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  1. Government scrambles after Trump pulls US out of TPP

    The Government is scrambling to rethink the Trans-Pacific Partnership after Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Asian trade deal, with Malcolm Turnbull hoping the remaining 11 countries can salvage the pact.

  2. Trans-Pacific Partnership cannot be salvaged, time to move on, says Heather Ridout

    Reserve Bank board member Heather Ridout says the Trans-Pacific Partnership cannot be salvaged and the Government needs to move on to other regional trade deals.

  3. 'Severely unaffordable': Sydney's housing nightmare laid bare in new survey

    Sydney's housing is rated less affordable than global metropolises New York and London in a report that paints a dire picture for the city's middle-income earners.

  4. 'Earnings bonanza' predicted as companies tighten the screws

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch is expecting a bumper year for Australian stocks, predicting the ASX 200 will hit 6,100 by the end of the year.

  5. Wall Street down on Trump's TPP move

    Global markets have fallen after US President Donald Trump formally withdrew the US from the 12-country trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  6. Bumper year in agriculture but Queensland missed the boom: report

    An unusually strong agricultural production in 2016 is unlikely to be repeated this year, but Queensland missed out on the biggest production spike in a decade, the Australian Farm Institute concludes.

  7. McGrath 'bad news story' gets worse with agent exodus

    Listed real estate agency McGrath warns investors that its full-year profit will probably miss analyst forecasts, as it confronts an exodus of sales agents.

  8. Samsung says short-circuiting batteries caused Galaxy Note 7 fires

    Samsung Electronics says internal short circuiting in Galaxy Note 7 batteries caused the phones to heat up and catch on fire, after months of investigation and internal and independent reviews.

Features

  1. Markets Trumped

    You can be sure that when vast amounts of money move in a particular direction ... somewhere, somehow, a powerful person, or group of powerful people, have made an important decision about something.

  2. China's questionable data

    To the absolute surprise of no one, Chinese economic growth came in at an annualised growth rate of 6.7 per cent in 2016.

  3. Farm stays popular

    Digital start-up Youcamp makes a play to change the way people think about camping by offering travellers the chance to stay on farms.

  4. Virtual reality in real life

    When you think of virtual reality, you think of fancy headsets used for gaming and entertainment, but what if the technology could be applied to make building a house easier?

  5. Sydney tourism support

    Investing in the tourism industry should be one of the top priorities for the next NSW premier, a tourism expert says.

  6. Immigration masks decline

    A huge increase in migration has been driving headline economic growth, but it's also masked a dirty secret - individuals haven't felt the benefit of this record run.

ASX Quotes

Table showing ASX index quotes for today (as of Tue Jan 24 2017 13:29:30 GMT+1100 (AEDT))
Index Opening Closing Change
5668.00 5684.70 0.3%
5611.00 5628.70 0.3%
2079.90 2078.10 -0.1%
9241.70 9225.20 -0.2%
6401.30 6395.70 -0.1%
20725.50 20939.00 1%
809.90 808.00 -0.2%
10026.30 10188.30 1.6%
4953.40 4957.40 0.1%
8807.30 8828.00 0.2%
1797.60 1797.20
7987.20 7886.20 -1.3%
2343.60 2351.80 0.3%

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