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Former Wallaby Bill Young during a 2004 Bledisloe Cup match: "I am very pleased with the purchase."

Former Wallaby adds Five Dock Hotel to pub empire

PROPERTY
Carolyn Cummins
7 mins ago

The bulls are back in charge.

Markets Live: Party like it's 1999

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
1 hr ago

ABC radio went dead after a cable was cut overnight.

ABC digital radio goes silent after cable sliced

MEDIA & MARKETING
Lucy Battersby

The ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly ...

Warning: social media could harm your career

COMMENT
Cal Newport

At least 381 people were killed when Rana Plaza collapsed.

Which retailers are on Oxfam's 'naughty' list this Christmas?

RETAIL
Madeleine Heffernan

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

Proposal to scrap tax deductions for work clothes

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Nassim Khadem

Financing must change dramatically if emissions are to be curbed.

Banks' climate change talk not yet matched by action

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Market Indices

Updated: November 22, 2016 - 11:53AM

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Updated: November 22, 2016 - 9:15AM

Updated: November 22, 2016 - 4:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7385

Percentage up/down

0.22% rise
Euro

Price

0.6939

Percentage up/down

0.12% rise
British Pound

Price

0.5908

Percentage up/down

0.17% rise

Updated: November 22, 2016 - 11:24AM

Boral boss Mike Kane knows well the $3.5 billion business he is buying in the US.

Boral boss Mike Kane has faith in his Utah acquisition

Colin Kruger, CBD

The markets are clearly taking Trump on his word.

Trump supplies gravy to flavour Boral's $3.5 billion buy

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

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

Let's hope that Matteo Renzi loses his crucial October referendum on constitutional reform. Let's cross our fingers that ...

Currency vigilantes set their sights on Italy

Jessica Sier
2 mins ago

Investors have boosted bets for tighter monetary policy since Donald Trump's election win.

Wall St leaps higher

Lu Wang and Rebecca Spalding

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

8@eight: Trump in a lolly shop as approval keeps rolling in

Sponsored
Gary Burton

The longest US expansion on record stretched from 1991 until 2001, a span of 120 months. That streak will be broken if ...

DB sees S&P; 500 at 2500

Luke Kawa

Oil lifts on OPEC deal bets

Mark Shenk

Vinamilk $US800m share sale set

Iron ore drops as stockpiles surge

Jasmine Ng

Where next for 'tarnished' $A?

Jessica Sier

Professor Paul Kofman, dean of business and economics at the University of Melbourne.

Banks need 'overhaul' not CEO pledges: finance expert

Georgia Wilkins

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, 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

At least 381 people were killed when Rana Plaza collapsed.

Which retailers are on Oxfam's 'naughty' list this Christmas?

Madeleine Heffernan

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

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

Proposal to scrap tax deductions for work clothes

Nassim Khadem

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

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

Brent for January settlement climbed $US1.77, or 3.8 per cent, to $US48.63 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures ...

Oil lifts on OPEC deal bets

Mark Shenk

"Iron ore's fundamentals have never been great," said Dang Man, an analyst at Maike Futures Co. in Xi'an, China. "The ...

Iron ore drops as stockpiles surge

Jasmine Ng

Rio Tinto chief Jean Sebastien Jacques will address Australian investors this week

Mining giant Rio Tinto expected to cut 500 West Australian jobs

Fran Rimrod

Former Wallaby Bill Young during a 2004 Bledisloe Cup match: "I am very pleased with the purchase."

Former Wallaby adds Five Dock Hotel to pub empire

Carolyn Cummins
8 mins ago

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

Setting out his plans: Donald Trump.

I'll quit TPP on day one as president: Donald Trump

8 mins ago

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

Despite the popularity of flirtatious shows like The Bachelor, Australian men are terrible at flirting.

Is flirting dead? How we lost the fine art of seduction

Self improvement
1 hr ago

Kim Jones stands inside Australia's first Louis Vuitton pop up store.

You may not know his name, but this man is choosing what you wear

Men's Style

The average super account balance is just $42,000, but nest eggs are bigger than that figure implies.

How does your super nest egg compare?

Jessica Irvine

Many investors turn to stocks such as Telstra for the income.

Time to sell 'safe income' stocks

Business leader Richard Branson started the journal to combat dyslexia.

One thing you can start today to help your business

Jack Delosa
29 mins ago

Look before you leap into the deep end of this sale.

Best way to minimise the income tax on your sale

Max Newnham
57 mins ago

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