Australian shares closed higher for the second day in a row. Today’s scoreboard. S&P ASX 200. 5,651.40 +29.48 +0.52% All Ordinaries. 5,703.40 +30.81 +0.54% More »     

After the controversial US-led raid in Yemen that took the life of a US Navy SEAL and dozens of civilians, Yemen is reportedly barring the US from further special-operation ground missions against terrorists in the region. More »     

Hello! Here’s what you need to know on Wednesday. 1. The UK government has a plan to fix its "broken" housing market. It wants to build 250,000 new homes annually to ensure that "a whole generation" is not "left behind". More »     

Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who takes home less than 10% of Australia Post CEO Ahmed Fahour $5.6 million pay packet, thinks the boss of the government-owned business is overpaid. More »     

The US Senate is poised to introduce new legislation that would reign in the Trump administration should it seek to lift sanctions on Russia, according to a CNN report Tuesday night. More »     

OO.ready(function() { window.player = OO.Player.create("ooyala-player","81MHVpOTE6IKRdmoVNMiCCxScqM2XTK_", { autoplay. false }); }); Republicans voted to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on Tuesday night, during a Senate floor debate over Sen. Jeff Sessi...

CoreLogic has produced this nifty infographic showing the breakdown between owner-occupier and investor housing finance in November last year, based off the most recent data set released by ABS. More »     

Mrs Watanabe is back in love with Australian bonds. Net buying last year of Australian dollar denominated bonds by Japanese investors, measured in Australian dollars, was the biggest since the data series began in 2005, according to RBC Capital markets. More » ...

Shares in Kerry Stokes' media and diversified investment company Seven Group jumped after a broker upgraded the company to a buy. A short time ago, the shares were up 12.9% to $8.81. More »     

OO.ready(function() { window.player = OO.Player.create("ooyala-player","14ZHRpOTE6Q7fy7FfV5mgRm_X3h6u0VI", { autoplay. false }); }); During a CNN debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, Bernie Sanders asked Ted Cruz if healthc...

Oprah Winfrey has undeniably good taste. The billionaire mogul reportedly sold a painting by Gustav Klimt for a cool $150 million sometime in 2016, according to Bloomberg. The painting was purchased by an unnamed Chinese buyer. More »     

Jet Theriac, a portfolio manager and managing director at Hutchin Hill Capital, has left the hedge fund firm. Theriac started at Hutchin Hill in its San Francisco office in October 2015 and left last month, according to a LinkedIn profile. He oversaw a long-short equi...

Crowdfunding gets a lot of attention when it gives rise to oddball games and novelty technology, but Silicon Valley's largest startup accelerator believes the real bet is on crowdfunded healthcare. More »     

Crowdfunding gets a lot of attention when it gives rise to oddball games and novelty technology, but Silicon Valley's largest startup accelerator believes the real bet is on crowdfunded healthcare. More »     

President Donald Trump tweeted his dissatisfaction with retailer Nordstrom on Wednesday for dropping the apparel line of his daughter, Ivanka. "My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right th...

Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus virtual reality demo stations at Best Buy locations across the US, Business Insider has learned. The scaling back of Facebook's first big retail push for VR comes after workers from multiple Best Buy pop-ups told BI tha...

OO.ready(function() { window.player = OO.Player.create("ooyala-player","tpaDlqOTE6EMvJid_hAIMYL066gBzK_z", { autoplay. false }); }); Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday during a debate about the confirmation of Je...

OO.ready(function() { window.player = OO.Player.create("ooyala-player","tpaDlqOTE6EMvJid_hAIMYL066gBzK_z", { autoplay. false }); }); Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday during a debate about the confirmation of Je...

Markets are dreading the outside chance that right-wing anti-immigrant Marine Le Pen could score a surprise victory in France's upcoming presidential elections, particularly in the wake of Donald Trump's huge electoral upset and the pro-Brexit vote in the UK. Mo...

OO.ready(function() { window.player = OO.Player.create("ooyala-player","h5aWRpOTE6R3y4u26uCVouDPpys-GbZ1", { autoplay. false }); }); There are a lot of millennials out there who've never tried the McDonald's classic Filet-O-Fish sandwich. We found a few of them who we...