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A boost to the copper price and weaker US jobs data improving rate cut sentiment has helped lift the Australian share market, despite stronger than expected household spending data dampening hopes of future interest rate cuts locally. In fact, markets are increasingly pricing-in rate hikes in 2026. For more on this, Stephanie Youssef spoke with Morningstar chief investment officer Matt Wacher. Plus, ASFA CEO Mary Delahunty on the superannuation peak body’s latest Retirement Standard.

Devastating floods and landslides wreak havoc across much of south-east Asia. No compromise reached after the Russian President and the US try to iron out a revamped peace proposal for Ukraine. Plus, the asylum seekers living in limbo – why they’re pleading with the Australian government to grant them leniency - and the rebel nuns refusing to give up their social media accounts.

A new European Union initiative to store carbon dioxide beneath the North Sea is set to launch its operations next year. But environmental activists are concerned carbon capture technologies dissuade industries from acting to reduce fossil fuel emissions.