Emily Stewart

Local shares open slightly higher, after a mixed session on Wall Street. Follow the day’s financial news and insights in our live blog.

The competition between mortgage lenders to get your business could soon be heating up again, analysts say, as the nation’s largest lender loses market share for the first time in five years.

Australia’s share market closes up after Wall Street’s major indexes closed higher overnight.

Thousands of Australians opted to do their grocery shopping online during the pandemic, but plenty are yet to return to shopping in store as they try to get the most bang for their buck amid the high cost of living.

The local share market rose almost half a per cent as unemployment data showed 65,000 jobs were added in August. Iron ore miners had a strong day, but Myer stock lost value despite posting its best annual sales result since 2005.

Qantas boss Alan Joyce announces he will leave the airline tomorrow, bringing forward his planned retirement by two months. The Reserve Bank keeps interest rates on hold at 4.1 per cent.

Follow the day’s events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog — as it happened.

The Transport Workers Union says it has had “fruitful” conversations with other freight companies to redeploy Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics workers after the company collapsed. Look back on the day’s financial news and insights from our specialist business reporters with our blog.

The Australian share markets close up 0.3 per cent. Catch up on the day’s events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.

Consumer group CHOICE warns some travel cots pose a serious safety risk to babies, with a number of products failing its annual safety test.