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The predicted blowout in this year's federal deficit, despite sharply improved commodity prices, means the government ...

How to get wages bang for the tax cut buck

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe
1 hr ago

The ASX is poised for a positive start.

Markets Live: ASX fights back

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
24 mins ago

Despite the mini-boom in commodity prices, the Aussie dollar has over the past months hardly strengthened.

Goldman turns bullish on economy and $A

CURRENCIES
Jens Meyer
58 mins ago

The most successful people typically have a routine in which they try to mitigate tasks that will linger and deter them ...

12 things successful people do as workday ends

WORKPLACE RELATIONS

Employee copied databases.

SAI Global sues former worker for raiding database

BUSINESS
Sarah Danckert

Street Talk.

Caltex boss warns 'immoral' franchisees

COMMENT
Julian Segal

The deal will be funded by an $2 billion share issue, as well as borrowing and Boral's existing cash.

Boral to double size of US business in $3.5b deal

BUSINESS

Market Indices

Updated: November 21, 2016 - 4:11PM

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United States Dollar

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0.7324

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Price

0.6916

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Updated: November 21, 2016 - 3:41PM

The popularity of populism. But populist sentiments can't be satisfied because they are about the expression of emotion ...

Our politicians go populist at their peril

Ross Gittins

Former Linc Energy CEO Peter Bond is one of five ex-Linc executives facing charges of breaching environmental laws over ...

Packer and Jacob reach for the magic formula

Colin Kruger, CBD

Charities should start taking a stand instead of waiting until they are shamed into it.

Workers pay price as charities turn their back

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

The Aussie dollar has fallen below US74c.

Where next for 'tarnished' $A?

Jessica Sier
17 mins ago

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

8@eight: $A eyeing a move into US71.40¢?

Sponsored
Chris Weston

Investors have flooded into mining stocks in recent weeks.

Mining shares and Asian equities part ways

Jessica Sier

Smoke rises from an oil pipe at sunset in the desert oil field of Sakhir, Bahrain.

ASX set for slight gains as traders eye the US dollar

Jessica Sier

Here are Goldman Sachs' top trade ideas for 2017

Stocks slip as Wall Street waits

Copper extends slide

Miners drag on European stocks

Julie Edde

CBA blamed changes in funding markets and the low interest rate world for its cuts to term deposit rates.

Savers hit as CBA cuts term deposit rates

Clancy Yeates

Chief executive of Westpac's consumer bank, George Frazis, says the lender is seeing few signs of stress in the ...

Westpac hoses down apartment glut fears

Clancy Yeates

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Bondnado: Australia's $220 billion debt party is over

ANALYSIS
Clancy Yeates

HSBC is eyeing off the growing number of multimillionaires in Australia.

HSBC targets Asia-linked rich with private bank push

Clancy Yeates

Sydney accountant and company director Vanda Gould will have to pay millions to the ATO.

'Blatant tax evasion': High Court in major ruling

Nassim Khadem

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 18: Portrait of UNSW Industrial Design Student Greta Saggus with her prototype that ...

'A little bit too hard for women': How Greta went to top of the class

Kim Arlington

Ashley McKinnon who has struggled with a lack of transport to get to job interviews.

Limited transport is a big barrier to young people getting jobs

Anna Patty

From November, workers have been barred from logging more than 65 hours of overtime a month, down from the previous ...

Suicide prompts ad agency to review 'work to death' principle

Shane Heal has been charged with three counts of fraud.

Basketball stars caught up in Shane Heal alleged fraud

Sarah Danckert

Simon Crowe, Founder of Grill d.

Grill'd in court: inside a big-league bun fight

Mark Hawthorne

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Bondnado: Australia's $220 billion debt party is over

ANALYSIS
Clancy Yeates

Anna Pavoni, co-owner of restaurant Ormeggio at the Spit in Mosman, is collecting customer data to enhance the dining ...

How your restaurant knows who you are

Esther Han

Call centre staff have access to a lot of personal information.

Investigation launched into black-market consumer data

Lucy Battersby

Australia's pizza industry is dominated by Domino's Pizza.

Pizza Hut gobbles up Eagle Boys chain

Esther Han

Street Talk.

Caltex boss warns 'immoral' franchisees

COMMENT
Julian Segal

Baby Bunting CEO Matt Spencer: "I have been pleased with our operational and trading performance so far this financial ...

Baby Bunting same-store growth moderates

Madeleine Heffernan

Big box discounter Kaufland confirms interest in expanding to Australia.

Kaufland studying Oz retail market

Madeleine Heffernan

Cheerful Charlie, as he calls himself, is in charge of the gourmet cheese selection in the Dromana store.

Supermarket chain goes gourmet to beat discounters

Catie Low

Simon Crowe, Founder of Grill d.

Grill'd in court: inside a big-league bun fight

Mark Hawthorne

Tax deductions claimed by each worker for clothing or accessories cost $211 on average.

Proposal to scrap tax deductions for work clothes

Nassim Khadem
11 mins ago

The predicted blowout in this year's federal deficit, despite sharply improved commodity prices, means the government ...

How to get wages bang for the tax cut buck

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe
1 hr ago

Seniors are doing better in real terms than younger people earning the same incomes.

End the age of entitlement - for seniors

Peter Martin

Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed the government's budget projections have worsened.

$24 billion budget blowout. Government to confirm the worst on December 19

Peter Martin

Rio Tinto is planning to further slash jobs in WA, starting in the offices in Perth.

Mining giant Rio Tinto expected to cut 500 West Australian jobs

Fran Rimrod

Glencore is seeking to raise $550 million from investors.

Glencore seeks $550m to raise stakes in Kurdish oil game

Dmitry Zhdannikov

Rio Tinto paid $US4.5 billion in tax in 2015.

'Rio offered to pay me off': ex-Guinea mining minister

Large format retailers want planning laws reviewed in NSW

It's a matter of planning, say large format retailers

Carolyn Cummins

Better collaboration with customers, colleagues and co-workers is now the key reason for implementing workplace strategy

Co-working spaces are the new office model

Stuart Brown

Foodora and Deliveroo employ backpackers and students to deliver food on bicycles.

Food delivery businesses the new retail disrupters

Carolyn Cummins

From November, workers have been barred from logging more than 65 hours of overtime a month, down from the previous ...

Suicide prompts review of 'work to death' principle

If Snap can pull it off, co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy would become the youngest people on the Bloomberg ...

Snap IPO to test unicorn founder fortunes worth $42b

Tom Metcalf

Elon Musk owns 21 per cent of Tesla and 22 per cent of SolarCity, making him the largest shareholder of both companies.

Investors approve $3b Tesla-SolarCity merger

Dana Hull and Christopher Martin

Even with the top down, the Dawn's bespoke audio system measures ambient noise via two microphones.

Which luxury car has the sweetest sound system?

Luxury Cars
12 mins ago

Bianchi's new release is one mean machine.

This top-of-the-line road bike is not for the faint-hearted

Sporting Style

Credit card companies will often entice new users with a honeymoon offer.

How banks cash in with parallel deals

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

How much will those Christmas presents really cost?

Three dumb ways to double Christmas spend

Maddison Lawrence of Slick Azz Auto

No degree is no problem in small business

Sylvia Pennington

Matt Schneider says Optika employs a high ratio of employees with autism or Asperger's syndrome who, with unconventional ...

Secrets from Australia's top innovators

Kate Jones

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