Market Reports

• Australian Market Report: Energy stocks led the Australian sharemarket lower on Monday as investors reacted to developments in the Middle East. The S&P/ASX 200 closed down 20.1 points, or 0.23%, to 8766.4. Over the past five days it has lost 2.09%..... [more]

• U.S. Market Report: Wall Street's main indexes fell on Monday as stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks kept markets on edge and investors awaited a torrent of ​earnings later this week to guide sentiment..... [more]

• European Market Report: Despite seeing a positive spell after a somewhat sluggish start, the major European markets ended on a weak note on Monday as investors largely stayed cautious, assessing the prospects of fresh talks between the U.S. and Iran.... [more]

• Asian Market Report: Asian stocks ended mixed on Monday as upbeat Chinese data and investor enthusiasm around artificial intelligence offset concerns over stalled U.S.-Iran negotiations and Hormuz risks..... [more]

Australian Business News

• The 10 most shorted ASX stocks plus the biggest risers and fallers – Week 18.... [more]

• ‘Bedroom glutton’: Revolutionary plan to get Boomers out of their big homes. A new plan could help free up some of Australia’s 13 million empty bedrooms as the nation’s housing shortage deepens..... [more]

• As soon as petrol prices started to rise in response to the Middle East conflict, many Australians – already grappling with high living costs – changed their spending habits. Beyond cutting back on driving, households are slicing deeper.... [more]

• Shoppers are being urged to buy smart devices like phones and laptops now before a global shortage of computer memory threatens to push prices to new heights. RAMageddon, as it has been nicknamed online,.... [more]

• The Coalition has unveiled its $800m plan to boost Australia’s minimum fuel reserves by more than 50 per cent and provide 1 billion litres of new storage, amid global fallout from the ongoing Middle East conflict..... [more]

• How much a new $1000 tax offset would really be worth – and who’s better off avoiding it.... [more]

• Are active managers bringing a knife to a gunfight? How passive investing has permanently changed market structure — and why sophisticated tools are now the price of survival.... [more]

• Australian Ethical Investment (AEI) has announced Richard Brandweiner has stepped down from his role on its board to take up the position of Chief Investment Officer at Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund..... [more]

• Taroom Trough's oil field touted as solution to fuel security but no one knows how much oil is there.... [more]

• Viking Mines appears to have wasted little time advancing its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, moving into early-stage processing design work using a nifty modular plant design as it pushes the critical minerals play.... [more]

• Western Mines eyes deep WA nickel with $250k grant for seismic sweep.... [more]

• Western Mines Group (ASX:WMG) has been granted $250,000 to fund an active seismic geophysical survey at the Mulga Tank project under the WA state government’s co-funded geophysics program 2026-2027..... [more]

• Dalaroo maps giant gold corridor in West African premier belt.... [more]

• 88 Energy tipped for substantial upside as explorer updates Burgundy deal.... [more]

• Forrestania Resources has come out swinging with a broad batch of gold results across three separate plays in Western Australia, showing the junior explorer is not relying on a one-project wonder to make its mark..... [more]

• CFMEU administrator Mark Irving KC resigns.... [more]

• WiseTech Global shares (ASX: WTC) slipped 3.15% to A$43.04 today, retreating to an interesting technical level that could determine whether the embattled logistics software giant’s 21% bounce from recent lows .... [more]

• IperionX Ltd (ASX: IPX) shares are climbing on Monday after the titanium developer released its March quarter update. At the time of writing, the IperionX share price is up 6.50% to an intraday high of $4.345..... [more]

• Australia’s addiction to Amazon is set to blow past $5 billion.... [more]

• The late-stage developer of a knee osteoarthritis (OA) treatment, Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals (ASX:PAR) has upsized its $8 million placement to $14m. The company credited strong demand from existing and new institutional.... [more]

• Opinion - Clancy Yeates: Coles and Woolies need to eat some of the food price rise pain. The hip-pocket impact of the Iran war is moving from the petrol pump to the supermarket aisle..... [more]

World Business News

• Oil could spike above $150 if Middle East conflict drags on, analyst warns.... [more]

• Federal Reserve policymakers will gather in Washington this week in what may be Jerome Powell's last meeting as head of the U.S. central bank, with energy prices still elevated and the Iran war at a standstill and likely to prolong uncertainty.... [more]

• John Hussman is sounding the alarm on another omen in markets. The famed bubble-watcher and president of Hussman Investment Trust has long warned that the bull run in stocks will end badly.... [more]

• Adobe has been losing bullish analysts fast, as the percentage has flipped to 44% of those surveyed by FactSet from 56% two months ago.... [more]

• China blocks Meta from acquiring AI startup Manus.... [more]

• Microsoft is losing exclusive access to OpenAI's technology, clearing the way for the ChatGPT creator to sell its products across rival cloud platforms in a sweeping change .... [more]

• Qualcomm stock whipsaws on a report that it could make chips for an OpenAI smartphone.... [more]

• The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and the leading artificial intelligence firm, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, may come down to a few pages in one executive's personal diary. "This is the only chance we have to get out ​from Elon,".... [more]

• Elon Musk and Sam Altman are about to face off in court. Is an impartial jury even possible?.... [more]

• Wall Street expects solid Q1 results for GM, as Ford and Stellantis try to gain traction.... [more]

• Blue Owl Capital fund investors reject buyout offer From Saba, Cox.... [more]

• Domino’s Pizza stock fell 10% in morning trading on Monday after it reported weaker-than-expected U.S. same-store sales growth. The chain’s domestic same-store sales rose just 0.9%,.... [more]

• Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O), asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to ‌greenlight the foreign investments backing its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O), according to ​regulatory filings made public.... [more]

• Sirius XM and iHeartMedia reportedly in merger talks.... [more]

• A possible SiriusXM-iHeartMedia merger would be the latest ominous sign for radio. The potential tie-up would create an advertising behemoth that could help the companies forestall declines as terrestrial-radio listeners.... [more]

• United Airlines CEO confirms he approached American Airlines about merger.... [more]

• Verizon’s stock rises as the company posts surprise subscriber growth under new CEO. Earnings per share topped expectations, while revenue came up short.... [more]

• Canada is developing a government-owned investment fund, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Monday. Carney said the fund will invest in major Canadian industrial projects in areas such as energy, infrastructure, mining, agriculture.... [more]

• Brazil's public debt falls for the first time in 2026.... [more]

• Shell has agreed to buy Canadian shale producer ARC Resources for $16.4bn, five years after Europe’s biggest gas and oil producer sold its US shale business..... [more]

• G7 central banks poised to hold borrowing costs amid concerns over prolonged Iran war. Critical week for global economy as banks expected to issue warnings over conflict driving up prices.... [more]

• Second-hand fashion platform Vinted completed a secondary share sale of ​880 million euros that values ‌the company at 8 billion euros, it said on Monday. The sale was ​led by EQT, Schroders Capital, ​and Teachers’ Venture Growth,.... [more]

• Sadiq Khan may try to stop Scotland Yard signing Palantir contract. Exclusive: Mayor raises concerns about using public money to support firms ‘who act contrary to London’s values’.... [more]

• Shares in Adidas climbed Monday, after Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe set a new world record in the London Marathon on Sunday while wearing the German sportswear maker’s newest running shoe..... [more]

• Claire's closes all 154 stores in UK and Ireland with loss of 1,300 jobs.... [more]

• Bank of Portugal chief forced to sell shares after ECB review.... [more]

• The Iran War Is Starting to Expose Cracks in China’s Economy. China’s strategic reserves of oil and natural gas have insulated it somewhat, but its manufacturing-based economy is beginning to falter..... [more]

• Moody's flags resilience in China economy, moves outlook to 'stable'.... [more]

• A landmark agreement allowing China to issue sovereign bonds in Indonesia’s domestic market on a reciprocal basis signals a deliberate push for regional financial integration. The reciprocal sovereign bond issuance agreement.... [more]

• Xi Tests China’s Reach by Blocking Meta Deal That’s Already Done.... [more]

• Alibaba Group Holding gained approval from the Hong Kong stock exchange to proceed with a proposed spin-off of a warehouse park in mainland China, two years after the tech giant withdrew the listing plan of its logistics arm Cainiao..... [more]

• CATL Seeks $5 Billion in Largest HK Share Sale of 2026.... [more]

• Chinese optical chipmaker Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology reported an elevenfold surge in first-quarter profits as domestic firms capitalise on soaring demand for computing power amid the artificial intelligence boom.... [more]

• Indian automakers set for upbeat quarter. Automakers in the world's third-largest ​car market are set to report robust quarterly earnings, while bracing for the fallout from the Iran ‌war, which threatens to upend supply chains.... [more]

• Infosys is no longer enjoying the strong investor confidence that it once did. This year, the IT giant, long seen as one of Dalal Street’s reliable compounders, has come under under heavy pressure..... [more]

• Comment/Analysis - Nell Mackenzie: Short sellers' bets on life insurance stocks soar as private credit concerns grow.... [more]