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Bank of America calls it the Icarus Trade: Global stock markets will surge another 10 per cent in a parabolic "melt-up" ...

Icarus Trade: Are global stock markets headed for a meltdown?

COMMENT
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
8 mins ago

Aussie rising: the local dollar is the biggest winner against the greenback this week.

Markets Live: Aussie surges amid Trump slump

Live
Jens Meyer
4 mins ago

More than 570 workers at Loy Yang Power Station now face deep cuts to their take-home pay and superannuation,

AGL's victory to cut wages by 30 per cent

EXCLUSIVE
Nick Toscano
1 hr ago

Bellamy's shares came under renewed pressure on Thursday.

Bleeding at Bellamy's Australia not done just yet, say analysts

BUSINESS
Brian Robins

Luckily, Soros exited many of his bearish bets late last year, avoiding further losses.

George Soros loses $US1b in Trump stock rally: WSJ

MARKETS
44 mins ago

Tigerair Australia

Tigerair gets four-day reprieve to get stranded passengers out of Bali

AVIATION
Patrick Hatch

ANZ Bank chief executive Shayne Elliott tries out Android Pay, alongside general manager of deposits and payments, ...

Virtual credit and debit cards just got a step closer with ANZ move

BANKING AND FINANCE
Clancy Yeates

Market Indices

Updated: January 13, 2017 - 10:40AM

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Updated: January 13, 2017 - 4:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7484

Percentage up/down

0.00% steady
Euro

Price

0.7052

Percentage up/down

0.06% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6154

Percentage up/down

0.02% rise

Updated: January 13, 2017 - 10:10AM

Twenty US states allege company executives propped up the prices of two drugs, the New York attorney general's office ...

Biopharma needs to stop getting blindsided by Trump

COMMENT
Max Nisen

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York Wednesday, Jan. 11, ...

Why most economists are so worried about Trump

COMMENT
Justin Wolfers

James Packer is an unpredictable man.

Unpredictable Packer is unlike other billionaires

ANALYSIS
Stephen Mayne

The correlation as of Wednesday between high-yield US corporate debt and the S&P 500 fell to 62.5 per cent, down from ...

Trump trade renews active managers

Sid Verma
1 hr ago

The ASX rally looks set to extend to a fifth day.

8@eight: US earnings set to kick off

Sponsored
Chris Weston

"The European Central Bank will have the tough task of getting out of the ultra-expansionary monetary policy," Schaeuble ...

Schaeuble urges ECB to unwind stimulus

The lira reversed losses and gained as much as 2.5 per cent against the US dollar - the biggest advance since November ...

Turkish central bank lifts lira

Onur Ant

China steel squeeze lifts iron ore

Dow sinks as volatility returns

Oil extends advance on Saudi cuts

Jessica Summers

$US tumbles to five-week lows

Business insurance rates for tradies remained almost 40 per cent below prices offered at the end of 2012.

Low SME premiums sting big insurers

Georgia Wilkins

Steven McClatchey, a former director at Barclays, began giving his plumber friend tips about pending mergers, which he ...

Tiling for tips: Bank exec jailed for inside info to plumber mate

Bob Van Voris

The big four banks pay out more than $20 billion a year in dividends.

Banks can keep paying juicy divvies

Clancy Yeates

The HNA deal is expected to deliver a net gain to ANZ of $100 million.

ANZ bulks up capital with $628m sale to Chinese conglomerate

Clancy Yeates

Interest rates on savings accounts are drifting lower, with several banks cutting rates over summer.

Savings account interest rates dip below inflation

Clancy Yeates

Juliet Huddy accused Bill O'Reilly of trying to derail her career after she rebuffed his sexual advances.

Fox host Bill O'Reilly caught up in sexual harassment scandal

A former federal public servant has lost his entitlement to taxpayer-funded jogging shoes.

Doing a runner: Ex-public servant loses taxpayer-funded trainers

Noel Towell

Professions traditionally more dominated by women such as nurses are avoided by many men.

Why men don't want the jobs done by women

What lies ahead for Australian companies in 2017? There's some things we can predict - but brace yourself for the ...

Is 2017 the year the scales tip?

Dr Bastian Seidel, head of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Oversupply of doctors to hit this year amid calls to halt imports

Anna Patty

Professions traditionally more dominated by women such as nurses are avoided by many men.

Why men don't want the jobs done by women

Claire Cain Miller

Bellamy's shares came under renewed pressure on Thursday.

Bleeding at Bellamy's not done yet say analysts

Brian Robins

Fonterra is the world's top dairy exporter and it has boosted its sway over Australia's dairy industry with a deal with ...

NZ extends sway over Aussie dairy industry with Bellamy's deal

Brian Robins

Land and Property Information at times requires sensitive data, such as a marriage certificate when changing a name on a ...

Personal data up for grabs in NSW land titles sale, experts warn

Esther Han

Investor appetite for Australian infant formula companies seeking to break into the China market has not soured despite ...

'Too risky': $200m wiped off Bellamy's shares in two days

Jens Meyer

The Bellamy's board voted to remove Ms McBain as chief executive at a meeting on Wednesday, insiders say.

Bellamy's CEO to exit in wake of $500m share plunge

Mark Hawthorne

Looking forward to that first beer.

The year that drove us to drink

Madeleine Heffernan

The Brisbane-based company has 329 stores Michael Hill and Emma & Roe stores across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and ...

Australia, Canada brights spots for jeweller Michael Hill

Madeleine Heffernan

Clothing store Culture Kings has had to close its online store after a fire tore through a Brisbane warehouse.

Culture Kings online store closes after warehouse fire

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

"I could actually run my business and run government at the same time," Donald Trump told a press conference.

'Vicious cycle': the biggest global risks over the next decade

Alex Morales

Fewer chief executives expect to see business conditions improve than a year ago, though there are more forecasting a ...

Business chiefs more cautious in 2017

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York Wednesday, Jan. 11, ...

Why most economists are so worried about Trump

COMMENT
Justin Wolfers

Sydney housing

The debt pile fuelling Sydney's property price growth

David Scutt

More than 570 workers at Loy Yang Power Station now face deep cuts to their take-home pay and superannuation,

AGL's victory to cut wages by 30 per cent

EXCLUSIVE
Nick Toscano
1 hr ago

China this week unleashed its boldest reform plan so far for the steel sector, saying it will eliminate all production ...

China steel squeeze lifts iron ore

Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said the kingdom has reduced output to less than 10 million barrels a day, ...

Oil extends advance on Saudi cuts

Jessica Summers

FJMT has been awarded the design for the new Ritz-Carlton hotel at The Star Casino, Sydney.

Hotel sector prepares for busy period

Carolyn Cummins

Making its mark: New offices at WeWork's 5 Martin Place, Sydney, site.

How landlords are falling short on keeping office workers happy

Carolyn Cummins

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

Twenty US states allege company executives propped up the prices of two drugs, the New York attorney general's office ...

Biopharma needs to stop getting blindsided by Trump

COMMENT
Max Nisen

President-elect Donald Trump: "We are going to start bidding. We are going to save billions of dollars over time."

'Getting away with murder': Trump targets drug companies

The settlement pushes the cost of the scandal to more than $US23 billion in the US and Canada

VW pleads guilty, to pay $5.8 billion

Tom Schoenberg, Christoph Rauwald and David McLaughlin

2016 saw a lot of endings, including some seriously good whiskey vintages.

Six rare whiskies you should buy before they disappear

Smart Sipping
13 mins ago

Why make resolutions you know are out of reach?

How to fool people into thinking you're a better person in 2017

Culture

Many people are paying for gym services they don't use.

How to avoid spending too much on gym memberships

John Collett

Dr Simon Longstaff, executive director from the Ethics Centre, says there is no moral duty to leave money equally to ...

Is it ethical to treat your children differently in your will?

MIND OVER MONEY
Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Nick Haddow runs a successful cheese business from Bruny Island.

Meet the small business owners living in paradise

Nina Hendy

Small Business Minister Michael McCormack.

MP urges government to extend $20,000 instant asset writeoff

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

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