Market Reports

• Australian Market Report: The Australian sharemarket started the week in the red amid investor caution over the escalation in trade tensions between the US and Europe, the S&P/ASX200 fell 29.20 points or 0.3 per cent on Monday to 8874.50.... [more]

• U.S. Market Report: Wall Street was closed on Monday due a public holiday. At the close on Friday U.S. stocks ended nearly flat on Friday in a choppy session ahead of the long weekend, and all three major indexes ​posted losses for the week..... [more]

• European Market Report: European stocks declined on Monday amid lingering geopolitical tensions and ahead of the December consumer inflation data for the eurozone due later in the day..... [more]

• Asian Market Report: Asian stocks ended mostly lower on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of new tariffs on European countries dented demand for riskier assets. Regional losses, however, remained limited .... [more]

Australian Business News

• Australia is forecast to face a prolonged period of above-average inflation and below-trend economic growth, as global tariffs weigh on the national economy. In its latest economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF).... [more]

• Perth's median house price has broken through the $1 million mark, with prices jumping almost 10 per cent in the final three months of 2025..... [more]

• The 10 most shorted ASX stocks plus the biggest risers and fallers. Short sellers are slowly covering their bearish uranium bets while targeting names like Silex Systems and Treasury Wine Estates..... [more]

• AMP Ltd (ASX: AMP) Chief Economist Shane Oliver is expecting the Australian share market to deliver returns of 8% this year and for interest rates to remain on hold, in a new investment outlook for 2026 published this week..... [more]

• Major energy retailers have asked for more time to comply with rules forcing them to offer three hours of free daytime power, and warn the scheme needs more work to avoid disproportionately benefiting customers with batteries.... [more]

• Gold and silver jump to record highs on Greenland tariff threats.... [more]

• Litchfield Minerals hasn’t let the grass grow under its feet as it launches another determined assault on the company’s Oonagalabi project in the Northern Territory..... [more]

• Syrah Resources (ASX:SYR) has seen its shares decline some -4% lower in Monday’s morning session, Week 4, after the company flagged its ongoing spat with Tesla over a contract breach continues with no obvious remedy in sight..... [more]

• Womenswear retailer City Chic signals US sales recovery with new-season stock ordered.... [more]

• Coles Group shares (ASX: COL) have gained new coverage on Wall Street, as Goldman Sachs initiates at Neutral, alongside a price target of A$23.00. This suggests a cautious view on the Australian supermarket giant .... [more]

• Transport Workers Union strike threatens ‘major supply shortage’ of alcohol before Australia Day weekend.... [more]

• Lumos Diagnostics Holdings Ltd (ASX:LDX, OTC:LDXHF) has secured a follow-on contract worth about US$400,000 with US partner Aptatek Biosciences Inc. to manage a key clinical study aimed at progressing the PheCheck™.... [more]

• Australian billionaires increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day on average over the past year, or more than $10.5bn collectively, new analysis by Oxfam reveals..... [more]

• Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Commissioner during the Royal Commission, Sean Hughes, has been tapped to chair the Banking Code Compliance Committee (BCCC)..... [more]

• Debt collector hired to chase unpaid taxes for the ATO pays zero corporate tax itself. Neither Recoveriescorp nor its parent entity has paid the tax since securing multi-million dollar government contracts.... [more]

• Analysis - Ian Verrender: BHP gaining ground as CBA loses its shine in market power struggle.... [more]

World Business News

• IMF upgrades outlook for suprisingly reslient world economy to 3.3% growth this year. An unexpectedly sturdy world economy is likely to shrug off President Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies this year,.... [more]

• Gold hits new record high; Trump tariff threats over Greenland boost demand.... [more]

• Trump’s latest E.U. tariff threats may spur more investors away from the ‘buy America’ trade, analysts say. Europe exporters were winning on Monday as U.S. futures dropped.... [more]

• Danish Officials Set to Skip Davos as Greenland Spat Escalates.... [more]

• Goldman sees modest GDP hit from Trump’s proposed Greenland-linked tariffs.... [more]

• Corporate chiefs and government leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump swarm into Davos, Switzerland, this week, joining an elite annual meeting that promotes dialogue and economic progress.... [more]

• Donald Trump is expected to meet global business leaders in Davos on Wednesday, sources familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. President's presence looms large over the annual gathering of the global elite in Switzerland..... [more]

• OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said in a blog post on Sunday the company's annualized revenue has surpassed $20 billion in 2025, up from $6 billion in 2024 with growth closely tracking an expansion.... [more]

• Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court’s oral argument Wednesday in a case involving the attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair..... [more]

• Stellantis stock off 43% as Jeep maker turns five, executes turnaround.... [more]

• Consumer prices in Canada rose a faster-than-expected 2.4% ​in December, largely due to the base effect of the previous year's sales tax break, ‌but closely watched core measures of inflation cooled for the third consecutive month.... [more]

• Russia ran a budget deficit of 5.6 trillion roubles ($72.12 billion), or 2.6% of GDP, in 2025, the Finance Ministry said on Monday, the highest deficit since 2020 as a percentage of GDP and the highest since 2006 in rouble terms..... [more]

• ‘Weaponizing’ $10 Trillion of US Assets Is Tough Ask for Europe.... [more]

• Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said a trade war is in "no-one's interest" after Donald Trump threatened to impose a 10% tax on imports from the UK and other countries who oppose his plans to take control of Greenland..... [more]

• Two gambling executives who are facing criminal charges of bribery and fraud have failed in a separate civil suit against the Gambling Commission, in which they accused the regulator of breaching their right to privacy..... [more]

• Urban Pubs and Bars has reported a record Christmas trading performance, as it ramps up its acquisitions across the capital. The company, which owns 66 pubs, bars and restaurants in London.... [more]

• German investments in US nearly halved in Trump's first year back, report shows.... [more]

• China’s economy lost more momentum last quarter even as it met the government’s target in 2025, in another year of lopsided growth that will be hard to sustain in an era of protectionism around the world..... [more]

• China’s Unitree Robotics shipped more than 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, as the Hangzhou-based company ramped up production ahead of its planned listing on the mainland..... [more]

• Bank Indonesia will keep its key interest rate unchanged again on Wednesday to limit further weakness in the rupiah while continuing to press commercial banks to pass on the benefits of earlier rate cuts to borrowers, a Reuters poll.... [more]

• India agrees to boost trade and strategic ties with UAE amid regional tensions.... [more]

• India's thriving online delivery platforms face a year of reckoning. Last week, the Indian government asked e-commerce companies to stop 10-minute deliveries - drawing the curtain on a much-trumpeted promise by start-ups.... [more]