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Live: ASX set to rise ahead of US election and RBA decision, Westpac profit falls 3pc

Australia:Mon – Inflation gauge (Oct), job ads (Oct), Westpac FY resultsTue – RBA rates meeting, RBA statement on monetary policyWed – NAB FY resultsThu â

Live: ASX to fall as tech stocks like Microsoft drop value on Wall Street

1h agoThu 31 Oct 2024 at 8:53pmMarket snapshotASX 200 futures: -0.7%Australian dollar: +0.1% to 65.81 US centsWall Street: Dow -0.9% S&P -1.9% Nasdaq -2.8%

Live: Australia’s key inflation data awaited, ASX to edge lower

1h agoTue 29 Oct 2024 at 8:46pmMarket snapshotASX 200 futures: -0.1% to 8,268 pointsAustralian dollar: -0.4% at 65.56 US centsS&P 500: +0.2% to 5,832 points

Live: ASX up 0.1pc after Wall Street’s flat end to the week

It's very busy week on the corporate calendar with a deluge of AGMs stretching from Dublin (Oneview Healthcare) to Auckland (Spark and many others) with a bit o

Live: Higher interest rate worries weigh on US stocks, with Australian share market muted

10m agoWed 23 Oct 2024 at 9:28pmSuccession fears for the scandal-hit WiseTechRachel Waterhouse from the Australian Shareholders Association spoke to ABC's The B

Live: Markets react as US election race tightens

6m agoMon 21 Oct 2024 at 10:24pmHot chips, as the geopolitics of Taiwan, China and the US collideSome of them might be just 300 to 500 millimetres across, but o

Live: ASX on the rise, WiseTech shares slump as board reviews Richard White allegations, Qantas pays out illegally sacked workers

Mon: Argo, Amotiv/GUD, Nick Scalli, StocklandTue: Audinate, Globe, Magellan, Peter Warren Automotive, SG Fleet, Shine Justice, Suncorp, TransurbanWed: Fletcher

Live: New travel data set to take temperature of the economy, ASX set to open higher on strong US lead

3h agoMon 14 Oct 2024 at 7:59pmMarket snapshotASX 200 futures: +0.4% to 8,319 pointsAustralian dollar: -0.4% at 67.2 US centsS&P 500: +0.8% to 5,859 pointsN

Live: ASX primed to rise but disappointing news from China may weigh on sentiment

Futures markets have forecast a healthy 0.6% rise on the ASX 200 today, but the lack of detail in China's latest stimulus plans may drag things down.The futures

Live: Rio Tinto snaps up Arcadium Lithium for $9.9b, ASX to follow Wall Street higher

All three of Wall Street's main indices ended higher when Wednesday trade wrapped up in New York earlier this morning.At the end of trade, the Nasdaq was up 0.6

Live: New Zealand’s central bank cuts rates by 0.5 percentage points, ASX in positive territory

From Mr Kent's speech:The TFF was part of the insurance the RBA took out against a catastrophic economic outcome.While some of the TFF’s design features unde

Live: ASX opens 0.1pc higher after surprise US job data sent Wall Street higher, Rio Tinto confirms takeover bid of lithium miner

Futures trading points to the ASX 200 gaining 0.3% this morning after stronger than expected US jobs data lifted key Wall Street indices.The S&P 500 put on