Shares in West African Resources will remain frozen for the foreseeable future as a standoff with Burkina Faso’s military dictatorship continues.
Adrian Rauso
Westpac’s full-year profit has fallen by 2 per cent despite growth in customer deposits and home mortgages.
Stephen Johnson
Indexes end up: Dow 0.09 per cent, S&P 500 0.26 per cent, Nasdaq 0.61 per cent; Wall Street boasts longest monthly winning streaks in years.
Sinéad Carew and Pranav Kashyap
Coles says it’s like a “third world” country in one state, as a shocking amount of high value items are stolen by organised crime.
Cameron Micallef
Renewable energy is taking over from oil, coal and gas, an Australian mining magnate has told shareholders, and efforts to hold back the trend are misguided.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
It’s been a wild October for the Aussie sharemarket and the final day of the month’s trading delivered a small slide into the red.
Duncan Evans
Shares in the world’s top listed beer, wine and spirits makers have shed a combined $1.27 trillion in a little more than four years as the industry grapples with monumental change.
Bloomberg
A big east coast utility has revealed its second WA move this week as the State scrambles to close taxpayer-funded coal by 2030.
Matt Mckenzie
Australian banking shares could face a reckoning as lenders unveil earnings starting next week, with valuations setting a high bar for results.
Carmeli Argana and Nasteho Said
ANZ has revealed a $1.1 billion profit downgrade, with redundancies making up more than a third of the bad news.
The S&P/ASX200 has fallen by more than one per cent since Monday, with interest rate-sensitive stocks under pressure as investors reprice rate cut hopes.
Adrian Black
ANZ says cash profit for the second half of this year will be impacted by significant items amounting to $1.1 billion, as chief executive Nuno Matos overhauls the Australian lender.
Adam Haigh
Indexes fall: Dow 0.23 per cent, S&P 500 0.99 per cent, Nasdaq 1.57 per cent; Alphabet jumps on quarterly earnings beat; Meta drops.
Shares in the WA conglomerate were smashed 7 per cent lower to a three-month low of $86.13, pushing its market value under $100 billion, as shareholders met for the AGM.
Sean Smith
Australia’s sharemarket continued its sell-off dropping for the third straight session, as investors once again sold off interest rate sensitive stocks.
Retail crime is worsening with a drastic number of Bunnings and Kmart workers threatened with violence every month, parent company Wesfarmers says.
William Ton
The Australian stock market has extended its losses following a surprise inflation spike that has crushed hopes of further interest rate cuts in 2025.
A string of "distractions" are the reason why Woolworths failed to deliver for shareholders, the company's leaders say.
Mineral Resources plans to boost the maximum capacity of its key mining operation and believes it has learnt from ‘painful experience’ how to handle the next unforgiving Pilbara wet season.
Protesters have disrupted a meeting held by one of Australia's largest coal mining companies but bigger challenges could come from global price fluctuations.
Coles is still outpacing Woolworths’ sales growth, but analysts suggest the latter’s stock might be a better value buy for share market shoppers.
Tom Richardson
Same-store sales at JB Hi-Fi's namesake consumer electronics stores grew five per cent in Australia in the first quarter, the retailer says.
Derek Rose
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have struck a deal over rare earths and tariffs but share markets greeted the US-China talks with caution.
Amanda Cooper
