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CBA chief executive Ian Narev batted away questions with ease.

Bank hearing spun to the point of meaninglessness

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

There are 1,347 apartments in the City of Melbourne used year-round as short-stay accommodation.

Flood of AirBnB listings sees hosts income drop by 40 per cent

PROPERTY
Lucy Battersby

A man shelters from the winds near Brighton Jetty, Adelaide.

South Australia to get third enquiry into prolonged blackout

BUSINESS
Brian Robins

Commonwealth Bank chief Ian Narev before the parliamentary committee on Tuesday.

CBA boss hit with wet lettuce at banking inquiry

CBD
Sarah Danckert

The Shell service centre at 190-198 Princes Highway, South Nowra, is being sold by APN.

Service stations in hot demand from investors

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Carolyn Cummins

The error message appearing for users of NAB's smartphone app.

National Australia Bank apologises amid online banking outage

BANKING AND FINANCE
Georgina Mitchell

Market Indices

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CBA chief executive Ian Narev batted away questions with ease.

Bank hearing spun to the point of meaninglessness

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

David Coleman and Ian Narev. Cartoon by John Shakespeare for 5th october 2016.

CBA boss hit with wet lettuce at banking inquiry

Sarah Danckert

The latest scare centres upon the rapid growth of credit and the poor quality of many bank assets.

Once again, scare stories about China are overblown

COMMENT
Roger Bootle

More than 25 per cent was stripped from TPG's market value after the telco disappointed with its earnings forecasts.

Miners push ASX into black in late bounce

Jessica Sier

Investors will be scrutinising the RBA statement for any change in tone.

Markets Live: Late bounce led by Rio

Live
Jens Meyer

Australia's two biggest iron ore producers have slowed the pace of supply growth as a decade-long expansion nears an end.

Iron ore price supply test ahead

Jasmine Ng and David Stringer

ING plans to eliminate 5800 jobs in Europe

David de Jong

No need to rush rate rises: Dudley

Christopher Condon and Rich Miller

8@eight: ASX set to open lower; RBA day

Sponsored
Angus Nicholson

Oil nears highest in three months

Mark Shenk

Pound drops on Brexit trigger date

Netty Ismail and Charlotte Ryan

Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer is pushing ahead with a reform package that leaves life ...

Government stands by commissions for life insurance

Georgia Wilkins

Commonwealth Bank CEO Ian Narev before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics Review of ...

CBA boss defends not signing banking code of ethics

UPDATED
Mario Christodoulou

ING said it will maintain a common equity Tier 1 ratio above 12.5 per cent by 2020. It also seeks a leverage ratio of ...

ING plans to eliminate 5800 jobs in Europe

David de Jong

Ian Narev will blaze a trail for the big banks at the inquiry.

The big four questions for the big four banks

Mario Christodoulou

Ian Narev will be the focal point for the committee members staking out their competing positions and the leader for the ...

CBA chief: Good with numbers, bad with scandals

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

About one in two people are comfortable about being open about their sexuality in the workplace

One in two LGBTI Australians hide their identity in the workplace

Anna Patty Workplace Editor

ACTU president Ged Kearney

Australian campaign for domestic violence leave goes global

Anna Patty

David Evers says he "didn't have a leg to stand on" after his payments were suspended.

Plan to give private job service providers power to cut welfare slammed

Anna Patty

Wait times for people seeking help with their financial stress has increased from a fortnight to six weeks.

Road to ruin: Auto manufacturing workers fear for their futures

Nick Toscano

In the pipeline: NBN won't be profitable until 2022.

NBN pricing faces crunch time over internet speeds

Lucy Battersby

The AFL is among clients contacted as part of an investigation into potential fraud.

Did AFL pay for ads that never ran?

Nick McKenzie

Various websites, including one run by the government, offer speed tests.

Telcos say consumers have 'unrealistic' internet speed expectations: ACCC

Esther Han

The Airbnb announcement is the next step in Qantas’ partnerships with innovative digital and technology businesses.

Qantas angers hotel giants after its Airbnb points deal

Esther Han

About $170,000 has been lost by migrants who have fallen victim to the phone scam.

The scammers threatening migrants with deportation for cash

Lucy Cormack

Growers are warning shoppers may have to pay more for cherries this summer.

Spring storms whip up expensive cherries

Catie Low

Dick Smith was carrying millions of dollars in excess stock, the Supreme Court has heard.

Dick Smith's $100 million miss on stock

Michaela Whitbourn

Aldi is one of Australia's biggest retailers, with an estimated 10 per cent market share of Australia's $90 billion-odd ...

Aldi urged to 'come clean' on accounts

Madeleine Heffernan

Record Aussie sales tipped: Costco Australia managing director Patrick Noone

Costco set for record Australian sales

Madeleine Heffernan

One of 200 elephants slaughtered for their tusks in Cameroon during a killing spree in 2012.

'Bathtubs full of four-foot tusks:' Australia's ivory trade

Lucy Cormack

Staying on course: RBA governor Philip Lowe has kept rates on hold.

RBA keeps rates steady under Lowe

Jens Meyer

Coca-Cola factory workers in France found an unusual shipment.

Food, beverage recovery boosts manufacturing

Annual growth in prices ticked up to 7.1 per cent in September, from 7 per cent in August.

House prices up as record low mortgages buoy demand

Glenn Stevens may be the last governor we'll see without a PhD.

If the economy's acting dumb, don't blame the econocrats

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

A man shelters from the winds near Brighton Jetty, Adelaide.

South Australia to get third enquiry into prolonged blackout

Brian Robins

Australia's two biggest iron ore producers have slowed the pace of supply growth as a decade-long expansion nears an end.

Iron ore price supply test ahead

Jasmine Ng and David Stringer

Brent for December settlement increased 51 cents, or 1 per cent, to $US50.70 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures ...

Oil nears highest in three months

Mark Shenk

For both institutional and contextual reasons, Deutsche Bank is unlikely to provoke the 2016 version of a Lehman moment.

What should, and shouldn't, worry us about Deutsche Bank

COMMENT
Mohamed A. El-Erian

Deepwater Horizon is a $US156 million film that focuses on the hours around a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

Hollywood's love/hate relationship with business

Thomas Heath

ING Groep NV will shed 5800 positions over five years as it focuses on internet and mobile banking and automates systems.

European banks cutting 20,000 jobs as ING joins Commerzbank, ABN

Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 self-lacing shoe.

Why Nike's self-lacing shoes are the beginning of the end

Culture

Yoga can be a worthwhile supplement to your running regimen, but research reveals it's not ideal as a replacement.

Is this something all runners should be doing?

The Long Run

Jackson Pollock's 'Blue Poles' is on loan to the Royal Academy of Arts in London for the 'Abstract Expressionism' exhibition.

Was buying Blue Poles for $1.3m in 1973 a good investment?

Scott Phillips

Invest for the long term and then you can enjoy a steak sandwich in peace.

The eat-a-sandwich rule for investment strategy

Mitchell Sneddon

Marketing guru Franziska Iseli

How the #Girlboss movement might be holding women back

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

Melissa Behrend is a director at HR on Call.

She worked 62 hours in four days

Alexandra Cain

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