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It was a wild night on Wall Street with all key indices closing sharply lower after the Fed kept rates on hold. The ASX has opened lower. Follow the day’s events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.  Source link

Poultry farmers and coastal communities are on alert after confirmation of the local spread of H5 bird flu in South Australia.  Source link

Advocates call for a National Rental Affordability Scheme 2.0 after thousands of people participating in subsidies face rent hikes.  Source link

The good news this week is inflation has eased slightly. The bad news is it remains stubbornly high. So we’ve tracked how the prices of everyday items have changed. Source link

Australia is the world’s biggest iron ore exporter, but the Australian Renewable Energy Agency says ultra-low-cost solar could make it a green iron superpower.  Source link

Everyday Australians who invested their retirement savings and inheritances with a wealth management company fear they have lost everything after the company’s licence was cancelled for selling bank bonds that didn’t exist. Source link

Taiwan suspends some liquefied natural gas purchases from Papua New Guinea as part of an escalating diplomatic dispute over the future of its representative office in Port Moresby. Source link

Headline inflation was lower than expected in June, and some economists say the Reserve Bank is now unlikely to lift interest rates next month. Source link

A north-west Tasmanian waste management company says it has a $700,000 per year problem, and council ratepayers are picking up the tab. Source link

The Hunter Transmission Project will see more than 100 kilometres of large transmission lines built from the NSW Upper Hunter to Lake Macquarie, with the route amended to minimise impacts to private landholders and an endangered frog. Source link