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Unfavourable Rating / Update

ASIC says it is 'worried' about research houses

Market Open / Update

ASX opens lower as DroneShield tanks; GrainCorp, Xero dive on earnings news

Margin Pressure

GrainCorp reports 36% fall in full-year profit

Stock Dump

DroneShield shares dive 26% after CEO sells $49.5m interest

Linktree acquires Melbourne startup Fingertip in latest local buyout

Mine Development

Sandfire Resources to advance Kalkaroo copper-gold project

Competition clearance

Seven, Southern Cross merger gets ACCC greenlight

Bookings Fall

Webjet Group posts 7% slide in first-half EBITDA

Media money

Labor revives plans to force Meta, Google, TikTok to pay for news

Unfavourable Rating / Update

ASIC sues Interprac, MWL Financial Services, Imperial Capital Group over Shield failures

Unfavourable Rating

ASIC sues research house SQM Research over Shield ratings

Subscriber Growth

Xero first-half revenue lifts 20% to $1b

Venturing Out

BlueScope to sell 50% stake in Tata BlueScope Steel for $179m

Profit Boom

Orica statutory profit drops 69% on significant items

Selling Up

Infratil posts first-half earnings growth, sells Fortysouth stake for $173m

Market Open

Australian shares to start higher as Dow rallies on shutdown progress

Standup

Epstein said Trump ‘knew about the girls’ in newly released email

Labor brushes off Hollywood’s free trade warning over streaming quotas

Federal department rejects proposal from women-led groups to resolve FemTech standoff

Claude infra

Anthropic to spend USD50b building custom AI data centres in US

Inference Investing

Microsoft-backed d-Matrix valued at USD2b in Series C

Kremlin Approval

Putin permits Citigroup to sell its Russian bank

Beat cop

ASIC to target private credit in new 2026 priorities

Bibi Pardon

Trump urges Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu

Canva's Cameron Adams stakes his claim to be Australia's chief AI enthusiast

Handshakes and tight lips as Liberals edge towards dumping net zero

Public AI / Update

Microsoft backs government AI plan, cloud policy refresh

The Edition

The Longo game

Market Wrap

ASX closes lower as Life360 leads tech rout

Fresh Funding

Ecommerce startup Keeyu closes $2.3m pre-seed round

Management Concerns

Humm cops first strike after chair’s unpopular takeover offer canned

Spodumene Sales / Update

Liontown Resources climbs on Metalshub partnership, lithium rally

Gaming Gains / Update

Aristocrat shares slide despite full-year profit jump

Sweat Equity

🫥 Inclusion illusion

Iron Supply

Rio Tinto shares lift as Simandou mine commences operations

Higher Costs / Update

Inghams shares slide on guidance miss, cost headwinds

Selling Up / Update

Mineral Resources shares rocket on $1.2b POSCO deal

Less Ads

ARN Media shares plunge after warning full-year EBITDA could fall 27%

Market Open / Update

Australian shares start higher as MinRes soars on $1.2b lithium deal

Public AI

All government agencies to appoint chief AI officers under new plan