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REA Group (ASX:REA) reported a strong Q3 with 11% revenue growth to $398 million and a 16% EBITDA rise.

News Corp (ASX:NWS) reported a strong Q3 FY26, with revenue climbing 9% to US$2.19 billion.

Block (ASX:XYZ) logged its quarterly performance and divulged an upward revision of its full-year profit forecast.

For decades, the global transition to renewable energy was a project of incrementalism — a slow-moving mosaic of carbon taxes, solar subsidies, and earnest international accords that often felt more aspirational than urgent. 

Policy wonks argued over the nuances of the Inflation Reduction Act, while climate activists lamented the glacial pace of the "energy pivot."

For the better part of a decade, the gilded youth of the financial world — the "crypto-native" generation — dismissed gold as a "boomer rock." 

To them, the heavy, yellow metal was an analog relic, a petrous souvenir of an era before the lightning-fast efficiency of the blockchain. 

For years, the global defence industry existed in a sort of polite exile. 

In the era of ESG mandates and the "peace dividend," shares in weapons manufacturers were often treated as the "tobacco stocks" of the new millennium — profitable, perhaps, but unseemly. 

RBA Governor Michele Bullock defends the hike to 4.35%, warning that the Iran war and oil shocks have "complicated" the inflation fight and increased recession risks.

Australian household spending went up by 1.6% in March, marking an acceleration from the modest gains seen at the start of the year.

New Zealand's annual inflation rate held firm at 3.1% for the March quarter, according to the latest consumer price index data released by Stats NZ.