Markets

Reporting season continues.
Markets
Simone Grogan

ASX RECAP: Iluka, Santos, Cedar Woods, IAG, Domino’s

21 AUG 2024 - 1:47 PM
The owner of one of Australia’s largest shopping centre chains is enjoying rising customer numbers and profits, despite the national cost-of-living crisis.
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The majority of shares are in the green as the ASX enjoys another day of positive trading. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)
Markets
Derek Rose

Aussie shares reclaim 8000 mark, set to extend streak

The local share market at midday was on track to equal its longest winning streak of the year with its eighth day of gains and the ASX200 up 0.3 per cent.

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Reporting season continues.
Markets
Simone Grogan

RECAP: All the latest news from the ASX

20 AUG 2024 - 12:35 PM
The latest financial reports from two listed retailers on Tuesday show the pullback in consumer spending is far from over as soaring living costs crunch households.
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The Australian share market is set to post its best week since December. (Steven Saphore/AAP PHOTOS)
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Markets
Derek Rose

Australian shares rally, set for best week of the year

The ASX200 had gained 1.4 per cent at midday, and was on track to finish the week 2.5 per cent higher, its best weekly performance since December.

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Domino’s has promoted Kerri Hayman to run its Australia/New Zealand arm
Markets
Cheyanne Enciso

Family dinner: Domino’s boss taps sister to run local arm

Domino’s Pizza has promoted the sister of group chief executive Don Meij to take the top job at its Australia and New Zealand division.

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ASX Perth
Markets
Daniel Newell

RECAP: All the latest news from ASX reporting season

16 AUG 2024 - 11:13 AM
Gold prices swung as traders digested US data on retail spending that underscored strength in the world’s largest economy - weighing that with the outlook for the Federal Reserve’s expected interest-rate cuts next month.
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Defence Minister Richard Marles said the deals were “critical reforms”.
Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Massive defence free trade deal signed by AUKUS allies

Billions of dollars’ worth of military hardware will be able to flow freely between Australia, the US and UK under a ‘generational’ export deal. 

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Australia’s unemployment rate lifted slightly in June.
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Business
Matt Mckenzie

Mixed jobs data unlikely to shake RBA

Job creation is running at a gallop amid a flood of Australians looking for work, with fresh numbers backing up the Reserve Bank’s reluctance to cut interest rates.

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APM chief executive Michael Anghie.
Business
Daniel Newell

APM closer to ASX exit with date set for takeover vote

Embattled human services provider APM’s disastrous three-year stint on the ASX is drawing to a close, with a date now set for a shareholder vote on a $1 billion-plus buyout that will return in to private hands.

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We’re now four days into the first big week of reporting season and most major companies have managed to either meet expectations or surprise to the upside.
Markets
Daniel Newell

RECAP: All the latest news from ASX reporting season

15 AUG 2024 - 11:54 AM
Monadelphous has booked in another $340 million worth of work.
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ASX decided to replace the CHESS system in 2016 and it originally set a target of April 2021 to have the project working. 
Markets
Neale Prior

‘Collective failure’: ASIC action over ASX’s CHESS bungle

The corporate watchdog has accused stock exchange operator ASX of making misleading statements about the progress of its failed project to replace an antiquated transaction clearing system.

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We’re at the half-way mark of the first big week of reporting season. Keep that coffee coming, and let’s get started ...
Markets
Daniel Newell

RECAP: All the latest news from ASX reporting season

14 AUG 2024 - 1:17 PM
WA’s iron ore majors were all dragged lower today as the commodity so crucial to Australia (and WA’s) economic fortunes retreated further below $US100 a tonne.
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RBA governor Michele Bullock telling us that the economy is still too hot. Will fresh economic markers due this week change that view?
Markets
Poppy Johnston

The two economic markers that could prompt a rate cut

A couple of big announcements this week could give us the clearest indication yet of when interest rates might finally be cut.

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A trader at work ahead of the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan on Monday afternoon, Aug. 5, 2024. The S&P 500s fall earlier this week was only 3 percent, but that was still the biggest one-day decline since September 2022. (Ava Pellor/The New York Times)
Markets
The New York Times

How to cope when the markets are in freefall

Panic can happen easily in market declines, and it can vanish just as quickly. Follow these simple rules when it’s all kicking off and everything will be OK.

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New Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says Australia is at a pivotal moment in the discussion about housing.
Australia
Katina Curtis

‘Bank of mum and dad’ won’t fix housing, says new Minister

New Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says the ‘bank of mum and dad’ is not a viable solution to the crisis facing Australians, revealing the one big problem with that mindset.

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