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Shares are likely to see their traditional Santa Claus rally over the Christmas/New Year period

Investors hope for Santa rally to end 2016

MARKETS

Shale oil threatens to undermine OPEC's hopes of raising oil prices.

Shale spectre haunts OPEC's feast as oil seen rallying into 2017

BUSINESS

Illustration: John Shakespeare

BusinessDay's summer quiz - part two: Technology and Style

BUSINESS
Thomas Hounslow

US President-elect Donald Trump.

Brands prepare for Trump attacks

WORLD BUSINESS

Commerce Secretary-designate Wilbur Ross waits for an elevator at Trump Tower in New York.

Brexit a chance to 'take business from UK'

WORLD BUSINESS

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2016 a wake up call on executive pay

THE ECONOMY
Georgia Wilkins

Illustration John Shakespeare

It was the year of living dangerously: 2016 CBD Wrap

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Market Indices

Updated: December 23, 2016 - 3:22PM

Updated: December 27, 2016 - 6:29PM

Updated: December 24, 2016 - 9:15AM

Updated: December 27, 2016 - 7:35PM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7191

Percentage up/down

0.08% rise
Euro

Price

0.6883

Percentage up/down

0.19% rise
British Pound

Price

0.5857

Percentage up/down

0.21% rise

Updated: December 27, 2016 - 7:24PM

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre.

Knowledge, not resources, driving economic growth

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Big Four

Front running, insider trading, collusion: Scandals keep rolling

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Channel Seven

Forget Christmas cheer for Seven board members

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Bullion increased on Friday as the US dollar reversed gains and some chart-following traders saw supportive momentum ...

Gold extends run of weekly losses

Susanne Barton and Eddie van der Walt

Xi also warned China should avoid the so-called Thucydides Trap, referring to the theory that says a rising power will ...

Xi open to slower growth rate

Bloomberg News

At November's sales pace it would take 5.1 months to clear the supply of houses on the market. A six-month supply is ...

US economic outlook brightening

The price of iron ore for delivery to China's Qingdao port rose $US1.99, or 2.6 per cent, to $US78.14 a tonne on Friday, ...

Iron ore spot rises, China steel futures dip

Copper dips on Chinese demand doubts

ASX snaps four-day winning streak

Jessica Sier

Markets Live: Santa's last chance

Patrick Commins

Aussie dollar dips below US72¢

Patrick Commins

Australians have embraced electronic payments, but the infrastructure that sits behind some of these systems lags that ...

How sending cash will become more like using Uber

Clancy Yeates

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

BusinessDay's summer quiz - part one: Banking and Finance

Thomas Hounslow

It could have been even worse for Deutsche Bank, with the US Justice Department initially demanding almost twice as much.

Deutsche to pay $10 billion for its role in GFC

Jan-Henrik Foerster

The troubled Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Italy approves $29b bank bail-out

The world's oldest bank, worth just €440 million after losing 90 per cent of its market value this year, has been laid ...

Paschi bid to boost capital fails

Seven West Media chief executive Tim Worner and former executive assistant Amber Harrison.

How to handle office relationships in case they go wrong

Anna Patty

Cooling towers at the brown coal-fired Loy Yang power plant in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

Power workers told to 'give ground' for plant's survival

EXCLUSIVE
Nick Toscano

"Successful people plan ahead when a holiday break is approaching, because they recognise that it's a rare opportunity ...

15 things successful people do over holiday breaks

Áine Cain

Ooshies

Retail revolution: How a superhero toy could save Australian retail

Catie Low

Seven West Media chief executive Tim Worner "began texting and emailing for sex".

The boss, the scorned mistress and the affair that stopped a nation

Kate McClymont

By March 2015, Uber drivers were handling 70,000 rides every day in New York City alone.

Sharing economy revolution overshadowed by Uber

ANALYSIS
Joshua Brustein

Bargain hunters pore over handbags.

'We need a lot of things': Boxing Day sales kick off

Lisa Visentin

The roll-out of smart meters around NSW has been beset by lengthy delays.

'Mass confusion' as energy customers await new net meters

Lucy Cormack

Apple's 2016 MacBook Pro line-up: Two 13-inch models and a 15-inch. Consumer Reports found all three lacking in the ...

MacBook Pro slammed over battery issue

Jon Swartz

Handbags galore at David Jones in Sydney.

Retailers bank on Boxing Day boost

Melissa Singer

Still vibrant ... shoppers and cafe patrons along Malvern Road in Hawksburn Village.

Empty nest? Change in the air for Hawksburn Village

Melissa Singer

Crowds race inside the David Jones city store in the early hours of the morning on Boxing Day, 2015.

NSW expected to be biggest spenders at Boxing Day sales

Saimi Jeong

Many unwanted Christmas gifts are passed on to a new recipient.

Unwanted gifts to pile up this Christmas

Miriam Webber

Ooshies

Retail revolution: How a superhero toy could save Australian retail

Catie Low

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2016 a wake up call on executive pay

Georgia Wilkins

Couple with Christmas presents and bags in shopping mall christmas shopping generic

Why we keep buying presents no one needs

Megan McArdle

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre.

Knowledge, not resources, driving economic growth

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Scott Morrison

The overlooked MYEFO bit that matters most

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Shale oil threatens to undermine OPEC's hopes of raising oil prices.

Shale spectre haunts OPEC's feast as oil seen rallying into 2017

Grant Smith and Alex Longley

Fitter David Crehan stands near a long wall shearer at the Dendrobium mine at Mount Kembla.

Coal miner gets expansion nod despite secret, incomplete studies

Peter Hannam

Bullion increased on Friday as the US dollar reversed gains and some chart-following traders saw supportive momentum ...

Gold extends run of weekly losses

Susanne Barton and Eddie van der Walt

The Bristol Arms hotel, 81 Sussex Street, Sydney, has been sold for $19.5 million.

Singo, Dixon's pub fund sells three iconic Sydney pubs for $47m

Carolyn Cummins

The Federal Court found Gold Coast financier Peter Drake did not breach the Corporations Act.

ASIC loses case against LM Investment founder Peter Drake

Sarah Danckert

The Tiffany & Co store at Castlereagh Street and Martin Place has to move following the sale of the property.

Tiffany & Co seeks new luxe city digs

Carolyn Cummins

US President-elect Donald Trump.

Be prepared for Trump attacks, brand experts say

Zach Schonbrun

Commerce Secretary-designate Wilbur Ross waits for an elevator at Trump Tower in New York.

Brexit a chance to 'take business from UK' says Trump's trade chief

JDate would seem to be one of the success stories of online dating but all may not be rosy at owner Spark Networks, with ...

For online dating sites it's a bumpy road to love

Alina Tugend

Facing backlash: Host Jimmy Fallon.

Social success: Eight habits of highly likeable people

Personal Development

Pinstripes and more generous suiting are in.

Trends of the year: Relax guys, skinny suits are on the way out

Men's Suits

Don't take the jolly out of your holiday season by overcommitting on your Christmas spending.

Warning about new 'buy now, pay later' system in festive frenzy

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Illustration: Simon Letch

What happens to my health care card when I lose my pension?

Noel Whittaker

Martin Hosking, CEO of Redbubble.

'My biggest mistake': Entrepreneurs reveal where they went wrong

Adam Stone, entrepreneur and founder of Speedlancer.

22-year-old entrepreneur on to his second company

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

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