Business Day

Uniqlo's sales are growing strongly thanks to new store openings but its profits are under pressure.

Is Uniqlo's Australian honeymoon turning sour?

RETAIL
Catie Low

Smooth sailing no more for the US dollar.

Markets Live: ASX on the ropes as Trump rally unwinds

Live
Jens Meyer
37 mins ago

Earphones

Guvera music streaming service escapes insolvency

BUSINESS
Jorge Branco

Original Bellamy's backer Jan Cameron has been unmasked as indirectly controlling its largest shareholder the Black ...

Bellamy's Black Prince revealed

CHINA
Brian Robins

Frances Johns worked an 8½ hour shift in the hope of getting a permanent job.

More than half of young Australians do unpaid work - is it worth it?

WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Anna Patty

Alexander Tashevski-Beckwith (with his mother Marika) was planning to buy his first home in St Kilda.

His property was too small so bank walked away

BANKING AND FINANCE
Georgia Wilkins

Geoff Wilson of Wilson Asset Management wants Hunter Hall Global Value to carry out an equal access buy back

Geoff Wilson calls for Hunter Hall Global Value buy-back

BUSINESS
Brian Robins
23 mins ago

Market Indices

Updated: January 18, 2017 - 4:35PM

Updated: January 18, 2017 - 4:59PM

Updated: January 18, 2017 - 9:15AM

Updated: January 18, 2017 - 4:00AM

United States Dollar

Price

0.7547

Percentage up/down

-0.36% fall
Euro

Price

0.7062

Percentage up/down

-0.06% fall
British Pound

Price

0.6119

Percentage up/down

0.30% rise

Updated: January 18, 2017 - 4:44PM

Donald Trump

Browbeating president brings boundless risks for companies

COMMENT

Chinese manufacturers make around 40 billion pens a year.

China finally invents a ballpoint pen of its own

COMMENT
Adam Minter

Goldman Sachs analysts reckon Bellamy's Australia shares have further to fall.

Selling infant formula to China is harder than exporting iron ore

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

"This selloff probably has further to play out," said James Gerrish, senior investment advisor at Shaw and Partners.

ASX extends losses on banks sell-off

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Donald Trump's claim that the high US dollar was "killing" exports sent the currency crashing.

US dollar slides after Trump talks it down

Myriam Robin

President-elect Donald Trump promised an inauguration that would be "very, very special, very beautiful" and predicted ...

'It's killing us': Trump interview gives $A a boost

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8@eight: Currencies in the spotlight

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Chris Weston

Pound surges, UK stocks slump on back of May speech

S&P; 500 highly linked to $US

Luke Kawa and Sid Verma

$US drops on Trump comments

Spot iron eases from 27-month high

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

Deutsche pays $9.5b for 'contributing directly' to GFC

Steven Arons

Lending to property investors has made a strong recovery in recent months.

Housing investor loan approvals surge 21.4 per cent in a year

Clancy Yeates

Amid speculation banks may hike variable interest rates in 2017, NAB says the cost of funding home loans is "elevated."

Warning on mortgage costs as bank profits squeezed

Clancy Yeates

"There are too many indications that this will not be as good as the previous year," Fitch director Andrea Jaehne says.

Challenging 2017 ahead for Australian banks: Fitch

Georgia Wilkins

NAB has hiked fixed rates and says its funding costs remain "elevated."

NAB and ANZ Bank hike fixed mortgage rates

Clancy Yeates

Frances Johns worked an 8½ hour shift in the hope of getting a permanent job.

More than half of young Australians do unpaid work

Anna Patty

The victim and her attacker, the hotel's night caretaker, were sharing an employer-provided apartment in the Brisbane ...

Hotel chain to pay $300k after 'serious, shocking' sexual assault

Jorge Branco

Loy Yang A is one of Australia's biggest power stations.

AGL loses bid to force workers to do overtime at power plant

Richard Willingham

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

Original Bellamy's backer Jan Cameron has been unmasked as indirectly controlling its largest shareholder the Black ...

Bellamy's Black Prince revealed

Brian Robins

NSW Premier Mike Baird hopes to transfer the land titles registry to the private sector this year.

Baird's next privatisation move to increase police costs

EXCLUSIVE
Esther Han

Jan Cameron

Mystery surrounding Bellamy largest investor deepens

Brian Robins

Uniqlo's sales are growing strongly thanks to new store openings but its profits are under pressure.

Is Uniqlo's Australian honeymoon turning sour?

Catie Low

Fair Work has dismissed H&M's application for a enterprise agreement.

H&M; forced to scrap 'unfair' pay deal

Catie Low

Showpo has 270,000 individual customers and around 306,000 names and details were on the stolen list, but it is ...

Showpo sues fellow e-retailer over data 'theft'

Jessica Sier

Former Tesco Thailand COO Claire Peters appointed Managing Director of Woolworths supermarkets.

Woolworths appoints Tesco veteran as supermarkets boss

Madeleine Heffernan

Pie Face

Employees owed more than $1 million as Pie Face nears sale

Madeleine Heffernan

qantas

NBN sets sights on 'significant turning point'

Lucy Battersby

CEOs are worried about finding staff with science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills.

The big worry for CEOs around the world

Patrick Hatch

The World Economic Forum in Davos this week takes place against a backdrop of growing anti-establishment politics.

Pay a key symbol as inequality dominates Davos

Clancy Yeates

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre

Chance and incompetence - our recipe for success

Jessica Irvine

Rebar on the Shanghai Futures Exchange dropped 1 per cent to end at 3284 yuan a tonne, after initially gaining as much ...

Spot iron eases from 27-month high

Engie in Australia is seeking proposals for large scale solar developments.

Hazelwood owner going green after shutting down plant

Rio Tinto - Autonomous Haulage Trucks, West Angelas minesite; credit Christian Sprogoe Photography

Rio recoups lost ground in iron ore output

Brian Robins

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

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

Deutsche pays $9.5b for 'contributing directly' to GFC

Steven Arons

"No one will emerge as a winner in a trade war," China's President Xi Jinping spoke for nearly an hour in Davos.

Xi takes dig at Trump in Davos speech

Donald Trump

Browbeating president brings boundless risks for companies

COMMENT
James Greiff and Noah Smith

The stern's large transom comes with optional wet-bar, rain shower, and barbecue set.

On sail: The best country in the world to buy a superyacht

Luxury
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Introducing the new Aquapod.

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It's not too late for many retirees to get back some of the age pension.

Giving away your money is one way to ease pain of pension cuts

John Collett

A survey of ethical ETFs by ethical investment adviser, Balance Impact, finds many ETFs screen very differently from ...

Ethical investing is not that easy

John Collett

Pascale Helyar-Moray whose business sells customisable jewelry is worried about Amazon's expansion.

Will Amazon in Australia destroy your business?

Anna O'Dea of Agency Iceberg advocates for job sharing.

How to attract top talent to your small business

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