Market Reports

• Australian Market Report: The Australian share market retreated on Monday. The S&P/ASX 200 closed 33.7 points, or 0.4 per cent, lower at 8583.40. .... [more]

• U.S. Market Report: The tech-heavy Nasdaq led Wall Street's main stock indexes higher ​on Monday, with Meta among the top gainers after a report said the megacap was preparing for sweeping AI-related layoffs..... [more]

• European Market Report: After struggling for direction till around noon, the major European markets slowly gained in strength on Monday and eventually ended the day's session on a firm note. Oil's retreat amid slightly easing concerns about supply disruptions.... [more]

• Asian Market Report: Asian stocks ended mixed on Monday as the ongoing war in the Middle East dragged into a third week, driving energy prices sharply higher and clouding the outlook for growth, earnings and inflation..... [more]

Australian Business News

• Economists and market commentators are divided on the outcome of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA’s) next monetary policy decision to be announced tomorrow, with many still not convinced of a hike.... [more]

• Fuel rationing a chance in Australia if war continues to trim global oil supplies, experts say. If widespread fuel rationing is introduced in Australia, will motorists and businesses be ready?.... [more]

• A sustained energy shock would raise the risk of recession. Oil shocks are stagflationary, limiting the scope of central banks to cut interest rates..... [more]

• The 10 most shorted ASX stocks plus the biggest risers and fallers – Week 12. Short sellers likely took profits on battered stocks like G8 Education and Bapcor, while lifting bearish bets against McMillan and Silex..... [more]

• Navigating the next stage of life in retirement. Retirement planning is more than just saving enough money..... [more]

• Matt Canavan is keen on income splitting. Here’s what it would mean for couples.... [more]

• Perpetual has announced the sale of its Wealth Management business to Bain Capital Private Equity. Perpetual has announced to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that it has entered into a binding agreement to sell the business.... [more]

• What is lifestyle creep? Here's why it happens and how to avoid it. If you have recently received a pay rise, you may feel tempted to upgrade your wardrobe or treat yourself to cafe flat whites over the humble homemade plunger coffee..... [more]

• Japan's industry minister has asked Australia, Japan's biggest supplier of liquefied natural gas, to boost output in light of the Middle East crisis. Japan relies on the Middle East for 11 per cent of its LNG imports.... [more]

• Deep Yellow Shares Continue Lower, As Month Long Slide Hits 25%.... [more]

• Estrella Resources has just leapt another hurdle at its Werumata limestone project in Timor-Leste, with the receipt of its full suite of assays from last year’s maiden drilling campaign..... [more]

• 88 Energy is a mispriced opportunity, that's according to this punchy new target price.... [more]

• MetalsGrove Mining has fired the starting gun on a new round of target-hunting at its Zuénoula gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The company is rolling out an integrated program of surface mapping, rock chip sampling.... [more]

• Oneview Healthcare (ASX:ONE) has received strong support in oversubscribed commitments for a two-tranche placement to raise approximately $19 million..... [more]

• The network behind Kyle Sandilands or Jackie “O” Henderson could face fines or even the loss of its radio licence if it breaches new conditions imposed by the media watchdog on KIIS-owner ARN for repeated breaches.... [more]

• Australian Community Media will hold a staff meeting on Monday afternoon to share the regional media group’s response to the arrest of its part-owner Antony Catalano who is facing charges of assault of a woman..... [more]

• The consumer and competition watchdog has called on the government to adopt new franchise laws that would permit the regulator to suspend badly behaving chains and stop small business operators from suffering.... [more]

• Here are the latest growth forecasts for the CSL share price.... [more]

• Global entertainment giant Live Nation, which manages 40,000-plus concerts a year with over 4,000 artists, has been locked in to build and operate the Gold Coast Arena - a legacy venue for the Brisbane.... [more]

• Opinion - Clancy Yeates: The case for rapid-fire interest rate hikes is hardly watertight.... [more]

• Comment/Opinion - Gareth Ridge: Fuel shocks show why electrifying freight can’t wait. Australia’s road freight industry is used to navigating uncertainty. Tight margins, labour shortages and volatile fuel costs have long been part.... [more]

World Business News

• Gasoline prices are still rising as the Iran war stretches into its third week.... [more]

• Pending home sales and oil inventories among economic data due Tuesday.... [more]

• U.S. factory production increased marginally in February as manufacturing remained constrained by tariffs on imports, and the conflict in the Middle East could raise operating costs..... [more]

• Rising inflation has emerged as the market's biggest fear from the Iran war, but Bank of America analysts think there's a more disruptive impact investors may be overlooking..... [more]

• Bond investors have shifted to a defensive stance since the Middle East war injected fresh risk into markets, with many loading up on short-term U.S. Treasuries ahead ​of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decision..... [more]

• Goldman Sachs flags 3 investment opportunities as the Iran war tests the stock market's bull rally.... [more]

• Jared Kushner's new fund raises old questions.... [more]

• These stocks are cheaper ways to invest in Palantir’s success. Palantir is selective about its customers, and investors might want to consider buying shares of some of its partners, according to one analyst.... [more]

• Nebius Group stock surged 15% on Monday, extending a week of upward momentum. Shares of the Dutch tech company are up 35% year to date..... [more]

• Apollo’s John Zito questions private equity’s software valuations: ‘All the marks are wrong’.... [more]

• Baxter International stock has reached a new 52-week low, touching $16.99, bringing the healthcare equipment company’s market capitalization to $8.76 billion.... [more]

• Anthropic’s high-stakes gamble to take on the Trump administration could give it an advantage in the AI race. The AI company says it’s at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts.... [more]

• Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training.... [more]

• A proposed megadeal in the self-storage business would create a $57 billion company overseeing square footage, if it were combined in a single location, of a small city such as Cupertino, California, or Chapel Hill, North Carolina..... [more]

• OpenAI is in advanced talks with private equity firms including TPG (TPG.O), Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield Asset Management (BAM.N), o form a joint ​venture that would distribute its enterprise products.... [more]

• Data Centers Overtake Offices in US Construction-Spending Shift.... [more]

• Peloton on Monday announced its Commercial Series, the company’s first Bike and Tread products built for high-traffic gym floors. The move marks the company’s latest push beyond its core at-home business .... [more]

• Thousands of meatpacking workers walked off the job at a JBS-owned plant in Colorado on Monday in the industry’s first strike in 40 years. JBS USA is the largest of the four major beef processing plants in the United States.... [more]

• Bank of America has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of victims of Jeffrey Epstein, who had accused the bank of facilitating.... [more]

• British consumers have turned their least confident since the start of last year following ​the outbreak of war in the Middle East, financial ‌data firm S&P Global said on Monday in an early sign of the potential impact of.... [more]

• Pound edges up as investors focus on Middle East and Bank of England.... [more]

• "Vulnerable" households who have been hit by a sharp increase in the price of heating oil will get help from a £53m support package, the prime minister has said. Support will be "targeted" to help low-income households .... [more]

• Chinese-owned Syngenta to build new £100m bioscience hub in UK. Agrichemical group will open a research centre in Berkshire, in a move hailed by UK government as ‘clear’ vote of confidence.... [more]

• Chinese rival to retail giant Amazon launches in the UK. JD.com is launching in the UK through its new Joybuy platform to target bargain-hunting British shoppers.... [more]

• Car park firm NCP falls into administration, putting nearly 700 jobs at risk.... [more]

• BBC asks US court to dismiss Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit.... [more]

• Moneta Money Bank (MONET.PR), expects to hit its ​profit target for 2026, despite the Middle East conflict as diplomacy is likely to ease the situation ‌before it leads to lasting economic damage,.... [more]

• Alibaba Group Holding has reshuffled its artificial intelligence operations, creating a new top level business group and placing CEO Eddie Wu Yongming in charge as the AI and e-commerce powerhouse accelerates its push.... [more]

• China warns Trump’s latest tariff moves could damage trade ties.... [more]

• The War Is Making It Harder to Keep the Lights On, 2,000 Miles Away. Bangladesh is taking steps to conserve electricity, which its factories need to keep stitching together the world’s clothing..... [more]

• Iran War Catapults Asia to the Frontline of a Global Energy Crisis Consumers worldwide face higher prices amid fears the conflict will reignite inflation..... [more]

• India's ‌unemployment rate (INUNR=ECI), eased ​to ​4.9% in ⁠February ​from 5% ​in January, government ​data ​showed on Monday. A ‌Reuters ⁠poll had projected ​the ​February ⁠unemployment rate ​at ​5.1%..... [more]

• Iran still exporting millions of barrels of oil through Strait of Hormuz even as other traffic paralyzed..... [more]