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The ABS and NAB have different ideas about how many first home buyers there actually are.

First home buyer numbers don't add up

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe
36 mins ago

Gold stocks have tumbled into a bear market.

Markets Live: Bears savage gold stocks

Live
Jens Meyer

Sacked Ford worker Nick Doria leaving the Broadmeadows plant at the end of his last shift, he's worked there for 22 ...

'Sad day for Australia': Ford is officially finished

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Nick Toscano
56 mins ago

Still paying incentives: Westpac boss Brian Hartzer before the Standing Committee on Economics.

Bank inquiry was like speed dating gone bad

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

The pound continued its slide, falling to a new 31-year low.

Pound plunges 6pc in 'flash crash'

MARKETS
Jessica Sier
51 mins ago

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 02: Andrew Fifita of the Sharks and Michael Ennis of the Sharks embrace after winning the ...

How corporate underdogs won sports' biggest weekend

MEDIA & MARKETING
Patrick Hatch

Australia's housing market is taking off again as a growing population tries to squeeze into too few properties, posing ...

'It's all guns blazing': Lack of homes fuels bidding frenzy

PROPERTY

Market Indices

Updated: October 7, 2016 - 3:37PM

Updated: October 7, 2016 - 3:17PM

Updated: October 7, 2016 - 8:15AM

Updated: October 7, 2016 - 3:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7578

Percentage up/down

-0.11% fall
Euro

Price

0.6820

Percentage up/down

0.25% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6097

Percentage up/down

1.36% rise

Updated: October 7, 2016 - 3:07PM

Western Bulldogs were underdog victors in the AFL Grand Final against the Sydney Swans.

What Australia can learn from the underdogs

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

The reality is we're seeing a rise in more precarious employment relationships.

Being sacked can cost much more mentally than monetarily

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Illustration: John Shakespeare

Cronulla Sharks chief sponsor in strife

CBD
Sarah Danckert

The $US54 billion Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island, Western Australia will drive gas exports in 2017.

Resources export surge tipped on higher prices

Brian Robins

Twitter shares plunged as much as 20 per cent on Thursday in New York, the most since April 2015.

Twitter plunges 20 pc on reports Google won't bid

Rishika Sadam and Tenzin Pema

ECB president Mario Draghi said after the September meeting the bank would look at ways to ensure the bond purchases ...

ECB holds fast on stimulus measures

Wall Street dropped on firming prospects for a December rate hike.

8@eight: ASX set to edge higher

Sponsored
Angus Nicholson

US oil rallies to June high

Mark Shenk

Lagarde pushes DB to settle fast

Simone Meier

Snap sees $US25b plus valuation

Tesla cut, price target slashed

David Welch

"A bad settlement is always better than a good trial," Lagarde told Bloomberg Television on Thursday.

Lagarde pushes DB to settle fast

Simone Meier

Andrew Thorburn, chief executive officer of National Australia Bank, speaks at a parliamentary hearing.

NAB cautions on apartment glut

Clancy Yeates

"The best example of a comparable developed market is Canada," said CBA's Ian Narev on Tuesday.

Canadian bank returns pip big four, for now

Vesna Poljak

'Misrepresentation' by a borrower was more common when customers applied through a mortgage broker.

One in four 'stretch the truth' in mortgage applications

Clancy Yeates

What everyone should know by now is that the cards that offer points charge very high interest rates and/or expensive ...

Credit card point chasers more hopeless than previously thought

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

The reality is we're seeing a rise in more precarious employment relationships.

Being sacked can cost much more mentally than monetarily

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Giri Sivaraman

ACTU president Ged Kearney

Australian campaign for domestic violence leave goes global

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

Kath Purkis, creator of Her Fashion Box.

'Critical' public warning over Aussie online fashion store

Esther Han
18 mins ago

A woman has been awarded $300,000 in damages after she fell off a chair at Kmart.

Woman awarded more than $300,000 after garden chair collapse at Kmart

Emma Partridge

The Victorian Camel Association claims its product can improve the health of people with "autism, diabetes, tuberculosis ...

'Infection-fighting' milk referred to ACCC in Shonky Awards aftermath

Esther Han

Lake Breeze Wines owner and winemaker Greg Follett is hopeful his vines will survive the flooding.

Spring floods have winemakers praying for a sunny spell

Catie Low
56 mins ago

Former Masters Director Melinda Smith has been appointed to a Senior Executive Service job with the ATO.

Tax Office hires customer service chief from Masters hardware

Noel Towell

Up to one-third of customers regularly steal when using a DIY checkout to pay for their groceries, according to a review ...

'Even if you're saving $2, it's still shoplifting': Crackdown on DIY checkout theft

Patrick Hatch

Former Dick Smith CEO Nick Abboud leaves the Supreme Court with his solicitors on Thursday.

Dick Smith CEO denies role in dud rebates

Misa Han

Masters has taken down all pricing information from its website.

Masters cancels orders, cuts phones amid fire sale fail

Catie Low

Australia's housing market is taking off again as a growing population tries to squeeze into too few properties, posing ...

'It's all guns blazing': Lack of homes fuels bidding frenzy

Angus Whitley

Western Bulldogs were underdog victors in the AFL Grand Final against the Sydney Swans.

What Australia can learn from the underdogs

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

The International Monetary Fund recommends that governments phase out tax incentives, such as negative gearing, that ...

Australians warned of risks of soaring household debt

ANALYSIS
Matt Wade

Australia is accumulating private debt at a 'fast pace', IMF warns.

Australians accumulating debt at a 'fast pace': IMF

Clive Palmer says he will examine witnesses himself at a hearing into the collapse of Queensland Nickel.

Palmer to represent himself in QN case

Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill mine could be exporting at a rate of 55 million tonnes a year within months.

Resources export surge tipped on higher prices

Brian Robins

Equipment at the Abbot Point coal terminal in Queensland.

Adani's Abbot Point plans face court challenge

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel. A 2017 Snapchat IPO would be one of the flashiest in more than a year.

Snapchat working on float valuing it at $US25b: sources

"That report highlighted that Deutsche Bank is of systemic importance," Peter Dattels, deputy director in the IMF's ...

Deutsche Bank singled out in IMF stability warning

Landon Thomas Jr

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey returned as chief executive last year and he has been part of Walt Disney's board since 2013.

Twitter keen to finish sale talks this month

Liana Baker and Jessica Toonkel

"Wild young men can't be expected to act like saints when they're worshipped as gods."

Aaron Smith's tryst isn't excusable, but it's understandable

Life On Mars
14 mins ago

Zac and Jordan Stenmark in new perfume commercial they created for Giorgio Armani

Under the influence: 19 men ruling Australian fashion right now

Men's Style

Financial literacy is useless unless you can separate fact from fiction.

Financial literacy won't help if you don't get your facts straight

Noel Whittaker

NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn at the parliamentary bank inquiry last week.

What the banking inquiry means for shareholders

Scott Phillips

Dan Kurzius, founder of MailChimp.

This company bucked all the start-up cliches and still succeeded

Farhad Manjoo

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 14: Oprah Winfrey revs up the audience on the set during the first taping of the "Oprah ...

Five ways your body language harms your career

James Adonis

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