Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statement
Advertisement

Shares

Today

Wall Street.

ASX to fall, S&P 500 rally runs out of petrol

Australian shares are set to open lower. US stocks sell-off late; Dow sheds 475 points. S&P 500 slides 1.5pc.

  • Updated
  • Timothy Moore

Yesterday

Markets are enjoying the December rally.

Making sense of the December market madness

Equities are on fire and Australian investors are enjoying a broad-based rally in stocks that may just be getting started.

  • Jonathan Shapiro
Wall Street.

ASX to rise, S&P 500 edges closer to record high

Australian shares are set to open higher. Dow, Nasdaq 100 reset record highs. Fed official signals rate cut potential. Oil edges towards $US80 mark. $A rises.

  • Timothy Moore

This Month

Inside the frantic months after Nuix hit the ASX – and the skids

Now the subject of legal action by the regulator, new details show what was going on at the top of a hot tech stock which crashed back to earth.

  • Jessica Sier
Wall Street.

ASX to rise, Wall Street powers higher

Australian shares are set to advance. S&P 500 paces gains in New York. Oil retakes $US78 mark. $A steady. Apple lower on Watch patent loss.

  • Timothy Moore
Advertisement
Link chairman Michael Carapiet was there when the group listed in 2015 and will be there when it delists early next year.

Good riddance to Link, an ASX rollercoaster

The company is systemically important to Australia’s superannuation system. But it didn’t always behave that way.

  • Anthony Macdonald
ASX futures are pointing to a drop at the opening bell.

ASX falls; Link, Adbri climb over 20pc; real estate drops

Shares decline at the closing bell; UK-listed CRH and Barro in deal to buy Adbri, Japanese giant MUFG agrees to $1.2b buyout of Link Group; $A steady. Follow here for more.

  • Updated
  • Joanne Tran, Cecile Lefort and Sarah Jones
The ASX is set to drop at the opening bell on Monday.

ASX to drop 1pc as US rate cut optimism cools

ASX futures indicated shares are poised to drop 1 per cent, or 74 points, at the return of trade on Monday.

  • Joanne Tran
Mark Finocchiaro, managing partner Chemist Warehouse, owns eight pharmacies in the group.

Inside the Chemist Warehouse franchisee world

There are over 200 managing partners who are shareholders in the discount chain. They are all ambitious pharmacy owners, many with multiple sites.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
Wall Street.

ASX to rise even as Fed-fuelled surge shows signs of overheating

The Federal Reserve-driven rally in global shares continued overnight, pushing the S&P 500 towards overbought levels.

  • Updated
  • Andrew Hobbs
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell’s comments have excited the market.

Bears run for cover as Powell sparks risk on rally

The market is celebrating the clearest signal yet out of the US that we’ve reached a peak in interest rates. But closer to home there are more ominous signs.

  • Jonathan Shapiro

Jobless rate rises; What Fed cuts mean; ATAR’s pay effect

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Wall Street.

ASX to jump after Fed greenlights future rate cuts

ASX futures jump as the US keeps its key rate unchanged and says it expects three rate cuts next year; US stocks rose and yields sunk after the announcement.

  • Updated
  • Andrew Hobbs

This retirement strategy could foolproof your savings

A timeless game plan invented in 1985 helps retirees – and younger investors – avoid worries during sharemarket downturns by planning ahead.

  • Tom Richardson

Why pretend portfolios are important for investment banks

Running a model portfolio avoids the gut-wrenching risk-on moment that fund managers face every day. Yet, they remain a key engagement tool for stockbrokers.

  • Anthony Macdonald
Advertisement
Chris Kourtis’ Australian shares fund bounced 8.1 per cent in November.

Stockpickers claw back returns in ‘ripsnorting’ relief rally

Several high-profile Australian equity funds, including Chris Kourtis’ at Ellerston, have posted double-digit returns after equities went on a tear last month.

  • Joshua Peach
Wall Street.

ASX to open flat as US inflation prompts traders to trim rate cut bets

US stocks, bonds and the dollar struggled for direction after core US consumer price index, which excludes food and energy costs, increased 0.3 per cent.

  • Updated
  • Andrew Hobbs

COP28 dumps phase-out; Miles to lead Qld; Worry for investors

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Wall Street.

ASX to gain as all eyes on US CPI, rates and Bullock

Australian shares are poised for a modestly higher start as investors stay on the sidelines ahead of key US inflation data tomorrow Sydney time and interest rate decisions in the US and UK later this week.

  • Updated
  • Andrew Hobbs

Atturra’s $90m acquisition spree to help it take on Accenture, IBM

CEO Stephen Kowal says the Cirrus deal will give it the balance sheet and scale needed to compete for projects against foreign-owned IT businesses.

  • Tess Bennett