'Plain disappointing'. Did Australia just go backwards?

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A further slide in business investment has economic forecasters pondering the unthinkable: that the Australian economy shrank in the September quarter, and that next week’s GDP growth figure will have a minus sign in front of it.

Vodafone blue over blackspots second round

Changing its game plan has paid off for Optus with the telco winning more than $25 million in the second round of public funding for new and upgraded mobile sites in regional and remote Australia. 

Emirates, Etihad Airways say 'no plans' to fly to Canberra

Two major Middle Eastern airlines refute reports they plan to fly to Canberra.

Lights out at Olympic Dam riles BHP

A blackout at one of the nation's biggest mines has sparked a plea from BHP

Under siege: public service slips below average wage

Most public servants earning below average wages after three-year "siege of attrition" by Coalition.

Consumers may see red when buying Christmas cherries

There is a cherry shortage this year, but don't panic. It may not be as bad as you think.

Hemmes snaps up Sydney pub for record $37.5m

Pub tsar Justin Hemmes​ has snapped up the Tennyson Hotel in Sydney's Botany Road, Mascot for $37.5 million - a record price for a hotel sale at a public auction.

'Game on': OPEC rally fuels bullish mood

Investors are growing in their conviction that the bottom for global yields is in the rear-view mirror.

Who is the proposed US Treasury Secretary?

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Steven Mnuchin will need all his Goldman Sachs wiles to win over Washington skeptics as Donald Trump's pick for the Treasury.

Best day in eight years for ASX's energy stocks

Energy stocks lit a fire underneath the ASX by adding over $5 billion to the market, after OPEC agreed to an output cut.

Markets Live: OPEC fires up energy stocks

An overnight OPEC commitment to trim oil production electrified energy stocks, sending the sector to its best day in eight years and helping buoy the ASX.

Leave your guns at home, Levi's CEO asks shoppers

"You shouldn't have to be concerned about your safety while shopping for clothes or trying on a pair of jeans," the jeans company's boss says in an open letter posted on social media.

China to tighten controls on overseas investments

China's central government has ordered tighter controls on offshore investments made by state-owned enterprises amid concerns over accelerating capital outflows.

'Scandalous exploitation' of Sydney families

NSW Labor MP Ron Hoenig is calling for a parliamentary inquiry into children's football.

Nestlé scientists develop sweeter-tasting sugar to use less

Call it sugar lite: Global food giant Nestlé says it has developed a type of sugar with markedly more sweetness, allowing the company to reduce the amount of sugar in its chocolates and lollies.

Float adviser cuts McGrath earnings, price outlook again

One of the lead advisers to real estate group McGrath's float, Bell Potter, has taken the knife to its earnings forecasts and price target for the stock for the third time since its disappointing December 2015 listing.

China adds curbs on yuan outflows

China has imposed new restrictions on the movement of cash outside the country to prevent a flood of capital outflows from destabilising the financial system.

Abused retail worker speaks out

Jack Burrows, 19, tells his experiences of customer abuse, including being spat on, while working at a supermarket.

Beware MYEFO myopia

Guesstimates are rolling in about whether this year's budget deficit forecast has blown out on low wages growth or is holding on thanks to higher commodity prices. Michael Pascoe comments.

Big banks tight-lipped on deal that could increase property costs

The government is pushing ahead with a deal that could make buying property more expensive despite protests from right across the state's property sector.

Five ways the OPEC deal affects you

Oil prices have surged overnight as the international cartel of oil-producing countries, OPEC, agreed to cut production for the first time in eight years.

Iron ore extends retreat

Iron ore dropped 6.8pc overnight, the most since March, extending a retreat from a two-year high.

Our AAA rating is a marvellous bogeyman

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Both sides of politics try to use a looming loss of Australia's top-notch rating to frighten the horses and blame the other for the supposed problem. But there are much larger forces at work in the world.

TV ad industry launches ad for TV advertising on TV

In the latest sign of the struggle for revenue by Australia's television industry, a new television advertisement promoting television will start airing on Thursday.

ACCC votes yes days after 'unprecedented' video address

54 per cent yes-vote at Competition and Consumer Commission.

News Corp buys out Seven and Nine for full ownership of Sky News

News Corporation has fully acquired Australian News Channel, which produces Sky News in Australia and New Zealand. 

From blood plasma to robot bartenders: 10 things China is buying

Chinese companies have been on a record acquisition spree, buying into everything from blood plasma to airline food. Here are 10 of the more surprising things Chinese money is buying.

Commodities rally won't save AAA: S&P;

The rally in coal and iron ore prices won't buy Treasurer Scott Morrison more time in the eyes of S&P.;

'Trump conned them': Wall Street wins again

If Mnuchin becomes Treasury secretary, he'll be the third Goldman Sachs alum in three decades to get the job as the President-elect surrounds himself with bankers and billionaires.