The Australian sharemarket is set to retreat at the open as Wall Street’s benchmark index pulled back from its record high.

Australia’s big banks have asked for an exemption to competition law to co-operate on plans for regional banking hubs.

The marriage of Paramount and Warner Bros is a seismic event for Hollywood and may well change how you and I watch (and pay for) our favourite shows. 

Businesses are stepping up their calls for the tax office to rethink its policy change to stop accepting credit card payments in response to the ban on surcharges.

Platina Resources has kicked off a 3200m aircore drilling program at its Mt McKenna gold project in WA’s hot Laverton district, chasing earlier high-grade intercepts.

Forrestania Resources has defined a maiden 223,300-ounce gold resource at its Tampia project near Merredin in WA, bolstering its new Westonia hub-and-spoke processing strategy.

Auric Mining has locked in its WA Union Jack acquisition for $9.5m in cash and shares, lifting the company’s global resource by 51% to 301,000 mine-ready gold ounces.

Dalaroo Metals soared 106% to close at 15.5c after jagging high-grade gold in Côte d’Ivoire, landing 18m at 7.31g/t gold and a broad hit of 23m at 2.14g/t from surface.

The US sharemarket goes up and up, but it’s not a broad-based bull run. In fact, it comes down to two tech stars that are stemming the tide for investors.

The Australian sharemarket dithered in Wednesday’s session, in contrast to Wall Street’s record-setting rally, as local traders tiptoed around rising bond yields and oil prices.

A battle has erupted over plans to let grid operators mount EV chargers on their power poles – and bill non-EV drivers for the cost.

Our use of interest rates to control inflation is yet another respect in which our economic system is biased against the young.

Popular online clothing retailer ASOS said basic personal information may have been accessed in a cyberattack after customers received a threatening phone alert.

Its plan to double Australia’s data centre computing power may have fallen over but ASX-bound Firmus’ backers – from a Canberra air-conditioning family to billionaires – aren’t worried.

The Australian sharemarket advanced on Tuesday, fuelled by a tech-led rally on Wall Street as investors largely shrugged off concerns about bond yields at multi-decade highs.

Barkly Rare Earths has struck rare earths in 43 of 44 holes at its NT project. Mineralisation now spans a huge 23km, with high-grade hits including 0.5m at 5156 ppm TREO.

Aguia Resources has set a gold production record in Colombia, with September revenue of A$218,000 covering its local corporate and operating costs for the first time.

TMK Energy set a new gas production record at its Mongolian coal seam gas project, with September flows up 8% and multiple wells hitting new highs across its 1.2Tcf resource.

Gateway Mining has defined two gold-in-soil anomalies from first-pass soil sampling at its Glenburgh South gold project in WA’s Gascoyne region, next to Benz Mining’s recent tier-one gold discovery.

Manhattan Gold Corp has hit high-grade copper, gold, silver and zinc in maiden drilling at its Spectre prospect in Canada, including 6.1m at 3.18% copper and 1.37g/t gold.