A Senate inquiry into a 12-hour Optus outage that affected millions of Australians has revealed hundreds of triple-zero calls were unable to go through.
The local share market rose 1.4 per cent to an eight-week high after US inflation data suggested the rate-hiking cycle in the world's largest economy is over.
The Nasdaq and S&P 500 have ended their longest winning streaks in two years after a disappointing bond auction and the Fed chair's warning about rates.
