Market Reports

• Australian Market Report: The Australian sharemarket fell on Tuesday, the S&P/ASX 200 closed down 45.8 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 8682, ignoring a 0.4 per cent jump in ASX futures this morning which had suggested gains for the local bourse..... [more]

• U.S. Market Report: Extending the upward move seen in the previous session, stocks have moved moderately higher during trading on Tuesday. The major averages have all moved to the upside, although buying interest appears somewhat subdued..... [more]

• European Market Report: European stocks were mixed on Tuesday, with geopolitical and regional inflation data in focus. Germany's flash December CPI and HICP numbers are awaited after new data showed French inflation fell slightly.... [more]

• Asian Market Report: Asian stocks extended a global record run on Tuesday as investors overlooked geopolitical tensions and looked ahead to the release of key U.S. economic data for direction..... [more]

Australian Business News

• Why CBA is forecasting a stronger Aussie dollar in 2026, andwhat that means if you're buying ASX shares.... [more]

• Australians will rack up an insane amount of credit card debt over the holiday period, which is set to cost them throughout the new year. Canstar analysis of Reserve Bank of Australia credit card data estimates shoppers spent $86.8bn .... [more]

• How to invest $1 million in 2026. Two leading wealth managers share their expertise to help you get your portfolio set for 2025 and beyond..... [more]

• Economic recovery and lower interest rates did little to spark demand for new cars in 2025 with sales effectively flat. Just over 1.2 million new vehicles were bought through the year, down 0.9 per cent on 2024,.... [more]

• Olympio Metals soared today after revealing it had nailed high-grade gold results from maiden diamond drilling at the company’s Bousquet gold project in Canada,.... [more]

• WA’s four main lithium stocks collectively gained $2.8 billion on Tuesday, with hype building for the battery metal’s prolonged price recovery..... [more]

• St George Mining has reported more high-grade mineralisation from surface at its Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil, striking intercepts of more than 128m from surface with peak grades up to 8.16% TREO.... [more]

• BlueScope Steel weighing up $13 billion takeover by Kerry Stokes's SGH and US partner.... [more]

• SGH is arguing that BlueScope’s Australian and North American businesses are incompatible, urging shareholders in the country’s biggest steel-maker to back a break-up through a $13.2 billion joint takeover bid..... [more]

• Locksley Resources has delivered another eye-catching result in California, uncovering a significant high-grade silver corridor at its Mojave project, adding a powerful new dimension to the company’s critical minerals story..... [more]

• Tamboran advancing to full control of Falcon Oil & Gas Australia after shareholder approval.... [more]

• Australian payment firm Airwallex will invest around 200 million euros ($349 million) over the next five years in its Netherlands operations, ‌marking a major European expansion ⁠as ‌it shifts from its ‍Asia-Pacific base..... [more]

• Duolingo (DUOL) is seeing increased market activity as analysts issue a series of ratings and price target adjustments, reflecting diverging opinions on the company’s growth trajectory..... [more]

• Life360 (ASX:360) has likened itself to Netflix on Tuesday in that its 50 million active monthly user count in the U.S. puts it in the same league as popular household apps (per Life360’s own analysis), a smaller part of a larger disclosure.... [more]

• Opinion - James Gruber: Australian stocks will crush housing over the next decade, 2025 edition. Why the next decade belongs to the ASX..... [more]

• Comment - Stephanie Chalmers: What to expect from Reserve Bank and interest rates in 2026 with rate hikes on the table.... [more]

World Business News

• Gold inches closer to record peak as geopolitical risks lift safe-haven demand.... [more]

• Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says gold's rapid rally is a warning for markets and the economy.... [more]

• Gold Reserve Ltd. has spent years fighting with Nicolas Maduro’s government over two gold deposits seized by Venezuela. Now, after the US captured the country’s leader on Saturday,.... [more]

• Why a top investment strategist says don't give up on the classic 60/40 portfolio in 2026..... [more]

• Why Chevron Could Reap the Biggest Rewards From Venezuela. The second-largest U.S. oil company, which kept pumping oil in the country after others left, could find it relatively easy to expand its operations.... [more]

• Clean energy faced headwinds in 2025 as the White House prioritized fossil fuels, but the market showed remarkable resilience, which one investor thinks is set to boost renewable stocks further in 2026..... [more]

• Lockheed Martin stock rises after securing landmark missile production deal.... [more]

• Adidas gets hit with rare double downgrade as BofA calls the end of the ‘casualization’ trend.... [more]

• Stereotaxis stock soars after FDA approval of robotic ablation catheter.... [more]

• Nvidia just provided a closer look at its new computing platform for AI data centers, Vera Rubin, a release that could have major ramifications for the future of AI given the industry’s massive reliance on the company’s tech..... [more]

• Shares of U.S. heating, ventilation and air conditioning-related companies dropped on Tuesday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company's upcoming chips could significantly reduce cooling requirements.... [more]

• Record $9.6 million fine for Third Coast after substantial oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.... [more]

• Meta (META.O), said on Tuesday it has decided to pause international expansion of its Ray-Ban Display glasses due to short supply and strong demand in the United States..... [more]

• Buyout firm Hg has agreed to acquire OneStream Inc. in a deal valuing the financial software maker at an equity value of about $6.4 billion..... [more]

• Sterling at highest since mid-September on dollar and euro.... [more]

• Sales at Jaguar Land Rover slumped in the final quarter of last year as US tariffs hit and production was slow to recover after a devastating cyber-attack..... [more]

• Prax Lindsey oil refinery to stop standalone operations after Phillips 66 sale. Phillips 66 said it had decided to not restart standalone refinery operations at the Lindsey site because it was not ‘viable in current form’..... [more]

• Lego has unveiled Smart Bricks - tech-filled versions of its small building blocks - which it says will bring sets to life with sound, light and reaction to movement..... [more]

• Fujitsu’s European boss has told MPs the company is “not a parasite”, after being criticised for continuing to make hundreds of millions of pounds from UK government contracts while refusing to give a compensation figure for victims.... [more]

• German inflation slows more than expected in December.... [more]

• China on Tuesday banned exports of dual-use goods that can serve military purposes to Japan, a move that comes at time of heightened tensions between the two countries over Taiwan.... [more]

• China’s CATL, Nio deepen partnership to develop EV batteries with longer lifespans.... [more]

• Amap, the mapping and navigation arm of Alibaba Group Holding, is stepping up research into “world models” – systems designed to simulate real-world environments – as the tech giant pushes deeper into.... [more]

• India's fuel demand hits highest on record in December.... [more]

• India and the European Union (EU) will hold ministerial-level discussions on January 8-9 in Brussels to bridge differences in the proposed free trade agreement and push for an early conclusion of negotiations,.... [more]

• Saudi Arabia plans to open its financial markets to all foreign investors from February 1, the Gulf country's market regulator said on Tuesday, as it eases rules to attract more money from abroad..... [more]