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Markets
Wall Street continues sluggish week
The S&P 500 has ended little changed as growing anxiety over a global economic slowdown offset upbeat data and investors waited for earnings season to kick into high gear.
- by Sruthi Shankar
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Opinion
World markets
Invest or starve: How China turned 350 million millennials into day traders
For Chinese millennials, the path to riches has been narrowing, so they are turning their eyes to investing creatively.
- by Shuli Ren
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8@eight
8@eight: ASX set to open higher despite Wall Street's middling day
What happened overnight and what's ahead for the ASX.
- by Kyle Rodda
World markets
Black hole trade: Chinese investors find inspiration in a place far, far away
Mum and dad investors are no strangers to quirky trading in China's $7.6 trillion ($10.7 trillion) stock market.
- by Amanda Wang and Anna Li
Financials drag ASX lower
Australian shares closed firmly lower on Thursday, as investors traded cautiously following similarly cautious tones struck by the ECB and US Fed.
- by William McInnes
Opinion
Trade
Planes, cheese and wine: Trump knows how to hit EU right where it hurts
Donald Trump seizes on a World Trade Organisation ruling to threaten the European Union with $US11 billion of new tariffs.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
World markets
Wall Street gets back on track with gains
Stocks closed higher on Wall Street as solid gains by technology companies helped the market recoup some of its losses from a day earlier.
- by Alex Veiga
Shares
'Defied all odds': Australia's sharemarket continues to shock
When a country's economic growth slows, its stock market usually follows suit. Not in Australia.
- by Jackie Edwards
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8@eight
8@eight: ASX set to open higher as Wall Street advances
What happened overnight and what's ahead for the ASX.
- by Kyle Rodda
World markets
'Not essential for life': The Swiss government changes its mind on coffee
For the last century or so, Switzerland has had emergency stockpiles of coffee. But its looking to abolish the plan after declaring the beans not vital for human survival.
- by John Miller
ASX edges higher for a second day
Australian shares rebounded from a loss at the open, as investors traded cautiously following a fall in global markets.
- by William McInnes