Qantas eyes bumper first-half profit
Qantas has forecast a first-half underlying pretax profit of as much as $925 million ahead of most analyst expectations and not far off last year's full-year result.
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Key Stories
Markets Live: Back from the brink
Live
Shares set for a flat start after Wall St stages late rally.
Woolworths brings back Qantas points
Qantas and Woolworths have formally unveiled their new loyalty partnership that gives supermarket shoppers the option to convert Woolworths Dollars into Qantas points.
Retailers caught up in child labour scandal
Woolworths, Coles and Aldi have confirmed they sell prawns supplied by a Thai company embroiled in a child labour scandal.
What McDonald's is teaching ANZ
The bank's new retail chief is bringing some lessons about customer service starting with a radical redesign fashioned on an actual home in suburban Parramatta.
OPEC crisis meeting looms after crude fall
The OPEC oil cartel will be forced to call an emergency meeting within weeks to stabilise the market if crude prices fail to rebound after crashing to eight-year lows.
Climate change give insurers shivers
It was curious Suncorp was silent on the ramifications of climate change related weather events as it downgraded its profit forecast.
- Property Vicinity looks at $1b asset sale
- Banking and Finance Turnbull turning it on for fintechs
- Mining and Resources Wanted: More women scientists
- Retail Cotton On's Typo follows Smiggle to UK
- Mining and Resources Walsh backs greenhouse reporting revamp
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Woolies, Coles, Aldi caught up in child labour scandal
Woolworths, Coles and Aldi have confirmed they sell prawns supplied by a Thai company embroiled in a child labour scandal.
In Depth
Tatts slams push for live sports betting
Tatts boss Robbie Cooke has had a massive swing at the UK corporate bookmakers based in the NT who are pushing for inplay betting.
Nurofen fined over misleading claims
Manufacturer of Nurofen faces fines worth millions of dollars but will be allowed to keep selling product.
Profit drops again at Diageo Australia
The market leader in spirits, Diageo Australia, has suffered its third successive drop in annual profit in a market where Woolworths and Coles are increasingly influential.
Workplace
APS spends $10b on consultants
More than $10b spent on "management and business professionals" as thousands of public servants shown the door.
Work sometimes begins when life ends
Embalming bodies is surprisingly fascinating, but a keen sense of humour helps.
Markets
Broken bond markets drive move to currency trading
One of Australia's largest fund managers says broken bond markets have driven it to try active currency trading as it seeks assets that better reflect economic and policy shifts.
S&P; 500 edges higher as energy shares bounce
US stocks rose, surging in the final minutes of trading as a rebound in crude-oil overshadowed credit market turbulence.
Triguboff sticks with property as stocks are 'terrible'
Harry Triguboff sees property as among the few attractive investments in the nation amid rising rents and a "terrible" stock market.
- FTSE, European stocks expected to gain in 2016
- need2know: ASX to drop
- Five currency trades to make in 2016
- Copper slips, nickel edges higher
- Third Avenue high-yield carnage spreads
- US oil rebounds after falling through $US35 a barrel
- UBS sees plenty to like in busy Transurban
- Aussie on the back foot ahead of Fed
High-yield fund doomsayers abound but don't panic yet
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The Economy
ATO's business hit list revealed
Hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue could be up for grabs as the Australian Taxation Office announces reviews of multinationals using offshore hubs in Singapore to minimise their tax.
ATO extends deadline for foreign investors
Foreigners who own land in Australia now have until the end of February to come forward and register, with the Australian Taxation Office announcing on Monday extended time for overseas investors to declare agricultural land.
Retail
Nurofen facing fines over misleading claims
The manufacturer of Nurofen will be allowed to sell painkillers marketed as targeting specific types of pain for another 12 months after a court found they were misleading to customers.
Woolworths to rejig loyalty program after customer backlash
Woolworths is expected to announce on Tuesday it will augment its new loyalty program by allowing card holders to convert $10 of Woolworths Rewards points into about 870 Qantas Frequent Flyer points rather than $10 off their grocery bill.
Banking & Finance
ATO's business hit list revealed
Hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue could be up for grabs as the Australian Taxation Office announces reviews of multinationals using offshore hubs in Singapore to minimise their tax.
Suncorp shares fall 9pc on profit downgrade
Suncorp Group chief executive Michael Cameron shocked investors with a profit downgrade less than two weeks before Christmas as higher claims and a lower Australian dollar hit earnings – but said measures including raising insurance premiums will prevent another downgrade in the near future.
Mining & Resources
Copper slips, nickel edges higher
Copper slipped as oil tumbled towards 11-year lows and risk appetite was subdued ahead of an expected US rate hike.
US oil rebounds after falling through $US35 a barrel
Oil rebounded after prices dipped below $US35 a barrel for the first time since 2009, prompting traders to buy back some of their record bearish bets.
World Business
Murdoch company linked to FIFA scandal
Marketing company tied to 21st Century Fox 'bribed' officials, claim prosecutors.
The ultra-wealthy's biggest losers
Why do so many ultra-wealthy people lose so much of their wealth so quickly?
China
Alibaba buys South China Morning Post
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has acquired the South China Morning Post, a move which simultaneously signals its intention to expand its media influence beyond mainland China while sparking fears around editorial independence at the venerable Hong Kong newspaper.
Fosun's Guo Guangchang goes missing
The high-profile billionaire chairman of China's biggest private conglomerate, Fosun Group, has gone missing amid speculation he has been caught up in a deepening corruption probe targeting the country's financial industry.
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Property Focus
Triguboff sticks with property
Harry Triguboff sees property as among the few attractive investments in the nation amid rising rents and a "terrible" stock market.
City Tattersalls votes for $200m redevelopment
Members of the City Tattersalls Club have voted overwhelmingly to approve development of the Pitt Street building's airspace.
Scentre strikes $2.85m deal with Booodl start up
Shopping is not everyone's most enjoyable way to spend a day, particularly wandering around a mall trying to locate the stores selling the items on your list.
Santa Claus needs to clone himself
Design emporium ahead of the pack
An upmarket design emporium in Brunswick Street takes shopping to a new level.Â
Executive Style
Can men join 'active wear' trend? Er, no
For women it's a logical step. The rules need to be different for men.
Money
Nufarm is getting more out of the land
Fat Prophets: With the world's land in fixed supply, and agricultural yields in focus, Nufarm's value proposition is high.
Comment: Savings tips are not sexist
A few feathers got ruffled when I wrote about how much value a woman in her 30s could realise in her 60s by putting the cost of a few glasses of wine into superannuation instead.
Small Business
Cashing in on the $20,000 tax break
Treasury data shows more than 99,000 small businesses have claimed the tax break in the period from July 1 to December 15, 2015, with claims totalling $418 million.
Time for a family discretionary trust
You can put your family's assets at risk if you don't use the right business structure to own and operate your business through.
Business Video
Supermarkets selling prawns peeled by slaves
Burmese men, women and children are being sold to factories in Thailand and forced to peel prawns that ends up in global supply chains.
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