Australia Financial News

By Rae Wee

Modi Stadium Ahmedabad. South Africa vs Afghanistan Ahmedabad ODI is a day-night match and will start at 2 PM. It would be the 9th match of both the teams in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023.

Australia captain Meg Lanning has announced her retirement from international cricket after winning seven World Cup titles during a 241-match career. The 31-year-old Lanning, who played six tests, 103 one-day internationals and 132 Twenty20 internationals, will continue playing domestic cricket in Australia and possibly India. «The decision to step away from international cricket was a difficult one to make, but I feel now is the right time for me,» Lanning said Thursday in a statement «I've been incredibly fortunate to enjoy a 13-year international career.» Speaking later outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground in front of family and friends, Manning said had tried to talk herself out of ending her international career. «I'm sad that it's finishing up, but I'm very much ready for something new,» Lanning said.

ICC World Cup 2023: New Zealand defeated Sri Lanka by 5 wickets on Thursday to almost secure a berth in the first semi-finals against India at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on 15th November. The Kiwis virtually knocked out Pakistan from the top 4 race as the Babar Azam side needs some implausible victory against England to find a place in the semi-finals. As the semi-finals between India and New Zealand become imminent, users on social media shared some hilarious memes about the World Cup 2019 clash between the two teams.

By David Lawder

₹4,917 crore, a fall of 3.76% YoY (Year-on-Year). The company secured three new non-coking coal mines last fiscal (Utkal B1, B2, and C in Odisha, Gare Palma IV/6 in Chhattisgarh), which are set to commence operations early.

ICC World Cup tickets: The tickets for the semi-finals and finals match went live at 8:00 PM on Thursday and many users reported that the website crashed owing to the high traffic. The ticket hopefuls who managed to enter the website were welcomed by a 90-minute waitlist. The fans were waiting for the semi-finals and finals tickets for a long and even kept multiple systems at hand to increase their chances at grabbing a ticket.

Travel was expensive and busy in 2023, leading jetsetters to seek out cheaper, less-trodden alternatives to popular hot spots. It's a great way to save money on trips heading into 2024, according to experts.

It was only a matter of time. Antony Catalano has taken his first official step towards spoiling ASX-listed ARN Media’s plans to acquire rival Southern Cross Austereo, Street Talk can reveal.

Crypto sleuth ZachXBT has reported an exploit, involving Australian crypto platform CoinSpot, allegedly suffering over $2 million worth of Ether.

SC Ventures, the fintech investment arm of British bank Standard Chartered, will establish a “Digital Asset Joint Venture” investment company in the United Arab Emirates in partnership with a Japanese financial conglomerate, SBI Holdings. 

Myer’s outgoing chief executive John King predicted Black Friday trading to beat Christmas this year, after reporting improved turnover in the past seven weeks.

The Optus outage is forecast to hasten a shake-up of the telecommunications industry, threatening the Singaporean-owned group’s mobile market share as it scrambles to stop customers from fleeing after massive disruption to internet and phone services on Wednesday.

Chris Ellison has continued his lithium spending spree, pumping more than $19 million into Wildcat Resources on Thursday as it raised $100 million.

EY Oceania will cut 232 people, more than 2 per cent of its 10,700-strong workforce, as a “significant” reduction in demand from financial services and public sector clients hits its bottom line.

More than half of the firms on the Commonwealth’s legal services panel have failed to meet pro bono targets, putting at risk their ability to win lucrative government work.

First-time home buyers who borrowed in the interest rate trough and bought a house at the previous price peak are rolling on to new variable interest rates that are higher than the buffers applied by banks when customers took out the loan.

Plenty of action at Origin Energy, even beyond the stoush between the energy giant and its largest shareholder AustralianSuper.

Former Citi managing director Philip Graham’s CleanPeak Energy is making a bet on the Canberra elite. The rooftop solar outfit has inked an agreement to acquire Sentient Impact Group’s portfolio of 14.5-megawatt solar farms in Western Australia and the nation’s capital.

Optus that cut off internet and phone connections to nearly half of its population, causing widespread chaos and leading some small business customers to seek compensation. More than 10 million Australians, 40% of the population, were hit by the 12-hour network blackout at the nation's No. 2 telco firm for much of Wednesday, triggering fury and frustration among customers and raising concerns about the country's telecommunications infrastructure.

Australian crypto exchange CoinSpot has reportedly been hacked for $2.4 million in a “probable private key compromise” over at least one of its hot wallets.