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The Star casino plans new $500m, '6-star' hotel

PROPERTY
Carolyn Cummins
38 mins ago

JB Hi-Fi entered a trading halt on Thursday and then exploded out of the blocks on Friday, leaping 5.3 per cent to close ...

ASX roars back but stays in the red

MARKETS
Jessica Sier
20 mins ago

Former BBY executive chairman Glenn Rosewall.

BBY chairman Rosewall 'a tyrant', court hears

BANKING AND FINANCE
Michaela Whitbourn
1 hr ago

Colin Falls, a farmer from the plains north of Bendigo, standing in his bumper canola crop this week. Farmers are ...

Farmers see dark clouds brewing with $88 billion global mega-deal

BUSINESS
Patrick Hatch
1 hr ago

Clive Palmer arrives at the Federal Court on Friday, flanked by private security, for what is expected to be his final ...

Palmer denies 'intimate' involvement in QNI administration decision

MINING AND RESOURCES
Jorge Branco

Philip lowe and guy debelle

10 things you didn't know about the new RBA power duo

THE ECONOMY
Peter Martin

RETAIL AFR PHOTOGRAPH BY GLENN HUNT 10 APRIL 2007. GENERIC- retail, shopping, fashion, myer AFR FIRST USE ONLY SPECIALX ...

Why Myer should be left on the shelf

COMMENT
Scott Phillips

Market Indices

Updated: September 16, 2016 - 4:39PM

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United States Dollar

Price

0.7516

Percentage up/down

0.00% steady
Euro

Price

0.6689

Percentage up/down

0.04% rise
British Pound

Price

0.5682

Percentage up/down

0.02% rise

Updated: September 16, 2016 - 4:47PM

It's hard to see a big future for us in London.

London is burning, we should be looking to an Asian haven

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

Lang Walker

Forget real estate, Lang Walker is a Beach Boy at heart

Colin Kruger, CBD

For the past year, Myer's strategy has been marked as a great culling exercise.

Myer shrinks its way to growing profit

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

The gears of the global financial system have been crunching of late.

Markets Live: ASX roars back

Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
36 mins ago

About 3000 actively run funds in that category saw redemptions of $US422 billion over five years, while passive vehicles ...

Appalling performance by stock pickers

All members of the bank's policy committee voted to keep the key interest rate at a record-low 0.25pc. Officials were ...

BOE ready to cut rates anew after Brexit vote

Scott Hamilton

A flood of earnings are out this morning, as well as jobs data.

8@eight: ASX set to follow Wall Street higher

Sponsored
Chris Weston

Emerging markets whipsaw investors

Ian Sayson and Maria Levitov

Funds miss out on Apple's rally

Lu Wang

Dreyfus sees extended low crop prices

Pablo Gonzalez, Andy Hoffman and Javier Blas

Gold bulls spooked by Fed

Luzi Ann Javier, Marvin G. Perez and Joe Deaux

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2008 file photo, office workers are silhouetted against the widow of the Lehman Brothers ...

Eight years on, and the Lehman moment is still with us

COMMENT
Barry Ritholtz

Stockbroking firm BBY took advice from a self-proclaimed psychic.

Psychic advised BBY chairman Glenn Rosewall, court hears

Michaela Whitbourn

Pacific Investment Management Co co-founder Bill Gross accuses the company of forcing him to resign.

Pimco alleges Gross leaked pay data

Edvard Pettersson and John Gittelsohn

An activist jumps over a burning effigy during protests in Bangalore this week that forced many large Indian and foreign ...

ANZ faces home loan backlog after Indian riots

Georgia Wilkins

James Kessel, 46, had his insurance claim rejected by CommInsure after he had a heart attack.

Parliament to grill life insurers on payouts

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

business man wearing boxing gloves ready for tough opposition , isolated on white background. ISTOCK Boxing Business ...

21 signs you're mentally stronger than average

The millennial mentor also brings a different take on business and career development.

Would you take career advice from someone much younger?

Tony Featherstone

Not afraid to ask: Heidi Sundin.

Would you risk your job over a pay rise?

Anna Patty

The deal is the largest all-cash buyout in history.

The $88b deal that could reshape the world's food supply

Drew Harwell

Squeaky clean: Wells Fargo chief John Stumpf's calm tenure used to be the envy of other, more embattled bank executives.

Mr Clean of American banks finds himself mired in scandal

Laura J. Keller

After 34 days Customer A had burned $100,000 on TitanTade's binary options

Cashing in on the TitanTrade boiler room

EXCLUSIVE
Sarah Danckert

Bottles of milk from a2 and Pura, which both make A2 protein claims.

Is a2 milk better for you?

Lucy Cormack
37 mins ago

Craig Drummond is flexing his muscles by overhauling top management following his recent appointment.

Medibank overhauls top management following recent missteps

Brian Robins

Australian consumption of avocados has been steadily increasing, with annual per capita consumption at around 3.2 kg per ...

Anger as Woolworths brings in foreign avocados

Lucy Cormack

Myer CEO Richard Umbers.

Investors reward Myer but outlook unclear

Madeleine Heffernan
1 hr ago

RETAIL AFR PHOTOGRAPH BY GLENN HUNT 10 APRIL 2007. GENERIC- retail, shopping, fashion, myer AFR FIRST USE ONLY SPECIALX ...

Why Myer should be left on the shelf

COMMENT
Scott Phillips

Myer chief executive Richard Umbers is investing in its private-label fashion brands to drive profitability.

Myer pimps private label and shrinks its fleet to drive growth

Catie Low

For the past year, Myer's strategy has been marked as a great culling exercise.

Myer shrinks its way to growing profit

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Comparable stores sales rose 3 per cent in the full year despite the impact of the warm start to winter.

First year of 'New Myer' drives profit result

Catie Low

Scott Morrison's super changes have been welcomed by the Coalition backbench, but also by Labor, the industry and the ...

Australia in tax treaty talks with Israel, says Morrison

Sarah Danckert
1 hr ago

Philip lowe and guy debelle

10 things you didn't know about the new RBA power duo

Peter Martin

It's hard to see a big future for us in London.

London is burning, we should be looking to an Asian haven

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

Having so closely linked the RBA's easing cycle to the weakness in the terms of trade (and earlier decline in mining ...

Did the RBA signal the end of rate cuts?

Jens Meyer

Clive Palmer arrives at the Federal Court on Friday, flanked by private security, for what is expected to be his final ...

Clive Palmer was preoccupied with a sore foot as QNI collapsed, court hears

Jorge Branco
1 hr ago

Clive Palmer arrives at the Federal Court on Friday, flanked by private security, for what is expected to be his final ...

Palmer denies 'intimate' involvement in QNI administration decision

Jorge Branco

Clive Palmer arrives at the Federal Court on Friday, flanked by private security, for what is expected to be his final ...

Palmer's lawyers fail in bid for break in Queensland Nickel grilling

Jorge Branco

Views from the top of Tower 1 at Barangaroo, Sydney, where rents are tipped to rise significantly.

Sydney king of the (office) world

Carolyn Cummins

Holden workers leaving the Port Melbourne plant on the day they found out production would cease at the plant in 2017.

Victorian government buys Holden factory to create 'innovation' hub

EXCLUSIVE
Simon Johanson

50 Franklin Street, Melbourne

Strata owners band together to sell Franklin Street office tower

Simon Johanson

Colin Falls, a farmer from the plains north of Bendigo, standing in his bumper canola crop this week. Farmers are ...

Farmers see dark clouds from $88b mega-deal

Patrick Hatch
1 hr ago

Chinese billionaire Zhou Yahui will have to transfer 300 million shares in his company to his wife.

Chinese tycoon behind Grindr will pay $1.5 billion in divorce

Emily Feng

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2008 file photo, office workers are silhouetted against the widow of the Lehman Brothers ...

Eight years on, and the Lehman moment is still with us

COMMENT
Barry Ritholtz

You can't got wrong with a Comme des Garcons striped T-shirt.

Weekend style checklist: what to wear when you're off duty

Stitched Up
1 hr ago

Canberra’s Bentspoke has become one of the country’s busiest brewpubs.

Twelve great Aussie brewpubs making their own beer on-site

Fine Drinks

Demand from China has sent Bellamy's stock soaring, making it one of the ASX's recent success stories.

There's no such thing as 'smart money'

Scott Phillips

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The best way to give property to your children

George Cochrane

Detch Singh, co-founder of Hypetap.

This huge trend in start ups continues apace

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran
48 mins ago

Joji Felicitas Pantoja speaks in an inclusive business conference.

The best country in the world for women social entrepreneurs

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