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September is proving a miserly month for ASX investors, who had their third consecutive week of losses.

WA builders push back on mandatory jabs amid Melbourne riots

Workers at a major parcel delivery company are striking across the country, dealing another blow to Australia's overwhelmed postal system.

Shares on the ASX had their biggest rise since August 2 following a global relief rally for the still-troubled property giant Evergrande.

Childcare duo hand baby over

Investors took confidence from troubled property giant Evergrande pledging a payment, while they wait for US monetary policy decisions.

MinRes, Norwest strike big gas in the Perth Basin

Perth businessman Dallas Dempster, best known for spearheading Burswood Resort and Casino, has died aged 80.

Shares have bounced back to gains on the ASX, although troubled Chinese property giant Evergrande cast doubt over bank stocks.

Gulfs apart as nature-loving locals resist port development

The federal government has ruled out concerns Australia's Pfizer supplies could face a shortfall next month.

Australia's share market has recorded its steepest fall since February as falling iron ore prices ruined miners and Chinese property giant Evergrande teetered on collapse.

Porter resigns from frontbench over issue of anonymous legal donors

Western Australia has tens of thousands of empty coronavirus vaccination slots as authorities prepare to offer jabs at selected secondary schools.

Iron ore miners have plunged and caused the steepest drop of the week for the Australian share market.

Qantas Airways boss Alan Joyce had a pay rise to almost $2 million in the past financial year, while thousands of staff were cut due to the effect of COVID-19.

Shock and ore in FMG boss exodus

Investors have enjoyed their biggest gains on the ASX since early August despite signs unemployed Australians are giving up looking for work due to lockdowns.

Explorers poised for ‘elongated boom’

More signs of a slowing global economy helped sink the ASX as investors brace for a rise in Australian unemployment.

Steel exempt from BHP’s net zero target

Shares had a third consecutive day of gains after investors lapped up Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe's renewed pledge that rates won't rise until 2024.

New Norcia for sale

Share market investors started the week with slim gains as the stifling impact of the coronavirus on economic growth make September a stingy month.

Slump in Port Hedland iron ore exports

Santos and Oil Search have confirmed an impending marriage, and investors liked commodity stocks enough to raise the ASX at the end of the week.

Perth confidence more vital than interstate

Shares had their steepest fall since February on the Australian market as overseas economic concerns nullified plans to ease local lockdowns.

WorkPac’s $20m convertible note reveals IPO prospects

Macquarie Group shares had a record trade and banks prospered, although they could not extend the ASX 200 winning streak to a fourth day.

RBA: Economy to bounce back

A Reserve Bank decision to extend support for a lockdown-ravaged economy has encouraged a rally on the share market.