A rally in prices for key commodities including oil, iron ore, nickel, gold and copper sent the benchmark within 33 points of its record high.
Jack Quail
An ASX-listed, Canada-focused lithium explorer is set to hit up investors for some $44 million after parting ways on downstream processing ambitions with a major shareholder just last week.
Simone Grogan
The world’s lithium miners — facing an unprecedented demand surge and wild price swings — are shaking up the way the commodity is bought and sold.
Annie Lee and Yvonne Yue
The ASX200 has started the week in positive territory, with the mining sector posting strong gains after copper and gold both hit all-time highs.
Derek Rose
Shares in jewellery retailer Michael Hill are in freefall following a profit downgrade, saying the improvement in consumer sentiment it had hoped for did not happen.
Cheyanne Enciso
A consortium led by Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is considering a takeover of troubled Australian casino operator Star Entertainment Group.
Chris Bourke
Gold notched a fresh all-time high, as investor demand soared across the broader metals complex amid increasing optimism the US will cut rates this year.
Sybilla Gross
Slower inflation and economic growth have buoyed investors and helped lift global shares, gold and copper to near record highs.
Tom Westbrook and Alun John
US stocks have closed mixed as the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 40,000 mark for the first time.
Chibuike Oguh and Shristi Achar A
The Aussie sharemarket has fallen one day after it was a “smidgen away” from record highs at the close.
Aisling Brennan
A South Korean instant noodle maker’s stock jumped after posting better-than-expected earnings with help from a product recently featured on social media by rapper Cardi B.
Shinhye Kang and Jenny Lee
A less competitive retail banking environment could weigh on the profitability of Australia’s major banks, with Morgan Stanley analysts taking a negative stance against the Big Four.
Chevron’s $US53 billion ($79.6b) deal to buy Hess has received a nod of support from a major proxy advisory firm that says shareholders should vote in favour of it.
Crystal Tse
The ASX200 has fallen 0.9 per cent, giving up half of Thursday's gains, but still finished the week 0.8 per cent higher.
Measures to stabilise China's beleaguered property sector have sparked a commodities rally while global stocks eased on hints rates may not fall any time soon.
Amanda Cooper
Metals Acquisition bought a New South Wales copper mine from Glencore for almost $US900 million upfront in 2023, it turned to the debt markets to help fund the purchase.
Sagarika Jaisinghani, Nina Trentmann and Swetha Gopinath
US stocks have closed lower after the Dow index reached an intra-day high of 40,000.
Chibuike Oguh and Bansari Mayur Kamdar
Years of sluggish deal flow have eaten away at Euroz Hartleys’ bottom line, but chair Andrew McKenzie is encouraged by some ‘green shoots’ in the WA market.
The Australian sharemarket has marked its best day for the year in the wake of the latest unemployment figures boosting buyer confidence.
Fonterra will sell its Oceania business — behind household name brands Western Star butter, Bega Cheese and Perfect Italiano — to focus on its “core function” of collecting, processing and selling milk.
Subiaco’s Peninsula Energy has pushed the plunger on a big equity injection as US-focused uranium hopefuls look to capitalise on recent Russian bans.
Adrian Rauso
Incitec Pivot remains locked in lengthy negotiations to flog its entire fertiliser business to an Indonesian state-owned enterprise, but there are concerns the Foreign Investment Review Board could be a hurdle.
The ASX has hit a six-week high with the energy sector the only loser in a day of gains across the ASX.
Esther Linder