ASX has best day since Donald Trump's Liberation Day
09/02/2026 | 11 mins.
SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with George Boubouras from K2 Asset Management to find out why the market has been so volatile of late as he takes a closer look at how investors will be analysing AI investments during the upcoming reporting season.
'We will be wiped out': Support for Coalition at record low
09/02/2026 | 6 mins.
A new opinion poll has support for the Coalition at a record low with Opposition Leader Sussan Ley the least popular leader in 23 years. The poll comes a day after she and Nationals leader David Littleproud brokered a deal to reunite the Liberal and National parties.
Danish apps help grocery shoppers boycott US goods
09/02/2026 | 7 mins.
A Danish app born out of Donald Trump’s Greenland rhetoric is turning everyday grocery shopping into a quiet act of protest. As shoppers scan products to see where their money really goes, technology, politics and consumer choice collide, revealing how global tensions can play out not in parliaments or protests, but in supermarket aisles.
Minneapolis Indigenous leaders, community, hold memorial service as US Senate debates ICE funding
09/02/2026 | 4 mins.
Indigenous leaders and community members in Minneapolis have held a memorial honouring two people shot dead by immigration officers last month. As protests against the widespread immigration crackdown continue, Republicans and Democrats remain locked in a standoff over reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The debate in the Senate continues as the deadline for reaching a funding agreement for the Department of Homeland Security looms.
Japan's "Iron Lady" Takaichi secures sweeping mandate for conservative agenda in landslide election
09/02/2026 | 5 mins.
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has won the country's election In a landslide victory, with her party expected to secure a more than two-thirds majority in the powerful lower house. Takaichi's government will push for greater defence spending, tougher immigration policies, and a stronger economy.
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