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The Australian dollar has surged against all major currencies, making your holiday dollar stretch further.

Travelling soon? The Aussie dollar is on top of the world

MARKETS
Patrick Hatch
17 mins ago

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

Markets Live: Big banks lead Trump slump

Live
Jens Meyer
12 mins ago

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

Are global stock markets headed for a meltdown?

COMMENT
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

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

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

Tigerair Australia

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

AVIATION
Patrick Hatch

Market Indices

Updated: January 13, 2017 - 2:21PM

Updated: January 13, 2017 - 2:06PM

Updated: January 13, 2017 - 9:15AM

Updated: January 13, 2017 - 4:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7487

Percentage up/down

0.04% rise
Euro

Price

0.7059

Percentage up/down

0.11% rise
British Pound

Price

0.6161

Percentage up/down

0.10% rise

Updated: January 13, 2017 - 1:52PM

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

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

ANZ Bank chief executive Shayne Elliott tries out Android Pay, alongside managing director of products, Katherine Bray.

Virtual credit cards get step closer

Clancy Yeates

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

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

Overall sales growth took a 2.7 per cent hit because Boxing Day fell in the second half of David Jones' current ...

David Jones lifts its first-half sales 4%

1 hr ago

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

No one should be claiming we are definitely in a housing bubble right now.

Are we in a housing bubble? No one really knows

ANALYSIS
Michael Potter

"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

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

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

Why make resolutions you know are out of reach?

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

Culture

Sometimes focusing on the details means we miss the bigger picture.

Investors should focus on the forest, not the trees

COMMENT
Scott Phillips
1 hr ago

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

How to avoid spending too much on gym memberships

John Collett

First lady Michelle Obama is perceived as a succesful leader.

The one factor that determines leadership success

James Adonis

Nick Haddow runs a successful cheese business from Bruny Island.

Meet the small business owners living in paradise

Nina Hendy

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