Market Reports

• Australian Market Report: The Australian sharemarket closed higher on Friday, setting it up for its third monthly gain, following a volatile earnings reporting season..... [more]

• U.S. Market Report: Wall Street's main indexes dropped on Friday as AI anxiety hammered technology stocks, with the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 on pace for their steepest monthly loss since March 2025,.... [more]

• European Market Report: European stocks turned in a mixed performance on Friday with investors digesting a slew of economic data from the region, and earnings announcements and other corporate news..... [more]

• Asian Market Report: Asian markets ended mostly higher on Friday, even as Nvidia's strong earnings and guidance failed to dispel investor fears over the durability of an AI boom..... [more]

Australian Business News

• Tasmania's finances are on track to "rapidly deteriorate", and total net debt could reach $146 billion by 2040, according to a new report released by the state's Department of Treasury and Finance..... [more]

• Reform, retain or scrap? The $45 billion CGT debate splitting Australia. Australia’s top business leaders, including CBA CEO Matt Comyn, give their two cents on the CGT discount reduction debate..... [more]

• Superannuation lump sum payments continue to grow despite the Government’s policy actions around the Retirement Income Covenant..... [more]

• The superannuation balance you'll need for a comfortable retirement just went up. As most Australians would be aware, the cost of living has been a major issue in our economy for a few years now..... [more]

• Perpetual Limited has acknowledged that its long, drawn-out sales process of its Wealth Management business to Bain Capital Private Equity has actually impacted the division’s bottom line..... [more]

• Major insurer in legal strife over online discounts.... [more]

• Dateline Resources has taken a slice of a US company with a grab bag of US critical minerals projects and picked up 100 per cent of a high‑grade rare earths project south of its existing Colosseum project in California.... [more]

• BHP has won sweeping suppression orders against coal miner Simon Turner after a court threw out the miner’s case..... [more]

• Monadelphus Group (MND) experienced arguably the most whip-saw-like price action this reporting season as a better-than-expected 1H26 result was hosed down by valuation concerns and broker downgrades..... [more]

• The company behind the Hills Hoist is up for sale, leaving the iconic clothesline’s future in doubt. The US parent company of AMES Australia announced it is shifting its business focus and considering a sale.... [more]

• Impact Minerals unveils significant Broken Hill upside.... [more]

• Terra Metals has raised a massive $85m through a placement of shares to advance its highly prospective Southwest prospect where recent drilling has made a platinum group metal sulphide discovery..... [more]

• While many gold juniors have struggled to quickly capitalise on the soaring gold price, Auric Mining has taken a far more direct route – dig it up, process it, and count the ounces. That strategy is paying off in spades.... [more]

• Commercial childcare operators fight to survive as parents head for exits after scandal.... [more]

• The parent company of buy-now-pay-later giant Afterpay has ruthlessly culled almost half its workforce in what many are describing as the “canary in the coal mine” moment for big tech companies..... [more]

• Anteris reports US$77.8m 2025 net operating cash outflow as PARADIGM trial gets underway.... [more]

• Mesoblast Shares Drop Following Intraday Swing: What Happened?.... [more]

• Virgin Australia will take a close look at relaunching its own long-haul international flights, on the back of surging domestic revenues. The airline will take a look at the numbers on its flights to Doha over the next two years.... [more]

• Prices down down, sales up up: Coles boss defends discounts as ACCC case concludes.... [more]

• Beverage maker Lion’s group technology and digital transformation director Ram Kalyanasundaram is set to leave at the end of next month..... [more]

• The dispute between HungryPanda and some of its riders has taken another twist, with the food delivery company accusing some workers of intimidation and blackmail and saying it contacted Chinese police to complain.... [more]

• Opinion - Millie Muroi: Why we should probably pay more tax as we get older.... [more]

• Comment - Mark LaMonica: The professor who thinks Australians need to own more shares. A model out of Yale University suggests many super strategies are too conservative..... [more]

• Analysis - Ian Verrender: How Australia's lax property tax has created a class system. Former prime minister John Howard once dismissed fears about Australia's increasingly unaffordable housing,.... [more]

World Business News

• U.S. wholesale prices came in hotter than expected last month. The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index, which measures inflation before it hits consumers, rose 0.5% from December.... [more]

• Inflation reared its head again on Friday, and investors are spooked. The latest Producer Price Index numbers show wholesale prices rose 0.8% in January, significantly more than the 0.3% increase expected by economists..... [more]

• Amazon's OpenAI deal aims to leapfrog Microsoft.... [more]

• OpenAI said on Friday it is raising $110 billion in a blockbuster funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at $840 billion, in a deal that signals the feverish pace of investment in artificial intelligence..... [more]

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares Anthropic’s concerns when it comes to working with the Pentagon.... [more]

• Anthropic rejects latest Pentagon offer: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’.... [more]

• Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V closes $250 million IPO.... [more]

• United’s stock and other airline shares get a reality check from rising oil prices, market jitters. United Airlines’ stock leads S&P 500 decliners.... [more]

• Shares in the financial technology company Block soared more than 20% in premarket trading Friday after its CEO announced it was laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000 plus employees, reconfiguring.... [more]

• Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed a revised bid by Paramount Skydance to be a superior offer..... [more]

• What does the Paramount-WBD merger mean for CNN?.... [more]

• Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT.O), said on Friday it is in discussions with TAE Technologies and Texas Ventures Acquisition III about spinning off businesses including Truth Social into a new publicly traded company..... [more]

• FanDuel parent Flutter reports disappointing fourth-quarter earnings.... [more]

• What social media addiction looks like, according to the woman suing Meta and YouTube.... [more]

• Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas. The megabillionaire was tied to about 90 companies in the state, which he uses for everything from paying nannies to buying land to supporting Donald Trump’s re-election,.... [more]

• Some creditors of Market Financial Solutions Ltd., the failed UK mortgage firm backed by Wall Street lenders, warned there may be a £930 million ($1.3 billion) shortfall in collateral backing their loans..... [more]

• Tequila giant Becle sees weaker 2026 on US restructuring, drying demand.... [more]

• Ecuador’s president slams Colombia as a trade war between the neighbors escalates.... [more]

• IMF says essential for Ukraine to push forward with reforms agreed under $8.1 billion loan.... [more]

• Rachel Reeves is to approve a £1bn deal to build military helicopters in Yeovil, saving about 3,000 manufacturing jobs, according to reports. The chancellor is expected to sign a contract with Leonardo – the Italian owner.... [more]

• Sainsbury’s puts 300 jobs at risk amid head office restructure.... [more]

• For almost six decades Hornby has watched Scalextric drive revenues for its hobby business but on Friday the company said it had decided to sell the slot car racing brand for £20m to a little-known buyer..... [more]

• Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case.... [more]

• Lecturers at the University of Edinburgh are being balloted on further industrial action, in a row over what a union described as “the biggest cuts ever seen in Scottish higher education”..... [more]

• Shares in Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS.MI), and Mediobanca (MDBI.MI), fell sharply on Friday after the Tuscan bank presented a multi-year strategy for the combined group, unsettling investors with a lack of detail on the terms.... [more]

• Fidelity International said on Friday it had got Chinese regulatory approval to sell a Hong Kong bond fund to mainland Chinese investors under a cross-border fund investment scheme..... [more]

• Dual paradox coiled inside China’s $1 trillion trade surplus. China’s trade dominance is eroding policy autonomy at home and inviting the global bite-back it can least afford.... [more]

• Major Hong Kong developer Sino Land posted a steady net profit for the six months ended December, propped up by early gains from a recovery in the city’s residential property market..... [more]

• India's April-January fiscal deficit at 63% of 2025/26 target.... [more]

• Opinion - Kenneth Rogoff: Bitcoin has no business on a central bank’s balance sheet. Donald Trump’s Fed chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, says it’s the ‘new gold,’ but bitcoin’s plunge proves that it belongs in a trading account.... [more]

• Analysis - David Folkenflik: Paramount and Warner Bros' deal is about merging studios, and a whole lot more.... [more]