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Minbos Resources (ASX:MNB) has appointed Rob Newbold as its permanent CEO to leverage his 20 years of experience.

Win Metals (ASX:WIN) secured a processing plant option to support its proposed 120,000tpa Radio Gold operation.

TPG Telecom (ASX:TPG) brand Vodafone suffered a network outage on the morning of June 18, affecting some of its 5.7 million customers.

Flagship Minerals (ASX:FLG) announced a copper exploration target of 0.51 to 1.02 billion tonnes.

The competition regulator cleared the $11.6 billion acquisition of logistics firm Qube (ASX:QUB).

Challenger (ASX:CGF) agreed to merge its Fidante business with Channel Capital to form a $150 billion asset entity.

Beacon Minerals (ASX:BCN) has declared a combined cash and share distribution valued at approximately $30.4 million.

Magmatic Resources (ASX:MAG) completed its 6,573-metre Phase 3 drilling campaign at the Weebo Gold Project in Western Australia.

The United States Oil Fund fell 1.07% after a US-Iran peace deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

True North Copper (ASX:TNC) completed the acquisition of Renegade Exploration’s (ASX:RNX) interest in the Carpentaria joint venture.

Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Company (ASX:SOL) agreed to divest certain industrial property trust interests for $1.89 billion.

Emeco (ASX:EHL) announced its expected 2026 operating EBITDA of $290 million to $295 million following weather and supply disruptions.

Redstone Resources (ASX:RDS) executed an agreement to acquire a 100% interest in Western Australian exploration projects.

New ATO data shows rising interest rates pushed Australian landlords to a collective net rental loss of $2.7 billion in 2023–24.

Bain Capital has reportedly withdrawn its non-binding bid to buy advertising group oOh!Media (ASX:OML) for $1.60 per share.

Hancock Prospecting has committed $20 million to St George Mining (ASX:SGQ) to advance a critical minerals project in Brazil.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission launched a verified website directory on its Professional Registers Search database to combat clone investment scams.

Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the world’s largest cross‑border wealth centre, holding about US$2.95 trillion of foreign assets compared with Switzerland’s US$2.94 trillion.

Anthropic’s new US$965 billion post‑money valuation, following a US$65 billion raise, has pushed it ahead of OpenAI’s roughly US$852 billion and set up a high‑stakes race for a trillion‑dollar valuation.

OpenAI has confidentially filed to go public at a reported valuation between US$730 billion and US$850 billion, even after losing about US$44 billion last year.

"The Mandalorian and Grogu” opened to about US$102 million domestic and US$165 million worldwide over the Memorial Day frame, matching its reported US$165 million production budget but delivering the lowest opening of any Star Wars film released under Disney, even below “Solo”.

SpaceX raised US$75 billion by selling about 555 million shares at US$135 each, valuing the company near US$1.8 trillion and making Elon Musk a paper trillionaire.

A US–Iran peace agreement to halt nearly four months of fighting, including in Lebanon, sent oil lower and global stocks higher as markets priced in a planned Friday signing.

Bass Oil (ASX:BAS) has completed the acquisition of a 100% interest in the Vanessa gas field, including a shut‑in well, gas processing facility and 5km pipeline into the Cooper Basin transmission network.

The company said Vanessa marks a step toward entering the east‑coast gas market at a time when it believes demand and pricing remain supportive for smaller, low‑cost operators.