When The Bachelor's Sam Wood proposed to Snezana Markoski with a $50,000 diamond engagement ring last year, neither of them could have known the massive rock still actually belonged to someone else.
'In the future, what will matter is not where the purchase happens, but how you can influence it.'
Lawsuit accused it and other banks of rigging an interest rate benchmark used in the $US553 trillion derivatives market.
China must do more to deflate a property bubble that expanded this year by "strictly" controlling speculation while also stepping up the fight to rein in excessive corporate borrowing, a top economic official said.
NSW is the fastest-growing state for online shopping, but there is one suburb heading to the online checkout the most.
Stocks erased modest gains after US officials said a Chinese naval ship seized an unmanned drone in the South China Sea.
Oil prices boosted by global output reductions will be capped because of new supply before long, according to Goldman Sachs.
US energy companies this week added oil rigs for a seventh week in a row, extending a seven-month drilling recovery.
Shares in pharmaceutical company Mayne Pharma Group fell by a quarter on Friday after 20 US states filed a lawsuit against it alleging it engaged in a conspiracy with others to fix prices on two generic drugs.
Deutsche Bank will pay more than $US40 million to settle charges that the bank misled clients about how it routed orders.
The yield on the German two-year government bond, the Schatz, hit minus 0.80 per cent for the first time.
US bond yields, already at two-year highs, are set to keep rising, thanks to rising rates and the premium investors will demand for holding Treasuries during a Trump administration, experts say.
The competition watchdog will not appeal a Federal Court ruling that Woolworths did not act unconscionably when it demanded up to $60 million in cash from suppliers to plug a profit shortfall.
When Col Fullagar isn’t jumping out of helicopters volunteering as a firefighter in remote areas of NSW he works in the cutthroat world of life insurance.
Several companies that have listed on the ASX have proven to be major disappointments.
Coles, Woolworths, Target, Bunnings, Kmart, Myer, David Jones, JB Hi-Fi and now Big W are all run by men.
You can read James Packer's sell down and impending exit out of the Macau market many ways.
Up to 10,000 Australians with intellectual disabilities, who worked for as little as 99 cents an hour, will share in a massive $100 million federal government payout after a landmark discrimination lawsuit.
SurfStitch has alleged that its ex-CEO and would-be suitor conspired to inflate revenues and profits in the first half of 2016.
The ASX finished the week in the red as the Santa rally ran of puff in a week dominated by the Fed Reserve rates.
The shops will be chockers on Fridays as shoppers seek out everything from Harry Potter to fragrances and coffee machines.
Despite a Federal Court decision this week obliging internet service providers to block certain piracy-enabling websites, Australians will continue to easily access such sites via VPNs and other technologies they already use.
When a guy with an assault rifle walks into a pizza joint to "self-investigate" the made-up conspiracy theory he found on the internet about a non-existent child-prostitution ring, there's no doubt we've got a problem.
It is possible to make sense of what's happening in the labour market, but only if you follow a few rules.
The former chief financial officer of Hastie Services, a subsidiary of collapsed engineering services group Hastie Group, is intending to plead guilty to three criminal charges.
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for US Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, says the administration would target tax reform and trade pact overhauls as top priorities.
National Australia Bank mistakenly sent the names, addresses and banking details of about 60,000 migrant banking customers to a wrong email account.
Australia must match president-elect Donald Trump's promised tax cuts, ANZ's chairman said.
Michael J. de la Merced contributed reporting.
National Australia Bank chairman Ken Henry says he believes the gulf between the hefty pay packets of chief executives and what average workers are paid can't get any wider.
We all know that person at work. Or maybe it's you?
Why internet service providers must learn to be better communicators.
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