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    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

    Nvidia inches closer to record as AI bonanza continues

    Investors are keenly waiting for the artificial intelligence poster child to report earnings next week, which could vault the stock back into record territory.

    • Ryan Vlastelica
    Japan’s sharemarket suffered its worst sell-off in nearly four decades earlier this month.

    Regal, hedge funds are sticking with Japan after the crash

    Regal’s investment chief Phil King is among those shrugging off the Nikkei’s worst sell-off in almost four decades and is betting on a big rebound.

    • Joshua Peach
    Pengana’s Jeremy Bendeich.

    Pengana tips this tiddler to grow into a ‘multibillion-dollar’ stock

    Portfolio manager Jeremy Bendeich explains why he’s betting big on titanium, and explains the potential behind Brazilian Rare Earths.

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    • Joanne Tran
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    ‘Urgent’ $1.6b coal deal; BoQ to sack 400; $1b Aussie housing bet

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

    Australian shares are poised to start the day higher as the Fed minutes bolstered rate cut expectations.

    Shares rise; Megaport, Insignia, Collins Foods sink, WiseTech surges

    Shares 10 straight days of gains. Whitehaven sells Blackwater stake for $1.6b. Medibank lifts dividends 13.8pc. Insignia pauses dividend. Qube lifts profits 32pc. Follow here.

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    • Timothy Moore, Tom Richardson, Sarah Jones, Alex Gluyas, Joshua Peach, Cecile Lefort and Joanne Tran
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    ASX to rise, US stocks rally as path to rate cut widens

    Australian shares are set to open higher. The S&P 500 advanced after jobs data and Fed minutes cemented a pivot to rate cuts in September.

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    • Timothy Moore

    Yesterday

    ASX rises as miners, Charter Hall help

    Shares gain; lower LNG prices hit Santos; new chiefs at Perpetual & Atlas; Superloop & PEXA narrow losses; gold bar breaks above $US1 million. Follow updates here.

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    • Timothy Moore, Cecile Lefort, Alex Gluyas, Joshua Peach, Joanne Tran and Sarah Jones
    Volatility in iron ore markets could hit mining stocks again.

    Why now’s not the time to jump back into BHP

    Australia’s mining giants’ share prices have fallen more than 20 per cent this year, but Morningstar says they are still yet to reflect the risk from China.

    • Alex Gluyas
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    Perpetual’s new CEO; Domino’s boss scrambles; Coffee boosts Breville

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

    ASX to slip as Wall St’s rally runs out of steam

    Australian shares are set to open down. S&P 500 modestly lower after eight-day advance. Gold resets record. Copper steadies.

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    • Timothy Moore

    This Month

    James Posnett (left), ASX’s group manager of listings, and Blair Beaton, group executive of listings.

    ASX in IPO pipeline fever-dream

    The market operator’s listings executives keep pushing back the arrival of the promised land.

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    • Mark Di Stefano
    Local shares are set to open higher. Nvidia and Tesla helped extend a rally in New York.

    ASX tallies eight-session winning streak; Yancoal, Dexus sink

    Australian shares briefly retake 8000 points. Ansell cuts dividend. Reliance Worldwide and Monadelphous rally.

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    • Timothy Moore, Joshua Peach, Sarah Jones, Joanne Tran, Cecile Lefort and Alex Gluyas
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    ASX retakes 8000; Dexus posts $1.5b loss; Superyacht tragedy

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

    Interest rate pressure is finally showing up across the economy.

    ‘People need a rate cut’: Here’s the big story of profit season

    The pressure of higher-for-longer rates is the thread running through profit season. But the pain is far from over, even if the ASX 200 doesn’t believe it.

    • James Thomson
    Brokers are turning bullish on Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue.

    Why Chris Kourtis just sold BHP and bought Fortescue

    Investors and analysts are starting to warm to the longtime ASX pariah, despite the slumping iron ore price.

    • Joshua Peach
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    BlueScope’s Mark Vassella is a little perplexed there hasn’t been a bigger market reaction to China’s steel problems.

    China’s growth nightmare just washed up on the ASX

    From BlueScope Steel to A2 Milk, China’s massive economic problems are starting to weigh on ASX earnings. And there are no easy fixes.

    • James Thomson

    ASX to rise, Wall Street extends winning streak

    Australian shares are set to open higher. US shares rose for an eighth session amid expectations the Fed is poised to pivot to rate cuts. Oil slumps.

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    • Timothy Moore
    Retailers have surprised investors so far this reporting season.

    The ASX stocks that could still shock this reporting season

    Here are the winners and losers so far as earnings month hits half-time. And UBS reveals the companies that could rally or sell off in the second stanza.

    • Alex Gluyas
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    Lendlease’s $1.5b loss; Ex-Young Rich Lister grilled; Market craziness

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

    Beneath the apparent market calm is some big potential risks.

    The market sell-off was crazy, but so is what’s happened since

    The biggest market panic since the pandemic seems to have come and gone. But don’t believe the calm – this is a fragile market.

    • James Thomson