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The ATO has declined a Tax Ombudsman suggestion to re-route calls from accountants to experienced staff as pressures mount between tax agents and the agency.

The owner of Penfolds is disappointed by Chinese sales after its highly anticipated return to the market following Beijing dropping punishing tariffs on Australian imports.

Australia is being called upon to join the United States in the global fight against China for critical minerals dominance.

Wall Street's main indexes closed higher overnight with Morgan Stanley and Bank of America rallying after solid quarterly results.

Strong performances from banks and miners have helped lift Australia's stock market to a second-straight session of gains, as gold hit yet another record high.

Wall Street closed mixed overnight as investors digested mostly positive quarterly results from big US banks

A strong performance from miners and energy stocks has helped Australia's share market scrape a positive session, helping to counterbalance a heavy financial segment.

Security agencies are investigating how the personal phone numbers of political leaders including the prime minister were published in an online database.

Crucial economic data in coming weeks could determine when mortgage holders can expect more interest rate relief, the Reserve Bank board says.

A $4 billion budget hole created by an overhaul of the government's contentious super tax policy will be filled using other measures, the treasurer says.

The S&P 500 jumped 1.6 per cent overnight, in its best day since May, and recovered just over half its drop from Friday.

A plan to increase tax on large super balances has been overhauled, with Labor saying they took feedback on its original plan seriously.

Australian shares have tumbled on the back of a resumption of US-China trade tensions, stoking worries about global growth and tech company valuations.

ANZ will move its eight million Australian retail banking customers to ANZ Plus by late 2027, and add to its mortgage sales force in its branches.

Asian stocks appear set for a rocky start this week.

Australia's share market has finished the week lower, after easing gold and copper prices clipped the wings of a mining sector rally.

Wall Street took a pause overnight as US stocks and even the price of gold pulled back from record highs following torrid runs.

Australia's share market has notched its first positive close for the week, buoyed by the materials sector and a rebound in retail stocks.

Donald Trump's 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza now has the backing of Israel and Hamas, drawing praise from Australia's political leaders.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has denied leaking internal party documents critical of a former frontbencher amid tensions within the coalition.

Technology shares boosted US stocks to a higher close overnight.

Australia's share market has sold off for a third-straight session, in which the only sure things were gold and investor uncertainty.

Taxpayers will fund Swiss mining giant Glencore to the tune of $600 million over three years to save its ailing copper facilities and potentially hundreds of jobs.

The federal government only found out about the Optus triple-zero outage a day after it was resolved because the telco sent a notification to the wrong email.

US stocks closed lower overnight as investors, deprived of economic data resulting from the shuttered government, looked to secondary indicators and remarks from US Federal Reserve officials for clues.

Australia's share market has tracked lower for a second-straight session, as consumer discretionaries, communications and real estate stocks sold off.

Wall Street keeps setting more records, and excitement about the artificial-intelligence industry keeps leading the way.

Australia's share market has retreated from record highs, as investors await a catalyst to send the bourse into unchartered territory.

Analysts and policymakers will get a read on how consumers are feeling about the economy in an otherwise quiet week for hard data.

Federal Liberal MP Andrew Hastie did the right thing by stepping down from the opposition frontbench, a senior colleague says, as the coalition takes another battering in a key opinion poll.

Australia's share market is within striking distance of record highs as "Goldilocks" market conditions continue to fuel investors' buy orders.

Electric vehicles are quietly climbing the sales charts in Australia after a slow start to the year, but hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars remain popular.