Market Reports

• Australian Market Report: The S&P/ASX 200 was down 44 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 8796.70, even as seven of its 11 industry sectors advanced. The overall dip follows a flat session for the ASX on Thursday. The Australian dollar was trading at US69.86¢..... [more]

• U.S. Market Report: Wall Street extended its decline on Friday as a pullback on stocks associated ​with the AI boom, which has driven many of the gains so far this year, morphed into a larger risk-off sentiment..... [more]

• European Market Report: European markets closed mostly weak on Friday, with many of them languishing in negative territory almost right through the day's session, as worries about tensions in the Middle East pushed up oil prices.... [more]

• Asian Market Report: Asian stocks fell for a second straight session on Friday amid growing questions about sky-high artificial intelligence-driven valuations..... [more]

Australian Business News

• The major repricing of Fed policy expectations over the past six months has reverberated well beyond U.S. markets. Japan illustrates this latest development, with 10-year government bond yields hitting 30-year highs.... [more]

• 18 Share Tips – 20th July 2026.... [more]

• Weekend Wrap: Miners bleed, markets get shaky. DeepSeek's 55x price edge, Coles ditches a $4bn deal, and 1 in 30 Koreans wiped out.... [more]

• Australia’s fuel reserves are now at their highest levels since the start of the US-Iran war, but Anthony Albanese is warning the crisis is not yet over. In the government’s weekly fuel update, the Prime Minister said.... [more]

• Nearly 2.2 million Australians 15 years and older are living below the wellbeing poverty line, with the share of people reporting very low life satisfaction doubling over the past decade. In 2025, 9.7%, or about one in 10 Australians.... [more]

• ‘Embarrassingly weak’: Graph shows decline in living standards under Albanese government. A key measure of living standards for Aussies has proven “embarrassingly weak” under the Albanese government, while it surged.... [more]

• Tasmania's population growth might be waning, but the small state still has a housing problem. Tasmania is predicted to be the first state in Australia to enter natural decline by 2028-29, where deaths outnumber births..... [more]

• Numbers on the Financial Adviser Register (FAR) have continued to grow after the flurry of exits that marked the end of the financial year..... [more]

• The top-performing income funds for FY26. Geopolitical shocks drove yields higher in FY26. Here's how the top income funds turned volatility into returns..... [more]

• Record gold quarter for Ora Banda fuels 300koz ambitions in WA.... [more]

• Kingfisher Mining Ltd (ASX:KFM) earlier this week reported some of the strongest copper-gold results recorded at its Copper Blow project near Broken Hill, adding momentum to the company’s plans for a maiden mineral resource.... [more]

• Metal Hawk to test high-priority Thylacine prospect with drilling at Leinster South.... [more]

• Aguia Resources has delivered its highest gold grades to date from its Santa Barbara project in Colombia, with new channel sampling results returning multi-ounce hits, including a spectacular 128.5 grams per tonne (g/t) gold..... [more]

• Mineral Resources Shares In Bear Market Territory Following Pullback.... [more]

• Australian beef exports to China have ground to a halt because of a new 55 per cent tariff that was triggered one month ago. According to Meat and Livestock Australia's (MLA) regional manager for Greater China.... [more]

• NextDC (ASX.NXT) raised $1.5 billion in equity at $12.70 per share and increased its debt facilities by $2.3 billion to fund increased capital expenditure to meet growing data center demand driven by AI..... [more]

• Dimerix is gaining momentum after securing non-dilutive funding to take its Phase 3 ACTION3 trial for DMX-200 through completion and acquiring a Phase 2-ready acute kidney injury asset to expand its renal pipeline..... [more]

• ATO questioned over $73m move into controversial Adelaide office tower.... [more]

• Coles vs. Woolworths. Which ASX consumer staples stock is the best buy? When investors think of ASX consumer staples shares, two names dominate..... [more]

World Business News

• Wall St Week Ahead Alphabet, Intel results in focus for AI trade as US earnings rev up.... [more]

• The worst of America’s inflation resurgence may be over, but that doesn’t mean the inflation resurgence is over: Prices could keep rising uncomfortably for years. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected to report.... [more]

• Forget gasoline: Why the price surge in this under-the-radar fuel is the real threat to the U.S. economy High diesel prices flash a new warning sign for Americans.... [more]

• U.S. companies pouring swelling cash balances into growth plans - Morgan Stanley.... [more]

• Can the ‘Magnificent Seven’ save a stock market that might be doomed without them? 'This week’s Big Tech earnings could be what finally helps push the S&P 500 higher, says analyst.... [more]

• Users of Meta's Facebook, Instagram report suffering some outages .... [more]

• American Airlines CEO lays out his vision to close a more than $3 billion profit gap.... [more]

• Adidas Hopes Its World Cup Moment Can Drive U.S. Sales. Nearly everything on the field on Sunday will bear the German company’s logo. Bjorn Gulden, the chief executive, says he “couldn’t have scripted it better.”.... [more]

• Why soccer jerseys are so expensive. Official World Cup jerseys can cost as much as $180, while counterfeit versions sell for as little as $4. ++video only++.... [more]

• Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), has cut jobs at ​its U.S. display, phone and other consumer electronics operations — affecting workers mainly in New Jersey and Texas, according to documents and two people familiar with ‌the matter..... [more]

• Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” launched with an estimated $124.5 million in domestic ticket sales and another $139.6 million from overseas, notching an even better debut than “Oppenheimer”.... [more]

• Russians are returning to cash, as mobile internet shutdowns disrupt card payments, and more businesses seek to dodge tax under mounting financial pressure more than four years into the war with Ukraine..... [more]

• Google and Apple are clashing with the EU over the future of AI assistants.... [more]

• Financial firms in Britain are sharpening their focus on employee conduct, with some weeding out staff suspected of misconduct such as harassment and bullying ahead of ​new rules designed to curb an industry lawmakers.... [more]

• BrewDog co-founder James Watt is facing complaints to the UK’s data watchdog after reportedly contacting former shareholders as part of his efforts to regain control of the craft brewer..... [more]

• Thames Water creditors seek talks with Burnham as nationalisation looms. Consortium preparing for potential legal battle amid reports new PM could put the company into temporary public ownership.... [more]

• Chinese firm seeks compensation over British Steel nationalisation.... [more]

• Chinese chipmaker CXMT Corp's $8.6 billion initial public offering was more than 500 times oversubscribed by institutional investors, according to a filing on Sunday, but ​the demand was less feverish than in recent Chinese.... [more]

• Alibaba’s Qwen Unveils Preview of Flagship AI Model.... [more]

• Hong Kong’s secondary property market braces for shift after strong first half. Secondary residential market faces uncertainty following a strong first half, as Beijing’s capital outflow crackdown cools sentiment.... [more]

• Is vanadium the future of critical minerals? Kazakhstan hopes so. Of the critical metals that will define the next half-century, vanadium has perhaps the strongest claim to indispensability.... [more]

• India's HDFC Bank reports 5% rise in Q1 profit, meeting estimates.... [more]