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Bega Cheese (ASX:BGA) reported a surge in profitability for the first half of FY26, ended Dec. 28, 2025.

MA Financial Group (ASX:MAF) logged its financial performance for 2025, headlined by a 35% growth in underlying net profit.

PLS Group's (ASX:PLS) interim results, covering the six-month period ended Dec. 31, 2025, highlight a 47% rise in revenue, reaching $624 million.

Australia's labour market showed unexpected resilience in January, with the national unemployment rate holding steady at 4.1%.

For the six months ended Dec. 31, 2025, NRW Holdings (ASX:NWH) reported revenue of $1.97 billion, marking a 19.5% increase over the previous year.

Mike Wilson, Chief US Equity Strategist and Chief Investment Officer for Morgan Stanley, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss his 2026 market outlook, saying that market broadening is happening now as the US economy and market begins a new cycle. "There have been many parts of the economy that have been sort of mired in a recession for the last three years or so, and they're just now starting to emerge," Wilson says. "That broadening out is the real story." Wilson also reiterates his 7,800 S&P 500 year-end target. Wilson speaks with Carol Massar, Tim Stenovec, and Bloomberg News Equities Reporter Alexandra Semenova.

IGO (ASX:IGO) recorded a significant narrowing of its statutory losses and a return to positive underlying earnings in H1 FY26.

Sonic Healthcare (ASX:SHL) announced its financial performance for the half-year ended Dec. 31, 2025, marked by double-digit revenue growth.

Australia’s unemployment rate held at 4.1% in January as full-time jobs jumped to record highs, signalling a labour market still tighter than the RBA would like despite expectations for softening.

HUB24 (ASX:HUB) delivered its financial performance for the first half of fiscal year 2026, underscored by a 60% rise in underlying net profit after tax, reaching $68.3 million.

Mark Zuckerberg testified that it's "very difficult" to enforce Instagram's age limits as he sought to defend the platform during a landmark trial over social media addiction. The chief executive officer of Meta Platforms was sharply questioned on the witness stand Wednesday about the company's efforts to attract and engage teenage users, and whether it adequately policed accounts belonging to children under 13, despite rules barring them from using the app. Zuckerberg said Meta has introduced some "proactive tools" to try to identify and remove accounts used by children under 13, but called it a "challenging" problem. Bloomberg News Senior Technology Reporter Kurt Wagner joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. He speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr defended the agency's rules regarding equal air time for political candidates and said the controversy over an interview between CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert and Texas state Representative James Talarico  that never aired on the network wasn't the result of government censorship. Talarico, who is seeking a US Senate seat, used the incident to grab attention and campaign donations as he faces off against Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in a closely watched primary race, according to Carr. Talarico's interview with Colbert was ultimately posted to the show's YouTube channel as an "online exclusive." Matthew Schettenhelm, Bloomberg Intelligence Media Litigation Analyst, and Bloomberg News Media Reporter Hannah Miller join Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. They speak with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.