Business Day

Origin intends to float its upstream oil and gas business and list it on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Origin Energy spins off oil, gas business

ENERGY
Angela Macdonald-Smith
1 hr ago

Shares should enjoy a bounce this morning ahead of the RBA's rates decision.

Markets Live: ASX bounces back

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
49 mins ago

Amazon go

Amazon's physical grocery store has no checkouts

TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Sarah Halzack
1 hr ago

Mallaby argues central bankers should instead lean on bubbles with higher interest rates.

Why central banks should lean on housing bubbles

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Retailers are feeling decidedly upbeat as they had into the critical Christmas holiday season.

Retailers expect bountiful Christmas, new year

RETAIL
Madeleine Heffernan

Bellamy's has seen profits triple this year on the back of selling baby formula to China.

Bellamy's Organic bosses picked the peak

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Since 2010 Australia is the only region to show an increasing trend in female CEO appointments.

Australia stagnates, just 10 female CEOs in the ASX 200

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Nassim Khadem

Market Indices

Updated: December 6, 2016 - 11:56AM

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United States Dollar

Price

0.7479

Percentage up/down

0.05% rise
Euro

Price

0.6955

Percentage up/down

0.10% rise
British Pound

Price

0.5877

Percentage up/down

0.10% rise

Updated: December 6, 2016 - 11:27AM

Illustration: John Shakespeare

Bellamy's Organic bosses picked the peak

Colin Kruger, CBD

Mallaby argues central bankers should instead lean on bubbles with higher interest rates.

Why central banks should lean on housing bubbles

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Governor Philip Lowe's cool hand can be expected to remain steady upon the monetary instrument.

RBA won’t mind this week’s GDP number – March will be worse

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

BHP outbid Britain's BP, the only other company that participated, with a $US624 million offer.

Mexico picks BHP Billiton for farmout deal

Peter Ker
1 hr ago

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

8@eight: Italian vote another hard lesson for markets

Sponsored
Chris Weston

The euro gained 1 per cent to $US1.0774, after earlier rising to $US1.0796, the highest since November 15. It briefly ...

Euro rebounds as focus shifts to ECB

Dudley, a dovish member of the core Fed policymakers, said the economy is now "in reasonably good shape" and that he ...

Trump win creates 'considerable' uncertainty

Oil reaches 16-month high

Citigroup's clarion call for commodity bulls

Ranjeetha Pakiam

Italy's banks face another hit, but it needn't be fatal

Lionel Laurent

Italy 'no' vote spooks ASX

Jessica Sier and Zac Crellin

Hundreds of thousands are likely to see an increase in their interest costs.

Westpac and NAB raise some interest rates, targeting investors

Clancy Yeates

CBA was forced to reopen its compensation scheme two years ago after ASIC slapped it with new licence conditions.

CBA's compensation bill rises as new victims emerge

Georgia Wilkins

Former NAB planner Graeme Cowper took action against Fairfax Media and the national broadcaster last year.

Fairfax, ABC win defamation case brought by ex-NAB planner

Michaela Whitbourn

Jason Yetton, chief executive of SocietyOne.

Media mogul-backed bank challenger close to breaking even

Clancy Yeates

Suncorp's concept stores attempt to ditch the feel of bank branches.

Suncorp eyes the 'Apple Store of financial services' in branch overhaul

Clancy Yeates

Since 2010 Australia is the only region to show an increasing trend in female CEO appointments.

Australia stagnates, just 10 female CEOs in the ASX 200

Nassim Khadem

For men, the highest paid job is a neurosurgeon on $577,674, but for women it's a judge on $355,844.

Australia's top 50 highest paying jobs

Sarah Kimmorley

Supermarket worker Jack Burrows,

'I was spat on by a customer': retail abuse on the rise

Anna Patty

Illustration: Simon Bosch.

Cybercrime to cyber warfare: Australia woefully unprepared

IN DEPTH
Nassim Khadem

Former World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu thinks problems with work have produced Donald Trump.

Save the world, give workers a share in profits

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Cleaner Victor Barrientos was warned not to get sick, because if his employer lost the contract he "lost his pay".

Victorian schools clean up on workers

EXCLUSIVE
Nick Toscano

International capacity grew a hefty 5.8 per cent but revenue fell an even larger 6.9 per cent.

Why your airline can't always say there are 'no refunds'

Lucy Cormack
18 mins ago

The burnt Samsung washing machine fire in the Ambarvale home.

Family flees home after washing machine catches alight

Esther Han

Airbnb is one of the biggest players in the growing sharing economy.

How criminals are scamming Airbnb users

Esther Han

Amazon go

Amazon's physical grocery store has no checkouts

Sarah Halzack
1 hr ago

Retailers are feeling decidedly upbeat as they had into the critical Christmas holiday season.

Retailers expect bountiful Christmas, new year

Madeleine Heffernan

Bellamy's shares have opened more than 4 per cent lower on Monday.

Bellamy's slides again as analysts slash forecasts

Jessica Sier

Aldi aims to be 20 to 25 per cent cheaper on a basket of groceries than Woolworths and Coles.

'No history' of large supermarkets beating discounters on price

Madeleine Heffernan

Premier retail boss Mark McInnes and Premier Investments chairman Solomon Lew at the company's AGM

Premier eyes penalty rates, GST sweeteners

Madeleine Heffernan

Ross Gittins

Why I'm a pathological optimist, despite my job

Ross Gittins
20 mins ago

Melbourne's economy grew by 4.4 per cent while that of regional Victoria shrank by 1 per cent.

Melbourne rides high while rest of state goes backwards

Peter Martin, Darren Gray

Since 2010 Australia is the only region to show an increasing trend in female CEO appointments.

Australia stagnates, just 10 female CEOs in the ASX 200

Nassim Khadem

Governor Philip Lowe's cool hand can be expected to remain steady upon the monetary instrument.

RBA won’t mind this week’s GDP number – the March quarter will be worse

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

BHP outbid Britain's BP, the only other company that participated, with a $US624 million offer.

Mexico picks BHP Billiton for farmout deal

Peter Ker
1 hr ago

Origin intends to float its upstream oil and gas business and list it on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Origin Energy spins off oil, gas business

Angela Macdonald-Smith
1 hr ago

Monday's gains take the rally since the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' agreement was struck on ...

Oil reaches 16-month high

Chip, a 1.7m tall, 100kg social humanoid robot, was developed by Spanish company PAL Robotics.

Robots to make shopping easier

Carolyn Cummins

Apartment blocks at the Docklands precinct. Docklands is being developed, mostly by private sector investment, with ...

Apartment site sales decline around Australia

Nicole Lindsay

According to analysts Cyber Monday is poised to retain its status as the biggest online spending day of the year.

Cyber Monday sets new click frenzy record

Carolyn Cummins

President-elect Donald Trump kisses his daughter Ivanka Trump after giving his acceptance speech during his election ...

Trump is ready to hand over the family empire. It doesn't always go well.

Thomas Heath
23 mins ago

The referendum result is not the best outcome for Italy's banks.

Italy's banks face another hit, but it needn't be fatal

Lionel Laurent

President-elect Donald Trump and Vice-President-elect Mike Pence during a visit to the Carrier factory in Indianapolis ...

Donald Trump says US companies that moved overseas would be making a 'very expensive mistake'

Ros Krasny

Both women and men take up the challenge at Five Star Fitness.

Could you handle the most extreme workout trend of 2017?

Fitness
29 mins ago

Office Christmas parties can be a chance to look back at the year.

How important is the Christmas party in your office?

Work

Treasurer Scott Morrison has cooked up a policy of genuine merit.

Scott Morrison's greatest achievement to date

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine
59 mins ago

Walmart might be many times the size of the next largest retailer in the US, but it still has well under half of the ...

Monopolies and oligopolies beware, tech is out to get you

1 hr ago

Moshe Hogeg attends at a Sirin Labs launch.

Startup hype master faces toughest test yet

Gabrielle Coppola

Christy Hind, co-owner of Maggie Moo.

How Christie manages to have a longer summer holiday

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

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