Market Reports

• Australian Market Report: The S&P/ASX 200 closed on Friday marginally down, by 4.8 points or 0.05 per cent, at 9081.4, holding on to a five-day gain of 1.84 per cent..... [more]

• U.S. Market Report: U.S. stocks climbed on Friday, with the Nasdaq leading gains after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's global tariffs, offering relief to investors after weaker-than-expected economic data dented sentiment earlier.... [more]

• European Market Report: European stocks traded mostly higher on Friday and were set for weekly gains on the back of strong corporate earnings and easing AI concerns..... [more]

• Asian Market Report: Asian markets ended mostly lower on Friday, although the South Korean equity benchmark rose to a record high amid expectations that upcoming investor-friendly measures will boost shareholder returns and lift market valuations..... [more]

Australian Business News

• Australia's unemployment rate remained at 4.1 per cent in January, the same as December, in seasonally adjusted terms. Economists say the numbers suggest that the labour market remains relatively tight.... [more]

• More than $21bn in unclaimed superannuation earnings is languishing in the forgotten accounts of millions of Australians, new data has revealed. About 7.3 million accounts.... [more]

• Australian exporters to the United States could be set for a windfall if some of the Trump administration's trade tariffs are ruled unlawful, a major consulting firm has found..... [more]

• 16 ASX shares going ex-dividend next week.... [more]

• New analysis from Zenith has confirmed managed accounts are expected to surpass $400 billion in assets by 2030 amid volatile conditions, fuelled by increased regulatory scrutiny and technology-enabled scalability..... [more]

• UniSuper accused of greenwashing after reducing environmental element of investment option.... [more]

• Future growth hotspots have been flagged amid intensified calls for Brisbane to build up, not out as the city falls well short of meeting housing demand. With just 14 per cent of the city zoned for low-to-medium density housing.... [more]

• QBE Insurance Shares Rally Into Weekend on Record Profit and Dividend Hike.... [more]

• Eclipse Metals’ first-pass metallurgical tests at its Grønnedal rare earths project in southwest Greenland have delivered encouraging confirmation that the critical minerals are well suited to magnetic separation,.... [more]

• Zenith Minerals has kicked its exploration momentum up another gear, snapping up a key neighbouring mining lease beside its Consolidated Dulcie gold project in Western Australia..... [more]

• The Australian government’s decision to allow the US mining giant Alcoa to continue clearing swathes of Western Australian jarrah forest despite past illegal clearing practices was made in part due to a critical minerals deal .... [more]

• In a sign that the lithium market is on its way back in a hurry, Chariot Resources has pulled a big China-based battery materials group onto its share register, signing a binding agreement to issue 9.5m shares at 15 cents a share.... [more]

• Rio Tinto's solid numbers mask a bigger question about what comes next.... [more]

• Austal (ASX:ASB) has shrugged off the impact of last week’s sell-off, spurred by the Australian company’s discovery it had been counting on tens of millions of dollars that didn’t exist, given they’d counted it twice..... [more]

• Guzman y Gomez posts 44 per cent profit spike, US expansion weighs heavy.... [more]

• Airtasker has bid $1 for comedian Hamish Blake’s copycat Hametasker at a $1bn valuation. It’s a move CEO Tim Fung says is designed to spark debate about tech and AI hype..... [more]

• Strong result, falling share price – what the Wesfarmers' CFO says investors might be missing Strong earnings, rising dividends, and lithium upside – so why did Wesfarmers shares fall? .... [more]

• It feels uncomfortable to watch a string of Coles middle managers bearing the brunt of a skewering from the senior barrister representing the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).... [more]

• Comment - Mark LaMonica: Two investments you won’t find in my portfolio. Too many investors think they need to own a little bit of everything..... [more]

• Explainer - Jonathan Barrett: Is the share market headed toward a ‘SaaS-pocalypse’ – and what would that mean? Software companies are facing major disruption from AI and investors are pulling back, wiping off billions in value.... [more]

• Comment - Greg Jericho: Don’t panic RBA – low unemployment is a good thing.... [more]

World Business News

• Oil prices jump and gold hits $5,000 as tensions ramp up between Iran and the US.... [more]

• A US attack on Iran could send oil prices surging at precarious time for Trump.... [more]

• U.S. Economy Grew More Slowly at End of 2025. Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the last quarter of the year, hit by the effects of the government shutdown..... [more]

• Wall Street is weighing the impact of the US Supreme Court ruling against Trump's tariffs, with investors on the hunt for stocks that stand to gain the most from the reversal of the landmark trade policy..... [more]

• Retail industry says Trump tariff reversal will bring predictability, flexibility for innovation.... [more]

• President Trump Friday said he would sign an executive order to impose 10% tariffs on all nations, replacing part of the tariffs overturned by the Supreme Court. It might be just the beginning of a patchwork of new tariffs .... [more]

• 7 key things to know about Trump's tariffs after the Supreme Court decision.... [more]

• China may be less likely to follow through on another big purchase of U.S. soybeans that President Donald Trump has been touting for several weeks in the wake of the Supreme Court striking down Trump's sweeping tariffs, analysts said..... [more]

• Investor sentiment about is a powerful but fickle force in markets, illustrated most recently by the panic that's gripped Wall Street about the possibility that AI threatens certain stock sectors..... [more]

• Nestlé has thawed on ice cream. The world’s biggest food and drinks maker said Thursday that it was in “advanced negotiations” to sell its remaining ice cream business to its joint venture partner, Froneri..... [more]

• Gitlab stock hits 52-week low at 27.77 USD.... [more]

• JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), has appointed a group of senior leaders to advance its push into sectors tied to national security and economic resilience, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Friday..... [more]

• All truckers and pass drivers will have to take their commercial driver’s license tests in English as the Trump administration expands its aggressive campaign to improve safety in the industry and get unqualified drivers.... [more]

• A federal judge rejected Tesla's (TSLA.O), request to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over the 2019 crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S, which killed a 22-year-old woman and severely injured her boyfriend..... [more]

• Amazon’s huge cloud computing arm reportedly experienced at least two outages caused by its own artificial intelligence tools, raising questions about the company’s embrace of AI as it lays off human employees..... [more]

• Britain expects its privileged trading position with the United States to continue after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, the government said on Friday..... [more]

• British Gas profits tumble as household supply arm sees £80m warm weather hit. British Gas owner Centrica saw overall group earnings slump by nearly 50% to £814 million in 2025..... [more]

• The economic backdrop to Rachel Reeves’s upcoming spring statement appeared to brighten on Friday after a trio of reports painted a better-than-expected picture of the UK economy..... [more]

• Lobbying firm co-founded by former UK ambassador Mandelson halts operations over Epstein fallout.... [more]

• A co-founder of online fashion giant Asos died after falling from a high-rise apartment block in Thailand, police have said. Quentin Griffiths has been named by Thai police as the man found dead on the ground.... [more]

• Germany's BDI industry federation on Friday called on the European Union to quickly seek clarity from the United States on the consequences for a transatlantic trade deal after a U.S. Supreme Court.... [more]

• As the International Monetary Fund takes China to task, the world’s “lender of last resort” is grappling with a new legitimacy crisis. It used to be a one-size-fits-all response to financial crackups that earned the IMF global ire..... [more]

• China’s EV momentum slows as pricier batteries steer drivers to hybrids.... [more]

• A Japanese city has received a hefty donation to help fix its ageing water system: 21kg (46lb) in gold bars. The gold bars, worth an estimated 560 million yen ($3.6m; £2.7m), were given last November by a donor.... [more]

• Indonesia fines company, individuals for alleged stock manipulation, regulator says.... [more]

• Foreign portfolio inflows and the rupee have strengthened after India's free trade agreement with the European Union and an interim trade deal with the United States, the Reserve Bank of India said in its monthly bulletin on Friday..... [more]

• Opinion - Daniel Moss: Thai Leaders Won Big. Their Economy Is Still Sick.... [more]