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Australian shares have scraped through to end a four-week losing streak, but investor confidence remains shaky as inflation, interest rates and a challenging earnings environment loom.

US stocks have recovered from early ‌losses to close slightly higher, with the S&P 500 bouncing from a two-week low as a global bond sell-off reversed course after sending US Treasury yields to multi-decade highs.

Australia's share market has erased almost $60 billion in value in a day as soaring bond yields foreshadow higher global borrowing costs, hammering cyclical stocks.

Businesses will no longer be able to charge customers a direct fee for paying by card, in a move spruiked as helping to ease cost-of-living pressures.

The Nasdaq has climbed and the S&P 500 dipped, but both indices notched their second straight ‌quarterly gains, as a softer-than-anticipated inflation reading cooled expectations that Federal Reserve policy makers will hike rates in October.

Australian shares have had their strongest session since early August after lower-than-feared inflation figures tempered concerns of further imminent interest rate hikes.

David Shoebridge is the new leader of the Greens after Larissa Waters stepped down due to ill health.

US stocks have ended the session slightly lower as government ‌bond yields continued their ascent ahead of inflation and labour market data while investors assessed comments from Federal Reserve officials for the path of interest rates.

Australian shares have ended the day higher after the nation's's top central banker said the race that stops the nation won't likely accompany a rate hike that stops the economy.

An artificial intelligence giant whose agent went rogue and hacked an Australian government website has publicly apologised and committed to setting up a task force in an attempt to control its technology.

US stocks have fallen as oil prices and Treasury ‌yields increased, with investors weighing uncertainty over the prospects for an Iran war peace deal and the effect on the Federal Reserve's rate path.

Larissa Waters has quit as leader of the Greens due to worsening kidney disease.

One of the world's top mining firms is disappointed the board of Australia's leading goldminer has knocked back its near $40 billion takeover approach but isn't giving up its pursuit.

The Australian share market has fallen to a three-month low as oil prices and bond yields both moved higher and domestic interest rates looked to soon join them.

The S&P 500 has ended marginally down, with Microsoft dipping and Meta Platforms rising, as uncertainty about the Middle East lifted oil prices ‌and Treasury yields.

The Australian share market has dropped sharply, falling back into the red once again for the year as bond yields spiked to their highest levels in decades.

Weeks after discovering one of its artificial intelligence agents had hacked into a Medicare website, OpenAI chose to notify the Australian government via a mid-level public email inbox.

Wall Street has ended lower, pulled down by Alphabet and Amazon, as Treasury yields climbed and Iran's ‌president said the country would never surrender to US pressure.

The mining sector has kept the local bourse above water - although just barely.

The Nasdaq has notched a record high close, lifted ‌by Micron Technology and other AI-related stocks, while the S&P 500 also hovered just below a record high.

Australia's share market has scraped together a meagre improvement after green shoots of optimism on Iran and AI amounted to little for stock prices.

Australians hunting bargains on comparison websites risk being duped by sites that only offer a selection of preferred providers.

The Nasdaq has surged to a record-high close, lifted by gains in Advanced Micro Devices and other AI heavyweights, while Treasury yields retreated from recent highs and crude prices tumbled ‌to an 11-day low.

Australian shares are off to another shaky start to the week, trading flat in the first session as investors mull a looming interest rate hike and tough economic conditions.

A traditional custodian will tell the UN Human Rights Council the federal government is allowing ongoing industrial damage to world-heritage-listed rock art.

Australia having a seat at the United Nations Security Council will be able to help with the cost of living back home, the prime minister insists.

Wall Street has closed a volatile week on a muted note as benchmark US Treasury yields topped 5 per cent while crude prices reversed earlier gains but remained above $US100 per barrel, keeping inflation worries ‌front and centre.

Australian shares have had a flat final session to end the week slightly lower, as the Iran war and a tighter outlook for global interest rates kept investors subdued.

The clock is ticking for the states and territories to agree to take on environmental assessments as ministers meet in Brisbane to thrash out details.

Wall Street has bounced ‌back as easing oil prices, dropping US Treasury yields and solid labour data helped markets move beyond the Federal Reserve's first interest rate hike in more than three years.

Australia's share market has logged a second session of tentative gains after a US interest rate hike helped soothe global bond market jitters.

Australian shares have overcome a shaky start to finish the session higher, led by a recovery in miners after an afternoon upswing in metals prices.