ASX set for slight gains as traders eye the US dollar
This week the US dollar is set to stay strong and yield stocks are expected to continue to suffer.
This week the US dollar is set to stay strong and yield stocks are expected to continue to suffer.
Aldi's archrival Schwarz Group is investigating setting up Kaufland stores in Australia.
Glencore is seeking to raise $550 million from investors via a debt issue guaranteed by oil from Iraqi Kurdistan in an attempt to secure a big slice of the high-risk – and high-reward – market in a region at war with Islamic State.
Restaurants are becoming increasingly data-savvy, creating detailed profiles of who you are and what you like to eat.
Catherine Robson, founder of Affinity Private, gives her top tips to reduce stress in your marriage by better managing your money.
A Rio Tinto Group executive asked how big a bribe it would take to beat out a competitor for a hotly contested iron ore deposit in Guinea, the country's former mining minister says.
Wondering how to invest in a year marked by US president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, China's attempts to keep growth both high and sustainable, and the continued rise of populism in Europe?
The three major indexes closed higher for the second week on Friday, but investors are still waiting for positive signs from a Trump agenda.
Japanese advertising giant Dentsu is considering dropping a principle set by a former president encouraging staff to stick to a goal even to the point of death after a 24-year-old employee committed suicide because of overwork.
Bond yields are climbing because of a feeling things are about to get better.
Copper clocked its biggest weekly fall in a month as the US dollar soared to a 14-year high.
Commodity producers fell as Mario Draghi indicated the region's economy still needs stimulus.
Iron ore just capped the biggest weekly drop in six months.
Rising bond yields are placing expensive bond proxy shares under threat.
Governments and big corporations no longer have borrowed money on tap at the lowest interest rates on record.
Australian basketball champion Shane Heal has been charged with three count of fraud relating to an alleged $750,000 scam.
Australia's biggest independent supermarket chain has gone gourmet in the battle to grow sales and boost margins.
How has poor little Oz managed to keep our economy growing continuously for 25 years while, in the same period, other economies have suffered a recession or even two? We've had good insurance policies.
In December 2015 James Evans hatched a plan with the National Union of Workers to go under cover to expose wage fraud at a third party fund raiser for some of the country's most well known charities.
A key adage of the corporate world is "don't go into business with a friend". Or, as American oil baron John D. Rockefeller famously put it: "A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder."
Australia's biggest department store scares off persistent short-sellers by posting its fifth consecutive quarter of same-store sales growth.
The ASX ended Friday higher but gave up some of last week's strong gains over the five sessions as post-US election enthusiasm ran out of steam.
The election of Donald Trump saw prices for copper sore with expectation of significant infrastructure investment, but is that the only reason? (This video was produced in commercial partnership between Fairfax Media and IG Markets)
NSW growth rate "historic"
Australian basketball champion Shane Heal has been charged with three counts of fraud relating to an alleged $750,000 scam.
A former union official and his niece have been charged with close to $440,000 in alleged fraud offences.
Unlike many Aussie adventures in Thailand, Kingsgate Consolidated's quest for gold delivered the goods. For a while, at least.
The Aussie dollar has plunged to its lowest since June and bonds continue to sell off, while Telstra leads gains on the ASX.
NBN Co has abandoned plans to borrow money from debt markets to complete the roll out and will instead borrow $19.5 billion from the federal government "on commercial terms". This takes total government contributions to the project to nearly $50 billion.
Vocus founder turned fund manager James Spenceley has revealed his two best NBN opportunities in small caps.
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