Market Reports

• Australian Market Report: The Australian sharemarket moved higher on Tuesday, the S&P/ASX 200 closed 21.80 points or 0.2 per cent higher, at 8958.90..... [more]

• U.S. Market Report: Wall Street's main indexes dropped in a choppy trading session on Tuesday after a long weekend, with tech heavyweights leading declines as investor concerns over AI-led upheavals across the sector persisted..... [more]

• European Market Report: European stocks were flat to slightly higher on Tuesday, with geopolitics and upcoming U.S. economic data in the spotlight..... [more]

• Asian Market Report: Asian stocks ended mixed on Tuesday as investors monitored the latest developments on the geopolitical front and awaited cues from upcoming U.S. economic readings, including gross domestic product data, PCE inflation figures and.... [more]

Australian Business News

• Struggling Australian mortgage holders could face further interest rate hikes, as the Reserve Bank committed to doing “what is necessary” to lower inflation while keeping people in jobs..... [more]

• Australian institutional investors have narrowly avoided being caught in the liquidity crisis engulfing US crypto lender BlockFills, after a planned high-yield lending fund targeting local capital was quietly shelved.... [more]

• Coal producer New Hope Group has “A very strong fundamental base”. ESG concerns? Perhaps. Fundamentally sound and worth buying today? Yes, says this veteran fund manager..... [more]

• ASIC announces review into 'lead generators' pushing superannuation switching.... [more]

• Ovanti Ltd (ASX:OVT) has launched a senior industry advisory board to oversee the penetration of its BNPL product, Flote, into the U.S. market, with The Missing Link founder and CEO Alex Gambotto to chair the board..... [more]

• Major industry funds group, Super Members Council (SMC), has thrown its support behind giving the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) the ability to access the Professional Indemnity Insurance cover of insolvent advice.... [more]

• BHP rallies to all-time high as copper earnings surge, dividend jumps 44%.... [more]

• Worldwide demand for electrification, renewable energy, and the digital infrastructure needed to power AI has made copper, often labelled the “metal of the future”, the biggest earner at global mining giant BHP..... [more]

• BHP has posted an $8bn half-year profit and announced the axing of 750 jobs in Queensland. Higher copper and iron ore prices have lifted BHP’s underlying profits 20 per cent, with the mining giant’s share price rocketing upwards.... [more]

• True North steps up Qld copper push with development drilling.... [more]

• Viking Mines’ deep dive into historic data has doubled the known strike at its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, uncovering high-grade surface hits and pointing to a much larger, district-scale system lurking under cover..... [more]

• Viridis Mining and Minerals has reported strong assay results from infill and extension drilling at its Colossus rare earths project in Brazil, while greenfield exploration programs continue to enhance resource confidence.... [more]

• Magnetite Mines Ltd (ASX:MGT) has secured a significant boost for its flagship Razorback Iron Ore Project in South Australia, with the Australian Government awarding the development Major Project Status (MPS)..... [more]

• ‘Landmark’ greenwashing case against Australian gas giant Santos dismissed by federal court.... [more]

• a2 Milk Shares Edge Towards Highs: Earnings Drive Two-Day Rally to 13.5%.... [more]

• Rhythm Biosciences has signed a product distribution service agreement with 4Cyte Pathology, significantly expanding the commercial footprint for its ColoSTAT bowel cancer test across Australia’s eastern seaboard..... [more]

• Shoppers care about ‘fair dinkum’ discounts, Coles says. Coles has defended its “down down” discount campaign, saying grocery shoppers understand they represent “fair dinkum” price reductions..... [more]

• Opinion - Stephen Bartholomeusz: Anthropic’s latest capital raising underscores how both the risks and rewards of the boom in artificial intelligence are ratcheting up, almost on a daily basis. The $US30 billion ($42 billion) raising.... [more]

• Comment - Mark LaMonica: Is a universal basic wage the answer to AI job losses? Two studies show what the universal basic wage can and can’t do..... [more]

• Analysis - Gareth Hutchens: Rise of Australia's public economy is comparable to the mining boom of the 2000s, analyst says..... [more]

• Comment - Grace Alvino: Small monthly investments can snowball. Here's how $500 a month can hit six figures. Reaching $100,000 invested sounds like a big milestone. But the truth is, it doesn't require winning the lottery.... [more]

World Business News

• Fed’s Barr signals rates to hold steady amid inflation concerns.... [more]

• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday there is potential for more interest rate cuts this year, if inflation continues to return towards the central bank’s 2% target..... [more]

• The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed an amicus brief in federal court on Tuesday to assert the agency’s right to enforce prediction markets instead of individual states, according to its new chairman, Michael Selig..... [more]

• New York City mayor proposes property tax hike to address budget gap.... [more]

• Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday said it will reopen deal talks with Paramount Skydance under a seven-day waiver from Netflix to explore “deficiencies” in Paramount’s offer to buy the entirety of WBD..... [more]

• Palantir relocates headquarters from Denver to Miami.... [more]

• Tough questions — and grieving families — await Mark Zuckerberg at social media addiction trial Wednesday.... [more]

• Ford Motor ’s $5 billion “bet” on its next generation of all-electric vehicles will feature a budding technology that Tesla commercialized in the U.S. on its Cybertruck, the Detroit automaker said Tuesday..... [more]

• Bayer (BAYGn.DE), said on Tuesday that its Monsanto unit had filed a proposed U.S. class settlement totalling as much as $7.25 billion that was aimed at resolving current and future claims that its Roundup weedkiller .... [more]

• Apple Inc. is accelerating development of three new wearable devices as part of a shift toward artificial intelligence-powered hardware, a category also being pursued by OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc..... [more]

• Canadian annual inflation rate edges down in January as gasoline costs drop.... [more]

• The European Union’s data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X .... [more]

• Europe squares up to Big Tech, risking ire of Washington.... [more]

• Unemployment in the UK rose to its highest rate in nearly five years at the end of 2025, official figures show. The unemployment rate climbed to 5.2% in the three months to December, from 5.1% in the three months to November.... [more]

• A power firm has announced a multimillion-pound investment in the subsea cable network serving Scotland’s islands, in a move expected to create “thousands of high-quality green jobs”. SSEN Distribution is set to upgrade its network.... [more]

• French President Emmanuel Macron met with India’s Prime Minster Narendra Modi on Tuesday for bilateral talks aimed at deepening economic and strategic ties as the two countries seek closer cooperation amid global uncertainty.... [more]

• The value of Irish goods exports to the United States soared by 52% to almost €112bn (£97bn) in 2025, official figures suggest. The export performance was heavily influenced by President Trump's tariffs policy..... [more]

• Norwegian Cruise Line stock is rising. A big activist reportedly has taken a stake..... [more]

• The EU is to open a formal investigation into the Chinese retailer Shein over multiple suspected breaches of European laws. The European Commission said on Tuesday it had launched the inquiry after demanding information.... [more]

• By buying Russia’s oil, Hungary is fueling the Kremlin’s war machine – and enriching foundations linked to Orbán.... [more]

• Monte dei Paschi plans to take full control and delist Mediobanca.... [more]

• Billionaire Thomas Pritzker says he has retired as the Hyatt Hotels chairman, after his ties with Jeffrey Epstein surfaced in the latest files released by the US Department of Justice..... [more]

• In the run-up to Lunar New Year, Chinese consumers were busy choosing gold jewellery, a traditional gift with deep cultural connotations, as strong market sentiment overshadowed sharp fluctuations in gold prices.... [more]

• Softbank Group SEC filing details fourth-quarter sale of Nvidia stake.... [more]

• India expects to attract more than $200 billion in artificial intelligence-driven investments over the course of two years, a top federal minister said, underscoring the world’s most populous nation’s surging ambitions.... [more]

• Opinion - Parmy Olson: The AI Panic Ignores Something Important — the Evidence.... [more]