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Local shares are set to open lower after a late bout of selling in New York.

ASX falls; Pacific Smiles rallies; gold, lithium miners drop

Shares retreat after late US sell-off; Pacific Smiles turns down “undervalued” bid; $A eases to US67.37¢; global bond yields drop after UK inflation print; oil holds three-day gain. Follow updates here.

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  • Timothy Moore, Sarah Jones, Joanne Tran and Cecile Lefort
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.

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  • Timothy Moore
Dan Ives estimates there are more than 100 million iPhones in China “in the window of an upgrade opportunity”.

Apple to reach $US4 trillion value in 2024: Wedbush

Dan Ives calls the dispute involving the tech giant’s watches, which has dented the stock’s rise this week, a “headache issue” that will be resolved soon.

  • Timothy Moore
Analysts’ average price target on Tesla reflects an expectation for the stock to fall about 6 per cent over the next 12 months.

Tesla is getting trounced by S&P 500 three years after joining

The EV car maker’s shares have risen about 11 per cent since entering the benchmark US index, which itself has surged 28 per cent over the same time.

  • Esha Dey

Yesterday

Global shift in rate cut bets sparks Santa rally

A “dovish” pivot from the Fed last week has lit a fire under equities, which have correctly bet that global monetary settings are shifting gear.

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  • Sarah Jones and Cecile Lefort
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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
Th ebulls are ending the year firlmy in control.

Rally has more room to run as investors get three green lights

The market has built a head of steam in the last two months, and until there’s a clear risk to the Goldilocks soft landing scenario there is little reason for the bulls to turn.

  • James Thomson
Stock piling coal at  Whitehaven Coal’s Narrabri coal mine in NSW.

Investors tip strong payouts from sin-binned coal stocks

The coal sector is consolidating as big miners sell assets at bargain prices to juniors that can potentially grow resources and balance dividend payouts.

  • Tom Richardson

The good, bad and ugly of business in 2023

Big deals, dud deals, scandals and success stories. In a year of high drama and big market moves, we look back at the winners and losers.

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  • James Thomson
The ASX is poised to open higher.

ASX rallies; KMD, PEXA tumble; consumer stocks jump

Shares advance, tracking gains on Wall Street; oil rises; Orica buys Canadian company for $560 million; KMD Brands sales slide; $A rises. Follow updates here.

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  • Timothy Moore, Joanne Tran, Cecile Lefort and Sarah Jones
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
The S&P 500 has rallied more than 5 per cent over the last month on rate cut expectations gather momentum.

Global fund mangers extend their equity bets

Fund managers are the most overweight equities relative to cash since January 2022, according to Bank of America’s latest survey of their holdings.

  • Timothy Moore

This Month

Federal Reserve Jerome Powell’s dovish pivot on rate cuts has turned Wall Street’s biggest sceptics more positive on stocks.

Fed’s pivot forces sharemarket sceptics to become believers

Rate cut talk from the Federal Reserve last week has forced even the most steadfast Wall Street bears into changing their tune on US equities.

  • Alexandra Semenova
The ASX is poised to open higher.

ASX charges ahead, Rio closes at record high

Shares rally; AGL plans $750m battery plant, Propel Funeral expands; Apple slips on patent loss, Azure gets sweeter bid, Origin spends big in UK. Follow updates here.

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  • Timothy Moore, Cecile Lefort, Joanne Tran and Sarah Jones
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
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Zoom’s video conferencing software was a smash hit during the pandemic as entire industries were forced into remote working more or less overnight.

Zoom dropped from Nasdaq in sign pandemic-era darling trade is over

Shares in the video-conferencing company have underperformed every major equity benchmark in 2023, rising just 5.7 per cent.

  • Emily Graffeo and Brody Ford
Morgan Stanley’s outgoing boss James Gorman: “This doesn’t make sense.”

The Fed runs a fool’s errand on bank capital rules

Finding a risk model that captures potential embezzlement, consumer abuse and money laundering losses is no easy task.

  • Marc Rubinstein
Neuren CEO Jon Pilcher says he’s more excited about the company’s second drug.

Biotech sensation Neuren rallies to record on clinical trial results

Neuren has developed a drug that treats neurological disorders in children to improve hand movement and communication.

  • Tom Richardson
Falling rates and rising markets have helped get deals moving again.

What’s behind Monday’s $5b deal frenzy

A burst of pre-Christmas deals isn’t unusual. But the impressive market rally in the past six weeks has helped unstick some deals that have been simmering for some time. 

  • James Thomson

It’s the ‘new lithium’: Uranium tipped to extend bull run into 2024

A COP28 pledge to triple nuclear capacity and China’s plans to build 154 new reactors point to higher prices for the strategic commodity, say analysts.

  • Tom Richardson