iSelect chief resigns
10:42am |
Only months after listing its shares on the sharemarket, the boss of iSelect has quit, after a 'difference of opinion' with the company's board.
Markets Live: US stalemate weighs on ASX
10:15am |
The Australian share market has opened lower, as the US debt impasse continues.
OZ Minerals shares slump on target miss
PETER KER 10:26am |
OZ Minerals' difficult year just got tougher, with the copper and gold miner revealing that it will miss its full-year production target.
Bankers fear debt catastrophe
GLENDA KWEK |
Global finance leaders have warned a US debt default would be 'utterly catastrophic', as some analysts flagged a new era of US political dysfunction.
Cormann met US shutdown players
MADELEINE HEFFERNAN |
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann met libertarian groups that are now playing a major role in the United States government shutdown.
Australia stars as Costco fuels discount plan
ELI GREENBLAT |
Australian shoppers are the biggest fans of US discount retailer Costco outside the US.
Westpac key funder to Cash Converters loans
GARETH HUTCHENS 11:59pm |
Westpac has emerged as the provider of most of the funding that allows Cash Converters to lend small amounts of money at high rates.
Leighton sued as kickback mystery widens
The Middle East firm alleged to have facilitated a kickback to Iraqi officials for Leighton is suing the Australian construction company.
| ASX 200 | 5197.9 | -33.0 | -0.6% |
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| Dow Jones | 15237.1 | 111.0 | 0.7% |
| Nasdaq | 3791.9 | 31.1 | 0.8% |
| Hang Seng | 23218.3 | 267.0 | 1.2% |
| NZ 50 | 4731.5 | -9.3 | -0.2% |
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Business News Wire
11:30AM Home loans fell 3.9% in Aug
11:03AM Oz Minerals falls on lower production
10:19AM Clothing company boss admits fraud
9:52AM iSelect CEO resigns
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$A lower on US impasse, China figures
7:25am |
The Australian dollar is lower after talks to extend the US debt ceiling collapsed, and weaker than expected exports data from China.
- need2know All eyes on the US
- Commodities Gold falls more than two per cent
- Wall Street Debt deal hopes drive US stocks
- Energy Oil drops amid US budget uncertainty
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Business calendar: October 14-18
All this week's key business and finance events.
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Voters to do Senate duty in shake-up?
With the balance of power held by a 'random bunch' of individuals, Michael Pascoe argues it makes sense to introduce conscription to the upper house. (04:30)
World Business
Bankers fear debt catastrophe
GLENDA KWEK |
Global finance leaders have warned a US debt default would be 'utterly catastrophic', as some analysts flagged a new era of US political dysfunction.
- Standoff Debt talks continue in Washington
- Economy Chinese exports in surprise drop
- Technology Xero raises $159m in share sale
- Banks Whale debacle pulls JPMorgan into red
- Stock launch UK's Royal Mail valued at $5.6 billion
- More World Business
Yellen's path to Fed voice for jobs
When the economists Janet Yellen and George Akerlof hired a baby sitter for their son in the early 1980s, they decided to pay more than the going wage.
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Regulator hamstrung by lack of funding
MALCOLM MAIDEN |
ASIC needs to be rid of its clerical work on registries, and be more active.
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How to get people to read your emails
CAROLINE JAMES 14 Oct |
Never let your emails be consigned to the junk folder again.
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Mums get down to business
JOHN COLLETT |
Career skills are valuable, and more mothers are choosing not to set them aside.
- BILL SHOCK Smartphone bill bombshell
- INTELLIGENT INVESTOR Preparation and diversification the key
- YOUR QUESTIONS Pension capitalisation taxable for under 60s
- Home loan dilemma: to fix or not to fix
- PROPERTY SPECIAL Bank on getting a foot in the door
- ASK NOEL Is now a good time to buy a house?
- Money's weekly Morningstar tables
- POINT SCORING A mortgage sweetener they're hoping will fly
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Ten ideas to help keep your enthusiasm up
We're halfway through the spend-free month of Thriftober and the pressure's on. Here are a few ideas to help you stick with it
