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Fed holds rates steady despite concerns over inflation
29 Oct 2026
The Federal Reserve voted Wednesday to keep benchmark interest rates on hold, opting to take a patient approach in its fight against inflation despite mounting evidence that price pressures are proving more nettlesome than policymakers…
Read moreASX to lift after Fed rates call
29 Oct 2026
Australian shares are set to tick higher after the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady. S&P/ASX 200 futures were up 22 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 8882 near 6am (AEDT). Fed chairman Kevin…
Read moreFormer Rex chairman fined $800,000, disqualified for misleading market
The former executive chairman of embattled airline Regional Express has been fined $800,000 and banned from running an Australian company for four years after he admitted to misleading the market and breaching his directors’ duties.…
Retail investors dive into Maas betting the sell-off has gone too far
Retail investors have been piling into Maas Group after the share price nearly halved in value over the past week following the spectacular collapse of Firmus Technologies’ planned $44 billion initial public offering. Individual investors…
$22b of deals just shrank the ASX again. Here are six solutions
One of the cruel jokes doing the rounds of the ASX in the past month or so concerned the fate of two very different deals: the float of Firmus Technologies and the $9.4 billion takeover…
CNBC Daily Open: Tech rebounds in the U.S., but Asia isn’t buying it yet
What you need to know todayAfter a week defined by investors trimming exposure to the tech sector, some have cautiously begun to buy back in. The Nasdaq Composite advanced more than 1% on Monday stateside,…
Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Cleveland-Cliffs, Intel, Datadog, Amazon & more
Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Cleveland-Cliffs — The steelmaker’s stock gained over 10% after the company posted better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter. Cleveland-Cliffs reported adjusted earnings of 28 cents per…
Can 10-year bond rates reach 7pc? History says so
There was one main topic of discussion among the bond traders, sovereign and corporate issuers and institutional investors who gathered at Commonwealth Bank’s Darling Harbour headquarters on Monday for its annual global markets conference: how…
Australian dollar to surge on data-centre boom, higher rates
The Australian dollar is set to rebound above US73¢ by the end of the year, driven by the huge demand for copper for the build-out of data centres and the prospect of further interest rates…
Firmus exposes ASX’s big problem: loss-making companies
Firmus Technologies’ failure to list on the Australian sharemarket has exposed a broader problem plaguing the ASX of loss-making companies flocking to the bourse despite a shocking track record of poor returns. Broker MST Financial…
Stock investors are ready to move on from the AI rout. Credit investors are not
AI stocks rallied on Monday, but CoreWeave closed slightly lower as investors remained skittish about its debt. Yields on Oracle debt also remained elevated as credit worries persist across the AI trade. The tech-heavy Nasdaq…
Boomers are buying into the promise of monthly income from options ETFs, but there’s a tax catch
Covered call ETFs have gained a following for their ability to generate monthly cash flow. But a tax surprise could be lurking for many investors. These actively managed funds have different underlying assets and strategies.…