Today
Guzman y Gomez in ‘striking distance’ of joining ASX 200
The Mexican fast-food chain has a good shot at joining the major benchmark next month, potentially attracting millions of dollars of new investment.
- 31 mins ago
- Sarah Jones
- Live
- Markets Live
Consumer stocks push ASX up; Beach slumps 11pc
Shares advance; JB Hi-Fi flags special dividend; Aurizon announces $150 million buyback; Beach Energy plunges into loss; CAR Group revenue jumps. Follow here for more.
- Timothy Moore, Joanne Tran, Cecile Lefort, Alex Gluyas and Sarah Jones
Why this fundie is betting big on Macquarie Group
K2’s George Boubouras is not worried about the recent market turmoil or the US economy, instead he’s betting on mid-caps and Australia’s biggest investment bank.
- Cecile Lefort
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Superannuation
This $300b super fund is making a monster move to stocks
Australian Retirement Trust has decided that a big chunk of its members will do a lot better with their pension nest egg invested in riskier assets.
- Jonathan Shapiro
ASX to rise as earning season sheds light on health of economy
Traders will also look at unemployment figures to be released this week as an indicator of whether the Reserve Bank is preparing to cut – or raise – rates.
- Cecile Lefort
- Opinion
- Quantitative easing
Market gyrations reflect fears about the unwinding of QE
Bountiful free money is not a “normal” state of affairs, and the sooner investors realise this the better. And that includes central bankers.
- Gillian Tett
- Opinion
- Opinion
Time to panic or the correction we had to have?
Investors’ hope for a Goldilocks scenario all came unstuck last week. But rather than succumb to hysteria, it’s better to recalibrate risk appetite.
- Stephen Miller
This Month
It’s been a brutal week on the sharemarket. Now come the aftershocks
Strategists have warned that Friday’s relief rally could be short-lived, despite better-than-expected jobs data in the US soothing some economic anxieties.
- Alex Gluyas
ASX rallies, but drops 2pc on the week
Shares rally; Whitehaven Coal given legal nod for Narrabri; NewsCorp to sell Foxtel; QBE posts $1.2b profit; Life360 ups guidance; Nick Scali profit slides. Follow updates here.
- Updated
- Timothy Moore, Cecile Lefort, Joanne Tran and Alex Gluyas
Why this week’s market drama may be only halfway done
A week of immense panic on global markets has ended with an uneasy calm and big questions about what comes next.
- James Thomson
Here’s how this climate fund smashed the market
Munro Partners portfolio manager James Tsinidis talks about the power crunch in the US, how Nvidia can double its earnings and names a small cap that he thinks is too cheap.
- Joanne Tran
ASX falls as miners weigh; AMP shares soar 13pc
Shares lower at the closing bell; AMP’s profit rises; former Qantas boss Alan Joyce to lose more than $9 million in bonuses; Myer warns on profit; iron ore falls below $US100. Follow updates here.
- Timothy Moore, Joanne Tran, Joshua Peach, Cecile Lefort and Alex Gluyas
Investors warn global rout may have not gone ‘far enough’
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Asset Management and Capitol Group warn that volatility in the market is likely to persist after Monday’s brutal sell-off.
- Joanne Tran
Why the market doesn’t believe the RBA on rates
Despite the surprisingly strong hawkish rhetoric from the Reserve Bank this week, bond traders (and some economists) aren’t buying it.
- Updated
- Cecile Lefort and Sarah Jones
ASX lifts as GPT shines, Rio slumps
Shares reverse early losses; Wall Street firms amid persisting volatility; shares in retailers and property lose steam; lower iron ore prices hit miners. Follow updates here.
- Updated
- Timothy Moore, Cecile Lefort, Joanne Tran, Joshua Peach and Sarah Jones
Hedge funds were busy buying the dip amid turmoil
As trillions of dollars were being erased from global equity markets on Monday as investors fled, some fast money was stepping back in.
- Natalia Kniazhevich
ASX rebounds after global rout; Woodside shares tumble
Shares advance at the closing bell; US futures bounce back; Treasury Wine flags impairment; Coronado revenue slumps 10 per cent; Bullock says rate cut not on the agenda in 2024. Follow updates here.
- Updated
- Timothy Moore, Joanne Tran, Joshua Peach, Cecile Lefort and Sarah Jones
- Opinion
- Interest rates
RBA at odds with the market and the world
A panicked market is convinced the central bank faced a simple choice to prepare for interest rate cuts. Its staffers clearly don’t see it that way as the bank laid out the case for increases.
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why global investors find it so easy to sell Japan
It is easier to sell Japan into a rout than any other Asian market, and unusually attractive to take profits from it right now because the gains this year have been so good.
- Leo Lewis
Trump seizes on market meltdown, blames Harris
The former president sought to raise voter concerns about the health of the US economy, saying “we are heading to World War III”.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
