Corporate news, markets, and the economy
Easter chocolate prices have jumped by up to a third despite cocoa costs falling 75 per cent from their 2024 peak, with manufacturers cutting product sizes while maintaining inflated prices.
Aisha Khoury 
Australia's fuel crisis isn't just a supply problem. It's a cascading economic shock linking aviation cuts, regional fuel poverty, and welfare hardship.
Tom Whitfield 
Meta is embedding affiliate shopping links directly into Instagram and Facebook posts, cutting out third-party tools and filling feeds with product recommendations.
Jake Nguyen 
OpenAI has discontinued its Sora video generation app just six months after launch, with Disney simultaneously exiting a planned $1 billion investment. The shutdown reflects shifting priorities as the company prepares for public markets.
Darren Ong 
Jetstar has cut flights on trans-Tasman routes as jet fuel prices surge due to Middle East conflict. The budget airline says affected passengers are being offered same-day alternatives.
Oliver Pemberton 
Jetstar has announced temporary reductions to its New Zealand services and some Australia routes, citing rising jet fuel prices tied to Middle East conflict disruptions. The move affects around 44,000 passengers, though most are being offered same-day alternatives.
Oliver Pemberton 
Australia's new free trade deal with the EU will make some electric vehicles cheaper, but the luxury car tax—which generates $1.1 billion annually for the government—will remain in place despite European pressure to scrap it.
Sarah Cheng 
Singapore Airlines will launch daily non-stop flights to Western Sydney International Airport from 23 November 2026, making it the first international carrier to formally commit to the new airport.
Daniel Kovac 
Australia's road freight sector faces collapse amid record diesel prices, with households warned of higher costs and empty shelves if the industry buckles under the burden of soaring fuel expenses.
Priya Narayanan 
A new report on global hiring trends shows workers are moving closer to major cities, even when working remotely. The shift reverses pandemic-era assumptions about the death of the office.
Meg Hadley 
Australia signed a landmark free trade agreement with the EU, but meat exporters immediately criticised the deal, saying the quotas fall far short of what international competitors achieved.
Tom Whitfield 
Office lunchrooms are disappearing from Australian workplaces. Workers are increasingly expected to eat at their desks. A closer look at what's being lost.
Priya Narayanan 
South Korean memory maker SK Hynix has committed nearly $8 billion to purchase cutting-edge lithography equipment from ASML, the world's sole maker of EUV machines critical to advanced chip production.
James Callahan 
Arm has announced its first in-house chip designed to power data centres running AI workloads. The move marks a fundamental departure from the company's three-decade-old licensing model.
Nadia Souris 
Testing of bargain-priced charging accessories from Temu reveals dangerous shortcuts in electrical safety, raising fresh questions about accountability on platforms shipping millions of products to Australian consumers.
Oliver Pemberton 
The UK video games development sector has suffered its steepest employment drop on record, with 1,537 jobs lost in the past year. New start-up activity has collapsed to a 15-year low.
Sarah Cheng 
Microsoft's newly appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma promises to abandon the "soulless AI slop" era and return to making human-crafted games, while grappling with Xbox's toughest challenge: declining console sales.
Tom Whitfield Australian families are facing cost increases of up to $175 per week as inflation stays stubbornly above target. Here's what's driving the crisis and where you can actually save.
Ella Sullivan 
Microsoft Gaming's new CEO Asha Sharma is reportedly exploring lower-priced Game Pass tiers and free ad-supported options to reverse declining adoption after October's controversial price hikes.
Jake Nguyen 
Snapchat users created nearly 2 trillion snaps in 2025, equating to 5.5 billion per day. The figure underscores intense user engagement on a platform approaching 1 billion monthly users.
Mitchell Tan