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Illustration: Simon Bosch

Float flops: Why investors are giving IPOs a wide berth

IN DEPTH
Sarah Danckert

Harvey Norman's Katie Page is one of few female CEOs in the ASX 200.

Australia's retail industry is still a boys' club

IN DEPTH
Catie Low

It's wrong to think that part-time jobs are inferior to full-time jobs.

Unemployment, take a step back for the big picture

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Col Fullagar is principal of Integrity Resolutions and also volunteers as a firefighter.

From firefighting to the life insurance frying pan

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Packer cashing in

Why Packer's Crown is cashing in its chips at Macau

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Facebook will join the fight against fake news.

Fake news is sickening, but don't make the cure worse than the disease

COMMENT
Margaret Sullivan

Christmas shoppers in Bourke Street Mall.

Star Wars, cricket books and drones: Christmas 2016 shapes up

RETAIL
Madeleine Heffernan

Market Indices

Updated: December 16, 2016 - 4:45PM

Updated: December 16, 2016 - 7:08PM

Updated: December 17, 2016 - 8:33AM

Updated: December 17, 2016 - 4:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7300

Percentage up/down

-0.82% fall
Euro

Price

0.6990

Percentage up/down

-1.13% fall
British Pound

Price

0.5851

Percentage up/down

-1.27% fall

Updated: December 17, 2016 - 8:18AM

Packer cashing in

Why Packer's Crown is cashing in its chips at Macau

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Col Fullagar is principal of Integrity Resolutions and also volunteers as a firefighter.

From firefighting to the life insurance frying pan

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

It's wrong to think that part-time jobs are inferior to full-time jobs.

Unemployment, take a step back for the big picture

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

For now, Goldman sees chances of crude extending its gains. It lifted its estimate for Brent to $US59 a barrel from ...

Goldman sees temporary oil bump

Sharon Cho
1 hr ago

Drillers added 12 oil rigs in the week to December 16, bringing the total count to 510, the highest since January.

US drillers extend rig recovery

1 hr ago

This marks the third joint case against a major bank's dark pool trading platform filed this year by the top US ...

DB settles US dark pool cases

"Going into next year I would expect the Schatz yield to go up a bit - but it will remain at very low levels," ING ...

German 2-year yield at record low

Three reasons why bond yields will keep rising

Jessica Sier

ASX Santa rally runs out of puff

Jessica Sier and Zac Crellin

Markets Live: Tough times for gold

Live
Jens Meyer

Why big CEO pay is bad news for investors

James Saft

This marks the third joint case against a major bank's dark pool trading platform filed this year by the top US ...

DB settles US dark pool cases

The emails in question were to customers migrating to Australia who had recently opened NAB accounts.

60,000 NAB customers' account details sent to incorrect email

Clancy Yeates

Chairman David Gonski sees growing disillusionment and disdain for politicians and business.

Australia must follow Trump's tax cuts: ANZ's Gonski

Patrick Hatch

NAB chairman Ken Henry says the bank is closing the gap on rivals after a disappointing share price performance in ...

'Enough is enough' in CEO bonanza, says NAB's Ken Henry

Clancy Yeates

Oliver Curtis arrives with his wife Roxy Jacenko during his Supreme Court trial in May.

Oliver Curtis loses appeal against insider trading conviction

Michaela Whitbourn

Tyson Duval-Comrie.

$100m payday for $1-an-hour staff with disabilities

Nick Toscano

Drunk at the office party? You're lucky if you only pass out.

The Dos and Don'ts of Christmas parties

Christopher Mele

"Basically, you end up spending the majority of your life eating Google food, with Google coworkers, wearing Google ...

What staff hated most about working at Google

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Float flops: Why investors are giving IPOs a wide berth

IN DEPTH
Sarah Danckert

Harvey Norman's Katie Page is one of few female CEOs in the ASX 200.

Australia's retail industry is still a boys' club

IN DEPTH
Catie Low

Facebook will join the fight against fake news.

Fake news is sickening, but don't make the cure worse than the disease

COMMENT
Margaret Sullivan

The products were advertised as treating specific types of pain, despite having the same ingredients.

Nurofen fine for misleading consumers increased to $6 million

Lucy Cormack

A Mazda dealership asked customers to give "only the highest scores possible" to a customer satisfaction survey.

The letter telling Mazda customers how to ensure car resale potential

Lucy Cormack

Woman removes hundred dollar bills from her purse / wallet generic cash Australina money notes AFR MARKET WRAP

Thousands to be refunded the fee they paid for free credit report

Esther Han

Woolworths has won its case against the competition watchdog. Pictured: Chairman Gordon Cairns and CEO Brad Banducci.

ACCC walks away from Woolworths cash-demand case

Madeleine Heffernan

Harvey Norman's Katie Page is one of few female CEOs in the ASX 200.

Australia's retail industry is still a boys' club

IN DEPTH
Catie Low

Surfstitch co-founder and former CEO Justin Cameron strenuously denies SurfStitch's allegations.

SurfStitch strikes back against ex-CEO

Sue Mitchell and Carrie LaFrenz

Christmas shoppers in Bourke Street Mall.

Star Wars, cricket books and drones: Christmas 2016 shapes up

Madeleine Heffernan

Bellamy's is facing another two potential class actions.

Bellamy's faces two more class actions

Catie Low

Unfortunately, ScoMo's epiphany is a bit late and its proclamation rather half-hearted.

How ScoMo discovered good and bad debt on the way to MYEFO

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

$50 notes are more commonly used in illegal cash transactions.

$50 the note of choice for criminals: RBA

Clancy Yeates

Activity in NSW and Victoria is strong but the pipeline for jobs growth is not.

Credit Suisse tips up to three RBA cuts

Vesna Poljak

Copyright laws affect many facets of our lives.

Our copyright laws are holding us back, and there's a way out

Peter Martin

For now, Goldman sees chances of crude extending its gains. It lifted its estimate for Brent to $US59 a barrel from ...

Goldman sees temporary oil bump

Sharon Cho
1 hr ago

Drillers added 12 oil rigs in the week to December 16, bringing the total count to 510, the highest since January.

US drillers extend rig recovery

1 hr ago

The charges were laid following an investigation by ASIC.

Hastie Services finance boss cooked the books

Sarah Danckert

Walker Corporation and liquor group Kemenys will lodge plans for a mixed-use joint venture at three Kemenys-owned sites ...

Walker Corp in $1b residential project

Carolyn Cummins

Ardent Leisure raises $126m from sale of d'Albora Marinas

Carolyn Cummins

Going up: FJMT has been awarded the design for the new Ritz-Carlton hotel at The Star.

Putting on the Ritz-Carlton: The Star heralds return of luxury hotel

Carolyn Cummins

Packer cashing in

Why Packer's Crown is cashing in its chips at Macau

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

China Southern Airliners this week operated a near-full inaugural flight from Guangzhou to Adelaide - the latest ...

China's flood of cheap airfares deals blow to global carriers

Angus Whitley and Kyunghee Park

An unidentified woman takes a selfie with Wang Sicong, the son of China's wealthiest man, Wang Jianlin.

Chinese billionaire's only son not interested in running $122b empire

<b>Archie Rose Copper Cocktail Kit</b><br>
As used by leading Aussie distiller Archie Rose, this deluxe cocktail kit ...

Holiday cheers: 27 boozy gift ideas for a very merry Christmas

Fine Drinks

There are some trends we hope don't make it into the new year.

What were we thinking? Nine shocker trends to kiss goodbye

Men's Style

Kyle Frost and Amy Miller planned exactly how much they would spend on their three-week trip to the US and Mexico – and ...

How to budget daily spend for your holiday

The lies we tell ourselves are the most dangerous of all.

The lies we tell ourselves about investment

Cutting corners in a workplace can lead to injuries.

Corner-cutters at work: a profile of the main culprit

James Adonis

"We completely reverse engineered the business rather than just overlaying a digital strategy" – Adam Laurie of Digital360.

Data pros bought a waste water plant to prove their point

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

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