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Short sellers are ramping up their bets against technology stocks on the ASX amid toppy valuations and lingering inflation concerns in Australia that have left the possibility of interest rate increases on the table. While technology…

Stock investors largely shrugged off the criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell — the latest example of the market looking past political risk. The Dow Jones Industrial Average initially tumbled nearly 500 points on Monday. Investors worried the probe represented a…

Progress in the fight to throttle back inflation appeared to stall in December amid price pressures from groceries, dining out, utility gas, clothing and other categories of consumer spending. The consumer price index, a key inflation gauge, rose…

Investors yanked $US2.1 billion ($3.1 billion) from GQG Partners at the end of last year as chief investment officer Rajiv Jain’s controversial call to avoid technology stocks continued to backfire on the high-profile fund manager,…

Commonwealth Bank is bracing for what analysts expect will be a tough year ahead for Australia’s biggest bank as it struggles to shake off its new status as the laggard of the sharemarket’s big four…

Australian shares are poised for a flat open. Shares were lower in late trade in New York as the US reporting season kicked off cautiously and December’s CPI data failed to move the needle on…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer is doubling down on Alphabet, arguing the stock can build on its strong 2025 rally with another 20% jump. “I don’t think Google stops here,” Cramer said Tuesday on “Squawk on the Street.”…

Google parent company Alphabet has become the fourth member of the $4 trillion club. Alphabet shares popped 1% Monday, after Apple said it would use Google’s Gemini for the foundation of its artificial intelligence models and the next generation of Siri.…

Unscheduled weekend statements from the Federal Reserve are, to put it mildly, not generally a good sign. In the past couple of decades, they have been rare, and have come only in response to dire…

It has largely paid for investors to ignore President Donald Trump and his public policy moves in the United States and beyond. Although noisy, Trump’s bark is worse than his bite. His tariffs, for example,…