Market Reports

• Australian Market Report: The S&P/ASX200 closed 58.60 points or 0.7 per cent lower at 8815.90, as the broader All Ordinaries lost 56.30 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 9138.60..... [more]

• U.S. Market Report: Wall Street's main indexes started the holiday-truncated week ​on a dour note as investors were spooked by fresh tariff threats from President Donald Trump against Europe. The major indexes slid toward three-week lows on Tuesday.... [more]

• European Market Report: European stocks traded lower on Tuesday, extending losses from the previous session after the United States deployed military aircraft to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland,.... [more]

• Asian Market Report: Asian stocks ended mostly lower on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats regarding Greenland reignited concerns about a trade war with the EU and NATO allies..... [more]

Australian Business News

• Donald Trump trashed global economic orthodoxy. A year on, did he leave Australia a winner or loser? One year into Donald Trump’s presidency and experts in Australia and around the world can hear the grinding of history’s gears..... [more]

• ‘Strong sell’: CommBank investors face brutal reality check as share price tipped to fall further.... [more]

• There has been further confirmation of how well Australian superannuation funds navigated 2025, with the median growth fund (61-80% growth assets) returning 9.2%, according to specialist superannuation research house.... [more]

• Sarytogan Graphite has caught a strong whiff of copper at its Baynazar project in Kazakhstan using some clever geology and a shallow drilling program that appears to have scratched far more than just the surface..... [more]

• 29Metals is tapping into higher copper prices by raising $150 million in new equity from investors to advance its mines in WA and Queensland..... [more]

• Litchfield hunts for hidden copper in NT with geophysics push.... [more]

• West Wits Mining has locked in $27.5 million from predominantly institutional investors to fund its transition from gold developer to producer in South Africa..... [more]

• BHP upgrades copper guidance, iron ore production tops forecasts but Jansen costs surge.... [more]

• BHP Shares Fall 2% Despite Raising Copper Guidance – The Latest.... [more]

• Hot Chili has served up another encouraging drill update from its rapidly growing La Verde copper-gold discovery in Chile,.... [more]

• Eraring coal-fired power station to stay open until 2029.... [more]

• A small town is sitting on a goldmine as the Aussie answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX lands a massive $217m cash injection from the government and investors that’s set to fire up the whole area. Bowen, in the stunning Whitsundays.... [more]

• A major analyst reckons Coles will keep the edge over rival Woolworths, with the supermarket giants tipped to report different fortunes during next month’s earnings season. Investment bank Macquarie.... [more]

• QORIA Ltd (ASX:QOR) has taken the wooden spoon for the day insofar as daily volatility goes, with the child safety tech company shedding a fifth of its value Tuesday morning on the back of a poorly received December update..... [more]

• Neurizon Therapeutics has secured registered trademark protection across all priority pharmaceutical markets as its lead neurodegenerative disease program advances toward later-stage development..... [more]

• French-owned Lactalis to close Queensland's largest and oldest milk factory in South Brisbane.... [more]

• Aussie jeweller Secrets Shhh rescued from administration after purchase by UAE group Amaar Jewells, 100 jobs saved.... [more]

• Comment/Analysis - Sebastian Bowen: Want to buy gold in 2026? Here are 3 ways to do it.... [more]

• Comment - Simonelle Mody: The most important investment decision you’ll ever make. A quiet force that shapes your long‑term wealth. I used to believe that investing was all about picking the winnings stocks,.... [more]

World Business News

• New trade tensions as the US and Europe spar over Greenland are the latest catalyst that's sending investors flocking to gold and silver on Tuesday. Gold jumped more than 3% to around $4,740 per ounce, and silver spiked 8%.... [more]

• Treasury market faces worst day in months after Trump threatens European allies with tariffs related to Greenland.... [more]

• President Donald Trump plans to use a key address Wednesday to try to convince Americans he can make housing more affordable, but he’s picked a strange backdrop for the speech: a Swiss mountain town.... [more]

• A brutal 'Sell America' episode in stocks shows the market is starting to take Trump's Greenland threats seriously.... [more]

• Ray Dalio thinks the world could be on the verge of "capital wars." The billionaire investor and Bridgewater Associates founder isn't shy about sounding the alarm on economic problems he sees brewing. .... [more]

• Citigroup CEO does not expect Congress to approve cap in credit card rates.... [more]

• President Donald Trump purchased up to $2 million in Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery investments days after the announcement of a megadeal between the two media giants, among other purchases,.... [more]

• Netflix Amends Warner Bros. Deal to All Cash in Bidding War.... [more]

• Netflix will report its fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, with questions surrounding its pending acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery’s assets top of mind for investors..... [more]

• Alstom shares gain as Q3 revenue tops expectations; orders push backlog to €100bn.... [more]

• Why Alphabet and Meta investors shouldn’t sweat ChatGPT’s ad launch — for now. While ChatGPT’s entry into the ad market marks a pivotal moment for the company, analysts argue Google and Meta face little immediate threat.... [more]

• The U.S. Postal Service said on Tuesday it is launching an online bidding platform to take proposals for access to its last‑mile delivery network, opening more than 18,000 destination delivery units and local processing centers nationwide.... [more]

• Workday pledges CAD $1 billion expansion in Canadian tech sector.... [more]

• The European Parliament is planning to suspend approval of the US tariffs deal agreed in July, according to sources close to its international trade committee. The suspension is set to be announced in Strasbourg, France on Wednesday..... [more]

• The Bank of England must be "very alert" to geopolitical risks, Governor Andrew Bailey said on Tuesday as financial markets were thrown into fresh turmoil by U.S. President Donald Trump's stated desire to control Greenland.... [more]

• Wage growth in the UK eased to 4.5% between September and November, official figures suggest, following a sharp slowdown in private sector pay increases..... [more]

• LSE boss hails reforms to UK markets as biggest ‘in a generation’.... [more]

• Elon Musk has floated the idea of buying the budget airline Ryanair, escalating his public spat with the Irish carrier’s boss, Michael O’Leary. The two outspoken businessmen have locked horns since last week.... [more]

• GSK to buy food allergy drug maker RAPT in $2.2bn deal.... [more]

• Germany to cut 2026 GDP growth forecast to 1.0%.... [more]

• Swedish exports to the United States could fall by as much as 28% if President Donald Trump carries out ​his threat to impose additional tariffs on Sweden and some ‌industrial sectors could see a decline of 50%,.... [more]

• China Defends Economic Model at Davos, Aims to Be World’s Market.... [more]

• China’s commercial space sector logged 50 launches last year – more than half of the country’s total – underscoring the growing role of private players alongside the state-led space programme.... [more]

• Why China’s AI models will have greater global appeal.... [more]

• State-owned China Telecom has developed the country’s first artificial intelligence models with the innovative Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that are trained entirely on advanced chips from Huawei Technologies..... [more]

• Taiwan 2025 export orders hit record on solid AI demand.... [more]

• Explaining the Japanese bond-market rebellion that has the whole world on edge..... [more]

• Japan’s Katayama Calls for Market Calm After Bond Selloff.... [more]

• The financial services regulator for India's Gujarat International Finance Tech (GIFT) City has proposed a slew of measures to manage algorithmic trading on local bourses, a consultation paper on its website showed on Tuesday..... [more]

• Analysis - NY Times: Trump’s First Year Could Have Lasting Economic Consequences. President Trump’s policies have so far done little to change the overall state of the American economy, but economists warn.... [more]

• Comment - Svea Herbst-Bayliss: Activist investors do not plan to play nice this year as they eye more corporate breakups.... [more]