The Australian sharemarket advanced on Tuesday, led by tech stocks after an AI-fuelled rally on Wall Street, even as oil prices ended their four-day drop during the session.

Donald Trump owes his dominance of American politics to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. But this week, the media empire deserted the president.

Platina Resources has banked the final US$2m from its Owendale scandium sale to Rio Tinto, completing a US$14m payday to add more financial firepower to its expanding WA gold hunt.

Petrol and diesel prices have returned to their highest levels in nearly six months and risk climbing further after attacks on another key oil route.

Dalaroo Metals has cranked up its Côte d’Ivoire gold drilling to two shifts, with first samples from its 7km Gold Ridge corridor now in the laboratory as assays loom.

Advance Metals has drilled a bonanza 1m hit of 4120g/t silver at its Gavilanes project in Mexico, associated with the project’s highest-grade zinc-lead mineralisation to date.

Broken Hill Gold has demerged Alice River and St George into Emerald-backed Manda Resources’ Queensland gold portfolio, freeing it to focus on White Dam in South Australia.

Republicans, fearful of losing control of Congress, are pressuring the US president to ban or restrict diesel exports to stop the fuel’s price surge as the midterm elections loom. It would backfire, and not just on America.

Cabin crew want dedicated cleaning crews to return as the mess left by passengers and gruelling turnaround duties leave staff working up to 10 hours without a break.

Customers are welcome to keep calling it Fishbowl if they want – just don’t call it a slop bowl.