US stocks advanced to close out the trading week after weaker-than-expected jobs data dampened expectations for a rate hike from the Federal Reserve at its ‌policy meeting this month.

Australian shares have scraped through to end a four-week losing streak, but investor confidence remains shaky as inflation, interest rates and a challenging earnings environment loom.

US stocks have recovered from early ‌losses to close slightly higher, with the S&P 500 bouncing from a two-week low as a global bond sell-off reversed course after sending US Treasury yields to multi-decade highs.

Australia's share market has erased almost $60 billion in value in a day as soaring bond yields foreshadow higher global borrowing costs, hammering cyclical stocks.

Businesses will no longer be able to charge customers a direct fee for paying by card, in a move spruiked as helping to ease cost-of-living pressures.

The Nasdaq has climbed and the S&P 500 dipped, but both indices notched their second straight ‌quarterly gains, as a softer-than-anticipated inflation reading cooled expectations that Federal Reserve policy makers will hike rates in October.

Australian shares have had their strongest session since early August after lower-than-feared inflation figures tempered concerns of further imminent interest rate hikes.

David Shoebridge is the new leader of the Greens after Larissa Waters stepped down due to ill health.

US stocks have ended the session slightly lower as government ‌bond yields continued their ascent ahead of inflation and labour market data while investors assessed comments from Federal Reserve officials for the path of interest rates.

Australian shares have ended the day higher after the nation's's top central banker said the race that stops the nation won't likely accompany a rate hike that stops the economy.

An artificial intelligence giant whose agent went rogue and hacked an Australian government website has publicly apologised and committed to setting up a task force in an attempt to control its technology.

US stocks have fallen as oil prices and Treasury ‌yields increased, with investors weighing uncertainty over the prospects for an Iran war peace deal and the effect on the Federal Reserve's rate path.

Larissa Waters has quit as leader of the Greens due to worsening kidney disease.

One of the world's top mining firms is disappointed the board of Australia's leading goldminer has knocked back its near $40 billion takeover approach but isn't giving up its pursuit.

The Australian share market has fallen to a three-month low as oil prices and bond yields both moved higher and domestic interest rates looked to soon join them.

The S&P 500 has ended marginally down, with Microsoft dipping and Meta Platforms rising, as uncertainty about the Middle East lifted oil prices ‌and Treasury yields.

The Australian share market has dropped sharply, falling back into the red once again for the year as bond yields spiked to their highest levels in decades.

Weeks after discovering one of its artificial intelligence agents had hacked into a Medicare website, OpenAI chose to notify the Australian government via a mid-level public email inbox.

Wall Street has ended lower, pulled down by Alphabet and Amazon, as Treasury yields climbed and Iran's ‌president said the country would never surrender to US pressure.