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After squeezing their margins in food, alcohol, clothing and luxury goods for ever so long, retailers are starting to ...

Don't bet on another interest rate cut

ANALYSIS
Peter Martin
50 mins ago

Woolworths says its demands were ordinary practice in supermarket retail.

'Perfectly normal': Ex-Woolies exec defends 'gap' payments

RETAIL
1 hr ago

Numerous studies have linked talcum powder use to ovarian cancer.

Cancer sufferers drop US talc case against Rio Tinto

MINING AND RESOURCES
Sarah Danckert

The ASX posted a small gain on Monday, but failed to break through the 5500 mark.

Sharemarket a loser on Melbourne Cup day

MARKETS
Jessica Sier

Passive funds are becoming more involved in corporate governance.

Passive funds hold governance 'balance of power'

MARKETS
Vanessa Desloires

The cuts to savings

Banks quietly cut rates for savers after August 'PR exercise'

BANKING AND FINANCE
Clancy Yeates

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission commissioner Sarah Court.

Whistleblowers crucial to cartel proceedings: ACCC

BUSINESS
Sarah Danckert

Market Indices

Updated: November 1, 2016 - 4:41PM

Updated: November 1, 2016 - 7:00PM

Updated: November 1, 2016 - 8:15AM

Updated: November 1, 2016 - 7:03PM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7670

Percentage up/down

0.75% rise
Euro

Price

0.6985

Percentage up/down

0.76% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6266

Percentage up/down

0.80% rise

Updated: November 1, 2016 - 6:49PM

Monetary policy has reached the point of providing stuff-all stimulus for anything other than increasing the bidding ...

The reality of a low interest rate, high house price world

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

The Prime Minister and his Border Force Minister have found a new way to bash the people sentenced to indefinite ...

Australia’s biggest mission: stopping the stopped boats

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Shayne Elliot's Asian carve-up continues

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

The RBA is expected to hold rates steady when it meets today.

Markets Live: RBA done with cuts?

Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

Place a smart bet instead.

Macquarie tips most undervalued horses

Jessica Sier

BHP is bullish on the outlook for copper, thanks to renewable energy and electric vehicle demand.

BHP reckons copper to win from renewables, electric cars

Brian Robins

Gross domestic product in the currency union rose 0.3pc in the three months through September, compared to the previous ...

Eurozone economy's slow expansion

Jack Ewing

Oil falls as OPEC accord unresolved

Mark Shenk

8@eight: RBA, ASX and Hartnell a winning trifecta

Sponsored
Chris Weston

Markets Live: ASX bounces back

Live

ASX snaps three-day losing streak

Jessica Sier

Film Stills - The Wolf of Wall Street. Courtesy Roadshow AFR 18-01-2014

Nabbed over a nip and tuck and Wolf of Wall Street debts

Sarah Danckert

ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott slowly unwinding his predecessor's strategy.

ANZ scales back Asian presence with retail, wealth asset sale

Clancy Yeates

S&P reckons there is a 1-in-3 chance of strong growth returning in the housing market, which would be a risk to banks.

S&P; cuts smaller banks' outlook on housing risks

Clancy Yeates

Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, group executive for institutional banking and markets at CBA, and Douglas Feagin, senior ...

CBA, Alipay deal aimed at Chinese tourists, students

Georgia Wilkins

Ally Lancaster with her son Connor McLeod, who was born blind and convinced the Reserve Bank to introduce tactile banknotes.

New cards to extend banking options for the blind

Clancy Yeates

Sean Scully and Omar Noureddine had difficulties finding employment without work experience.

Where the jobs are and where they aren't

Anna Patty

Those who don't hit target risked being placed in a 'sluggie race'.

'We have nothing to hide', says Appco CEO as it faces class action

Nick Toscano

Michael Bowker died at the age of 22 when he was struck by a train.

Michael was buried two days before Christmas, as co-workers partied

Adele Ferguson

As far as Andrew Forrest is concerned, it's BHP and Rio that are not worthy of Club Fortescue.

Wild ride: Fortescue eyes lands of opportunity

ANALYSIS
Elizabeth Knight

eSports has arrived in Australia, and Nathan Mott is the CEO of Australia's 'DireWolves'.

Esports: Look who's LoL-ing now

IN DEPTH

Chinese-born private junket provider Zhou Jiuming.

Meet 'Mr Chinatown' of Toorak, Crown's biggest whale catcher

EXCLUSIVE
Philip Wen

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 09: Animatronics artist Sonny Tilders, known for his work as creative director of the ...

The undeclared drugs and additives in your food

Esther Han

Sandra Mitrevska of Queanbeyan.

Mathematician's guide to the Melbourne Cup

Lucy Cormack

Big headline discounts on power bills sometimes aren't as good as they may appear.

Why the biggest discount doesn't give you the cheapest energy

Esther Han

Woolworths says its demands were ordinary practice in supermarket retail.

'Perfectly normal': Ex-Woolies exec defends 'gap' payments

1 hr ago

Woolworths demanded retrospective payments from "underperforming" suppliers in an attempt to fill a shortfall in its ...

'Slapdash, haphazard and unreasonable'

Sue Mitchell

2015 calendar-year accounts for McDonald's Australia Holdings, which covers the 13 per cent of stores that are company ...

McDonald's on track for $5b Aussie sales

Madeleine Heffernan

Sketchy Skechers figures challenge RCG

Madeleine Heffernan

Woolworths boss Brad Banducci: "There remains much more to do."

Woolworths: 'We're just a little bit better every week'

Madeleine Heffernan

After squeezing their margins in food, alcohol, clothing and luxury goods for ever so long, retailers are starting to ...

Don't bet on another interest rate cut

ANALYSIS
Peter Martin
50 mins ago

Monetary policy has reached the point of providing stuff-all stimulus for anything other than increasing the bidding ...

The reality of a low interest rate, high house price world

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

The Prime Minister and his Border Force Minister have found a new way to bash the people sentenced to indefinite ...

Australia’s biggest mission: stopping the stopped boats

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre.

What's wrong with the brave, new world of ultra-low rates

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Numerous studies have linked talcum powder use to ovarian cancer.

Cancer sufferers drop US talc case against Rio Tinto

Sarah Danckert

Amanda Lacaze, managing director and chief executive of Lynas Corp, has cut another deal with lenders.

Aussie miner teeters on China's low-price edge

Brian Robins

BHP is bullish on the outlook for copper, thanks to renewable energy and electric vehicle demand.

BHP reckons copper to win from renewables, electric cars

Brian Robins

Google has extended to 2021 its lease at GPT's Workplace 6 at Pyrmont.

Google extends office lease at GPT Workplace 6

Carolyn Cummins

The size of newly-built homes in Australia has declined.

We're no longer building the world's biggest new houses

Matt Wade

Dreamworld remains closed despite plans to reopen the park on Friday.

Ardent profits seen plunging amid questions over Dreamworld's future

Carolyn Cummins

Chobani's founder Hamdi Ulukaya has been an outspoken supporter of refugees.

Chobani attacked with threats and lies for helping refugees

David Gelles

This is what Singapore noodles from a cookbook look like, but now hungry passengers can select their chicken rice or ...

Chicken rice or bowl of noodles from a machine?

David Roman and Chanyaporn Chanjaroen

Starbucks' Howard Schultz, now worth $US2.9 billion ($3.8 billion), grew up in a housing complex for the poor.

19 billionaires who used to be dirt poor

Jacquelyn Smith, Rachel Gillett and Áine Cain

A Penfolds 2012 vintage Grange has been priced at $850.

Is this Penfolds Grange really worth $850 a bottle?

Fine Drinks
Elin McCoy

Megan Gale in the Biedcage

Humans of the Birdcage: 39 of the most intriguing racegoers

Lifestyle

Lucky for some: Trainer Bart Cummings and foreman Reg Fleming after Viewed won the 2008 Melbourne Cup.

A better bet than the Melbourne Cup

Andrew Legget

"I talk with people my age, and the Bank of Mum and Dad is becoming more and more prevalent": Treasury secretary John Fraser

The 'bank of mum and dad' has risks too

Clancy Yeates

Boot camp for your business spending.

When to borrow money and when to pay cash

Max Newnham

Donna Benton wants to correct the misconception that women entrepreneurs are not welcome in Dubai.

I left Australia with $3000 savings and now I run an empire

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