A weaker US dollar has helped support energy and materials stocks, while narrowing bets on interest rate hikes have dragged the broader bourse lower.
Adrian Black
Woodside Energy is forecasting annual production for the next 12 months will fall from a record 198.8 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2025 to between 172mboe and 186mboe.
Sean Smith and Daniel Newell
The Australian dollar is buying more than 69 US cents for the first since October 2024 - great news for Australians heading to America on holiday.
Derek Rose
US consumer confidence unexpectedly deteriorated in January, slumping to its lowest level since 2014.
Sinéad Carew and Pranav Kashyap
BHP is top of the ASX heap again, dethroning Commonwealth Bank of Australia as Australia’s most valuable company.
Sean Smith
Australia’s sharemarket jumped to a three-month high on Tuesday as a key sector continues its meteoric rise.
Cameron Micallef
After legal challenges and pandemic delays, the first Barossa LNG shipment is bound for Japan, marking an "outstanding achievement" for Santos.
Lloyd Jones
The US-listed Steel Dynamics has defended the $13 billion offer, rejected the target’s knockback as “very disappointing” and challenged the Australian group to come up with a superior alternative plan.
Jewellery retailer Michael Hill is tipping a double-digit jump in half-year earnings, with margins steady despite record gold and silver prices.
Cheyanne Enciso
The Kospi index continued its remarkable rally, surging 2.7 per cent despite US President Donald Trump saying he will raise tariffs on South Korean goods.
Staff Writers
A broad surge in metals markets has boosted BHP Group’sshares, helping the miner unseat Commonwealth Bank of Australia as the nation’s most valuable company.
Jackie Edwards and Carmeli Argana
The local share market enjoyed its best day of the year so far, led by strong gains for BHP and Rio Tinto, while the Aussie was close to a 16-month high.
US stocks have closed higher, while other markets made louder moves, including another record-breaking rush for the price of gold.
China will allow overseas investors to invest in domestic nickel and lithium futures, part of Beijing’s efforts to boost its influence in global commodities markets.
Bloomberg News
More than 70 DroneShield employees are being showered with another windfall, poised to rake in $41 million of free shares as lucrative revenue-linked stock rewards keep delivering.
Gold has extended a record-breaking rally as chaos sowed by the erratic policy making of US President Trump encouraged investors to seek safety in the precious metal.
Tom Richardson
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 285.30 points, or 0.58 per cent, to 49,098.71. The S&P 500 edged up 2.26 points.
David French
An unwavering commodities boom has a star Perth fund manager hungry for more and led a Trans-Tasman investment bank to beef up its team for a bigger slice of mining deals out west.
Adrian Rauso
Investors are nervously watching whether Japanese authorities are likely to intervene to support the yen.
Iain Withers and Gregor Stuart Hunter
The 130-year-old WA residential developer’s shares hit a 16-year high of $2.17 on Friday before closing 3¢ better at $2.14 to value the group at $1 billion.
Miners and tech stocks have driven the ASX to a modest gain despite banking sector falls, as gold hits record highs.
Australia’s major telcos have copped an international pasting, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development calling out high prices, poor service and a lack of help for country customers.
Tim Ayres has remained tight-lipped on the possibility of a new trade clash with China after steel manufacturers called for tariffs and quotas.
Nathan Schmidt
