Shares remain on track for weekly rise; gold hits one-month high; Iress rockets on takeover talks; QBE hammered on analyst ...

The initial proposal from Blackstone valued Iress at A$1.94 billion ($1.27 billion) but was later withdrawn, the Australian financial software firm said, without providing further details in its ...

Blackstone Inc. and Thoma Bravo are in early stage talks with Australian financial technology software firm Iress Ltd. over a ...

At Friday lunchtime in the east, the ASX was down 0.1% and looking like it just wanted to slide into the weekend early.