Markets are on edge ahead of tonight's Federal Reserve rate decision, after the US ten-year Treasury yield broke above 5% for the first time since 2007. The ASX is clawing back some of yesterday's losses, oil and iron ore are little changed, and a Kiwi retailer blames a mild winter for a soft half-year result.

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US online lender Enova International got smashed today after walking away from its bid to become a bank, while Wall Street stayed jittery ahead of Wednesday's Fed decision and a fresh multi-year high in bond yields.

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Tungsten miner EQ Resources rallies hard on a deepening global supply crunch, while the ASX and Wall Street both slide to multi-week lows on oil and rate worries.

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REA Group shares jumped nearly three per cent today after the ACCC forced realestate.com.au to scrap contract clauses locking real estate agents into listing exclusively with them. The watchdog says the rules shut out rivals — REA’s agreed to drop them for the next three years.

Elsewhere on Wall Street though, things weren’t especially upbeat. The ASX 200 barely moved today, up a tenth of a per cent to just under 8,770, and the Aussie dollar slipped a touch to just over 71 US cents.

Overnight, the S&P and Nasdaq both eased around half a per cent as oil kept climbing — Brent’s now just over 107 bucks a barrel on Middle East supply worries. Iron ore’s near 97 dollars a tonne, though that’s still Friday’s figure.

And notice this — the US ten-year Treasury yield just hit five per cent for the first time since 2023.

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A three-way takeover battle for FleetPartners escalates as all bidders raise their offers, pushing the stock to a record high; elsewhere, Wall Street eases after US bond yields reach a multi-year high and oil rises amid Middle East tensions.

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Receivers wrap up the two-year break-up of collapsed hospital operator Healthscope, handing the bulk of its hospitals to Calvary Health Care — plus how the ASX, Aussie dollar and oil markets moved today.

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Telix Pharmaceuticals gets a boost from a first-of-its-kind FDA approval, while the ASX claws back some ground after a rough week and Wall Street closes higher.

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OpenAI's Sam Altman delays the company's IPO to 2027 over AI safety concerns, rattling software stocks and Wall Street futures, while oil stays elevated on the Saudi pipeline shutdown and the ASX sits at a seven-week low.

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A weekend drone strike on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline knocked out a route carrying roughly 4% of the world's oil, sending Saudi shares and refiner Rabigh Refining lower and keeping crude above the $100 mark. Wall Street closed out Friday in a much better mood than the ASX did.

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Global fund manager GQG Partners hit fresh lows on Friday as outflows and a rough patch for its big tech bets spooked investors, while the broader ASX 200 had its worst session in a month.

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