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Australia's share market has closed higher and investors have overcome a barrier in their efforts to push the indices above the record highs set in February last year.

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Australia's share market has closed higher in its strongest week in 13, as banks thrived after a Reserve Bank decision to extend bond-buying.

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Investors' run of three days of gains on the Australian share market has ended, and an analyst cited inflation expectations as hampering results.

A correction is surely coming as the stock market moves further out of touch with the real economy.

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A third consecutive day of ASX gains may sound impressive, but an analyst said investors were finding it hard to go higher.

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Investors had their highest gains in almost four weeks on the Australian share market, as the Reserve Bank said it would extend its bond-buying to keep economic recovery on track.

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Scott Morrison shows no signs of blinking first in response to Google's threat to remove its search engine from Australia over the proposed media bargaining code.

Australia's share market turned around mid-session and followed Asian markets higher to record its biggest gain in almost two weeks.

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Metropolitan Perth, Peel and the South West will enter a five day lockdown after 6pm tonight.

Australia's share market has experienced the ripple effect of the US GameStop controversy, closing lower for a third consecutive day as US hedge funds sold stock to recover huge losses.

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Australia's share market had its biggest loss since September, but an investment analyst believed the decline could be good for investors.

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Investors had their biggest loss on the share market in more than a week, but a modest rise in inflation indicated conditions should remain favourable for some time.

The economic alarm has again been sounded over climate inaction, with an environmental group warning the cost of extreme weather has more than doubled over the last 50 years.

The IMF has upgraded its global economic growth forecast for this year, but admits that exceptional uncertainty remains.

Business conditions have risen to their highest levels in two years, suggesting strong momentum in Australia's economic recovery.

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The diplomatic row between Australian and China rolls on, but new figures show trade between the two countries has not been totally throttled by the war of words.

Australia's share market has closed a little higher as investors favoured consumer and technology stocks, expected to do well in next month's earnings reports.

Juniors set to cash in on boomA surging iron ore price is set to give birth to two new WA junior exporters of the steel-making commodity within days. The West

Australia's share market has closed lower but provided gains for the week, with an analyst tipping that a good February earnings season could see the ASX return to the lofty 7000-points range.

Miners sell elsewhere as China shuts door on Aussie copper

Australia's share market has closed higher and at 11-month highs, as an improved unemployment rate supported investor optimism on day one of Joe Biden's US presidency.

Job numbers in WA were steady in December, but unemployment fell 0.2 percentage points to be 6.2 per cent.