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- Markets Live
ASX flat, CSL on course for biggest drop this year
Shares steady; immunoglobulins unit boosts CSL earnings; Seek hit by job ads fall; Orora knocks back Lone Star’s bid; NBN losses deepen. Follow updates here.
- 13 mins ago
- Andrew Hobbs, Sarah Jones, Cecile Lefort, Joshua Peach, Tom Richardson and Joanne Tran
US eyes Iran attack; Musk interviews Trump; Airtrunk’s $20b tax test
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- 18 mins ago
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
‘I want to win every time’: The Olympic-style goal driving CSL’s boss
The company’s growth forecasts for next year are a touch weaker than the market expected. But inspired by the Games, Paul McKenzie is focused on another goal.
- 29 mins ago
- James Thomson
James Hardie battles weak demand in Australian reno market
Renovators are holding off on big projects because of high building costs and economic uncertainty, but the building products maker expects an improvement in 2025.
- 30 mins ago
- Simon Evans
Temple & Webster bucks retail slump, shares soar
The online furniture retailer’s shares jumped 26 per cent after it achieved almost $500 million in sales in a soft market by winning market share.
- 50 mins ago
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Opinion
- US election
Trump calling Harris a communist shows he’s desperate
The vice president is a social democrat, but that doesn’t mean she believes in state control of the economy.
- Paul Krugman
Rich Listers seek backers for ‘Victoria’s Disneyland’ Gumbuya World
Gumbuya Group’s shareholders have mandated boutique corporate adviser Edison Partners to parade the business to potential equity investors.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
CSL posts bumper profit but top-line growth to slow
The biotech giant says margin recovery at its core blood products business will enable it to produce double-digit earnings growth for the next half a decade.
- Michael Smith
Lone Star makes its presence known to target Orora
Orora has dusted nearly $400 million from its valuation since splashing out $2.2 billion to buy France’s Saverglass last September.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
AirTrunk’s $20b auction the first big test of tax changes
The heat around the Macquarie-backed data centre group has so far papered over the questions raised by two tax changes – one legislated, one prospective.
- Anthony Macdonald
How Ukraine pulled off its biggest gamble: invading Russia
Kyiv’s troops say they found a Russian unit calmly drinking coffee as they crossed the border.
- Christopher Miller
Rich Lister-backed Vinyl Group buys firm after HR complaints
One of Australia’s biggest media industry news websites, Mediaweek, has sold for $1 million to the ASX-listed music company backed by Richard White.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Live
- Need to Know
Trump tells Musk not everybody should have an electric car
Elon Musk and Donald Trump conversation hits hour mark; Greens list objections to CFMEU bill as government amends it; TWU deploys retired judge to investigate harassment allegations. Follow live updates.
- Updated
- Lucy Slade
US ready for Iran attack on Israel ‘as soon as this week’
“We share the same concerns and expectations that our Israeli counterparts have with respect to potential timing,” national security spokesman John Kirby says.
- Trevor Hunnicutt and Michael Martina
ASX to rise; Wall Street awaits inflation data
Wall Street struggled for direction before key US inflation data as the return of geopolitical risk put a rocket under oil and gas prices.
- Updated
- Andrew Hobbs
Russian reveals Ukraine’s successes before Putin cuts him off
The frankness from Alexey Smirnov, the acting regional governor of the Kursk region, in a televised address was too much for Vladimir Putin.
- Updated
- Daryna Krasnolutska
The country’s biggest garbo goes hunting for big ticket M&A in energy
Sources said Veolia has been on the prowl for M&A opportunities within the energy sector.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
MH17 taught this leader how to manage through a crisis
The Malaysia Airlines plane was shot out of the sky two days before a large health conference being organised by Doherty Institute director Sharon Lewin was due to begin. Several delegates were on board.
- Sally Patten
