ASX set to jump as Wall Street pushes higher

The Sydney Morning Herald - Oct 15, 2026

Wall Street’s indexes muscled higher, led by companies delivering bigger profits, even as AI stocks kept swinging on worries about how much longer their boom will last.

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ASX set to jump as Wall Street pushes higher

More News

McKinsey leader steps down from charity board days after controversial ‘glass cliff’ comments

The three factors driving NSW unemployment to a five-year high

Eisen family spend chunk of Afterpay billions on swanky $12m Armadale shop

Is Karl Stefanovic now Australia’s most famous small business owner?

Scheduling a 4.55pm meeting on Friday should be a workplace offence

Priscilla star Marney McQueen sells Wyong’s Royal for $22m, heads to Melb

Corporate cop makes explosive claims about former Super Retail boss’ ‘intimate’ relationship

Golden Dragon sniffs out 2.2km gold footprint in WA

Broken Hill lines up drill bit on huge copper-gold target in SA

Kmart sold fingernail glue that burnt without safety warnings, watchdog says

Augustus circles giant PNG gold prize in Porgera backyard

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