15 Sep 2020 - Aus shares closed 0.1% lower after seesawing throughout the day. The Reserve Bank of Australia released minutes from its September meeting, suggesting that the COVID-19 damage to the economy has not been as severe as previously anticipated and “a recovery was under way in most of Australia”.
15 Sep 2020 - The Australian share market opened higher this morning but is now steady at noon. Qantas (ASX:QAN) is considering a possible move interstate as part of its recovery plan and efforts to cut overheads.
15 Sep 2020 - The ASX looks set to open lower this morning as US stocks closed higher on progress of a Covid-19 vaccine. AstraZeneca paused trials last week due to a potentially unexplained illness – today the UK will resume trials. Oracle surged 5% due to teaming with China's ByteDance to keep TikTok in the United States. Gold lifted on weakness of the American dollar. The price of crude slipped. Serko's (ASX:SKO) board chairman is standing down, succeeded...
14 Sep 2020 -The Australian share market has had a positive start to the week finishing the session higher led by resources stocks on the back of higher iron ore and base metals prices.
14 Sep 2020 - Australian shares have opened firmly higher this morning with strong gains from major resources stocks offsetting a heavy loss from Macquarie Group.
14 Sep 2020 - Local shares are set for a flat start following a mixed finish on Wall Street on Friday. US tech stocks continued to slide on Friday posting their biggest weekly loss since March with Facebook, Apple and Netflix all shedding over 5 per cent over the week.
11 Sep 2020 - The Australian share market opened slightly higher and closed 0.8 per cent down at the end of trade. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released annual overseas arrivals and departure figures for the month of July. Overseas visitor arrivals to Australia decreased 34.6 per cent month on month. Australian resident returns from overseas decreased 34.7 per cent month on month.
11 Sep 2020 - The Australian share market opened slightly higher but has lost ground during the first half of the session. Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) executives embroiled in the Juukan Gorge blast scandal have fallen on their sword. Three executives resigned “by mutual agreement” after mounting community pressure and a board-led review of the destruction of Aboriginal sacred sites for a mine expansion.
11 Sep 2020 - The pre-election political gridlock in the United States continues, as a new Republican stimulus package worth $US300 billion fails to advance through the Senate. Wall Street unwound early gains and ended in the red on broad-brushed profit taking. Mining giant BHP (ASX:BHP) has announced a target to reduce operational greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30 per cent by FY2030.
10 Sep 2020 - The Australian share market opened higher this morning and closed 0.5 per cent up at the end of trade. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were 275 Australian parent enterprises with a controlling interest in 5,176 Australian owned foreign affiliates in 2018-19.
