Ten lenders increase mortgage rates
Firstmac and nine smaller lenders are discreetly raising fixed-rate mortgages in a move expected to be followed by others as the "Trump effect" bites.
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Shares won't escape 'tectonic' bond move
For years falling bond yields were good news for equity markets as the valuation metrics stacked up in their favour.
Quadrant cruises into $300m tourism play
Quadrant Private Equity has bought three "experiential tourism" companies to create the Experience Australia Group.
'Sucker's rally' ASX set to plunge
The rise in bond yields is setting the expensive ASX up for a plunge, according to Watermark Funds Management.
Australia and China in row over dairy
Australia and China are once again at loggerheads over dairy exports, after Beijing banned a Victorian infant formula maker from selling its products.
Obeid spectre overshadows ICAC restructure
A report into corrupt Labor power broker Eddie Obeid could be compromised by NSW premier Mike Baird's plan to sack the ICAC commissioner.
IMF urges property investor crackdown
Regulators should redouble efforts to curb risky property market lending, the IMF says.
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Big health firms to grab $500m in NSW disability contracts
NSW is opening up disability services to the private sector but some of the sweeteners to lure them in undermine the NDIS.
Trump won't want China to stop 'manipulating'
If Chinese policymakers were to stop intervening in their currency, the renminbi would go down rather than up, economists say.
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- 3. Quadrant Private Equity cruises into $300m Australian tourism play
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