Oil prices leaped Monday on worries that war with Iran could clog the global flow of crude and make inflation even worse. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, swung from sharp losses to a tiny gain.
Australia's share market has broken multiple records as it nears the end of a solid earnings season that delivered outsized returns for bigger miners, banks and consumer staples stocks.
Australia's share market has broken multiple records as earnings season delivers more outsized company-level moves for bigger players, while mining stocks remain hot assets.
US stocks slumped Monday after President Donald Trump ramped up his newest tariffs, while investors continued to punish companies that could be losers in the artificial-intelligence revolution.
Merger execution factors were behind chief executive Jeff Howard's abrupt exit from the combined Seven West Media and Southern Cross Austereo, as profit slipped 16 per cent.
The chief executive of merged media giants Seven West Media and Southern Cross Austereo, Jeff Howard, has suddenly stepped down on the eve of his first financial results.
China is making a "full assessment" of the US Supreme Court's tariff ruling and has urged Washington to lift "relevant unilateral tariff measures" on its trading partners.
US stocks ended higher on Friday, led by gains in Alphabet, Amazon and other Wall Street heavyweights after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's global tariffs.
The local stock market is on track to snap a four-session winning streak, but so far is holding onto most of the gains that took it to a fresh peak this week.
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Australia's share market has spiked to a new high as commodity price strength buoyed miners and energy stocks, while banks continue higher on the back of promising earnings.
Australia's share market has ended the session higher as NAB became the latest large-cap to outshine forecasts in a so-far encouraging earnings season.
A quiet finish for the U.S. stock market on Tuesday masked big swings underneath the surface as companies talked about how discouraged their customers are feeling and some tech stocks continued to feel the downside of the artificial-intelligence boom.
